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		<title>How To Be A Gangster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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In this &#8220;gangster&#8221; video I go over, landing pages, Facebook traffic, CPV traffic, emotional benefits, mindset and so much more.
Most people think of the word &#8220;gangster&#8221; as a negative word, but it&#8217;s actually derived from a VERY positive word. [...]]]></description>
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<p>In this &#8220;gangster&#8221; video I go over, landing pages, Facebook traffic, CPV traffic, emotional benefits, mindset and so much more.</p>
<p>Most people think of the word &#8220;gangster&#8221; as a negative word, but it&#8217;s actually derived from a VERY positive word. (SERIOUSLY!)</p>
<p>The reason why I am giving this video to you on my blog is because I realized something I haven&#8217;t done in a long time was GIVE BACK to my blog readers and list subscribers.</p>
<p>I mentioned in this video that one of the ways to gangsterism (is that even a word?) is to be grateful and to give back.</p>
<p>So here I am, giving this HOUR LONG, content packed video to YOU &#8211; without requiring you to optin or trying to sell you anything.</p>
<p>Just my way of saying, THANKS.</p>
<p>After you&#8217;re done watching, let me know what you think by leaving a comment! (and hitting the &#8220;like&#8221; button!)</p>
<p>YOU GUYS ROCK!</p>
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		<title>Giving Back &#8211; In a MAJOR way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one my previous posts &#8220;Why You&#8217;re Not Succeeding&#8220;, I wrote about how people are actually SCARED to make money and they don&#8217;t know WHY they want to make MORE money.
It&#8217;s because, people have this notion in their head that they need money.  But they have no idea why they want more money.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>In one my previous posts &#8220;<a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/stuff/why-youre-not-succeeding" target="_blank">Why You&#8217;re Not Succeeding</a>&#8220;, I wrote about how people are actually SCARED to make money and they don&#8217;t know WHY they want to make MORE money.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s because, people have this notion in their head that they need money.  But they have no idea why they want more money.  What are you going to do with it?  What do you want more money for?  What&#8217;s the point?</p>
<p>If you think about it, money is nothing and it doesn&#8217;t really exist..  It&#8217;s a piece of paper and a number when you login to your bank account.  </p>
<p>Right? </p>
<p>What&#8217;s that about?! </p>
<p>So that&#8217;s why you need to have the mentality that it&#8217;s not just about making money.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s about WHAT you are going to DO with the MONEY and it&#8217;s about creating WEALTH by doing so. </p>
<p>One of the main reasons why I want to create wealth is to GIVE BACK.  That&#8217;s always been one of my biggest dreams.  </p>
<p>I mean &#8211; if I can make a lot of money, why not help others to have a better life?  </p>
<p>Why not empower others to live a happier, fuller, more meaningful life?  </p>
<p>Why not create wealth for everyone around me and especially those in need?</p>
<p>Giving is probably one of the BEST traits any human can have.  Because when you do, it comes back to you 100X more.</p>
<p>About a year ago, I sponsored my fiance, Puja, to go to Uganda and help the children there.  She is a dentist and went to Uganda for two weeks and helped kids with their teeth and helped setup the area&#8217;s FIRST dentist office! She LOVES to help under privileged kids out in third world countries and I support that 100%.  In fact, we are starting our own foundation soon and are going to leave our whole world behind us and start our mission in about two years. (that&#8217;s why I need to make as much money as I can right NOW!)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0114.JPG"><img src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0114-300x200.jpg" alt="DSC_0114" title="DSC_0114" width="300" height="200" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-710" /></a></p>
<p>Puja along with a couple others, went to Uganda through the foundation, <a href="http://www.justlikemychild.com/" target="_blank">Just Like My Child</a>. </p>
<p>Now something you may not know about Just Like My Child is that it is run by Vivian Glyck, who is Mike Koenigs (Traffic Geyser) wife!  Vivian Glyck is an amazing woman and she has a passion for her foundation like I have never seen in anyone else.  </p>
<p>Absolutely amazing.</p>
<p>So every year, Mike Koenigs and Vivian Glyck put on an event called &#8220;<a href="http://mixiv.com/vp/87438/19855/" target="_blank">Paid for Life</a>&#8220;.  </p>
<p>This event takes place only once a year and is by invite only. Since it is coming up in three weeks and I wanted to get this post out as soon as possible and get you you&#8217;re invite!</p>
<p>Mike and Vivian put on this event to TEACH YOU how to get &#8220;Paid for Life&#8221;. They got some kick ass speakers and are going to teach you their EXACT system they use to create wealth in their lives. </p>
<p>Even Paula Abdul is going to be there and speaking!!  </p>
<p>Yeah &#8211; PAULA ABDUL!</p>
<p>The best part?</p>
<p>All proceeds of this event go to the Just Like My Child foundation and anyone who buys through <a href="http://mixiv.com/vp/87438/19855/" target="_blank">THIS LINK</a> will make a donation DIRECTLY to supporting the dental progress that is being made in Uganda.</p>
<p>So if you want to go to a great event and support a great cause, check out <a href="http://mixiv.com/vp/87438/19855/" target="_blank">Paid for Life</a>! </p>
<p><strong>P.S. &#8211; Here are some more pictures of Puja and some others from Uganda!</strong><br />

<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0114' title='The Gangsta Dentist at work!'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0114-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="The Gangsta Dentist at work!" /></a>
<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0063' title='Cute kids..:)'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0063-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Cute kids..:)" /></a>
<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0236' title='The Dental Queen!'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0236-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="The Dental Queen!" /></a>
<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0250' title='Happy Kids!'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0250-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Happy Kids!" /></a>
<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0132' title='Puja and Lidia'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0132-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Puja and Lidia" /></a>
<a href='http://www.amish-shah.com/life/giving-back-in-a-major-way/attachment/dsc_0128' title='Puja and Lidia'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DSC_0128-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" title="Puja and Lidia" /></a>
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		<title>&#8220;Local&#8221; &#8211; Marketing Buzz Word of 2010?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#8217;t it seem that big businesses like Walmart and Home Depot and
other companies don&#8217;t have that &#8220;personal touch&#8221;?
It seems that &#8220;local&#8221; businesses are popping up everywhere to bring
that &#8220;personal touch&#8221; back into our everyday lives.
It&#8217;s because we as humans need to be social and we need to live and
associate ourselves into communities and we buy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div>Doesn&#8217;t it seem that big businesses like Walmart and Home Depot and</div>
<div>other companies don&#8217;t have that &#8220;personal touch&#8221;?</p>
<p>It seems that &#8220;local&#8221; businesses are popping up everywhere to bring<br />
that &#8220;<em><strong>personal touch</strong></em>&#8221; back into our everyday lives.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s because we as humans need to be social and we need to live and<br />
associate ourselves into communities and we buy from &#8220;trusted<br />
opinions&#8221; and &#8220;experts&#8221;.</p>
<p>We are nothing but social creatures and local small businesses are<br />
not going anywhere!</p>
<p>Look at how Yelp and FourSquare are changing the world!</p></div>
<div><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> </strong></span></em></div>
<div><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Going local yet with that social touch. </strong></span></em></div>
<div><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br />
</strong></span></em></div>
<div>
<p>So for all these local businesses to survive they have to have the<br />
marketing expertise to generate leads and get their phone ringing<br />
in their business so more people talk about them. When more people<br />
talk about these GREAT local businesses, word spreads, and that in<br />
turn leads to more sales!</p>
<div><strong><em> Right?</em></strong></div>
<p>I was up until 5:30am the other night (because I am so excited)<br />
crunching numbers from SBA and the US Census and came up with some<br />
CRAZY facts…<br />
<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<blockquote>
<div><strong> </strong>1) 63% of Small Businesses have 0-9 employees</div>
<div>2) There are an estimated 4 million VERIFIED small business leads</div>
<div>you can buy online that fall under #1 above</div>
<div>2) 67% of small businesses in Florida have 0-9 employees</div>
<div>3) Miami alone is getting ready to spend over $300 million this</div>
<div>year in local advertising</div>
</blockquote>
<div><strong><em> So what does this all mean?</em></strong></div>
<p>There is a HUGE opportunity for us to go out and provide services<br />
to these customers.</p>
<p>The fact that the majority of these small businesses all have 0-9<br />
employees means that they do not have any kind of online marketing<br />
knowledge&#8230;or they just don&#8217;t have the time with all the things<br />
they have to do inside their business!</p>
<p>In fact, most probably don&#8217;t even have websites or know how to get<br />
listed on Google.</p>
<p>We also know that there is a LOT of money being spent in these<br />
local markets.</p>
<p>So common sense tells us that this is a HUGE market with LOTS of<br />
MONEY.</p>
<p>Main Street Marketing Machines is a product that Mike Koenigs<br />
developed that taps right into this market with PROVEN results.</p>
<p><strong>Main Street Marketing Machines GIVES you your prospects AND<br />
gives you TECHNOLOGY to show them RESULTS. </strong></p>
<p>Imagine showing your clients that you can own at least 50% of Googles<br />
FIRST PAGE placements for their local business by using Main Street<br />
Marketing Machines?!</p>
<p>Grab your copy here:<br />
<a href="http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889" target="_blank">http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889</a></p>
<p>One bit of bad news though:</p>
<p>Mike just texted me and told me that Main Street Marketing<br />
Machines is closing down TOMORROW (tuesday, may 4th) at Midnight.</p>
<p>Not much else to say here besides local marketing is an opportunity<br />
of a lifetime.</p>
<p><em>I know because that&#8217;s exactly the direction we are headed in -<br />
LOCAL MARKETING (and we got a killer bonus for you that fits right<br />
in with Main Street Marketing!). </em></p>
<div><strong> Grab your copy before Friday!</strong></div>
<p><a href="http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889" target="_blank">http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889</a></p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Amish</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; We are offering a kick ass bonus if you buy through our<br />
affiliate link.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mini course on Local Business Marketing developed by Jose<br />
Rivera, my business partner and technology guru. He used to<br />
generate local leads for Trump and was the eMarketing Director for<br />
Trump Mortgage! So he knows the POWER of local marketing and what<br />
it can do for any business.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll also get access to our lead management software and customer<br />
tracking platform.</p>
<div>IT ROCKS.</div>
<p>Get Main Street Marketing Machines:<br />
<a href="http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889" target="_blank">http://www.mainstreetmarketingmachines.com/getit-backdoor/cmd.php?af=870889</a></div>
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		<title>LONG TERM Affiliate Business? The Shocking Truth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you have gotten all the emails from myself and a lot of other marketers to get List Control.
Well, of course you did! That&#8217;s because you should!
The bottom line is that List Control is a solid product, it WORKS and it&#8217;s on sale on Monday, March 15th, at 12pm PST.
I know Frank personally and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>By now you have gotten all the emails from myself and a lot of other marketers to get List Control.</p>
<p>Well, of course you did! That&#8217;s because you should!</p>
<p>The bottom line is that List Control is a solid product, it WORKS and it&#8217;s on sale on Monday, March 15th, at 12pm PST.</p>
<p>I know Frank personally and he&#8217;s a GREAT guy with a SOLID marketing background! He&#8217;s worked with HUGE companies to help them boost their revenues via products, launches, and building email lists.</p>
<p><a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794" target="_blank">Check It Out Here! &gt;&gt;</a></p>
<p>List Control will help you in any type of online marketing because without a list, you do not have a long term business model!</p>
<p>So, this is ESPECIALLY important to those who are in or interested in the CPA marketing and affiliate marketing world.</p>
<p>The reason why I say it is especially important to CPA/Affiliate marketing is because when you drive traffic to CPA/Affiliate offers you lose out on &#8220;potential customers&#8221; that just leave your site.</p>
<p>The shocking TRUTH is that MOST affiliate marketers don&#8217;t build lists AT ALL.</p>
<p>What if you added an Opt In form to all your landing pages? And what if you captured just 1% of those &#8220;potential customers&#8221;, built a relationship with them, and have them in your sales funnels?!</p>
<p>What if  5% of those Opt Ins converted into sales?</p>
<p><strong>YOU DO THE MATH!</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The important thing is you have to know HOW to build a relationship with that LIST and make it WORK for you.</span></strong></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter WHAT, HOW, or WHERE, you market online!</p>
<p><a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794" target="_blank">List Control Helps</a>:<br />
<a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794" target="_blank">https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794</a></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget when you buy through our affiliate link you get a ton of bonuses as well. No pressure to buy through our link, but our bonuses WILL help you in terms of list building via DIFFERENT traffic sources and how to monetize them!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for now!</p>
<p>See ya on the other side!<br />
<a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794">https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/walkthrough/a794</a></p>
<p>Amish</p>
<p>P.S. &#8211; Here is a short video and some information about our bonuses.</p>
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<p>Disclaimer: Some links in this website are affiliate links &#8211; that means that if you buy a product after clicking on one of my links, I may make a  commission for making the recommendation. That said, you’ll notice that I’m quick to tell you what products are good and which ones are crap. It’s my intent to be completely objective in my reviews, and if you happen to decide to buy any product after reading this website, that’s great &#8211; if not, I’m glad I could provide the information to help you make that decision.</p>
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		<title>software i can vouch for (and it doesn&#8217;t cost a thing)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well guess what?
Frank has done it again.  This guys is ALL about
giving, isn&#8217;t he?
He is releasing a piece of software that will HELP
you get a list in no time.
https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794
I know this thing works, because I was a guinea pig
that decided to test it out and see if it works. (after all
i&#8217;m a tech geek)
In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Well guess what?</p>
<p>Frank has done it again.  This guys is ALL about<br />
giving, isn&#8217;t he?</p>
<p>He is releasing a piece of software that will HELP<br />
you get a list in no time.</p>
<p><a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794">https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794</a></p>
<p>I know this thing works, because I was a guinea pig<br />
that decided to test it out and see if it works. (after all<br />
i&#8217;m a tech geek)</p>
<p>In a matter of 24 hours I had over 100 people join<br />
Frank&#8217;s mailing list from just posting ONE link on my<br />
Facebook and Twitter pages.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, since Frank started testing it,<br />
it&#8217;s been bringing in 476 new DOUBLE OPT IN<br />
subscribers per DAY &#8230;free.</p>
<p>The traffic just went VIRAL!</p>
<p>He spent almost $12,000 having it developed and it actually<br />
builds your list FOR YOU.</p>
<p>(No kidding.)</p>
<p>This is literally the type of software that other<br />
people would charge between $297 and $497<br />
for &#8230;but you can just HAVE it.</p>
<p>Download it and use it! It kicks ass.</p>
<p><a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794">https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794</a></p>
<p>Talk soon,<br />
Amish</p>
<p>p.s. &#8211; This is something you DEFINITELY want<br />
to use.  you can even put it on your landing<br />
pages for CPA promos, launches, CPV list building,<br />
and SO much more&#8230;(the possibilities are endless)</p>
<p><a href="https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794">https://smithkern.infusionsoft.com/go/karma/a794</a></p>
<p>p.p.s. &#8211; already going to buy list control? check out<br />
our bonus page at <a href="http://www.bonusforlistcontrol.com">http://www.bonusforlistcontrol.com</a>.<br />
we&#8217;ll teach ya how to use this software to get thousands<br />
of optins.</p>
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		<title>marketing for rappers? &#8211; review of bklynstickup.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something, that a lot of my readers probably don&#8217;t know about me, is  that I USED to make music ALL the time. I still do, but just not as much cuz I&#8217;m crazy busy with my other businesses.
Anyway, I&#8217;ve made all kinds of music before &#8211; hip hop, rap, r&#38;b, house, electro, ambient, just to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Something, that a lot of my readers probably don&#8217;t know about me, is  that I USED to make music ALL the time. I still do, but just not as much cuz I&#8217;m crazy busy with my other businesses.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve made all kinds of music before &#8211; hip hop, rap, r&amp;b, house, electro, ambient, just to name a few.  I got some 400 beats in the vault&#8230;insane! But mostly hip hop and rap beats.</p>
<p>I started this back in 1997 just as a hobby and it just vibed with me so I stuck with it and met some interesting people along the way. My mom and dad both have a passion for music and always used to play Indian instruments and sing in the house.</p>
<p>Back in the day, I remember recording tracks through my sound blaster pro with a microphone and some beats I used to make in ModPlug and Fruity Loops.</p>
<p>And then eventually to Reason, Cubase &amp; Logic. That was the birth of my first company, DigiSpace Records, my record label.</p>
<p>Along the way, I&#8217;ve upgraded my equipment too &#8211; Tascam FW 1884, Presonus PreAmp, Baby Blue Microphone, Alesis Monitors, and a Roland Fantom X6.  Just recently got a AKAI beat machine too, so been playing with that a lot!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/digispacerecs.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-588 alignright" title="digispacerecs" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/digispacerecs.jpg" alt="digispacerecs" width="130" height="130" /></a></p>
<p>My original record labels website is actually still up and located @ <a href="http://www.digispacerecords.com">DigiSpace Records</a>. Probably doesn&#8217;t work the way it used to, but it used to be ALL working back in the day.  It was SICK. We dropped an album in 2005 and put it up on iTunes, Amazon, and everywhere we could. I used all types of internet marketing tactics to get rankings &#8211; post on others blog comments, forum posts, and email marketing with the 3K list I had from this site.  I hired people from Craigslist to be &#8220;free interns&#8221; who would work for a record label and fill out a spreadsheet on which forums they joined, what they posted, and then told them to post about our album in their posts. LOL.  It was great back in the day just thinking of random ways to promote the album.  I did a ton of other things as well, some of it worked and some of it didn&#8217;t.  This was back in the beginning of my internet marketing days.</p>
<p>The album was produced by me, with beats by some of my producer crew back then, and the first hip hop &#8220;artist&#8221; I ever worked with was Danse Daimons from Brooklyn. The problem with our first album, &#8220;Take it How You Want It&#8221;, was the guy who mastered the album ended up screwing it up before it went into production and it sounded like shit when it came out on CD (not horrible, but not clean).  Anyway, Danse Daimons new website is <a href="http://www.bklynstickup.com">BklynStickup.com</a>.  <strong>Keep in mind kids, the content at BklynStickup.com is explicit.</strong> So be CAREFUL. haha! I met him out in Long Island one day at <a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/parental_advisory_explicit_content-BIG.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-587" title="parental_advisory_explicit_content BIG" src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/parental_advisory_explicit_content-BIG-300x178.gif" alt="parental_advisory_explicit_content BIG" width="89" height="52" /></a>Adelphi University. Since then we&#8217;ve become good friends and don&#8217;t really work on music much anymore, but we still share mad ideas and shit with each other.  I always try to help out old friends become successful with their businesses and I realize he&#8217;s been doing this for more than 10 years now.  He&#8217;s hungry and has moved up a LOT in the industry and is literally about to BLOW UP.  (watch for him!) Danse Daimons is hands down the BEST rapper out right now in my opinion.</p>
<p>Recently Danse (Kevin) and I were talking and I was telling him how the whole world is changing and the music industry seems to be following this model, but going too slow. Local businesses are starting to see success, small communities and groups are starting to form around them, and even on the internet &#8211; new communities are formed around great music.  It&#8217;s about building that brand and having that following online.  The music industry is just fake, you hear the same top 100 songs all day long on the radio and that&#8217;s it.  Almost every where else in the WORLD, the top 10 changes every two weeks.</p>
<p>So as we were talking, I mentioned to him that he has to build a following online. He has to build a REAL business with what he&#8217;s got.  Register a real LLC, get an assistant to book shows and meetings (perception is reality), and make sure all his shows and expenses are put on the books.  They got a pretty good t-shirt line going for them and they can throw all this on the books now.</p>
<p>Like I said before &#8211; it&#8217;s not about being &#8220;hood&#8221; and being &#8220;ghetto&#8221; anymore.  It&#8217;s about these record labels seeing that you can carry your own weight, have a rabid following and can be successful even without the music labels.  They  go around looking for the best &#8220;MySpace Rapper&#8221; or &#8220;YouTube Rapper&#8221;.   When they do find someone, they exploit that person and turn them into &#8220;ringtone rappers&#8221;.</p>
<p>So I told Kevin to take a different approach.  I told him he has to build a huge following first and go independent. Make the labels want YOU.  If his marketing on <a href="http://www.bklynstickup.com" target="_blank">BklynStickup.com</a> was better he could destroy the industry. The music is solid, the lyrics are gold, and the movement is huge. It&#8217;s something that not a lot of these guys are doing.  Anyone can have a label, have good music, and get heard.  But to build a real business and a following, you have to do it the right way.</p>
<p>So here it goes &#8211; Danse, Busy, Chicago, and the whole BklynStickup squad. I see you. TAKE THIS AND IMPLEMENT IT!</p>
<p>Everyone else &#8211; the review and tactics I reveal below can be used for anyone&#8217;s website/blog or industry.  What I am trying to do here is combine some direct response marketing with new and fresh rap music.  Interesting &amp; Different approach, but I guarantee it will work.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ON THE HOME PAGE:</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Put an email optin form on the main page next to the video. It should say something like &#8220;enter your name and email address and we&#8217;ll give you more free music&#8221;. You can even make a story out of it.  Show half the video, then cut it with a needle on record sound, and then have Danse saying, &#8220;You know what man? You can&#8217;t even watch this whole video right now. Why? Put in your name and email address to the right and find out. I&#8217;ll tell you what the record execs don&#8217;t want you to know.&#8221; On the inside, he can mention that the record execs don&#8217;t want us out for blah blah reason. Playing along the lines of the &#8220;anti-guru&#8221; style marketing.  The classic &#8220;Us vs. Them&#8221; plotline. People love that conflict and gossip angle.</li>
<li>Get rid of the MySpace, YouTube links on the main page. Why are you taking people away from the site? You want them to take one of two actions &#8211; get them to your blog or get their email address and then take them to the blog.</li>
<li>Get rid of the &#8220;Freshtillian Agenda&#8221; banner on the front page.  (I know you want it up there Busy, but take that shit off)</li>
<li>Keep the &#8220;Click Here to Enter&#8221; button.</li>
<li>I would consider changing the video on the home page.  I mean &#8220;This is for my Ni@@az&#8221; is a DOPE track, but you are not attracting all crowds.  You have to pick a song that ALL demographics would like.  Maybe a hood club joint.</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>ON THE BLOG:</strong></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Make the header smaller.  I know y&#8217;all wanna show your pretty faces, but it takes up almost the whole damn screen.</li>
<li>Enable Permalinks and install SEO plugins. (I can show ya how to do this)</li>
<li>Put posts into proper categories &#8211; half of them are in &#8220;Uncategorized&#8221;</li>
<li>Use tags for ALL your posts! This is HUGE for SEO.</li>
<li>Put an Optin Form in the sidebar and tell them they can download more tracks this way. You can even use the &#8220;plotline&#8221; for this optin form.</li>
<li>Get your tracks off ZShare! WHY??? Host them yourself. Again, never let people LEAVE your site. Again, you can make them put in their email address and then let them download your tracks. AND put it &#8220;above the fold&#8221;.</li>
<li>In the Music section, your songs aren&#8217;t linked to the actual song!  This makes it extremely hard for people to download anything.</li>
<li>In the Merchandise section, have pictures of just the shirts by themselves. I mean it&#8217;s cool to show all your pretty mugs, but seriously, no one wants to see you look all hard with your shirts on.  Especially you Busy &#8211; look at your grill man. Take pictures of the shirts against white backgrounds, and have them paypal you money immediately.  This CAN be the biggest part of your business and your website, so make it look professional. I would get more girls and some guys to model the shirts.  But not ALL people just modeling.</li>
<li>Use a better picture for the Bio section.</li>
<li>Over all, make the text bigger on all these pages.  Use size 14.</li>
<li>All your categories and sections on top seem to be going to static pages with no Page Titles, meta tags or anything.  Why not just use what Wordpress gives you.  This is hurting your rankings REAL bad and making it hard to follow on your site.</li>
<li>Put links to your YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, and all Web 2.0 stuff on the sidebar.</li>
<li>The Sidebar disappears on the other sections of the website.</li>
<li>Use the Socialize plugin so that all our readers can share your content.</li>
<li>Get Feedburner and use it with Aweber.</li>
</ol>
<p>Overall, I would think all of the above will help Bklyn Stickup get started on their online journey.  There was an an old website we started <a href="http://www.dabreakfastklub.com" target="_blank">www.dabreakfastklub.com</a> &#8211; see how the first thing I wanted on the sidebar was their email address?! It makes sense!</p>
<p>The old saying goes &#8220;The money is in the list.&#8221; Which is absolutely true. So make sure you are collecting email addresses and following up with your fans ALL THE TIME.</p>
<p>I wrote this up pretty quickly, and there are more changes that can be made to this site to make it even better. But this is a GREAT start for you all to get going.</p>
<p>Watch for Part 2 of this case study on how we&#8217;re doing.</p>
<p>Leave some comments on this one&#8230;I think we can provide some valuable feedback to these dudes!</p>
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		<title>the launch, the network, the future, and some shit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after our second blockbuster hit &#8220;The Magic Bullet System&#8221; (sold out)  following our first &#8220;The Magic Bullet Seminar&#8221; (sold out) we decided this is the route we want to take to build our business and network. (you&#8217;ll find out in a sec why..keep reading)
Enough of the bullshit that&#8217;s out there!  I have respect for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>So after our second blockbuster hit &#8220;The Magic Bullet System&#8221; (sold out)  following our first &#8220;The Magic Bullet Seminar&#8221; (sold out) we decided this is the route we want to take to build our business and network. (you&#8217;ll find out in a sec why..keep reading)</p>
<p>Enough of the bullshit that&#8217;s out there!  I have respect for VERY few &#8220;guru&#8217;s&#8221;. You will not see me mail their product for the fun of it or to just make a quick buck.  I honor my word and I respect your opinion of me and us as a company.  If you&#8217;ve been on my list for a while you know this already! Sure I&#8217;ve mailed some BS before, but never again (i&#8217;ve gotten wise in my days).</p>
<p>You see:</p>
<p>YES &#8211; there are a LOT of guys who sell shit products and take your money.</p>
<p>YES &#8211; there is a LOT of junk out there.</p>
<p>YES &#8211; there are a LOT of guru&#8217;s who don&#8217;t give a rats ass about you or your success.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re different.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re 2.0.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time for this community to ACCEPT products that ACTUALLY work.</p>
<p>But with every launch and &#8220;guru&#8221; product there are haters.</p>
<p>So all the haters out there, keep on hating.  I can&#8217;t stop you, but just know you don&#8217;t bother me. At all.</p>
<p>Hater&#8217;s gonna keep on hatin&#8217;. Most are just really jealous and/or envious.  All three of those traits &#8211; hate, envy, jealousy &#8211; are not making that person ANY better and they are not improving their life by any means by putting those feelings out there. Negativity can bring you into a hole that will dig deeper and deeper and deeper until you just hate everything. Trust me, I&#8217;ve been there. I hated on everything imaginable at one point in my life. But once I shifted my whole thought process and brain washed myself into positive thinking, my whole life changed.   Make sure to look at the positive side of EVERYTHING.  And when I mean everything &#8211; I mean everything.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t like the word &#8220;guru&#8221;.  I&#8217;m a visionary. I see the future and how I want it and make it happen. That&#8217;s the bottom line.</p>
<p>And to set me aside from the &#8220;gurus&#8221;, I actually know what I am talking about when it comes to CPA, Affiliate Marketing, PPC, Media Buys, etc.  I mean who else has shown COMPLETE transparency during a launch?  I showed RECENT stats with RECENT campaigns.  Not some campaign I ran three years ago.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about CHANGE. (yeah barak, i stole that from ya.)</p>
<p>Anyway, enough mushy stuff.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the dirt:</p>
<p>Most affiliate networks build their networks, try to get exclusives, blah blah blah.  THEN they try to get affiliates.  It&#8217;s like starting a business without customers.  Then you need REAL good affiliate managers to go and get big time affiliates that are pretty damn loyal to their &#8220;choice networks&#8221;.  By &#8220;choice networks&#8221; I mean, the top 5 these big affiliates run with and love. That&#8217;s a tough task to accomplish without a large scale popular network.</p>
<p>A lot of networks get newbies and usually ignore them.  I mean yeah sure 20% of affiliates inside a network bring 80% of revenue.  I remember being a newbie in this game and trying to figure stuff out.  I would get a list of TOP performing offers from my reps and that&#8217;s it.  No training, no traffic sources, no nothing.  Just what&#8217;s working network wide.</p>
<p>But no one ever thought to teach them HOW to do it.</p>
<p>I see that starting to slowly change as far as giving affiliates what offers to run and where on the internet to run it, and that&#8217;s a good thing.</p>
<p>Anway, here I am, 5 years later in this whole affiliate marketing game and thinking back to how I felt. Imagine if I had the RIGHT training and tools back then. That would mean, my learning curve would be 5X shorter and my tasks would be 20X faster. Now if we can get the right training and tools to the right people and even if 20% of those think like I did 3-5 years ago, then we just made the next super affiliates.</p>
<p>So why not START with customers first?  Give them the tools and training they need to be super gangster affiliates.  Ya sure, newbies are hard to deal with and it&#8217;s a lot of work, but as long as I know I TRIED to give them an opportunity to make money from the bottom of my heart, that&#8217;s what counts. There will always be people who complain they never made money and have never even made a website.  They expect it to just come to them? It does take hard work, dedication, perseverance, and most of all BELIEF.</p>
<p>So many people are so greedy and just want the money for themselves.  Why? What&#8217;s the point? It&#8217;s in abundance and there is ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE.</p>
<p>We gave away two campaigns that were making us over $1.5k a day.  That&#8217;s a LOT of money.  But who cares? Seriously. There are millions of those little pockets of money, just waiting for someone to get &#8216;em. Have you seen the two pages of ads for &#8220;msn messenger&#8221;. hahahah!</p>
<p>&#8212;BEGIN RANT&#8212;</p>
<p>We even gave NeverBlue ALL the people who watched our video and signed up to get the smiley offer. They actually CALLED me and said they are getting a TON of new sign ups but I don&#8217;t have any referral link setup and they can&#8217;t put any referral affiliates under my account.  I then setup the referral link on the launch blog and then they said they are still getting pounded for smiley offer because of my video and can&#8217;t give me credit for any of the referrals!</p>
<p>I find that a bit comical actually. They are still cool though.</p>
<p>&#8212;END RANT&#8212;</p>
<p>Ok so where was I.  Oh ya &#8211; our network&#8230;.</p>
<p>So remember my blog post that was titled &#8220;<a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/marketing/affiliate-marketing-vs-internet-marketing-vs-brand-marketing" target="_blank">Affiliate Marketing vs Internet Marketing vs Brand Marketing</a>&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Well we are on our way to making this a REALITY.</p>
<p>We brought the affiliates to the network via the software and launch. And our software doesn&#8217;t just support <a href="http://www.ymultimedia.com" target="_blank">yMultimedia</a>. It supports any network you want. We&#8217;re not forcing any of our customers to use <a href="http://www.ymultimedia.com" target="_blank">yMultimedia</a>.</p>
<p>So now it&#8217;s time to get to work to make these dudes into superstars by giving them EVERYTHING they need to pump out profitable campaigns.</p>
<p>If we get 500 people who put out 10 websites each &#8211; that&#8217;s 5K websites out there all using our system! And hopefully they will run our campaigns, if not, cool. As long as they are DOING something.</p>
<p>Oh ya &#8211; and thanks to ALL my staff for making this thing go off without a hitch.</p>
<p>And Jay Styles of course &#8211; the man behind the scenes making the gears turn for this company.</p>
<p>We just might be onto something here, if not, then at least we tried. We shall see.</p>
<p>See you at ASW!</p>
<p>EDIT &#8211; this just in &#8211; We got booted from the ClickBooth party at ASW because they think we are &#8220;promoting our network hard&#8221;. Understandable, even though we aren&#8217;t. (do you see us buying up all the media on aff sites? umm&#8230;no). Even though we did over $2 million with them last year? Huh? We did that when we were pubs&#8230; not a network! Scared we are going to take their pubs maybe? I don&#8217;t really care to take anyone&#8217;s pubs, I just wanna go to drink and have fun. Look at this whole post I just wrote?!  Can&#8217;t invite people to a &#8220;private&#8221; party and then take it away. LOL&#8230;haha! Ahh the way this game works. Gotta love it. I guess, they are still cool though?</p>
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		<title>my dirty little secret.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already seen the software my partner jay styles and I have created then you are missing out.
This is TRULY the BEST market research, landing page builder, split testing, affiliate/cpa offer finder and stat tracker, campaign creator, tracking, optimization software out there. Period.
Watch my new video:
http://themagicbulletsystem.com/insiders/?p=71
Let me know what you think&#8230;
Amish
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>If you haven&#8217;t already seen the software my partner jay styles and I have created then you are missing out.</p>
<p>This is TRULY the BEST market research, landing page builder, split testing, affiliate/cpa offer finder and stat tracker, campaign creator, tracking, optimization software out there. Period.</p>
<p>Watch my new video:</p>
<p><a href="http://themagicbulletsystem.com/insiders/?p=71">http://themagicbulletsystem.com/insiders/?p=71</a></p>
<p>Let me know what you think&#8230;</p>
<p>Amish</p>
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		<title>Micropayments: The future of online marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Micropayments are popping up in every business model online lately.  
From iTunes to the AmazonKindle and now Google &#8211; all getting involved in micropayments.  
Micropayments are what Wikipedia defines as &#8220;financial transactions involving very small sums of money. PayPal defines a micropayment as a transaction of less than 12 USD, and offers less [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Micropayments are popping up in every business model online lately.  </p>
<p>From iTunes to the AmazonKindle and now Google &#8211; all getting involved in micropayments.  </p>
<p>Micropayments are what Wikipedia defines as &#8220;financial transactions involving very small sums of money. PayPal defines a micropayment as a transaction of less than 12 USD, and offers less expensive fees for micropayment transactions.&#8221;</p>
<p>iTunes charges 99 cents a track, the kindle charges $1.29 per month subscriptions to magazines and now Google says they want to save the &#8220;newspapers&#8221; by allowing people to purchase subscriptions to newspapers for pennies on the dollar. The first time I saw this was with Yahoo Music about 5 years ago charging only $3 a month to listen to unlimited music.  Obviously this model has been around forever, but it&#8217;s just starting to get bigger and bigger.</p>
<p>With content and syndication and information being blasted from every corner of the internet, it&#8217;s becoming more social. People only want to see and read the information they are interested in.  Hint: this is a PERFECT example of why people are going into their &#8220;communities&#8221; and seeking information from within their &#8220;social network&#8221;.</p>
<p>Think about it &#8211; it&#8217;s all digital delivery so the costs of shipping, fulfillment and all that are minimal.  Making the cost to deliver any product way lower.  </p>
<p>So what does this mean?  If you own a product or plan on making a product, you should look into the micropayments model. Consumers will buy or join a site for $3 bucks a month and get what they want and be happy. </p>
<p>Which is why a lot of people shoot themselves in the foot when they measure their &#8220;ROI&#8221;.  Would you rather have 1K customers and only make $10 per customer? Or would you rather have 300 customers and make $20 per customer? </p>
<p>It&#8217;s not about the margins, it&#8217;s about the volume. </p>
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		<title>the power struggle in marketing (and how to beat it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to marketing online there is a HUGE power struggle.  This power struggle is a bit hidden to the average marketer because money can be made on many different levels.  
In one of my previous posts titled &#8220;Affiliate Marketing vs Internet Marketing vs Brand Marketing&#8221;
Most affiliate marketers know about traffic and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>When it comes to marketing online there is a HUGE power struggle.  This power struggle is a bit hidden to the average marketer because money can be made on many different levels.  </p>
<p>In one of my previous posts titled &#8220;<a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/marketing/affiliate-marketing-vs-internet-marketing-vs-brand-marketing" target=new>Affiliate Marketing vs Internet Marketing vs Brand Marketing</a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Most affiliate marketers know about traffic and know how to make a buck driving traffic to offers via different traffic means. Most internet marketers have products but have no idea how to drive traffic to their sites (which is pretty much useless)!</p>
<p>Take a look at the graphic below (it&#8217;s clickable &#8211; don&#8217;t be shy):<br />
<a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/power-struggle.png" target=new><img src="http://www.amish-shah.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/power-struggle-300x208.png" alt="power-struggle" title="power-struggle" width="300" height="208" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-339" /></a></p>
<p>Now this is where you see that most marketers are just BROKERS.  Nothing but flippers. They flip things to make a bigger profit.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, brokers can make a TON of money and already are.  But what happens when all the components above start becoming a single broker?</p>
<p>Like Google?</p>
<p>Google has PPC and Search on lock down.  They also have their own affiliate network, a ton of affiliates, &#038; media through their contextual network.  They OWN the whole space for being the &#8220;middle man&#8221;.</p>
<p>Look at AOL!  They just started the same thing by creating their own affiliate networks. </p>
<p>So now these big guys are nothing but one big broker that handle the whole middle section of the diagram above.  Essentially taking us affiliate marketers out of the picture. </p>
<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t they just run their own traffic through their own affiliate network and just make money for themselves?  It&#8217;s bound to happen.</p>
<p><strong>So where is the REAL power on the &#8216;net?</strong></p>
<p><strong>The people who CREATE products and the people who OWN sites.  Plain and Simple.</strong></p>
<p>You can get paid on products you create if you MAKE THEM RIGHT. Which brings me to a product that I recently came across called &#8220;<a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/check-it-out.php?now=tsunami" target=new>CPA Tsunami</a>&#8220;. </p>
<p>When Mike Hill (the owner of CPA Tsunami) launched his product about 2 months ago, I was so impressed with his pre-launch material that I bought the course. AND I DON&#8217;T BUY ANYONE&#8217;S COURSE!!!!  It was definitely worth it, because I could tell this guy knew what he was talking about.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never met Mike Hill before, but we chat on Skype pretty often and have had a couple phone conversations.  This dude is ON POINT.  He charges $25,000 per DAY for companies to consult with him on creating their products.  Not only that, but he&#8217;s pretty similar to me.  We are similar in the spiritual, self help, business mentality and much more.  Weird&#8230;but true. </p>
<p>Anyway for a limited time, Mike is giving away some free tactics on product and offer creation. His value trojan and micro payments concepts are absolutely brilliant.  </p>
<p>Make sure you soak this all up and implement it. Mike&#8217;s giving away $25k worth of training for free.  <a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/check-it-out.php?now=tsunami" target=new>Check it out here. </a></p>
<p>When I was speaking to him this morning, he told me that this is the FIRST AND LAST time he will ever create a product and honestly enjoys making products and managing traffic much more.  (So don&#8217;t expect this to stick around too long.)</p>
<p>As far as the diagram I created above, I am going to elaborate a bit more on CREATING your own sites and BEING the whole diagram in a different post. </p>
<p>I hope you guys get where I&#8217;m coming from and where the future is headed!</p>
<p><strong>Do you know how to set up a micro-payment option?<br />
Do you know how to use &#8220;Network Style&#8221; pages?<br />
Do you use Micro-Commitments in your sales pages?<br />
Can you make a short copy sales page?<br />
Have you pulled max value from Upsells in your path?<br />
</strong><br />
If not, you have to see Mike&#8217;s material! <a href="http://www.amish-shah.com/check-it-out.php?now=tsunami" target=new>Watch some videos here&#8230;</a></p>
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