In early May, Ray and I attended Gail Bottomleys sneaky workshop in Melbourne.  As I have been doing this gig for quite a while, I didn’t learn anything new on the day. However, I should point out that I spent a lot of time in my early days sitting in on Gail’s webinars and learning a lot.  In any case, Gail did an awesome job teaching all the newbies in the room about how to get a website up and running.  She even had some new tricks to show at her latest workship.  Ray also learnt a lot about building a wordpress website since his focus has been on auto-responders and tracking in Google analytics.

In any case, what I like about Gail is that she takes everything in her stride. She is a patient and very endearing.  She certainly knows and understands the Internet Marketing gig and can answer virtually any question thrown at her. This is no mean feat.  She even copes with the occasional tear from some students who get a little frustrated when things don’t work out quite right. I seriously recommend Gail Bottomleys workshops if you are just starting out.

Gail Bottomley teaches a different model to Brett McFall.  While Brett’s program focuses mainly on creating your own product, Gails program focuses on affiliate marketing. Personally I prefer the affiliate marketing model – well at least when you are starting out.  This is because there is a lot of information to learn and absorb and I believe it is best to focus on the core skills of keyword research and how to search engine optimize your page properly before you go out and create your own product.

By way of example, we created a product early on when we first started the Warpspeed program. We even outsourced it and spent around $1200 on getting our ebook written by an elance writer.  We even followed instructions on how to find products with low competition and high traffic – the problem was that the product we selected was not a viable market that was willing to spend money.  This was an expensive mistake.  In my mind, why go out and buy an expensive Harley Davidson if you don’t have a license to drive it.

Essentially, I went back to the basics and learnt the correct skills and used affiliate marketing as a vehicle to perfect and hone my skills. Thats why I like the way Gail teaches.  She covers some pretty critical steps in her sneaky workshop and I think this is Gail’s core area of expertise.

However, since then I’ve learnt even more advanced techniques since joining James Schramko’s program.  This has been a positive step as I can honestly say that I have made much more money on James program than what I had done previously.

Whats the difference:

For a start, the content James teaches is cutting edge and up to date.  This has helped me progress much faster and I have pretty much unsubscribed from most other Internet Marketers email lists (although I still affectionately love to hear from Gail as well).

James is actively involved in his community. He holds weekly / fortnightly webinars. He posts and responds to questions on the forum on a daily basis.  Would you believe he even flew directly to Melbourne from Sydney this week to spend a night and get to know his Superfast Results forum members?  That’s commitment.

His forum has experts in virtually any field you might be interested in – from Pay per Click advertising, Search Engine Optimization, WordPress, Getting traffic , buying and selling domain names and even flipping websites.  At US$97 a month it is the best value around.  Since working with James we  have broken new barriers and boundaries.  Apart from making more money, we have:

• Become an expert author on Ezine articles
• Ran our first webinar
• Organised our first workshop
• Implemented powerful RSS streams of traffic
• Increased the number of visitors to our site
• Set up a paypal button that links directly to our autoresponder account
• Achieved a page 1 ranking in Google
• Got put on a private affiliate program
• Streamed video from ez3 (yes – I was nearly in tears with this one)
• And are currently putting together out first proposal to help local business with our Internet Marketing skills

How you benefit?

Our key focus is on helping other Melpies get through their stumbling blocks.  We know from experience that there are many.   This means you get the benefit of everything I have learnt and implemented.  We have been through the blood, sweat and tears.  You also get to benefit from finding out the latest, cutting edge information. For further information  on what courses and workshops we are holding visit Effortless Internet Marketing.

We should also point out that while we are members of Brett’s program, we are not affiliated to Brett’s program. Whilst Brett McFall encourages local meet-ups, he does not endorse the content in them. Hence any information and advice that we provide based on our own knowledge and experience.  This is not disimilar to the Warpies forum where a variety of people other than Brett McFall who offer their advice and opinions in the forum.