I am pleased to welcome Internet Marketer and Elite Trainer Janet Legere as my guest on the Internet Business Blueprint podcast on Friday April 30th at 1:00 PM EST. We are going to engage in a lively discussion on personal branding, list building and using list builders to explode your list and build your business. Janet and I are partnered in GVO and another soon to be announced venture – I have come to admire Janet and I am thrilled to share her knowledge with you.

Janet Legere was recently honored by Joel Therien,CEO of GVO with the award for trainer of the year, which is easily understood as Janet consistently provides excellent training at GVO Academy as well as in her own Saturday training sessions.

So who is Janet Legere?

Janet is a full-time Internet Marketer who has been online since 1999 and works with her husband Don Legere from their home in Calgary, Alberta. Janet is the mother of two beautiful daughters and a son, she is also the proud grandmother to three girls. Janet is a very successful list builder and marketer. In addition, Janet is author of “How to Create an Easy Video Lead Capture Marketing Blog” and blogs at http://JanetLegere..com

Special Listener Bonus

A couple of months ago Russell Brunson hosted an exclusive webinar for a small group of people on the subject of “Million Dollar Product Launches” – it was one of the most informative sessions I have participated in since coming online. As a bonus Russell Brunson and host Jeff Dederick made the recording available to the attendees and we have turn that recording into a educational product. I have not released this to anyone YET!

We have decided to make this program available to listeners of the show as a special bonus. Tune in for all of the details of how you can download this treasure for free as our gift to you.

Here are the show details:

Show: The Internet Business Blueprint Podcast

When: Friday April 30th at 1:00 PM EST

Web-Host: Blog Talk Radio

Show Page: http://www.JamesHolmesRadio.com

Call In Number: 1 (646) 727-3058

Chat Room Open: Yes

This promises to be an informative show full of valuable content that will be immediately actionable.

I am looking forward to hearing you on the show!

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James Holmes, Global Team Builder, Coach and Trainer, combining online and offline techniques to help you grow your business. To request a free 30 minute consultation contact James by phone at 303-523-9503 or email at james@AskJamesHolmes.com

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On January 22, 2010 I wrote a post which provided an overview and week one results for a test I have been running on the Prosperity Marketing System. You can read that post including my financial results after the first week here: Week One PMS Test

My objective was to prove that anyone who took action and followed the simple system I have established could successfully promote this self-funded proposal system to enroll new members into the primary program of their choice and monetize a percentage of their prospects even if they did not enroll in the business opportunity. The key is that I did not undertake any special measures in marketing the system, such as PPC, ezines, article writing, video marketing, or any other paid advertising other than on traffic exchanges.

To recap here is were the elements of the system I used during the test:

1.) Your Prosperity Marketing System:

http://YourProsperityMarketingSystem.com

2.) The Method I Used to Drive Traffic:

http://askjamesholmes.com/optimumtrafficformulamodule1.pdf

3.) The Primary Program I Promoted:

http://askjamesholmes.com/gvo

I wanted to conclude the test by sharing my final results after approximately four weeks as I wanted to conclude this phase of my promotion of this system test with the first months full commissions. I wanted to ensure that the commissions that I reported where actually paid in full and that there were no pending charge backs from cancellations.

Here are the final numbers:

Total Test Period Gross Income $588.37

System Costs

1.) System Student Tuition (one-time fee) $27.00

2.) System Owner Upgrade (monthly) $19.97

3.) GVO Monthly Service $44.95

Total Cost for the month = $91.92

Net Profit for the Month = $496.45

My test with very limited marketing effort produced a meaningful profit and helped to place me #14 on the leader board in GVO for the month of January.  In addition, I converted web surfers into team members or students in the training system adding them to my list. The logical extension of this test would likely yield similar results thereby doubling the income without any additional monthly expenses (the total from month two on will be $64.92) in the second month as the cost are fixed.

In order to remain complient with FTC reguations, the income figures that I am sharing here are my results based on the specific actions I took to promote this program. In should be clearly understood that your results may vary and be higher or lower based on your conversions rates and other factors.

I highly recommend the Prosperity Marketing System as a turnkey funded proposal that you can use to market any income program of your choice. My test results were better when promoting a low entry program in the fifty dollar range. These results are consistent with the philosophy I teach, which states that you should monitize your marketing funnel so that you promotions are self-funded.

My intention would be to re-invest the profits from this system each month in order to maximize the growth in both programs throughout the year using paid advertising methods with moderate cost. I consider this a best practice although you may decide to take your profits as income, which is perfectly fine.

Be sure to leave a comment and let me know if you have had success with a self-funded proposal system in your business.

I am here to help you succeed!

(c) Copyright 2008-2010 James A. Holmes. All Rights Reserved.

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James Holmes, Global Team Builder, Coach and Trainer, combining online and offline techniques to help you grow your business. To request a free 30 minute consultation contact James by phone at 303-523-9503 or email at james@AskJamesHolmes.com

Note: I am a Affiliate Marketer and it should be assumed that links provided within the content of this blog and individual blog post are affiliate links from which I may be compensated for sales made at the recommended sites. All products and service recommendations are made as a result of my personal experience with the product or service provider.

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Joel Therien is making a very big push in the month of February as GVO continues to help marketers and online business owners save money by bundling many of the most commonly used tools such as web hosting, auto-responders and video producer software, among others. In addition to customers of these GVO services, many choose to also build a downline organization to take advantage of GVO’s lucrative compensation plan.

It was announced last week that existing members of GVO can promote a special free trail period for new memberships to their associates, subscribers and prospects, which will allow new members to try the full bundle of services provided by GVO at no cost and with no risk.

I have personally been using GVO products for a few months and they represent a tremendous value, I actually reduced my monthly expenditure by over one hundred dollars by switching to GVO’s bundled services and I have built a down-line, which means I am actually making money every month at the same time.

I wanted to share this opportunity with you here and suggest that it might be worth your time to sign up for a free account and spend a couple of weeks evaluating all aspects of the GVO business and service model. I think you will be impressed once you have experienced it for yourself.

Here is the Free Membership Sign Up Link: GVO Give Way

Keep in mind the purpose of my blog is to provide you with mentor-ship, resources and tools to help you grow your online business. Feel free to contact me directly if I can answer any direct questions or provide assistance.

I am here to help you succeed!

(c) Copyright 2008-2009 James A. Holmes. All Rights Reserved.

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James Holmes, Global Team Builder, Coach and Trainer, combining online and offline techniques to help you grow your business. To request a free 30 minute consultation contact James by phone at 303-523-9503 or email at james@AskJamesHolmes.com

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A few months ago I heard that a well established website hosting company known as Kiosk Hosting was going to be launching a new network marketing company called Global Virtual Opportunities or GVO. I also learned that they were doing so with the support of many of the biggest names in Internet marketing including Mike Filsaime and Frank Kern among others. I was already familiar with Kiosk as a result of being a long term customer of Mike Filsaime and Armando Montelongo, both of whom use Kiosk as their hosting solution.

I was keenly interested in GVO because the business concept seemed very simple to me and the bundle of services they offer includes services that I was already purchasing through a variety of vendors. The idea here is to purchase these services as a package and dramatically lower the cost as a result and I have to say it really has worked. I still use Aweber, Go Daddy, Host Gator, but I have eliminated many of my secondary services and trimmed my budget as a result.

I personally was able to save about $120 per month and depending on what type of services you currently use to build your business, you likely will have a similar experience by switching over to GVO’ s bundled suite of products.

Here is what is included in the bundle:

1. Unlimited Hosting Account with C-Pannel and WHM Panels with Reseller Rights

2. Easy Video Producer (similar to Amazon Easy S3) includes video squeeze pages and a hosting community to market your videos. You can embed and link to your videos as with You Tube, Viddler, etc.

3. E-Responder Auto Responder Account – similar to Aweber, i-Contact, Get Response, etc.

4. Competition Witness – Lets you spy on your competitors campaigns

5. GVO Hot Conference – Present video, slides, live chat on your presentation channel - hybrid Go To Webinar and U-Stream platform style service

6. GVO Prospecting System – Pre-made squeeze pages and auto reponder campaign to market GVO.

7. GVO Recruiter – Email Marketing System with Pre-loaded campaigns to market GVO

8. GVO Banner Menu – Dozens of Flash and Static Banners

9. GVO Academy – Live Training Approximately 5 Classes Per day

I titled this post “How to Turn Your Business Tools into Another Income Stream” intentionally as not only can you save money by consolidating your services with GVO – you can also earn an income on all of your referals and the referals of those in your downline through ten levels.

To Learn More About the GVO Income Opportunity Click Here:

14 Day GVO Trail Link

If you carefully read my business philosophy you understand that I am a big proponent of multiple income streams. It doesn’t matter which business model you operate online, product creation, direct sales, network marketing, affiliate marketing, etc. It is essential that you have diversified income streams and one of the most reliable forms is training, resources and tools. Every serious marketer needs to invest in the proper tools to conduct a real business.

Regardless if you decide to utilize GVO strictly as a product and services provider, or as an income builder, I encourage you to take the 14 day trail and go behind the scenes and determine if this suite of services is right for you.

If you have identified tools that will serve the dual purpose of saving money and creating a passive income leave a comment as I would love to hear more and offer feedback or a review on my blog.

I am here to help you succeed!

P.S. I am an affiliate of GVO and the links provided in this post will result in an earned commission should you decide to join me.

(c) Copyright 2008-2009 James A. Holmes. All Rights Reserved.

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James Holmes, Global Team Builder, Coach and Trainer, combining online and offline techniques to help you grow your business. To request a free 30 minute consultation contact James by phone at 303-523-9503 or email at james@AskJamesHolmes.com

Note: I am a Affiliate Marketer and it should be assumed that links provided within the content of this blog and individual blog post are affiliate links from which I may be compensated for sales made at the recommended sites. All products and service recommendations are made as a result of my personal experience with the product or service provider.

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I am starting a new series of post that will appear weekly on my blog under the heading (and tagged) ‘What’s Working Now’ and it will be documented results of what I am testing in my business and what type of results I have recorded. I am constantly testing new tools, new marketing methods, and resources in an ongoing effort to make my business more efficient and profitable. I am not going to share the failures, there are always little experiments that do not work out, but I am not a product reviewer and it is not my intention to provide you with product reviews.

I am only interested in sharing with you what is working, the experiments that produced positive results. There will be times when I am testing a resource that requires an extended testing period and therefore the results may not be known for a while, but I may be compelled to share the progress I am making anyway. I may also share with you what I am considering testing next, but those post will not carry the ‘whats working now’ tag.

So, here is my first report to you. I have been running a test over the past 8 days to see how my web traffic was converting to upgrades and eventual sign-ups into one of my primary programs using the “Prosperity Marketing System.”