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One Step Up And 2 Steps Back

May 16th, 2008 · 13 Comments

warningThis is kinda of a warning to all of you to NOT SKIP ANYTHING at that was taught through the 16 steps to success training that you took…  I want to share with you the importance of putting systems in place and following what works.

Have you ever taken one step up and 2 steps back? I know I have…

But even more than the warning…I want to encourage you and show you a real live situation of the value of what you are doing…

Through my time here at Authority Site Center, well over 2 years now, I have seen alot of people come and go…Most leave because they do not follow what Jack teaches and then they do not get the results they want and then they blame us and leave…

Others see that there is work involved and they just want to make money working 4 hours a week in the first month of their online career  and when they are not ready to retire in month 3 they move onto other programs, never really committing to anything, and never having the success they want… (lack of commitment and focus)

Authority Site Center is designed in such a way that you have a tremendous PROVEN opportunity to build a site that holds incredible value in the marketplace. This is not some supplemental, lets make some quick extra cash website you are building. There are ways to do that if you need to. You can grab a product from clickbank and buy some ppc ads if you know what you are doing and throw some targeted traffic at it and make some sales…

That is NOT what we are teaching here.

money-in-the-list.jpgWhat we are doing is building a business…a serious business…A multi-million dollar business..

Let me explain this by using some numbers…Lets take the phrase  "Wrinkle Cream"

This is a product in the skin care industry that is pretty popular and many many purchases are made to prevent wrinkles…The term Wrinkle cream has numbers that I will explain that look like this

wrinkle cream     $3.22     113     –     2,250,000     $1,062,471

Lets break down the above numbers …

$3.22 is the cost per click to be in the top spots on google for that term. If you have a wrinkle cream product and want to be number 1, 2 or 3 on google adwords…than you will pay $3.22 per click to be in that top spot…so EVERY click is $3.22 a click..On the average you could expect to pay around $363 dollars per day to own that spot on google search engine…

Thats 10,915 dollars per month…

Thats $131,000 dollars per year….to buy that ONE phrase to get the traffic from google..the traffic equals 40,680 clicks….  (113 (from above)x30X12)

Now companies are paying this everyday…fortune 500 companies with deep pockets and much more resources than YOU OR I…

So playing the adwords game is hard and you better have some deep pockets…and be VERY smart about the PPC game.

So our choice is to build this thing following what Jack teaches through the 16 steps and 60 day marketing plan…and rank organically and through the social sites.

Your Cost per day?

$3.23 cents per day..The cost of your Authority Site Center Membership ( I recommend you become an affiliate and in the first 2 months share this wonderful opportunity with others and get your membership paid for as fast as possible)

AND the other investment?

TIME…

rss_mouse.jpgTime to learn how to do proper market research..time to understand HOW TO set up wordpress and post properly..How to set up my blog log and figure out Widgets and this whole new language online..How to set up your profiles..How to LINK..How to do trackbacks, How to remote blog…

Yup..there is alot to learn…for some of you it is a HUGE LEARNING CURVE…It is going to take time, but you must stay focused and do NOT MOVE On from one step to another without mastering what you need to master in each step…it is too important to YOUR future, you will only be cheating yourselves if you skip things and do not follow what is proven to work.

So your EDUCATION is $3.23 cents per day if you join Authority Site Center and you are getting the finest online internet marketing education that will teach you how to build a Million dollar plus website in 12-18 months of Hard work…that is NO risk because it is proven

So…if you spent 3.23 a day for at the most 18 months…that would = $1,768 dollars you have INVESTED in 18 months…

plus your TIME…..

To build a potential Million dollar website…

1,000,000 - $1,768 (Your investment) = 998,232 dollars (ASSET)

Then 998,232 divided by 547 (number of days in 18 months)  = an income of  $1,825 dollars per day..

Is it worth busting your hump for18 months and learning this to make $1,825 dollars a day?

Now I am NOT saying every website will be a million dollar site, there are many factors that go into your success and your niche…Some will be MUCH MORE….like Bill Wardell's and Jack Humphreys site..

BUT…

Through the Niche research, we teach you how to identify markets and step 2 has been coined "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME" as the amount of work is very labor intensive…

To understand the money in markets I want to share this with you to show you the value and importance of what you are building…

Back to Wrinkle Cream

http://www.Neutrogena.com  is the top google adwords advertiser for Wrinkle cream…

spyfuGoing to http://spyfu.com I can put in www.Neutrogena.com and get an idea of what this company is spending on adwords per day…

Neutrogena is spending between $1300 and $8000 dollars per day in advertising on Google adwords…If we take middle of the road and say $4000.00 a day…

THATS $120,000 A MONTH—$1,400,000 MILLION a YEAR

There are 2,250,000 competing websites for Wrinkle Cream…To be number 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 on the search engines is going to take some work…It is going to take some powerful backlinking campaigns and a strategic gameplan to compete….That game plan is the 16 steps and the 60 day marketing plan…

PROOF?  

Bill Wardell (had pretty much zero experience in this when he arrived), is An authority site building master, has been working hard on his site for over 18-24 months… type in   online security in google right now… His site is number 5 http://www.onlinesecurityauthority.com out of 54,000,000 million competing websites…He recently said if he was NOT so hard headed and a penny pincher that he could of obtained these results MUCH FASTER if he had followed what Jack taught to a tee….and invested in a few tools that Jack Recommends…

What does being number #5 out of 54 million mean to Bill Wardells Bottom line?

The top google adwords advertiser for online security is http://cdw.com… Jumping over to spyfu I find that they are spending $3,000 to $19,000 dollars a day in google adwords..taking the middle of the road again —$9,000…That is 270,000 dollars a month..

Thats 3.2 million dollars a YEAR this company is spending on Google adwords!

Congratulations Bill on all your hard work…You have a Multi-Million dollar website now. Offer your site to CDW.com for 2 million and take the rest of your life off… :)

Bill has worked VERY hard at getting his site there…but He is Not spending $270,000 Dollars a month to get it on the front page of google… He is and has applied the 16 steps and the 60 day marketing plan and he listens to and watches what Jack does…

Back to Wrinkle Cream…The final number above is $1,062,471…What that number represents is the Value of the Keyphrase Wrinkle Cream in the market. If you owned the top spot for Wrinkle Cream (its only 2.5 million versus Bills 54 million pages) than the value in the marketplace for your site would be 1,062,471 million dollars….

Now sure, You can sell some click bank products and dabble with online marketing and make some extra money, that much is for sure…

Or you can GET to work and apply everything that is taught in the 16 steps and the 60 day marketing plan that is given to you as part of your Authority Site Center Membership and find yourself with an online piece of real estate that is easily worth a million dollars….

Remember all of the above is based on ONE PHRASE…I am sure Bill ranks for many more than one phrase. Jack scores on the engines for thousands of phrases. Now not all of them will have the same value, but you get the idea…

I hope you really get the idea of what we are sharing with you….

Is it hard work?

Bill can tell you that it is…It is really hard work..

Is 18 months or even 12 months of your time worth building a million dollar empire?

business-man-shaking-hands.jpgI VOTE YES…It is worth it…How about you?

Sam Clark

 

 

 

One Step up and 2 Steps Back

 

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13 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Quinn // May 16, 2008 at 10:05 pm

    Wow Sam,
    When you get fired up you are a Force!

    I’m sure glad we’re on the same team…

    Rock on,
    Quinn

  • 2 Tony // May 17, 2008 at 12:25 am

    Thanks again Sam.
    You really have a gift for putting things over in a way that gets right to the core.
    I will sign up for ASC asap.
    Tony
    PS. Thanks for the 16 Steps.
    To put everything in, like you did, twice a week for 8 weeks was amazing. Awesome performance!

  • 3 Alison Appiah // May 17, 2008 at 12:27 am

    Superb Sam…Very Inspring!

  • 4 Rangoo's Review // May 17, 2008 at 1:09 am

    I am copying here the reply I posted on the forum to this post.

    Can anybody beat Sam, the great researcher?

    I admire Sam’s ability to base all his arguments on hard code data and practical wisdom.

    I am new to ASC, just placed an order for my site. But I went through the ‘16 Steps to Success’ free webinar and got the taste of how Sam and Jack teach and how much they care for others.

    I respect Jack for setting up an example with his own site, trying out and testing everything he asks others to do, practicing before preaching and getting the necessary tools developed that will save time and energy.

    I respect Sam for his absolute hold on market research, for his sincerity and committment to helping others learn, for taking each and every feedback seriously and address it with measurable data rather than emotional appeal.

    Whenever the hard work bogs us down, whenever we feel the pinch of paying a hundred dollars of our hard earned money without earning anything much for the first few months, we need to come back and read this motivational post that proves beyond an iota of doubt: All this is worth it!

    When we promote ASC as an affiliate this is the kind of information we need, to convince others. Sometimes instead of convincing others we may get confused by their questions and give up our own membership.

    Anything new is difficult to learn at the beginning and can be overwhelming. But as we learn one bit at a time the learning snowballs and before we know we will be an expert. This I have realized learning internet marketing from scratch after retiring from a teaching job in a college.

    I wish I had joined ASC right at the beginning of my online venture. I may not have wasted so much money, time and effort in working hard on useless pursuits. Believe me the people who took my money told me I will have to work only for an hour or two a day and I will earn thousands of dollars. As you can easily guess they earned my hard earned dollars and I got nothing in return.

    I believe in finding proof through personal experience. I have just started on the ASC program. I will go through this and put in as many hours as it requires and test it out. I hope to come back to this forum after a few months and say my site is getting X number of buying customers per month.

    Jack and Sam are true teachers who are honest and sincere in their work and they are teachers in the true sense of the term, not internet marketers in the guise of teachers. The amount of learning I got for free through the ‘16 Steps to Success’ is unbelievable. And I was amazed to realize that I was not taught half-truths before I became a paying customer.

    The learning is priceless. I have already earned thousands of dollars worth of learning. If I do not apply it I will have cheated myself to the tune of a million dollars. So I am getting down to work.

    Thanks Jack and Sam for all that you are doing. Hats off to you both!

  • 5 Miguel Wickert (Pineiro) // May 17, 2008 at 2:06 am

    hey Sam, excellent post! WOW, I feel the fire. :)

  • 6 Tonie Konig // May 17, 2008 at 3:49 am

    Thanks Sam, great motivational speech.

    I’ve seen my blog go from Alexa ranking 6 ooo ooo and something to 236 940 in 2 months.

    The monetization is slowly happening I’ve made a couple of product sales and I’ve had 4 paid review offers.

    It’s hard but rewarding work and when I can look around the “hype” of this and that guru making $ 100 000 a day, I can see a solid business growing.

    Thanks for caring, it gets lonely out here sometimes.

    Ciao

    Tonie

  • 7 Douglas // May 17, 2008 at 5:24 am

    Don’t worry Sam, I would never blame you if I didn’t succeed, because you have laid out the most enlightening and comprehensive program for establishing a presence on the internet that I have ever seen. Your (and Jack’s) step-by-step instructions have opened my eyes to the infinite possibilities of the internet community, and from now on I will judge every other marketing program being promoted against the methods you have taught us (if I even open their emails :-))

    Which I won’t because I am too busy implementing all the strategies I learned from you.

    A heartfelt thanks, Sam

  • 8 Don B. // May 17, 2008 at 10:51 am

    Sam, thanks again for the 16 steps, but, most especially for giving me the straight up facts in straight up talk. I am still only on step 2, but I am not worried. When I finally decide on the right niche for me, I have the 16 step plan ready and waiting.

  • 9 Ryan // May 17, 2008 at 11:03 am

    damn sam… I am pissed at you…lol just kidding, I work for CDW!

  • 10 Gary McElwain // May 17, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Thanks so much Sam, first you give us your time and teach us how to be great online marketers. Then you tell us , and show us just what the Big Companie’s are doing.

    And You say we can kick their ass and take their names just by putting forth the actions you teach us. You guy’s are so awsome. Thanks for all you do for us.

    Gary McElwain

  • 11 David_Durban, South Africa // May 18, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    When I heard I’d got a seat in the 16Stepstosuccess Webinar, I had a mixture of feelings.

    In my former life as a dental surgeon, I’d managed very well without a website, and hadn’t a clue how to write html code.

    After retiring from dentistry, I did get a static website for my network marketing business, but someone else encoded all the stuff I wrote.

    At the end of last year, I found a book about blogging, and was smitten! I loved the Wordpress WYSIWYG… now I could do it all myself, without having to wait for someone else to put things on my site.

    If only it were that easy to build an online business! I was having fun learning a lot, but not really getting anywhere.

    Then came Sam’s invitation. While delighted to be one of the lucky 500, I’d never been in a chat room before and wondered if the course was going to be too complicated for my limited internet experience.

    Well, I needn’t have worried. Sam’s teaching expertise had this novice jumping about with excitement at his new-found skills, and the time between Tuesday and Thursday was a real drag… I couldn’t wait for the next Step.

    I also couldn’t wait to try out what I’d been taught that evening, without properly completing the previous Step.

    By the end of Step 16, my head was in an excited spin. I’d got my Step 1 binder in place, and had dabbled in everything else, flitting about from one thing to another.

    With Sam’s words ring in my ears, I’ve gone back to Step 2 to do everything properly.

    And as I go through the pdf pages thoroughly this time, I realise even more the immense value of what I’ve been given.

    Sam, you’re a generous, gifted teacher, and it’s impossible to thank you enough for empowering me with the tools to build a very successful site.

    I’m happy to say it’s been 16 steps up and 15 steps back for me. And I’m thoroughly enjoying the huge learning curve.

    Thank you, Sam.

  • 12 Max Ikbal // May 18, 2008 at 6:00 pm

    $3.23 cents per day..?????? is it 3.23 cents OR 3.23 dollars per day Sam?

    and why is the ASC site down, i’m getting an error at the main site.,.?

  • 13 Sam // May 20, 2008 at 1:35 am

    Opps….Max it is 3.23 Dollars per day :) ASC site should not be down, we had a hiccup once in a while and BOY O BOY I can hardly wait til ASC gets out of the hosting biz

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