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#21 · Posted: 4 Apr 2007 11:45
Long long time ago... when people who joined coastal had no clue how to build optimized websites, a smart and hungry entrepeneur saw an opportunity and siezed it.
So, I get leads, everyday, who visit all my sites and spend hours and hours there, just reading, clicking, watching, and listening.
I saw an opportunity years ago and got my sites ranked #1 and in top 10 for many keywords, relating to this industry and have dominated ever since, and I paid upfront to get the sites done this way, lots of money... but that was two years ago.
Right now, my sites are ranking the highest ever.... many #1 listings, in many different search engines, and that is why leads cost me $0.00.
But I did pay for it, when I first set it up and built it years ago but now it is all on auto pilot.
And the good news is.... anyone can come next to me in this crowded market and compete and get their fair share of leads too, there is plenty to go around for everyone.
We all have different personalities and looks about us, which attract or detract people from joining us.
These are the skills and systems I teach my teams.
Jeff
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#22 · Posted: 4 Apr 2007 12:18
Hello Jeff
well done on many of your number one listings, however things change rapidly with SEO. I had a number one listing in google under coastal vacations keyword for over 3 years and then one day it disappeared to page 100 due to google algorithm reshuffle and their need to increase adword revenue.
There are some good companies that will develop websites, create back links for you and get you listed for a period of time but they will start to slip if new content is not added.
For the new person starting out there if they want to get listed in google, it will take some time and the cost is sometimes too much for them, but there are plenty of ways of building links to your site like through forums, press releases, article writing, back links on high PR (page ranked) sites, free ad links etc which will have a natural way of increasing your sites popularity.
Plus you can add your site to the search engines yourself to be indexed without even needing a service.
To make sure that your tags and description are tweaked effectively you would need to have access to the coding in your pages, so for those with replicated sites, you will not have access to this.
Personally I have not purchased leads for my own use in over 4 years, I also like to develop my own leads thru advertising.
I noticed Jeff that the Websters who also use the same company as you for their websites, that their website is slipping in the search engines now. Also the press releases do not stay up on the first page like they used to. Which goes back to making sure you do not place all your eggs in one basket.
hope this helps
Cheers
maria Porter
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#23 · Posted: 4 Apr 2007 12:41
Yes, search engines are always changing, gotta have a company that always has the latest knowledge to know what is changing and how they roll with it.
The company we use and that I recommend people use, is out of India, and they are smart.
Press releases do have long tail benefit, look what Dean Marino is doing, I taught him the power of press releases and he now does 2 or more a week.
He has created a giant news trap that many leads get into and then chose Dean because that is all they see.
Good PR creates 1000's of backlinks to your sites. The Websters do not have many backlinks, so their site is not treated as an "expert site" so it gets lower ranks.
If your site has many sites pointing back to it, then you become an instant celebrity to the search engines and they will rank you for it high.
That is the key.
Maria, Your sites did not have the high link backs from high ranking sites. That is why it was able to get pushed down.
This is also a lesson to you all why if you want to dominate the search engines, you cannot use replicated sites, and it must be a custom job, or who is page system you use.
Things always change and come up, 1.5 years ago, video online was a joke, now, it's everywhere and I am now getting lots of traffic from videos ranking in search engines and have plans to dominate video search for Coastal too.
I am relentless, creative and non stop in my promotion ideas, why? Cause my drive is to be simply the best there is. It is my desire and will to pursure ultimate success, so that is why I do what I do.
Do people have to do what I do to have success? nope, they gotta find their blueprint for how it must work for them, like I did for me, because there is enough room for all of us to become millionaires in this business and still have plenty of leftovers. Gotta have a prosperity mindset, not a poverty mindset.
Jeff
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#24 · Posted: 6 Apr 2007 20:25
Hello Jeff
I agree there is so much space for everyone to do well in Coastal, it is a matter of sticking to it and keeping open to what is working.
Thank you but I do not use replicated sites, I design them myself, and actually do my own advertising and promoting. I know which company you use in India, your testimonial is on their site 
I still feel that press releases are no longer staying up in the search engines like they were doing, that is why Dean needs to write 2-3 every week to get the exposure he once had.
The web 2.0 systems are managing to get listed in the search engines but not as fast as perhaps people were hoping. I wrote a blog article and it got listed in 2 days on the first page under keywords coastal vacations business opportunity, currently in the 4th position. These things fluctuate but the point is, it did not cost me $120 for a press release to get this exposure.
I think the current title of king of coastal videos must go to Britt Phillips albeit they are all on the same theme.
But these are very interesting times...I am loving it.
As always all the best
Maria Porter
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#25 · Posted: 6 Apr 2007 23:29
Press releases are still very good. Dean does them all the time and since he is consistent, the last 4 months, he has had a consistent $10,000 or more a month payday.
And it does not cost hom $120, I think it's $10 or so.
with all the Web 2.o stuff, some of it is faddy stuff which will be gone ina month or so, pushed out by the next web 2.0 gimmick. It is still the ole faithful that is making it work for people, online, doing it consistently.
It remains to be seen how long the latest web 2.0 trick will work, smart people can get into them, make some quick bucks, but the SEO sites have been pulling in leads now for over 2 years for me.
People just need to become students of the internet advertising systems, learn them, fail their way through them or hit the jackpot first time out.
Dean did not know how to cut and paste when he started 2 years ago, and now has websites, autoresponders, and press releases doing all the work for him. Like many others, we don't buy leads anymore. They come to us, find us, bump into us, search us out and we welcome them with open arms.
anyone can learn how to do this, as long as they take the time to get what they want.
Jeff
PS - or they can buy andchase leads.
I cannot wait til the contact mate software comes out. It's gonna be great.
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#26 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 00:04
Hiya Jeff
Dean has done well...there are many in Coastal we should admire. It is through everyones efforts that coastal has become so strong.
Absolutely, I am so looking forward to the contactmate system. Do you know whether we will be paying per minute for the calls or will it work thru voip?
For those who have not pre-registered, it would be a good idea to do it now and get the $200 off coupon.
Have a good Easter Jeff
Cheers
maria Porter
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#27 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 00:29
Maria,
Steve, owner of contact mate, showed me the system over a year ago, when coastal was not really paying much attention to it, until his director Scot finally got on board, smart move.
It uses VOIP like through Vonage or Skype. So the calls are all free, not per call charges. with Skype, you can buy an outbound call account for $29 a year! Wow, that's cheap, make as many calls to US, Canada for a YEARLY price.
I bought it when it was on sale for $14.99.
Now, the question is, how many calls will it do simultaneouly? with a voiceshot, you can call 1000 people in 30 minutes, since they use many lines to call out, but with voip... will it be one at a time? if so, that could take forever to call out many people....
Imagine this senario for when people get contact mate....
You buy a lead and it gets emailed to your contact mate email address.
Contact mate receives email, parses out the contact info and sorts it, manages it all automatically and puts it into your database for you.
Then while doing this, it instantly sends out a personal email from you, customized, with their name, and attaches an mp3 audio welcome using their name in the audio, all computer generated. and next...
It calls them, thanking them for visiting your site, and asks them to come to the nightly q and a call, using their name, and all personal, not generic, and imagine this only costing you a ONE TIME FEE to just buy the software!
Now that is a great tool
Now imagine ANY industry or business wanting a tool like this tool, it is amazing for ANY company, MLM or brick and mortar.
Steve is going to be a wealthy and popular person in the MLM world this year. 2007 is gonna be his millionaire year.
If you have not signed up for contact mate, I believe there will be a special promotion when it gets released later this month.
It's so cool it comes with voices, so you can sound like Maria, with a cool accent!
Or you can sound like Pablo with a hispanic accent, but it is not you talking, it is a computer and it will sound like a human.
You can type a sentence and tell Pablo Computer to talk it out for you in the voicemail, and he will and he'll never get tired.
You can ask Pablo to call your leads for them and tell them, "Hi Sue, this is Pablo, Jeff Mills' personal phone assistant, he aske me to call you with this special message, so here is Jeff... please listen closely..." then it plays an mp3 from me.
From some one who love technology which helps create and build relationships and trust with people without having to be physically involved, this is a great tool
I cannot thank Steve enough.
Jeff
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#28 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 01:24
Hello
very cool. I spoke to Hoyt at wecloseyoursales and he said he was going to record some messages we can upload into the contactmate system.
The series of messages would be about coastal and how it works together with the call center's automated closing service. The user would be prompted ie to press one... and the call would be redirected over to a live telecloser waiting to take the call.
Totally automating the calling, prospecting and follow up using the call center.
And all we would need to do is to load the system up with good quality leads.... and then go on a cruise - all of us together.
Yes Steve will be one popular guy.
great job, thanks for the prompt reply.
cheers
maria 
Oh and thank you, but I don't have the accent, you do
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#29 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 08:56
LOL.....good thread from 2 of the marketing guru's...
I will definitely have a Maria accent when I get Contactmate
I loved hearing the British speak when I was in London in Nov.
Hey guys.....know of any webdesigners using Web2.0?
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Terri
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#30 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 09:23
Quoting: goldmills The company we use and that I recommend people use, is out of India, and they are smart.
And that would be.....??
Thanks
Terri
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#31 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 09:40
This is gonna be great - for all of us!
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#32 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 13:47
Hiya Terri
there is a good company in India by the name of
http://www.alpssoftware.com/
They have made many sites for coastal members
hope this helps
maria
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#33 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 13:49
Terri
however your site was made by thehomebusinesspeople and they are also doing a great job
hope this helps
maria
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#34 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 14:44
Thanks Maria!
I will look into Alps Software. I wonder if that is the one Jeff uses that you all mentioned.
Terri
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#35 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 14:57
Don't know if a press one feature in contact mate, will work or not.
So, we'll have to see when the box arrives later.
Jeff
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#36 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 15:26
This may be a stupid question but what is Web 2.0?
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#37 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 17:37
Web 2.0 is basically the new way of websites that INTERACT and bond with people and create community and dialogue.
See websites are static, unchanging and not fluid, nor can people join n the conversation.
This forum is web 2.0 cause it is conversational, Blogs are, squidoo, myspace, social bookmarking, video sites like google and youtube, are all web 2.0. Those are teriffic places to collect leads. For example, Myspace gets 200 million hits a day. (or somthing lie that, point being, it is where people hang out and "talk" where as on google search there is just a command to search and not "talk" to any humans.)
so, if you want leads, go where the people are, collect friends, network, chat online, just like you are doing here, but doing it everyday, with all these types of accounts brings leads to you, instead of you going after leads.
make sense some?
My friend, Dennis Karganilla, has a web 2.0 system for people in MLM called MLMgoldmine.com. check it out, it is all video driven, and shows social proof of people justing communication and networking sites to make leads connect.
JEff
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#38 · Posted: 7 Apr 2007 21:20
Thanks so much for the information. I am trying to take everything in!
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#39 · Posted: 8 Apr 2007 14:23
Contact Mate is to be released within the next week or so...
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#40 · Posted: 9 Apr 2007 12:03
Jeff,
Excellent summary! We all have different styles. But I think beside quality is the numbers game also. Not everybody can maintain, just say 25-30 domains w/hosting.
I'm very happy w/my splash page and website.
Good luck to All. Long live Coastal Vacations.
cw
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