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OK… You guys happy now? I changed my theme.

I kind of like this new one, and don’t plan any changes for a least oh… the next quarter at least. Let me know what you think… Especially those of you who were hating the last one. You’re my review crew!

So, got home today from jvAlert, and I have to tell you that the last day was totally rockin’.

I was there for Simon Leung. Whoa. The guy knows the backroads of Google because he used to work for them. There are things he can’t tell you because he signed a non-disclosure agreement, but what he can tell you and told us was invaluable.

Believe this…

Simon says (no pun intended) that you should have a different landing page optimized for EACH keyword that you have in AdWords. Whoa. He even said it’s a lot more work, but that’s Google. He gave us about 12 strategies about what Google wants to see. Since I run the AdWords campaigns for Overcome Everything, it was a pretty cool perspective. I think I’m going to study Simon quite a bit more.

“Million Dollar Mike” Morgan was up next, and I just think the world of him. He’s been great to me in the past and I can’t wait until the call on the 19th. He gave some pretty awesome copywriting pointers and made everyone smile. Mike just rocks, and I finally got to meet him in person. kewl

I got a lot more than just information at jvAlert, folks, with the most valuable being a whole new bunch of friends.

The first day, I made a friend from Slovakia named Lucia, who is just starting out. (You’ll be hearing from her; I have no doubt. ) Lots of newcomers like Kevin Puls, Bonnie Cramner, and Steve Leadbetter. Lots of people coming on in some pretty interesting niches. Keep a lookout.

And totally lookout for Carrie Wilkerson. She’s a hoot! And a very smart business lady, who walks around without her shoes on. She runs… what else? TheBarefootExecutive.com I really enjoyed spending just the little time with her that I could.

And there were my old friends, Brian Edmondson, who introduced me to Jason James and other friends of his; Cyndi Parker of TrafficMOM.com and Birgit Ratz Cheung and her husband Eugene. All tops. Oh, and how could I forget, my old friend Charles Burleigh? I’m was so glad to see him out and about, meeting folks and having fun. Of course, Mike Paetzold was there, ribbing me about my old theme (Happy now, Mike?) and Steve Roye, who never fails to make me laugh harder than I should. Har. And Ross Goldberg and Eric Stafford were there, too.

I also made new friends Willie Crawford, who I was fortunate enough to sit beside at dinner the other night; Alan Bechtold, Laurie Steffen and Jeff Wark, and even met Bob the Teacher.

But the coolest thing was when someone came up to me and told me that they were on my list and asked what I was working on. I totally enjoyed meeting Bonnie and having a long chat with her.

And another long chat with Deremiah, a truly incredible man. In an world with an overwhelimgly high percentage of “me firsters,” this guy is “you first.” He never fails to ask what he can do for you, and that’s pretty cool. He’s gaining lots of respect by this attitude in the IM world, and there’s no doubt in my mind that he WILL go far. And sing? The man sings better than Stevie Wonder. We got to hear a really great Deremiah version of Happy Birthday at dinner on Saturday. Nice.

Ken McArthur is wonderful, of course, and everyone loves him. What’s not to love?

But the whole weekend, the question I kept hearing was, “What’s with Tellman’s hair?” LOL I told him we love him both ways–with or without.

So, that’s about it. jvAlert totally rocks the block, I’m telling you.

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So, today’s the last day of this awesome conference and I’m totally looking forward to it. First up is Simon Leung, who’s really brilliant. Think we’ll learn something? Hmm… No doubt.

And then, one of the nicest people online and off, Mike Morgan. I finally get to meet him, which was totally cool. I’m so looking forward to the call we’re doing together on June 19 at 8 p.m. EDT. You won’t want to miss that one. He has something very special for my listeners. If you haven’t yet signed up for the teleseminar calls, you can get in under the wire for this one at Blogging4Boomers.com

Anyway, it’s always hard to stop being in conference mode, and get back to the real world, but hey…

I’m looking forward to that, too.

That’s how it is when you love what you do, eh?

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So, this is my week for the double smackdown.

I type that in all jest, as I know folks are offering some valid criticism and I totally welcome that. So…

Now, it’s my theme. Apparently people hate it. Sigh.

Not only that, but it’s a total disconnect for my target audience. My site Blogging4Boomers and I have a “young” theme. Mike Paetzold told me that and I told him, “Ah well…” Not that I didn’t take his comments into consideration because I respect him totally. And I really did consider it and realized he was right, but I have an affinity for this color blue. My mom used to say that I loved any color as long as it was blue. Un-huh

And like, here’s me… In my brain, I am a kid. That’s kind of why I was able to write for kids. I mean, I listen to music my 18-year-old daugther recommends and love it. I often have Fallout Boy, Dido, or even a Rob Zombie tune playing while I work.  Oh yeah, we totally relate and it’s probably why I can work with people young enough to be my kids and have a great time doing it.

Anyway, Alex, who commented on my last post, found me, introduced himself and agreed that my theme sucked. Of course, he was totally sweet about it (and told me that Mike put him up to it, but well… Who didn’t know that?) So, that was the killer. Three people who hate my theme? It’s gone.

<sigh> When I get home, a new theme will be forthcoming.

Damn.

Love that blue ball.

I may try to keep that and alter the code to make the background, at least the text container lighter.  But I don’t see that working for the design.

Anyway…

Today was a great day at the conference. It started out with Alan Bechtold, of the Franklin Guild and so much else, showing us his new book and a clip of a movie that will go with it. Wow! Very cool. I loved it. It’s like Bill Nye the Science Guy meets Internet marketing and I for one, am anxious to see the finished product. I’m now an official member of The Franklin Guild for the next year. Whoo-hoo to that.

Then, Ken McArthur spoke about, what else? Making an Impact. He totally rocks and if I can pick a handful of people who have made a difference in my life, Ken would be one of them.

After lunch, we had Yanik Silver. I’ve never seen him speak in person before, and it was a real treat. I knew he was brilliant, but he’s funny and really enjoyable to watch and listen to. He gave us the great motivators for copywriting. Pretty sweet to see his take on everything.

Then, Jeff Johnson. I never heard him speak, either, and I’m like, loving the SEO stuff. Most of it, I already knew, but there are a couple of twists that he teaches that will make a total difference. Can’t wait to try some of his ideas. Awesome

The whole conference is, as always, totally awesome.

I don’t think I’ll be going to Long Beach, but I’ll definitely be in Orlando in February or whenever Ken decides to do it again there. These are just way too much fun. And, you get to meet tons of people you’d never have access to, sitting behind a computer monitor.

Get social! This stuff isn’t extravagance. It’s an investment in your future.

But it’s OK to have fun, too.

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Hey,

Just a heads up. Things are really gearing up. Tonight, I have for you one of the nicest guys on the Internet.

In case you don’t know who that is…

He started Affiliate Showcase and built it into the huge affiliate marketing site that it is today.

He started JVAlert, a place where marketers could find other marketers and make great deals.

He created a family with JVAlertLive.

And I was lucky enough to have been part of it earlier this month. You know who I’m talking about, of course. It’s Ken McArthur.

So, what’s Ken have to do with blogging?

Ken doesn’t email his list much, you see. I mean, he does, but instead of trying to promote from his email, he sends his list to his blog, where you can read of Ken’s recent adventures and interesting stuff surrounding his new book and website The Impact Factor.

So, that’s what we’ll be talking about tonight… How you can create an impenetrable bond with your audience using a blog.

See you at 8?

EVENT: Ken McArthur on Affiliate Marketing
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, February 26th at 8:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…

http://blogging4boomers.com

Don’t miss a single word.

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So, I wrote about JVAlert yesterday and here come some great people I met making comments, like Paul Easton, who I got to spend some time with and really, really enjoyed, and Stuart Tan, who totally rocks, but I got to spend hardly any time with at all. That’s my mission next time, Stuart.

But at the end of all that came the traditional comments from people in the audience and whatnot, right? People were standing up making these awesome statements about what they’d learned and how the conference had affected them. Jeff Wellman was totally inspiring. (And he’s a pretty funny guy, totally.)

But then came this sweet dark-haired girl who for some reason, I’d missed. I had just about met everyone in the room. She started by telling us about her site, which helps you to make video squeeze pages, which to me, is ultra cool. And then, she mentioned that she was about to lose her home to foreclosure. And she started crying.

Oh… my… god…

She asked for JV partners to promote for her, so I like, totally rushed up to the front of the room to give her my business card along with about 20 other people, at least. It was just an extremely moving moment. One of those that makes you see how “family” JVAlertLive can be.

So, I promoted for her yesterday. Tons of people signed up for her site! Was I happy? Of course. I mean, I don’t even know this woman really, but it just felt really, really good to help. Oh, and I made some money along the way, which wasn’t too bad, either.

If you want to check out her site, it’s at http://easyseotricks.com/VOP

She did an awesome job with it and she’s got a really good product. Heck, I bought it!

Check it out, if nothing else. I’m sure it will improve your list size by leaps and bounds.

Kathleen, you rock!

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Whoa…

Sorry I’ve been so behind on letting you in on the results of that product that me and 71 other Internet marketers did at the JVAlertLive seminar in Orlando, FL. It rocked!

I never had so much fun creating a product, which is usually like bleeding from the soul. There’s so much planning and preparation and build up and usually by the time the product is finished, you’re exhausted and too emotionally beat up to sell it. But you do, anyway.

But this was a trip. We all had to write one great tip about joint venturing, a testimonial for the product, and provide a bonus. People like Eric Stafford (The Faster Webmaster), Ross Goldberg, Stuart Tan, Paul Easton, Cindy Parker, Mike Paetzold, Steve Roye, Andy Duncan, and on and on where there, too, so there were some pretty awesome tips. So, what resulted was a really cool book about JVs and about $5,000 in products. Joel Comm got on the video, while suffering from the flu, made a video headline for the page, and we were off and running.

Joel actually left early, which was a bummer. I really wanted to meet him and thank him for some stuff he sent me last year via Tellman, but he got sick, and so Eric Holmlund and Dan Nickerson led us through this exercise, and we were all scurrying to get stuff typed and emailed to Eric so he could create the .pdf and it was inSANE!!!

The copywriting team came up with a killer headline. I typed like the wind with about 7 other typists (well, Paul Easton had to read the testimonials to me, LOL), and we all had a great time. We even made money! And to think this happened in just 90 minutes. Very cool

But that wasn’t the coolest thing about JVAlertLive. There were at least 10 cool things and people: Ken McArthur, of course, is a gracious and wonderful host and he attfacted presenters like Dave Lakhani, Brandon Bouchard, Christine Comaford-Lynch, Kevin Nations, and Jermaine Griggs. I know I missed someone. Oh, yeah… Jaime Luchuck and the other cast members from The Next Internet Millionaire. Good people.

Christine is going to be part of my teleseminar series, which is awesome! I’m very excited because she’s just awesome. I hope you’ll register for the calls at Blogging4Boomers.com . You don’t have to be a Boomer. I am, and just thought it was a cool domain so I bought it. But what I’d like to do is to help Baby Boomers (like me) create their retirement from online income. (A lot of us are worried about that.)

The site’s doing great, actually. Lots of people are coming in every day. We’ve had about 2,000 people register in just the first couple of days, and thre will only be phone lines for 200, though you can attend on the Web.

But, if you want to be on the first call–register. It will be Tuesday evening (Feb. 19th) and with Mike Paetzold, an old friend (whom I just met at the seminar, after 4 years of knowing him), who will teach you tons of stuff about having a WordPress blog. He’s just awesome and I know you’ll learn a LOT.

I’m really looking forward to having you on the calls.

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