Jan 21 2008

First DigitalProductCreationSecrets.com Weekend Bootcamp…

a bit of a mouthful, but that’s what it is called. A long time in the making, the idea of the bootcamp was to enable people to create their own information products with ease using the tips and techniques that I used in the last few years to create ebooks, audio products and video products.

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The 16 sessions included:

• 10 ways how to create content instantly from whatever you know already
• Finding your internet marketing strategy
• 21 digital product creation secrets of the masters
• 12 ways to create audio products in 10 minutes or less
• 29 tried and tested e-book creation secrets
• 36 tips and tricks from a Microsoft Word Expert
• How to research the best target market again and again within minutes of getting started
• 12 ways of selling your e-books
• The secret product creation blueprint of the gurus.
• 22 list building tips, most of them free, at no cost to you.
• How to get you’re blog to stand out and get you traffic.  (RSS and subscription options)
• PodCasting.  Have you heard of iPod, have you got one?
• Outsourcing Secrets of the New Rich

and many more….

We have recorded all sessions as video and camtasia and will create a monster product within the next few weeks… all the delegates walked away with tons of software to be able to achieve all the results in no time!

The next DigitalProductCreationSecrets.com Weekend Bootcamp… is on 17th and 18th May 2008 and if you are interested, send an email to sarah@secretshortcuts.com

We ended up with a edited 30 minute sales piece as DVD, download, audio and report and a salesletter and website as well.

to sign-up for the next bootcamp on 17th and 18th May 2008, go here: www.DigitalProductCreationSecrets.com/buynow.htm

all the best

Daniel Wagner
 


Jan 14 2008

Just playing around with podcasting from the blog…

the new podcasting is as easy as 123…. you can use the subscribe button on the RSS feed and use it for the RSS readers and use the same RSS feed for itunes! Anytime there is a link to an audio file in the post, the smart feed will create a link for itunes… 

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Jan 14 2008

Another Amazing Workshop and 25 New IM Enthusiasts

In a new location, which I can highly recommend (Radisson Edwardian Grafton in Tottenham Court Road), we delivered another one of the intense 1 Day Workshops. 25 delegates, 11 enthusiastic helpers (thanks guys) and 3 presenters made sure the day was nothing less than a firework of ideas and action!

By 4:30 everyone had their new webbusiness up and running and some of thenew entrepreneurs were looking in amazement at the first opted-in names from their freshly started Google Adwords campaigns…

Here is a photo from the group… what concentration… magnificent.

Delegates on 12th January Workshop

to find out more about the next workshop and what you can learn, go to http://www.secretshortcuts.com


Dec 3 2007

Talking about a funnel – the free preview evening concept

While I was in the US, I realised that the bookings for the December and January workshops were very light. So I thought to myself: why don’t I ask some of my friends/Joint Venture partners to send an email to their lists and invite them to a free preview training, where I can offer my workshop at the end of the evening.

It took me about 3 hours to create the different websites, record audio, set up the autoresponders, book a room, PA system, video crew and arrange for the JV partners to mail their respective lists in the next couple of days. This is Thursday, 22nd November 9pm…. (http://www.secretshortcuts.com/evening/ForFriendsOfJavaid.htm)

The response was overwhelming – 256 optins on the first day. I was excited….

We had to get a bigger room and on Monday I decided to have some banners made (www.JustDigitalPrint.com) and also sent of 2 DVDs and 2 CDs to be replicated (www.AlphaDuplication.com). Anticipating many sales, I also had 100 homestudy courses printed and bound (http://www.topprintwindsor.com).

To get some more committment from the delegates I asked them to optin again at a confirmation page and asked them for some more details (phone numbers and names of friends). 126 confirmed their places.

Thursday the 29th November, just 7 days after the idea, we had a buzzing room with over 120 people (the room holds 100!) and we had an amazing time. I shared and trained using all the techniques and principles I learned and the energy was good.

The pitch didn’t go that well and I had a lot of feedback why that is. First of all those were people who sat in the room for free and I offered a £697 workshop. No warming up, no first step. That is a mistake. Don’t do that at home :-)

Secondly the timing to push for committment for next week (workshop 8th December!) is not good. I mean Xmas is coming and not many of us want to spend a grand on a one day workshop…

Upside: I learned loads, still made some money (we had 5 sales) and we have a great video from the night which will be a great DVD to send out to people interested in the workshop and to learn more about me. In short: the next one will be different. £20 to get in the room, they will get a training manual and CD to take home and I will offer a £97 or £147 product (homestudy or 1 day seminar, not workshop – where I can have more people in the room)

as Harv says: Every Master was once a disaster…. I am a work in progress.


Nov 15 2007

Katie’s Song on YouTube

A friend of mine did a short music video for one of our songs… watch it on youtube…


Nov 4 2007

So Free

Hi guys, a bit unusual, but heh, what’s new… I have had a little session with my friends Jeremy and Barnard yesterday. A song I wrote with J a couple of weeks ago. It will be on our new album…. btw, again, filmed with my Nokia N95 and straigtht to youtube….


Oct 26 2007

Vision of Life

…when things are going your way and you realize that for all these years you have been making excuses then you might have a feeling of silent reflection and somber regret niggling in your mind. You can tell yourself – of course – that you wouldn’t be here without the journey of getting here, yet you intuitively guess that this so called reason would fit better in the category ‘excuses’. The frustration of feeling that years have been wasted need to be turned into something positive, something powerful, something contributing. My pledge is to educate and inspire with my life, my example, my knowledge and my gifts so that people learn that they are entitled to a great life, that they are in charge of their destiny and that their minds are so very powerful. Life change – it happens all the time.


Oct 24 2007

…the last lecture by Randy Pausch

Hi guys, just in case you are feeling sorry for yourselves or are looking for some more inspiration in your life, I have been sent this link by a friend of mine in the US…..


 


Oct 23 2007

working on a new website in joomla

I have for some time now contemplated using a CMS (content management solution. (http://www.joomla.org/)) to manage my main website, http://www.secretshortcuts.com . I have finally made a start today by taking a three hour coaching session with Damien Senn. He has set up the basics for me and now it’s up to me to put the meat on the bone – or for pescetarians, the fish on the bone….

the idea is to have a website that looks professional to support my plans for the growing training business and is also easy to maintain and update. As my virtual and non virtual assistants are taking more and more of my workload and leaving me with the funload – I am looking at making the most of now, as the vodafone ad so aptly suggests. Playing to your strengths is a key component to my life now and I question almost every activity against the parameter of energy and fulfilment.

“if it ain’t fun, it ain’t good”…. there must be someone who loves the stuff I hate.

anyway, this message to the world – “hello world” – is to get me committed to get the website update done asap.


Oct 19 2007

Meeting Frank Garon and imac

On my way to London meeting mighty Frank Garon, initiator of the London www.InternetSuccessBootcamp.co.uk. We had a good chat and have talked about running product creation workshops together in London in 2008. I have set my targets now for next year after sitting with the accountant for a few hours yesterday.

Workshop coming up tomorrow and I will, for the first time, offer a continuancy programme to the delegates and a product creation bootcamp in January 2008. I will post on update next week.

I have also bought an imac for Sidd http://www.apple.com/imac/ !! great machine… that’s how life should be… wrote a song and had heaps of fun.