Yes.

As strange as it sounds they all 3 tie together.  Here’s my review of the Amazon Kindle 2 which I just got in the mail last night.

For those of you that don’t know, the Kindle is an ebook reader (a physical actual ebook reader).  After opening up the packaging, my first thought was “wow this thing is actually pretty sexy”.  Of course I thought it would be clunky but it’s actually very sleek and well designed.

Physical Review – Physically, I love it.  I don’t think I would enjoy holding it very much without the optional leather binder though.  The next button is in a great spot on both sides of the screen making it easy to use regardless of how you hold it.  It’s volume button on the side was easy to find simply because we are so used to that position with phones.

Software Review – I wish it was a touch screen.  It’s not, but it would be awesome if it was :)  It took me a minute to figure out where everything was but once you figure it out, it’s actually very easy to use.  When reading a book you can exit out to the main screen and easily come back to the book on the correct page.  You also have the ability to buy books from anywhere (via an amazon cell signal).  That is the most awesome feature by far.  It’s text to speech engine isn’t bad really.  I wish I had the ability to slow the thing down as it reads though.  If anyone knows how to do this… let me know :)

Final verdict – Here’s where it gets interesting… I love this thing.  In the last 24 hours it has went everywhere with me as I take every chance I get to read.  This device will have me reading more.  The reason I hate physical books is due to the fact that you have to carry them with you, they are hard to hold open and read anywhere.   Not so with the Kindle.  I can buy books when people recommend them or at any time I think of some new subject to read about.  Sweet :)

On price – It’s not cheap for most people.  At $360 (plus the extra case if you get that which you should) it can be a pricey investment.  If you buy a lot of books, get this thing.  It will save you money due to the fact that the ebooks are less expensive than regular books so after 50-100 books, you’ll have paid for the device.  PLUS, you’ll end up reading more and getting through more books (most people read less than 10% of every book they buy).

So what about this making money with Keith Wellman stuff?  I want to point out that I read business books like they were candy… NO I take that back… I BUY business books they were candy (reading them is another thing lol).  I find that the more I read, the more money I make and the better I am at communicating the messages I want to communicate to my market.  Obviously then, owning the Kindle will make me more money :-)

What are your thoughts?

Keith Wellman

P.S.  My squidoo lens?  http://www.squidoo.com/keith-wellman

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Good Evening Readers!

This past weekend (May 1-3rd 2009) Gary Ambrose and myself (Keith Wellman) hosted the Breakthrough Profit Creation Workshop.  This is one of our high end workshops.  We had a packed room and expected 30 attendees (we ended up with 31 :).

For 3 full days we spent a ton of one on one time with attendees helping them set up their online businesses.  We covered many topics from social media, traffic generation, business strategy, to the most complex selling strategies.

Amazingly, everything went without a hitch.  Usually we have something unexpected happen… last year we caused a fire with our high tech equipment!  This year was awesome and everything went as perfect as it possibly could.

Gary and I are confident that this will be the last private workshop but you never know I guess :-)

I’ve been playing lots of Call of Duty and reviewing lots of sales video’s people keep sending me.  I’ve been hard at work on a course that teaches my Easy Sales Formula and it’s coming along well even though it’s the biggest product I’ve ever produced.

Have you seen some cool videos online?  If so drop a comment and let me know!

Keith Wellman

P.S.  I created a Google Profile today (my SEO guy says it’s another avenue to top search engine rankings :) – http://www.google.com/profiles/keithwellman

Also, you can follow me on twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/keithwellman

And facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Wellman/675248324

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Need Support? Just head over to http://www.justaskkeith.com

My blog is not intended to make money, just keep me connected with people and share some of what I have learned.

But there are those who make a full time living at blogging. Top earners pull in over $1 million a year, just from one blog site (exact pecking order changes through time).

That’s not to say anyone and everyone can earn $1 million a year, merely to say there is money in blogging: good money. Whether blogging for cash is right for you depends on your temperament. Not everyone can write, for sure.

But blogging isn’t about being a “writer”, it’s more about being a personal communicator. If you have something to say and could say it to your friends over a coffee, you can blog. For sure.

All you really need is a passion or interest and an attitude! Read more »

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I’ve been hard at work developing an idea I had…

It’s big.  In fact, it’s the biggest idea I’ve ever had.

It will change the face of Internet Marketing and change the lives of thousands.  I can’t say anymore so I’ll leave you with an image.  Let me know what you think!

UPDATE: I realized after I wrote this that I sound like “just another I’ve got the next best thing”.  I want to clarify WHY I think what I have will change the face of marketing and those wanting to make money online:

The Autopilot Wealth Institute is a way of learning.  A proven method to learn.  Time tested through years of research.  There has been NO ONE to my knowledge that has provided a “marketing school” so to speak, like I am developing.  For the skeptics out there, you should be as there is too much crap out there to take my word for it.  The Autopilot Wealth Institute isn’t a new product, it isn’t a big launch I’m up to, it’s above that.

Great comments by the way, many (in fact most) of you love the new logo, and a few of you aren’t too impressed.  To clear it up a bit, palm tree represent freedom to me.  Autopilot represents the ability to create residual income.  Wealth is what we all strive for.  Institute implies that you have to learn and work for it.

Keith Wellman

Autopilot Wealth Institute Logo

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A quick search on Google for “Make Money Online” will bring up a myriad of different methods of making money online. Unfortunately the majority are pure scams.

People often associate Internet Marketing with scams. They couldn’t be further from the truth. When I teach people how to make money online I teach business. Creating your own information product to sell online. There are other methods too. For example you could set up affiliate pages and sell other people products to earn commissions.

One of my new favorite methods to start making some good cash on the internet is blogging.

While I don’t use it on this blog, I do blog for traffic which builds my list. I can then recommend products and services to my list to generate revenue. I could also pimp out my blog to advertisers but I’m not looking to do that on this blog.

My mom (Lorraine Wellman – Greatest mother in the world) is a GREAT example of blogging to pull in massive traffic.

She loves to write. Not only that, she’s great at it. So my Dad showed her how she could set up her own blog on Wordpress.com

Every single day she’ll post articles that she writes on things that interest her. From Oprah to scientific discoveries, she’ll write about it.

She is now getting over 1,000 unique individuals going to her blog every single day. That’s over 30,000 people looking at what she writes every month.

So how did she do it?

She wrote.

It was simple for her, write every day on topics that are big in the media. Politics, war, TV shows, etc. It started with 10 – 15 people reading and grew every day. In fact I think she’s only been posting for about 6 months (maybe less).

How can she turn that into cash?

Advertising. She could get people looking to pay for text link advertising and put their ads on her blog (a sponsor if you will). Adster is just one of those type of companies that allow you to buy and sell text ads.

My moms even inspired me to follow a passion I have and now I’m getting ready to launch my own tech blog that I’ll support with advertising. It’s an enjoyable hobby of mine to write about technology and science so why not get paid to do so :)

To check out my Mom’s blog head over to: http://writeasrain.wordpress.com/

To Your Success!

Keith Wellman

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It seems like at least once a week I get one of my students calling me about how they’re quitting their job. Does working in the corporate sphere really suck that bad? It got me thinking.

Paid vacations, fortune 500 benefits, great salary, bonuses, company car…life couldn’t be greater…right? If it’s such a great gig, why do so many people spend 80% of their working day thinking about how much they hate it? The answer is simple, it’s engrained in our DNA.

Really. I’m a scientist* so I should know :)
(scientist=high school drop out)

In all seriousness…throughout history mankind has striven to explore, to lead, to create, and to invent. It seems to bring us a feeling of greatness that can only be achieved through entrepreneurship. While working for someone else CAN be fulfilling, there is a certain group of “unemployables” who will always know, they are destined to go out on their own.

For me, I couldn’t keep a job. I hated working for other people…really I hated listening to them because they wouldn’t listen to me. I wanted my ideas heard. I wanted to create and invent. To be noticed. I eventually realized that the workplace wasn’t for me. I quickly go out of it and over a short period of time became finacially free online. I made more money online in a month that I had in a year working for other people…

Fast forward a few years and I own a multi-million dollar company teaching others my secrets to success.

Fortunately, it’s not as hard to do as many think which is why I get so many people calling me about their “quit” day. Most of them have a specific date set in their minds and strive to reach it. A few, do it on a whim after they generate a quick 5 figures online.

If you want to reach that goal, you need to have one set. Sounds simple but it’s the first step. Set your quitting date because…working sucks.

Keith Wellman

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Hey guys,

We’ve cracked it with support tickets. A major blast got these down to zero (just for one glorious moment, before the next ticket came in)!

Seriously though, we’ve cracked the problem. We can now deal with tickets as they come in. Hopefully you won’t need us but if you do, you will notice your query gets handled swiftly.

It’s not that we don’t want to deal with problems. But the recent overwhelming success of Autopilot Sales Formula has stretched our team to the limit. We simply fell behind.

And – I gotta say this – some people were less than straight shooters, signed on for the free deal and then canceled the ongoing immediately they got their package. This increased our ticket load enormously. These were the ones howling most about lack of support, don’t you know it.

I can’t figure out how people hope to make money on line if they think that’s the way to do things. I can’t wish for them that their customers do the same tricks. I’d rather they learned to play straight. But these guys probably have the most to learn, is all.

The other thing that puzzles me is why anybody wanting to learn the secrets of autopilot sales and money making would cancel before the course is barely started!

There are some really great Masters Of The Month series to come and will build into a powerful course. For less than $30 a month you can have a real marketing expert over your shoulder week after week.

That’s neat.

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You know what’s great about Internet marketing and why it all works? It’s because there are LOTS of other people out there who want to make money online too. They’ll help you, if you help them! So you can sell their products to your list and they can sell your products to their list. It’s usual, with digital products, to split the proceeds 50/50.

It’s called a “joint venture” relationship. Effectively it doubles your marketing exposure at a stroke (assuming their list is about the same size as yours). Brilliant!

But why stop at just one JV partner? If one partner is good, ten would be great. In fact we recommend you try to find about 30 partners for a product launch. That will give your product a real impact. A jv venture is probably the best way to make money online.

All benefits aside, Joint Venturing requires some planning. Here are some important DOs and DON’Ts:

DO. Select your partners with care. Make sure they are people you know perform well (you’ve been watching them online), or they work with someone you already know and trust or (best of all maybe), someone you met in person, perhaps at a seminar.

DO. Research your potential JV partners. Sign up for their publications, visit their websites, read everything about them and their history. Try to understand their values and motivation as best you can from what they make public.

DO. Figure out what you can do for him or her, not the other way round. Start asking, what value could I provide this partner? What do I have that they don’t? What could they be doing that they aren’t? What challenge or goals are they pursuing and how can I help them get there?

DO. Remember that JVs are a personal one-to-one thing, not based on mass mailings. You get to know each other, learn to like and trust each other. Truly great joint ventures with the potential to make you rich will take root only with a customized, personal approach.

DON’T. Be afraid to approach strangers. One of the great things about making money online is that even successful people will be open to an approach from you. Why is this? Probably because most online business owners realize, ‘you never know where then next great idea or opportunity is going to come along.’

DON’T. Approach a potential partner without a clear project in mind, preferably ready to run with a launch date in view. In other words, do NOT approach a joint venture partner with the following: ‘So, what do you think? Wanna do something together?’

If all you have is a vague ‘Hey, let’s do something and make money online together,’ you won’t have answered their first obvious question: ‘Why should I work with a stranger, when I can sit around and brainstorm with friends.’

It’s like fishing; you get the lure right and the fish will surely bite.

In this case you don’t eat the “fish”, they become firm friends and make you a lot of money.

Good hunting!

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Ok ok…so I went a little over board with my “Death Of” title but seriously…one of the big problems internet marketers make when trying to make money online is that they promote affiliate products…

Wait…why’s that a big deal? Simply because they’re not building a list in the process which could be the biggest key to getting paid. After all if you promote an affiliate link and don’t make the sale, how can you ever get that person to take a second look? You can’t, until now…

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Most internet marketing newbie’s start off promoting their website by looking for free methods to drive traffic. I personally used traffic exchanges, article marketing, safelists, press releases, and even search engine optimization (SEO). None of those methods drove traffic as much as my article marketing methods…

Now there’s a fantastic easy way to get articles circulated virally, without any work. I only wish Mike Filsaime’s brilliant new resource had been available when I started out… Read more »

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