“All my WordPress sites are down,” the panicked voice came over the phone. “I was just facilitating an advisory board meeting with Mark Victor Hansen, and nothing was where it was supposed to be!“, he continued.

The call was from my good friend Paulie Sabol. A close confidant of Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen. He was red-faced and there was nothing that could be done. It was too late. Like Dorothy dropped in Oz, he felt lost and confused.

This is just one of the many horror stories I’ve heard when business people eagerly jump into the New Media Marketplace.

What if you were to hear things like:

- 40,000 comment spams on one blog (yes, you read that right, forty-thousand,)
- More than 30-hours per month, just to keep up with technological updates
- The utter failure of countless business people to get any results with New Media marketing

You’d probably begin to think that growing your business with run-of-the-mill New Media strategies is no cake-walk. And you’d be right… IF you fell for the fairytales told by interruption marketers and New Media evangelists alike.

Floundering around the New Media marketplace trying this and that, or following the “expert” advice of self-appointed (Socialist) media experts will bring you not only pain, wasted time, and disappointment. It will lead you to the poor house.

Luckily there is a smarter way to win massive amounts of new business marketing with New Media. Getting tons of new traffic, customers, and sales really can be pushbutton easy when you know how to get past all the B.S.

Here in the continuing BLOG i360™ Preview radio series you can listen in as influence master Paulie Sabol, ex-Google AdWords chief Simon Leung, persuasion expert Kenrick Cleveland, and fitness leader, The Fit Bastard, share their mistakes in marketing with New Media… and how they overcame them. You’ll learn things like:

- How to painlessly start over from ground zero after a crushing defeat
- How to avoid costly errors and the loss of marketing dollars
- How to get four-times the sales conversions you could otherwise get with the best online marketing methods (and why that is)

As you listen to every word of this podcast you will become amazed at how easy it will be to grow your business using the same New Media marketing strategies that are revealed.

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OK, get this. Deb and I are on Kauai today facilitating at a corporate retreat with executives from all around the Pacific Rim.

I’m sitting at breakfast this morning and I see these two women heading straight for my table, and they’re clearly on “a mission.”

Now since my beautiful wife was not with my guest and I, my mind raced trying to figure out what they could want. As they reached our table, they both sat down, crossed their arms, and said to me; “We’ve got a bone to pick with you.”

OK, so now I’m wondering to myself; “What the heck did I do now?” But when one woman blurted out; “You’re a tease“, my mind quickly jumped to how I’d explain to Deb why these two lovely ladies had taken her seat.

“KAPLOW”, “BLAM”, “WACK”…. I imagined all the comic book-like action clouds showing up over our table.

Well, after relishing what I’m sure was a very shocked look on my face, they started laughing and continued.

You can imagine my relief when they said they wanted to know when BLOG i360 was going to be ready for the public. You see, they were both sales executives with the firm whose retreat we are facilitating at. And these women were eager to get their sales teams using the online TV capability of BLOG i360™ New Media Marketing system, especially its’ “A.V. Action Motivator” to close more accounts.

After LMAO, I explained to them what was going on.

But that got me to thinking. I’ve been so focused on our business development and some extensive New Media Marketing strategies for a few consulting clients that I realized I haven’t updated anyone on what’s going on with BLOG interactive360™.

Well, here it is.

The delay in a full scale release of BLOG i360™ has nothing to do with BLOG i360™ itself. I has to do with problems with the original software we chose to run the membership area. I’m rather frustrated, because after having our programmers spend over 200-hours trying to get the software to do what we wanted for members, we had to ditch it.

Franco and our programming team are hard at work for the last week building a brand new membership site from the ground up. It could be up to another 10-days before it ready, but we felt it was definitely worthwhile in the long run.

The BLOGinteractive360.com site is still live, since we had some VIPs who claimed their Founding 500 beta memberships and we need to keep the site open for them. And we’ve had new sign ups coming in every day even without any marketing, which is a good.

But we’re still holding off on all major marketing, affiliate sales, and our Joint Venture partnerships until the new membership site is up.

You’re welcome to claim your Founding 500 beta membership and lock in your low lifetime membership rate at BLOGinteractive360.com, to make sure you have a spot. Or you can watch for the announcement when the new membership site is up and running.

Make it a great weekend!

John Paul Micek is a co-founder of the international business coaching company RPM Success Group ® Inc. He and his partner Deborah are authors of the hit book Secrets Of Online Persuasion and creators of BLOG i360™; the pushbutton easy system for small business owners, marketers, and sales professionals who want to get more customers and cash online using New Media. You can reach J.P. at [krazycapitalist@gmail.com]

Remember when you were in high school. You’d make claim and have a friend (or nemesis) answer with “Prove it.” Well that’s the way I felt the other day when I was talking about link building and New Media marketing with a friend who is a successful internet marketing guru.

He was bragging about how cheap he could buy inbound links to boost his page rank. I argued that marketing with New Media, business blogs in particular, was more effective and a better value when it comes to generating a constant flow of targeted traffic AND top search engine rankings. Especially for the average business owner or marketer who doesn’t have tens of thousands of dollars to “pay” for links.

I’ve decided to share part of our conversation because it was really eye-opening, both for him and the coaching group I shared it with yesterday.

Before we get to the “proof” though, let me take a minute and explain why inbound links are so important to your online marketing.

Why inbound links to your site are so valuable?

It’s simple. Get enough one way, targeted, high PR back links and you will rank for any keyword. That’s why marketers spend fortunes buying links. Because links make your site rank, and rankings bring you traffic.

Everyday, millions of dollars are spent on the internet. People buy things, they buy services, memberships, they become leads for a new mortgage, they fill out forms, click ads… Hundreds of millions of dollars worth…

And who is making this money?

The people on top. The sites that are getting found by searchers are taking that money home.The ones that aren’t getting found are getting nothing.

And that is just normal links. Links that don’t carry any type of endorsement or limited niche filtering.

Graduates of our Pushbutton Persuasion™ program have been able to make connections that have a major impact on their traffic, prospect subscriptions, and sales. We’ve shown them how to go way beyond the conventional benefits of Page Rank and search engine optimization.

Once you understand how to connect with and persuade the Tribal leaders who have influence over hundreds, thousands, or tens-of-thousands of passionate followers, you’ll be able to get both passionate fans and links — for free!

So what are normal links worth?

The fact is, (more…)

We’ve been hammering away here getting BLOG interactive360™ ready for relaunch. I haven’t had a free minute to spare, but just had to give you a heads up on the release of Google Analytics V2.

Avinash Kaushik has done an awesome job of digging and reviewing the key benefits of using Google’s new tool. Check out his review of the second generation Google Analytics, and get ready to make optimizing your blog marketing infintely easier.

BTW - I’m happy to say that Goolge Analytics is built right into BLOG interactive360™; so if you like what you see, know that we’ve made running Google’s powerful free analytics program pushbutton easy with the BLOG i360™ system.