Warren Black OIS Legally Reduce Tax Workshop a Resounding Success!

Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by Our Internet Secrets.

Workshop Update

This weekend, OIS hosted it’s first 3 Day event with Warren Black on How To Legally Reduce Your Tax. This wss a BONUS event over and above what OIS members are normally offered with their private workshops.

Warren (pictured) is not only a certified accountant and lawyer, but he’d also spent a decade working for the ATO, so he brought a wealth of experience to the stage.

Warren shared some astounding facts and strategies that most accountants and lawyers just don’t know.  He also spoke about some excellent strategies when dealing with ASIC, the ATO and debt collectors.

Some of the other topics that fascinated the audience included:

- How to setup companies and trusts correctly so there’s no loopholes

- The most commonly missed tax deductions

- Cutting edge and legal offshore strategies relating to asset protection and taxation

- The Mindset and Strategies of the super rich when it comes to tax minimisation

Warren stated most people have their heads in the sand about tax and legal issues and most people are sitting ducks when it comes to being protected. He shared case study after case study of real life situations where people did not take charge and it came back to bite them. Riveting though they were, it was also heartbreaking and a little scary to hear what has happened. He also said most people stick their heads in the sand about these issues, and it was time to wake up!

Andrew spoke on two sessions about mindset relating to tax and money. He said that you can learn all the strategies you like, but if you’re not in the right mindset then the information more often than not would go to waste. We did several exercise addressing our associations and feelings towards tax, and also explored his formula on how to move your comfort zone to a new level.

We had people from all industries come and got some great feedback from everyone who attended. Who would have thought tax could be such an exciting topic?!!

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**The winner of our testimonial competition will be announced shortly on this blog, and will win 1 hour with Warren for a personal consultation. Thanks to everyone who gave a written or video testimonial!

**If you missed the workshop, we will keep you posted if the DVDs ever become available. Due to the sensitive nature of the information, it will need to be heavily edited before being released publicly. We will also need to ensure all parties are happy before anything is publicly released.

At this stage, No future workshop with Warren is planned at present. We may be doing another one in future but no set time, but keep your eye out just in case and be sure to book in quick if it ever does come back!

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Your Mindset Is The Secret To Success

Posted on 07. Apr, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi – its Julie … I just had to let you know what an impact Paul Blackburn’s teleconference call had on the people who listened to the call … the feedback has been really inspiring.

Lynne Bodman, one Our Internet Secrets members, wrote to me with this message:

When you listen to a 1 hour recording between two inspirational people, Daryl Grant and Paul Blackburn, there are multitudes of gold nuggets and precious gems dropped – almost casually – into the conversation.

Each person who listens to this recording – will hear the jewels that are perfect for them.

I wanted to share a couple that stood our for me. When Daryl said that she still feels overwhelmed at times … I really listened to how she handles this. It was great advice.  I’m not going to tell you her answer – because you will learn so much more if you listen to the call.

The other key point that stood out for me – and it may be a huge learning for you as well – is that Daryl and Andrew, and Paul, are not afraid of making mistakes. In fact, many of the things that they do – don’t work out as expected.

And the jewel of wisdom I learned from this is – “the idea or concept may not work” but that doesn’t mean that you are a failure as a person.

If you are a member of Our Internet Secrets – I strongly encourage you to listen to teleconference call #118 – if you aren’t a member and would like to know more about Our Internet Secrets, email me at support@ourinternetsecrets.com and one of our team will call you.

Warm regards … Julie Lewin

Help Desk

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Jewels of Wisdom – Computers

Posted on 03. Mar, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Its been a while since I shared some of my Jewels of Wisdom with you … so thought I’d share with you an insight I learned recently.

Jewel of Wisdom #21 – Little Known Secret About Laptop Battery

I started getting messages that my computer battery needed replacing as it wasn’t re-charging.

The cost of a new battery for your laptop is around $150 depending on your computer brand.

The good salesman at the computer shop I went to said, “We don’t stock laptop batteries … but before you buy one – try taking it out and putting it back in again and see if it will recharge.”

Great news … it did!

But that’s not all he told me … this is a little known secret in the computer industry.

When you are not using your battery – ie., you are connected to main power … you should take your battery out of your laptop.

Then you won’t experience the problem that I have had with the battery dying within 12 months of buying your computer.

Until next time …

Julie
Help Desk

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Google Ad Campaign and Copywriting Tips

Posted on 27. Jan, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

It’s incredible to believe that January 2011 is nearly over.  Have you set lots of new goals and making progress to achieving them?

Here’s my first 2011 Jewels of Wisdom.

Jewel of Wisdom #20 – Google Ad Campaign Tips

There are two things I see consistently when reviewing ad campaigns.  If you do these two things … you will take a lot of stress out of your ad campaign – especially if you are new to this.

1.     Turn on your Quality Score column

The better your quality score the better your Cost Per Click and overall performance of your ad.

When you set up your campaign – the column that shows your Quality Score is not automatically selected.  You need to do this yourself.

(a)  click on the columns tab above the graph

(b)  click on the small box next the Qual. Score

(c)  on the right hand side there are green tabs – go right to the bottom and drag the Quality Score button up and make it the first green tab

Your Quality Score column will now appear wherever you have Search activated in your ad campaign and you’ll be able to monitor it at a glance.

2.  Google Ad Campaign Dates

I often get people saying to me “nothing is happening” in their ad campaign.

And more often than not – it is because they have the date range:  last 7 days (I believe this is the one that automatically selects when you start a  new campaign).  This date range does not show the current day.  If you want to see how many clicks you’ve had since your campaign started – you can manually select your dates, otherwise you can select today or this week Mon-today or Sun-today.  That way you will get the most current data.

I hope this clears up any confusion about these two points in your Google Ad Campaign.

Till next time.

Cheers

Julie Lewin
Help Desk
Our Internet Secrets

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How To Do A Screen Capture

Posted on 26. Nov, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

It’s been a while since I shared some Jewels of Wisdom from the Our Internet Secrets Help Desk.

Its interesting how questions come in waves … here’s my first Jewel of Wisdom for today:

Jewel of Wisdom #18 – How To Do A Screen Capture

Sometimes you just want to take a snapshot of your screen to either send it to someone by email … or … and this is a really great tip – to put in your sales copy so that you can provide proof or evidence of a statement that you are making in your letter.

So … how do you do this?

1. Have your computer screen filled with the exact information you want to capture.
2. Press the Fn key – it should sit down on the left side of your keyboard next to the Ctrl key – still keeping this key pressed – also press the key that has prt sc on it (it will be located somewhere up on the top right hand side of your keyboard – usually with the word home written above it.
3. What you have done is taken a copy of this screen and it is sitting in computer land.
4. You can either open a Word document and paste this into your Word document – by pressing Ctrl V or right clicking on your mouse and clicking on paste.
5. If you want to alter this image by cutting out any part of the image that is not relevant for your purpose – you can paste it into an editing program.  I use Paint.  This can be found in your accessories.  You can then crop your image and save it as a jpeg or a gif file to be used either on your website or can be attached to an email.

Jewel of Wisdom #19 – Video Blogging

I was told by a University lecturer that you should maximise your time by creating more than one result from your efforts.  So … what does this mean for you.

Well … I learned that sending my blogposts to www.ezinearticles.com first before posting it on my blog – means that I can get free traffic coming to my site from my ezine articles.

I don’t know about you but I can look at a screen and type one word in 5 minutes sometimes as my brain freezes over as I try to articulate my concept in words.

So … I’ve discovered that:

1. I can sit in front of a video camera – speak for 3-5 minutes
2. upload the video to my computer
3. move it into my free transcribing software – express scribe
4. transcribe it in 10 minutes and at the same time mould it into my 300-600 word article ready to send it to ezinearticles
5. edit my video
6. upload it to my YouTube channel
7. then put the code on my blog
8. a few days later … my ezine article is approved and I pop that in under my video blog

Make sure that your article is keyword rich and that you remember to fill in your meta data … and you’ll drive lots of traffic to your blog – making Google love you!

That’s it for another week.

Julie
Help Desk

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Use Video Blogging To Drive Traffic To Your Site

Posted on 13. Oct, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hey there … I’ve been on a blog holiday these past few weeks, which has been pretty slack of me … but am back on track now … and I’ve got some great tips for you.

Jewel of Wisdom #15 – Video Blogging

I’ve been learning some really cool stuff from Gideon Shalwick lately about video blogging  … I’m not going to show you how to do it … because I’m still learning myself.  But what I’ve discovered from Gideon is that you can drive heaps of traffic to your site by doing video blogging and posting them regularly to your blog.

The super secret that I’ve learned is that you sit in front of the video recorder – record your message in about 2 minutes and no more than 5 minutes (‘cos people get bored and click off) – and then transcribe your video and put the text below the video post on your blog.

That way you get keyword rich content on your blog – and you get the super search engine YouTube sending traffic to your site … and you make money online.

Also … remember – some people like to read and don’t like watching video … and other people have trouble watching videos on their computer.

Especially if you land yourself in the trap I did last month – and used up all my bandwidth for the month in 2 weeks – and got pushed down to dial up speed.  I couldn’t watch a thing!!!  There were some tense hours.

Bigpond took pity on me and let me double my bandwidth for the month for the same price.  I didn’t think I’d be saying this … but Bigpond were super awesome!!!  And saved my sanity.

Jewel of Wisdom #16 – Skype Calls – Be Wary

One of the reasons my bandwidth got used up so quickly last month was because I was doing a lot of video skype calls.  I didn’t realise that it would use so much of my bandwidth.  So am passing this tip onto you.

I don’t know about you – but I like to know who I’m talking to – so now I click onto video – say “Hello” – and then click back to no video – so that it saves bandwidth for when I really need it.

Jewel of Wisdom #17 – Word Tracker

I love free online tools.  I use the Word Tracker keyword question tool all the time when researching a topic. http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/

What I really love to use this tool for is to find out the exact questions people are asking around my topic, and write a blog article with that question as the headline in my blog post.  (Another great tip: submit your article to http://ezinearticles.com/ before putting it on your own site.)

And then, you do a video blog … with the question as the headline of the video blog – and your url at the bottom of the video.

That way, you are applying our #1 Rule – giving people what they want.

That’s all from me this week … if you’ve got any questions you’d like answered here … send them to me at the support desk, so I can help you earn money on the internet.

Julie

OIS Help Desk

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Our Internet Secrets September 4 Day Workshop Blows People’s Minds

Posted on 11. Sep, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

Wow … we had an exciting workshop last weekend that still has people buzzing and sending us thank you emails.  One lady went home, doubled the price of her art and sold it within half an hour.  Another man went home and implemented one strategy and got a 20% conversion rate.

Its inspiring to hear how Andrew and Daryl are transforming people’s lives every day with their knowledge and wisdom.  They always say “its not for everyone” which is true … and its not about whether you can do what they teach you, its about your mindset.

Here’s what some of the participants have written to us since arriving home:

Exciting To Put In Place Things That We Learnt
“I just wanted to email to let you know that Brad and I had such a fantastic time at the workshop. We met so many lovely people and the knowledge we learnt was incredible. If you could please pass on a big thank you to Daryl and Andrew for such an exciting and knowledgeable weekend. We have been busy researching our topic since we’ve been home and it is exciting to put in place things that we learnt.” — Brad and Mary Scott, Kempsey, NSW

Can’t Believe Andrew and Daryl’s Generosity
“The four days were fantastic and I am so happy that I went.   I have to say I can’t believe Andrew and Daryl’s generosity, it’s absolutely wonderful.” — Jane Sampson, Kingaroy, Qld

I Was Sceptical … [however] I Did Not Want To Miss A Second!
“To say the workshop was life changing would be an understatement, as they have helped me to understand how to use my skills. I have to admit I was sceptical up until the last – and had planned on spending the weekend on the beach if it turned into a massive sell job, with little information provided. I was relieved that this was not the case, and the information they provided was of the highest quality – I did not want to miss a second! I have found the momentum to continue with my current ebook, and have about a million more ideas to work with. Fortunately Andrew and Daryl also provided us with a business plan to help cut through the millions of ideas, so that I can work towards my dream of leaving my day job.” — Gail

There’s many more along this line … Andrew and Daryl promise to show you how to make money online (which may raise your BS radar – as you can see with Gail above) … however, in the 20+ workshops I’ve attended with Andrew and Daryl over the last 2 years … I personally have not heard anyone say they haven’t delivered their promise.

In fact … it has been that attendees are stunned by the amount of real, actionable content that’s been delivered.  So … if you’re interested in internet marketing, and you get an opportunity to see Andrew and Daryl live … grab it!!!

Until next time … here’s my “Jewel of Wisdom #13″ for the week …

How To Choose A Great URL (domain name)

• Go to http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/ -
• type in your main keyword in the search box
• see what questions people are asking in your niche
• this will give you a good idea of what url is going to work for your niche

By choosing a url that helps your prospective client know immediately what your site is about … you will satisfy the search engines too – because your url and what people search will match up -  indicating relevance with the search engines.

See you soon …

Julie
OIS Help Desk

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Jewels of Wisdom – $4500 From One Hot Seat Tip

Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

Wow!!!  What an exciting couple of weeks we’ve had at Our Internet Secrets.  We’ve got stacks of new members who’ve come on board in the last few weeks.  Welcome to you all.

I know you are going to enjoy your journey with us and our buzzing community of internet marketers.

Here’s my favourite learnings for the last couple of weeks:

Jewel of Wisdom #8 – $4500 Success In 3 Days From One Hot Seat Tip

I received an exciting txt from Annette Corrie, owner of www.fashion-design-course.com – after having a hot seat with Andrew and Daryl last week, she immediately took action and started phoning the people who had asked for an information pack about her product.  In 3 days, she made 3 sales … just by following up!!!  That equalled $4,500.  Could you handle a couple of hours work and being paid $4,500?

This is a really valuable lesson … follow up.  If you are sending people information – you need to follow them up.  When using an offline marketing strategy of posting information to people – the highest percentage of conversions are made when you phone them.

Jewel of Wisdom #9 – What You Must Do Before Starting Your Copywriting

This morning I listened to Janet Beckers, one of our faculty members, interview Lisa Manyon, copywriter.  These are the key points that I learned from her.

1. You must know the purpose of your website
2. You must know what you want your visitor to do when they get to your website
3. You must have a logical order and flow to your website

I also will add here one of Andrew and Daryl’s Rules to copywriting for online wealth … have one purpose per page.  And, write to that purpose.

Jewel of Wisdom #10 – Check Your Links On Your Website

It is very important that you check all of the links on your website regularly.  If you have a broken link, particularly on your Order Now button – you will be losing customers.

And make sure that your links are going to where you want them to go.

If you are running a google adwords campaign and you have a broken or incorrect Order Now link – you will receive a scary email from google – saying you are in danger of having your adwords account closed.

I hope you find these “jewels” helpful.  If you have any questions you’d like answered on the blog … send me a comment and I’ll do this next week.

Have an awesome week.

Julie

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Jewels of Wisdom – Buying Online Businesses

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

Oh my goodness!!!!  What a fabulous workshop Matt and Liz Raad had on the weekend.

My mind is still buzzing with all the great information that was shared.  I took half a notebook full of notes !!!

The thing I loved so much about Matt and Liz’s workshop is that they have shown everyone that you can start an internet business or a bricks and mortar business, whether your budget is $1 or $1Million+ … and whatever your entry point – you need to follow the same rules.

Its hard to pick out a few key points – as there were so many … but here’s some of my favourites:

Jewel of Wisdom #5 – Back Up Your List

I can’t imagine how devastating it would be to lose my list!

Your list is one of your most valuable assets.  Make sure you export your list off the server and put it in a safe place.

Don’t rely on your list service provider to have a back up of your data.

You would be gutted to hear that your list service provider’s servers were destroyed in a hurricane or a fire.

Make sure that backing up your website, your list and your documents to an external hard drive dedicated to back ups is part of your system.

Jewel of Wisdom #6 – How To Find Out What Your Niche Market Wants

Have you wondered how you can find out what questions your market is actually asking?

This is one of the questions I get asked a lot on the Our Internet Secrets help desk.  Go to this link:

http://labs.wordtracker.com/keyword-questions/

type in your keyword, and you will see what people are actually typing into the search engines.

This is a vital part of your research when trying to find out what answers your market is looking for.

Jewel of Wisdom #7 – How To Get New Leads

These are the tips I learned at Matt and Liz’s workshop for getting new leads:

1. referrals
2. sales consultant / rep
3. advertising
4. direct mail / lumpy mail
5. website – opt-in box
6. joint ventures with other list owners
7. seminars – networking or speaking from stage
8. radio
9. yellow pages
10. get on page 1 of google for your keywords

Well … that’s it from the help desk for another week.

If you have any burning questions you’d like answered … send me a comment and I’ll answer it for you.

Kind regards,

Julie

PS … if you want to know more about the amazing business building secrets Matt and Liz are teaching … they’ve got something great to share with you.  Check it out here:  http://howtobuyandsellabusiness.com/

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Jewels of Wisdom – Internet Sales Letters

Posted on 06. Jul, 2010 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hullo … back again with some more jewels for you.  Its been an interesting week for questions at the help desk.

Jewel #3 – Sales Letters – How Long Should They Be

I had a question last week about how long should your sales letter be when doing online marketing.  The answer to this question is “as long as it needs to be”.

Its not about how long the sales letter should be … you need to be asking yourself – “Is my sales letter boring?”

You have to capture the attention of your internet audience.  Here are some key points to help you:

1. compelling headline – this is the most important part of your letter – because if you can’t get their attention here, people will click off and not get to read anymore
2. engaging story – or what is also referred to as your “hook”.  This draws people into a journey about what you are selling
3. powerful bullets – use bullet points to highlight the features and benefits of your product
4. awesome offer – this is very important … you want to be giving extraordinary value and have your potential customer say to themselves “I’d be stupid if I didn’t buy!”
5. outrageous guarantee – when you sell a product that really does what you claim – make your guarantee so inviting that – in your potential customers eyes – its a no brainer purchase

If you want more help with your sales letters … Our Internet Secrets members can watch the 7 Hour Sales Letter workshop videos in the members only area.

Jewel #4 – How Do I Create A PDF

This question comes into the Help Desk at Our Internet Secrets regularly … so thought I would share the answer here for everyone.

YES … you can turn your ebook or any other document that is printable  into a PDF easily and for FREE.

One of the questions I personally had was – can I put links in my PDF document?  With this software yes you can.

It’s as simple as creating your document in Word with your links.  Use this software and your document will be converted into a PDF and with active links.

HINT: Another cool thing that I use this software for is – when I buy online, I like to keep a copy of my receipt without printing a physical copy.  I use this software to convert the online receipt or invoice into a PDF file and save it in my tax folder on my computer.

I hope you’re enjoying these jewels of wisdom from the Our Internet Secrets Help Desk.

Warm regards,

Julie

PS … if you want to know more about writing a kick @$$ sales letters for your online business marketing … Bret Thomson, our copywriting faculty guru has an awesome 3 day copywriting tips workshop coming up soon.  Watch this space for more details.

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