Chris Freville from Internet Marketing Empire

Chris Freville is launching his Internet Marketing Empire Blueprint today, which details everything he does to make around $45,000 a month on the Internet and teaches you how to copy his methods.

And I’ve got an exclusive bonus for you.

See that ugly photo of Chris above…well it’s a still from a video I shot of him in England last year, where he goes into great detail about exactly what he’d do to make fast money on the Internet – about how he’d do it without having a mailing list, or contacts in the game, or money to spend on advertising. Zero to an income within one to two weeks. It’s good stuff. All you have to do is get Internet Marketing Empire through my affiliate link, email me a copy of your receipt via the contact form (see the link to it at the top of this page)  and once I’ve confirmed the sale has been credited to me I’ll send you a link to a password protected area of one of my sites.

Anyway, I’m not sure what time  Internet Marketing Empire  goes on sale (it probably already has by the time you read this) but if you’re quick you can grab some excellent pre-release free material including a very detailed and  useful pdf on fast list building, plus some high converting squeeze pages.

But really, even though these freebies are very good, they’re only a teaser for the real detailed blueprints, which are on offer at a bargain price.

I’ve reviewed, or bought, $1000 plus courses in the past that are nowhere near as good or detailed as Internet Marketing Empire – and it’s less than a tenth of the price of those courses.

You’ve probably come across Chris before,  because he’s (very deservedly)  been very successful in the over the past few years, and is a really top notch coach and trainer, as well as a top affiliate of other peoples products.

I spent quite a few evenings with him last year -  dinner a few times,  and long chats in a few UK pubs, plus we sat together at one of the famed London Lunches organized by my old friend Martin Avis – and I’ve got to tell you that Chris is one of the smartest people I’ve come across in this business.  People were asking us questions about online business, and while I had to pause for a few moments to decide how to answer Chris just opened his mouth and the answers poured out.

Like I said, if you’re quick you can grab the free material just by optin in.

If they’ve been replaced by a long sales page take some time to read through it. Internet Marketing Empire is low-cost (for a high quality product from Chris) which you’ll both learn and earn from, and well worth your careful consideration.

Chris sharing his blueprint for earning a great online income, and he doesn’t hold anything back. You’ll learn a lot from him if you are new to this game, and even if you’ve been doing it for years you’ll learn stuff too – especially about the steps Chris takes to make that kind of regular monthly income.

Whatever your marketing experience, and level of competence,  if you follow his techniques you’re certain to quite quickly earn back a lot more than you spend on the course.

Highly recommended. 5 out of 5 stars

And don’t forget my exclusive bonus interview with him.

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Six months ago after developing a rash and a fever which doctors initially thought was Dengue Fever, a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, I was rushed into hospital and after a week of being tested for over a hundred different viruses, I was diagnosed with a very rare auto immune illness (affecting just five in a million people) where my body is attacking it’s own muscles.

Since then I’ve either been lying in a hospital bed, barely able to raise my head from the pillow, or at home too weak from muscle loss and doped out on drugs to be able to let you know why I haven’t written a newsletter since early December.

Thanks to some powerful new medication, I’ve finally got the energy to write about it.

Read more here: short version or the long, rambling version

Six months ago after developing a rash and a fever which doctors initially thought was Dengue Fever, a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, I was rushed into hospital and after a week of being tested for over a hundred different viruses, I was diagnosed with a very rare auto immune illness (affecting just five in a million people) where my body is attacking it’s own muscles.

Since then I’ve either been lying in a hospital bed, barely able to raise my head from the pillow, or at home too weak from muscle loss and doped out on drugs to be able to let you know why I haven’t written a newsletter since early December.

Thanks to some powerful new medication which I have to take just once a week (though I take plenty of other drugs the rest of the week) I’ve finally got the energy to write about it.

(The new drug is used to treat childhood leukemia, to delay HIV turning into AIDS, and to cause pregnant women to abort… so you can imagine how strong it is. It almost knocks me out for two days a week).

my rashed and savaged hands hooked up to medical equipment

For many months now I’ve not answered emails, tweeted, logged into Facebook, updated my web sites, written a newsletter or indeed done any work at all.

I’ve not been able to.

Part of me wants to keep quiet about this. There’s a little voice in my head saying “do what many other Internet marketers would with their lists, or on their blogs, and just make an offer and rake in some cash and don’t explain my long absence.”

Or perhaps pretend that I’ve been secretly working on some top secret project that’s pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, and I’m about to reveal all next week when all you have to do is buy whatever I’m selling at an inflated price and you’ll be driving around in the sports car of your choice by next month. But that’s just not the way I operate and I can’t do it.

None of this makes writing about my illness any easier. It’s something I’m finding hard to talk, or write, about. And my head is rather muddled from the drugs, which doesn’t help. So if some of this doesn’t make sense, or is disjointed, forgive me.

The truth is that it’s been going on a lot longer than six months.

I’ve been asleep for most of the past year.

Really, really asleep. For like 16 or 17 hours a day, or just lying in bed too exhausted to move and this Internet marketing stuff has all seemed just so unimportant.

The symptoms started over a year ago, a few days after I flew back home to Australia from Rob Puddy’s UK seminar, when I fainted at a rock concert. As far as I know, I’d never fainted in my life until that night, but I put it down to a combination of jetlag and standing too close to my old internet marketing mate Matt Garrett in the bar at Puddy’s seminar (that’s a joke Matt )

September I fainted again while out shopping, and seeing I still felt like I had jetlag and was tired all the time I went to see a doctor for the first time in about 5 years – but an examination and a whole range of blood tests found nothing wrong.

Before long I was sleeping most of the day, and the rest of the time just too exhausted to do anything. This time the doctor (a different one) diagnosed depression, even though I insisted I’d got nothing to be depressed about, and prescribed pills which made me even sleepier and made my thinking even cloudier.

Things continued to get worse. Just before Christmas I fell over in a bar in Melbourne and badly hurt my neck (and no, I hadn’t been drinking… my legs just turned to jelly).

Back home after the Christmas holidays doctors visits became a regular thing, but examinations and tests couldn’t find anything wrong with me, and I started to believe that perhaps I was depressed after all and that my thinking/thoughts were affecting my physical health too.

Then January, or February, or whenever it was, the rash and a high fever appeared and my life hasn’t been the same since.

After being tested for just about every virus known, including all the horrible deadly ones (and in my imagination I’d somehow developed all of them but they weren’t showing up in the blood tests) it was a relief to be visited by a team of doctors and told that they’d moved on from viruses and the blood tests, and a blood culture from blood taken from me when my temperature was over 40, had finally revealed that I’d developed something called Polymyositis. They all seemed quite excited by this because of its rarity and non of them had ever seen a patient with it before.

Polymyositis? It didn’t sound too bad. Quite a poetic sing-song word.

So at first I was relieved. Not a deadly virus after all (the family vet died horribly last year after a bat transmitted a virus to a horse and he got splashed with blood from the dying horse). But the relief only lasted until I got one of the doctors to do some research and print it out for me.

Muscle wasting? My body eating it’s own muscles? My heart’s a muscle. My lungs are powered by muscles. Would I suddenly stop being able to breath? Would my heart give out first? Would I become incontinent? Would I be able to eat? To talk?

Non of these questions were properly answered, but the medical team did take me off the anti depressants straightaway, which was something to be thankful for.

Within an hour though they were pumping me with a powerful cocktail of other drugs designed to dampen my immune system, and I jumped from a couple of anti depressant pills a day to over twenty other pills.

Then just over a week later they found they’d got it wrong. I didn’t have Polymyositis after all. The results of a really painful muscle biopsy in my thigh revealed it was the even rarer Dermatomyositis.

(if you want you can read more about Dermatomyositis here, or on the US Gov Medline Plus site, or at the Mayo Clinic which is probably the best place to be treated for it.

So I’ve got something that just five in a million people get, most of them women. And it seems it’s increasing in frequency among black American women. So not quite sure what that says about my genetic makeup

Talking of genetics, the diagnosis actually gave my daughter Kate a moments laughter. She was born with Phenylketonuria, a genetic disorder affecting 1 in 16,000

“Well at last I’m not the freak of the family anymore,” she joked.

But then really worried about me, she started crying.

Fortunately Dermatomyositis is not as nasty as something like motor neurone disease, where most sufferers die within a few years, but there is no cure for Dermamyositis and my lifespan is likely to be significantly shortened (insurance company studies suggest they should charge premiums for someone 12.8 years older because of the risk factor).

And here’s the big worry – a significant proportion of people who get Dermatomyositis are found to have an internal cancer – though full body CT scans and other tests showed I’m in the clear which is a relief.

However lots of stuff I’ve read says I’ve got a highly increased chance of getting it in the next couple of years – which is not a nice thought.

The other bad news is that I’ve got to stay out of the sun. Very hard to do when I live in sub-tropical Queensland, one of the sunniest places on earth.

Oh, one more thing before I stop this free flow rambling writing. I’m banned from traveling overseas for the foreseeable future (usually I spend at least a couple of months in Europe every year, photographing and writing content for my travel sites and attending Internet marketing conferences and workshops).

“What about travel?” I asked the medical team?

“Go where you want, if you’re well enough and not in a wheelchair” said the one in charge “just make sure you’re back here three times a week.”

I thought he was joking, but he wasn’t.

Phil

Six months ago after developing a rash and a fever which doctors initially thought was Dengue Fever, a virus transmitted by mosquitoes, I was rushed into hospital and after a week of being tested for over a hundred different viruses, I was diagnosed with a very rare auto immune illness (affecting just five in a million people) where my body is attacking it’s own muscles.

Since then I’ve been in and out of hospital. Initially for a month, then frequent return trips when I’ve developed infections including two bouts of pneumonia. Or lying in bed at home too weak from muscle loss and doped out on drugs to be able to let you know why I haven’t written a newsletter since early December.

Now, thanks to some powerful new medication which I have to take just once a week (though I take plenty of other drugs the rest of the week) I’ve finally got the energy to write about it.

(The new drug is used to treat childhood leukemia, to delay HIV turning into AIDS, and to cause pregnant women to abort… so you can imagine how strong it is. It almost knocks me out for two days a week).

my rashed and savaged hands hooked up to medical equipment

So this is why I’ve not answered emails, tweeted, logged into Facebook, updated my web sites, written a newsletter or indeed done any work at all.

I’ve not been able to.

A blood culture from blood taken from me when my temperature was over 40, finally revealed that it wasn’t a virus after all and I’d developed something called Polymyositis.

Then just over a week later they found they’d got it wrong. I didn’t have Polymyositis after all. The results of a really painful muscle biopsy in my thigh revealed it was the even rarer Dermatomyositis.

(if you want you can read more about Dermatomyositis here, or on the US Gov Medline Plus site, or at the Mayo Clinic (which is probably the best place to be treated for it but seeing I live in Australia and can’t travel it’s not an option for me)

Phil

Read the long version here.

A lovely video about something we’re all guilty of at times – from Royal Academy of Art graduate John Kelly

I’ve been having a bit of a Twitter week. I got myself a Twitter name ages ago,  but that was just to stop someone else using my name and pretending to be me to push out spammy affiliate links. So until a few days ago I managed to just about ignore Twitter, deciding it’s would be both a distraction and a fairly pointless time waster.  Then a few days ago online business genius Ken McCarthy sent out an email saying: “Never say never… For the longest time, I thought Twitter was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard of. Now all I can say is… “Would you like to read the news of my surrender on Twitter or on my blog?”  Here’s a link to Ken’s blog post.

After reading that post I spent a couple of hours reading more and more about how people are using Twitter to achieve business success.

But in the end I thought “Forget it. I don’t want to read 50 tweets or more a day from people telling me what they watched on TV or had for lunch, or pushing affiliate links for crappy get traffic schemes.

Then next day something happened to stir my interest in a big way.

Megan Henshall, a good friend of mine in England, runs a photo studio in a small village in the Lake District, and she wrote to tell me that this week she’s used Twitter marketing to get 4 bookings for portrait sittings.

FOUR BOOKINGS IN A WEEK  —- WOW!

And it’s not like she’s built up a long term relationship with these people – she’s only been using Twitter for about 5 or 6 weeks, and only “really got what it’s all about” in the past 9 or 10 days.

Four bookings for a photography studio. I find that amazing. Plus her studio regularly pulls in over a thousand pounds a shoot so we’re talking very good money here.

So how is she using Twitter for local marketing in such a small out of the way place?

Well I’ve asked her to write me a piece for my newsletter and this blog, telling you exactly how to use Twitter for local business.

So I hope to get it to you soon.

Though she’s not actually said yes yet, so maybe you could visit her Twitter page and bug her to write it for me

By the way, I’ve made a few Tweets now. So follow me… or whatever you call it when you read someones Tweets

You’ll find me at http://twitter.com/phil_wiley I promise I’m not going to post rubbish like “I ate a boiled egg and a slice of toast for breakfast”

Well, maybe a bit of rubbish. But I’ll try and make it amusing rubbish

You know I like to keep things simple online.

Nothing complex. Which is probably why I build mini sites and write all my own easy-to-read content

Most likely I’m just sticking close to my personality. Simple and laid back.

I like simple web sites. Simple ways of making money. A laid back life.

But I still get by

Having said that, I don’t make anywhere near as much from one site as Paul Evans, who pulls in over $25k a month from one simple little member site in a niche I didn’t even know existed.

Paul doesn’t hold anything back on that page. He reveals his simple member site method, shows you exactly what the niche is, tells you how much he charges and even how many members he’s got.

Not only that, he also shows you his formula for success.

Here it is:

a)  Adwords for traffic.

b)  Build a list with a landing page.

c)  Hit people with the member site offer ($9.95 a month)

d)  Provide good value.

And this one site in a tiny niche has 2665 members paying Paul $9.95 a month, which brings in a very tasty $26,516 monthly. I’ve done the math for you – it adds up to $318k a year.

Now let’s go way, way, over the top and say that he spends half of that on advertising and other costs (which I happen to know is a massive exaggeration) that still leaves him with a big $150,000 in profits.

And that’s for a small site which takes hardly any time to run.

You’re not going to believe the niche when you see it.

Anyhow, Paul’s now teaching his simple member site success formula, and it’s genius.

It’s simple, and it works in almost any niche.

He’s written down his process, he’s shot videos, he’s documented every step, and it’s almost embarrassingly easy.

That a,b,c,d formula I gave you above is too simplistic of course.

You need the rest filling in. How to do it all, what tweaks and twists you need to add.

In fact Paul is now building these simple member sites following a new and improved formula because he found he was making a number of mistakes along the way.

He reveals it all here

It’s one of the most revealing sales pages I’ve ever seen.

Paul tells you much of what he does (though he keeps the exact details back for the member area of course), plus there’s zero hype. And he’s not going to hit you with any upsells or downsells or monthly fees either.

When you think how much his method and formula can earn you, the low cost of learning it all is a pleasant bargain.

It’s the kind of thing he could have bloated onto a bunch of DVD’s and charged a grand for. But he didn’t

As a big fan of the SEO optimized Thesis theme for WordPress, I use it on most of my blogs.

And the newly released 1.6 upgrade is a great new version of Thesis.

In my opinion (and that of many big name bloggers) blogs built with the Thesis theme definitely do better in the search engines than blogs using other themes. But for me its biggest attraction is that it’s so simple to change the layout and the look of your blog.

Do you want to stop it looking like a blog? A few simple clicks in the admin area and you can make it look like a site built with Dreamweaver or XsitePro and the only way people will know it’s a blog is by looking at the source code.

Do you want to make it look like a salesletter page? Takes 30 seconds if that.

This is definitely the easiest and smartest blog theme I’ve ever used.

One site I haven’t used it on is philwiley.com, because I’ve got lots of pages on that blog and Thesis didn’t handle drop down page menus.

Until now that is.

Last week the latest version of Thesis was released and along with a great new interface for customizing the look and colors of your blog, it now offers drop down page menus.

So as soon as I could I installed it on philwiley.com. Which means you’re seeing it in action now

It took me perhaps 5 minutes to change from the old look of the blog. Still might fiddle with the look a bit, by adding a background image instead of the dark gray background, but to add the header image, the border around the body, and a few other things was really simple and fast.

Using an ordinary WordPress theme this would taken my ages. But with Thesis it hardly  takes anytime because changing the look is mainly point and click.

Want 1, 2, or 3 columns? It’s a simple as checking a box.

Want to change the header image or the background? Well there’s no delving into the CSS which is the way you have to do it with an ordinary WordPress theme – with Thesis you just drop the new code you want into a box in the admin area. It’s so simple that even I can do it without making mistakes, and I’m about as far from being a technie as you can imagine. My brain just doesn’t work that way

Anyway, here’s a short video from Chris Pearson (the genius developer) showing you how simple it is to make fast changes to the look, and the colors, of your blog.

http://philwiley.com/recommends/Thesis/

Don’t judge the theme just by looking at philwiley.com. Check out all the custom looks in the site showcase on the Thesis site. Many pro bloggers are using it, including people from Google, because they know it’s the best theme to use for getting high search engine positions.

Thesis is not a free theme, but it’s well worth the investment – especially seeing all future upgrades are included in the deal.  It’s SEO capabilities and it’s ease of use are awesome. Highly recommended for serious bloggers.

Lots of people have emailed me this past week asking about the fires, and checking that I survived and got though them without the house burning down.

Yes both the house and I survived. But only just

The fires burnt the bushes at the end of the garden, and the house was full of smoke for almost a week. One night, when the fires were at their worst, I stayed up all night to keep spraying the house with water, and putting out the small fires made by flying ash and embers. Then I had to stay alert for most of the next day too, just to make sure that the situation didn’t get too dangerous. People who have lived here over 60 years have said they’ve never known anything like it before, and never been so frightened.

In the end I even profited from the situation, getting hired for a day by a Sunday newspaper I used to freelance for. Not that I could do much work because the road into town was blocked by huge boulders, and fallen burning trees which had crashed down the steep slopes and the cliffs onto the road.

Here’s a pic I took for the paper, looking down towards the town. It’s a bit hard to see them, but in the bottom right corner of the photograph there are the first of the houses down in the town, and the fire is dangerously close to them.

Here’s a larger copy of the photograph. It’s quite beautiful really, for something so dangerous. A bit like some women I used to know

Anyway, it’s all over now. It rained heavily a couple of nights ago and seems to have killed the last of the small fires which were still smoking. So back to work.

phil

Mt Archer, the mountain I live on is on fire, and I’ve just spent most of the night awake, spraying the outside of my Oregon Pine house with water to keep it cool and damp, and dousing the flying embers which kept landing on the roof and veranda’s.

Right now, it’s 7am, the wind has died down and it looks like the worst of it has passed us and is now heading towards the town below the mountains, so I’m taking some time out to write this

Have a look at this pic I took in the night,of the fire raging below a neighbours house. It’s just the same view from  my house but the smoke was thicker around mine so this pic is better. Because I used a very wide angle lens the flames look quite distant, but the reality is that fires were raging everywhere – a small fire was raging through a gully less than 50 yards away and bushes in the garden burst into flames.

The whole mountain is on fire. It’s just been on the national news. One house has been destroyed, people lower down the mountain have been evacuated,and it’s been a highly dangerous night.

It’s been quite scary, though the mountain is still swarming with fire crew and they tell me they’ll be here until it’s over.

Here’s a brief news story on the fires, and a photo