London Meetings - Meeting Sept 05

Minutes of meeting 17^th Sept 2005

(taken by Guy Atkinson and edited by Richard Taylor)

Warm welcome given to Sominar Membere and Colin Fu who joined us for the first time at this meeting..

Review of past months activities/progress and latest ‘needs’ by each member present:

Guy Henry Atkinson – needs: autoresponder

AWeber is recommended (see review on Products page)

http://www.ultimatemarketingcentre.com 5 things including autoresponder

http://www.mydigitaldispatch.com 1 fee unlimited use?

Tony Clingan – needs: Self-build website software:

XSitePro (see review on Products Page) is good, also has support for

SEO optimization, constantly upgraded from user feedback, easy to make small changes.

http://www.mamboserver.com is a free Content Management System

Dee Halpen - http://www.cncanoe.com - looking at blog on http://www.extremebackpacking.com

Trevor Sadowski – has set up http://www.classicbooksite.com and

http://www.net-newbies.com

would welcome reviews

Other members suggested looking at similar sites as a model

http://www.profitpuppy.com

http://www.gurudaq.com

http://www.mikesmarketingtools.com

http://www.everenterprise.com

Michael Young – (sorry Guy has not recorded any minutes for Michael)

Colin Fu - focusing on offline seminar business, web conferencing - challenge is list building - it was suggested he look at ezine/newsletter as a good way and can learn and model on good examples such as:

http://www.kickstartdaily.com

http://www.pluginforprofits.com

Sominar Membere - building community portals http://www.doorwaytodollars.com

http://www.bizquest.com

http://www.losaltos.com

http://www.howtoplanabridalshower.com

Bruce Bird - learnt lesson from computer failure - make sure you can use your backups – he was unable to use the backup device on his alternative computer.

Has uploaded his site http://www.themarketmatrix.com

Richard Taylor - focusing on niche sites for adsense income and reported having built 8 new sites this week with 4 of those in one day. These sites were created using the Andrew Fox tutorial but did warn that more tools were required to follow the process such as Dreamweaver for creating the site templates, Directory Generator for creating all the pages, Article Burner for sucking regular fresh articles to the sites and RSS Equalizer for news feeds. He uses and recommends Keyword Locator for keyword research together with Google’s own keyword tool. He then sorts the combined keyword lists from these tools, eliminating duplicates etc using Keyword Tidy. Blogging Equalizer is used to blog and ping each site to speed up the indexing process.

He will send a list of the site URL’s to the Yahoo group for those interested in this type of site.

Next priority and ‘need’ is traffic and he will use SEOElite for creating links from other relevant sites. And sending articles to various article directories to create back links.

Fiona McCulloch – has been working on her Steven Pierce site http://www.pattycrochet.com

A part of the Steven Pierce technique is to use expired domains which already have a history with the search engines. http://www.expireddomainsleuth.com

Mike Bradley – now realizes that trying to compete with his competitors for traffic to his engagement ring site is going to be prohibitively expensive using Google Adwords – so instead of selling the e-book he is now contemplating giving it away free in return for a sign up – he can then make his money instead by selling the leads to his competitors.

Creating a content site using http://www.mambo.com (spidered every 24 hours??)

Uses Good Keywords for research which is a free tool.

John Hillage – finished the draft of his weight watchers e-book and complemented Fiona for her help in proof reading it for him. Next step to finish the book and create a site to sell it.

Damien Senn – expanding his life - coaching business into offering support to other life coaches through his http://www.coachingpracticebuilder.com programme.

His http://www.senn-sational.com newsletter has now passed the 1,000 subscriber level with 46 new subscribers last month.

With Rob Anderson (at the LA WIS this weekend) Damien has launched http://www.webwednesdays.com as a networking ‘club’ for internet business owners. The first meeting was held recently in Covent Garden and was a great success. It is an evening informal gathering to be held on the first Wed of each month.

Hot Seat 1- Richard Parker Cordock

http://www.millionairemba.com

Main points to consider:

* need benefit in headline e.g. "What you don't learn in MBA school"

* which keywords to get say 60 clicks to split test 2 headlines etc

* audio book, podcasting

* ebook on ebay

* Entrepreneur week

* Article Burner for content and traffic

* get some marketing people (including internet marketing) in the content

* consider JV with other similar product owners – e.g. Jennie Armato

Hot Seat 2 – Trevor Sadowski