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Now before I go into one of the biggest mistakes I ever made and still paying for.  I want you to promise,  you will read this complete article so this does not happen to you.

So let’s get started…

My name is Vince Craine and I have been Internet Marketing for over 11 years.  My main source of income was my car audio site Audiodiscounters.com. Now in order to keep my site ahead of the curve I started back in 1997 buying all these small programs that said they would help me build traffic for my car audio site.

Every month I bought the latest EBooks or Software but all I managed to do was make every Contributor RICH.

So…

When I saw this was not getting me ahead and just succeeding to put me more in debt, I decided to look for a company to help me out. I had already bought Cory Rudle’s Manuals from Internet Marketing Center which did help me. But I soon noticed I needed someone to coach me on the real  basics of Internet marketing.

So I Hired IMC to be Mentored as they were all over the Internet and I liked Cory’s persona.

They said… they could help me with my car audio site and set me up by guy who sold high end cars from overseas to the USA

Even though I did exactly what he wanted me to do my traffic never grew over the 800 a day which was what I was getting before we started. All I had to show for all this was $5,000.00 dollars in debt.

Would You Be Upset?…

Yes, I was getting very discouraged because I was shelling out a lot of money and no real new results. So I went back to buying anything I thought would help keep my site afloat. I thought to myself this is a vicious cycle because I was
slowly climbing further and further in debt and Audiodiscounters was slowly dieing.

Then it happened…

One day I received a email from the Internet Marketing Center. They were coming to Boston.  I thought wow here is my big break, I will talk to them and get this all straighten out. I could not wait for the day to come and went into Boston to hear the speakers. They were great and promised a complete package worth 25K for like 10K.

This included setting you up with a website - traffic – optin to build your list to make money. They had all the bases covered to become successful - A Complete Business in A Box. I thought to myself man, would they give this to me for a better price. So after all the speakers were done I started to negotiate with IMC and we agreed on the exact Business PKG for just $4.9995.00.

Could this be the POT OF GOLD I was looking for?

I was very excited about the discount because I had secured their Prize Mentor who was the best copywriter they had to help me build my new car audio site for  Megaloud. This was a brand new product line that I was the National Manager for and the Potential was huge if I could get this going on the Internet.

So… the coaching calls started and the Mentor would give me assignments to do. IMC built all the graphics and I was to write a ruff draft of content for the first page and then my Mentor would critique it and make the changes that had to be made.

So one weekend I sat down and wrote the copy. This was easy for me as I new the Inventor of the product line and spent many hours learning all the features and benefits to sell his products. The only thing is I had NO! Copy writing Experience at all but I knew I hada coach who’s specialty was just that.

After I finished the copy I sent it to him, what he said SHOCKED Me. He told me the copy was GREAT and he would not change a thing except bold and italicize a few certain words. Now here was supposedly the best copywriter in the world, I felt that I was let down. I said to him are you sure it’s ok, He said Vince it’s great. You did a awesome job.

That is not what I wanted to hear.  I was hoping he would tear it apart and tell me it was horrible then teach me what I did wrong and re-write it. But he didn’t (If you want to see the sales Copy go to http://caraudioamps.com) still their

So… the content (Sales Copy) was all set, are you kidding, my ruff draft.

Now it was onto building the site. We worked together for week’s to get this done. He told me what to do and I had my webmaster do it for me – more money. But what I saw was that my Mentor was always going on the road for IMC to promote this business package that I had bought and because of this, weeks would fly by when I was at a stand still, so I just kept plugging away with with Audiodiscounters, my money site.

Then it all  CRASHING Down!

My Mentor said Vince we are not going to be able to finish this because we are running out of time..I can give you a special rate for 8 more hours at 3K I said… Are you kidding me. We ran out of time because you are always out promoting. I could not believe what he was suggesting. I thought about it and said NO WAY! that’s it – I am stopping the bleeding and I finished the site myself with help from my webmaster.

Now it was not the greatest looking site and I only made a few sales to datebut worst of all I had fallen again for this company and was now 10K in debt which I am still trying to pay off 3 years down the road.. We never did half the things the business plan promised because we ran out of time. Looking back at this, was that their incentive.

Two very valuable lessons to learn.

Lesson 1,  If you want to be a Internet Marketer make sure you know the basics. How to set up a website ,domain, optin and ftp. Learn how to build a simple sale funnel and some easy seo for search engines. Be=careful if you out source this. Most webmasters or companies will take advantage of your lack of knowledge and it will cost you thousands. To solve this you need to build your personal Rat Pack of Marketers who can help you. Best way to do this is to go to the seminars and meet them. More on this in up and coming post.

Lesson 2, Never just jump into a Mentor program or a company that promises you the world. This is the fastest way to get yourself in debt and you will be paying for it for the rest of your life. In My next post I will show you the right way to start your online business so you don’t have to go  though the trials and error and make the mistakes I did.

If something similar like this has happened to you and you can relate to this.

Please post a comment on my Blog. I would love to hear from you. :)

Best Regards

Vince Craine
VMC Marketing


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