IM Mentors consists of six webinars that were supposed to last about an hour each with another half hour for Q&A. So far, almost every session was about an hour and a half or more and another hour for Q&A. Neither Adam nor Jit seem to mind the additional time they spend teaching us what they promised. They also set up a forum where you can ask questions and find answers from either Jit or Adam or the classmates. The forum also has a section dedicated to the different sessions and/or assignments. I have found the forum extremely helpful.

IM Mentors is a very fast-paced program. In Session 1 we first were told about popular ways to get traffic:

• Pay Per Click (PPC)
• JV Giveaways
• Articles
• Social Media
• SEO
• Adswaps

Then we learned everything there is to know about opt-in (squeeze) pages, thank you pages, and download pages. They taught us how to set them up, how to use them, and then gave us the templates to get started. How is that for service?

Then came the Warrior Forum (WSO). The WSO has been around since 1997 and is a great place to find support for all kinds of internet marketing subjects (i.e. Joint Ventures, Articles, ebooks, even events). The reason they introduced us to the WSO is for future Adswaps (more about those later) since they also can be done on the WSO and are another way of getting subscribers. One even can advertise their own products on the WSO (provided you have one – I’m still working on that).

BudURL manages all of your links in one easy interface, tracks statistics (i.e., clicks, opt-ins, $, etc.).  You can even see which cities, states, and countries drive your traffic. BudURL has a lot more to offer, but I’m not writing an infomercial here, so I leave it at that.

JV Giveaways were one of the first things in this course. JV Giveaways are the best way to start when you don’t have a list. My list consisted of myself when I started the course which is not exactly profitable! But I had absolutely no idea on how to grow that list before I started this class. There is a lot of information out there about list building (which gets met back to Information Overload), but Jit & Adam’s program is simple, straightforward, and easy to follow. In Giveaways you sign up as a contributor and give away a free gift in exchange for someone’s email address. If you upgrade (the cost for this can be anywhere from $7 to $97), you generally can submit 3 gifts as well as a one-time-offer (OTO). Generally that will get you higher on the list and you have a better chance of getting subscribers. Also, sometimes upgrading will get you better commissions.

As part of the homework, we had to set up an squeeze page, thank you page, and a download page for Email Marketing Genius (you can grab your free copy here), upload it to our website, and enter a Giveaway. Talk about fast-paced! Three hours earlier I knew nothing about Giveaways and now I was supposed to be participating in one! But I did and actually managed to get a few subscribers. So apparently, the program works!

Til next time!

During the webinar, Jit and Adam explained some of the things they use to successfully create lists like JV Giveaways and AdSwaps. These are things I had heard of but didn’t have a clue what they were or how to utilize them. They also were talking about Turbo Traffic System and Total Web Traffic which are programs designed to drive traffic to your website. Another thing were affiliate programs and how to maximize commissions from these programs, what is needed to build lists and where to find websites for giveaways.

Their motto seems to be Keep it Simple. There are four steps to make the program work:

1. A Squeeze Page
2. A Free Gift
3. A Thank You Page
4. Free Traffic Generation

Sounds simple enough! And apparently it works for them! At the end of the webinar I was sure I needed their mentoring to get where I want to go. So, beginning March 10 I will be starting yet another class, trying to get this IM off the ground, start making money, and in the process help others to get to the same place!

More on this after the class starts.