a gathering of 200+ of the top Internet Marketers from all over the world.

The Back Story: I attended the 2011 Warrior Event.  Inspired by the energy, success, and collaboration among the speakers and attendees, I publicly declared that I’d launch my first “Warrior Special Offer” in 7 days.

And launch I did.

Now, 9 months later, the community saw fit to invite me back.   THis time, not as an attendee, but as a speaker.

I’ve always loved public speaking – so I was THRILLED.

Big thanks to Sam England and Brian McLeod, the organizers, for the opportunity.

Here’s what a few people had to say after I presented.

Dave Iago testimonial:

Justin Popovic testimonial:

Wah Bhatti testimonial:

 
Bog Voges testimonial:

You can get the video footage for all 13 presenters, here!

“Hey Newbie!”

“What’s up, n00b?”

Who’s idea was it to start calling their customers “newbies”, anyway?
(I think that only happens in Internet Marketing. LOL!)

The problem is:

Not everyone that needs
guidance, coaching, or advice…
is NEW.
Or INEXPERIENCED.
Or has LIMITLESS FUNDS for shiny objects that don’t work after 3 days.

The problem is:

Many of us have taken the
(slightly) longer route
to our success.

So while you may not have “arrived” yet…
You aren’t just now crawling into the arena in diapers, either.

The problem is:

Despite the fact that so many of us bring
amazingly deep and rich expertise and experience
to the field of Internet Marketing,

too often we’re being treated like the golden goose:
Only good for the money we can pay out…

With little regard for actually moving us
from where we are,
to where we want to be.

Don’t They Know?

• Don’t these “six figures in six days” marketers know that we’re not here to play games?
• Don’t these “I trained my 7 year old niece to build this, and she made $2,000 in 1 day”
  smoke-and-mirror practitioners know, that we don’t want to be
  fooled,
  fooled around with, or
  treated like fools??
• Don’t they know that we’ve invested too much
  TIME,
  MONEY,
  HEARTACHE,
  LOST SLEEP,
  TIME APART FROM FAMILY, and
  MENTAL GYMNASTICS…
  to be sold yet another cheap time-waster
  that further disillusions us,
  and distances our LOVED ONES from believing in us???

ENOUGH WITH THE “N” WORD.

• Enough with the push-button B.S.,
• Enough with the fast-food nothingburgers,
• Enough with treating people like NEWBIES.

It’s time for a revolution against

• the GURU Godfathers,
• the PUSH-BUTTON Pimps,
• the “Charge-First, Provide Value Never”Charlatans,
• the “Throw the newbies at the wall and see if they stick”Salesmen.

What’s your beef with being treated like a NEWBIE?

Air your grievances.

Share what you’re SICK AND TIRED OF in this Internet Marketing game.

And then let’s forever redefine the balance of power between
GURUs / SHADY MARKETERS / SNAKE OIL SALESMEN

and

SO-CALLED NEWBIES.

How long will they get away with

treating you like this?

(Or am I totally off base here?)

I need to hear from you. Leave a comment.

Tell me how you’ve been treated in this industry,

and why you need a change.

Newbie’s Revenge goes live on Sunday, at 4pm EST.

Gurus beware.

So listen up.

I hate the term “Newbie”.

It’s commonly used in Internet Marketing
to describe people who are new to the biz.

But in reality, it is also used to describe those of us
who haven’t yet BROKEN THROUGH,
and started earning consistent income.

(I was there not so long ago.)

I got tired of being treated like a newbie.
I got tired of being sold
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN.

You should be, too.

Whether you’ve been doing this for
3 weeks, 3 months, or 3 years,

You’re still being treated like a newbie.
It’s time to say ENOUGH.
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR.


 

Unsubscribe any marketer that’s not giving you
REAL VALUE,
REAL CLARITY,
REAL DIRECTION.
In a personal and actionable way.
 

UNSUBSCRIBE.

from the twenty emails you receive daily.
Even assuming they’re all quality,
No human being can go in
20 directions at once.

UNSUBSCRIBE.

from the fountain of empty promises.

It’s time for a Newbie Revolution.
It’s time for NEWBIES to have their REVENGE.
 
What’s your take on the Newbie’s Revolution?
 

• Add me on Skype (bolaji.oyejide),
• And let me know if this resonates with you.

Is it just me that has a problem with the way
most marketers operate these days?
Maybe I’m off base.

(If so – go ahead and unsubscribe.)

Bolaji.

Is This You?

I’ve been working hard to create something

that a lot of you have been asking for.

An easier way to go from product idea to product completion.

It seems like there are so many things that hold us back

from creating superb, profitable products

that our customers LOVE.

Well.  That’s why I’m here.

To help you past those very real roadblocks.
Introducing…

THE PRODUCT HYDRA SLAYER:

Decapitate the 7 Dragons of Product Creation

If you’ve had challenges with
creating products at all…

Or struggled to churn out
AMAZING products FAST…

This is exactly what you need.

The Product Hydra Slayer will help you SLAY issues like:

1. Lack of Expertise
2. Overwhelm
3. Analysis Paralysis
4. Lack of focus
5. Lack of creativity
6. Lack of Time
7. Lack of motivation

Contest: I’M GIVING OUT 10 REVIEW COPIES OF
THE PRODUCT HYDRA SLAYER!

To win a review copy,
leave a comment here, stating:

• Which of these is your greatest obstacle to product creation, and
•  Why you NEED a product like this.

I will pick the 10 most earnest and convincing (or funny) comments.

Winners will be announced this week.

So go below right now, and leave a comment.

Because the spots will fill up fast.

Bolaji O.

Steve Jobs passed away yesterday.
He left behind him the most amazing of business legacies.

One that will be spoken of for a long time.

His famous Stanford Commencement speech from 2005

says a LOT about who the man was…

And who we can aspire to be

As entrepreneurs and visionaries.

Steve Jobs Speech – Connecting the Dots

Steve Jobs – CEO of Apple Computers, creator of the iPod, the iMac, the iTouch…

creator of iTunes…

is a college drop-out.

How did this happen?
And how did he still manage to change the computing, education, and entertainment industries – with the iMac, iPod, and iTunes?

It started before birth – he adopted parents graduated from college. He went to an expensive college, that strained the family financially.

And so after 6 months of college, having no idea what he wanted to do in his life, and no idea how college was going to help him figure that out…

he dropped out.

It was very scary at the time, but turned out being one of the best decisions he ever made.

• He started dropping in on more interesting classes, and dropped the requisite ones
• He slept on friends dorm room floor
• He returned soda cans for the 5 cent refund
• He got one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple

One of the classes he picked up was calligraphy. This ended up being the foundation for great design, that has established Apple’s brand today.

The Lesson?

Maybe you also have an iMac, iPod, and iTunes empire within you.

If only you can find the courage to be true to yourself.

Steve Jobs Speech – Love and Loss:

Steve Jobs says he was lucky – he found what he loved early in life.

Wozniak and Jobs started Apple in his garage when he was 20. In 10 years, it was a 4,000-person company worth $2 billion. And then he got fired – He had a falling out with the co-leader of the company. And the board of directors sided with him.

The heaviness of success was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
He entered the most creative period of his life.
He created NEXT, Pixar, and got married.
(Pixar is the now most successful animation studio in the world)

Then – Apple bought NeXT.
Steve returned to Apple, and he has a wonderful marriage.

The Lesson?

Steve Jobs Speech – Death:

“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”:)

Since hearing that quote, Steve has been asking himself every day: “If today were the last day in my life would I want to do what I’m about to do?”

Remembering that he’ll be dead soon has the most useful tool for making the most important choices in his life. All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things fall away.
Only what is truly important remains – when faced with death.

Steve was diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2004. He was advised that he would live no more than 6 months.

Later that evening, they re-examined him and determined that the cancer was CURABLE!

He had the surgery, and he’s fine now. Steve says:

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent.It clears out the old, to make room for the new.Right now the new is you.But you won’t always be. Someday, you’ll be the old.Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

 

RIP, Steve.

The full transcript of the speech is here:Steve Jobs Standford 2005 Commencement Speech

How did Steve’s speech affect you?

On September 11th, 2001

A day that will forever live in infamy

That day found me about a month into my MBA program at Emory University

In Atlanta, Georgia.

It was a time of great excitement -

as I was enjoying being in school again
After four years working as an I.T. analyst.

(I’m never wearing a pager again for ANYTHING! LOL!)

I’d found my way out of that career path
And started on a new one.

I was studying Marketing in Business School.

Just as in my undergrad experience at Morehouse College,
I came in under the mistaken impression that
I was kind of a big deal.
LOL!

I say that only with hindsight now.

I was never every cocky. That’s not who I am.

But I certainly did have an assurance that
I could hold my own in any arena.

Ha ha!

It was like being thrown into the deep end of the ocean
Surrounded by synchronized swimmers
who looked on sympathetically as I floundered.

That’s the great thing about growth experiences though.

You find out that you’re out of your depth…

But, not having a choice, you step up.
You grow up.
You grow IN, is probably more appropriate.
Into the shoes you need to fill,
Into the person you need to be.

Business school at Emory was that kind of growth experience for me.

A month in, I realized that everyone walking the halls
was as smart as me
and in many cases A WHOLE WHOLE WHOLE LOT SMARTER than me.

But I also realized that

Not giving up,

Not giving in,

Making friends, and actively asking THEM for help,

Making new friends, and actively helping THEM where I could,

(I think I drove 3 different classmates
who didn’t have cars to go mattress shopping…
What a specialty… LOL!)

Yeah.

Doing that stuff…

Allowed me to at least tread water.

Hey – I was happy to manage that.

I knew that eventually,

Eventually,

I would get it together.

I was on campus at Emory University

When the news came streaming in.

Students from all around the world

gathered around the campus TVs in stunned disbelief.

Cell phones came out,

As did fear
Grief
and the kindness of strangers.

We all know the details of what happened on 9/11

We all remember where we were on 9/11

And we all remember

Never to forget.

I’m grateful for all the heroes who looked out for others

On that day,

And in the days, weeks, months afterward.

We pulled together

We helped, and asked for help,

We didn’t know how we would make it

We simply knew that we would.

May God comfort everyone

who lost someone on that day.
Today must be hard for them.

May God bless each and every one of us,

And help us to forgive, but not forget.

May those of us fortunate enough

to be around and kicking
10 years later

Take some quiet time to figure out

How we have made a difference
in the past 10 years

And how we can best make a difference,
if we’re gifted the next 10 years.

Where were you on 9/11?

Please share your thoughts.

In gratitude,

Bolaji.

Lots of people have large email lists,
and yet struggle to earn a living off of their lists.

It’s because they have NO RELATIONSHIP with their subscribers.

But for Jenn Dize, stay-at-home and Internet Marketer,
the money is most definitely in the list.

Check out the video about Jenn.

Photo by argbx on FlickR

The money is definitely in the list.
But you have to pre-sell your audience.

YOu can’t just hit them over the head with a SALE! BANNER,
or a BUY NOW SIGN!

You need to pre-sell, before they ever see a sales page.

You need to recommend like a friend.

But do it strategically.

Do it right, and your conversions will go through the roof.

Do it the wrong way, and you may come off as nagging, bossy, or even nosy.

Isn’t it true that some of your friends are more influential than others?

You want to be that influential friend… not the one no one listens to.

NOW: If you could increase your conversions by a few percentage points, how much more money could you earn?

-ex- $10 offer.
- Convert 10% of your 200 clicks, you’ve sold 20 copies. You earn $200.
- Convert 15% of your 200 clicks, you’ve sold 30 copies. You earn $300.
5% increase in conversions = $100 more, in this example!

—————————————————–
My friend Jenn Dize has come out with a guide
EVERY MARKETER needs to read.
—————————————————–
She has done a TON of research… which came out of her wanting to get better conversion rates from her emails.

Now Jenn is a stay-at-home Mom that is simply brilliant at Internet Marketing.

Everyone of her products sells hundreds of copies.

And after meeting her online, and reviewing all the testimonials, I decided to give her product a try.

I’ve read this through several times, applied it to some of my emails and video reviews.

ALREADY (already) I have seen amazing results.

I got this only about 3 days ago, and I’m already seeing results.

—————————————————–
STEP 4: CLOSE W/ AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE
—————————————————–
I picked up Jenn’s MAGIC PRESELL GUIDE a few days ago, and was BLOWN AWAY with it.

It lays out 4 very specific real life case studies from Jenn’s email account.

She gives a no-holds barred look at exactly what she put in her email, for what sales letter,

and she shows how her relatively small list OUTPERFORMED the lists of some gurus with HUGE lists!!

She runs through her MAGIC PRESELL formula,
Demonstrates how in each of the 4 examples she thoughtfully applied it
And reveals her KILLER SALES at the end.

Jenn’s MAGIC PRE-SELL GUIDE is GREAT VALUE for the money.

Imagine the impact of getting a tiny improvement in conversions?

It’s on a dime-sale, so the price goes up with every purchase
- If you apply what Jenn teaches and sharEs in the MAGIC PRESELL GUIDE,

you will make more money,

more consistently,

from your email marketing.

So pick up Jenn Dize’s MAGIC PRE-SELL GUIDE
and start making more sales from your emails.

http://www.WhoIsBolaji.com/magic-presell

What’d you think of the video?

And how’s your email marketing going?

Are you converting a lot of your clickers into buyers?

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I’ve been a

Webinar host,

Webinar moderator,

Webinar administator,

Webinar recorder,

etc. etc. etc.

For years.

At my last two corporate jobs, I ran webinars on a weekly basis (a total of 4 years experience).

That makes the profuse sweat session I went through as I presented my first webinar, featuring yours truly, all the more ridiculous.

It turns out that we’ve been having a heatwave in North Carolina.

So despite the fact that it was 9pm, the humidity was still through the roof.

And I hadn’t adjusted the air conditioning accordingly.

So.  There I sat.  Pool of sweat at my feet getting larger.

I tried to sound cool, calm and collected on the webinar…

And hoped that the pool of sweat creeping toward the web of wires nearby

Wouldn’t electrocute me.

How did I do?

You be the judge.

Check out the webinar replay -

NO-NONSENSE LIST BUILDING: The Nocrastinator’s Guide to a 1,000 Subscriber List.

And if list-building would help your business, check out the

Nocrastinator’s 7-Day LIST BUILDING  Challenge.

Thanks for reading – be sure to leave a comment so I know you’re out there.

Robert started out as a PHP programmer in college.

As brilliant as he is at writing code though, his standout skills have expanded to productivity hacking, product creation, webinar delivery, and even copywriting!

I interviewed Robert as part of my Warrior Of The Year interview series.

At 26 years of age, earning $40,000/month, every month, ain’t too shabby!  All from information products.

Robert shares how he’s grown his business over almost a decade…  and how he along the way learned how to be uber-productive.

(Simple example: Robert used to be intimidated by doing presentations of any kind.  Including webinars.
Today, he’s presented in almost 500 webinars!)

I recorded a 20-minute chat ABOUT the Robert Plank interview, as part of a product I launched a few weeks ago.

And for my subscribers?  I’m sharing the back-room interview analysis I did with my Joint Venture (JV) partner, James Renouf.!

Robert Plank (Warrior of the Year Series) – The full one-hour audio interview, and transcript.

The full interview is available for sale at the link above.

It’s on a dimesale.  Meaning the price starts really low, but goes up with every few purchases!

I took a great amount from the interview.

I’m sure you will, too.

Check out the sales page – you’ll find an audio sample, and the interview that made the 40,000 dollar man.

(Be sure to grab a pad and pen… you WILL be taking notes.)

Bolaji O.

The Nocrastinator.