The Duchess

Just east of the famous Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, there is an Embassy Suites hotel - a place with a positive vibe and a staff with a can-do attitude.  In this pleasant atmosphere, the Dreambuilders Club meets each Monday evening throughout this summer.  From time to time, Dreambuilders Club founder, Matthew Sikich, invites speakers to talk with the growing group of club members, in order to share their business and its benefits.  There is networking time built into the evening’s schedule, both before and after the program.  (Oh!  and let’s not forget to mention that dinner at the hotel restaurant, Woolley’s, is available to club members and their guests at a whopping 50% discount!  Tasty stuff, too! :)  )

So this evening, the Duke and Duchess of Earle find a happy blend of two companies with which they are associated in one place at one time.  Steve Renner, their internet marketing guru and mentor these last months, has been invited by Mr. Sikich to be the guest speaker. 

Mr. Renner begins by sharing the post he made today on his blog about Dreambuilders Club and the relationship it has with iNet Global, his new umbrella company that includes all aspects of his varied internet marketing service company.  He is broadcasting live around the world tonight, just as he does on Tuesday evenings - with his faithful right-hand-man, Jonathan Neil, manning the camera. 

As Steve checks Google for the ranking of his posting, the quick-eyed Duke makes a discovery that makes the Duchess quite happy:  he spots her blog as the third listing on the page using Dreambuilders Club as the keyword.  What fun to discover one’s efforts, however humble, are registering with the great Google!  The Duchess even gets a brief moment of recognition from Mr. Renner, Mr. Sikich and the group at large for her efforts.

Back to business, Steve begins sharing his story.  His marketing business is based on his cash cards, a business born of necessity in 2001, when his foriegn subscribers couldn’t get their earnings quickly and easily.  He has grown his business over the years and now it includes many services, which he began to offer to the general public after receiving many requests for making those services available and for mentoring and teaching.  Today those services include IMTrain (internetmarketing training), which includes access to all the following services all in one wonderful membership: Host2Profits (hosting services), SEO Link Network (back links and deep links for your postings), Blogpros (blogs with varied themes on which one can post), V-Shops (a shopping cart and affiliate management service), V-Mail (autoresponder service), V-Webcast (web conferencing service).  And tonight he is unveiling to the Dreambuilders Club and the world his AdPacs company, which he has been building over the last few weeks and tonight is within hours of  launch.

The Duchess can tell you that AdPacs is similar to some other advertisement surfing companies, but Renner’s plan has the benefit of already having a large organization in place, so that the struggles encountered by a company building a large organization in a hurry may well not occur on such a grand scale as other companies are presently facing.     

So, it is shared that an individual can sign up for free, as a subscriber or as a Virtual Internet Partner, or VIP.  There are three levels to the VIP program: Gold, Platinum and Diamond.  One may sign up as a free member and earn their way to membership, because they can earn a 2% commission on the AdPac purchases made by those they introduce to the program.  A regular subscriber can earn 4% commissions on those they bring into the program and 2% on what purchases are made by the people their people bring in.  At Platinum, the commission increases to 8% and 4%, while at the Diamond level, commissions top out at 10% and 5%. 

The different levels of membership include a different number of websites that can be shown.  A freebie can display 3, a subscriber 5, Gold 10, Platinum 15 and a Diamond 20.

The number of sites required for the rebate program varies too:  the free, subscriber and Gold levels are all 24, Platinum is 18 and Diamond 12.  The maximum allowed for viewing on any given day is 72.   All levels can earn rebates up to 100% of the ad package purchase; only the VIPs can earn an additional 25%.  For the freebies, cash can be requested on a weekly basis; all others can ask for cash on a daily basis.  All payouts go into a cash card, so they are usable anywhere around the globe and can be redeemed for the local currency. 

Steve then invites George Flavell (one very sharp cookie) up to the front of the room to share the figures on a spreadsheet and to explain how the spreadsheet works.  Merryn Flavell, George’s bright bride (who has her doctorate in teaching and is launching her own online international university), then invites the Duchess to get up to discuss a hypothetical situation about how one’s advertising purchases and earnings can grow quickly. 

As the AdPacs business launches, there will be a match for purchases made through August 15th.  The Duchess finds she needs a bit of clarification on the percentages for the match before she publishes them, so will wait for this evening’s meeting in Renner’s own offices to get the question answered.

At the conclusion of Mr. Renner’s remarks, he makes a generous offer to the Dreambuilders Club members to encourage them to participate in his AdPacs launch and then, a break is taken before the second half of the meeting begins.

During the second half of the meeting, Mr. Sikich introduces a couple of folks new to Dreambuilders Club:  John Tshohl, whose company “trains people to be nice” when serving customers of a business.  He offers a 30% discount to Dreambuilders Club members. 

Then creative club member Les LaMotte is invited to introduce his two guests, Darin Schultz and Aaron “I-didn’t-catch-his-last-name-and-didn’t-get-to-talk-with-him-afterwards”.  Mr. Schultz has a new invention called the 4DSnowbike - a crazy-looking bicycle contraption with wheels and skis.  He is even going to offer a limited edition Dreambuilders Club version of the vehicle, available only to club members.  (The Duchess and Duke’s Colorado-based water-and-snow-sports-minded nephew immediately leaps to thought.  He’ll LOVE this - it looks right up his alley!)  And then Mr. Aaron, he of the unknown last name, is introduced.  He labels himself an aspiring entrepreneur with an IT background and says he has a media production company.  This time it is the Duke and Duchess’ own son that leaps to mind, as he loves to work with both audio and visual media.

Well, that’s a wrap for this evening.  The Duchess will surely be reporting in on Tuesday evening’s events, so watch for the next posting. 

Tuesday evening finds the Duchess of Earle madly scrambling to get to Steve Renner’s office in the wake of multiple meetings in her afternoon.  Her sweet Duke meets her at the meeting room with her computer, two tasty pieces of cold (homemade) leftover pizza for her dinner and a couple of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies for dessert.  So she sets up her computer and sits down to her meal with a sidedish of Renner’s recent recipes for internet marketing success.

Renner’s company pioneered changing cash into cash/debit cards that could be easily transformed into cash locally for anyone nearly anywhere in the world.  When the company they were using for the conversion service went out of business, Steve, the Master of “Model and Swipe,” figured out what they’d been doing and reverse engineered it.  So over the years, he’s built it into a sizable business. 

 He’s been involved primarily on the back end of the internet business, but now is coming forth to teach others what he does - how he gets paid handsomely for “basically goofing around on the internet” all day.

He started with an affiliate program, but realized that affiliate marketing was really only one part of internet marketing.  So he launched IM Train and all its related services, catering to internet marketers - as is illustrated with his webcast service, V-Webcast.  But he realized that with all his services, that they were too strung out.  Therefore he decided to put them under an umbrella organization.  That was a Sunday - and by Tuesday he had the announcement of iNetGlobal.com.  He had to negotiate for that domain name, but was successful in getting the name he wanted.  So now there is IMTrain, SEO Links Network, Host 2 Profits (backed by their company V-Webs), Blogpros, V-Shops, V-Mail (autoresponder services), V-WebCast.   Membership in his iNetGlobal company gives one access to Steve and all the services and resources he offers, even including private label products.  And they add more and more benefits all the time, even offering such things as Microsoft Certified Professional training.   

The services are state the art, Renner says, and have 14 servers working for their system.

CPanel hosting is available, which is the easiest way for novices to run their website.

Premium Hosting Services are standard with Host2Profits:  phpBB, WordPress, Portals/CMS (Content Management Systems including Mambo and Drupal), Moodle, Joomla, Noah’s Classified, Open-Realty, PhpAdsNew, PHP auction, phpCOIN, calendars, schedulers, support tickets, Logic Helpdesk, Image Galleries, Website Builder, such as Template Express, Mailing List software, Wiki, Project Management, etc, etc. etc!!!  This list, which goes on and on, and is still being added to, can be found at www.host2profits.com/services.html   

So what does all this cost a subscriber?  One must pay a LOT with all those benefits!  But in truth, it’s a basement bargain price of $39.95 per month, after the initial startup charge of $59.95.  What a steal of a deal! 

One of the most basic tools of internet marketing is TRAFFIC, he says as he continues.  It’s important to get pairs of eyeballs looking at your ads.  So now he is adding a new service to his empire and it’s called AdPacs.  It’s a bit like pay per click (PPC) ads, though certainly different. 

Steve mentions John Reese, “a very sharp marketer” who has been marketing a product called Traffic Secrets 2.0.  Steve targeted some keywords that might not be the top words for the product and - bingo! - he was able to be listed on the first page, right under the two listings that belong to Reese himself. 

Mr. Renner also figured that people might well be looking for Reese’s videos, so he posted some for that as well. 

 Last year over $21 Billion was spent on internet advertising.  So, pure and simple, internet advertising is big business.

People pay good money to place the pay per click (PPC) ads, but the advertising company never pays you back for spending your money with them.  The company just wants more funds when your ad budget is spent.  BUT now, with the AdPacs program, you and I can earn up to 100% of your purchases back.  If you’ve met certain criteria, you can also earn an additional 25%. 

One can start for free at the start and show up to three sites, surf up to 72 sites per day.  As a free member, one can earn commissions of 2% on ad business they bring it.  Once one sigins up as a subscriber, the commission rises to 4% on one’s first level and now expends to the second level with a 2% commission.  There are three VIP levels as things go up the line. 

As one earns, their funds go into a cash card account. 

Subscribers that bring aboard other subscribers can earn another income stream from the subscription fees.  This provides a residual income.  This also gets paid through the cash card.

Then along comes the VIP (Virtual Internet Partner) program, where one can private label the business.  The Gold, Platinum and Diamond levels each have benefits.  The VIP level offers an additional income stream, because one can offer the VIP program in their marketing.  It’s more than the Duchess is going to spell out here, but rest assured that it paints a pretty picture of what one could actually earn. 

Sooo, here is the AdPacs presentation:  One can advertise their website, generate more traffice, more leads, more sales, and at the same time, earn rebates and bonuses. 

AdPacs pays rebates (thought it does not guarantee them - this depends on company sales) on every dollar one spends on advertising in a cooperative network.  There is the potential to make money five ways:  surf for credits, advertise your website, 2-tier referral bonuses (from 2-10% commissions on what others purchase from you), rebates and bonuses (up to 125%), VIP private label opportunities. 

About the surfing of your site by others:  It’s 100% guaranteed that one will get hits on one’s website for $1.00 per ad credit.  This by itself is a great advertising value.

About advertising your website:  Make more sales and generate more leads for your business.   One can buy more ad pacs - up to $60K per month.  One must be a subscriber to buy ad pacs for $1.00, which is wholesale.  Free members can buy ad pacs at retail, whcih is $2.00 per ad.

About rebates and bonuses:  These are earned by rebates on your purchases and the bonuses for being a strategic partner (the VIP progam).

Free member earns 2% commission

Subscriber earns 4%/2%

Gold VP earns 5%/4%

Platinum VIP earns 8%/4%

Diamond VIP earns 10%/5%

Ability to show websites ranges from 3 for a free member to 20 sites for a Diamond.

Min. purchase is $20.00.  Average return will be 1%, with a cap or 8%.  In the beginning, the returns will be more. 

Now George Flavell, Steve’s CEO of the AdPacs program, sits down and holds forth on the spreadsheet and how the numbers of the program work.

Questions and answers are invited.

Steve is offering ad pacs to those that sign up for the VIP program and matching of funds they spend on ads. 

They hope to launch within the next week, so get your funds in place!

An extra bonus: those that are already signed up in Steve’s program are going to be blessed with ad pacs!  WOW!!  This news is certainly music to the Duchess’ ears!  Thanks, Steve!

Good evening, Everybody!

We are once again ensconced in Steve Renner’s meeting room.  He is telling his story - how he got started in internet marketing, including his cash card service, which allows people to get their funds in their own country’s coinage.  His desire to help others grew from assisting one person at a time to launching a program that can help many.  They started out as The Affiliate Community (TAC) and a number of months ago, changed the name to Internet Marketing Training, or IM Train.  (Check it out by clicking here.) IM Train includes a viral marketing system and the opportunity for people to have their own business private labeling the services IM Train offers.  They set up Host2Profits for hosting services, then an autoresponder service called V-Mail.  Then came SEO Links Network, Blogpros, a virtual webcast service called V-Webcast.  Shopping cart services (V-Shops), merchant accounts are also available.  There is also an affiliate program built in to V-Shops, which also has an autoresponder built into it.  Tonight Steve is unveiling his newest program, which is called AdPacs.com.  It’s a web advertising company and is going directly into competition with another company that is experiencing great success and rapid growth. 

Steve did some research on the subject and learned that last year $21 billion was spent on internet advertising, which is up from $16 billion the previous year.  This year is already ahead of last year’s pace.

He says that they needed a name for their universe of programs - this came out of a discussion in the last MIT class.  So he chose the name iNetGlobal.com and it has become his umbrella organization for IMTrain, SeoLink, Host2Profits, V-Shops.com, V-Mail, V-WebCast and now, AdPacs.  He is also in the process of applying to the State of Minnesota for a college level degree in Internet Marketing (then the classes will cost a lot more than they do now!).

He mentions Drupal as a good program to run a website on - one that doesn’t require knowledge of html.  Joomla is a membership site and you can create your own membership site using this program.  There can even be different levels of membership for differing membership fees.  One of the students comments that Joomla is really much more than a membership site - it can do much, much more.  Moodle is a system to set up educational system that is very pricey - once again, included in Renner’s programs.  Open-Realty is a free tool for the real estate professional.  Help Center Live is a support tracking communication system for those that have websites and need to manage messages to the support staff.  PHProjekt is a project managing system for tasks and groups.  All these are just a sample of what’s available in the Host2Profits service.

Conversation now goes to SEO Links Network.  Steve talks about how there are link brokers, the same as there are real estate brokers.  They market links to companies that want to have good page-ranked links coming back to their sites.  Not only are there links availabe, but there is the opportunity to get deep links back to a site as well, which is a good thing so far as search engines are concerned. 

Next up is discussion about a posting Steve made on epictn.org about a young man making $5-6K per day marketing stuff through Clickbank.  He draws a diagram of the activity flow and demonstrates how he has worked to promote marketing the Google Nemesis video review from his steverenner.com blog. 

John Reese and his Traffic Secrets 2.0 product comes up in the discussion.  He was the first one to market a million dollars worth of product in one day.  So now Steve is now promoing work on this product too.  The original product was discontinued after eight years because he’s just coming out with the new version.   

Back on the IM Train track, Steve launches into the AdPacs presentation. 

A quick question from one of the students:  Does V-Shops support downloading ebooks?  The answer is yes.

Back to AdPacs…A member must look at 24-30 sites per day in order to get credits to show their own sites.  One can make money for surfing sites and also by advertising one’s own site, so the system is getting traffic to the site.  Make money again by referring other people: can make up to 10% commissions on your first level, up to 5% on the second level.  There are also rebates up to 100% and 25% in bonuses if you buy at least $20 per month.  You can also make money a fifth way by private labeling your own advertising system, which allows you to keep the earnings yourself.  This is done through the VIP program that is through IMTrain.  Diamond VIPs, the top level, will make 10% on AdPac sales commissions. 

Steve introduced George Flavell, who is the VP in charge of AdPacs and is spearheading Ad Pacs.  George and Steve together presented the chart that shows the ways to participate and the earnings from those levels.  Then George presented a spreadsheet that shows how the funds can grow, how the ad packages expire and can be repurchased and start to grow all over again.  There is also the ability to roll funds back in on a daily basis, so that they compound faster.  A visit to the site was next on the list, so that everyone can see how to surf, to add sites, allocate credits, add banners, etc. 

The goal with all this is to support the students’ attempts to make money online and help them get their own businesses rolling ASAP.

The next MIT will be held the first week of August. 

A nice surprise for existing and new Diamond VIPs:  There will be a ticket for the MIT included and Diamonds will receive 1000 AdPacs and 100% of whatever amount they buy in AdPacs.  Platinums will get 500 AdPacs and 50% of purchases; Golds will get 250 AdPacs and 25% of purchases.

No funds are being accepted yet, but check for that next week.

Well, that’s a wrap on an evening with an exciting revelations!  The Duke and Duchess head for their carriage and the ride home.

The AdSurfDaily corporation met in convention last week, June 12-14 and the Duchess was there to experience the fun, the networking and learn more about the company.

 The event was kicked off by an evening of dessert and networking.  LOTS of tasty goodies were offered, including fancy little filled pastries, whole fresh strawberries by the boatload and as large a quantity of caramel and chocolate to dip them in, several varieties of Haagen Das ice cream, jumbo cookies cut into quarters, biscotti. 

The next two days were filled with meetings, filling out forms and standing in line to purchase advertising packages.

Announced in Friday’s meeting was the naming of what has been known for some weeks as ‘Project X.’  The surprise behind ‘Project X’ is ASD Offer Universe, which offers discounts on products from what is a rapidly-increasing legion of companies - and these companies offer things you and the Duchess buy on an every-day basis.  The Duchess invites you to click on the following link, check it out and sign up as an affiliate:  http://www.asdofferuniverse.com/index.php?ref=21244

The ASD Offer Universe affords the opportunity to earn on two levels, just as the main ASD program does.

Friday evening there was a banquet, at the close of which, the announcement was made that, in addition to the English and Spanish websites, we will be getting a Chinese website in the near future.  It will be called Golden Panda.  Fortunes cookies were brought out in celebration of the announcement.

Here is a posting, found on another blog, about the meeting and ASD:

“Folks, this business is going to explode. In the last 10 days ASD has Doubled their membership. Up to 60,000 members right now.

“It is perking interests in Large Corporations who want to advertise their products and services.

“There are already 119 Large Corporations currently being processed and Paying Big Bucks to ASD (and not asking for Rebates!) - payments from Corporate Sponsors will keep the Rebates going. In the next few weeks they expect to sign up 400 Corporations.

“ASD is currently Beta Testing “Project X” called the ASD OFFER UNIVERSE - A portal where these large corporations can advertise to ASD members and give substantial discounts to ASD members for their products.

“ASD members will have a personal link where they can email folks on their contact list to browse through and buy stuff on ASD OFFER UNIVERSE…AND WILL BE PAID or get some kind of credit when others browse via your personal link.

“…I’m a high roller in this business - was going to get in, get out with a profit before the whole thing crashes but now after seeing the whole business ASD business plan I’m a believer.”

The Duchess came home in the wee hours of Sunday morning, tired but happy to have attended the convention, met new folks, learned more about the company and is happily looking forward to the exciting weeks ahead!  Please consider yourself invited to contact the Duchess if you have questions about ASD and would like to get involved.  Write to contact@duchessofearle.com .

The Duchess is delighted to report to you the benefits of utilizing the leverage of membership in the Dreambuilders Club - and can recommend it to you with enthusiasm! 

So what’s the scoop?  The Duchess has recently been planning an important event, one that requires the services of an establishment to serve a meal to a group of her invited guests.  Membership in the Dreambuilders Club has provided her with an introduction to the events specialist at a hotel in the Duchess’ home territory, where she was most warmly received.  The gracious specialist even offered a discount for their services - all because of the Duchess’ Gold membership in Dreambuilders Club! 

If this sounds like a great perk to you, you’re invited to attend the meeting for those interested in learning about Dreambuilders Club and how it promotes your business.  Formerly, Dreambuilders Club has held weekly teleconference calls on Monday evenings.  But now there are live meetings being held in June and July on Monday evenings at the Embassy Suites in Bloomington, Minnesota - in the shadow of the humongus Mall of America.  The meeting itself starts at 7:30.  Before the meeting, however, starting at 6:00, members and guests are invited to share dinner and networking time.  And - get this - not only is this a GREAT time to network for your business, but the price of dinner is cut in half - another perk for belonging to Dreambuilders Club!

If you’re in the area, you’re welcome to join us to check out how Dreambuilders Club helps you promote and grow your business.  For more information, write contact@duchessofearle.com.  And when you arrive, tell them the Duchess sent you!  Then come and introduce yourself to the Duchess, her Duke and all the Dreambuilders Club assembly.  We’ll be glad to have you with us and share the news of what Dreambuilders Club offers!

This is the Duchess, signing off for tonight!

P.S.  When you decide you’re ready to sign up, the Duchess will be happy to sponsor you.  Admission to Dreambuilders Club is by invitation only.  Write contact@duchessofearle.com for the information you’ll need to register.

So what is Dreambuilders Club?  It is the most innovative and cooperative business-to-business, business-to-client organization ever created for caring people. 

The Duchess is pleased to share with you, and with all, that, in lieu of the regular Monday evening conference calls, Dreambuilders Club has begun to hold meetings every Monday evening - and will continue to do so for the next couple of months. 

Now why would they do that? you might ask.  Well, first off, they want you invite you - yes, YOU - as a business owner to come for an evening of dining and networking with other business owners.  If you accept this invitation, you may identify yourself as a Dreambuilders Club member or guest to the restaurant staff of the hotel and you will receive 50% off the cost of your meal that evening - all because of the Dreambuilders relationship with the Embassy Suites hotel where the meeting is held.

Following the meal and networking time, there is a meeting that introduces Dreambuilders Club and its benefits to business owners.  The middle segment of the meeting is devoted to experiencing a part of the Mastery of Loving class, created by Dreambuilders’ Founder, Matthew Sikich.  In this segment of the evening, one can find out about such things as the buying habits of the American public, what language to use when approaching people about your business, and other things both enlightening and helpful to anybody in business - or in anyone’s personal relationships in daily life, for that matter.  Very useful stuff!

The kick-off meeting was held this past Monday evening and several guests and members were in attendance.  There was much constructive relationship-building and networking going on during the dinner hour.  The Duchess herself can share that, as a direct result of Monday evening’s meeting, she had four business meetings to book.  She considers that a pretty successful evening of networking!

If you’d like to come to a Monday evening networking/dinner/meeting, please contact the Duchess for the information on time and place at contact@duchessofearle.com. We’d love to have you join us! - both for the Monday evening sessions and in the Club inself!

Joining Dreambuilders Club is by invitation only.  If this is an invitation you’d like to seek out, please write the Duchess at contact@duchessofearle.com.  It’s well worth your while to check it out!