David Leigh

I just listened to the StomperNet SIMPLE call between Ed Dale, Leslie Rohde and Jerry West. Excellent content, I wish we’d heard this a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway, that minor complaint aside, if we keep getting content like that then it goes some of the way to addressing the problems I was talking about yesterday; I’ve never doubted the quality of the faculty, only that SIMPLE isn’t a finished product yet.

Thank you.

More bitching about Stompernet SIMPLE I’m afraid. I’m getting nowhere near value for money at the moment and there is no way I would sign up for full Stompernet based on this experience. A few points that immediately spring to mind:

• Where are the faculty members in the forums?
• Why are there so many days allocated to doing basically nothing?
• Why is it that every so often there is so much to do (i.e. writing 5-15 landing pages without clear guidance) that many people feel overwhelmed?
• With such a high quality faculty why isn’t it working?
• What am I getting to justify paying $97/month?

I thought the $1 trial was great, although it didn’t go as far as it should have in terms of generating traffic. Based on that I believed that $97/month would be good value too. Instead, I’m frustrated.

To be fair it’s not really aimed at me, but people who don’t have much internet marketing experience. And if I’d paid $97 for the first month it was easily worth it. But looking forward I don’t see the value.

StomperNet SIMPLE currently doesn’t cut it. BUT… with a few tweaks it would be a fantastic. Let’s hope that StomperNet wakes up to this fact so I can write some overwhelming praise. Believe me, I’d love to.

As you may already know, I was one of the people who signed up to the Stompernet SIMPLE $1 trial in May. We had limited access for a month, while being taken step by step through their new program designed to get newbies up and running with an info product in record time.

So was it any good?

Overall I would have to say YES. Although I didn’t sign up for full access at nearly $800/month, it could be worth it simply for access to some of the SEO gurus they have on the faculty. I did sign up to continue the SIMPLE process though. Although I’m far from a newbie I am currently looking to diversify my revenue streams and one of the ways to do that on autopilot is to sell info products.

So what’s good and bad:

• Some of the TOP internet marketing experts guide you through the process
• Each step is explained in a short video as well as in writing
• The whole process is through an online workbook
• The forums allow you to swap ideas and ask the experts

But…

• Under delivery -  The program promised an internet business by the end of 30 days, but in fact all we had was an incomplete website with no traffic.
• Unorganised - the program was a bit too fluid and it was clear that things changed as we went along. In the week before it started Ed Dale had a set of videos in which he told us to set up an iTunes account and Twitter. We didn’t use either of these in the program.
• Concepts were not always explained well. Landing pages were talked about and pre-sell pages talked about, but not the content required and whether these terms referred to the same page content or not.
• No clear overview.

I’ll see how it goes paying $97/month as I am interested in learning how to use some of the web 2.0 marketing techniques to generate traffic, but think that much of the 30 day period allocated for Stompernet SIMPLE was wasted.

Yesterday I talked a bit about the $1 Stompernet SIMPLE trial which I’m lucky enough to be part of.

Yesterday evening I was poking around in their video library which is fantastic. One of the best I saw was by Leslie Rohde, CEO of Windrose Software in which he talked about one SEO factor I’d never even thought of. The thing is, this problem is blindingly obvious, but I’ve never seen anyone talk about it before - not that that means anything

Of course being a trialist I didn’t see the solution; that’s reserved for full members, but I can guess what it is and have put it to use on 2 of my websites to see if it has the expected result. If it works as well as I hope then it moves me one step closer to justifying $800 a month.

I’m lucky enough to have been given the chance to try StomperNet for 30 days for just $1, pretty good since the normal price is around $800…

…a month!

The idea is to take you through a step by step process forcreating a successful ebusiness in a month and although it keeps being reinforced that the aim is to take us through the process rather than focus on the money it was also mentioned at one point that you should be able to make $1000/month within 90 days.

I do have experience of running ebusinesses, but have never focused much on info products -the focus here - so it’s good to go through the whole process from scratch, remind me what I should be doing that I have maybe forgotten as well as learn some new techniques for promotion and search engine marketing.

Having worked the system over the weekend I’ve gone as far as I can for the time being while everyone else plays catch up, but that’s no problem for me. We’ve been split into teams (or rather we created our own teams), so that nobody works in isolation, ideas can be kicked around and the less experienced members of the teams have always got someone they know to ask for help. Sometimes it can be difficult to know who to turn to for advice, and this alone is a great benefit.

At the end of the 30 day trial we can opt for full membership, or cancel before we pay that first $800. It sounds a lot - it is a lot - but my decision will be based on whether I can get >$800/month value from membership.

When I went in I was sceptical that I would, but for $1 had nothing to lose. But after a few days working StomperNet SIMPLE I’ll reserve judgement. If I do join up then I’ll want to see a pretty fast ROI, but the resources available and access of some of the top people in Internet marketing are fantastic.

It’s certainly worth more than $1, that’s for sure.