May 22, 2008

StomperNet Reopening at 3pm Today…

Have you had it with all the mailings about StomperNet yet?!?! It can get a little crazy, but they do only open once a year. I’m part of the faculty, and have been since Jan. ‘07. I thought I knew everything there was to know about SEO and then I started to have conversations and “talk shop” with Dan Thies and Leslie Rohde. I then learned I didn’t know as much as I thought.

That sucked, but my business improved from what I learned from them.

Then I thought I was an expert in conversion. I mean, why not, I was a top affiliate and knew stuff even the top affiliate managers didn’t know. Then I sat and listened to David Bullock and Andy Edmunds. Yeah, that was just painful. They were talking about stuff I had no idea even existed in the conversion space.

Blogs? Yeah, I was all over blogs. I was talking about blogs back in 2002 when no one even knew what one was. It was like email back in the early 90s. But, Sherman Hu and Dave Taylor explained how things really worked and how you REALLY monetized your Blog.

And then there was Social Marketing. I thought it was a waste of time. I mean, a 14-year old kid doesn’t have a credit card so why bother? Howie Schwartz taught me how to use it the RIGHT way. How to literally dominate conversations online … and become an expert overnight on a topic.

I could go on … but the bottom line is, my business improved because of what I learned from the experts listed above. And they are all faculty members of StomperNet. Now, if I can take a few pieces of knowledge from them and see a huge increase in my business, just think what they could do for you.

What I have realized in my association with Brad and Andy over the last 18 months or so, is that StomperNet is like a family … it is people helping people. It is hands down the best community I have been associated with. And I don’t mind taking an hour out of my day sharing what I tested that day which shot my rankings up. Or how to use a rewrite script to overcome an unpublished bug in Google. Because I know someone else will share something that I am stuck on and instead of spending hours, days or weeks trying to figure it out on my own, I can pop in and ask a question and get it answered. And that, well, that just kicks ass pure and simple.

Leave the hype out of it and give it a shot for a month. It’s cheaper than hiring an employee and if you don’t like it and end up firing StomperNet, heck, at least there isn’t unemployment to pay.