Masterblaster Monthly Meeting

We had a good turn out last night, John - Neyrot Photography, Me - Swim with the Dolphins Miami, Rich - Fish Oil Direct, and Curtis - Copeland Photography.

We had a good time talking and eating for a little while, My wife Shakira, from Remax Fort Lauderdale, gave us some good eats and then we moved to the office to discuss the internet and business.

Some points:

John Neyrot.
He showed us his new website, http://neyrotproductions.com/ This is his first website he is building from Dreamweaver. The learning curve was hard for him because he was a MS frontpage user for years and now switching to dreamweaver. Its taken him about 2 weeks of reading and watching videos and now he is getting the hang of using dreamweaver. What do you think of his site? This site is to promote him better and for his salesperson to sell him better.

Also, John showed us a big written and photo spread in Moves Magazine. I looked online for the article but its not there yet. It was a great spread about 10 pages.

John Mac
Asked for some help in Wordpress. Curtis and the guys gave feed back on uploading photos to wordpress. Wow, I have been doing it the hard way a long time.
We also talked about the plug ins for Wordpress. The one everyone needs is Askismet for spam. I showed the Flickr plug in and we discussed about flickr. Flickr is social / photo sharing site and we were discussing the pros and cons of the putting the photos there. We agreed that putting a watermark on your photo was worth it.

Curtis mentioned about Disqus (a social blogging tool he uses). I looked at the site but I really don't understand yet. Hopefully Curtis can explain more in future about his site.

We also talked about setting up a Gravatar for your blog. That is something I would like to do. A Brand for my image. Maybe Curtis can talk about this more too.

Curtis
Discussed about his struggle from switching from his website to a wordpress  and buying a template. We all encouraged him to move forward with wordpress.

I think that is it. If you guys can add anything, please do.
God Bless you all and see you in two weeks.
John

Start of 2010 Meeting Notes

Hi All,

Well, here we are and ready for a great new year. Tonight we discussed a few things.

1. Rich was explaining about his websites and how he building his business through network marketing companies vs. affiliate companies. He explained to me why he likes the networking side of his business.

Here are two examples of network marketing site he has:
http://www.fishoildirect.com/
http://usapetstoday.com/

• The big thing is that he is in control of his customers.
• He gets to see his order. 
• He gets to see which product the customer order. 
• He makes residual income from all his customers.
• Commission can be really high, especially on the first sale.
  

What you get with Affiliate companies.

• You do get to sell products you want to sell, your hobby or passion.
• You do get a 60 day cookie on the customer computer if they do buy again from that company.

I am going to the affiliate summit in Las Vegas next week with Shakira. Shakira is getting introduced to the affiliate buinsess and we are going to see if we get blessed with some great ideas and companies to work with. Lets see if Shakira gets excited about the business too.

Rich and I talked about a game plan when I go to the conference.

• I need to find companies that are willing to send to me a customer receipts to I can see my sales.
• I need to find a company that is willing to share with me what there top affiliate websites are doing, blogging, website set up.
• I need to find a company that is willing to share with me what are the top 10 products are selling through affiliates.

Lastly, we viewed a video from Allen Victor, one of our internet mastermind member, has done a great FLASH commercial for his natural soap buinsess. Check it out. Here are a couple of notes that Allen told me. He used a voice over service, Voicetalentnow.com. The voice service did a great job and it was reasonably priced. The only challenge with the voice over, they only give you so much time so that changed the amount of time he made the video. I still think it came out great. Check it out.



We have decided for the next Skype meeting, January 21, we are going to do a Video Skype meeting. So I need to get a video cam. If you plan to join us, please get a video cam.

God Bless and see you guys soon.
John
Swimming with the Dolphin Tortola

Meeting Notes

Hi Guys,
We had a strong turn out for the last meeting for 2010.
John Neyrot
Alex
Rich
John Mac

We talked a lot about face book and the uses.

We talked about Google Wave and the uses of it. We all agreed this would be very useful oneday.

Alex had some good suggestions about using MeetUp.com >> Search local groups of similar interest.

One step for communicating to all social sites with Ping.FM

Alex talked about his mentor, Jase Sanders and his facebook postings.
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you all !!!
See you in 2010.
God Bless,
John

Meeting Notes Nov 5 09

Rich and I listen to James Martells Affiliate Buzz.

They talked to internet manager to Lazy Environmentalist.

• He talked about the following:
• To fix his site, he looked page by page
• He needed to figure out with the Key Words what the customer really wanted
• Then he need to figure out what key words the search engine wanted.
• Fix the headlines
• Added H1 tags
• Took off options - Goal one product - 1 sale
• With optimization, increase google adsense by 600%
• Know your analytics - use google - Always test
• Biggest Tip >> Keep Moving and don't stop
  

Rich talked about a Key Work optimization program, Web CEO.

Rich want to talk about Benefits of Fish Oil and how these keys where optimized. He used the Web CEO tool to help.

Rich also show us his new directory which is geared toward the following keys word, compare dog food.

Rich made this Squeeze page, for Land in Belize, check it out.

Rich asked about Flip Video. here are the specs
UltraHD™, 120 minutes

The Flip UltraHD camcorder combines Flip Video's signature shoot-and-share simplicity with the power of vivid, vibrant HD video. With 120 minutes of record time, you'll never miss another minute again. And because of UltraHD's pocket-sized portability, you'll truly be able to capture HD video anytime, anywhere.

General Meeting Master Blaster

Hi Guys,

Rich is talking about http://www.esyndicat.com/

Rich bought unlimited directories and sharing his success because his link is on everypage. He has over 2000 directory listing.

Curtis told John H about http://www.smugmug.com/ and http://www.zenfolio.com/ to monitize his website.

John Neyrot is going to sign up for a gmail account and then sign up for Google Ad Sense.

John Mac showed his template for http://dolphinplaces.com/default.shtml

John Neyrot is going to work with DreamWeaver.

Anyone have suggestions, please make some comments.
Have a great week!!
God Bless,
John
Swimming with the Dolphins Oahu Hawaii

FreeDictionary.com - MasterBlaster Meeting June 4 Meeting

Hi All,

Here is are some note from our meeting on June 4th. It was really cool and different. We had a chance to interview Steve Boymel the owner of FreeDictionary.com. We did this on Skype.

• Always loved the computer, since he was little. A programer at heart.
• Work during the dot com period and build a business with venture capital dollars and the business crashed during the bust.
• Went back to school and for a MBA degree after the failed business.
  
• Graduated with a MBA with a computer Technology degree. During his MBA as a class project started freedictionary.com 2004.
• His theory is to build an Asset. His website is an asset. Like real estate and wants to build for the long haul. He builds his site with White Hat intention. ( Which means he stays google compliant)
  
• He will never use venture capital dollars again. He uses only his own and partner's money to build the business.
  
• He believes heavily is to go to big web SEO related conferences. He goes to at least 7 a year. The big one he goes to WebMasterWorld in Las Vegas. Pubcom This show is in November every year.
• He makes a lots of money from Advertising from his website.
• He is involved with Web 3.0 now, more than web 2.0
• He follows and listen to Matt Cutts a lot from google.
• He mention about this 1 man show, who owns plentyoffish.com and makes a lot a money. He said this guy works about 1 - 2 hours a day and is very focus on this site.
• He now has about 15 part time programers. He has a partner and makes a great living from this website now.
  
• He mentioned a great tidbit. Since he started, he has listen to his users all the time and has built the site from their suggestions. It has paid off. The way he has gotten feedback with a feedback link. I need to do this right away. All he has is Feedback link at different places on the website. Left sidebar and bottom footer.
• You need to check out freedictionary.com pagerank, wow an 8. That is amazing!!!

We plan to try to record others who we interview and try to have a podcast for the next time. Rich Mattheisz was going to send me a link to record from the computer. Alex mentioned about Gold Wave Audio. If any other suggestion for recording, please let me know.
God bless,
John
Swim with the Dolphins Key Largo

Note from General Meeting - April 2 2009

Hi Guys,

Who was here:
John M
Rich M

Some things we talked about:

1. Looked at Rich's banners and did a blog post on it. Please add some feed back for Rich.

2. Talked about Zeus and latest updates. If you don't know about Zeus, it is a link exchange program. I used to use it a lot and Rich still use it more than. It definitely helps with back links. Go to: Zeus Program

Rich needs to fix his submission pages for the links - interior pages were not work. John needs to fix TropicalAdventure.com links pages.

3. We talked about the webmaster tools from Google. We looked at my back links for www.dolphinworld.org - I had over 2,000 back links. Its a great tools to use.
( Check out tutorial of tool)

4. We talked about the graphics that Allen created for me to use on myspace. Rich liked that idea and may use it for some his pet sites. To see dolphin myspace graphics

5. The next Skype meeting we are going to start the Google Adword professional Series. Next Skype meeting April 16.

Anyone seen anything new about Business, Internet, Affiliate Marketing, please post on this blog.

Don't forget to add your website on this blog, get a free back link !!!

I think that is it.
God Bless,
John