Back in 2005, Yanik Silver brought together a group of real-word online success stories to share exactly how they are raking it in.

(I was one of the speakers).

Appropriately enough, he called his little experiment the Underground Online Marketing Seminar. And because of the unique concept it totally SOLD-OUT 5 weeks early (while most other events are still trying to sell tickets up until the very day of the seminar).

In fact, it was so successful that the crowd demanded another one…and another one! In fact, every single
Underground has sold-out even faster because of the buzz and reputation of this event being THE place for networking and learning.

Let me tell you this event was so informative and entertaining that I’ve attended several others as well (see picture below of me and ‘the boys’ at the Underground in 2006).

I thought I knew a lot when it came to online marketing. I’ve attended a lot of seminars but these speakers really blew me away!

Yanik has done it yet again and managed to uncover an *ALL-NEW* group of “under-the-radar” six-figure, seven-figure…and even 8-figure earners for the Underground 8.

It’s all going on March 1-3rd 2012 in an undisclosed location in Washington, DC. March of next year might seem too far away to even think about but there’s an important reason not to delay.

Actually, there are *3* reasons to pay attention now:

Reason #1: You get the lowest discounts, bonuses and surprises (including a private VIP networking and actual SPY mission).

Reason #2: Like I mentioned, last year this unique event sold-out weeks early. And from the buzz, build-up and new success stories – I have reason to believe this year may sell out even quicker.

Reason #3: It’s a LOT of fun! Every year Yanik does a new spy theme and it’s a true experience. Not some stodgy seminar where you sit in a windowless room every day listening to boring Powerpoints. This year’s theme is “Spy vs Spy” and you don’t want to miss it!

It would be a huge mistake not to go to the Underground Seminar at least once!

Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!

Cheers,

P.S. Listen, this is definitely NOT the same “Usual Suspects” you see speaking anywhere else. In fact, you’ve
probably never heard of this unusual bunch of “doers” who are coming to break their silence (I can’t mention their names here but you’ll find out their true identities and stories on the site):

Just announce by Yanik Silver today, the first keynote speaker for the upcoming Underground 6 event is none other than Gary Vaynerchuk.

If you don’t know who Gary Vaynerchuk is – he made a name for himself growing WineLibraryTV.com into 90,000+ viewers tuning into his daily wine rants. But more than that he’s become a hallmark for personal branding and using Web 2.0 to really connect to your audience in a big way. The guy is pretty incredible!

His passion and hustle lead to TV appearances, a 7-figure book deals, a new media company and lots more. And guess what? Gary thinks you can do the same thing. You’ll be blown away and totally excited about what he shares at Underground 6.

Not only that, but you’ll be able to get up close and personal with one of the leading web 2.0 personalities and visionaries in the world.

And that’s just one of the reasons why there are NO seminars like the Underground event.

Yanik Silver shares how – in only a few short months – he achieved the ultimate Internet “fantasy” of making a lot of money from a simple (almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on complete autopilot.

“…banked over $51,351.94 my first 6 1/2 months online…”

In only a few short months I achieved the ultimate Internet “fantasy” of making a lot of money from a simple (almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on complete autopilot. Starting from scratch I banked over $51,351.94 my first 6 1/2 months online, just working part- time out of the corner of my living room.

Now today at age 31, I’ve gone on to earn over 7-figures.

How did I go from a standing start to banking mega profits?

To do that, what I think you really need are these inner secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do with search engines, pay-per-clicks. It doesn’t have anything to do with any of the tactical stuff. It’s all a lot of stuff that goes on in your head.

• Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy

  One of my biggest mentors is Earl Nightingale. He passed away several years ago but you need to get everything he recorded at Nightingale.com. He has a program called “Lead The Field” and “The Strangest Secret.” Just listen to that thing over and over again. He talks about cheerful expectancy.

  There’s a big difference between having expectancy versus hoping or wishing something is going to occur. When you have that cheerful expectancy, you know it’s going to occur. And that doesn’t just come from being “Pollyannaish” or having rose-colored glasses.

  It comes from having knowledge. And you get that knowledge from studying in your field whatever it is. It could be Internet marketing or it could be neurology. That means reading, studying and buying everything and absolutely immersing yourself in it.

  I learned from Earl Nightingale that if you want to be an expert, you spend an hour a day reading on whatever subject that you’re interested in, that you want to be an expert on. So I said, “Well, what would happen if I read for three hours a day?”

  I just started learning as much as I possibly could, and that knowledge gives you the confidence to know that you have that positive expectancy. Your expectations determine your results.

• Secret #2: Do one proactive thing a day

  You don’t need to do 100 things a day. Just get that one proactive thing a day. So each little brick builds a big wall for you. Trust me it’s easy to be overwhelmed with hundreds of tasks. You’re like, “Oh, we need to do e-zine ads and free-for-alls and pay-per-click search engines, and I need to do all this other stuff.” Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

  But just relax and do one task a day.

  Your action will create more and more and more action for you. You simply need to make a commitment to do one proactive thing a day no matter what. Even if you’re dead tired and worked a 14-hour day – come home and mail one letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I’m telling you – just these little tiny proactive things will have an immense impact.

  Most everyone has heard of the ’80/20 rule’ or the Pareto Principle. It says that 20% of your actions produce 80% of your results, and the other way around. 80% of your work only creates 20% of your results.

  So go back and look where your successes came from, and I know that they’re from a tiny little group of actions. So if you just get that one proactive thing a day (from the 20% group) that is going to propel you further, that’s going to bring you to where you want to be.

  Make it a point to focus on those “20% activities”. In Stephen Covey’s famous work “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” he calls these activities “important but not urgent”.

  One of my Apprentices, Peter Woodhead, from the UK is a perfect example of simply doing one proactive thing a day. A lot of Apprentices bolted out of the gate during our one year program but Peter was an Internet newbie and he also had a full time job so he was a bit slower getting started. However, he took my advice and simply managed to do one proactive thing every single day. No matter how big or how small. It could be writing one autoresponder message or it might have been writing 50 headlines. No matter the day – Peter was moving ahead. And not surprisingly his project was completed before many of the other Apprentices were finished.

• Secret #3: Decision

  This is such a big point. A lot of people have so many problems with decision. That’s because they don’t like it because it cuts off other options. But frankly that’s exactly what you want. You want to cut off other options.

  One of our top apprentices, Cindy Kappler, WebAdMagic.com, had no other option but to succeed because she quit her job. Now I’m not encouraging you to do that if you still have a real job but it does prove if you cut off your options, you’re much more motivated. Successful people make decisions quickly.

  There’s a magic of attraction when you make your decision. However, when you’re hemming and hawing, you don’t experience this magic. I don’t want to get into too much woo-woo or metaphysical or spiritual stuff.

  But there’s this magic of attraction. I can’t even explain it. When you set your mind up that you’re going to do this, all of a sudden, at the next dinner party you’re attending you meet somebody that can help you get to where you want to go. Is that luck or is that something else?

  I don’t think it’s luck.

  It’s like once the decision is made your mind is tuned into the solution and all kinds of ‘freaky’ coincidences and occurrences happen.

  And that brings me to another important point about decisions – fail quickly. Don’t be afraid of failure. A lot of people are so afraid of screwing up, or making a mistake that they are forever frozen. Who the hell cares? Screw up quickly! I screw up all the time. And you want to fail quickly.

That’s the great part about the Internet. You want to go out there and find out if your dumb idea is going to work right away. You can do it in days instead of months. Sometimes hours and if it doesn’t work, you move on. You say, “Next!”

Look, I know a lot of people who are working on their products for the last two, three, four years. Get the damned thing out! You just make it better as you go along.

InstantSalesLetters.com, our first product was not where it is now. We’ve added a ton of stuff to it and made it better. But I just wanted to see if the thing was going to sell.

It wasn’t complete and utter rubbish, as my British friends say, but it was enough that it made the point. It found out if there was a marketplace for it. So find out.

Some people like to go around at dinner parties and so on and say, “I’m writing a book. I’ve been writing a book for five years. I’m an author.”

Uh huh…

I can show you 6 different ways to have your book done in days. It’s a cop-out and complete B.S. Bottom line – make the decision to get the product out there. See what happens and fail quickly.

Now get out there and do it!

He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-selling online marketing books and tools, including his quickest and easiest way to create a product to sell – Public Domain Riches

Yanik’s latest ‘baby’ is Maverick Business Adventures and the Maverick Business Insider. Visit the site to see which ‘rules’ he used to achieve financial independence and become a millionaire before turning 31.

I recently received a joint venture invitation from a Internet business products merchant that suggested I should ‘grow a pair‘ and promote their upcoming launch.

To sweeten the pot, affiliates could win an XBox or a collection of cool videos that included “Dumb and Dumber”. (Oh goodie!)

Oh… and the email addressed me a ‘dude’,  as have so many others that I’ve received in the past year or so.

If you don’t see the humor in that, let me share something with you — I am a woman fast approaching the big 5-0H.

Would you call your mother “dude”?

If you have, you might recall the ‘what planet are you from?’ look she gave you.

That’s because we hear the word “dude” according to its original meaning (and official definition as per the Oxford English Dictionary) – an American slang term which refers to men – despite the fact that Wikipedia states that the word “dude” has evolved to become more unisex.

Do you understand then how I might think that your JV invitation  wasn’t really meant for me?

Or, are you thinking “go with the flow, dude”?

I could, but your unisex argument completely fails with the ‘grow a pair’ remark and toys for boys prizes — and having seen “Dumb and Dumber” once is more than sufficient.

OK, I do get where you’re coming from.

I know that the vast majority of affiliates on your JV partner list are young men like yourself. You want to motivate them to promote for you and challenging them in a manly way really gets their juices flowing… especially the drool over the prospect of winning a toy with which to play.

But don’t you care if one or two Super affiliates who don’t fit your mold choose not to promote on that basis?

If that’s the case, consider this…

The market in which you play is HUGE, appealing to all regardless of race, creed, color, age or gender. By encouraging sales by a specific demographic who might take your tack and appeal to the same  demographic, you might be limiting availability of your product to a smaller, less affluent market.

When you exclude one or more Super Affiliates with wider audiences, you could be tossing 10% or more of your possible revenues. Ten percent of 50K will get you a BOSE(R) Lifestyle Home Entertainment System or all the Xbox goodies your little heart desires. And 10% of half a mill is what — a downpayment on a house?

It PAYS to learn to write copy that addresses widest possible audience.

Take tips from the copywriting giants, such as Dan Kennedy, Yanik Silver and Joe Vitale — guys who know how to make each reader feel like the email copy was written just for them.

Or check out this great little ebook “Confessions of a Copywriter” by Lenny Eng and endorsed by Joe Vitale. One of Lenny’s points is that “Nothing increases conversions like your offer”… and when you send a JV invite, you’re making an OFFER.

Just wanted to let you know that I will be attending Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar 5, being held in Washington D.C. February 20th – 22nd, 2009.

Will YOU be there?

You’ve got until February 10th to take advantage of the BIG early bonuses and $500 discount, but I wouldn’t wait considering this event always sells out weeks early.

Too, the hotel rooms are selling out fast. As a matter of fact, there aren’t any available at the Seminar Block discount for the Sunday, but here are 2 options – the hotel has another discount option available on their site OR you can book through Expedia and it still works out better than if you pay full price for the Sunday night.

Please leave a comment if you plan to attend. If we get enough folks together, I’ll arrange a breakfast or other meetup for the NPT folks.

Hope to see you at the Underground!

Just a quick note to let you know that the Early-Bird signup for Yanik Silver’s Underground Seminar ends tomorrow (January 20th, 2009) at midnight Eastern — and the Underground is THE Internet Marketing conference to attend if you’ve been mulling over your Internet marketing seminar options.

As always, Yanik has managed to attract a ground of “under-the-radar” folks who are making huge bucks online, yet who do NOT speak at seminars.

This year there are 2 keynote speakers. Yanik managed to get both Bob Parsons (CEO of Go Daddy) and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos.com) to speak at the Underground.

Early-Bird bonuses include:

• A private, closed-door VIP dinner with the speakers
• Casino Royale night
• A seat at the Social Media Pre-day (social media marketing)

What I’ve mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg. To get all the details, grab a coffee and then read about the impressive group of marketers that Yanik has convinced to speak at Underground Seminar.

P.S. I’m trying to clear my plate to go to this event and will post when/if I confirm my attendance. Rumor has it that this may in fact be the last Underground, so it’s one that I don’t want to miss.

Note: The picture shown above was taken during a lunch that I enjoyed with Yanik and Marlon Sanders at the 2006 Underground. First time I’d ever had a glass of wine from a bottle worth $1000. That was the last time too.

Yanik really ‘gets’ it…

Yanik Silver is one of my favorite friends in the Internet marketing business – both online and off.

What makes Yanik special is that he ‘gets’ it — ‘it’ being that life is for living and work is about funding the good times with family and friends.

Go to one of his Underground Seminar conferences and you’ll see that attitude at work in spades… his conferences are as much fun as they are educational… which makes them my all-time favorite conferences to attend.

Here’s a brief bio about Yanik from his profile on Amazon…

Yanik Silver woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning with a silly idea for an online business and is now recognized as the leading expert on creating automatic, moneymaking web sites…even though he still can’t put up his own webpages.

Starting from his one-bedroom apartment and with just $1800 invested, Yanik has personally sold over $12,000,000.00 online and counting (with zero employees except his wife, Missy). He’s sold everything from eBooks on fitness, drawing techniques and houseplants to $20,000+ “MasterMind” programs. He drives more traffic to his homemade, barebones sites than huge multi-national conglomerates.

Yanik is a highly sought after speaker addressing groups ranging from the prestigious Wharton Business School to international audiences of 3,000 and up. He has shared the platform with well-known experts such as Zig Ziglar, Dan Kennedy, Ted Nicholas, Mark Victor Hansen plus celebrities such as Verne Troyer and Peter Graves, among others.

As a self-described “adventure junkie”, Yanik has found that his own life-changing experiences such as running with the bulls, bungee jumping, sky diving, exotic car road rallies and Zero-Gravity flights have not only brought a profound sense of accomplishment but also led to breakthroughs in ideas, focus and business thinking.

Yanik is the author and publisher of several best-selling marketing books and tools including:

• Instant Sales Letters Looking To Increase Your Business Quickly? In Only 2 ½ Minutes You Can Quickly and Easily Create A Sales Letter Guaranteed To Sell Your Product Or Service…Without Writing! Just Fill In A Few Blanks And PRESTO… You’ve Just Created A Powerful, Money-Making Sales Letter!
• Public Domain Goldmine Here’s Your Chance To Cash In on The Booming Demand For ‘How To’ Info in The High-Demand Health, Self-Help and Sports Niches — Without Being an Expert or Even Writing a Word Yourself
• Yanik’s Ultimate ‘At-Home’ Internet Copywriting Workshop Sneak Away With Every Single Trick, Tactic, Formula, Shortcut, Strategy and Jealously-Guarded Secret The Internet’s #1 Most-Celebrated Copywriter Uses to Create Huge Piles Of Cash At Will
• Instant Internet Profits The Amazing Story of a Self-Proclaimed “Computer Dunce” From Maryland Who “Stumbled Into” The Perfect Internet Business That Made Him Rich, One That You Can Start Too With a Few Spare Hours a Week and For as Little as $125 …Even if You Can’t Stand Computers!
• Web Copy Secrets ‘Peel Away’ Outrageously Profitable Websites, and Learn Their Inside Secrets You Can Use to Turn YOURS Into a Profit-Pushing Powerhouse That Rams Streams of Cash Into Your Bank Account TODAY!
• Mind Motivators™ Let Us Hand You These 21 Top-Secret Methods To Instantly (and Ethically) Persuade Prospects to Buy NOW and Start Influencing Customers to Keep Buying FOREVER … No Matter What Business You’re In!
• Magnetic Marketing Every small business owners needs this! Amazingly Powerful Advertising, Marketing, Direct Marketing, Customer / Client Attraction & Persuasion Strategies REVEALED! A complete business building package from millionaire-maker, Dan Kennedy…
• Advanced Copywriting Seminar-in-a-box Only 115 people were permitted to attend Dan Kennedy’s recent, closed door, 2-day Seminar where he revealed ALL of his most prized, most powerful and most profitable copywriting techniques. Everything else was just “elementary school” before this.
• Ad Magic Discover The Step-By-Step System For Writing Powerful Ads And Sales Letters That Sell! Advertising Magic Is A Complete System for Making Advertising That Works. And It’s So Simple, Anyone Can Do It!
• Instant Marketing Toolbox If you’re too busy running your business to even think about marketing – this is what you’ve been waiting for! With practically zero work on your part here’s how to get all the customers you want, create cash on demand and add a bare-bones minimum of $50,000.00 to your bottom line…100% guaranteed! Get your FREE 10-Day trial now!
• Million Dollar Ads, Letters and Web Pieces Now You can team up with 23 of the most sought-after copywriters and marketing experts in the world. Each expert gives you a blow-by-blow account of precisely how they conceive and create winning ads, sales letters, and web marketing pieces.

Last but not least is Yanik’s recently published book “Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make Extra Cash” for which I was interviewed for the chapters about Affiliate Marketing. Other chapters include: Creating “Digitally Delivered Information Products” What is information marketing? Top 7 information topics How to figure out what information to sell Researching the online marketplace Evaluating your “brilliant” idea Creating your information product Licensing Joint ventures Public domain Getting your site’s foundation built Creating your hot offer Setting up your site Headlines that sell The eBay Machine Finding the right products and setting up business The `flood” Your listing What makes a successful seller? The world of affiliate programs Finding an affiliate program and working it The Yahoo! Stores phenomenon Establishing your niche Why blogging? How to set up a blog Making money with blogs Conclusion

As stated by J. Pitman on Amazon…

Mr. Silver has really gone all out in this one.

The value of this information lies in the author’s ability to clearly describle the way to create passive income from digital products. I honestly expected something less informative, but needless to say I am pleasantly suprised! Thank you Mr. Silver for sharing this information, for offering it at an afforible price, and finding ways to generate healthy passive income.

As an avid student and practicioner of success principles, this topic is near and dear to my heart — the core philosophy of those who are truly successful in every regard. If you still struggle to attain success in business or life, this post should shed some light on how successful people think. Please leave a comment!

There are lots of Internet marketers making scads of money online and I know many of them personally.

Despite their obvious wealth, very few of them have what I would call a healthy, happy, integrated core philosophy that virtually guarantees success over the long term.

They can talk business as the day is long. But ask them what they’ve done for fun lately and they draw a blank. Apparently, they don’t know how to DO anything (except buy expensive toys) with all that money.

Yawn, how BORING.

More notable is the fact that these ‘entrepeneurs’ are just as insecure and uncertain about the sustainability of their businesses in these uncertain economic times as are people with jobs in tenuous industries.

No matter how much they have, they cower in fear that the ‘good times’ will suddenly end and that they’ll be left with nothing.

UGH!!!!!! That’s NOT success. Fear is the (evil) antithesis of success.

• REAL success comes from understanding that the true value of money lies in having the FREEDOM to LIVE the way you want to live.
• REAL success comes from knowing that you can write your own ticket REGARDLESS of what’s happening with the economy, on the political scene or any other external factor.
• REAL success comes from having both the ability and the desire to GIVE more to those less fortunate.

One of the few IM’s who shares my core philosophy and with whom I feel great simpatico is my friend, Yanik Silver; a multi-million dollar online business owner who understood the meaning of ‘living large’ BEFORE he got rich. By result, Yanik has achieved extraordinary success in every facet of his life… NOT just his business.

Every time we talk he’s off on another great adventure – anything from running with the bulls, to dune buggy racing in the Baja and flying on the Vomit Comet, the zero-gravity airplane. (I unfortunately had to decline invitation to the last two events due to prior commitments, but know the stars will align one of these days. Personal note to Yanik… I’ll cancel any plan if you do a ‘Peking to Paris’ run across the Gobi Desert and the high Tibetan Plateau. )

Yanik’s next great adventure is a trip on Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s sub-orbital space flights.

Although I personally don’t have quite such lofty adventures planned, if you’ve followed my personal blog, you already know that I’m a total glutton for geophysical eye candy and international cuisine.

Yanik isn’t an adventurer because he has the money — he has money because he WANTS to do those things. And like Yanik, I traveled extensively before I was making serious coin. The only difference is that I do it far more often and I fly first class now .

Ros hiking at Macchu Picchu 2001 – camera imprinted date is incorrect.

In other words, money is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

That’s the primary concept that some people just don’t get, and NOT ‘getting it’ stymies success. And it’s not something to which one can just pay lip service either — you have to hold it in your heart of hearts for it to work its charms.

If that seems like backwards thinking to you, Yanik’s “Maverick Manifesto” video will clarify the principle and help you establish a rock-solid philisophical foundation on which you can build the life of your dreams.

So, if you want to make more money, have more fun and give more back, watch Yanik’s video now… and hopefully you’ll join us in the Gobi!

BTW, the video is 60+ minutes long, so grab a non-alchoholic libation and plan to settle in.

I was pretty disappointed when I had to cancel my trip to the Underground seminar this year, but as it turns out, we can tune in to what’s happening.

Yanik’s Y.S.S. Agency has allowed a mole to tap into the video feed and broadcast the closed-circuit footage… LIVE …twice a day! Each day they’ll be sending out 24 minutes of footage of actual content from the presenters.

Tune in LIVE at the following times:

• Friday – 9 AM, PT (12:00 PM, ET) & 4:02 PM, PT (7:02 PM, ET)
• Saturday – 1:52 PM, PT (4:52 PM, ET) & 3:33 PM, PT (6:33 PM, ET)
• Sunday – 11:02 PM, PT (2:02 PM, ET) & 2:52 PM, PT (5:52, PM ET)

Check out Underground LIVE here, where in addition to the live feed, you’ll be able to pre-sign up for Underground® 5 in 2009… which is already on my agenda!

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As you might know, Yanik Silver’s first “real” published book, “Moonlighting on the Internet: 5 World-Class Experts Reveal Proven Ways to Make an Extra Paycheck Online Each Month” is now available in bookstores and online at places like amazon.com and bn.com

And I was honored to be chosen as one of Yanik’s expert co-authors on this project.

As Yanik tells it, “…the book has been selling well and has taken on a life of its own without any real promotion on my part” and he suspects that has happened because “I intentionally made the message behind it the opposite of hype. It’s all about an additional $500 to $5,000/mo in your spare time. (A distinct difference from a lot of the schemes you see in your inbox!)”

The central idea of the book is how to use the Internet in your spare time to get an extra paycheck to pay off your bills, make a car payment, save for kids college account or even just a special vacation.

Of course, if you want to make a lot MORE than an extra paycheck by moonlighting, you should go to one of Yanik’s Underground Seminars instead!