Videos from the recent Freedom Class in London are now available to view at the link below. If you’ve already seen them, or some of them, please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.

These are a series of training videos which give techniques and strategies to use in growing your own online business.

The Freedom Class is a private laptop seminar in which participants are guided through the process of setting up their own self-propelling web business. They come away with a sales site, a blog and a double-dimension viral growth mechanism. All from scratch.

If you haven’t seen them yet, click on the image to get started.

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If you have seen them, please leave a comment saying what you think of them below…

Everyone now has an MVS (My Viral Spiral) site and a Products folder for placing their product sales pages. Those two things on their own are enough for anyone to run a successful online business. All they need to do is generate their first flow of traffic.

Today’s participants are also adding a blog to the mix of their business activities. This will become an invaluable tool both for building customer relationships and for generating hordes of visitors to to their squeeze pages.

As I write this, they are writing their first post. Very soon they will be catching the eye of the search engines, and with a signup form in the sidebar of their blog, they will be filtering off a free flow of traffic to their squeeze pages and sales pages.

Here are the names of today’s participants, with links to their new blogs.

Harrie & Karolien Sengers
Gavin Roberts
Doreen Hall
Ankya Klay
George Artz
Roy & Lillian Simpson
Atula Jayasinghe

If you were there, please let me know how you’re getting on…

Or is it?

In fact, Internet Marketing is different. Unlike most professions, Internet Marketing requires input from a complete variety of disciplines and skills, and our performance in the field will be hindered if we don’t either supply it ouselves, or outsource it.

When you try and sell something online, its actually quite similar to selling something offline. You need a shop window, a point of entry, a welcoming face, a shop interior which satisfies curiosity, and all the follow-up service which visitors expect.

This sounds straight forward. Its a process we take for granted every day of our lives when we go shopping in the high street. But to pull it off successfully on the Internet requires a careful application of knowledge and skill. Some can do it well, and get spectacular results very quickly. Others can’t and don’t.

So what is it that some have, and others don’t?

I have been researching this recently to help with my series of Freedom Classes.

In these classes I am teaching people how to market successfully online. I am offloading much of the knowledge I have gathered, about what works and what doesn’t, and – hopefully – inspiring my participants to discover for themselves what the best way is for them.

A difference about The Freedom Class is that I am conducting it by Action Learning. This means that participants not only learn directly from me, like in a classroom, but also learn from each other’s experience. It is a method of learning particularly suited to Internet Marketing because we’re all doing it all the time, and there is no right or wrong way, only ways which work and ways which don’t.

One of the characteristics of Action Learning, which is also a characteristic of successful Internet Marketing, is working in groups. It is no secret that I owe much of my own success to the Mastermind group, formed in September 2006, which brought together Bob Jenkins, Glen Hopkins, Matthew Glanfield, Dan Kelly, Scott Tousignant, Martin Salter and myself.

In the time since then, we have devoted an hour each week to a conference call, on which we can air what we are doing, express any difficulties we’re having, ask for help, and offer advice. We do this through a freely available conference line, and even though between seven of us, we are in 4 different time zones and 3 different countries, we still do it every week.

No matter how good we are at some things, we can never be good at everything. And I honestly believe that anyone seeking success with Internet Marketing who doesn’t form a mastermind group such as this, is holding themself back.
Recently I undertook an exercise to identify 5 characteristics which I believe are important to Internet Marketers. With these, I created a questionnaire for my Freedom Class attendees aimed at providing a visual display of which characteristics they possessed, and in what quantity.

The aim of the exercise is to help them find other group members for creating an effective team.

Much of the work in The Freedom Class will be conducted in groups and it is important, I believe, that each of the characteristics is represented in each group.

Here is a list of the characteristics I identified:

1. Writer
2. Artist
3. Co-ordinator
4. Marketer
5. Technician

My theory is that a team conducting Internet Marketing activity, in this case to provide each member with their own Internet Marketing business, should possess each of these characteristics… and – for best results – in equal measure.

We will discover if I am right from the experience of my first set of students on The Freedom Class this weekend… you can be sure I’ll keep you posted.

These are to follow the Action Learning format, a style of learning I found very helpful when studying for my MBA. It is especially applicable for Internet Marketing because it applies practical learning and not just theory. Together, over a weekend, we will build your online business.

Click here for more information on The Freedom Class, and register now for inclusion in the early launch notification.