Phenomenal is the only word that describes the networking.

Want to follow the Teleseminar Secrets ...]]> On March 6 and 7, I attended Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets Reunion  – check out my album on flickr. I didn’t tweet much or live blog at all. Why? Alex is a fantastic speaker and one who deserves complete attention. So, I went back to taking notes the old-fashioned way: in a spiral notebook. It’s more liberating and I got much more out of the content.

Phenomenal is the only word that describes the networking.

Want to follow the Teleseminar Secrets folks on twitter? Check out Mari Smith’s TSS reunion twitter directory and Pat and Lorna’s spectacular list of Teleseminarians on twitter and their websites.

Teleseminar Secrets Reunion 2009 Review

Here’s what I liked most about the day and a half program and what I’d like to suggest you test at your events.

• Limit attendance to 150 for a group that is intimate, yet big enough to explore.
• Give people a networking guide. In this case, who are you, why are you here and who is your best prospect. This way, everyone’s sorting for the same information.
• Set expectations and go over the rules of the game up front. Alex set the tone by requesting that everyone listen to an audio guide before we got to the conference. I downloaded the file and started to listen to it on my flight. It starts out with some high-energy, groovy music. So, I turned it up. About three seconds later, the flight attendant came by and said “You’re not plugged in.” Oops . . . while the incident did make the people around me laugh, it was embarrassing. Never say I don’t know how to get attention.
• “Pack My Bag” moments – Alex tested this out for the first time. Here’s how it works: anytime you feel like you’ve gotten enough value and you could go home, it’s a pack my bag moment. You stand up, say “I’m packing my bags.” and tell the group your moment.
• Chart out your life’s defining events – what was your life like at the time: lousy, ho-hum or great? Alex went back 20 years. Why not chart out your life over the next 20 years and see what you’d like to accomplish?
• Reach higher achievement by following 12 principles that make good entrepreneurs great. The top 3 for me:

1. Focus on improving, not just inventing.
2. Focus on relationships, not just transactions.
3. Focus on a positive no thanks, not just a yes.

Were you at the Teleseminar Secrets Reunion? What was your biggest takeaway?

It’s teleseminar training time. Alex Mandossian is on the phone right now giving away some great information about his course that teaches you how to market your business using teleseminars.

This is an affiliate link that takes you to a page to a $20 preview call offer. You’ll get access to a three-hour recording packed with information that will help you break into teleseminars, including what to do and case studies that show you how to produce your own ...]]>

It’s teleseminar training time. Alex Mandossian is on the phone right now giving away some great information about his course that teaches you how to market your business using teleseminars.

This is an affiliate link that takes you to a page to a $20 preview call offer. You’ll get access to a three-hour recording packed with information that will help you break into teleseminars, including what to do and case studies that show you how to produce your own teleseminars. Yes, I get paid. Anyone who sells the course gets the commission and there are a variety of offers out there. It might be too late to write about this product; there’s a limited number of open seats. And, you should check out what other people are offering if you’re considering buying. My offer?

- 8 hours of Ultimate PR Secrets master recordings, valued at $397

- 1.5 hours of personalized teleseminar social media and online PR marketing coaching, valued at $450

To claim your bonuses, you have to buy TSS through my affiliate site at www.teleseminar-secrets-revealed.com and then email a copy of your receipt to connect AT corywestmedia.com.

Why I Recommend Teleseminar Secrets

Thanks to Alex, I produced Ultimate PR Secrets, a program that introduced me to eight of the biggest names in the PR business. Alex gave me the information, but he also motivated me to get up the courage to call the speakers and the tools I needed to get produce the virtual seminar.

Tonight he’s introducing the next version. The training includes live phone calls with Alex, recordings, transcripts, special offers, admission to a mastermind group, a pre-loaded learn pod with over 60 CDs of his best teleseminars, website templates, tested email templates, private resources lists and lifetime alumni privileges.a pre

If you want to study how to market online, manage affiliates and package information, this program is worth the price. But, if you’re not going to work it right away, take a pass. And, if you don’t have that kind of money to invest, don’t buy it. This program isn’t for everybody. It is for people who are looking for a system that works that comes with copy, affiliate marketing instruction, web designs and mastermind connections.

When I bought the program in 2005, it was a stretch to pay that much, but I’m so glad I did. It’s a great class, Alex is a master teacher and he discounts almost every single course he offers to his alums.

Originally Published in December 2007

How unusual – my second post of the day with a recommendation for something that makes you and your business better. Interested in becoming a Teleseminar Secrets [link goes to my affiliate site] student? Here’s my story.  But, you don’t have to buy in yet – just listen to the Teleseminar Secrets preview call for $20 before December 5, 2008 [changed for this year's date].

In November 2006, I first mentioned Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets on this blog and heavily promoted the program to my ezine subscribers.

Why?

Let’s go back to the beginning. Make that December 2005 . . . can you remember two years ago?

Follow me, I know the way. Surely you remember going to the best of the last of the 2005 movies – King Kong and Brokeback Mountain ring a bell?

Now, do you know where you 24 months ago?

I do. I was – not – into Internet marketing or thinking of myself as much of an expert in anything when along comes my friend Jenny who emails me to let me know I should be taking a course from some guy she knows named Alex. And, by the way it costs $1800. “But not for you,” she says because “I’ll split my commission. And, I’ll have a study group to keep you on track.”

So began my fate-full decision to become an Alex Mandossian student. I dropped out of book group; played Alex live on my speaker phone; learned how to market and host a teleseminar and even offered free teleseminar marketing and production to 200 of my closest colleagues. Thankfully, only one took me up on it.

My first teleseminar, “How to Transform Your Company Into a Customer Magnet,” become my ethical bribe in exchange for an email opt-it for over a year. In January, I produced Ultimate PR Secrets, a virtual PR event. 

Part coach, part professor, part long-distance mastermind colleague, Alex is one of the best teachers and marketers I know. After I went through TSS, I bought into many other continuing education programs. Finding someone with Alex’s skill, finesse and dedication to his students’ success is genuinely refreshing. And, once you become a TSS student, you are a teleseminarian for life.

Last year, my blog was one of a handful that promoted or mentioned TSS.

Although searches for Teleseminar Secrets wind up here, this is my first 2008 promo post. Considering the doors close tomorrow, I’m on the late[r] side. I’m struggling with keeping a balance between information and promotional blogging.

Speaking of blogging, in last night’s TSS preview call, it was clear the host himself is a big blogger:  Alex Mandossian’s blog.

Last night Alex said he was into dialogue. The lines went dead for a few minutes after he opened them for comments from callers. An early blip in an otherwise flawless call, Alex used the line drop as proof that engaging callers is important. Engaging readers is important, too and that’s why he uses so much video on his blog.

Beyond the move into blogging, my other big takeaway from last night’s call is Alex’s suggestion that the marketing funnel isn’t working. I agree with him when he says he’d rather have 10 $2000 students than 200 $10 ebook buyers. When you take away the ladder, funnel or whatever you call it and let the buyers buy in where they want, everyone wins. Why make someone buy in sequences when they want to start at the top? Do you agree? What do you think?

Oh . . . here’s my 2008 Teleseminar Secrets bonus offer:

- 8 hours of Ultimate PR Secrets master recordings, valued at $397

- 1.5 hours of personalized teleseminar social media and online PR marketing coaching, valued at $450

To claim your bonuses, you have to buy TSS through my affiliate site at www.teleseminar-secrets-revealed.com and then email a copy of your receipt to connect AT corywestmedia.com.

You’ll learn:

- why you must think like a publisher

- how to report on events

- when to inform your audience in relevant ways

- what to do to media-tize your message

- where to go to learn from your experience

- why repetition is critical to your ...]]> For those of you who missed the PR P-R-I-M-E-R call this morning, here’s a replay. Listen as Jenny Hamby, The Seminar Marketing Pro, interviews me about how to use the power of publicity to promote your blog and your business.

You’ll learn:

- why you must think like a publisher

- how to report on events

- when to inform your audience in relevant ways

- what to do to media-tize your message

- where to go to learn from your experience

- why repetition is critical to your success

In the Q&A section, you’ll hear me answering Dr. Pauline Wallin’s questions on how to market to mental health professionals – and how to cultivate a fan club for a band and your business! 

What’s your biggest PR challenge?

For our call today, we’re taking you behind the scenes. This is the same information my co-host, Jenny Hamby, The Seminar Marketing Pro, gets. Because this is a casual call, I’m asking Jenny to walk us through the PR P-R-I-M-E-R and then open the call for questions and answers.

Introductions

Tagged as a communications pioneer exploring new frontiers, Barbara Rozgonyi works with people who want to become subject matter experts and companies that want to own their niche. Barbara blogs at Wired ...]]>

For our call today, we’re taking you behind the scenes. This is the same information my co-host, Jenny Hamby, The Seminar Marketing Pro, gets. Because this is a casual call, I’m asking Jenny to walk us through the PR P-R-I-M-E-R and then open the call for questions and answers.

Introductions

Tagged as a communications pioneer exploring new frontiers, Barbara Rozgonyi works with people who want to become subject matter experts and companies that want to own their niche. Barbara blogs at Wired PR Works.

Jenny Hamby is a Certified Guerrilla Marketer and copywriter who helps speakers, consultants, training companies and information publishers share their expertise via seminars and information products.

Since 1995, she has marketed a variety of seminars, books, videos and audiotapes on such diverse topics as financial services, inventory management, negotiations, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), trade show marketing, elder and disability law, behavior-based safety, Enterprise Resource Management, and Internet marketing. Jenny helps her clients plan and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns that have netted response rates as high as 84 percent … on budgets as small as $125.

Jenny is the author of “How to Successfully Market Seminars and Workshops,” a home-study guide that shows professionals how to develop marketing plans and promotional materials to fill seminar seats. For 31 of her top seminar promotion tips, visit www.FreeSeminarTips.com.

Call Outline

Background behind this call – where did you get the idea?

- Thanks to Liz and her readers

- Another way to get questions for my blog!

PR P-R-I-M-E-R

35 Essential Elements for a News-Worthy Release

De-mystifying PR: 7 secrets to success

Technorati Tags: Teleseminar,PR,Seminars,Jenny Hamby,Barbara Rozgonyi,Wired PR Works

With a name like Rozgonyi, you probably won’t believe I’m Irish, but I am: make that 25% Irish. To celebrate my heritage and to thank Liz Strauss for my guest post, I’m giving away PR advice – for free – this Monday, St. Patrick’s day at 10:00 a.m. CST. No RSVP, corned beef, leprechauns, FECKiN, or Guinness required. 

Have a question you’ve always wanted to ask? Here’s your chance! Email your question to connect AT corywestmedia DOT com and I’ll add ...]]>

With a name like Rozgonyi, you probably won’t believe I’m Irish, but I am: make that 25% Irish. To celebrate my heritage and to thank Liz Strauss for my guest post, I’m giving away PR advice – for free – this Monday, St. Patrick’s day at 10:00 a.m. CST. No RSVP, corned beef, leprechauns, FECKiN, or Guinness required. 

Have a question you’ve always wanted to ask? Here’s your chance! Email your question to connect AT corywestmedia DOT com and I’ll add you to the cue.

Then, mark your calendar to join us on March 17 at 11:00 am EST/10:00 am CST – go to time.gov to convert to your time zone and call in:

Dial-In Conference Number      1-712-432-3000
Conference Bridge Number:      302819

Can’t make the call? No worries – email me or add Wired PR Works to your RSS reader for replay information.

Technorati Tags: St. Patricks Day,PR on Parade,Teleseminar,Online PR,Barbara Rozgonyi,Wired PR Works

Thanks to Dr. Pauline Wallin for selecting me as her online virtual publicity expert in her upcoming “Marketing with Authority” distance learning course. Find out how Pauline promotes her programs using slideshare videos like this one in this week’s Cool Tool feature.

View Market with Authority on Slideshare.

When Pauline put out a call for speakers, I responded right away. We first met ...]]> Talking about online marketing and public relations is one of my passions. Every chance I get, I share my knowledge.

Thanks to Dr. Pauline Wallin for selecting me as her online virtual publicity expert in her upcoming “Marketing with Authority” distance learning course. Find out how Pauline promotes her programs using slideshare videos like this one in this week’s Cool Tool feature.

View Market with Authority on Slideshare.

When Pauline put out a call for speakers, I responded right away. We first met through Teleseminar Buddies, a group for students and grads of Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets [affiliate link]. Pauline organized the group and we’ve been chatting via the forum for two years now.Pauline is a psychologist, coach, author and Internet search expert. Her unique style of marketing has landed her interviews with the New York Times, Washington Post, Consumer Reports, Newsweek, CBS, CNN and other major news media.

We recorded our call in December – I’ll be back on live for a question and answer session. Participants will hear from top-notch guest experts, including:

* a Chicago publicist (yes, me – Barbara Rozgonyi)

* a blog specialist

* a social networking strategist AND

* a former Google employee who helped design their popular pay-per-click program that brings visitors to your website.

The course format has 2 components:

1. A self-paced narrated slideshow – learn any time during the week that’s convenient

2. Fridays: live Q&A session via conference call.

If you can’t make the live call it will be recorded. Whether you’re an auditory or a visual learner, this course will suit your style. Register here: http://findnewaudiences.eventbrite.com << SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR YOU >> ==> Pauline is offering Wired PR Works readers a 15% discount. Use this code during the checkout process: BARBARA

If, after the first class, you find that the course is not for you, you’ll get a complete refund. Class starts the week of January 14.

Update 01.17.08

To produce the class, Pauline uses a program called Flashspring, which installs as a plug-in inside PowerPoint. She says it’s more flexible with more features than Slideshare and converts to Flash faster. Flashspring starts at $199.00.

Update 01.27.08

Embedded video changed to a link for faster blog loading time.

Contact Barbara about a project or speaking opportunity.

Technorati Tags: Marketing,Seminars,Blogs,Public Relations,Publicity,Barbara Rozgonyi,Speaking,Professional Business Development,Business blog

Solution: Upload your presentation with or without audio to Slideshare and reach the world – along with more than a few new prospects

Disclaimer: I have yet to personally produce a Slideshare slideshow, but you don’t have to produce your own to benefit from either watching or blogging about the content.

Who introduced me to slideshare: Dr. Pauline Wallin, producer of Market with ...]]> Problem: You have a fabulous presentation, but the only people who ever see it sit in your audience

Solution: Upload your presentation with or without audio to Slideshare and reach the world – along with more than a few new prospects

Disclaimer: I have yet to personally produce a Slideshare slideshow, but you don’t have to produce your own to benefit from either watching or blogging about the content.

Who introduced me to slideshare: Dr. Pauline Wallin, producer of Market with Authority, a distance-learning course that features marketing experts – I’ll be talking about online PR.

Cool Tool ReviewSort of a MySpace crossed with YouTube and wrapped around a video Facebook, slideshare is a social network hub for presenters and their virtual audiences.At a glance, the nav bar routes you to “My Slidespace,” uploads, your community, tags and widgets. According to Pauline, slideshare is easy to use and comes with an audio-syncing tool. Record your audio using a digital recorder with a microphone attachment and a removal USB storage device. Or, post the images with no sound.

Ways to use Slideshare in your online marketing . . .

- comment on presentations you like and join the conversation

- get your own account and start building your slideshare community

- create a presentation with PowerPoint and audio

- sync the visuals with audio using AudioAcrobat [affiliate link]

- post presentations on your blog to add value and attract new audiences

- check out Slideshare’s hot tags to see what people want to know more about

- research subjects you need to know more about

- embed your presentations on your blog and your sites in a multimedia section

- publicize your presentation as a new marketing innovation [It is!]

- find out how to live present happily ever after by escaping Death by PowerPoint

- track your stats like these found at www.slideshare.net . . .

Slideshow Statistics for Death by PowerPoint: 194,363 total views, 128,037 on slideshare and 66,320 from embeds with over half, 35,085 coming from http://lifehacker.com

You might be wondering if a newbie’s stats would be as impressive. As with most content online, the better you are, the more you’re likely to be found. In Pauline’s case, when slideshare featured her “Marketing with Authority” presentation on their home page, her traffic shot up with 879 views [as of this moment] and she landed a new joint venture partner connection. Not bad for posting a PowerPoint and a recording.How do you think you will use slideshare?

Technorati Tags: slideshare,PowerPoint,Marketing,Teleseminar,Distance Learning,Cool Tools,Business Blog,Social Networking

Contact Barbara about advertising, a creative project or a speaking opportunity.

Update 01.17.08

To produce the class, Pauline uses a program called Flashspring, which installs as a plug-in inside PowerPoint. She says it’s more flexible with more features than Slideshare and converts to Flash faster. Flashspring starts at $199.00.

Update 01.27.08
Embedded slide shows replaced to improve blog loading time.
Watch the slide shows at Slideshare:
Market with Authority
Death by PowerPoint [and how to fight it]

In November 2006, I first mentioned Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets ...]]> How unusual – my second post of the day with a recommendation for something that makes you and your business better. Interested in becoming a Teleseminar Secrets [link goes to my affiliate site] student? Here’s my story – and my offer to give you $450 to take the course, along with $697 in other bonuses.  But, you don’t have to buy in yet – just listen to the Teleseminar Secrets preview call for $20 before December 9, 2007.

In November 2006, I first mentioned Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets on this blog and heavily promoted the program to my ezine subscribers.

Why?

Let’s go back to the beginning. Make that December 2005 . . . can you remember two years ago?

Follow me, I know the way. Surely you remember going to the best of the last of the 2005 movies – King Kong and Brokeback Mountain ring a bell?

Now, do you know where you 24 months ago?

I do. I was – not – into Internet marketing or thinking of myself as much of an expert in anything when along comes my friend Jenny who emails me to let me know I should be taking a course from some guy she knows named Alex. And, by the way it costs $1800. “But not for you,” she says because “I’ll split my commission. And, I’ll have a study group to keep you on track.”

So began my fate-full decision to become an Alex Mandossian student. I dropped out of book group; played Alex live on my speaker phone; learned how to market and host a teleseminar and even offered free teleseminar marketing and production to 200 of my closest colleagues. Thankfully, only one took me up on it. 

My first teleseminar, “How to Transform Your Company Into a Customer Magnet,” become my ethical bribe in exchange for an email opt-it for over a year. In January, I produced Ultimate PR Secrets, a virtual PR event.  

Part coach, part professor, part long-distance mastermind colleague, Alex is one of the best teachers and marketers I know. After I went through TSS, I bought into many other continuing education programs. Finding someone with Alex’s skill, finesse and dedication to his students’ success is genuinely refreshing. And, once you become a TSS student, you are a teleseminarian for life.

Last year, my blog was one of a handful that promoted or mentioned TSS.

Although searches for Telseminar Secrets wind up here, this is my first 2008 promo post. Considering the doors close tomorrow, I’m on the late[r] side. I’m struggling with keeping a balance between information and promotional blogging.

Speaking of blogging, in last night’s TSS preview call, it was clear the host himself is a big blogger:  Alex Mandossian’s blog.

Last night Alex said he was into dialogue. The lines went dead for a few minutes after he opened them for comments from callers. An early blip in an otherwise flawless call, Alex used the line drop as proof that engaging callers is important. Engaging readers is important, too and that’s why he uses so much video on his blog.

Beyond the move into blogging, my other big takeaway from last night’s call is Alex’s suggestion that the marketing funnel isn’t working. I agree with him when he says he’d rather have 10 $2000 students than 200 $10 ebook buyers. When you take away the ladder, funnel or whatever you call it and let the buyers buy in where they want, everyone wins. Why make someone buy in sequences when they want to start at the top? Do you agree? What do you think?

Oh . . . here’s my 2008 Teleseminar Secrets bonus offer:

- $450 rebate [50% of the affilate commission]

- 8 hours of Ultimate PR Secrets master recordings, valued at $397

- 1 hour of teleseminar marketing coaching, valued at $300

To claim your bonuses, you have to buy TSS through my affiliate site at www.teleseminar-secrets-revealed.com and then email a copy of your receipt to connect AT corywestmedia DOT com

Teleseminars as PR Tools

by Barbara Rozgonyi, founder of CoryWest Media

To request permission to reproduce or republish this article,

contact connect AT corywestmedia DOT com.