I’ve had my head buried in a major learning experience for the past several days. Niche Profit Classroom is offering a 7-day trial for $1 so I thought I’d check it out.

I gotta say, I am really impressed!

It’s not only a training course on Internet Marketing, but it’s also an entire support system for developing and managing multiple niche sites and maximizing the income potential. One thing I especially like is that they emphasis that the sites and the products should be quality and actually provide true value to the customers, not just some quick and dirty slapped together product.

One of the nice things about they way they do things is that they remember the limitations of beginners, both in knowledge and resources. While they say that you should work towards outsourcing work to allow faster development, they give you the steps, information, tools and support you need so you can do most of it yourself without breaking the bank.

Recently, I’ve been studying Pay Per Click marketing. While that is a very powerful technique, and close to my beloved mail order direct marketing, it does take more money to do it right than I can currently invest. Niche Profit Classroom, while it might be slower to ramp up than a PPC campaign, I can do it sooner and will probably be ahead of where I would be sticking to just PPC.

Niche Profit Classroom offers tons of training videos (beginning and advanced), tools, research, webinars, and even free hosting for several sites but I think one of the most valuable aspects of it is the forum. Why? I feel comfortable there. People are friendly, helpful, and knowledgable. They talk about quality and value and how to build a firm foundation for your business without any black hat or questionable techniques. They cover niche research, product development, SEO, traffic, list building, and a bunch more.

The $1 trial is running until Tuesday night (assuming I didn’t screw up my time math). If someone is looking for a good source of quality info in order to really make a real try at building an online income, I really suggest investing a buck to check this out.

Go to bit.ly/aSdRS and see for yourself! I’ve found it to be useful and exciting. I think I’ve found a long time home

I’m trying another plugin to link between the blog and twitter. This one is called TweetSuite (http://danzarrella.com/beyond-tweetbacks-introducing-tweetsuite.html). So far I like it. Since it’s a widget, it’s appearance is much better then including the code provided by twitter.

The only thing I’m missing, that I’ve found so far, is a Tweet This button doesn’t seem to show up on the base page post, only when you view an individual post.

Now I’m going to go see what shows up on twitter about this post

It’s been a bad week to be a celebrity. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Karl Malden all died this week.

Just last week I was reading a profile about Billy Mays and the impact he’s had on direct marketing. In the interview, it discussed about how he pretty much replaced Ron Popeil as the best known TV marketer. One of the big differences was that he was a marketer where Popeil was an inventor. Both rare talents, both necessary.

One of the things I find most interesting about the coincidence of Mays passing so soon after Ed McMahon was that, in their early years, they both worked the boardwalk in Atlantic City, pitching products to passer-bys. That’s got to be a tough sell with all the other attractions/distractions all around. It must also be a great place to learn marketing, sales, and people.

There have been so many bright lights dimmed in the past few years. I feel a loss from all of them. I never met Ed McMahon or Billy Mays but still learned a lot from them. Others that I have met miss even more are Mac Ross, Barney Zick, and Dottie Walters.

I met Barney Zick and Mac Ross through Jay Abraham events. Both were master copywriters and marketers. I remember Mac talking about the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words”. His response was that if he could pick the thousand words, he could craft a mental image to convey almost any idea he wanted and add emotion on top. Barney was also a marvelous speaker and organizer.

Dottie Walters I met though one of Mark Victor Hansen’s writer/speaker events. She was a seven foot tall bundle of enthusiasm in a little five foot body and a major part of the professional speaking world. I don’t know know how tall she really was, but she was certainly a giant in my mind.

One thing they all had in common (among many) was that they were always friendly and willing to give good advice, even if it wasn’t what you wanted to hear. They were busy, productive, had businesses and clients galore, but if they could help you, they would.

That was one of the biggest lessons they taught.