Thank you very much for your kind words about this board!
I am glad to hear that you've found it helpful!
Concerning your question, if is it’s “good protocol (or wise) to discuss product ideas in a public forum”, I would say YES.
Of course it’s totally up to you if you will risk your competition to spy on you.
But actually I don’t think it’s much of a problem.
I’ve read many, many posts on different marketers, who have shared their ideas on new projects with other people. Some product developers and marketers have even offered their products for free for a very limited time, in order to let other marketers review and evaluate their products. And I think they’ve both got some good feedback and some free marketing by doing this.
Of course you’ll always have to make sure that you don’t post blatant ads for your new products! Other marketers will quickly sense if your post is just a disguised salesletter. And believe me, they’ll often punish you immediately! Besides I always delete blatant (and disguised) ads and salesletters immediately.
But again, Greg, please feel welcome to share your new product ideas with other marketers on this board! You may get some invaluable suggestions and comments in return.
Concerning Mike Enlow's Inner Circle, I would just like to say this:
First of all, I am reselling subscriptions to Mike Enlow's Inner Circle, so I am a little bit biased here.
I just want to be completely honest with you!
At the same time you don’t need to subscribe to Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle through me – even if you choose to be a member of this inner circle. I don’t want to let you think that the reason I am recommending a product or a service, is that I have an economic interest in it.
Okay Greg, so now you know this, please read on to hear my evaluation of Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle. I’ll try to be as honest with you as possible.
The reason I personally became a member of Mike's Inner Circle, was that Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle seemed to offer much, much more invaluable information than any other web-based (secret site) inner circle I have read about.
There is of course many other good web-based inner circles and secret sites (for example the inner circle/secret site by Allen Says, called the Warrior Secret Site, http://www.profitsecrets.com).
But I must say that I was very, very impressed when I became a member of Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle and began to surf around on his site. You just can’t imagine how much top quality information he gives away.
You get a real inside look at some of the most important marketing secrets. Besides you get a lot of advice on how to both set up your website and to market it. And the website is constantly being updated with new important and helpful information. For instance the administrator of the website, Tim Gross, is soon going to publish a step-by-step guide to starting your own e-business, for the members of Mike’s Inner Circle.
So Mike Enlow is certainly not exaggerating in his salesletter! At least not in my opinion!
And I am positively surprised whenever I find a marketer that delivers MORE than he or she has promised in his or her salesletter.
But you see, delivering MORE than what the customer expects is an integrative part of Mike Enlow’s marketing concepts. And that’s something a lot of other marketers could learn from him: If you want to not only GET customers, but also want to KEEP them, then you should constantly OVER-DELIVER. And in this connection Mike again and again refers to the biblical concept: “Give, and you will receive!” “Treat others as you would yourself like to be treated!” (The socalled “Golden Rule”). “As you sow, you will reap!”
Even if you don’t agree with Mike’s fundamental view of life, you can certainly learn a lot from his basic marketing philosophy. And what I like, is the fact that Mike not only TALKS about over-delivering, but also actually PRACTISES this way of GIVING and OVERDELIVERING to his customers before he expects to RECEIVE.
Okay, I’ve talked about this indispensable and fundamental marketing philosophy before, and I don’t intend to elaborate on it here again. But I think you understand, Greg, that I really rate Mike Enlow high.
Of course this doesn’t necessarily mean that I agree with him on everything or endorse everything he does.
Before I myself became a member to Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle, I had read some of his free articles, and I were really impressed by how detailed and helpful his information was. Nothing like the low-quality articles and reports you find all over the Internet.
Besides I got Mike’s free ezine, and Mike Enlow‘s ezine is definitely one of the best ezines I’ve ever subscribed to. In his ezine you get more quality information than most other ezines.
Besides I had for several years been aware of the fact that Mike Enlow is one of the most successful Internet and direct marketers ever.
I were very interested in Mike’s Joint Venture concepts which has literally earned him millions.
Consequently I finally decided to sign up as a member of Mike. To be honest I were somewhat hesitant before signing up as a member of this Inner Circle. After all $495 seems like a lot of money to spend, when you consider how many other enticing offers that competes on getting your money.
But then, when I got my password and thus got access to Mike’s Inner Circle, I almost got a shock - even though I expected a lot.
Here on this Inner Circle I found so much information that I could hardly believe it!
There was hours and hours of video-files and trancsripcts, thousands of pages of the best guarded marketing secrets, report after report, several whole books, step-by-step guidance on how to market your products both on and off the Internet, live Screen Cam instructions to setting up your own website etc. etc.
What really took me by surprise was that I here found many of the seminars that did cost up to $15,000 per seminar. Seminars that I would have really loved to attend. Now I had the chance to participate in my own living room for a fraction of the original cost.
And the speakers on these seminars were people like Gary Halbert, Dan S. Kennedy, Bill Myers, Paul Hartunian, Alan and Brad Antin - and of course Mike Enlow himself. But there was dozens of other extremely marketers on these seminars.
You know some of the world’s absolute top direct marketers!
Most of these people are – to my best knowledge – millionaires many times over. Gary Halbert, for instance, is by many marketers considered to be the foremost still living marketing expert. Not only has he earned millions and millions himself, but he has been the primary inspiration source and mentor for a lot of today’s foremost marketers. For instance he is the one who helped billionaire Ben Suarez to get started in his mail-order business.
You know, if you were going to buy the transcripts or the videotapes from just one of seminars, you would usually have to pay between $200 and $800 per seminar. But now I found them here – as a member of Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle.
Again, Greg, I would like to be totally honest with you and remind you that I am a reseller of Mike Enlow’s material. And whenever someone has a financial interest in something, you always have good reason to be a little bit cautious - though I definitely don’t want to cheat you in any way!
I just want to give you my honest evaluation of the many different products and services you can read about on the Internet.
Maybe you’ve become convinced by my unusually strong recommendation of Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle, and you want to become a member yourself. But as I said, I don’t want you to think that the reason I am recommending Mike’s Inner Circle because I am a reseller of it!
So please don’t feel pressured in any way to become a member through me! Then you can just go to Mike’s personal website (http://www.enlow.com) and sign up as a member there. And I won’t get a dime for my recommendation!
I just want to be sure that you don’t think I recommend a certain book, tape, course or inner circle because I have some financial interest in the product or service. I try to be as honest and straightforward in my evaluations and reviews as possible.
If on the other hand you decide to support me and sign up as a member to Mike’s website through me, I will of course be grateful. After all I am in this for business, too. So then please just go to my website and click on the banner at the bottom of the homepage (http://www.klausdahl.com). But again, please don’t feel pressured in any way!
Whatever you do, I would strongly recommend this Inner Circle if you want to get some real insider marketing secrets!
Greg, I hope you found this short evaluation of Mike Enlow’s Inner Circle helpful!
Sincerely,
Klaus Dahl
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