When I arrived at the seminar venue this morning, I was really surprised by the number of attendees attending this event. A total of more than 250 attendees jam packed the seminar room. Now I know a lot of people in this region also want to make it in the Internet Business. The attendees are mainly from Singapore and a few (like me) that comes from other countries in this region.
The agenda of the seminar is follow:

The first day started with both Ewen and Patric sharing on their stories on how they get started in the Internet Business. They then go into what are the mindsets required to be successful in this business.
Ewen then walked through the general flow of how an Internet Business works. These morning sessions were done mostly on the fly. Both of them have not prepared any presentation materials or scripts. Key concepts are drawn on the flip charts to demonstrate the concepts.
After lunch, Ewen started the first live demo on affiliate marketing. He shows us how to use Clickbank and how affiliate link work. He then shows us how to create a simple squeeze page to build a list. From there he shows how he uses his autoresponder to capture the visitor name and email address. After that he shows us how to upload the squeeze page to one of his domain and make the page live. Finally he demonstrated how the squeeze page work and how the visitors are bought to the merchant sales page.
Patric then come on stage to discuss some ways to enhance on the conversion rate of the squeeze page, through the use of free reports or eBooks. He shows us a simple way on how to create a simple free report using free contents from EzineArticles.com.
He also discuss briefly on what are the key contents of a good sales page. He uses the webpage of this Internet Business seminar as an example to illustrate what are the different elements of copy writing of a good sales page.
At the end of the 1st day, both Ewen and Patric answered questions fielded from some of the attendees.
As someone who learn about Internet Business from free online information and from a few Internet Business information products. I think I now have a better understanding of how Internet Business works. The live session on day 1 confirm all the learning that I had over the years and validated that the knowledge and skills I have now can help me to progress further in my Internet Business.
My thought about the content of day 1 is that they are adequate. Having gone through the process of creating squeeze page of my own trying to sell Clickbank products, I can relate to the flow of the Internet Business model that were demonstrated. Of course it is easier for Ewen as he was using his own Clickbank products and sales page for the demonstration. However he has demonstrated the whole process of how to do affiliate marketing to the attendees in straight forward way.
One advantage of attending such a live event is that you can finally see prove of the monetary gain of a successful Internet Marketer. Ewen actually login into his PayPal account and shows the attendees the amount of money he made as an affiliate of Hostgator. He also login to his autoresponder account and show us some of the lists that he has built. It is no wonder that it is so easy for him to make money on the Internet Marketing niche because the total number of subscribers he used for the demo alone is more than half a million. He has more than one autoresponder service providers and he mentioned that his total subscriber is more than 800,000! Now that is the power of having a big list and convinced me that list building is the very first step to Internet Marketing.
I also like the fact that the content of this Internet Business seminar is slightly technical in nature. This ensures that we focus on the “how to” component of an Internet Business rather than focus on explanation of each of the component. Both the presenters also emphasized that the core technical training will only be provided through another workshop as part of their new Internet Marketing program. I am happy with this kind of arrangement as it allows me to focus on the how rather learning about the basic skills like WordPress, hosting, domain name, DNS etc.
When I signed up for this event, the sales copy of the Live Internet Business website stated very clearly that they will only do this once and they will not be repeating this event anymore. But when Patric open up the same page again today, I saw that they have planned the same event for Malaysia. If I knew this is the case, I would have just stay home and waited for that event to come to me. Well at least I understand now that the copy writing of that sales page really worked. It convinced me that there will not be another one and I fall for it. So this is one of the biggest learning points I get out of this event for day 1.
Patric mentioned during the event that they have almost sold out the event planned for Malaysia. If you have not attended an Internet Business seminar before and you are in Malaysia, go to this page to see if there are still any slots available. I highly recommend you make a plan to attend this event.