I was totally amazed by the content and presentation. Another thing I liked was length of the videos, short and to the point. All of the training is focused to individual topics so you can find what you need quickly and easily.

So what kind of training is offered? Well below is a list of the free videos, so you can get an idea of what Matt has to offer.

The Basics

Purchasing a Domain

Purchasing Hosting

Linking Domain to Host

Installing WordPress (Fantastico)

Installing WordPress (Manual Install)

Installing a Free Theme

Adding Your E-mail to your Domain

Installing Google Analytics (WordPress Plugin)

Installing Google Analytics (Manually)

Threaded Comments

Intermediate

Installing the Twitter Widget

Hiding Affiliate Links

Add an Opt-in Box to your Sidebar

Add an Avatar Next to Blog Comments

Add a Contact Form to your Blog

Make Money With The WordPress Classroom 2.0

Now that you know the basic stuff, if you upgrade to WPC 2.0 Pro there are 59 videos (as of 30 August 2010) and new videos being added all the time. As a matter of fact you can request that Matt makes a specific video.

There is a very active forum on the site where you can learn from each others experiences as well as get specific direction from Matt (he is in there all the time). You also have a chance to help others in here. Did you know that by helping others that you can gain traffic and members for your site?

Within the forum there is even a specific area for creating Joint Ventures, ad trades, guest posting, and link trading. This can help you grow your business and make friends with other marketers in your niche.

Matt offer’s a Traffic Exchange area where you can add your site(s) and find other sites that you can comment on to create links to your site(s) and in turn others can comment on your site.

There are free WP Themes, bonus gifts and more.

I have not found much to complain about on this site. I have never been disappointed with anything about this site. Matt loves to get input from his clients and makes changes to please. He really cares about his members and wants people to feel at home.

I am still a member of WordPress Classroom and I’m not planning on moving anywhere else for a long time to come.

To Your Incredable Success!
Jay

1. What do you want your site to be about? What do you want to tell the World? Do you have a business you wish to promote, and need a highly versatile, adaptable platform from which to run it? You’ll need something which supports easy editing, and adding new material to it as develops and matures. WordPress will handle all this with an ease that may surprise you. Maybe it’ll stretch your imagination too, and prompt you to think of new approaches for your business marketing strategy, once you see just how much you can do with it.

2. WordPress uses “Plug-ins” which are additional software downloads that you simply plug-in to your WP software. Search Google for WP plug-ins that support name and email collection codes for your newsletter. Then offer a freebie in exchange for your visitor’s details and when you have a few names collected, Google again – for a feedback or survey plug-in to solicit feedback from those same visitors who signed in to your site. You could of course just ask visitors straight from the page Ask them if they like your theme, and the content you’re offering them. Now use their feedback to create a better, more attractive site for them. You can snowball this to create a really wonderful site. All thanks to WP.

3. Some Blogging platforms are better than others, and this is where we focus in on WordPress, over others such as Blogger.com. This is because it’s self-hosted and belongs to you accordingly. It’s better if you can self-host because then you’ve 100% control over all you do with it. WordPress.com is an easier option, but rather sensitive to content that promotes in the commercial sense; and after all, making a profit online is what you’re all about. WP is definitely the way to go.

4. Another good feature of WordPress blogging platforms is pagination. You may wish to add separate pages to your website, and WordPress facilitates features which support such things as contact-me, site map, home, articles, and privacy statement pages. You may wish to be more diverse and discuss related sub-niches too, besides your main niche; so use additional pages for this – in all just a couple of clicks away.

You already know that I just love the WordPress platform. Almost everyone who is anyone on the internet uses it. Why? That is easy….cost! The cost is zero to download the platform and there are a bunch of free themes for the looks and hundreds of free plug-ins to make your site do almost anything you can imagine, and some you can’t imagine. You can also have custom themes and plugins created by a multitude of developers for very affordable costs. The other good thing is that you do not have to add all the options at one time. You can add options as you need them.

So how do you learn how to use WordPress to the fullest? Good question, and I have the answer, it is Matt Wolfe’s WordPress Classroom 2.0. Just click the banner to get access to some F*R*E*E WordPress video’s. These will help you set up a WP site of your own. Then if you really want to learn about all that WP can do, upgrade to the Pro version and get access to a bunch more of step by step learning videos, a Traffic Exchange, a Forum with direct access to Matt’s and other’s expertise, plus extra Bonus’s right from the site. There is new content every month, and if you have a video request on a specific topic, Matt will be glad to accommodate you.

I’ve been a Pro user of WordPress Classroom for a couple of years now, and Matt has helped me dramatically improve my business and always provides additional content on a regular basis. I know that WordPress Classroom could help you as it helped me. I also believe that this will be one of your most valued tools if you are looking to use WordPress.

You really need to check this out for yourself.

To Your Incredable Success!
Jay

Anyone can use WordPress software and my advice to you is to learn WP because it’s probably the most versatile and easy ways to build a professional looking website for your online business platform.

This is due to the 100% flexible, customisable nature of WP. You can upload WP from either their own .com website, or if you have a web hosting platform, from there instead. From its own .com site, it’s free, but they can tend to favour non-commercially based sites, and lack the complete flexibility you get from self-hosting. However, you shouldn’t let that deter you, as both ways are really good.

Here are 6 points to consider for using the WordPress software Blogging platform:

• Have you heard it said that WordPress software is not for the faint-hearted? Take such comments lightly. As with other software tools, WP is something you can learn in a weekend. There’s plenty of help around too, such as the WP forum, Internet marketing forums, and YouTube, to name a few. With its aforementioned flexibility, you can see why it’s such a highly used piece of Blogging software; and it’s so much more than just a Blogging platform. WordPress Blogs lend themselves to such a vast range of uses, from business to personal, from entertainment to informative.

• Most web hosting sites support using WordPress software these days. There’s no stranglehold for users of WP if they’re using their own hosting; all the coding is given to the user for their own editing. And as such, the range of “plug-in” software components for site building is vast; most are for free, others for a fee.

• There’s no guesswork with WordPress software, and you can do precisely as you please, and know what you’re getting – licensing and all. Nothing’s going to bite you in the backside. Compared with other Blogging platforms, WP wins hands-down. So why would you use anything else?

• There are plenty of other options available to you, but with Google’s recognition of WordPress software, you’re likely to not to have to wait as long to get indexed.

• Price is usually a factor for everyone. But there’s no need for concern, as WordPress software won’t rape your wallet. You’ll not need to re-mortgage to get up and running with WP. Amongst the first things you’ll find yourself getting acquainted with in WP are web page themes to suit, and marry-in with, your niche, or company business.

• After some initial caution, and biting you lower lip, you’ll soon begin to explore the WordPress software platform and find yourself taking on an adventure that you’ll quickly find addictive, rewarding, and hugely beneficial to your business.

Learn how to work with WordPress from Matt Wolfe  

I’ve been a member of  The WordPress Classroom for quite some time. Matt adds new content on a monthly basis and answers all your questions in the interactive Forum. He has basically created a video on every topic to build, run and improve your site to get the traffic and click throughs that everyone wants. All the neat little tricks about traffic, SEO, what to include in every blog post and what plugins you really need. There is way to much content to describe here. Just check out the link and learn. I think he still has some of the free videos live at the link, so hurry over and check them out and see if you can use this useable content. Like I said I joined a while back and I’m still there. Just last night I was participating in the forum. I had a question about a graphic…he had an answer in my email this morning. Terrific response!  

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

 Marty Stuart
Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
Release date: August 24, 2010

(Nashville, Tenn.–May 11, 2010) GRAMMY-winner and American music icon Marty Stuart is set to release a traditional country album GHOST TRAIN: THE STUDIO B SESSIONS on August 24, 2010. With his 14th studio album, Stuart steadily continues to lead the charge in preserving the roots, culture and history of traditional country music.

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“What inspires me now, is traditional country music,” says Stuart. “It’s the music I most cherish, the culture in which I was raised. It’s the bedrock upon which the empire of country music is built, the empowering force that provides this genre with lasting credibility. It’s beyond trends and it’s timeless. With all that being said, I found traditional country music to be on the verge of extinction. It’s too precious to let slip away. I wanted to attempt to write a new chapter.”

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That new chapter is GHOST TRAIN: THE STUDIO B SESSIONS which includes such unmitigated country staples as the male-female duet (the gorgeous, heartfelt “I Run to You,” written and sung with Connie Smith), the chugging, bluesy—and spooky— fellow Mississippian Jimmie Rodgers-like train song “Ghost Train Four-Oh-Ten,” steel guitar driven, hardcore heartbreak ballads such as “A World Without You,” and “Drifting Apart,” and a no-flinching directness is front and center in the premiere of “Hangman,” a pointed, harrowing tale of an executioner’s job and life that Stuart co-wrote with Johnny Cash just four days before the Man in Black passed away.

As the album title denotes, GHOST TRAIN: THE STUDIO B SESSIONS was recorded in the legendary RCA Studio B in Nashville, where Stuart participated in his first-ever recording session at the age of 13 playing mandolin in Lester Flatt’s band.

Listen to 3 full songs from Ghost Train at NO COST
and view the album introduction video by Marty 

“Studio B has a profound pedigree; it’s where so much of American music’s legacy was forged, certainly country music’s,” says Stuart. “And sonically, this is a room that welcomes music. It seemed to me that in order to authentically stage a brand new traditional country music record we should bring it back to the scene of the crime.”

GHOST TRAIN: THE STUDIO B SESSIONS TRACK LIST:

1. Branded
(written by Marty Stuart)

2. Country Boy Rock & Roll
(written by Don Reno)

3. Drifting Apart
(written by Marty Stuart)

4. Bridge Washed Out
(written by Warner Mack)

5. A World Without You
(written by Marty Stuart and Connie Smith)

6. Hummingbyrd
(written by Marty Stuart)

7. Hangman
(written by Marty Stuart and Johnny Cash)

8. Ghost Train Four-Oh-Ten
(written by Marty Stuart)

9. Hard Working Man
(written by Marty Stuart)

10. I Run To You
(written by Marty Stuart and Connie Smith)

11. Crazy Arms
(written by Ralph E. Mooney and Charles P. Seals)

12. Porter Wagoner’s Grave
(written by Marty Stuart)

13. Little Heartbreaker
(written by Marty Stuart and Ralph E. Mooney)

14. Mississippi Railroad Blues
(written by Marty Stuart)

Promotional materials provided by SugarHill Records

To really help you sell any product, you want to create an affiliate program. A great affiliate program will allow you to sit back and concentrate on other parts of your online business while other people sell your products for you. A great affiliate program will allow you to use your energy to build your business while other people help you make money.

The 2 main types of affiliates are other Internet Marketers and customers. Both of these affiliate marketers are great in their own way. Internet Marketers who are affiliate are great because they already know how to market products and most of them are very good at it. Customers who become affiliate marketers are great because they can give firsthand accounts of how great a product is. The reviews they can give about your product will hold a lot more weight with other potential customers. So, they can effectively market your product for you too.

With these 2 main types of affiliate marketers you will be able to concentrate on other parts of your Internet Marketing business while other people make money for you. This is why you need to create an awesome affiliate program now. An awesome affiliate program is your quickest and easiest way to make a lot of money with your online business.

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

For this you need to open your text editor and the first page of your website. Read you webpage carefully while thinking about what your page must focus on and what services or products you offer. You should then choose a keyword, which describes your business most accurately and to its full extent. Every single keyword should be written down.

In keyword optimization, the next step is to enter each of those keyword or keyword phrases in the most frequently used search engines. You may look at the top hand side of the search page to see how many websites are competing for the same keyword or keyword phrase. After that, you must find a less competitive keyword but one that is still searched for by prospective consumers. Increasing traffic and sales is the main purpose of keyword optimization. Your keyword phrase must match the exact phrase that the majority of clients may enter in a search engine to find the product or service that you provide. The keyword phrase that you choose has to be less popular, but more accurate and specific to your business.

You may also export results such as the keyword phrases and number of competitors to an Excel file. After you are finished with keywords, you need to choose a few keywords or keyword phrases for further investigation. Then you may check the Google keyword tool and insert those selected keywords one at a time. Finally, after choosing the selected ones you should insert those keywords into your title, header or description, and in the first line of your body text.  It helps if you highlight it as well. Afterwards, you should repeat those main keywords, but make sure that they are not more than 3% of the total words provided  for your content. For example, if your text has 500 words then you should include only 15 main keyword phrases in your text.

You have to choose a couple of keywords. Then, pick an important one as your main keyword and add the rest of the keywords to the body text. This may help in attracting more traffic when users perform a multi-word search, which may be different from your main keyword.

You should do this for every page of your website. The creation of distinctive and accurate keywords will be beneficial for you. Make sure that those different lists do not compete with each other, but rather that they cover different areas while complementing each other as well. Although there may be some similarities, they should not be 100% identical to each other. In this way, you can use keywords for search engine optimization.

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

In the world of online business, online entrepreneurs do the same thing. The main difference, though, is that with the help of the internet, the activity of list building is automated and more rewarding then its offline counterpart.

Automated list building is considered a key business strategy for successful internet marketing. But you need to be agile and sharp so that you can attract customers who are already flooded with offers through other media channels.

Internet marketing is being used by more and more businesses around the world as an effective sales channel to offer services as well as products to prospective clients. Some of the companies and individuals have developed very competitive internet marketing campaigns through list building.

The basis for successful affiliate marketing is list building. Affiliate marketing is used by some of the internet’s best known and wealthiest personalities. They do this by accumulating a huge list of subscribers. They need not be copywriting experts or product creation specialists. The list is simply directed to top quality OPP (Other People’s Product). Your stream of prospects is assured by driving targeted traffic to landing pages on a regular basis.

The privilege of contacting subscribers on a regular basis is through permission granted purely based on offering free products, e-books, or advice on a topic. You can focus on relationship building instead of direct selling if you obtain customers’ contact information, which may consist of e-mail addresses and first names.
You can also establish your credentials with the help of list building as well. Your reputation in business is considered your most valuable asset. So you should take care with the impression you create of yourself. You should maximize your e-mail relationship marketing as list building is considered the most reliable method. You should regularly demonstrate your trustworthiness and expertise within your chosen group of customers.

You are also able to attract like-minded people with the use of list building. Your subscribers want your guidance and will also reward you accordingly if you operate in a targeted niche. You may also create a sound internet marketing campaign in order to promote your webpage. Also, spamming should be avoided. You should make your emails as informative as possible.

List building also allows you to attract a steady stream of buyers. Cash is considered the lifeblood of a business and without it even the best laid plans may fail.  So use list building to your advantage and let it build your business for you!

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

Know your Customers

The first way to know how to price an Internet Marketing product is to know your customers and your potential customers. Are these people who have a large expendable income or are they people who don’t have a lot of money? How much can people afford to pay? After all, in the end people who don’t have any money won’t be able to pay a lot of money for what you’re selling. But if your product is targeted toward people with a lot of money then you can charge more for your products.

Find Similar Products

Another way to find out how to price an Internet Marketing product is to look at similar products and find how much they’re charging. This is a pretty easy and effective way to price your own products. If other people are charging a price then you can bet that’s around the right price point for you too.

Test

Another tip for how to price an Internet Marketing product is to test your prices. In fact, you should always do this. Start at a price you think is right and then test it. Raise it and lower it a little. See how that affects the sales. Over time you will be able to figure out the perfect price for whatever you’re selling.

There are many ways you can price an Internet Marketing product. Three of the best ways to price your product are to know your customers, to find similar products and see what their price is, and to test your prices. If you do these three things then you will be able to effectively price your Internet Marketing products so that you make the most sales possible.

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

Outsourcing is when an Internet Marketer decides to hire someone else to complete work for them. For example, an Internet Marketer may decide to outsource 10 articles. The Internet Marketer will hire someone to write the articles. Just about any task can be outsourced. However, the tasks that should be outsourced are those jobs that an Internet Marketer isn’t good at and/or the tasks that an Internet Marketer doesn’t have time to complete. But I encourage you to write your own original content for articles as this will be the most promenent representation of you and your business.

The first thing you need to do is decide who you want to outsource to. You want to find someone you can trust and someone who will do a good job for you. Therefore the best way to find someone is to get referrals from other Internet Marketers. Then make sure you get samples of the person’s work. Even with referrals you want to make sure the person and their work is right for you and your online business.

You also need to make sure you treat them well. Once you find someone who is great as an outsourcer for you then you want to keep them. So make sure you treat them well so that they will happily continue to work for you.

Outsourcing is certainly something that successful Internet Marketers have to do. But if you want to outsource then you need to make sure you choose the right people. To choose the right people you want to make sure get referrals, you get samples, and then you treat them well. If you follow this advice then you will have success with outsourcing.

Remember that anything you outsource has to represent you and your brand. Anything that you put on your site represents YOU, so be sure to re-write what they provide you to ensure it meets your standards.

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay

The first thing you need to do is tell a story. People love a great story. Therefore, you should attempt to tell a great story in every sales letter that you write. A great story will help keep the interest of the reader and make it much more likely that the reader will read your entire sales letter.

The second tip to writing a great sales letter is to write to your customer. Before writing the first word of a sales letter, you want to make sure that you know who your ideal customer is. Then you’ll want to write directly to that person. By writing to your customer, you will be able to personalize your sales letters which will dramatically increase your conversion rates.

If you want to write more effective sales copy, then you need to remember AIDA. AIDA stands for attention, interest, desire, and action. You’ll need to include AIDA in every sales letter that you write. You need to first get the reader’s attention, then their interest, then you want to create a desire, and you want them to take action and buy what you’re selling.

The next tip is to tap into your customers emotions. Most people buy on emotion. So every sales letter that you write you should try to tap into people’s emotions. Your sales letter should flow smoothly so that the reader will read your sales letter from beginning to end.

The final tip and probably the most important tip for writing better sales copy is to get the reader to buy right away. Don’t let them get away. Give them every reason to buy right then and there. If they click away from you sales letters then chances are they probably won’t come back.

There are your tips for writing a better sales letter. If you follow these tips then all sales copy that you write will convert better and you will wind up making more money.

To Your Incredible Success!
Jay