"This
Alpha Dog Travels the World
On AND
Off the Internet!"
Spotlight
on...
Caroline Makepeace
GOALS!
Virtually every self-help
book or success course you'll ever read talks about the importance of
having clearly defined, achievable goals. Unfortunately,
most of those who strive to be successful entrepreneurs pay mere lip
service to the concept of goal-setting.
That's precisely why most
of those who strive to be successful entrepreneurs end up being
UN-successful entrepreneurs.
Not so Caroline
"Make-It-Happen" Makepeace and her husband Craig!
You'll see how this dynamic duo from the land down under have used
their mutual goals and a consistently integrated game plan to finally
start to achieve their brand of "livin' la vida loca."
Of course, they first had
to experience their own, individual "year of horror..."
Caroline:
"Thanks so much for thinking of me for the Big Dogs Bulletin,
Stan. I am really excited! When we first signed up I
told my husband that I wanted to do well enough to one day make
it in the Bulletin. I didn't realize it would be so soon!"
Stan:
"Thank YOU, Caroline, for sharing your thoughts and experiences
with us. Ordinarily, it takes at least a month or so before a
new Alpha Dog 'gets in the groove' and starts to have really
noticeable production. It is not unusual for even the Alpha's
who eventually become super stars to have just two or three sales
their first month, when they are still learning the ropes.
However, with 19 ebook sales your first full month, YOU seem to have
hit your stride right from the get-go!"
"Naturally,
I want you to share your techniques with the rest of our folks, but
before you do, how about telling us about the REAL Caroline Makepeace."
Caroline:
"Well, I am 29 years of age and have been married to my husband
Craig, 31, for 3 years. We are both from Sydney, Australia. I am an
elementary school teacher and began my teaching career in London.
My husband is a carpenter. Having both a passion for traveling and
having 'portable' jobs we decided to work and travel overseas and have
been doing that ever since we married. We have worked in Bangkok and
Dublin. We now live in Raleigh. North Carolina. Our passion for travel
has led us through Europe, Asia and Africa. We now plan to explore the
Americas for the next couple of years before we go home. I am involved
in a teaching cultural exchange program for the last year and have one
year left."
Stan:
"Wow! Now THAT'S pretty impressive, Caroline. You and
Craig seem to ALREADY be living the life that most of us dream about.
So what lead you to Internet marketing?"
Caroline:
"Our traveling experiences have shown us a world of enjoyment and
freedom that we find difficult to now live without. It is because of
this that we decided to venture into the Internet world to try to find
our own business so that we could gain control over our life and the
money that we earn. We've tasted the world without alarm clocks,
without bosses and without schedules made by someone else. This is the
life we want to be able to live every day."
Stan:
"Hmmm. That makes sense. And what was your initial
experience like when you started your 'adventures on the
Internet?"
Caroline:
"We've had no experience before with business. We first started
researching on the internet and were amazed by all opportunities that
were out there. Not only were there so many different ones but they
could get you rich overnight. (LOL!) We
couldn't believe how easy it was - our dream life was just around the
corner. We were so excited and so blindly jumped into the first things
that came our way; online shopping malls and casinos, nutrition
companies, Satellite TV and other affiliate programs."
"We fell for all the scams and believed
what everyone said and after four months we were $6000 in debt and
sinking deeper each day. We both became incredibly depressed and felt
so stupid. If only we stuck with our normal jobs at least we
would have had some money to continue doing what we loved - travel.
Now we didn't even have the money to go camping on the weekend."
Stan:
"Ouch! I'm sorry to hear about your initial tribulations on
the Internet, Caroline but, believe me, I hear stories like this ALL
the time. So then what happened?"
Caroline:
"Thank goodness Big Dogs came around just before we quit. As soon
as I read your story about your ‘year of horror’, Stan, I was
hooked! I could relate SO well to everything that you spoke
about. I knew that
I had finally found something that was going to work. Unfortunately,
the week previous to discovering the book I had made my husband
promise that we would not sign up to anything else. We had lost
enough!"
"But I had such a strong feeling
about this book that I 'secretly' bought it anyway. I read the
whole book that night and wanted to sign up for the programs
immediately. It all made sense. We had been advertising using all the
forms of free advertising and we hadn’t made one sale. Now my
problem was to get my husband on side. I just handed him the book and
said, 'I want to be a Big Dog.'”
"Getting him on my side turned out to be
easy because as soon as he read it he saw the sense in it and we both
agreed we needed to do this. We weren’t ready to give up on the life
we desired. We knew that we would have to work hard and we were
determined to cover our monthly fees as soon as possible."
"We signed up to all programs and immediately
got results. I was SO excited when I made my first sale!
After all those months of trying everything, something finally
worked."
Stan:
"Yeah, there's NOTHING like that very first sale, is there,
Caroline! What was your initial game plan? Did you start
out feeling that you were going to do a fairly big job right
away?"
Caroline:
"Hardly! As you suggest in the Training Manual, we
would have been quite happy to sell five ebooks our first
month, and to have just one of those ebook purchasers upgrade
to Alpha Dog."
"We were stunned when we accomplished that in
a week and a half!"
"We
ended our first full month with nineteen ebook sales and four
Alpha Dog signups! For Craig and me - with no prior
business experience, and no successful Internet marketing track record
- this was incredible! Altogether after our first month we had a
net profit of over $400. Considering that we were losing this almost weekly before Big
Dogs came along it is a phenomenal result!"
Stan:
"Congratulations to both you AND Craig! So what are your
feelings about the Big Dogs program now?"
Caroline:
"I absolutely love the Big Dogs book. I have learnt so much from
it and it has put us onto the track we need to be on. It was so simple
to read and understand. The CHIP programs work. It’s the only thing
that has worked for us. We are starting up a new exciting online
business and can’t wait to start promoting it with the CHIP
programs. The CHIP programs have so many other added bonuses that you
have access to, not only that they have very strong support and
training networks. And once you start signing up people under you;
you’ll not only get this for Free but you’ll earn money off
it."
Stan:
"Well, Caroline, I am certainly glad (but not surprised!) that
you've had such positive success with the program. But tell me,
other that the C.H.I.P. programs, are you using any other forms
of promotion that you have had positive experiences with?"
Caroline:
"We really don’t use anything other than the CHIP programs
because they work so well, are so easy to use and don’t take up much
of our time. We are both still working full- time. We aim to have
Craig full-time by August. After this we plan to travel for a year
before going back to Australia where we can both work from home and
raise a family. The exciting thing about this is that we can
continue to do this and earn money from it while we are traveling!"
"The only other thing that we have found
that works really well is the AOL classifieds. You can place ads there
for a minimal fee each month. There
are real visitors going there which is why we have had a good
response."
Stan:
"Do you have any other marketing strategies that you have found
to work well?"
Caroline:
"We don’t use all the programs to rotate Big Dogs. We
split it up with our other programs we are promoting and rotate it
every couple of days. We have stuck to a similar format for each of
our ads, changing them slightly. We found what has worked best is
to be honest about our failings and to show that we are now
starting to turn this around due to the secrets we have learned from
the Big Dogs. We have studied others Big Dog letters to get some
ideas but have not copied them because I think you really need to make
it your own."
"Having your phone number works really
well; People can’t believe it when they see your number; it gets
them onside straight away. We have also begun using an auto responder
given with one of the CHIP programs which is great as it gives me more
of chances to sign people up. Remembering that people need to see
something at least seven times before they buy. My auto responder
series gives me 11 more chances to get them to sign up."
"Here are a couple of my ads that worked
well..."
Ad # 1:
(We made four ebook sales in one day from this ad!)
Hello!
I came across your
classified ad and saw that you are making
the same mistakes I was. I would like to help you.
Let me introduce
myself. My name is Caroline Makepeace and
I’m a REAL person just like you. I’m just a regular married
29 year old and together my husband and I have a passion
for making a living from the internet. My contact information
is at the bottom of this message and you can contact
me at any time.
Over time we’ve
learnt something about e-commerce. You
may have the best offer, the best program in the world
or the best website but without visitors nobody will
every know it.
We used to post our
ads to the FFA pages, classified sites and
safe lists. We found out just as I bet you’re finding out,
that it just doesn’t work.
To make a long
story short, my husband and I both have regular
jobs and were desperate to fire the boss. We began
searching around for home based businesses and found
many that were going to make us overnight millionaires.
Yes! We were excited.
Over the past six
months we have outlaid over $6,000 on
failed internet ventures. Our first introduction to internet
marketing was a call from a man who somehow
convinced us we would earn over $100,000 per
year with online shopping malls and casinos.
We jumped at this
chance, not quite believing our luck and
handed over $3,990 for an advertising campaign that
has made us, yep, you guessed it, not one sale! There
goes our around the world trip we had planned.
We crazily followed
this up with attempts at selling nutritional
products, PayPal schemes and satellite TV systems.
Needless to say we failed miserably with these as
well. Our savings had disappeared as did nearly our house
and on top of all that the computer broke down and
the car blew up!
After many months
of failure we were resigned to the
fact that we would be working someone else’s schedule and
making them rich for the rest of our lives. This was until
one day, just before we gave up; we received an email with
some information that changed all this.
The information we
received made sense and explained everything
we were doing wrong and needed to fix. We couldn’t
believe how simple the solution was. Our experience
has taught us that there is no real mystery to earning
an income if you find the right way to do it.
(Target
URL)
Now is your chance
to catch the new wave of internet marketing
before everyone else does. You may have heard about
it or come across it before- it will show you the way, just
as it has shown us the way to turn our life around.
I encourage you to
read this information, I mean really read it.
We thought we had read and heard everything that exists about
making a living on the internet and creating visitors. Boy
were we wrong! We know this information is different and
you will fail with your advertising if you don’t learn it too.
Visit, read and
discover the secrets for your self and your family.
Put all your mistakes behind you.
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URL)
If you have any
queries please write or call anytime. We
will do our best to help in any way we can.
Caroline
& Craig Makepeace
(Phone Number)
(Email Address)
(Street Address)
Learn the secrets to Internet Marketing- how the Gurus became the
Gurus
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Ad # 2:
Hello!
I came across your ad on the FFA page and
noticed that you have not yet discovered the secret to successful
marketing on the Internet. First let me ask you this...
Are you finding that no one is visiting your website or responding to
your ad even though you are spending every
spare minute posting to them? I’m sure that you have a great offer and your ad sounds
good but why are you not making a dime?
Believe me by posting to these pages you will not get people
visiting your site nor will you ever earn a
penny. The reason I know this is that I used to do the same thing until I learnt it didn’t work
and what I had to do about
it.
I used to post daily to FFA pages, classified sites, safe lists and
search engines. With each new ad and posting
I was convinced that this would be the one that would attract all those visitors and
seal the sales. But this didn’t happen and
after four months I had made nothing but a hole in my pocket.
My frustration levels grew and my hope for a successful home
business plummeted. What was going wrong? I
had good products, a great website and a good ad- yet I could not get any one to look
at it, let alone buy anything.
One day I received an email just like this one. It explained to me
all the mistakes I was making by posting to
these sites and why no one was even seeing my ad. These days everyone uses software to submit
their ads so no 'real' persons are visiting the classified sites. It
all made sense to me so I jumped at the chance to learn more about what I should do instead.
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URL)
I am so glad that I did. I was just about to throw in the towel and
stick to my day job but I was saved by the
information that I learned. Since I have discovered this new wave of Internet Marketing my
home business is starting to grow. I am
getting thousands of visitors to my site, my ads are no longer being ignored and I am
making money.
I am so excited about my online business and you can be too. Leave
the frustrations behind and start promoting
your business the right way. I
was once like you and today you can become like me.
Take the time to really read this information and learn how to help
your business grow. It will change your whole approach. Don't spend
another day waiting for people to respond to your classified ad,
discover today the secret to driving visitors to your site.
Visit...
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URL)
If you have any queries or concerns about this you can contact me
at any time using the information below. I
would be more than happy to help you in any way I can.
Still need more information. You can subscribe to my free reports on
Internet marketing by sending an email to
(Email
Address)
Caroline Makepeace
(Phone Number)
(Email Address)
(Street Address)
Stan:
"Caroline (and Craig!), I want to express my genuine appreciation
for sharing your thoughts with the entire Big Dogs membership.
You two are a CLASSIC example of what can be accomplished with drive,
determination, a solid and consistent game plan, and (most
importantly) clear and achievable GOALS! There is no doubt in my
mind that you two WILL accomplish those goals, and that your new
business WILL thrive."
"To wrap things up,
could you summarize your thoughts and offer any additional words of
wisdom?"
Caroline:
"We can’t believe our success and for the
first time in months we are excited and hopeful. I think to be truly
successful on the Internet you need a good ad, the quality leads you
get from the CHIP programs and most of all you need commitment, desire
and persistence. I truly believe you can do anything you want to do if
you have these three things. You have to work this every day and keep
working it until you get the results you want. One very valuable
lesson we have learnt from our very costly mistakes is that there is
no such thing as an overnight miracle."
"Success and wealth will come but not
overnight. It will come with hard work, persistence and a desire to
get it."
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