Interview with Dawie Bester
In this audio interview Luis chats to Dawie Bester about his take on the Internet Marketing Upstart Program, and provides some perspective from a more experienced marketer about the program.
If you have any questions about the program after or this audio recording, please ask them by commenting below, because Luis and I are standing by to answer your questions.
We are officially accepting members into the Virtual Program on Thursday, 6 May 2010, 10:00 am GMT+2 There are limited spaces available and these will go quickly.
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April 20th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Hi Peter
Basically the only ones in the group that has experience in this is Dale, Chris and Me. The others are all new to it and they didn't have any experience. It really is very simple and everyone (i think the majority) has also seen sales here and there.
It is basic instructions where you will get a task every day. When it comes to the technical stuff – there's videos to show you how to do it in detail.
April 20th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
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April 20th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Great recording and really good to hear other South Africans doing it, I am inspired to get into the program and to start learning. My only question is how will I know what to do, I mean I am totally new to this?
April 20th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
This all sounds good and I doubt that you would have any negative interviews so it kinda defeats the object to give us a genuine perspective , maybe some testimonial videos where we can see you have not just hired these people to say good things about the program.
Just me 2 cents!
April 20th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Dawie you say that you would have liked to have had a plan like this when you started out. My question is what is so different about this plan than what is already out there?
I mean anyone can build a WordPress site, get articles and build links which is what I am assuming that you guys are doing in this program, similar to the 30 day challenge, so I just don’t get how this is different?
MT
April 20th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Hi Mark
I was doing the same thing – I mean anyone can build a wordpress site and start building links with mass article submissions and blog submissions. If you know this then you also know that this is still a gray hat way of link building. Maybe not black hat – but it is gray hat, which means that you run the risk of getting slapped by Google. So what will happen to the income then? Don't get me wrong I still practice some of these stuff as I love testing it but not in my internet marketing upstart projects.
The difference with the 30DC and IMU program is EVERYTHING! 30DC shows you how to find markets – IMU perfects it. I've done the 30DC like they explained and sometimes the results is completely wrong. There much more to take into account than competing pages of 30 000/ 50 000.
The plan that the IMU program gives you to follow makes the whole process 100% white hat. It gives you a task every day for 53 days. After that you check stats and make a decision on your market.
But this is only module 1 as I haven't gone to the other modules yet. I understand that you don't see the difference in this – I mean I sure didn't in the beginning and you can ask Justin as well. It took him a couple of days to make me understand what it's all about.
The thing is – you can't just go out and start building links with article submissions etc and think that's it. There's much more to it than this…. Google has certain things they look at when it comes to SEO and Justin team has been testing this for years. They also have people in the company that keeps doing it. So the plan guides you in the correct direction when it comes to SEO as well.
Justin can also get into a bit more detail here….
I don't know if this answers your question Mark?
April 20th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Hi Tim
There's a few videos on the home page where you be able to see our faces as well.
April 20th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
I hear what you are saying Tim but i all honesty these are all the people who have used and participated in the IMU Mentorship Program. Go and check out the Video testimonials as wellhttp://www.internetmarketingupstart.com/
April 20th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Well Peter it is a really simple program you have 53 days to complete a project, and on every single day you have a specific task to do. All you do is follow the task, if you heard Laura's Interview from yesterday you would have realised that she was completely new to Online marketing. She was selling houses before she joined the IMU mentorship program.
April 20th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
It really takes the process to a whole new level, there is no grey area here in the IMU program.
April 20th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
You hit the nail straight on the head Dawie
April 20th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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April 20th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Wow ok that’s really interesting that you say that the way of doing it in the 30 day challenge is “sometimes completely wrong”. I think it would be interesting to see how you guys do things, maybe I can learn something new.
I must say you guys come across as very passionate and from what I can hear you are all really supportive in this group and that does interest me because most of the groups I have joined tend not to have a strong support from the community, kind of like people are just in it for themselves, except for the warrior forum which is very supportive.
I guess the other BIG question is how much will I have to pay to be in this group?
April 20th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Holy smokes that is a lot of videos, don’t know how I missed that, sorry my mistake people
April 20th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Hi Mark
Yes that's what makes it so great – the group and the support you have. We are always communicating on a weekly basis with each other and sometimes daily. Like Laura said in her interview yesterday – there's always someone to ask if you have questions.
I am not sure what the cost will be – guess we'll have to wait for launch date.
As for the 30DC. Yes there is some stuff that's good but in general I don't think it's really wise to show a newbie the gray hat stuff from the beginning as they will not know what the limits are when using these techniques which will result in a complete waste of time when they get slapped eventually. As well a waste of time. As for how they calculate the competition – this is also wrong. Market Samurai is not the way to go and you will see why when you join the group
April 20th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
NP Tim it happens to the best of us LOL
April 20th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I am glad to hear that we are Passionate about the group, we really are and who ever is in this IMU Virtual program will not only gain valuable knowledge, but powerful allies and future business partners. No jokes!!!
April 20th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Great Interview. Dawie you still owe me a steak
April 20th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Why does he owe you a steak?
April 20th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
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April 20th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Lol no I won the bet. Luckily Google decided to play in my favor that day
April 20th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Dawie is one of the members who has been there got the T-Shirt and then come back for the 3 piece suit. He had been in the Internet Marketing space for a while and then joined the IMU programme.
In our initial sessions I often saw Dawie's amazement on explanations being given, you could see that he suddenly realised how things worked and saw the reasons why some of the things he was trying would never work.
April 21st, 2010 at 3:06 am
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April 21st, 2010 at 4:09 am
But now you are 2 pages behind me – lol
April 21st, 2010 at 7:35 am
Looking forward to the opportunity to get into the programme, just wondering if there is like a launch list or notice list that we can join, or how will this work?
April 21st, 2010 at 7:37 am
What time zone is GMT+2 for the launch?
April 21st, 2010 at 8:39 am
Some great information, Dawie and Luis.
The program is EASY to follow but the work itself takes dedication. If you're hungry to suceed in this industry then it's a piece of cake.
I was stumbling around the internet marketing industry not gaining any traction at all until I attended this program. The IMU course really opened my eyes and helped me understand what processes to follow to get from zero to hero in a matter of months.
Thanks guys.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:30 am
Hey Ash this is South African time Zone 2 hours ahead of standard GMT
April 21st, 2010 at 10:31 am
You can join the FB event launch at:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=11960877138...
April 21st, 2010 at 3:15 pm
I completely agree. That is exactly how I see it. Cheers!