Last updated on September 19th, 2011 at 02:45 pm
The Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, Business Blueprint is a course created by Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey, two men that are celebrities in the world of internet marketing. Their past creations are the Niche Blueprint, the Commission Blueprint, and the IM Advantage, which is an exclusive members club. These guys are well known for coming up with high quality training materials that are much easier to understand and put into motion than other programs like them. So if you’re tired of having a hard time making a living through affiliate sales online, this course may be exactly what you need. It provides you with a total roadmap of how you can get offline clients to pay you a fee every month to give them a presence online. This can be SEO work, building websites, pay per click along with many other things.
What You Get
You most likely wonder how they can do that. The answer to that is found in the 5 stages of the course that take you from the beginning all the way through completing and launching your business. The course includes:
- SEM Business Blueprint Box Stage 1 – In this beginning part, you’ll learn why this is one of the quickest ways you can quit your job as well as why internet services are in more demand all the time when it comes to market demand. You’ll also see why this is something that can be done worldwide.
- Stage 2 – The second part of this course gives you step by step directions in setting up Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, and Pay Per Click, or PPC, advertising. You’ll see how to quickly analyze a website to see the way to increase its effectiveness online. There are some tricks of the trade to show you how to spy on your competition along with using their hard work for your benefit.
- Stage 3 – This stage shows you how to use all the relevant information you have on a website in setting up advertising campaigns. You’ll also learn how to make extra money with little work on your part.
- Stage 4 – This is the stage where you get to see behind the scenes of a real working website to see how everything works and how it makes money. You’ll find out how simple it is to set up and operate while making huge money monthly with automated things.
- Stage 5 – In this final section, you’ll learn how and where to find high paying clients. You’ll also find out how to use different advertising media and how to educate potential customers on the good things you can do for them.
Extra Things
You’ll also get a few extra things for free that will aid you in quickly starting your first campaign. These are:
- 1. Formulas: You’ll get 2 unique formulas that help you figure out how much to spend for clients on such things as Google Adwords along with the right campaigns, keywords, and ad groups you need to be using.
- 2. Link Building Plan: This is an SEO link building plan to use in showing your customers as well as use to grab top 10 Google rankings all the time.
- 3. Power Point Presentation: These are some highly professional power point presentations that you can use to show customers the effectiveness of internet marketing.
- 4. Sample Radio Commercial: This is an example of a radio commercial that was used on a local radio station that you can use to make your own.
- 5. Proposal and Statement of Work: You’ll get a full business proposal that’s proven to work that you can send out to your customers. This shows them the objectives, services, goals and additional services you’ll provide and how you’ll provide them. You can copy this example and adjust it to your business.
The Good Points
You’ll have remarkable support from their team and Steve is always accessible through the forum. It’s not your usual “ghost town” support desk.
The SEM Business Blueprint course is well structured and clearly laid out so that you don’t become confused as to how to use it.
You get everything you need to run a successful business. The course offers all of the necessary templates, proposals, documents and everything else you need to begin.
This is a realistic business, not a gimmick that will last for just a week and then end. It’s a legitimate business that can be used by anyone with even a basic knowledge of internet marketing. It’s easy and can profitable for a long time. You can outsource it, too, using the guidelines of exactly how to do it. Actually, you can get most of the work done quite inexpensively and with only a few hours of work weekly.
You’ll be amazed at the lack of competition for the most part. The ratio of the amount of businesses out there compared to the number of people that actually know how to run an SEM business will shock you. Also, not that many people are competing on Google for local words so your job is a lot easier.
The Bad Points
While it doesn’t mean that the quality of the course is bad, if you’re not comfortable with people, then it will be a little harder. Steve and Tim offer some great resolutions for this that will work even if you’re not comfortable in talking to business owners. However, if you like to meet people and talk about internet marketing, this is definitely a benefit for you.
The Cost
You get everything for the cost of $197 paid only once. SEM Business Blueprint also comes with a 60 day money back guarantee no questions asked. So if the course doesn’t meet your expectations for whatever reason, your money will be refunded to you instantly.
In Conclusion
According to the testimonials on the website, this is quite the impressive course. People swear that it does what it says it will and that the cost is well worth it. If you’re tempted to try it, you don’t have anything to lose as it comes with a full money back guarantee. It may be worth a shot if you’re interested in becoming an internet marketing success.
