I am so bummed that I didn’t check in on your blog recently and missed the contest. I Think this was a fantastic idea and I’m sure your winners will enjoy your product.

Internet marketing is a lot of fun mainly because you have the ability to truely help people achieve their dreams, while at the same time achive your own. Thanks for all the information you have so freely given.

- Brian

The contest is now closed and I’ll be picking a winner soon.

Terry Dean

After examining your free books and your product offers, I believe I agree with your priorities in several areas. I earned a four-year degree in Bible in 1973 with a minor in New Testament Greek. I learned a Bible study method in college which I have continued to develop and have begun to put it in book form this year.

I actually retired from General Motors/Delphi a year and a half ago where this method helped me to learn a lot of practical lessons and balance my college idealism. Our factory employed well over 1,000 people, so my learning was often tested. I grew to deal with people more lovingly, yet from strong conviction, because I was more sure of what the Bible was saying and how it really should apply to the heart.

I have a mastery in this much like you have developed in your field. It needs a global exposure not just among grass-roots Bible students, but among the seminarians as well. Everyone who can read would benefit from this, it is so simple to execute. Yet it has the ability to create an open-mindedness in very smart people because it is non-threatening.

I have had a year and a half to consider a course of action. I do not ask for your program for free because I have some great need. I have set some money aside already and plan to pursue this and a half-dozen related books I see in my pipeline. I have a good voice for audio, also, for which I have another related project in mind.

I intend to maximize the dollar value of my time as I work through this. You have already given me enough for free that I should be able to succeed. I appreciate the freedom I sense in your offer. The free program would give me wings. I have good reason to hope it would give you joy.

With my kind regards.
Thomas D. Clark

First, I’d like to thank you for all the information you share on this blog.

Frankly, when it comes to need, there are 3 or 4 people whose comments compel me to think that this free gift should make a difference in their lives.

However, I hope I will make my case.
There are 4 main reasons I would love to receive your “free gift”.

1)Need
Over the last 12 months, I have been working in my own real estate business. Having recently married and having to move out of my market, I tried to create a group of affiliates to keep my business going. It didn’t work because my administrative skills to get projects done and outsource tasks was horrendous.
I now believe that I’m less than 60 days away from having to find a job. I have decided that will NOT HAPPEN. I have studied internet marketing and have come to realize that an internet business will allow me breathing room to leverage my real estate investing and flipping knowledge.

2)Will It Change My Life?
Whether you decide to give me your free gift or choose another of these deserving posts, I am determined that I will create a product and launch an internet business within the next 45 days…Come What May!

In the last 24 hours since I came back and read through the contest blog, I have created an article on squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/workshop/5_Steps_For_Winning_Internet_Contests), created a video on youtube, and created a blog post at:
Http://wealthmatrix.wordpress.com/http://wealthmatrix.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/terry-dean-free-gift-contest-helper-contest/,
ostensibly to help me “win a contest”, but really to market your blog and your product release.

I know that I will put in the time in the first 15 days of receiving your System, to implement at least one product and have it rolled out. I believe that your training bonuses (Intern etc)and DVD #5 on creating a business plan is the missing link between me and internet success.

3)Future Testimonial
From the time a watched a video you did on “business systems”, my whole mindset about internet business and business in general has changed. I even subscribed for your newsletter for 3 months before I could no longer afford it. I believe that me obtaining your system is a potentially powerful future Joint Venture and testimonial.

4)Others will gain
Your Christian testimony has been an encouragement to me as I look around the internet landscape. In acknowledgement of your free gift, I plan to do the following:
I intend to start an internet business project at my local church (which was already in planning before I found about this contest).
I also intend to share my knowledge with all those who commented in front of me on this contest by access to teleseminars where I explain what I received from your course…with your permission.

Whether I receive this gift or not, I thank you for all the labor you put into sharing with us.

God bless

You should choose me to receive this “Internet Lifestyle Retirement System” because I’m too “tight” to buy it.

What I would do with it once I receive it is to study it and take action on what is taught.

Looking forward to implementing what you teach.

Barak

You shouldn’t SHOULD’NT give me your course. Here’s why:

- I’m one of the last to respond
- I’ve tried this internet marketing thing a couple of times before and “failed”.
- you’ve probably got 4 other people with better responses than me
- German customs will probably hold it and charge me taxes I can’t afford to pay them right now(yes, even if it’s a gift).

On the flip side, here’s why I think you might want to consider me:

First off I wouldn’t let any of the reasons above get in the way of my succeeding. You see, I’m overseas in Germany with my girlfriend. She’s kind enough to let me live with her and give my dream of trying to make this internet thing work a chance. I’m not a bum, I busted my behind with blood, sweat, and tears (for real) for two years so I could give internet marketing a proper chance to work.

This is a real and deep desire. This is not just some passing interest. I’ve burned my bridges, and sunk my ship. There is no going back for me and I have to make this work.

I NEED to make this work.

You could say you’ve directly influenced me. I’ve listened to some of your past recordings and heard your story. I really hope they are true because Terry they are so inspiring. You should
tell it more often.

I’m not dumb, although with all these promises that internet “gurus” make its real hard not getting sucked in and being made to feel that way.

I’ve spent a decent amount in ebooks that promised the world, more on programs that didn’t really deliver, and even more on courses that were probably too advanced for me.

I’ve put in the hard slog and hours. The only program I got to work with any resemblance to a profit was an ebay program. (at the time I couldn’t really afford it, but somehow I made it stick). Still, after making it “work” it seemed more like a job in itself than an internet lifestyle.

(It’s a shame that it worked out to paying less than minimum wage, but at least I had a small taste of internet income!)

For all the efforts it seems that I just don’t get anywhere significant. You can probably relate to this when you were delivering pizzas years ago and were piled under credit card debt – trying to make the internet thing work.

But that’s ok, I’m determined and will keep on trying. I used to work 3 jobs to survive and got by with only a few hours of sleep. It hurt just to keep my head above water some days.

Thank goodness those days are over.

For anyone that has done crappy jobs, I can relate. I did demolition. Not the big crane jobs, but getting in there with a shovel and sledgehammer kind of work.

Now THAT IS HARD WORK.

Smashing walls down and shovelling crap out for hours on end. At times it was hot, it was cramped, it was dusty. You’d get dirt and dust in your eyes, mouth, ears and nose – everywhere. Shrapnel would cut you up, you’d have to worry about heavy debris falling on your head or into your eyes. It’s a hazardous job that get’s no thanks. I’d come home with cuts, grazes, bruises, punctures and more all over my body.

Try doing this for 10-12 hour at stretch, day in and day out. If you think that is bad, hell, the shift work was even worse doing nights!

Sidenote: You know what? It sure puts training at the gym for a couple hours a week to shame (my boss used to joke and say that “fat” people should come and get paid to lose weight – those are his words not mine).

After a shift of demolition, I’d then back that up with cleaning and/or personal training. Both of those jobs bored me to tears, but hey – they paid. Some days I walked around like a zombie and I’m surprised I managed to hold those jobs down.

Working like that taught me valuable experience, and that is – i KNOW what hard work is and the determination thats needed.

Something I noticed that sux is that people look down on those jobs. I used to as well. Now I don’t give a rats ass and actually respect people that do them because you gotta do what you gotta do. My girlfriend hated seeing me work those jobs because she thought I was better than that.

But you know what? I think that any kind of work that puts food on the table is good enough for me. And yes, I know there are smarter ways of doing that. I’m just glad it was only “temporary”.

So What’s Harder Than Shovelling Crap For Hours On End?

You already know the answer to that question. Personally I think internet marketing is even harder than doing manual labour 18, 19, or even 20 hours every day.

Why is that?

It’s because it’s like banging your head against a
wall and not getting anywhere. In demolition you just knock it down with a sledgehammer!

Online, you’ve gotta do like 15 different jobs and stay on top of everything. If I knew how difficult it was to start with I never would have dipped my big toe into internet marketing. I would have gone into something else. Except I’ve tasted the sweetness of success, even if it was small, so I will keep on keepin on.

Does your system hold that key?

I don’t know. If it does than I hope you’ll consider me as a candidate for it. I’ll do things just as you say to do it, just like a donkey. You
say jump and I’d say how high. If your system requires some thinking, I can do that too.

I’ve done programs in the past with some other “gurus” and it’s been disappointing, because in the end the everyone in the program just ended up being exploited.

So what exactly can I do for you? What would you get out of the transaction? A great testimonial? Great content from all these comment submissions? More? I’d love to be in a working relationship with you Terry. If that were a possibility and a direct result of the course. I’d be a raving maven, a fan that would tell everyone how
great your course is once I’m successful.

Because you know what? I try hard. Just like any other person out there hungry enough to get ahead in life. There’s this fire in my belly that wants to better my position. You really do inspire me,
and I really do want make it online like you did Terry.

SO does this answer your question? Would I use it? Hell yeah! Would it change my life? I honestly can’t tell you that until I use it. (income is
not guaranteed blah blah legal jargon – but I’m assuming your course will change my life)

How would I used it? I’d rip through it probably twice to get good grounding. Then I’d go through it piece by piece and put things into action. I’d probably try to pump out as many great products as I could and launch them.

You wanted to know how your program would change my life:
- firstly, I’d be a smarter marketer – you’d be teaching this man to fish
- second, hopefully I’d be able to help fund my mother’s non-existent retirement.
- third, I’d be able to stay together with my girlfriend in Germany.
- then I would get one-on-one coaching with you, by plane, phone it doesn’t matter
- I’d be at peace and have no more arguments about money with ANYONE.
- I’d get myself a nice pair of jeans – scratch this one, my girlfriend got me a pair
for my birthday
- I’d set up a business or few purely for third world charity.
- take a trip to Disneyworld

In the end, I really hope whoever gets your course – uses it to the full potential. It would be a crying shame to see it just sit on a shelf and just collect dust.

Thanks for listening (ok, reading) to my rant, it’s been very therapeutic.

Regards
Mark
p.s – my original post was really angry, then I realised none of my problems are your fault. Thanks for holding this competition, it’s been a blessing in disguise.
P.P.S – damn, i just noticed that I missed out on submission to this competition, ah well, here’s the post anyways…

Been having a real tough time financially and feeling quite jaded with the whole IM thing. So I decided to stop and go back to the drawing board. I quickly realised I was caught in the trap of “learning” too much and doing too little.

I’m a recent recruit to your monthly mentor club which has really helped focus my mind and I’m in the process of creating a solid business plan instead of winging it like before. You also started me thinking of building systems so I can achieve more by working less.

I want to earn a full time income online and I have no doubt that I will. With your help I can make the best use of my time and talents.

What I’m lacking is a little guidance and I believe I could really make best use of your structured program to keep me on the right track to achieve my goal of helping as many people as possible to achieve their dreams online.

I’ve been away for a while but I’m ready, more focused than ever and raring to get started. I don’t believe I deserve this more than anyone else here but I believe I will make most use of the course and will put it into action immediately.

Yours sincerely,

John Szram

Just imagine how good it will be for my husband and me to have a project to work on together in creating our own ministry program! We have been to foreign countries on missions outreach and there is so much opportunity to make a difference if you are financially able to go. Just imagine how I will feel when you tell me that I have been chosen to receive your training program for free when I have just invested all this money to have my book published! I believe I can understand the internet with your program and I can be successful on the internet. As I read the details of this program, I believe it can do that for me. The opportunities and possibilities look endless!

Just imagine how grateful to God I will be and the testimony to God for providing for me yet once again and that He has used you to be the instrument of provision!
Just imagine how you will feel when you know God used you to answer my prayer and that you are a conduit for His blessing! Just imagine…. I am so grateful. Thank you for this opportunity!