Pursuit of Happyness
February 27, 2008
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The intern program is working like a charm.
Promotion is being done for my sites automatically by the interns…and the interns are learning how to build their own businesses. I opened it again today quickly (note the link has now been removed).
This is a 2nd version of the intern program where I’ve dropped the number of procedures and videos. I’ve also compacted it to be a 28 day intern program (less than one month to learn how to promote your own internet business). Which program is better (the longer one I released previously or this shorter one)? I don’t know until we test it and see the results of the program in action in the intern’s businesses.
If results from last time are any indication I expect I will remove this link very shortly. It’s likely that I will simply add a link someone in the navigation of this blog to the intern program in the future to eliminate huge sign-ups all occurring at once from a post.
Intern programs are run in a lot of different industries. For example, if you haven’t seen the movie “Pursuit of Happyness,” I’d highly recommend it. Will Smith stars as a salesman who is having a lot of trouble offering bone density scanners. His wife works double shifts to help stay afloat. Eventually he ends up homeless at one point in the story. And through it all he has a child to take care of.
Why do I mention this movie? It’s because he gets the opportunity to enter a competitive stock broker intern program where 20 candidates go through a 6 month full-time unpaid intern program. Only one of them will be hired at the end…and it’s stated multiple times during the movie that you can’t even apply credit towards working at another firm.
That’s tough. At least with the intern programs you see available to help people learn how to start an internet business you are being provided knowledge you can use in your own business. You can even walk away at any time and still have all the knowledge you gained up till that point.
If you haven’t seen the movie though, I definitely recommend it. He goes through a lot in the story, but he is committed to success. How many of us can say the same?
After the public launch of the intern program, a few people have asked me if I created the idea of having interns. The answer is no.
Internships are common in many fields.
James Brausch is the first person I saw run an automated intern program in the Internet marketing field. I’ve worked with many others who have had interns working with them, but he is the first one I noticed who used videos exclusively to train his interns. I own several of his procedure products including Submit to Blog Carnivals, Rewrite Headline, and Blog Commenting (there may be one or two others).
Another product I own is Robert Phillip’s “45 Ways to Run a Money Making Online Business Practically On Auto-Pilot.” It included all the procedures from Robert’s intern program. It generated a few ideas I hadn’t thought of as possible procedures to test in my own business.
The procedures in my intern program cover things like submitting articles, finding JV partners, creating videos, writing press releases, copywriting, etc. All the procedures will be made available at some future time in a paid product if you don’t have the time to be a free intern (it definitely isn’t for everyone).
The link to the intern program has been removed as we had a large number of signups very quickly again…
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I too enjoyed that movie, Terry. I also am a big believer in the Intern concept.
However I am surprised that a marketer of your standing seemingly beleieves in the concept that the movie had a happy ending. Given the choice between working for the benift of others, versus selling a reputable line of medical equipment to the whole spectrum of medical users I felt the whole way through that, although I was happy for Will’s character getting out of the extremely hard place he was in, that overall he was forced to ’sell out’ and take less than he deserved.
Of course, in the real world, the fellow who the story was written about, soon grew dissatisfied with the J*O*B world and formed his own successful investment company, I guess proving, in the long run, you can’t keep a real entrepreneur down … no matter how appealing a ‘glitzy’ work for wages opportunity may look.
Blog commenting program… hmmm… I will need to read that. Very interesting.
As one of your interns in the first group, I have learned a ton of great marketing information. Just a couple of the lessons are going to save me years of trial and error when I release my future products.
Thanks Terry!
Thank you all for your comments…
Dave: I found the movie to have a very happy ending because as you mentioned he eventually formed his own company out of it. And although I’m an entrepreneur through and through, it doesn’t mean everybody else is. Some people prefer having a job.
In fact I know several people right now who make more than enough passive income from their business, but they still keep their job because they enjoy it. My wife is even going to nursing skill with a plan to get a “job.”
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