- Colin Brown
- Founder
Syncnet, Inc.
From The Desk Of Colin Brown
Sandy, Utah
RE:Mentor Me Membership
Dear Entrepreneur,
I rarely do this except when I am trying to help out a buddy. You see, I put this program together to help a guy get started in the Internet Marketing world. He was just getting started and didn't have any connections, didn't know what step to take next and didn't have all his ducks lined up. He just didn't know what he didn't know.
He knew he wanted a website and went to 3 different ad agencies and the bids came back higher than he expected. So he went with the lowest price, and $20,000 later he had a nice looking 6 page website. It was cool and had beautiful graphics and even a video with a model that walked on to the screen. Ouch! He didn't know what step to take next. The ad agency wanted more money to put a lead capture form on the site that would tie into a database and it wasn't going to be cheap!
Then he found me at an Internet Marketing Conference. I was minding my own business and he came up to me out of the blue during a break and introduced himself. We became quick friends and I took a quick look at what he had just paid $20k for and my heart sank. I immediately knew that there was no business plan and no strategy because I ask what his plan was for making money with the site since there was nothing for sale that you could even buy. I could immediately see there was no traffic strategy, no Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and 6 static pages of content that looked really cool. I felt bad for him knowing that he had just wasted $20k and was really no closer to turning the site into a legitmate business so I gave in and told him I would help him out. I'd be his mentor and get him to the promised land. Little did he know I had been on the Internet since 1995 hosting business sites and that I've been helping my customers bring in over $200 million in the last couple of years alone!
The problem is -- in this journey of helping my new found buddy, I found I liked it. It was great fun to help him get back on track. To see him find success. It wasn't that he was afraid to work. He just didn't have the right connections, the right team and the right business model and that is how MENTOR ME was born! I really like to help people succeed and I really hate to see people not get the absolute best return on their investment. The problem is there is only one of me and I still have a business to run, there's only so many hours in a day so I can't help everyone. The Internet Marketing Gurus of the world only give lip service to your success. This is different, I'll be right there with you making it happen!
Warning!!! If you don't like to sell on the Internet then this is not for you;~)
