Website Design and Marketing Testimonials

I started with very little, except for a lot of hope and determination.

But with the help of my coach and the tech support who were always very responsive.  I now have an award winning website that is climbing in the rankings. They taught me almost everything that I know.  The process is one of continuous learning and evolving.  The journey is not yet finished, in fact it may be just beginning, but it’s very reassuring to know that you will have support along the way.

The tools and resources are readily provided to help.  From the beginning of the program, I have had $211,074.88 in sales!

- Dale D. Mississauga, ONT

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I thought I would drop you a line while I had a chance to catch my breath! I was going to wait one more week so I could give you a look at the first quarter of sales for M-B Electronics and Electronic Toolbox, but I was so excited as to what has been happening I was ready to burst! 

Looks like the first quarter of 2006 is going to end up with around a 22% increase in sales over 2005.  Electronic Toolbox Inc has already sold in the first quarter this year what took 12 months to do last year. Simply AWESOME!!!!!!!

I have continued working on building links, working the keywords and just plain out having fun with this whole deal. I am so glad that you and I have had this opportunity to work together over the last 6 weeks. I have watched pages inside our web site mbelectronics.com go from sometimes as far back as 10 pages deep on Google to front page, top 5. In fact on some Google pages out of the top ten rankings hold 3 of the top 10 spots with articles and page links.

International sales have increased to the point that when I meet with Velleman Electronics at the EDS (Electronic Distributors Show) in Las Vegas this May we will be discussing the possibility of drop shipping direct from Velleman Belgium to our customers in the European market.

On the domestic side of things our Audio Visual Parts sales have continued to increase steadily.  We hold top positions on Google for all of the major keywords in that market, and just like the Electronic Tools side of the business the articles and page links in some instances hold 3 or 4 of the top 10 positions on Google.

I really have to giggle at times and at the same time pinch myself to see if this isn't just a dream. I can't tell you how many compliments I receive not only about our site, but about my articles. I never realized that my own words and ideas could possibly carry so much weight.

There is no doubt in my mind that the time you and I have spent working together has had a direct impact on the growth we are realizing. It's amazing that by making subtle changes to the web site could have such dramatic results in such a short period of time. We just won't tell my competitors our little secret!

Hope this letter finds all of you in good health. Sherri and I are looking forward to the start of the Platinum Club and sharing our excitement with other students who may still be having some doubts about their own futures. We both give thanks that we have been blessed with the opportunity to meet and work with all of you at Prosper.

Until we meet next,

- Mark & Sherri B. Bridgeville, PA

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Dear Prosper,

 

There are just not enough words to tell you how much my coach and Prosper have helped Guy and I with our website and retirement dream.  When we made the commitment to sign up with Prosper, we were both a bit apprehensive that we had taken on more than we could handle.  After all, neither one of us was “internet savvy.”  In fact we were both “scared” to venture out into the big world of the internet.  While the CD’s, articles, books and the Prosper Web page are all very valuable resources, the most important resource we received was in our time spent with our coach. 

 

Our coach’s compassion, patience, and encouragement have given us the confidence that we too can be successful in an e-commerce business.  Furthermore, his knowledge, understanding and teaching skills has given us valuable tools so that we are not afraid anymore.  Not to mention the ability for us to be competitive in a very competitive market. 

 

When we began, Guy and I knew how to send and receive emails and research a few things, but for the most part we were clueless.   Our coach gave us a crash course in a foreign language, so that we are able to avoid the pitfalls and costly mistakes that ignorance befalls.  In other words, he has taught us the foreign language of E-vocabulary with real meaning.  As a result, we now have a professional E-commerce business which has invited Fortune 500 businesses as customers.   While we still have a great deal of learning to do, we are ever grateful for our coach’s ability to coach us step by step with patience and a sense of humor.

 

Thank you Prosper and our coach for helping Guy and I not only to envision our dream, share the dream, but to live the dream. 

 

 May you “Prosper” always.  Blessings,

- Cathy & Guy M. Ferris, TX

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I am proud to say, we are Links for Learning, an online tutoring and homework help site established in August 2005 because of Prosper Inc.

 

For the past two years I have been working on my Master’s in Education with a teaching credential knowing that I was not going to be able to teach in a regular classroom. I have two kids and love being a stay at home mom and at this time in my life, it is impossible to work outside of the home. My husband was constantly asking me what I would do with my degree and I would say that I was going to become an online tutor. It just made perfect sense because with that type of job I could have the flexibility of teaching at home with my children. I talked about doing this for about a year until one day when he came home and said he signed us up to start our own online tutoring business through Prosper. Tyler is on the sales floor at Prosper and has seen the success of the students he has brought into the program and knew we would be successful.

 

Tyler explained that we would be given assignments each week and the coaches hated it when the students didn’t do what they asked them. He knew that in order to be successful, we had to listen and do everything we were told to do each week. One of his co-workers was working with our coach and would tell him how each week he would give more assignments and they couldn’t fall behind. I was so excited to start this program because my father had gone through the Real Estate Program and has bought, besides his other investments, a million dollar apartment complex in St. George, so I knew this package would be very effective.

 

I have to admit it was horrible timing, I was in the end of my Master’s Program and I had to start student teaching 2 weeks into the program for 10 weeks in a classroom from 8:00-2:30 everyday. That meant I would have to balance starting a new business, my kids, and a full time job. That is just another aspect of being successful, juggling what you have to do with what you want to do. I knew that our site was something that we would have to start from scratch, something that hadn’t been done by this company before and actually hasn’t really been done at all, making our business a pioneer in this industry.

 

The first session with our coach was great. The work was simple. He wanted us to put together a list of 400 keywords for our site. Having gotten my B.A. in Liberal Studies, research was a key component in this major making establishing different form of keywords simple. Another aspect of the assignment was how simple our coach was able to lay out the responsibilities. He gave us a website that made it fun to put a combination of words together and see if there were enough hits on the words. He set up the explanation in a manner that made it easy to follow. I found myself not wanting to disappoint him and rushing to finish the assignment.  I had this project finished within a day and emailed him our list asking for more to do. Our coach was able to give us little assignments to tide my ambition over until we met with him the following week.

 

The following week I was able to meet with Amber, who is a God Send to the Internet making business, she and I were able to agree on a logo within a day. Her logo was exactly what I was looking for, fun yet professional. It was amazing to see the image of the company I had been thinking about for the past 2 years coming to life. Amber was able to send me all the information I needed and was really good about fixing the minor problems I would find with the site, which was probably my miscommunication. Within two weeks, my site was up and looking like a real internet business. I do have to mention that I have been visiting probably 100’s of other businesses a week while I am trying to market our site and I do have the best looking site on the internet. It is SO kid friendly and colorful, yet has a sense of class.

 

Each week we would speak with our coach in our weekly sessions, I think I would email him at least 3 times a day with questions about what we had talked about or something I had stumbled upon while working on our site. Each assignment my husband and I would take with 110 %. If he asked for 3 press releases a month, we would do 5. Each assignment we saw as the greatest learning tool for our site. Here we were working with a personal coach who wanted our business to be a huge success and was handing us the “Secrets” of Internet advancement. The assignments were simple, but did require the 10-20 hours a week time commitment, which was requested when we bought the package.

 

Now, our business is up and running. We have been placed in over 200 sites in MSN, over 100 in Yahoo, and about 64 in Google, all over an 11-week span. Our coach emailed us that our rank was a 3 on Google. We were contacted by Channel 4 news within a month and asked to collaborate with the UEA. We will be presenting a power point presentation to them later this month. We have been talking with about 4 or 5 different companies that want to form a joint collaboration in putting our business in the classrooms and local libraries. Within 10 weeks, we had been contacted by a School District in Northern California asking to place our tutoring service inside their classroom. A School District in which we had NO idea where they were located, and had to go to Map Quest to find out that information. We are working with a local Provo School in putting our tutoring service in their school. We are getting at least 15 emails a day with online businesses that are linking our site on to their site. It might not seem like a lot, but you have to remember that we still haven’t finish up all our coaching sessions yet, making our success less than 12 weeks in the making. It is really amazing how fast this is happening because we followed what our coach suggested.

- Debbie C. Orem, UT

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I remember when I first started my website; I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do and what I wanted to sell. My first idea (which I was willing to go into blindly because I enjoyed it) was body building and nutrition supplements. When I told my coach that, he told me that it was a bit of an oversaturated market and would be difficult to compete in. He then took the time to go over some things that WOULD be profitable that were in my interests. I did the remainder of the research and built off that idea which lead to what I really enjoy, which is after-market performance for cars and trucks. It was an area that I enjoyed and studied on frequently since I had previously sold cars, but the after-market perspective was something that I needed to gather more info on. It was that interest in studying that made me want to know more and also gave me the drive to learn more and finish the site. It was difficult at first with there being so many products to load, but I kept at it and at the same time, started testing the waters of EBay with the techniques that my coach had taught me. I'd been selling odds and ends on EBay for several years before this, but the techniques that my coach taught me enabled me to make more of a profit and bring more traffic to my site at the same time. I tried a few things on EBay and found the one product that works very well on it and also gave me some great profit from. I would continue running auctions every week and found that I would answer e-mails continuosly throughout the day about what I had to offer and if I carried that particular part in a different model. It was almost a full-time job! It was definitely worth it, though. On average, after fees and other costs, I was bringing in abuot $500 profit a week and selling several thousands of dollars worth of product. One week where I decided to spend a little more money to advertise my products on EBay's homepage (about $40 for a 5-day auction) I had several people come to both my auctions and my site. In two weeks, I sold over $3000 worth of products on my site and depleted my entire inventory from my auctions, which made me a very nice profit of almost $2000 for myself. I have since been keeping up on my site working on other marketing techniques, both online and offline, to bring more individuals to my site. I am working on building a forum of my own for automotive performance talk and further promotion of my site. I've found that just general talk about cars and performance on these forums (with a link to my site on my signature) has brought many visitors to my site as well as several group sales on particular items and have even received some e-mails about drop-shipping to others to get their sites up and running, which I look forward to.

I know it was the focus on one-on-one coaching that got me the success rate that I am at and know that I will continue to build upon what I've created to make new and profitable for others and myself.

- Vince B. Pleasant Grove, UT

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When you asked me to write about what has happened for me since I started with Prosper, a saw a movie of events flash before me.  It's been incredible how quickly things have progressed.  When I started with Prosper I had no clue about websites, and felt intimidated by the thought of creating one.  My hand was held through the process (thanks coach, thanks tech support!), and in less than a month my sight was created.  I love my sight because it truly represents me.  Everyone that I know who has viewed it has told me how incredible it is.  I'm so pleased with the result!  After creating my website, you were so helpful in guiding me with ideas on how to get traffic (i.e., reciprocal links, back links, directories, and press releases).  Just a few days after writing my press release "Moms Get Fit While Pushing Strollers", I've ranked within the top 10 on a few of my keywords in some of the highest ranking search engines!  I was blown away!

 

On top of all the great things that have been happening with my website, I've received many opportunities which I believe are seeds being planted, and will sprout into a large tree.  Shortly after producing my Stroller Workout for Moms DVD, I began doing a monthly fitness segments on KUSI Channel 9 News, and gained sponsorship from an upscale fitness clothing line known as "Marika".  I also landed a segment on Bob Circosta's TV show "What a Great Idea!” which will be filmed in January (note: Bob Circosta is one of the original hosts of the Home Shopping Network).  When I presented my DVD to Bob's panel of guests, Home Shopping Network indicated they wanted me to speak with them after my filming on Bob's show.

 

After going to "Cracking the Millionaire Code", I networked with some amazing people.  One of which is a doctor at Kaiser.  He aided me in connecting with the Regional Office at Kaiser Hospital who has indicated a possible interest in distributing my DVD in their hospitals.  I also met an incredible Marketing Specialist named Charlie Lyons, who has started the negotiation process to link my DVD with the stroller I use on my video called "Baby Trend".  Baby Trend's largest distributor is Babies R Us (which is one of the largest distributors for baby products and strollers), and their strollers are due to be in Target for the holidays.  Charlie has proposed for Baby Trend to buy my DVD at a wholesale price, and use it as a promotional offer with the stroller for the holidays and for the future.  The potential for this endeavor is exponential!!

 

On November 14 I will be filmed in First Trimester Yoga.  This the first DVD in the series, since I will make a DVD for each trimester, i.e., second, third, then postpartum yoga.  My producer, Miles Johnston from Sore Toe Productions, is phenomenal.  I have a fantastic team of people (including Prosper of course), and I feel the possibilities are endless! (I also couldn't do it without the tremendous support of my wonderful husband, Brad!)

 

I've learned that I need a team who can help and support me, and I've found it!  Now I feel that I can reach my ultimate dream, which is to help women all over the world reach their optimum potential in body, mind, and spirit.

 

Thanks for everything,

- Sara H. Poway, CA

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I just wanted you to know that since I last emailed you, I have gone from about two people who ordered from me to over 20. Things picked up last month. I have also sold some items on eBay as well, one music box sold for close to $200 in an online auction and a close second sold for over $70. 99% of my orders have come from ladies, and I have been able to talk to a few of them of them as well.

I think that the sales part is good, but what really is great is having a customer base that I can work on building a trusting relationship with. A person's having their own list just makes things easier. I even had one gentleman sign up for my newsletter on Monday. He was the first. I wasn't putting a whole lot of stock in the newsletter part, but I was proved wrong. So, things are finally looking up.

I appreciate as always your kindness and guidance. Thanks for all of your help. Have a safe and blessed New Year.

- Monique H. Stephens City, VA

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I have to admit I was skeptical at the beginning of this program. However, I realized it was critical for me to take a step if I wanted to come even close to achieving any of my goals. So with faith, conviction and commitment I decided to do the Prosper internet program, with minimal if any internet knowledge.

 

With your approach, wanting to know me as a person and not just another student, you helped me immensely, eliminating much of skepticism. I had no idea what was out there in the internet world. What an eye-opening experience!

I was amazed at all the different sites you sent to for information and knowledge. At first I thought you were reading from a script. (Realize, of course, you were not). Using the tools you introduced me to; I was able to intelligently determine a product to market. The domain name was a bit of a challenge. Again, with your able assistance, that goal was easily accomplished. With your explanation of hosting and where to go to get that done, I soon had a domain name registered and hosted in an efficient manner.

 

The real challenge then became marketing the site, at which you appear to be wizard. I was apprehensive to take this step, but finally got the hang of it with your patience, support and encouragement. The intricacies of title tags, alt tags, keywords, keyword phrases and submission descriptions seemed like a forest I would never see the trees in. Again, you persisted and got me to where I need to be with those marketing tools.

 

I am confident this is going to be a very lucrative site, and I have you to thank for getting me to this position.

- Spen C. Rockland, ME

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I was living life by scrapping by. Pay check to pay check. Struggling to make ends meat. I saw this program and decided to do something to change my situation. I believed it could help me. I enrolled in the program and started learning how to make money with e-commerce. I started learning about market research and finding products to sell. It took a little while to find something that I could do well with and be interested in. After that I applied the strategies that my coach taught me and created a really nice looking web page. He taught me how to get it noticed and get traffic to my Page. After a week I was able to see my web page in the number 6 slot on the first page of Google for my key word.

The goals that I have are, continue to follow the strategies and advice of my coach. Finish setting up my page so I can start making money with my business. Stay on the first page of Google with my key word. Make in on the first page of Google with other keywords. Get out of debt. Provide a better life for my family. The Coaching program helped me by encouraging me to do something about my life to make it better. I have always worked hard in my life. I just needed to work smarter. This program is helping me do that.

 

- Jason H. Orem, UT

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I look at where I was in December 2005, and where I am now at the end of February 2006.  My life and my attitude of the future have totally changed for the better.  Although I am no longer young and am rapidly approaching retirement age, and am in a dead-end job that I figured I would stay with until I retired, I am now looking forward to the very near future of being able to be totally self-sufficient and free of my dead-end job. 

 

I have a full-time job, and also my husband and I are vendors at Native American pow-wows where we sell silver jewelry as well as beads and other items that pertain to Native Americans.  Many people had asked if my silver jewelry was on-line but I would have to tell them no.  I had created a web store that had several items but no silver jewelry.  My web store was so obscure that it basically received very little hits.  I am an average web-surfer, but knew nothing of how to build a website.  HTML code was totally a foreign language to me.  I had once made an attempt to build a website but because none of it made sense to me I got discouraged and discontinued the project.  I knew a person could make money on the internet, I knew others were doing it, I just did not know how.

What made the change for the future was I responded to an email from EMI regarding making money on the internet.  Later on that week I received a phone call from Prosper asking me to enroll in their program.  When I enrolled, I never dreamed I, myself, would be able to build a website of my own, and at the time I had no idea what I would sell on my site.  My coach has guided me every step of the way.  From helping me to think of a name for the web business to helping me in the decision to sell my Native American silver, to teaching me about linking and all the other aspects of having a good website that gets on the front page of Google.  I would not have been able to do it without my coach and Prosper.  It has not been easy because of the big learning curve of getting up to speed with computers, the time sacrifice in order to allow enough time to complete this project, as well as working full-time, going to pow-wows on weekends, etc.  I do not consider the time sacrifice a chore but a privilege knowing I am doing something to better myself and my family.  Looking at what I have accomplished, I believe anyone could do this (regardless of their age) if they have the desire to succeed and the proper training of how it is done.  I know none of this would have been possible for me if it was not for Prosper.  Thank you Prosper for my new future.

- Mary P. Grandview, MO

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My experience with Prosper has gone very well.  Working with my coach
in the internet coaching program has been a very positive experience.  He
is a good teacher and has been able to show me the necessary steps and provide me with information that has been invaluable in starting my own website. 
I realize now I could not have done this on my own very easily.

He is always very helpful and quick to answer any questions I might have. It has been good to have my coach as a resource to turn to when I need some
help.  I have learned the necessary steps and marketing strategies to be
successful, and have been able to create a website of my own.  Thanks!  

- Eliza W. Orem, UT

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Rob and I cannot put into words how thankful we are at having being given the opportunity to be coached in our undertakings with Prosper Inc, Internet Business.  Rob and I had already started a web base business when we were introduced to Prosper, but we had many problems and were not going forward in our business approach.

 

Our coach’s knowledge of the web marketing tools is outstanding and the way he conveys this knowledge to fledglings is unprecedented.  He doesn’t make you feel inferior when you ask questions, but always has answers and usually many different suggestions on how to accomplish what ever your initial goal was that generated the question.

 

We are still learning from the many different topics and tools that our coach exposed us to, and we feel confident that our web base business will be more successful because of his coaching.  He always reminded us to not wait for our weekly telephone conference calls, but to call or email him with any questions that we had throughout the week, and his short response time gave us the continued support that we needed for our business to be successful. 

 

As I said we had many set backs in getting our web based business up and running until we met our coach, with his continual support and guidance on different ways to overcome these challenges we now know we will be very successful web base business owners. 

 

We feel that we would have probably given up on our dream of owning our own business if it hadn’t been for our coach’s on going support and instructions.  Thank you Prosper for assigning us to him, he is the best!!

 

 

Sincerely and Thankfully,

- Rob & Nancy F. Las Vegas, NV

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I found myself stuck... with many dreams to keep me going and motivated to plan a different path; but without a clear idea as to how to accomplish and put in motion my plan, I turned to Prosper and their expert staff.  Prosper was able to help me set clear and concrete goals in order to get to where I eventually want to be. They also showed me techniques and tools that I could use to make my journey easier, and to be able to reach my goals.

But, the greatest lesson that I have learned working with my coach and the staff at Prosper is that my dreams can become my reality. They have instilled in me a confidence that I was lacking and would never have been able to overcome in order to reach my goals. I now believe that what I want to accomplish, and that my ideas are valuable ones.

I look forward to one day e-mailing my coach and telling him "I DID IT"....

I may be taking it slower than most, but I do believe that I will accomplish what I have set out to do--and I thank Prosper for that.

- Carlos R. New York, NY

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I own/manage my own water/wastewater operations services company and have wanted to establish an internet related business for years so that I could have multiple streams of income and hopefully retire early. I have dabbled in a few Internet related businesses; however, I was an amateur trying to create a web page and attempting to advertise. I signed up for the Prosper system to overcome the previous obstacles in using the Internet and I wanted to get serious about making money and providing the multiple income streams. It has been great working with my coach as he was able to provide teaching relative to my needs and at a correct pace. Midway through the “course” I had him change courses as I became involved in a program and needed assistance with marketing. He provided great insight into methods I didn’t know existed. He was extremely flexible in working with me, as some weeks did not allow proper preparation on my part. He would adjust to that and provide additional information that could assist me in my current or future internet pursuits. I feel comfortable contacting him to answer any questions or to review articles or ads before publishing. I look forward to continuing support even after the coaching period is over.

- Dennis D. Cheswick, PA

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Gourd Harvest Reaps Financial Success Through EBay!!!

 

EBay Has Changed My Life!!

 

I used to bore people with pictures of my grandkids but now I have pictures in my wallet of the giant gourds I am selling on eBay!!! When my coach encouraged me to set up a sellers account on eBay four weeks ago, who knew that I would be getting up in the middle of the night because I can’t wait until the clock goes off at day light to see if someone might be bidding on my gourds!! 

 

My coach gave me some pointers but I have had to learn a lot by trial and error since I am an old lady and not too good on the computer!!  He had shown me how to research. I went in and some of the things I had that I thought would be selling for a lot of money were only going for 99 cents!! So I started racking my brain. I told my husband,” There is something we have that we think nothing of and costs us nothing that people are buying!!” 

 

I have been told before that when I get hold of a problem, I hang on and shake it like a bulldog!! And that is what I did. I decided I would think of something if it was the last thing I did!! I was moving some things around in our old shed later on that week and had to move “ the gourds.” The gourds are a long story. My husband planted about a million-gourd seeds year before last and they all came up. We transplanted gourd plants everywhere. We had gourds hanging from every tree on our place. We took gourds to the family members and they had gourds everywhere…Gourds of every shape and description… God is good. At harvest time we put as many as we could in our barn and in our shed. I strung hammocks and we filled them full to overflowing. (Some of these gourds weighted over 50 lbs before they dried!!) I cursed the gourds!! They stink when they are drying!! I stopped going into the shed. So I had almost forgotten the gourds…I thought, ”Why not see if they are selling on eBay.” Lo and Behold! They were and the giant ones for upwards of $10.00 each…I took pictures and put them in and wrote my little description. Mat had told me to make my entry different, so I added instructions on planting the seeds inside!! That did the trick. They started getting bids that very night. It was the most exciting week!!! Just to see those bids going up almost made my blood pressure rise!! Sure enough, some of them sold for over $10.00. 

 

But before the week was out, I thought to myself,” why not sell gourd seeds!!” A gourd will have two or three hundred seeds. I put them up for bid as 50 seeds with instructions for planting them that I use for maximum results. The bids came in and some of the packs went for as much as $4.25 plus shipping!!  I was up checking on my gourd seeds for sale last night and did a little more research. Guess what!! There was one offer for cottonseed… and it was selling. I live right next to a 50-acre cotton field!! As soon as I finish this article I am going out there and pick cotton!! Can’t wait to get a picture and get them on EBay!! 

 

Did you say you’d like to see pictures of my grandkids?? What grandkids??? Here are pictures of my giant gourds. Let me tell you………….

- Sandra C. Athens, AL

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I thought I knew my way around the internet and I also thought I knew how to make a decent living from it.  However, I have been working with my coach for about a couple of months now and to say I have learned a lot is an understatement. 

I have been particularly impressed with the tools and ideas that my coach has provided me in terms of SEO and JV's.  By utilizing the tools and advice he has provided, in conjunction with optimizing my website, I have been generating sales that have averaged over $3000 a week over the last number of weeks!

In hindsight, I did know quite a bit about marketing, but now after working with Propser Coaching, I know a great deal more!

- Paul P. Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK

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WOW!  How can I relate in one email what I've gained over the last several weeks?  I've learned a lot about many things--selling on E-bay (or sometimes not selling), searching E-bay for elements I can use in doing  my art work, then selling it on E-bay, Spiritual Warfare (I had a lot of opposition from the enemy) , feedback, using Paypal.  So many things!

I have learned to have confidence in my abilities again--abilities I once used to organize a whole Student Loan Program for our local Community College, to raise 3 kids, to teach 5th and 6th graders at our Church School (kids who were determined NOT to learn anything from me and ended up being 'my kids').  Somewhere along the way I had lost my self-confidence, but through this program I have found that "old dogs CAN learn new tricks".  I just never imagined it would be on a computer. I have lived for 58 years and was raised in a time when computers weren’t even thought of.  When I left my job at the Carl Albert State College in l981 we were just getting computers to use at the college.  I had to take a class in computer programming since I was on the Administrative Staff.  I was terrified and confused about what a computer was all about. At that time I had my third miscarriage since I had worked at Carl Albert and made the decision that my two kids at home were more important than a job.  I was so happy that I had made the decision to quit my job to stay home and raise my kids as a full time Mom.  Little did I know that computers were in my future and I was actually going to learn to have confidence that I could indeed use computers competently.  (Thanks coach!)

 I've learned a little about marketing and "touting my own wares".
I have, thus far, learned a lot about building a web page and found out how much there is I just didn't know about building a web page! I've been excited, then depressed, then (thank goodness) excited again.

I have gotten great experience on E-bay.  I now know how to find the "deals" and how to bid on them.  I'm not sure how much that will profit me in the future but it sure was fun!

Again, I say WOW!  Can't wait for the next lesson I will learn on my way to my GREAT SUCCESS!!!  (Thanks coach; thanks Prosper learning!)

 

Well that's my success story so far!

- Alana S. Poteau, OK

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We are very thankful that we have been given the opportunity to be coached in our endeavors with Prosper. When we first became involved, there was the anxiety and nervousness that is inbred when confronting something new and unknown. Along with that, whenever someone said, “internet”, shivers would run up and down our backs because we really never understood the potential that it holds. That feeling disappeared the first moment that we started talking with our coach and he explained in detail about his internet coaching role.  He has the knowledge and inside track that enabled us to feel that we could and would be successful. Looking back now at what we have learned, we know that we would still be at the starting gate because of the lack of understanding and the lack of initiative in stepping forth into new horizons. As you can guess, all of these negatives were erased in a very short time and we know that we are on the road to where we want to be. 

 

There still are some not so easy times happening because we are still learning and our coach seems to want to drive us pretty hard, but with the ability to ask for and receive help just about any time that we need it, we have overcome those situations. We appreciate the short response time and we really are thankful that we are depending on someone that is doing exactly what we want to do. We feel that our coach has made these strategies specifically for us and our up-coming business, but we do realize that he is using with us, what works. Thanks Prosper, but especially, thanks to our coach.

 

Sincerely and Warmly,

- Barbara & Raymond K. Holland, MA

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Encouragement, that's what was needed in my life more than anything. Just emerging from a divorce with 2 kids involved and losing a business I had been in for 20 plus years, direction and encouragement was probably one of the more important issues in my life. That's where Prosper Learning entered the picture. After looking, searching and looking some more I came across the Prosper Learning concept and it seemed to have all the components I was looking for and over the next several months with their concept and coaching/materials the future started looking up. With their expertise and encouragement my website took shape. After building the website then gaining the knowledge of the submission process then implementing it, I was off to a new venture.  The old adage, you get out of it what you put in to it, holds true here also but I do notice that when working on anything to do with the internet I find myself remembering what prosper has taught me and using it to my advantage.

- Tab C. Hornedale, ID

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I have learned the structure of a properly administered and marketed website. The power of the individual tools has been an eye-opener, press releases, writing articles, joint ventures, e-mail campaigns, they all work together nicely. I started a branded, private labeled, health product site. I started getting sales within 3 months of the inception of the idea. Now, 3 months later, I am consistently selling product, have begun wholesaling the product and am using o.p.m. to make a direct response 60 sec TV infomercial about the product that will air regionally in Jan 2007, one year after starting with Prosper. I have also started 4 other websites, drop ship product, affiliate site and am still working on an info site and a directory site. All in all I am very satisfied with Prospers coaching program. It has given me the drive to take my online business' to a level I've never been and opened my eyes to the long term opportunities gained from having multiple websites.

- John T. Southampton, PA

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Since starting to work with Prosper Learning I have achieved so much more than I expected.  My Mentor couldn't have been more informative, helpful and easy to work with. The knowledge regarding building my own website and working with eBay has been enormous.  Since I began, I now have a fully functional Website that is integrated with Paypal; it has an Autoresponder, E-mail Accounts, and everything anyone would need to become successful.  I've been selling items on eBay for approximately 2 months and I'm getting a great reputation.  I've sold 36 items that I found around the house that I didn't need anymore and I've received 28 positive feedbacks. Hopefully, more will come in the next few days. Once I get my own Store set up, there'll be no stopping me!  The use of how the internet works and how to manipulate Meta tags, keywords, titles, etc., have been invaluable to my business.  I know if I keep doing what I've been taught, there will be no end to the success I can achieve.

- Jean W. Fair Oaks, CA

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My Experience with my Internet Marketing Coach

     

In December of last year, just prior to retiring from my job as a probation officer with the State of Hawaii, I received an e-mail from Prosper Learning. I was just going to dump it but, my husband said to go ahead and give it a try. I was assigned to a coach and things were off and running. By the beginning of January 2006, I was speaking weekly with my coach and preparing for a two month trip to the mainland. As my coach and I continued our weekly conversation, I discovered that I knew very little about the workings of internet sales and marketing. Things began to get a little difficult, as I was traveling every day and never knowing if I would have internet service to keep up with my homework. I was beginning to get very frustrated and was wondering what on earth did I get myself into and how would I recoup my investment. I was wondering if I would need to return to full time employment and at the same time missing all of the diversity and excitement of my former employment. My coach was great. He was patient with all of my problems including several weeks of illness upon my return to Hawaii and the remodeling of our bathroom. I don’t think that I would have been able to make through the transition from work to retirement without his help. He kept me focused and he taught me so many new things. He was always ready to answer my questions and never made me feel incompetent. As a former school teacher, I could see that my coach is great teacher and coach.

 

My website is almost finished and will be published soon. My coach suggested starting a blog page while I finish the website and it is going well. My coach has provided me with the tools I need to make this or any internet business a success. Thank you coach.

- Cynthia W. Waimanalo, HI

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I recently suffered a severe illness which required 2 years rehabilitation and forced me into early retirement. I then urgently looked around for the best ways to earn an income from home. I don't believe the get rich quick schemes so set out to acquire the skills to run an online business.

I went to another coaching company first but they were not good at all. It became obvious that they were mainly reading from scripts, they couldn't answer my questions and I soon began to realize some of their advice was blatantly wrong.

I had got my fingers burned and I was very skeptical when I first approached Prosper, but what a difference!! - The first time on the site I was presented with pages of resources on all aspects of my chosen course as well as access to material in other related subjects. The student care is excellent; when I telephone they are always professional, polite and helpful. I also have access to Resource Centre staff who will answer my technical questions on an ongoing basis. And all this is provided IN ADDITION to my Coaching Sessions.

My Coaching sessions were always delivered promptly and at the agreed time. This was pretty important as I live in the UK in a totally different time-zone. My coach was friendly and efficient in his delivery and was always ready and more than able to answer my questions. My coach, himself, has a number of successful websites as I understand all the coaches do, so coaching is not just an academic interest, he's been there, done that, and he knew exactly where I'm was coming from and how to help me with all aspects of the business.

I had a particular need to attract more traffic and get decent rankings in the search engines. In a very short time my coach has taken me from the basics of on page and off page optimization through to more advanced techniques. I am now seeing my site appearing on the first page of some search engines for some of my keywords and I know exactly what to do to repeat the process for my other keywords.

My goal during the course has always been to achieve, first, - a basic income, and then a very decent income, and to do this from home. I'm not there yet, but I'm on my way. I shall continue to use the Resource Centre and the Prosper website resources to support me in this goal.

I'm looking forward to achieving these goals which will enable me to recover my lifestyle which would be a huge plus for me and those close to me.

One of the nicest things that that the course enabled me to do was to build a website with interactive bulletin-board for the patients at the Rehabilitation centre that I had attended. I didn't earn any money but it made many people very happy, including me!  

 

- David B. Bournemoth, Dorset, UK

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As e-bay customers for the last few years, we have often thought that we should start selling too.  But, not really knowing where or how to go about it, we just never seemed to get around to trying.  Then, our personal mentor encouraged us to start listing just a few items a week, and he told us how to find out what would sell and how to determine opening bid amounts. 

 

We listed five items the first week, and we sold them all!  Considering these were just items lying around the house, we accomplished two things.  We started clearing out some of our unwanted clutter, and we made money. 

That first week’s success hooked us.  Since then, we’ve listed at least 5 items a week, and some weeks we listed as many as twenty-five.  The clutter around our house has continued to decline, and our earnings have added up.

 

We have sold more than 50 items in the past 2 ½ months, and we’ve learned so much from the experience, that we’re experiencing greater success each week.  We now know which days are the best days to list on and other little tricks that make our auctions more likely to get multiple bids and higher selling prices.  Most of the items we sell are items we already own but no longer want; items we might have just thrown away if we hadn’t learned to sell on e-bay.  But, we’ve also become much more aware of the selling potential of ‘bargains’ that we come across whenever we’re shopping. 

 

We recently purchased an item at a live auction for $2.00 that we were able to list on e-bay and sell for $18.50.  We made an incredible 825% profit!  But, that was not our best success.  We also found items in a clearance room of one of our favorite stores that we were able to sell on e-bay for more than 1500% profit.

 

We have had some of our purchases fail to sell on e-bay, but rather than give up on these items entirely, we recently found an open-air market where it is free for vendors to set up.  So, we’ll be packing our surplus items up and selling them on Saturdays.

 

E-bay is just the beginning of our success story.  We’ve also built a web site and started our own e-commerce business under the guidance of our mentor.  The sales for our website are just starting to roll in, but with a $200 sale from a single customer within the past week, we have total faith that we’re heading in the right direction; toward success and financial freedom!

- Howard & Heidi G. Lewiston, PA

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I always knew that the internet was a potential gold mine. I bought e-books and subscribed to many newsletters promising to show me all of the secrets to making real money online. Most of these gurus left me with more questions than when I first started. I tried to create a website based on affiliate marketing and even tried Adsense. After everything I tried to make money online, I still came up short and I spent a lot more money than I had made.

When I started the coaching program, I realized that I had to learn to crawl before I could walk. I was showed how to do research to find a good market and we concentrated on areas in which I had interest. The coaching sessions were progressive and very personal. The sessions were oriented to my level of experience and my needs.  

My coach shared information and knowledge with me that would have taken countless hours of research and money to have learned on my own. As everyone knows, things are always changing in technology and SEO is no different. My coach continued to keep up with the latest SEO news and passed this knowledge on.

 
I created a website which has over 1400 products and specializes in aquarium products. I was able to create this site, build quality links through different promotions and start receiving orders all within a few short weeks of starting this course.

Over the next few weeks I plan to continue to aggressively promote my site with everything I have learned and to be in the top 5 in Google for my niche. I plan to continue my education and to continue to increase my sales each day. I hope to create more sites in the future and to replace my 9-5 income. 

- Ron L. Galloway, OH

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I always knew that the internet was a potential gold mine. I bought e-books and subscribed to many newsletters promising to show me all of the secrets to making real money online. Most of these gurus left me with more questions than when I first started. I tried to create a website based on affiliate marketing and even tried Adsense. After everything I tried to make money online, I still came up short and I spent a lot more money than I had made.

When I started the coaching program, I realized that I had to learn to crawl before I could walk. I was showed how to do research to find a good market and we concentrated on areas in which I had interest. The coaching sessions were progressive and very personal. The sessions were oriented to my level of experience and my needs.  

My coach shared information and knowledge with me that would have taken countless hours of research and money to have learned on my own. As everyone knows, things are always changing in technology and SEO is no different. My coach continued to keep up with the latest SEO news and passed this knowledge on.

 
I created a website which has over 1400 products and specializes in aquarium products. I was able to create this site, build quality links through different promotions and start receiving orders all within a few short weeks of starting this course.

Over the next few weeks I plan to continue to aggressively promote my site with everything I have learned and to be in the top 5 in Google for my niche. I plan to continue my education and to continue to increase my sales each day. I hope to create more sites in the future and to replace my 9-5 income. 

- Ron L. Galloway, OH

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