Take a look at the NAMS Product Funnel

This weekend, I spent 3 days making new friends and renewing old acquaintances in Denver at JV Alert. We’re doing lots of business and making lots of progress.

People have been asking me for years to do more personal coaching. And I’ve finally decided the time is right.

As you probably know, I’m building out the NAMS product catalog. Last week, I launched the e-mail coaching and MyNAMS Insiders Club Lifetime coaching package.

But I wanted you to get the entire picture of the MyNAMS business.

As a marketer, you need a funnel. Almost every successful marketer has a product funnel in place. I do too. But not every marketer will reveal the entire funnel.

I will.

Let’s start from the bottom

(BTW, you can see the entire funnel here: http://nams.ws/funnel)

Why start there? Because the bottom three tiers are cumulative. In other words, get the VIP Days coaching and you get everything else in the funnel above it. So…

VIP Days: 2 days at my house or your location and we work exclusively dissecting and / or building your business out perfectly. (No sales page – call me to apply.) $25,000

Mastermind: 5-7 people at my house for 2 days. I facilitate an interactive session where this small group works together to solve problems and build business. (No sales page – call me to apply.) $10,000

Lifetime Platinum MyNAMS Insiders Club: This is the very popular Insiders Club on steroids. You get everything in the blue section of the funnel plus several added bonuses. You have to see this group coaching offer at http://NAMS.ws/pc to believe it. $3999

E-mail Coaching: Daily e-mail coaching for any question you ask. Check out what’s included here: http://NAMS.ws/pc. $397 / $997 or $1997

Open Office Hours: Part of the e-mail coaching, OOH has not been released publicly yet, but we’ll be launching that soon. First come, first serve live questions answered between 10 and noon CT on Tuesdays. http://NAMS.ws/pc $197 / $497

MyNAMS Insiders Club: Monthly training, private community, and other bonuses. http://NAMSInsiders.com $37 / $365

Training Products: Single training products on specific topics. http://NAMS.ws/micro $27 to $197.

NAMS Workshop: Awesome experience based, 4-track live-event training program. $697 (discounted right now to $397) http://NextNAMS.com

Lead Generation products: Free and low-cost lead generation products.

Lot of choices! What’s first?

The best deal we have going right now is the Lifetime Platinum MyNAMS Insiders Club. At that level, you amazing group coaching, personal email coaching, all the products above including the NAMS Workshops.

Be sure to check this out at http://NAMS.ws/pc before we close that one down.

Why you should get in on the MyNAMS Insider Club NOW!

A few years ago, I sat in an 8×8 cube with 100s of other minions, a serf in the corporate fiefdom, dreaming of freedom, flexibility and financial independence. Occasionally, I’d stand up and look over the cubes to see people all around trading their lives for a paycheck.

Not me, I vowed.

So, when I dumped my day job, I was able to do it because of the foundation I’d built including relationships, products and systems.

That’s what we focus on in the MyNAMS Insiders Club.

But the Insiders Club is more than just a great foundation of training. It’s real group of peers who help one another and follow my lead through the monthly training and challenges.

Sue Porter, one of our members, sent this note below to one of her friends and clients:

“I don’t usually share this with anyone, because it’s my litle insider secret.  This membership site is THE BEST out there, and is loaded with valuable content, videos, and trainings relevant to what both of us do.” 

Right now, you can get into the MyNAMS Insider Club for just $7 for 30 days.

You’ll get a ton of benefits including:

• This month’s Micro Workshop Youtube Marketing with Lou Bortone
• Next month’s workshop training on Advanced Affiliate Marketing with Connie Ragen Green
• Next month’s 30-day challenge on Youtube Marketing
• Three previous Micro Workshops including…
• -> Hacker Attacker: How to Protect Your Site from Hackers with security expert Regina Smola
• -> Simple Product Creation with Kevin Riley
• -> Facebook for Business with Stacey Myers
• WordPress Plug-in Bonus:Simple S3 Video+
• WordPress Plug-in Bonus: My Smart List lead pages, banner ad and optin generator
• NAMS Tutorials: Cloud Storage Options
• NAMS Tutorials: Inside Evernote
• And a ton of benefits in the MyNAMS site…

Get in now and don’t miss another minute of the MyNAMS Insiders Club.

Click Here to try the MyNAMS Insiders Club for just $7

 

Things are getting worse, not better…

I’ve been hacked three times in the last 6 years.

And each time, the hack was more insidious, more sophisticated, more threatening and more damaging.

I’m careful, very careful, but not as careful as I should have been in the beginning.

For example, I didn’t have a backup strategy. I was doing backups, but there was no real strategy to it because I relied on my hosting company at the time to do their “major” backups.

Boy, was that a mistake.

But before we get into that, let’s just look at what’s happened in the past few months and what’s expected to happen this year.

Since Thanksgiving – November, 2013 – hacking activity has been even more ruthless.

Start with Target…

If you shopped at the giant retail chain around Black Friday (Nov. 27 to Dec. 15), chances are your credit card information can be purchased on some eastern European black market for anywhere from $20 to $100.

That’s the going rate for stolen credit card data.

Target first reported that 40,000,000 (yep, that many zeros…) were pilfered in what was called a “meticulously planned and intricately coordinated attack to penetrate the retailer’s defenses and make off with a spectacular booty.”

That number has now surged to 110,000,000 cards stolen. The value of the heist was said to be nearly $5.5 billion.

Clearly identity theft is alive and lucrative, and getting even more so.

Target (and you if you own a business) have a responsibility to protect your customer’s data. That is not cheap.

What about your email?

This is becoming one of the biggest threats on the net today. I personally know two people who have had their email hacked, password resets intercepted, and lost their entire websites when the hacker had them transferred to their own account.

But that’s not as bad as one of GW & Wade’s clients. That firm manages about $4 billion in client financial instruments.

One client’s email was hacked and the hacker used the client’s information to move $290,000 from his personal account to the hacker in foreign transfers.

Not only did Wade have to restore the $290k to the client, but it was fined by the SEC another $250k for not protecting the client’s assets more securely.

Email hacking is becoming more common. According to a Senior Vice President of client services at Charles Schwab, they have seen a fivefold increase in email-related fraud over the past two years.

And then there is the DDoS with aWeber and others…

If you do marketing online, you were probably affected this past week by the distributed denial of service attacks that happened against some of the biggest companies we use every day: aWeber, Get Response, Meetup and others.

What is DDoS?

It’s not a hack. It’s just throwing so much traffic at a site that it cripples the servers. And done well with automated traffic bots, the site stays crippled until the company moves IP addresses, a costly and time intensive process that can keep a site down for days.

And then it can happen again, like it did with aWeber this week taking them down for nearly 4 days.

The consequences of that are severe:

1)   Can’t broadcast email

2)   Can’t collect opt-ins

3)   Can’t click on links if you’re tracking clicks

4)   And some people weren’t even getting their autoresponder messages

The fear, of course, was that you could lose your list database. That’s happened before, but not in this case. But it does make you aware that you MUST backup your aWeber lists on a regular basis too.

How bad is it going to get?

Those above scary enough, but now it’s going to get even worse according to Engineering and Technology Magazine.

These are the top 7 cyber-threats of 2014 as evaluated and analyzed by a private security firm called WatchGuard.

1)   Computer kidnapping – the CryptoLocker attack of 2013 was a hack that took over your computer and made you pay to get it back. This is called ransomware – a particularly bad strain of malware, and VERY lucrative for the hackers, which means there will be many imitators in 2014.

2)   Hacking the Internet of Things – As all of our devices are connected, expect more hacking of your car, phone, watches and medical devices. Nasty.

3)   Major state-sponsored attack – I’ve said for a long time that if our enemies came ashore in Long Beach, California, they would be met with the might of the military. The fact is that we’re being invaded daily by foreign states in an organized attempt to crack the system. It’s going to get worse.

4)   Harrassing the Obamacare site – It started out bad, but even now shows significant vulnerability. And of course, it’s an incredibly juicy high-profile target with a lot of valuable private data.

5)   High profile targets suffering chain-of-trust hack – When you trust a 3^rd party to allow them into your system, you’re basically increasing the risk of hacking exponentially. Expect a lot of penetration through the doors opened to trusted partners this year.

6)   Meaner malware – This is the ugly one for us small players. And the predictions are especially dire about new batches of malware that encrypt or, even worse, destroy all your data. The only recourse is to back up everything securely, often and in different locations so you can restore cleanly immediately.

7)   Exploiting cyber-psychology – in other words, those phishing emails and letters from grandma are going to get even more sophisticated so they look and feel like real communications.

It’s a scary world out there.

What’s your strategy to protect yourself?

When I was hacked the first time, I relied on the backups the host kept on a regular basis.

Except that wasn’t everything. And in fact, most of it was corrupt. And what wasn’t corrupted was infected with the very same malware.

So, I lost it all.

Bad stuff…

The last time we were hacked, we had multiple backups in different locations at regular intervals with great date and data integrity.

That made it easy to ensure that we had everything ready to back up as soon as we identified the infected files.

Having a strategy for backup is the key to restoring your business quickly. Sign up for a special webinar here to see how you can protect yourself.

Hacking happens.

But if you’re backed up offsite, you can move to a new host with minimal down time.

That’s why we’re doing this webinar with Regina Smola and her guest to help you build a back up strategy that protects you in any situation.

Click the continue button to register for free now.

Meet Wendy Fisher – MyNAMS Insiders Club member!

And Insiders Challenge Ninja!

Wendy is proudly showing off the 5 Insider Monthly Challenge mugs she’s earned by completing the monthly challenges hosted in the private Facebook group.

When we began these challenges, even I was a little surprised by how many people loved working toward earning a mug each month.

It turns out the structure of executing more every day to build your business is a really good idea. The Insiders love the Challenges and they are here to stay.

Is it hard work for me? You bet.

But I love it too. Because I learn as well. And I implement things I should have implemented long ago.

As my friend Alex Mandossian says,

“NAMS100-400 are the boats and MyNAMS is the tide. A rising tide lifts all boats.”

And they are rising fast in the Insiders Club.

http://NAMSInsiders.com

Here’s a list of those we’ve done so far:

• August: Content Creation Challenge (No Guest)
• September: Product Creation Challenge (No Guest)

In October, we started tying these challenges to the Micro Workshop we created the month previous.

• October: Traffic Challenge (Guest Ross Goldberg – Traffic Mastery & Guest Sterling Valentine – JV Partnerships with Sterling Valentine)
• November: Passive Income Challenge (Guest Nicole Dean – Found Money: Creating Streams of Passive Income)
• December: Email Marketing Challenge (Guest Terry Dean – e-Mail Marketing Mastery)
• January: Easy Kindle Publishing Challenge (Guest Kristen Eckstein – Easy Kindle Publishing)
• February: Business Operations Challenge (Guest Wil Mattos – Business Operations with Will Mattos)
• March: Advanced List Building Challenge (Guest John Cornetta)

And we’ll continue with them until August when we make a decision to either repeat the challenges or create brand new ones or just fill in the blanks.

http://NAMSInsiders.com

What’s the point?

There’s a couple of reasons I’m telling you this:

1. At the end of March, the MyNAMS Insiders Club price is going up significantly – the value is just too great to be charging the low-ball rate that we are right now.
2. Insiders are getting it done. In a big way. And want a few of them to tell you about it here.

Wendy Fisher:

“I love my mugs, symbols for my small successes online, and the challenges are pushing me further each month (despite being online for over ten years now)! Insiders get Mugs for completing the monthly challenge, but also all the free learning tools, extra goodies David adds to your product files! Woo Hoo!”

Marie Kane:

“David, thanks a million for the conversation in this workshop today. The whole sales funnel ala’ Alex Mandossian, list building and JV’s intersections just explode with potential once all the distinctions are clear…that, done right, it’s a powerhouse trio.” 

Cathy Chapman:

“So I’m just jumping up and down clicking my heels together in gratitude and appreciation for the sales funnel David developed for me in the workshop today. Big hug, David. This was worth a year’s worth of membership fees.”

Shari Lee:

“The value of being an Insider is not just a monetary value… It is an education, and you meet friends who have a genuine desire to help you, plus you have David who bends over backward for all of the Insiders. It is a private Facebook group where we all reach out to help and encourage each other…”