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March Affiliate Madness: NCAA Tournament Bracket Group
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on March 5th, 2010
It’s March Affiliate Madness!
Thanks to Patrick Vesperman of Magnet Street Weddings, ABestWeb is doing what will certainly be the first ANNUAL NCAA Tournament Bracket.
You can sign-up here on Yahoo Sports and use the group ID ‘16686′ and password ‘abwballs’.
We are gathering prizes, but one of the prizes will be the Legacy Learning Systems course of your choice, and I know that Patrick will have a great prize as well, with more expected.
Go sign-up today! And join the conversation (AKA trash talk) here on ABestWeb.
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Gibson Learn & Master iPhone App is Rocking!
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff, Legacy News on March 4th, 2010
Number One in the Music Category for iPhone Apps (ahead of Pandora) 
Number 29 23 18 13 Overall iPhone App (ahead of Facebook, Shazam, and others)
Quadruple traffic to LearnAndMaster.com
Partner with Gibson Guitars to bring the best guitar tuner, metronome, chord chart, along with sample lessons from our Learn & Master Guitar course and generate a ton of press for Legacy Learning Systems and interest in our courses
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar (Van Halen) with the App
The Gibson Learn & Master Guitar iPhone App is in a word…HOT! As of this writing, over 125,000 people have downloaded the app.
It really is the BEST app out there for tuning and the like and best of all it is FREE!
We partnered with Gibson Guitars, known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. (The Gibson Les Paul guitar is the best selling guitar of all time and bears the name of the late, great Les Paul).
FEATURES OF THE APP:
A professional quality Chromatic Tuner that will allow you to tune any instrument using the iPhone microphone (or iPod Touch with microphone attachment)
- Alternate Tuning settings so you can quickly and easily tune your guitar to various alternate tunings, including Open G, Low C, Drop D, Eb and others.
- A Standard
Mode Tuner that allows you to tune each string to a sample tone
- An accurate Metronome with multiple time signatures, visual and audio options, and a set-your-own tempo tap pad
- A Chord Library with a sample of the essential chords for every player beginner to advanced
- Free Videos Lessons - Watch full length lessons from the Award Winning Learn & Master Guitar course. Watch as instructor Steve Krenz gets you started on your way to mastering the guitar.
You can download it in the App Store.
How does this help affiliates?
The biggest way is the publicity that we are and will be getting from it. The number of people searching for Learn and Master Guitar is significantly increasing, and the number of people looking for guitar learning courses who have heard of it is rising fast. All of this makes sales easier and conversions higher!
As you can see on the right, one of the key aspects to the app is the lessons. There are tons of comments in iTunes and on the Gibson site and elsewhere about those being the 
best feature.
Naturally, many of the people who view them are going to remember that and sooner or later will be looking for our course. Many advanced players who don’t need instruction will certainly remember us for gifts for aspiring players.
Long story short is this is VERY exciting news for us and you! I hope that, if you have an iPhone, you will download the app and let us know what you think. Every little bit helps!
Even if you don’t, you can still tell your friends and family. Also, it is a great thing to list in a description of our course. Yet another feather in our cap. And don’t worrk about losing tracking to visitors to the page. You can send them to our app page on our site (deep-link).
P.S. If you get our newsletters make sure to look for the Easter Egg on this one 
Incredible Testimonial from Guitar Student John
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on February 28th, 2010
I always enjoy sharing these wonderful testimonials…and this one is one of the best.
Hello Steve,
I’m a recent purchaser and practitioner of your guitar course.
I’d like to thank you for the work you have put into the course, it’s truly remarkable. But it’s even more than that fro me.
I’m a recovering alcoholic and the guitar has become something that helps keep me on the wagon and a large part of it are your lessons. Your calm demeanour and teaching style really are a pleasure for a turbulent mind, i really look forward to my lessons with steve.
Your work has really been a positive force in my life and i thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Enough gasbaging from me, gotta go practice.
Thanks
John
Pinnacle Award Came Today!
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Awards, Fun Stuff on February 16th, 2010
I got my Affiliate Summit 2010 Pinnacle Award Affiliate Manager of the Year “trophy” at the office today.
Thank you again to Shawn and Missy for putting on the awards and to the Affiliate Summit Advisory Board members who voted for me.
Here are some pictures of me with the trophy.
It’s attacking me. What kind of an award is this?
Great Testimonial from our Discussion Board
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on February 16th, 2010
Just had to share this from our Learn & Master Guitar discussion board…for those who don’t know, Steve’s wife is currently battling breast cancer.
You’re both in my prayers. I must thank you Steve. You have changed my life. If it weren’t for L&M Guitar and now the Blues Spotlight Series, I would never played guitar. I started last Mar 13th and followed the program religiously. Then in November, bought the spotlight series for Blues guitar. I love to play. In my wildest dreams I never believed I could play, much less get up in front of someone. Now I can and I am having a great deal of fun with life again. Thanks for caring so much for people and sharing the gift of music God has bestowed on you with people like me. I’m eternally grateful and pray you and your wife share a long life together.
Regards,
Joe King
Fayetteville, NC
The Invisible Drum Kit - Hilarious!
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on February 4th, 2010
Unforgettable Christmas for One Learn & Master Guitar Customer
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on January 30th, 2010
We recently got the following email from a Learn & Master Guitar customer. As I say so often, we are truly changing lives. It’s what makes every single day so incredibly awesome.
I just LOVE this!
Steve,
I had an experience this Christmas that I wanted to share with you.
I’ve been playing for almost 2 years now, currently working on Session 13. From the very beginning, I have played for my extended family—even Jingle Bells. Hey, it’s an easy audience!
My wife Kim is a naturally good singer, but she’s a little shy about it, so we generally just sing together on easy sing-alongs and stuff. It’s always fun, and of course the family acts like it’s a big deal, so it makes us feel good, even though we know full well how amateurish we really are.
This year, her parents asked us to perform “Vincent (Starry Starry Night)” by Don McLean for our Christmas get-together. This request turned out to be a bit of a challenge for us, but we were determined to give it our best shot. Kim decided she’d sing solo, so I was able to concentrate on working out a simple, pleasant fingerpicking pattern for the harmony. We rehearsed several times, and eventually got comfortable with it.
The Christmas recital featured 6 songs, both instrumentals (the ones I did for your CD this year) and sing-alongs. We saved “Vincent” for last. Of course, the first 5 songs were met with the kind of response you’d expect from loving family members—enthusiastic appreciation, sweetly disproportionate to any musical merit. But as we closed out “Vincent”, Kim’s mother and our sister-in-law literally jumped out of their seats, clapping and hollering. This wasn’t just the feign of familiarity—Kim’s mother had tears in her eyes she was so moved, and so Kim started crying, and then we all had a good laugh. What a blessing!
Despite the glowing commentary from the devoted on-line community members, I suspect it still may be hard for you to grasp the role you are playing in people’s lives. But there is no question that without the LMG program, the musical element my family is now experiencing (and starting to really enjoy!) would be completely missing. This is the gift that you and the folks at Legacy have bestowed upon all of us. And for that gift, I would like to offer you my sincere thanks.
Dagan
This is Why We Have a Lifetime Cookie!
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff, Legacy News on January 29th, 2010
Today as I was handing out TRIPLE COMMISSION bonuses for Learn & Master Painting sales this week as a part of LEGACY Week 2.0 on ShareASale, I came across two consecutive sales that stood out. 
Not because of their size but because of the return days (the length of time since the click date).
Both of these sales were made from clicks that were made LAST YEAR! One is from early December and one is from early November.
So I looked around in our ShareASale account for some other commissions like this and it didn’t take long to find some awesome ones. Below are some screen shots from the ShareASale interface of the longest ones, but there were a ton that had return periods of over 30 days.
THIS is why we have a LIFETIME COOKIE on ShareASale!
Two consecutive sales from yesterday
And the Best one for last. 155 DAYS! This person came in August of 2009 and bought in January of this year. WOW!
Too Far Away for Guitar Lessons…
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff, Legacy News on January 23rd, 2010
What a great Christmas gift! Here is an email from one of our recent customers, Michael, about his Christmas gift from his wife.
I’ve been meaning to learn guitar for years and finally got encouraged by a
friend to do so. I live far enough away from town that finding a teacher
and taking regular lessons would be impractical. I found the Learn and
Master Guitar program on-line and my wife bought it for me for Christmas.
As an engineer, I am finding the lessons to be very well-structured and
helpful in building a solid base as I move forward in my education. I
relate the sight reading to learning touch typing decades ago; I figure that
with enough practice and repetition, reading music will become instinctive.
And that’s pretty darned cool.I just now discovered that you have discussion boards, so I plan on visiting
them in the very near future with my questions.So, thank you very much for your product!
Great Email from a Customer in Zimbabwe
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff, Legacy News on January 16th, 2010
I hope your weekend is going well.
I just LOVE these emails that Steve passes along to me from our customers. This one is from Ron in Zimbabwe. It’s great to have customers all over the world!
Hi Steve
Your professional and caring approach supports the fact that you have produced the best guitar learning experience I have ever seen or used.
I live in Zimbabwe and am a real guitar enthusiast who started playing about 4 years ago. There are very few decent guitar teachers in Zimbabwe so I had to rely on the massive range of both internet and hard copy guitar tutorial programs that are available to learn.
Believe me, I have a study full of books, DVD’s, CD’s and internet material and I had become somewhat lost because I was overwhelmed by the mass of guitar learning material I had accumulated.
I was trying to learn from it all and making little real progress.
Anyway then I learned about Learn and Master Guitar which I now own and wow! What a pleasure. It has had the effect of bringing sanity, control, understanding and direction to my learning.
Thanks a lot!
Inspired by the Billionaire and the Hare
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Affiliate Encouragement, Fun Stuff on January 7th, 2010
Yesterday I got one of the best emails from an affiliate that I have ever received and I wanted to share it with all of you.
This affiliate had her best month ever in December, which was great. She was so excited as she earned a $200 bonus for making 50 sales (you can see all of our bonuses on ShareASale here) and she more than doubled her previous best month’s sales! How awesome is that?
As excited as I am that she is succeeding as an affiliate, what made this email so inspiring to me and put the biggest smile on my face was this part:
I want to say ‘thank you’ for your blog - it is becoming my everyday ‘must’ to check your blog. It’s always uplifting to read. Specifically I was inspired by your post “The Billionaire and the Hare“. I never thought seriously about giving, but I just couldn’t help thinking after reading your post. I also started giving (not big amounts) and I have to say doing that releases me from some fears (I may not even have noticed them before) - really amazing to have more freedom.
Winston Churchill said that “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Just this morning I was reading in Chapter 11 of Proverbs and was reminded of two of my favorite verses 24 & 25:
One man gives freely, yet gains even more;
another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
A generous man will prosper;
he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Now, I promise I won’t preach to you here, but I shared this post with my wife and we both just glowed in the influence that this post had on someone to give, to share in the blessings she has received. It made my day…ok, my week. What a great start to the year!
Lastly, this affiliate said that the story encouraged her in another way…patience:
Also, the story of the Hare is such a great encouragement to me. As a beginner, somehow I tended to get anxious when finding I am not able to do this and that. Your post really helped me to stay calm and cool when there is still a lot to learn and do. I appreciate it.
I hope that it does the same for you. You can read it here.
To the affiliate, as I said in my email, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
It’s the End of the World…Snow in Nashville!
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on January 7th, 2010
So today is the once or twice a year that Nashville gets snow…and when I say snow I mean scattered flurries that accumulate to the tune of about 2 inches…maybe. Everyone freaks out, lines are a mile long to buy bread and other non-perishable items. It’s pretty much an apocalyptic scene here in the mid-south.
Schools closed…last night..before even a single flaked had dropped. Kind of funny actually.
Listen, I am from the south, born and raised in North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, but even I kind of have to laugh about this. My wife is from northern Indiana and they don’t close schools in blizzards with a temperature of negative twenty and visibility of less than 2 feet. My only argument in favor of this insanity here is the hills…I suppose driving a school bus down a back road that climbs and plunges 50+ feet in an inch of ice is harder than I imagine.
Anyway, in honor of the end of the world as we know it here in Nashville, enjoy this video:
My Spinach Artichoke Dip Recipe
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on December 22nd, 2009
Today I brought some of my famous (at least to those who have eaten it) spinach artichoke dip and people kept asking me for the recipe, so…I figured I would share it!
Here you go! Keep in mind that I kind of make it up as I go so at the end you kind of have to use your intuition at the end :).
Ingredients
16 oz. Frozen Spinach
1-1 1/2 packages of cream cheese (or neufchatel cheese…yum!)
1 stick butter
About 5-8 heaping tablespoons sour cream
1-1 1/2 white onions
15 oz. Marinated Artichoke hearts, chopped
Red Pepper flakes
4-8 Garlic cloves
Mozzarella Cheese
Parmesan Cheese
Cooking Instructions
Saute the onions and garlic in the butter for 10 minutes on medium high.
Reduce heat to medium and add spinach. Simmer and stir regularly for 5 minutes.
Add cream cheese slowly and stir for 5 minutes until everything is coated in it.
Add sour cream slowly and stir for 2-3 minutes.
Add artichoke hearts and stir for 2-3 minutes.
Add Red Pepper flakes to taste.
Add Mozzarella and Parmesan Cheese slowly and stir to desired thickness.
YUM!
Early Odds on the Pinnacle Awards
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Affiliate Marketing News, Fun Stuff on December 21st, 2009
One of my favorite people in this business, Joe Sousa, put up some early odds on the Pinnacle Awards winners. He is calling for a close race in the Affiliate Manager of the Year award. He is definitely right. Jamie Birch and Stephanie Harris are two of the best and very deserving. It should be fun to see all the winners this year!
You can check out Joe’s full post here.
Nestle Crunch Hotline
Posted by Matt McWilliams in Fun Stuff on December 10th, 2009
Need a little break from PPC or SEO? Got this from Rainmaker on ABestWeb today. Hilarious!
Call the Nestle Crunch Hot line at 1-800-295-0051. When asked if you want English or Spanish, wait quietly for 10 seconds & you will smile. Promise!
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