You may have heard of Michelle MacPhearson, fellow internet marketer and mastermind of Crowd Mountain. If you haven’t, I recommend you at least check out her blog at michellemacphearson.com sometime.
I’ve learned a lot about internet marketing from various sources, but the quality of her information is exceptional and she’s very responsive to comments or questions. I’ve gotten replies back from her within minutes. She also seems to be a very positive person on top of being good at what she does.
I had heard of her internet marketing training program before, but being a member of Wealthy Affiliate University I’m already paying $39/month for internet marketing training. I didn’t join until months after I had heard of it and it took a $1 7-day trial to convince me. I’ve been a member ever since and have gotten an amazing education there.
History has repeated itself, and I took the bait on a $1 12-day trial to Crowd Mountain that I received today. I haven’t completely devoured the site yet, but the first impressions are good. If you like video training, there seems to be a lot of it here. There are niches already cut out for you too if you don’t know how to do niche research yet or just don’t have any good ideas.
Michelle calls them “Niche Trailheads.” I haven’t dug into them yet, but I’ll be sure to make a follow-up post on what I find very soon. I played with the Crowd Mountain Task Manager which gives you a pre-populated list of “Master Tasks” for starting any new site. So if you don’t know what to do with your new .com you can just plug it into the task manager and hit the ground running. Of course you can also assemble your own task lists, too.
Another thing that is striking about Crowd Mountain is how aesthetically pleasing it is without being slow. The graphics are very nice and clean, but it doesn’t distract from the content. I did catch a glitch on one page where the background image came into the foreground and covered part of the content. But then again I’m using Google Chrome where most people seem to be using Mozilla Firefox.
The video training seems to be very thorough thus far, though I’m only in the 1st of 6 training modules in the Crowd Mountain BootCamp. I did have a problem playing the video until I upgraded QuickTime to the latest version. After that it was smooth sailing. Michelle highly recommends Market Samurai throughout her training and incorporates it heavily into the videos on keyword research.
Market Samurai is not a free program, but I think it’s worth the one-time cost. It’s a huge time-saver and in any semi-competitive niche market if you’re not using something like it you’re at a great disadvantage.
There are other features to the program that will easily connect you to other Crowd Mountain members and stay informed on the latest in internet marketing. In many ways I’d say this looks edgier and more high-tech than Wealthy Affiliate University, but this write-up is only a first impression, not a full-blown review.
If you can get in on the $1 trial at Crowd Mountain I’d go for it. I didn’t end up staying a member after my trial was up, but I’m still a regular member of Wealthy Affiliate University. Michelle has been putting a lot of work into it lately though so it’s probably much improved over the last few months. If anyone can share their own experience from Crowd Mountain I’d like to hear about it in the comments.
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