Hi Everyone
I just wanted to let you know that on today's blog your feedback and advice is going to be very important and valuable for all of us!
You see..
We are very confident in the products we offer, and yes we will continue to add features ALWAYS..
but..
What about the newbie, the person that logs into GVO and well..
doesn't know
what web hosting is
what an auto responder is
etc..
If they do not understand what they do then these folks will never come to appreciate the true VALUE that GVO has to offer!
The ones how know our value can not believe what we offer for such a LOW monthly price..
The ones who do not know, say "Why am I spending money again?"
When the reality is they could be making money VERY quickly with the right guidance and education.
Yes there is GVOacademy but I want to hear from you please what you feel we can add to the GVO members area to help the newbie internet MLMer or Internet Marketer
become seasoned much quicker!
Please give us your constructive feedback on our blog on what we can do to help out the new MLMer or Internet Marketer generate that income even faster 
Here are sort of the type of comments I am looking for.
1. Joel, I would like to see more educational videos on..
2. I would like to see an easier web builder that makes blogs easy..
3.
Etc..
I need real ideas to help make our members area more educational and easier to use
Thank you so much for your time, I appreciate your valued ideas and comments very much. Please post them here on the blog
--Joel Therien
President
GoGVO.com
February 26th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Hi Joel,
I first started with the Platinum Package and later upgraded to Titanium when at the same time added Hot Conference. I use your tools for my pastoral minitry and mission work. I am nearing retirement and would like to do more with reselling the products but not so much in the MLM area. It seems that the marketing side is the most intimidating for me and for others. I identify with on of the comments that said when viewing the training videos and then going to the tools is difficult unless I take notes. Written instructions would be helpful here.
From what I read in the comments today it seems that personal coaching is what people want. Maybe you could offer several levels of coaching. Just some thoughts.
February 26th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Love GVO, excellent tools.
What I need with GVO is more flexibility on EResonder.
For example. When someone enters their name and email in the opt in form, you can add a website that a person is directed to. But….you cannot add a different website url for when a person finishes the double opt in by clicking on the link in the confirmation email.
I really need the ability to send a person at first opt in to a certain page and then if they click on the link from the confirmation email to send them to a different page.
I would also like to see the ability to record more than just voice with Hot Conference. If we use Hot Conference to train our team, we cannot yet record the whole event to provide to them as a video for later unless we use and outside screen recording software.
Thanks, great stuff so far GVO team,
Mike
February 26th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Hi Joel
Is no doubt that by now GVO tools have more value than its cost if you have already a web page.
The problem is with hundreds of newbies that dont have a web page or having one they are NO earning money from theirs web page.
The solution is very simple … Help people improving their web page (sales letter, conversion rate, web design) and with enogh testimonios showing the money it will be very easy to sell gvo packages.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
February 27, 12:21 PM EST
I say amen to Guido Nussbaum and Robert Blakely on their posts. In my opinion I think they are all good. I will place my own below…
I own both of Mike Filsamie’s Butterfly Marketing and Manuscript and Mike says it best on how he gets his new clients up-and-running quickly by giving them proven methods of advertising and promotion and leaves nothing behind for the newbie-or anyone else for that matter. He has a system and that’s what makes him so successful in keeping his retention rate up by getting folks started on the right foot and making money. I would like to see more of this example done for us–and everyone.
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to express our views. That’s just good business!
Have a great day,
Don Artis
February 27th, 2010 at 12:18 am
What about having a class that would walk the new person step by step in getting set up. Have the class last several weeks that would basically take them by the hand and show them how to do it. You could start a new class every couple of weeks to continually add new people into the system of learning. You could suggest that the new person only attends this class until they are up and running so that they do not get overwhelmed.
The videos are great but it gets very confusing. A class setting is the best way for people to learn. A newbie cannot be expected to watch videos alone and then put them into action. There is so much information that it gets confusing.
I love that GVO is so concerned about the newbie and also offers great tools for the very experienced internet marketer.
Thanks so much,
Kim
February 27th, 2010 at 6:38 am
Hey Guys,
Here’s my 2 cents worth
What about having a service like Fusion HQ below is what is included in there package
Sales Processes: Sales processes allow you to create drag and drop sales flows. Allowing you to manage upsell and downsell sales funnels, even A/B split testing, with point and click ease. Choose from templated processes, or create your own.
Sites: Using the drag and drop technology you can build entire sites. These can be content, mini or membership sites. Membership sites include timed delivery, scheduled release of content and simple management for multiple membership levels.
Products: Set up products within Fusion HQ to avoid complex coding of buy now buttons. Easily create multiple payment options for payment plans, one time offers or buy now buttons. Integrates with PayPal, 1 Shopping Cart and ClickBank.
Transactions: The number of transactions that you site can process in any month. We send all transactions via the Fusion server to allow for accurate data tracking and to ensure the most secure affiliate tracking system available.
Optin Forms: You can set up optin lists to send data to Aweber, Get Response or 1 Shopping Cart without the need for copy and pasting code. Also includes a range of tested templates to get the look, and response, you want with a single click.
Membership Levels: Create multiple membership levels to control access to protected content. Make 1 access for multiple sites, or multiple accesses to 1 site. Easily manage members from the the Fusion HQ dashboard.
Affiliates: Run your own affiliate program, fully integrated to all your Fusion sites and sales processes without doing a thing. Create campaigns, affiliate tools and even add your product to the Affiliate Marketplace to get more people promoting for you.
Tracking Data: Quick stats show you how well your sales processes and optin forms are converting. Get results from A/B split testing at a glance and see which pages are losing visitors.
File Storage: Upload images to be used in your sites, affiliate tools or for custom templates and buttons. This allows you to easily manage your site files all in one location. Especially great if you edit on the move.
Custom Templates: While Fusion HQ provide you a range of professionally designed templates free for you to use in any of your Fusion sites Lite and Pro users can easily upload custom designs to suit any project.
Full Integration: Everything in Fusion HQ is fully integrated. This means no need to try and add code from one script to another, manage sends between 3rd party providers or have the usual headaches of building a functioning system.
GoToWebinar Integration: Easily create optin forms that you can use to register attendees to a GoToWebinar event. You can add them to your autoresponder list at the same time and even register them for multiple calls in one go.
Advanced Auto Coding Technology: Simply put the site is built for you (including OTO and exit popup code etc). All the complicated stuff (the HTML, CSS, Java Script, PHP, files structures etc are taken care of. No programming skills needed.
1 Click Upload: Building and managing your sites and sales processes could not be easier, however uploading them to your web host is easier still. 1 Click and it is live on your server in seconds.
Please check it out.
Sorry this is not a sales pitch I just thought these seamed to be some cool tools we might be able to use.
Regards
Darren.
February 27th, 2010 at 8:12 am
hi there ive been signed up to your service for a while now but never made a start .in the acadamy is it possible to have the times in gmt as dont know what est time is as i live in the uk. would it be possible to have a step by step guide from day 1 to ….. to get newbies up and running ,i get the overall picture but get lost on joining up the dots. as i signed up years ago im not under a mentor like janet leger .i think that would have helped
February 27th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Hello Joel and Mike,
I’m writing this post extemporaneously and without edit so please forgive me if it’s a little loopy! Also, sorry for the length…
Here’s my two cents…
The E-responder:
The e-responder needs to be updated to keep pace with what is happening in the competitive autoresponder industry. Currently I use Aweber as well as Get Response and I would love to be able to rid myself of multiple autoresponder services. The truth is that many of your top level marketers that are using GVO hosting are not using the e-responder system, they are using Aweber or Get response. Perhaps question these marketers as to what would be needed to get e-responder up to par.
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Follow up email series for people marketing GVO:
The follow up series that is available within the e-responder for marketing the GVO opportunity needs to be greatly enhanced… have some professional copywriter put together a kick-ass series of like 25 plus emails… Perhaps offer a free video within each email that is part of the series that trains people on the importance of the GVO opportunity and the benefits it offers as compared to everything else out there. In my opinion the focus should be on that owning the company store is better than panning for the gold and that doing nothing to better your economic wellbeing will get you nothing. Also, GVO offers leverage.
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A GVO sales automation script:
Develop and make available for GVO members a script for selling products, managing affiliates, etc. – For example, there are several simple but great scripts for selling digital products on the market such as $7 script and RAP that enable a webmaster to automatically sell and deliver products on line. I think that it would be great for GVO to develop an in-house script that could be installed automatically. Of course a video educating people on how to use it would be necessary.
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Templates:
WordPress themes and plugins developed by and only available through GVO (for GVO members only). These templates should be pre-coded with a member’s affiliate id so there is a viral aspect to each theme. I’ve been involved in the template business for over 16 years and the truth is that WordPress is where everyone is going. Nearly all of my profitable sites have a WordPress Blog and the themes and plugins are critical. So, the development of special, brandable and viral WordPress themes, landing pages, plugins, would be a valuable addition for members.
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The Marketing Plan:
It seems that many people have problems with the words, “MLM”. The truth is that these people won’t do anything anyway so this isn’t a problem, but…. maybe change the compensation plans name to something like “Leveraged Marketing” or something like that. In addition, you have a lot of top level internet marketers that are marketing GVO and are using your service… perhaps create a video that features them talking about leverage and how the GVO opportunity enables members to use leverage to build significant passive income. In addition to the “guru” types get some real video of just normal people talking about the GVO service and opportunity. In fact, maybe make a contest of some sort to get people to post videos, etc and pick some winners…
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Food for thought and ramblings:
Several years ago I was a project manager for a large project in the Middle East. One of my employees was arrested for being drunk and disorderly in public and for soliciting a prostitute. I went to the police station to see if I could be of assistance to him and to assess the severity of this situation. A police captain spoke with me and told me that my employee would spend the night in jail and maybe two if he showed no sense of contrition and that he would have to pay a big fine. At that moment a group of women were being escorted through the hallway and it was fairly obvious that they had been arrested and were being escorted to jail. I asked the policeman “what would happen to them?” He said that they would be treated with dignity and then sometime within a week would be deported to their home countries and they would likely not be fined at all. And then he said some very interesting things… He said, “you know that one of those girls was a lawyer in her home country and one of the other girls used to be a fairly high ranking police officer. In both cases and many more just like them they had family problems and money problems and felt that they needed to do something to support their families.” He then said, “You know in our opinion your employee is far more to blame than these girls. The truth is that no girl when they are young want to grow up to be a prostitute, they have dreams of being something important just like my daughter who wants to be a detective! For us, we are saddened that these women are in this position. The fact is that although what they are doing is bad in the eyes of our religion, we feel very bad for these girls because their dreams and potentials have been sidetracked.
What’s my point? People don’t grow up thinking that they want to be a network marketer or a MLM guru, an affiliate marketer, or even a salesperson… they grow up wanting to be a pilot, or a scientist or a fireman, or a Doctor or something that brings value to themselves or to their community. So, my point is that I believe the focus of GVO (at least for me) is to present the opportunity in such a way that enables people to understand that they can get paid to talk about, or explore and blog about the things that interest them and still have the capacity to earn passive residual income simply by telling the story that they are building a residual income business by doing what they want and what interests them. Basically, the model is: Personal website (focus is on what interests the webmaster – the GVO member) >>> GVO Banner – - get paid to be you ) >>> lead capture page ) >>> AR Series ) >>> close.
I’m tired… thanks Joel and Mike.
Kind regards,
William
http://examined.gogvo.com/
February 27th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Hello Joel,
To expand on what Kim was saying from the mlm perspective. There needs to be someone who has a strong MLM background who is doing training on how to bring the newbie in with hands on grass roots base boot camp system… Someone who understands that 90% or more of the people that get involved with GVO will a newbie. I’ve been in at least 40 different internet based businesses over the past 10 years and know of all these tools but have never used them other than in a replicated system that I plugged my name into. So I am a newbie and I’m a self motivated person who has been self taught at everything from building sites and internet ventures to working on my car. There is going to have to be some grass roots training by leaders in their perspective areas. People will commit to a training class before they commit to sitting down and watch videos. General people like to be part of a group. I have already had people tell me point blank that they do not want to sit down and watch videos but wanted me to teach them. So my partner and I are learning as much and as quickly we can and have acquired the training space. Equipping it with wireless internet so people can bring their laptops and get started with some hands on training. We will be using to the videos but we will be there to immediately answer any questions. We will also have our conference rooms open at the same time for those who can’t make it to our location but still what to participate in the interaction. A person with an MLM experience will understand that you can tell someone you will give them 50 dollars to walk across the dark street and push the button on the other side and they will have excuses why that can’t do it right now. But if you take them by the hand and walk with them across the dark street and push the button with them, the lights will come on the street will no longer be dark. Now encourage them to do the same the person scared to cross the dark street.
Like to add that I feel very strongly about GVO and many years ago wished for a company like this. Had never felt inspired to take on a leadership role with any other company as I have with GVO.
Thanks Joel,
Ken @ KenJefferson.com
February 27th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Aloha Joel:
I am taking a different twist on this.
I have been in the game of building a down line, way before Al Gore invented “The Internet.” Yes, built lists and down lines on Internet business opportunities. Want to get back to selling in a niche market. Selling to established businesses, who have sales teams and branches in remote areas. So I am looking for themes and templates targeted to small to big businesses that need to communicate with their troops.
I would say my skill level is intermediate. However, I do have two people in our group who are highly skilled and they are Russ McGinn and Gary J. Cooper. Think you know Russ.
Our group is called Global Streams of Income Group (G-SIG).
Mahalo for your time,
Gene E. Moore.
BTW Who is doing your Administration there in San Antonio?
February 27th, 2010 at 11:08 am
I would love to see a step by step classroom setup to teach us newbies on how to set up a Word Press blog, add responder forms to it, set up our autoresponder to respond to it and then how to ping it and draw traffic into it. Give us a complete syllabus so to speak in advance of the video series along with all necessary links to access resources to create it, and then…. do it right in front of us, on video.
Do it in bite size videos and allow us to do it right along side the videos in a real time pace…If we can do it simultaneously, along side the classroom videos, I believe there will be a tremendous response to this teaching method.
Thanks for letting me give my suggestion.
Go GVO…!!!
February 27th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Without having gone through all the comments/replies here, and someone may have already suggested this, here’s my suggestion…
For each feature, have a separate page for it. On that page, have just the basic information about the feature. Have that information be very basic, maybe just say what that feature does. Then, either at the end of the information/content, or on the side, have a link to an intermediate level explanation of the feature (and/or how to implement it). On that page, have a link to the advanced strategies/information for those who are ready for that level. Perhaps, on each page, a link back to the levels prior might be warranted as well.
One other thing, the videos are great (no doubt), but also have text for each level. Also, consider being “concise” with the information, offer a link to a more detailed one, if the “newbie” (or anyone else for that matter) desires it.
Be Well!
ECS Dave
February 27th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Joined GVO just over a week ago so here are my thoughts …
Having set up a JV blog with author Peter Field in Oct 2009, I realised how much there was to learn, so I’m thrilled with the tools and the training I’ve seen so far with GVO.
Would really find it useful to have a dedicated GVO mindmapping program. Maybe some default mindmaps to orienteer beginners around the site, then other mindmaps that could be used to suit an individuals needs as we progress (or for the more advanced user). Maybe the default maps could be changed easily by the user to suit her/his needs. This would help with goal setting and the focus needed in something which could be very overwhelming!
The mindmaps could be double sided, ie the products/services on one side with the second side for those interested in MLM, affiliates, monetising their web/blog, etc.
A video training session explaining the purpose and benefits of mindmapping with how to use them effectively would be needed. In short,a step by step mindmap with video training.
Very enthusiastic about what I see so far, including the GVO community and excited about the future here.
Well done GVO!
Cathie Brown
February 27th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Hi Joel, first, congratulations for you and all the team.
I find very useful all the applications that are part of the GVO kit, as I live in Perú, and people is spanish spoken, it would be great to find templates and other services in spanish, of course, if I can help in that way, you can count on me.
Regards,
Luis.
March 1st, 2010 at 2:29 am
I have read alot of the responses and there is alot of good feedback but I figured I would leave my two cents:
GVO can go in many directions but there are certain things I think we could focus on and I will mentioned them here.
1. Since it is already an auto responder I believe it wouldnt hurt to go into the realm of contact database management. Essentially every GVO member could store all their contacts on your servers with all additional contact information.
2. Have an easy editor for the lead generation forms or just a wide range of forms to include Fname, Lname, Email and Phone #.
3. I was very impressed with a service somebody used to try and prospect me and I thought that this would be the last ultimate tool GVO would need to give any internet and network marketer 100% satisfaction. I know there maybe some expensive equipment required to give this service or it could even be cheaper than I know but the fact is I dont know enough about it but I know it can be profitable.
It was a lead calling service that plays the person who answers the phone (or voicemail) a recording of the “prospector” talking and promoting you to leave a message if you would like to find out more information. What i gather was that you would then wait to see how many recordings/voice notes you got from people wanting to hear more about what you have to offer.. If GVO could offer a service like this then it would entice any business owner/affiliate to use GVO to build their business as close to autopilot as possible.
Just a few of my ideas and I am sure I could come up with more… I hope this was of help to you guys.
P.S. I think GVO is an essential tool for any Internet marketer.. I love it!
March 1st, 2010 at 3:38 am
Hi Joel, thank you for your entusiasm.
The autoresponder is very good.
Only you must enable the next feature in the autoresponder:
I would like to put (firstname) in the subject area to
personalize any email.
Regards,
Jose RSaez
p.d. I agree with LUis that it would be great to find templates and other services in spanish.
I am from Mexico.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:43 am
1. Joel, I would like to see more educational videos on how to work with CPanel X to import domains, webites, blogs (wordpress, Blogger).
2. I would like to see an easier web builder that makes blogs easy and to insert php codes for incentives (like WPincentice).
3.Have to be trained once more to insert the kiosk/HC software into my websites and blogs.
4. Mentioning some conversion software to bring my (German stile) videos, PPT and ADS Presentations into conference rooms and show videos to handle it.
5. Could not find a way to export my EVP downline and bring it into GVO Titanum EVP and eresponder. A GLOSSAR would be helpful to find FAQ´s.
6. A hotline (not only ticket or contact on Conference room) to get guided assistance in simple steps and one for advanced problem solving and trouble shooting.
7. Re-cover the Discussion groups in FORUM (like Kiosk HC has), so that more readers give information to others.
The German FORUM was only randomly frequenced, maybe the English spoken is more useful.
8. Make it possible to add “small smart testimonies” into the GVO application of Downline witness. Could help beginners and “stand it through all difficulties- developers” to encourage.
9. Not everyone can stand the high-level push pace race, so even the slower users have to be cared for.
10. Because of the Global Opportunity it needs to cross cultural barriers and time lacks of internet exploration.
E.G. for INDIANs it´s essential, they use home based PC both and internet coffee´s (that have been decreased in developed countries one generation before!) and not all have Amex or Visa card.
Because it´s a huge market ( i am concentrating on ), it would be helpful to offer smart solutions, using paypal button and are working even on older types of browser and “coppermine PC´s”.
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ALL in ALL keep in good mood and health and stay in contact to us, Your financial basis!
We love U for that!
GOD bless!
Rev. Bishop Uwe A. E. Rosenkranz
March 1st, 2010 at 5:49 am
Hi Joel, Mike
First off all let me say what a great oppurtunity and value for money the GVO oppurtunity is and how pleased I am that you guys want to keep making it better.
The trouble is you guys have expanded your minds and as Joel said you can’t contract so it’s really difficult for you to see what a newbie,or even people with moderate skills and knowledge really needs. I know it’s not that you don’t care its just that you’ve forgotten the individual steps you take to do something
What I suggest you do is employ a sample group of complete newbies or possibly various skill levels and get them to go through the GVO signup process, and training system and fully document every step they take, every mistake they make, every question they ask, and every question you ask ie why haven’t they uploaded those files – answer Oh they don’t know. Plus you must allow for the fact most people comming in are part time marketers and have full time jobs – what i mean to say here is that when you write up the self paced structured training course later you can allocate sensible goals ie Day 1 do this, Week 2 do this etc but be generous with the times as we dont want to discourage anyone. I also reccomend that you do this for all areas of the GVO oppurtunity ie affiliate team building, webhosting reseller, how to set up your own online store blog membership site etc
You could also customise the members area so that you wouldn’t irritate people who are interested only setting up their own business or only in webhost reselling or whatever other options you make available by having buttons which turn off various options. You could also do this with skill level so that beginners don’t get overwhelmed the more advanced members can focus only on what they want. but still making all options available in a customize your member area link.
People could then taylor GVO to their own individual needs which I feel would give it a much broader appeal in the first instance and a much greater retention rate there after.
I also think you should stay away from terms like mlm, network marketing and dowline – substite these with section, affiliate and team for example or any other better terms by all means.
Also please could you try and tweak the video streaming settings on both this blog and the GVO sales pages as for me the are very choppy at best. I connect via adsl 1856kps downstream and 448kps upstream and am in th uk. So others with even slower speeds would probably find them really annoying. Could I suggest not autoplaying but still streaming so that by the time people click to play the video it will play smoothly .
Thats all I can think of for now for now I would just like to thank you Joel and all GVO team for this oppurtuniy and for allowing us to be involved in making GVO better.
Kind Regards & Best Wishes
Shawn
March 1st, 2010 at 1:08 pm
If you are going to offer “all inclusive” then it has to be all inclusive! I was disappointed to find out that you lack a quality software set up for maintaining a regular opt-in client newsletter. I am not talking about a marketing autoresponder here, but rather, something along the lines of iContact or Constant Contact. A really good professional and easy to use newsletter software whose function is to solely develop ongoing client relationships.
When I asked support about this in the chat box, they simply said, “sorry, we do not have that and have no plans for it.” What? If I am going to put my lot in with GVO then I expect a more open minded appraoch than that. One of the reasons I was interested in your service is the “everything you need to market online under one roof” appraoch. Well, if I have to go on paying $50 a month for ConstantContact even after I have been sold on the umbrella concept… then that is definitely not everything under one roof.
Also, as an experienced marketer, I find yours system (after 2 weeks examination) to be too much about selling itself (the mlm side of what you are doing.) The emphasis is disproportionate. I am not looking for something else to sell (although I would mention it from time to time to people who ask me if I know of a good resource) but rather I am seeking a system that will enable and empower me in further building my current business’s. (the everything under one umbrella idea.) If it starts to feel like this is just another mlm I need to push, then I lose interest…
Those are just my two cents. I hope they are useful… I do not mean any disrespect – I think you’ve got a cool system. Had it included a newsletter software function I would have been sold from the very first day of my 14 day trial.
As it is I will hang around for another 14 days to see what more I can learn. Thanks for the offer…
cheers-
Jim
March 1st, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Hello Joel and Mike,
Thanks for giving us an opportunity to share our views. I agree with the other newbies and you as the Members Page is overwhelming to a newbie. As you said, this same principle applies to entering any new industry you want to learn, be it medical school, Real Estate Investing or Network Marketing. Everyone is not on the same level at orientation. Therefore, may I suggest setting the Members Page up like university and allow newbies to enter a Freshman section with the option to enter any section such as the Masters section to see where we are going. As we develop our skills we can choose to enter the next level or skip to any section. I am a Xango and Salu International distributor and have enough experience to know this is an excellent tool and I want to use it for my NWM on-line business. I just have figured out how to do all the stuff available to me. It is just another education process and I am happy to be part of your team. Regards, Saquina
March 1st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Joel,
I want to be able to use your GVO auto responder & also your emailer for websites I have hosted with other companies. Is it doable?
March 1st, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Wow What great comments and sugestions. Having read several you guys will have your hands full selecting and implementing those that will be of the most benefit to everyone.
With that said here are a few of my suggestions and wishes
1. A better WYSIWYG Editor. The one you have is difficult to use. For instance to get emails to format properly I have to write the email put into another HTML editor copy the code and then paste into the html section of your editor… way to amny steps. Plus when it comes to your templates you cannot see the whole template in the editor.
2. Some email templates for things like news letters would be very helpful
3. We have this great website Hosting ability. Why not have pre designed templates that we can use to set up our own web hosting service?
4. The ability to export leads from the autoresponder in the stand alone EVP to the GVO eResponder
5. A way to track the effectiveness of each template in our prospecting system. Currently no matter which template we use they all come under the same campaign name “Prospecting”
6. Just a wish .. I think Xsite Pro and GVO are a match made in heaven. Some sort of cooperative relationship could prove extremly valuable for all.
OK have other wishes but most covered in other posts. Love what GVO is doing and has done so far
Bryan Kinney
March 1st, 2010 at 4:34 pm
There needs to be moressupport for us setting up our domains for the first time on the GVO hosted site. I filed a change of DNS with my previous provider, and cannot find the place to set up my new site so it will be active when the change goes through.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Hello Joel, I already responded here but see many great comments, I already asked if we could have an easy website builder, one point I saw is that many big marketeers that use gvo dont use the responder and use the likes of aweber, I use aweber and I also use an easy website builder, I am on the trial at moment and like the fact that all services rolled into one.
Its hard for me to give up my easy website builder as I get 10 free websites for small 3 monthly fee and use aweber.
I find the responder ok and certainly cheaper it will be when my list builds, I do love easy video producer a I mentioned before.
What I do need is website traffic and results in other words money in my pocket.
Not one guru has done it anyone I know yet so the info in your training series is very good.
Also, why is there no conference room avaialable in peoples account when they sign up for the trial..just wondering.
Anyway, I like gvo and the fact all the tools rolled into one and want to keep using the gvo tools, but I also need to keep the website builder I am using at moment and aweber autoresponder is good but moneywise gvo is best option when my mailing lists builds big.
Just that many people will not optin these days
Well look forward to your next blog
keep up the good work
Pat
March 1st, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Just something I’ve noticed with the “Your Leads” section. It would be nice if we had a lookup for a specific lead by email or name option to remove them a little easier than going from page to page to find them. The reason is that some have chosen to become part of the downline and need to be removed vs. being sent additional traffic to become part of the GVO Team. Thanks!
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:55 am
I would like to see you all create a more attractive video player. Is it possible that you all just use Flow Player as the actual player and you all just do the hosting?
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 am
I tried to send you an Email there other day, Thanks Joel these program are great, I one of the newbies, but I took action like Marshel Sylver said hope spelled his name right,
You will have agreat time here in Vegas, one of these days I will be able to take one of the Course that marshell was talking about.
You an Mike keep on the great work you are doing, make freind all over the world,
Thanks
George B Russell
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:49 pm
HI GUYS
RE….SEMINAR ON MARCH 27-28TH RED ROCK HOTEL
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CANT GO BECOUSE OF HEALTH WILL THOSE PEOPLE
MISS OUT
AS I AM ONE OF THEM
I AM IN THE LAST STAGE OF EMPHYSEMA SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW
THANKS
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Joel,
I love your service but as someone stated above, I am not making money yet as I build my website and social media sites. I am getting closer to completing my blog and would love it if you could show a training video on how you designed your custom nav bar on this blog and how it was uploaded in order to work with WordPress. I have a customized theme that is flexable but adding a custom nav bar is what I would like to do to complete the design
March 5th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
I would like to see the ability to signup for a eresponder by email.
If those capabilities are there then instructions how to achieve that.
March 10th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Hi Joel:
Was just using EVP, and I am wondering if we could have the ability
to add text to our videos, such as a link that we want to display
while our video is running. I have been told that you can do that in Windows Media Player, although I haven’t gone there to learn how. That would be a great additional marketing tool on our videos.
Love your video blogs, and Mike has really relaxed(lol)since the 1st onesome time ago. Phenomenal package, and it just keeps getting better.
Thanks a bunch…
Bob Schaffer
myunklbob
March 29th, 2010 at 12:25 am
The tools that GVO offers are excellent for the seasoned marketer. The problem, though, is that the bigger number of subscribers falls in the newbie arena, who are mass recruited by these experts. The newbie comes in, begins to watch these awesome tools, is overwhelmed, and can’t make money quick enough to cover the monthly subscription!
I would like to see a clear step by step system that is able to take the newbie by the hand and walk him through the very first steps on how they can use one or two of these tools to make their first $40 dollars, or so,in record time.
March 29th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
A manifesto explaining how to use GVO to set up a simple business or an empire.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:53 am
This can become a great system, if you will add training in direct response marketing to the mix. Promoting the GVO services is fine. Also tell people what it takes to market their own products and services, and you will have a winner. That is what these tools are made for, after all.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Wow.
After reading some of these comments, I feel less alone.
When I first signed onto GVO a few nights ago, it was with some skepticism. Why? Because pretty much every GVO review site was a fake review site set up in order to gather affiliates.
That’s the problem with MLM and affiliates–they destroy the integrity of review websites, since their aim is to earn affiliate commissions. In this case, truth becomes the back seat driver to commerce.
In any case, after some thought, I signed up to GVO.
Immediately after signing up, I became even more skeptical. Why? Well, all the OTO (one time offers) that surfaced.
After experiencing difficulties with GVO, in particular with:
1. Log-in
2. Domain name redirects
3. Hosting manager conflicts
I am probably going to leave GVO and instead choose a dedicated and reliable (less buggy) hosting provider that allows for WP themes, and uses Fantastico.
The problem with any GVO is that it is an MLM, so in order to make money, you need to sell memberships in your downline. This presents so many justifications ethically, because your desire to make money can sometimes overpower your desire to present the truth.
Years ago, I signed up to Manna Tech, an MLM company, to the tune of around $1,000 dollars. At the time, I was hesitant, and for good reason. Why? You don’t need Manna Tech to be healthy. Instead, just eat lots of raw food, fresh water, be active (spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally). In order to make money, I was encouraged to recruit others to join Manna Tech, to sign up in my downline. It didn’t happen, because I did not believe in it. Therefore, I was being congruent.
The problem with GVO, and the ethical dilemma it presents is this: Once you are paying the monthly fee, even if you are not using it, you are going to do your best to dress it up and get others to join, so you can make money from it.
Being part of an MLM is like being a pharmacist that has a lavish lifestyle, in that the pharmacist convinces himself that he is selling medications that actually help his customers, when instead, he is keeping them sick in order to maintain his comfortable lifestyle.
Joel seems like a nice guy, but at the end of the day, I’m not even sure if he’s convinced of the strength of his product, or whether the adornments that accompany such a product have convinced him of something it is not.
Kris Kemp
http://www.kriskemp.com
creative entrepreneur
August 25th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Hi Joel:
I just signed up and in still the trial run. What I have seen so far is that you take a personal interest in the people that join you. I especially like your news update and make it fun too. Let me be honest with you. You are not new but GVO is. I once had signed up when you were still Kiosk. I even spent the money for your boot camp at that time. One of the problems that I found were that your instructional video’s were not easy to follow, especially the whm. I was new then too. I was eager to learn but I found it difficult and I just could not grasp the instruction. Anyway, it was too hard for me. I don’t know if others had the same problem. I have seen other businesses out there that had excellent videos and tutorials which were so much easier to follow. So, I am taking a crack at this one more time. I just hope that you will publish easier videos and tutorials to help the newbie. So far, What strikes me most is you and your staff being very personable which I can see by your news videos. This I like because it presents a human side of what you offer. I hope you can send me a letter giving me some pointers. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work.
Best regards,
Mel