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I just went to Cartess` website and saw his video for the "Free Magic School" (it`s a way down the page right here, so you have to scroll).

That was awesome! Not only is this a GREAT YouTube viral marketing piece, but he was so casual about the whole thing - what a crackup! He definitely made me want to watch the whole thing to see what happened!!

So hey, way to go Cartess!

Hi Nikole,

Thanks for the kind words.

You`re right about the viral piece because of some few minor modifications, my sign-up rates are almost doubling every 10 days. Right now we`re getting up to 700 signups per day to the site: http://www.freemagicschool.com

Now --- I`ll reveal some amazing tips for SuN members on how this could work for `any` business.

I get a little long-winded, so please bear with me

This entire site is setup on a autoresponder program (and for those of you all who don`t know what an autoresponder is....it`s a program that sends out a sequence of email messages at a predetermined time. In other words, if you write 10 pieces of email, you can specify that the first message goes out today, and the 2nd email goes out 3 days later, and the 3rd email goes out 1 day after the 2nd one goes out, and so on, and so on...

I used the autoresponder to put my videos in....so once you sign-up, you`re instantly sent the video teaching you how to do the paper trick. Two days later, you get an interview with Harry Blackstone sent to you, and 5 days after that, you get another video trick, etc...

This way, you do the work one time, and each person who signs up gets dropped into the sequence. Last I checked, I had over 17,000 members, in the program and they`re all on the list and are active (this is all over a 4 month period)

I`ve since created a forum (less than 45 days ago) and that has taken off on it`s own: http://www.freemagicschool.com/magicforum

Now -- here is wear the viral part gets interesting....

Ahhh...first, let me back-track...we dropped a few video clips on YouTube and youtube works like a search engine --- in order for you to see my magic video, you had to type in  a series of keywords related to magic (which if you did, you`re now a prospect of mine).

They then watch a video and in that video, I have plug myself in and tell them if they want to learn `this trick` then go to the website, here is one of a few youtube videos:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQhdK8l6CuY

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mOixX_ozZ48

[[[ Bear With Me --- Because I`m Going Somewhere With This]]]

Now...after they watch the video, they`re instructed to go to my site at the free magic school.

Now --- once they`re in...they`re told to join the forums and to join the magic contest where each month, the winner is given some type of prize related to magic, here is this months contest:

 http://www.freemagicschool.com/june-magic-contest.html

(there use to be a video on the page, but the manufacturer disabled the video file on their server because the traffic from our site was sucking up the bandwidth).

Anyhow...if you notices rules number 1 and 2 --- this explains why my traffic is starting to go through the roof:

It looks rough, but I`m just testing

(i`m cheap and lazy, so what you`ll learn about me is that i`ll use the exact layouts and audio clips for every single site  )

Well...I know i get long winded...but if anybody has any questions, feel free to post them here and I`ll be more than glad to help best I can