Yep, it’s true… Teaching Sells is closing the doors to new members at the end of July.

Why? Well, we’re approaching the end of the first phase of Teaching Sells as an ongoing business. You see, once you accumulate a huge amount of valuable content like we’ve done over the last 9 months, it allows you to reorganize and relaunch that content with a different delivery format (and even to a different audience).

We’re actually detailing this entire strategy for our members right now inside Teaching Sells. It’s all part of our philosophy of maximizing the value of content creation for those who understand how lucrative training programs and membership sites can be.

Here’s what this means to you.

You can still join Teaching Sells and start building a real online business… but only until midnight July 31, 2008. Then the doors close to new members, no exceptions.

By acting now, you can also join at the current price of $97 a month. When Teaching Sells re-opens (we’re not sure at this point when that will be… we’ve got a lot of work to do) the price will be no less than $997 for a six-month training program. And we might not have a monthly or payment plan option at all.

So, even if you spend 6 months soaking up all the business-building and marketing content we’ve got for you, you’re still paying less now than if you wait. Some won’t even need to stick around 6 months, and those folks will save even more.

We’re also going to be making all Teaching Sells content easy to download and take with you. This will be happening over the next few months, but only for people who get in before the doors close.

Let me give you a quick run down on the content that you’ll get instant access to, and also let you know what you can expect in the next few months (the site copy hasn’t been updated to show what all is going on inside, since it’s coming down shortly anyway). This way, you’ll know exactly where things stand before you jump on board.

There are now 10 core courses in the Teaching Sells program that lead you through the 20-step development roadmap to building your own successful training program or membership site:

1. How to Create Content That Sells

The Teaching Sells core course materials demonstrate the reasons why interactive learning environments create powerful and sustainable businesses, and provide detailed techniques for selecting profitable topics and objectives, creatively adapting source materials, and producing engaging content across multiple media formats.

2. How to Effectively Market Interactive Learning Environments

This in-depth marketing course shows you how to specifically attract and retain paid members for your training programs. You’ll learn:

• How to start marketing smart with your topic selection
• How to create a unique market position that magnetically draws paid students
• How to leverage other people’s traffic with smart deal-making strategies
• Copywriting techniques that work for membership sites
• Relationship marketing strategies that retain members and spur referrals
• The smart way to use free content as a persuasion strategy
• Paid advertising strategies that pay you

3. How to Create Killer Multimedia Content with Quick and Easy Tools

This course is an extended set of screencast tutorials that show you exactly how to get the most out of old standards like PowerPoint, as well as demonstrate the powerful new tools that allow you to create stunning interactive elements. Once you see that creating dynamic multimedia content is no harder than operating a word processor, you’ll be free to develop valuable teaching materials that sell.

4. Seven Profitable Business Models for Interactive Content Developers

In this course, you’ll learn in detail about seven different strategies that will allow you to add significantly to your bottom line thanks to the value you’ve provided with your training materials. All of these models are complemented by the core Teaching Sells content development strategy that leads to happy learners and profitable publishers.

5. Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost Software

While the content and marketing of your site is of vital importance, you absolutely must have an air-tight membership site in order to function as an online business.

Thankfully, with low-cost and open source components at your disposal, it can be done without paying outrageous fees to proprietary membership site vendors. This course will take you though each and every step necessary to build a secure and user-friendly membership site.

6. “Under the Radar” Marketing: Persuasive Educational Content That Sparks the Buying Process

Our advanced promotional topics will teach you how to use free reports, blog posts, teleseminars, webinars and viral videos to persuade with “under the radar” educational marketing techniques.

7. The Winning Difference: Advanced Positioning and Creative Adaptation Strategies

These advanced marketing topics elaborate on one of the most important parts of the Teaching Sells approach (and marketing in general). Discover how to differentiate yourself from the crowd and creatively put a fresh spin on even tired topics.

8. Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Niche-Focused Membership Sites

The initial Teaching Sells training teaches you how to build robust “flagship” membership sites. Some of the business models we reveal in the core training require the ability to quickly churn out multiple membership sites in multiple niches, and these topics show you how to make that happen.

9. Explosive Content: Delivering Your Message Payload with Multimedia Storytelling

These advanced content topics teach you cutting-edge techniques to creating audio/visual content that knocks people’s socks off and keeps them happily subscribed. Even better, it’s all done with the tools you learn about in the core training.

10. Launch Strategies for Membership Sites and Training Programs

This heavily-requested course (now in progress) ties together general membership site marketing with “under the radar” promotional content strategies that lead to big launches (and perpetual re-launches) for big amounts of instant cash.

In addition to the 10 core courses, check out these bonus courses that are in progress or kicking off soon:

> The “Entreproducer” Model for Online Business Success

What’s an Entreproducer? It’s a smart person who leverages unique online marketing knowledge and the skills and credentials of others to produce a series of profitable sites–Hollywood style.

> Quick and Easy Content Strategies

Quality content production can be the biggest stumbling block to online success. This course will demonstrate techniques for cranking out content in multiple media formats… in a lot less time than you might think.

> How to Explode Profits with Seminars and Workshops

One of the many business models we’ve explored in Teaching Sells has to do with upselling to live events such as seminars and workshops. This course will take you behind the scenes of the paid-speaking industry to give you what you need to succeed.

> Under the Radar Affiliate Marketing

This course shows you step-by-step how to make money online with affiliate marketing, using content strategies that actually work. You’ll also learn how to use other people’s products to discover exactly what kind of membership site people will pay for. With these strategies, you’re removing any risk of failure.

Plus… Free Content Library, Interactive Member Forum and Access to Instructors

You also get full access to the Teaching Sells library of licensed and private label rights content. This is free licensed content that you can republish and/or repurpose to fit your needs. We update the licensed content library monthly, and it’s included at no extra charge.

There’s also forum access to instructors for questions, lively joint venture networking and accountability forums, and a robust community of members who help each other out.

Plus, when you join Teaching Sells now, you’ll also benefit by saving a bundle off the price when we relaunch the program. Our no-hassle 30-day money-back guarantee protects you from making the wrong decision.

Join us and start building a real business today.

Our 30-Day No-Hassle Money-Back Guarantee

We’re absolutely sure you’ll love Teaching Sells.

But you must be absolutely convinced that Teaching Sells has you on the road to a profitable online business, or we’ll gladly refund your initial enrollment fee with no hassle or questions asked. If you’re not happy, we want you to ask for your money back.

Take 30 days to evaluate the training materials, free content library, case studies and members-only forum… and if it’s not for you, simply contact us via the clearly-marked link displayed on the upper right-hand side of every page in the members area. We’ll issue a prompt and courteous refund of your initial $97 investment, and you’ll never be charged again.

Enroll now!

Here’s what other Teaching Sells members are saying:

“I joined Teaching Sells on day one, and after completing the core program I successfully transitioned my flagship SEO Book into an interactive learning environment. The results have been stunning so far.” ~Aaron Wall, SEOBook.com

“One of the most compelling and viable approaches to a real online business I’ve come across.” ~Darren Rowse, ProBlogger and co-founder of b5 Media

“My brother and I are so pleased to have launched our site, and without Teaching Sells it truly would not have been possible. We’ve always wanted to do our program online and Teaching Sells gave us all the missing pieces and we believe shortened what would have taken us 12-14 months down to 8 weeks.” ~Joseph Bridges, www.onlinerealestatesuccess.net

“If you want to really start making money online, Teaching Sells will tell you exactly what you need to know.” ~Chris Garrett, new media consultant and Performancing co-founder

“Every so often a product is launched that I wish I had created. Brian Clark has done that with a methodical program that elegantly guides you step by step through the process of creating and selling multimedia teaching programs. Teaching Sells is now my top recommendation for professionals who want to accelerate their business growth on the Web.” ~Denise Wakeman, The Blog Squad

“The strategies described made me stop and rethink what I knew about making money online.” ~Daniel Scocco, DailyBlogTips.com

“Teaching Sells is an excellent and legitimate training program for bloggers, consultants and entrepreneurs.” ~DoshDosh

“This is the best guide for starting a membership based site… period. There’s nothing else that even compares.” ~Ryan Caldwell, Performancing

“Internet Marketing for smart people.” — Yaro Starak, Entrepreneur’s Journey

“I received twenty new subscribers today in less than three hours! Thanks to Teaching Sells. I couldn’t have done it without the instruction.” ~Christopher Westra, icreatepower.com

“This is the richest learning environment I’ve ever experienced! The clarity of the writing is outstanding, the overall organization and navigation lets you follow one subject and also understand its relationship to the other elements. And no stone is left unturned. If your intention is to teach anything anywhere, Teaching Sells provides you with all you need to know and then some! Thank you for one of the best learning experience I’ve ever had! And it’s on-going too!” ~Cara Lumen, www.caralumen.com

“Thank you guys so much! This is exactly what I need right now. I’ve been dreaming up building a site like this forever. Thank you for doing this, and doing it so well.” ~ Rob Scott, fundamental-shift.com

“As someone with a background in both instructional design and marketing, I am LOVING this program so far. You are walking the talk, and connecting the dots at the same time. BRAVO!” ~ Barbara Densmore, workingsmarter.ca

“Teaching Sells is by far the best online learning program I’ve seen yet. Thanks so much for what I can only imagine is a HUGE amount of brilliant creative teamwork behind the scenes. You guys ROCK!” ~ Kathy Mallary, spiritspring.com

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