Corey Rudl - Internet Marketing Legend!
Jul 18th, 2008 by admin
7 Internet Marketing Gurus That Have Influenced Me! Part 1
Cory Rudl has to be top of my list of influential marketing gurus. If it wasn’t for Cory I wouldn’t be writing this post now, in fact this blog wouldn’t exist. Quite simply, Cory introduced me to the world of Internet Marketing!
It was about 4 years ago when one lunch time I was sat at work in my office, staring out of the window thinking …
“there has to be more to life than corporate life!” …
so I turned to my computer, pulled up Google and typed in the words …
“how to become a millionaire”
That’s how I stumbled across Cory’s site … MarketingTips.com … At first I was sceptical about the hype and the claims, I hadn’t heard about Internet Marketing and really wasn’t sure whether it was just a get rich quick scam, it all sounded too good to be true … after all could one guy really build a $60 million business selling on the internet … $60,000,000 
Although sceptical, I was blown away by what I read, I couldn’t stop thinking about it all night and the next day I went back to his site … and spent $170 on one of his products! I’d hardly ever used a credit card online back then, and when I had it was on sites I knew about … not on internet marketing sites I knew nothing about … I certainly didn’t rush home and tell my wife that I’d spent it!
Just over a week later the package arrived at home … two huge binders full of information … I was relieved! It certainly looked value for money, not like some of the 30 page ebooks you get these days! I started reading it straight away, and in a couple of days I had read both binders … (I remember lying to my wife about its price when quizzed!)
It was completely eye opening … I’d never heard about affiliate marketing, autoresponders or email marketing! I knew very quickly it was something I had to give a go …
But instead of getting started straight away, I just spent the next couple of years buying more ebooks and reading and researching … looking back I wish I’d just started publishing there and then … by far the best way of learning is “doing” … learn from your mistakes …
It did prompt me though to buy a pc for home and I taught myself Frontpage so that I could design sites … but it was only when I bought a specific product from the Guru I’ll talk about tomorrow that I really got started publishing and entered the world of internet marketing properly!
In 2005 I was gutted to hear of Cory’s death, I read it on a forum and it stopped me cold … Cory was only 35 when he died in a motor sport accident … but in those 35 years he changed the lives of many people and amassed a personal fortune … how many of us can say we’ve achieved that … and to die at 200 mph in a Porsche is not a bad way to bow out … it’s just a shame for his family and friends that it had to be so soon …
Cory’s memory will live on for a long time, the MarketingTips web site lives on with Derek Geyl at the helm … the products they offer are still as strong … I highly recommend you take a look if you haven’t before, they offer lots of great tools and resources for all levels of marketers …
If you’re relatively new to online marketing, you could do a lot worse than buy the updated version of the product I bought four years ago … The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet
The two ring binders provide you with over 800 pages of instruction on how to set up a marketing site, set up affiliate schemes, choose and develop products, write sales copy, drive blog traffic, build lists and lots more … they cover everything you possibly need to know to be successful online … I still dig my binders out four years later for quick refreshers …
I know Cory will always be one of my favourite marketers for the reasons outlined above … he got me started and his products are top quality … his tragic death was a incredibly sad, but at least he lived his life to the full … I’m sure we’d all like that as an epitaph … thank you Cory …
In Part 2 tomorrow we’ll be discussing how Brad Callen has influenced my online fortunes …
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Cory was a great inspiration to many marketers and internet professionals across many industries. I was not aware his products were being updated - thanks for the heads up, I am checking into your link now.
Yeah … Derek Gehl runs the business now … I actually bought an updated version of the course for a “newbie” friend last year and it’s still a great quality product , especially for anyone new to online marketing …