Mike Filsaime

Mike Filsaime is an Internet marketing expert and the creator of the Butterfly Marketing home study course, just the first of several home study offerings, consulting services and marketing applications that he has developed. In 2008, Mike delivered the keynote address at the Unlimited Power Online Dubai seminar. That same year, he also made the Top 100 Marketers list from Invesp Consulting. He is also a fellow Maverick Business Adventures founding member (he’s #1, I’m #2).

Before Mike Filsaime became a household name in the Internet marketing field, he started out selling cars. While some of the great Internet marketing experts fumble around when it comes to face-to-face sales, Mike had a successful 14 years in the automobile industry. When he left, in fact, he had climbed to the position of general sales manager at a Hyundai and Toyota dealership on Long Island.

Have you ever seen the hours that a general sales manager at an automobile dealership works? Do you know the pressure that is involved with automotive sales? Then you know why he was so eager to jump into another field when the opportunity came to maintain and enhance his standard of living.

Filsaime started his first website in October, 2002, and Carbon Copy Marketing, his first product, came out the next June. He had built up enough revenue to leave the dealership behind by the next year.

One of the most important elements of Butterfly Marketing is what Filsaime calls “ME” Marketing. He points out that 97 percent of Internet marketers earning over $10,000 per month through the web sell their own products, have active membership sites, or both. In other words, just being an affiliate isn’t enough to bring in huge income.

If you’re not selling your dreams to other people, then you won’t bring in the income that dreams are made of. You can make a decent income, up to four figures monthly, by selling the products and services that other people have put together, but to get into the biggest money, you have to put your own materials and program together.

Here are some of the sites that Mike has put together over the years:

PayDotCom.com is similar to ClickBank in that it is a marketplace where you sell your digital products.

JV-Network.com adds 45 members a day and brings in over $40,000 each year. Those numbers are not that impressive, until you read that Mike has done nothing to promote the site in a year.

ListDotCom.com has over 35,000 members and adds 65 each day. Its revenue is well over $100,000 each year. He says that he has done a grand total of TWO promotions since he launched that site.

InstantBuzz.com adds over 145 members each day. It makes $200,000 each year. Mike does more work on this website than on the other two — he does a “push” promotion twice a year.

These are three of the dozens of websites that Mike has up and running out there. He attributes his success in “Butterfly Marketing” to what he calls the “butterfly effect.” In nature, this refers to the effect that a butterfly flapping its wings has on weather patterns across the world.

When it comes to Internet marketing, viral sites are a lot like butterflies. People clicking on websites across the planet can bring you money, if your website is poised to take advantage of the numbers. What Mike offers is the expertise in building a viral system, instead of having to pay to build your own. The result is this: If you can add 50 subscribers a month, and your monthly subscription costs $19.95, you can make an average of $11,970 each month from that site in just a year. He also offers the option of helping you set up free sites to sell your materials.