Thanks for vis­it­ing, it means a lot to me that you’re here.

Below you’ll find out more about Enlight­ened Web­Mas­tery, what it is, what it means, and what the goal behind the site is, as well as get to learn a lit­tle bit about me.  Just scroll down to read what you want.  See you soon

Oh, and if you’re here to con­nect with me, click the but­tons to the right, you’ll see my social net­work­ing pro­files, and below that you’ll be able to get on my newslet­ter. (Where I share a bunch of cool tips and tricks).

What is Enlight­ened WebMastery?

My vision for Enlight­ened Web­Mas­tery is really quite sim­ple.  To help you spread your mes­sage, increase your influ­ence and make more money online (even if you’re mak­ing none right now)… with­out any of the “shady” tac­tics some peo­ple rec­om­mend.

It’s a place for me to share the lessons I’ve learned, to share what I’m doing, and most impor­tantly, the site is really about you…  how to spread your mes­sage, improve your blog, and make more money.

To help you with this goal I plan on pro­vid­ing you with high value action­able posts that you can go out and use right now to grow your blog or busi­ness beyond what­ever you pre­vi­ously expected or dreamed.

I’m really focus­ing on mak­ing sure my con­tent is rel­e­vant, action­able, com­pre­hen­sive, com­plete, and ready to imple­ment.  I want you to take action…

I see this site as a pre­mium resource, some­thing worth pay­ing good money for… with­out cost­ing you one red cent.  I truly believe the infor­ma­tion being shared here can and will make you very suc­cess­ful… if you just apply it.

I’m com­pletely revamp­ing the site right now to make sure that you get the BEST infor­ma­tion avail­able, pre­sented in the most USEFUL for­mat pos­si­ble.  Every­thing is designed to be totally focused on pro­vid­ing you a ben­e­fit in a few short min­utes.

I invite you to book­mark this site and keep com­ing back.  Be sure to sign up for the newslet­ter (pssst, click the link), and be sure to come back often (I’ll leave the lights on for you. )

Who The Heck is Jason Annas?

 

Hey it’s me (Jason), and I’m the owner and “res­i­dent blog­ger” here.  I love mar­ket­ing, I enjoy hik­ing (not a big fan of the mosquito’s though), I enjoy med­i­ta­tion, and hap­pen to love “the Google”.

When I have some free time I enjoy watch­ing movies, read­ing books (typ­i­cally a mar­ket­ing book or a book on phi­los­o­phy, health, or med­i­ta­tion).

I’m cur­rently work­ing on get­ting back in shape, hav­ing fun with yoga, going on walks, and enjoy­ing nature.  

I’m also a bit of a tech geek and absolutely obsessed with most any­thing Apple.  (I have a thing for the shiny things, what can you do right? )

But you may be won­der­ing, how I got into all this stuff, and what makes me so spe­cial?

Well, the day I turned 16 I got my first job.  It was bag­ging gro­ceries (I wanted to be a Jet Pack tester, but they weren’t hir­ing :X), look­ing back it’s funny, because even back then I was think­ing about ways the gro­cery store could make more money.

I even went as far as set­ting up a lit­tle joint ven­ture between two small local busi­nesses (between a Chi­nese restau­rant and the local gro­cery which proved quite pop­u­lar) (Sadly the restau­rant is no longer there). 

(I didn’t get a bonus or any­thing (well I did get a free drink and sand­wich!))

It’s crazy, I was 16, and the only thing I was inter­ested in (besides girls (still love em’), wrestling (thank­fully I got over that ), and music), was play­ing video games, and build­ing web­sites…

But for me the sites weren’t about mak­ing money (you could do that?), I just liked it because it was fun, kept my mind focused, and was a great form of med­i­ta­tion.

(pssttt… back then I was writ­ing code by hand on REAL paper with a REAL pen!  Mean­ing I took a ball­point pen and wrote HTML code inside my com­po­si­tion note­book (this was 10 years ago, I didn’t have a com­puter, and I needed to write this stuff out before going to the library to make new web­sites!)

After a while I real­ized that my busi­ness ideas were pretty good, but I didn’t really see mar­ket­ing or any­thing as a path (heck, I didn’t even know what mar­ket­ing was!).

So I went to col­lege and stud­ied Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and Inter­net Tech­nolo­gies.

These are just a bunch of fancy words which mean, how to setup net­works (com­puter equip­ment), and how to design web­sites…

In 2006, get­ting tired of work­ing in IT (build­ing com­put­ers, set­ting up routers, etc), I decided I’d do what back then I enjoyed the most… mak­ing web­sites.  Though my inter­ests changed ever so slightly…

The thing I enjoyed most was blog­ging, it was fun, it was free, and it was just a great way to get things off your mind and onto “paper”.

Around the same time, I real­ized there wasn’t much money to be made in just mak­ing web­sites for peo­ple…

So I bought a few books by peo­ple like, Dan Kennedy (Mar­ket­ing Genius), Al Ries and Jack Trout (Posi­tion­ing), Dar­ren Rowse (ProBlog­ger), and Spin Sell­ing (by Neil Rack­ham).

These books had a pretty big influ­ence on me.  I learned about how to make money online with Darren’s book…

It was the first real step, and influ­enced me to cre­ate a “review site” to make money with Ama­zon and adsense  (worked pretty good until my home state NC, decided to sue Ama­zon and all the money stopped… but that’s another story… )

But likely the defin­ing moment for me, was when Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Guru Eben Pagan started teach­ing how to make money.  He cre­ated a huge series of free videos that majorly influ­enced me, made me see what was pos­si­ble and how to get there.

He inspired me to make my first info prod­uct (which was a train­ing course that I sold to make money).  

The prod­uct sold pretty well, and I learned a lot dur­ing the process (as well as learn­ing what I didn’t know).  I took my first prod­uct off the mar­ket ear­lier this year, and now It’s avail­able for free (find out more below).

The whole point behind this is, this is stuff I do, and stuff I love.  I can’t imag­ine doing any­thing else right now (beyond mar­ket­ing and help­ing peo­ple mar­ket), it’s just so fun and there’s always some­thing new to learn…

With my blog I’ll be shar­ing what I learn, tips and tricks and ways you can take what I spent hours / days / weeks learn­ing, and actu­ally do it…  How cool’s that?

Any­way, enough about me, let’s get back to YOU!

 

For Inter­net Mar­keters or IM Hopefuls

 

A lot of inter­net mar­keters learn how to make money online by exper­i­ment­ing with var­i­ous tricks and fancy “tac­tics” to dom­i­nate the inter­net… what’s ironic is a lot of these things just don’t work.

(A lot of times they even end up blow­ing up in your face!  Trust me… I know a guy who… uhh … knows a guy )

My goal here is to make sure that what I teach not only works now, but also works in the future.  It’s more of an “enlight­ened” approach to mar­ket­ing.

If you already have a suc­cess­ful busi­ness or blog, what I want to do is help you max­i­mize and mul­ti­ply what you’re already doing… and do so with min­i­mal effort.

You’re really going to like this site, if you need more, you can feel free to con­tact me using the con­tact me link up above.  I’m open to doing JV’s and I’m always look­ing for a “few good affiliates”.

What’s Word­Press Foun­da­tions All About?

 

Word­Press Foun­da­tions is a online train­ing course that I sold for $50 dol­lars.  I did so quite suc­cess­fully for well over a year.  Thing is (what I didn’t intend to hap­pen) is peo­ple started assum­ing I was this Word­Press Guru (I’m not) and kept want­ing more…

What was sup­posed to be a lit­tle side project to help peo­ple get started turned into a full time job (and some­what got me off focus with Enlight­ened Web­Mas­tery).

So early in 2010 I basi­cally took the prod­uct off the mar­ket.  Fast for­ward 6 Months Later (July 2010), I’ve suc­cess­fully updated the course to cover Word­Press 3…

…but now it’s even more pow­er­ful.

The course walks you step by step through the EXACT process that I use (or rec­om­mend) to setup any site.

You learn every valu­able plu­gin, each super secret “ninja” tech­nique, and every­where I go to make sure the sites I setup are of the high­est qual­ity, and return, as will yours.

Even bet­ter?  The new ver­sion of Word­Press Foun­da­tions is FREE!  That’s right, FREE!

Why would I do this?  Well part of it is to give back, I want peo­ple to actu­ally get started.  I know how hard and frus­trat­ing it is to start up a site online.  You find out you need to blog, you learn that Word­Press is the best blog­ging plat­form, but you just don’t know how the heck to use it.  

So like many peo­ple, maybe you go to your local book­store and end up pick­ing up a 500‑1000 page book on Word­Press.  Crazy right?  

I know many peo­ple who have bought 2–3 books on Word­Press and NEVER ended up even start­ing a blog… which is silly because the entire process is so sim­ple (let me show you, join the course, it’s free).

So in Word­Press Foun­da­tions I walk you through step by step every­thing you need to know, shar­ing the wis­dom that you can only get through years of doing this.

You’ll learn every “insider tech­nique” and best of all?  I’m not going to lec­ture about the his­tory of this panel, and explain EVERY SINGLE FRICKEN OPTION!

If you want to learn what every but­ton does, Google it or buy one of those 500 page books (they do make great doorstops).  But if you really want to get started, and get started right, there’s no bet­ter way than Word­Press Foun­da­tions.

Well… what’s the other rea­son?  Ahh… right!

Well, with soo many ques­tions about Word­Press, my blog has turned into pretty much a Word­Press only blog, and it kinda makes me not want to update it as much… can you blame me?  A new ver­sion comes out every 3 months it seems (some­times less!).

So in an effort to bring every­one up, I made Word­Press Foun­da­tions free, and even bet­ter, I made it into a mem­ber­ship area, so if you have ques­tions, you can ask and the com­mu­nity can help, or I can with­out hav­ing to clut­ter up this blog with basic Word­Press stuff…

Instead I can focus on the “cool” stuff, like increas­ing your con­ver­sions (get­ting your read­ers to do stuff), traf­fic get­ting strate­gies (get more vis­i­tors, and con­vert them), build­ing rela­tion­ships (so they know like and trust you), as well as other money get­ting tech­niques…

Per­son­ally, this is what I love to teach (and do), so I’m excited about shar­ing that with you.  I also think you’ll like it more than learn­ing how to fix some crazed Word­Press prob­lem… but don’t worry.  I’ll still post the odd how to fix word­press train­ing

 

Let’s Hook Up Online & Stay Connected

 

Let’s hook up online.  (Don’t worry, I wont stalk you… much!)

The best way to stay in touch with what’s going on here and with me is by sign­ing up for my newslet­ter. (where I’ll be able to send you tips, videos, and more that you oth­er­wise wouldn’t get)

Next you’ll want to hook up Twit­ter, where I can share with you what I’m doing, inter­est­ing arti­cles, and we can inter­act… If you’re not on twit­ter yet, sign up!  It’s free.

When you’re ready go ahead and fol­low me @jasonannas

I look for­ward to con­nect­ing with you.

I’ll come back soon and update with my face­book infor­ma­tion, but right now it’s get­ting rather late…

Talk Soon,

Jason

PS, Be sure to come back and keep check­ing out the web­site.  If you find some­thing you like, click the share but­ton and be sure to stum­ble, and deli­cious it.

I look for­ward to hear­ing from you and help­ing you on your journey.