My Mission Statement:

I have been Marketing online for over 20 years now, and as a result, my links, programs, and blogs have become a "sprawling empire" of sorts. This blog is a new hub of influence for my online activities, as well as an attempt to centralize information I have gathered for so long. Go to my first post on this blog entitled "New Beginnings" to learn more.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Too Busy Making A Living To Earn Real Money?



 
Are you too busy working several hours per day just to make a living to earn any real money?

As you grew up, your parents kept harping at you to "...go to school, get a good education so you can get a good job, and you will be set for life...". I know mine did just that. Well, as they say, things change with time.

At this time in our country's history, there is not the same level of 'job security' that existed when your grandparents and parents were young. Today, high level corporate jobs are being eliminated by the scores in the name of 'down-sizing' for reasons of cutting expenses for the company. The almighty 'bottom line' is all that matters to the company. The idea that they are keeping their shareholders happy doesn't matter to the people who lost their jobs in the shuffle for sure.

There are now people who made five and six figure incomes per year who are losing their homes, having their utilities cut off, and applying for food stamps. Worse yet, unless one is in the top 10% of the high income earners who happen to have at least a million dollar 'nest egg' set aside for retirement, chances are you will be at the mercy of family and friends' generosity to get by in old age. Social Security doesn't look all that secure from where I am sitting (closing in fast on retirement age myself). You need to learn some skills that will bring in residual income for you that may mean the difference between retiring or working until they carry you away in a pine box.

Several years ago, I turned to the Internet to find a way to earn an extra income. If I were not a persistant person, willing to keep on plugging away at learning all I needed to learn in order to compete, I never would have succeeded at earning decent money on the Internet.

You will find out rather quickly that the lure of 'quick riches' with 'no work' hype you see every day on the web are just a pack of lies to drag you into spending an unending amount of cash for more and more products.

So, what is the answer?

First of all, I will not lie to you. Marketing on the Internet is not easy. You will have to invest something to get what you want. You do NOT have to buy expensive memberships in clubs, guru's websites, or pay for expensive software to get started.

You DO need some basic tools to succeed. Anyone who tells you that you can skip some of these tools has probably yet to see their first money from the Internet. If you want success, you need these basic tools:

  • Autoresponder
  • Lead Capture Page
  • Contact Manager
  • Ad Tracker
Each of these has their own purpose. The money is in the list. You will hear that mantra repeated unlimited times on thousands of websites. The reason for that fact is because it is true.

If you have no Autoresponder, you do not have even a potentially successful business. You will simply be as effective as the man spitting into the wind.

You need a Lead Capture Page to grab the attention of your prospect, and a form on it to capture his/her contact information. This is fed into your autoresponder, which sends out the information you wish to send to the prospect. The Autoresponder and Lead Capture Page work together to build that all important 'List' you keep hearing about online.

The Contact Manager helps you keep track of your contacts that are important to you. This helps you remember names, birthdays, contact information, etc. that will keep your business building and growing more successful.

An Ad Tracker is also a must when marketing online. Why? Without one you can never know where your 'leads' that are on your list came from. You need to know which ad attracted more leads.

If you had two ads and one brought in 20 prospects out of 500 mailings and another ad brought in only 5 prospects out of 500 mailings, which ad would you rather use for your next mailing?

The Ad Tracker gives you that vital information. This is one item that most of the top 3% marketing experts swear they can not do without. In fact, if you read their blogs and info products, they will tell you to use all of the above tools.

You can get your tools from separate sources and pay anywhere from $9.99/mo. to $39.00/mo. each for them (at a total cost of around $40 to over $150 per month). Or, you can be smart and find a source that offers you all of these tools for an astounding price that is under $30 per month. Which option would you prefer?

My pick would be (and is - I use this daily) the latter. Click the banner below to see what you can get. Free for 30 days, but, if you want to keep this, act fast to upgrade (within the first 5 days) and get in for under $15/mo. Delay and the monthly price doubles!





Sunday, July 24, 2011

New Programs That Earn Lots of Cash For Online Marketers...

Internet Marketers are always looking for new resources and methods to make serious money on the Internet from home. The easiest way to do this without having your own website and/or your own product to sell, is to sell products others have created.

For years, there were limited programs to do this. There are many affiliate programs on the Internet that offer the ability to sell actual products that are ordered through a vendor, and then shipped to a physical address. The only problem with these programs is that the marketer promoting these products must wait for the item to ship to the customer, and wait for the amount of time the buyer has within which to return the item before payment is sent. This can take from one to six months for receipt of payment for an item sold. This is not the best option for a marketer who wants a fast turn-around time from the time of sale to actual profit for his/her efforts.

The Digital Product Option

What about the digital product options available for instant download? At one time, the only option people had for selling products online was to go through ClickBank.com for their products to sell.

This is a wonderful, dependable option for an established Internet Marketer who can sell lots of products per month. The beginning marketer, however, may find some of ClickBank's pay-out requirements to be difficult to fulfill. If sales from promotions are slim, the marketer may find their already slim amount of profit dissapearing into space rather quickly. If you are not selling the required amount of products within a certain time period, you must give up some of that profit. Not really a wonderful idea for most beginning or casual online marketers.

Not too long ago, a new face appeared on the scene that did not have the drawback of losing commissions due to slow sales. This was PayDotCom.com. Their program also offers top marketing expert's eBooks, software, and other downloadable products. The best news? You get paid on time without the loss of money earned due to slow sales. You still are not paid instantly, though payment is reliable.

Recently I have become aware of two new programs that will pay marketers instantly! All that is required is a Paypal account to receive your instant payments.

Instant Payment Into Your PayPal Account

So what are these new affiliate programs? The first one I found was called PaySpree.com This affiliate program can be used by affiliates who wish to sell other people's products, or by product creators looking for affiliates to promote their products. What makes this program so great is the fact that you get paid instantly into your PayPal account. It's free to sign up and very easy to add your own products or start promoting other peoples products for up to 100% instant PayPal commission.

That's right, you are not seeing things! Some of these products (quite a large number in fact) will gain you 100% commission! If you are wondering why vendors offer these without being paid, is because they plan on making their money in other ways. Once someone buys the product, the creator of the product has gained the email address of the person who bought the product (they just added someone to their email 'list'), and they can sell them more products and/or services later. The vendor also may have a 'back-end' product or 'upgrade' they will offer after the item is downloaded. Since you will not receive a commission for the upgrade or add-on product after download, the vendor has gained more than he/she has given up by allowing the affiliate to get 100% commission on the original item being promoted. Makes sense, right? It is a win - win situation for affiliate and vendor.

To Join PaySpree, CLICK HERE (opens in new window)


The other program I found is called InstantPaySites.com This site also pays instantly into your PayPal account. What makes this site so special is that you can add these products as an alternative product to an offer you have already made that the prospect has rejected. Why? Because some of these products, though most of them actually over-deliver on what you would reasonably expect, they are priced so low that it has a better chance of being purchased if the prospect simply can not afford the first product. These product convert far better than most.

Now for the really good part. They will actually offer you a complete online store filled with their top selling products - For FREE! You promote, and you get paid instantly! What could be better than that?

To Join Instant Pay Sites CLICK HERE! (Will open in new window)


To Your Online Success!

eBook Covers and Product Graphics For Your Website

For Webmasters with a domain and hosting:

If you want to sell your own eBooks online, then you have only two choices for professional looking graphics you will need to promote them.

  • Hire someone to create the graphics for you
  • Create them yourself

Option #1 - Hire Someone

Once in a great while, you can find someone willing to create an eBook cover for $50, but this is rare indeed. Usually they are just starting out and need to build a reputation for themselves. Most of the experienced graphic artists I have seen will start their price somewhere in the $99 range. If you are a successful Internet Marketer already, and can afford this for every graphic cover or product graphic you need, then read no further.

If, however, you don't want to pay for a graphics designer every time you need one for a product you have created, then please continue reading.

Option #2 - Create It Yourself

If you know how to use Photoshop, and are extremely skilled at it, you might be able to create a half-way decent looking graphic to use for your products. If, however, you do not have Photoshop on your computer (priced at $300 and up), or, you do have it, but are not very skilled at it, then keep reading.

I will not waste your time by giving you all the features and benefits of any particular product until I tell you the following:

Several times I have purchased products online from a sales page, only to find out afterwards that I do not have the required software on my computer, or the right version of Window, or the right browser required to run or use the product. This leads me to give you every requirement up front that I am aware of.

For what I am about to describe, you need your own domain and web hosting to make this work. It can not be simply saved to your computer's hard drive and used from there. That being said, if you have these required items, then continue below.

I have found a product that can be uploaded to your website hosting and will produce a professional eBook cover or Graphic to sell your product. It will work for eBooks (it can be produced to look like a soft cover book, a hard cover book, a magazine, or a CD or DVD case) or Membership type websites (a computer graphic showing the website home page.) or any other software package you have created and wish to sell.

When you see the price, you will not believe that it can be sold for such a tiny amount considering the cost of having someone else prepare it for you. In short, I caught my breath in disbelief. I have seen similar products sold for much more. What really caught my eye was the video that showed how simple the format was and how easy it was to use. You need no technical skills to create the covers and graphics, as the program does all the difficult processes. If you have your own domain and hosting, then you have all you need to make use of this ingenious product.

Easy to install, create professional looking ecovers in 2 minutes flat without photoshop. 

This is an awesome product priced at under $10 for a limited time only. Grab it before the price goes up!

You MUST SEE The Video!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Online Marketing Tools - Solutions & Tips - Are You Helping Someone Else Build Their Prospect List? - http://instantblogsubscribers.com/vip/e6s4life

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Understand List Building and Why You Need Your Own List

Why Build Your Own List?

If you have been marketing online for any length of time, most of you have heard a lot of marketing experts saying that "The Money Is In The List."

Do you know how to build a prospect list, or even what it means? I have had several people who join my 'Your Biz Success!' training website ask me this very question. To answer this question, I will start with one of my own.

Have you ever joined an affiliate program of any kind?

Every last person has answered that question with a resounding "yes!" 

Now comes the one thing most people do not realize. When you refer someone to an affiliate program, you do so because you will get paid, and/or you will get to email them within the confines of the program's member area. That may sound nice to you, but think about this:

Whose List Did You Build When You Referred That Person?

It certainly was not YOUR list. You were building the list of the program owners! If the Money is in the List, you just let the Money go into the pocket of the program owner!

At this point, some of my members get a bit defensive, and ask me what else they can do. After all, that is the way that these things work! 

Yes! That is true and you can't change how the program works. The program doesn't belong to you and you have no control over it. 

BUT...

You have the ability to capture the information of your referral BEFORE they sign up for that program! 

The vast majority of Internet marketers today are not that experienced at creating a Lead Capture Page that will make it possible to capture the name and email address of a referral. So, what is a lead capture page? It is the compact page that is designed to grab the attention of a prospect and compel them to enter their name and email address in order to gain information, and/or a free item that is offered on that lead capture page. 

There are several websites and programs out there that offer lead capture page creators, either as their sole purpose, or as a part of their websites offerings. The free versions are usually difficult to use (impossible for a newbie), and are very limited in how much the templates can be personalized. Most of the upgrade fees for such sites are high enough that they make even the most enthusiastic marketer hesitate to invest in it. They also limit the number of Lead Capture Pages to between one and three pages. 

The program I use, for less than the monthly upgrade fees of other sites only offering one marketing tool, offers not only a lead capture page creator (the upgrade offers unlimited pages), but an auto-responder (again, unlimited for the upgrade) with unlimited emails for each auto-responder, a contact manager  (the likes of which I have never seen offered anywhere else), and a Conference Room for every upgraded member! And this is just the tip of the iceberg as the saying goes. 

So, if you are promoting any program using the signup page offered by that programs developers...

Right Now!

 Quit building the lists of the owners of ALL of those Programs you have joined! You are doing all the work, and the program owner is getting all of those email addresses in HIS/HER LIST! If you leave the program, you will lose all of those people you worked so hard to refer (if you ever had access to them in the first place). If you want to be a professional marketer online and REALLY start making some REAL Income...

Build Your Own List

Learn how TODAY and Stop Wasting Your Time And Effort Building Someone Else's List. Fill out the form below and start learning How To Build Your Own List and Really Make A Great Income Online...

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