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!





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