Last week subscriber JK e-mailed me and said, “It sounds to me that the freelancer’s life is not it’s all cracked up to be.

“Although the money and the prestige sound important, getting clients and keeping them happy, along with knowing your craft and producing results sounds like the key. It involves LOTs of work!

“I may be dead wrong but correct me on this if I am. This e-mail is going to you and you alone…and not to put you on the spot.”

The short answer is: JK is right: Getting clients and keeping them happy, along with knowing your craft and producing results, is the key—and it involves lots of hard work.

JK is not putting me on the spot, because I have never claimed otherwise.

There’s an old saying: “An entrepreneur is someone who will work 60 hours a week for himself in order to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else.”

Freelancing and any other type of small service business are labor-intensive, because they generate only active income, meaning you only get paid when you are working, whether you charge a flat fee or hourly rate.

Dentists have a saying about this: the more you drill and fill, the more you bill.

Internet marketing and other product businesses have the advantage of generating passive income, meaning you make money even when you’re not working.

For instance, I just returned to my desk from a 10-minute coffee break, and during that time my Internet marketing business received 3 orders totaling $291 in sales, even though I was not working.

By comparison, the income of my freelance copywriting business during that break was zero: I only make money as a copywriter when I am copywriting.

However, the notion that passive income requires zero work is grossly mistaken.

True, you can generate orders even when you’re away or sleeping.

But it takes an enormous amount of work up front—including building an e-list, creating or sourcing products, producing websites, writing e-newsletters and e-mail marketing messages, writing blog posts, writing articles, optimizing your website for search engines—before the passive income can start flowing. And at the beginning, when your numbers are small, so are your sales.

For instance, say you have a subscriber list of 1,000 names. The click-through rate on your e-mail to the list is 2%, so you get 20 clicks per e-mail sent to your landing page.

The landing page conversion rate is 5%, so those 20 clicks generate only a single order. If you are selling a $29 e-book, you made only $29.

On the other hand, when you build your list up to 100,000 names, those same performance metrics would result in $2,900 in orders for a single e-mail blast to the list.

If you then improve the landing page conversion rate to 10%, that single e-mail would bring $5,800 in sales.

To summarize, passive income businesses require a huge investment of labor up front in exchange for a stream of passive income, generated with relatively little additional labor, down the road.

Active income businesses require almost nothing to start up—you can begin with just a PC, phone, and Internet connection—but take continual labor to generate continual income.

Neither, however, is little or no work, as some promoters of “make money as a copywriter” and “make money in Internet marketing” claim. There is a lot to do for each type of business. Plus, you must learn how to do it, and then practice until you can do it well. All of which takes time.

A good rule of thumb for evaluating business opportunities: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

I encourage you to be an entrepreneur if—and only if—that’s your strong desire. But go into it with realistic expectations and your eyes wide open.

Bob Bly is the author of “World’s Best Copywriting Secrets” and has written copy for more than 100 companies including IBM, Boardroom, Medical Economics and AT&T. He is the author of more than 75 books and a columnist for Target Marketing, Early To Rise and The Writer. McGraw-Hill calls him “America’s top copywriter”.

Have you read Eben Pagan’s previous 2 reports?

1) 5 Steps To Increase Your Business Productivity

2) 4 Steps To Profitably Build Your Brand

It goes without saying they are awesome, but it’s not the end. Eben has just put out another new free report & video online about out how delegate, outsource and hire people to help you build your business.

Inside, you’ll learn:

* Which tasks to delegate first, so you free up your valuable time to do the higher-value, business-growing actions (and get more time off)

* How to write an ad to attract a “super star” to work with you (I actually give you an ad that I’ve used myself to hire a personal assistant)

* What to ask when you’re interviewing to find out what type of personality you’re talking to

You also get downloadable exercises, and more tips for getting things off your plate, so you can do the customer-getting stuff!

I will keep this short as Martin Crumlish has opened the doors to Emperor Social.

I will tell you a few things right now:

- Emperor Social is a whole new “ecosystem” that will change the way you look at Facebook and marketing.

- Emperor Social is not some “$7″ wonder tool that you fiddle with and then move on.

- Emperor Social is open at a charter price and that price will increase shortly. Your best bet is to get in today.

If a depressed Walmart shelf-stocker who didn’t have enough time for a social life can turn his life around, you need to be asking yourself…

WHY CAN’T YOU!

Imagine receiving a $6K a day paycheck thanks to Unlimited FREE Traffic!

Tom has some amazing PROOF to back his marketing system’s incredible power…

It’s a Powerful Strategy, just waiting for you to collect Massive amounts of cash day in, and day out!

If free ads all day, every day and a $6k daily paycheck sounds good to you, watch this.

We’ve seen the success stories of thousands of people who make $3K-10K/month with SEO…

And that free traffic is super profitable for many reasons, including the strategies to sell it…

But it has NEVER been documented where a couple guys start from zero, and create a $500K/year business in just 5 months.

The income screenshots inside reveal how these guys have been making increments of 20K per month, in recurring income, consistently…

…and the likes of 18K in ONE hour, all SEO-based!

Alex Cass & Alex Becker have detailed how they did it, no stone unturned, but they also made this Case Study a Step by Step blueprint, where they reveal their resources, action plan, selling methods, and conversion strategies that GUARANTEE success for anyone who follows it.

* Step-By-Step Blueprint On How To Make 500K With SEO *

QUESTION: Do you know why the #1 Richest Man in the world beat out Bill Gates, who owns a software company called Microsoft?

ANSWER: Because the #1 Richest Man in the World owns a cell phone company.

There are 5 billion cellphones in the world, compared to only 1 billion computers.

He leveraged 5 times more traffic and buying power to create MORE money than Bill Gates.

Now you have the chance to get into the cell phone business and make up to $4,000 a day!

Don’t miss this, or you’ll hate yourself later.

Eben Pagan has just released a new free report that shares 4 powerful steps to build your brand and market your products and services.

Inside, you’ll learn:

* The two types of branding and why most companies use the WRONG one when they spend money to market themselves

* What branding actually is, and how it works on a psychological and emotional level

* How to combine your direct marketing and branding together to make both a lot more powerful

* How to use these strategies to get a lot more customers, grow your business, and also grow your profit and income

The report also comes with a couple of PDF exercise downloads, and a video from Eben walking you through the steps to identifying your own brand “hot buttons” and using the strategies to build your brand and your sales.

You can get it all here by just opting in.

Go download and read the report now, and learn how to profitably brand and market your products and services.

This guy was in a bad way.

His family business flopped…

Times were hard…

Now he spends his life lazing around on a beach somewhere…

And he’s about to reveal HOW he did it…

He makes his money totally by affiliate marketing…on AMAZON!

And unlike most other “systems” this will only get MORE profitable with time…

So far this year he’s made $355,708.26…and that’s JUST promoting Amazon products.

Find out how you can do the same.

Have you heard of “Facebook Fan Apps”?

The reality is that these “little apps” are the fulcrum behind some quite HUGE businesses including one that is earning well into the 5 figures per month.

Now you can go Big or small with Fan Apps, but if you are just getting started, let’s keep it simple.

My friend Martin has put together a video on how to create a Fan App to get 100 opt-ins free a day in the niche of your choice.

In addition he GIVES you the framework to build your own app.

Not bad!

Follow the directions and you will have the Fan App Framework in your hands in just 2 clicks.

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day…And while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.

3. Buy a DVR and tape your late night shows and get more sleep.

4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, “My purpose is to __________ today.”

5. Live with the 3 Es: Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.

6. Play more games and read more books than you did last year.

7. Make time to practice meditation, and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.

8. Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.

9. Dream more while you are awake.

10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.

11. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.

12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

13. Clear clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.

14. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip, OR issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.

15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed-out charge card.

17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the NEGATIVE BLUES away.

18. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

20. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

21. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

22. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.

23. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

24. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In 5 years, will this matter?”

26. Forgive everyone for everything.

27. What other people think of you is none of your business.

28. REMEMBER GOD heals everything.

29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

30. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

31. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

32. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

33. The best is yet to come.

34. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

35. Do the right thing!

36. Call your family often (or e-mail them to death!).

37. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I am thankful for __________. Today, I accomplished _________.

38. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

39. Enjoy the ride. Remember this is not Disney World and you certainly don’t want a fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it and enjoy the ride.

40. Forward this to everyone you care about.

May your troubles be less, May your blessings be more, May nothing but happiness come through your door!

My subscriber HL e-mailed me his beef with affiliate marketing: “I believe that affiliate marketing has corrupted the sacred trust between supplier and customer. I sometimes get the feeling that the products being offered have not been tried and proven by the re-marketer, yet they allow their lists and good names to be associated with inferior products and services.”

I hate to say this, but I think a lot of what HL says is true.

In their rush to make as many joint ventures as possible, product marketers and their affiliates often skimp on—or skip altogether—the important step of the affiliate actually reviewing the product before she recommends it to her list.

No one will cop to this out loud, but I see it repeatedly.

One colleague asked me to write a positive review of his book. When I asked for a copy, he e-mailed a PDF of only the table of contents and the introduction. When I explained that I needed to see the whole book to recommend it, he seemed a bit irritated, though he did send it.

A lot of product marketers who want me to promote their products to my list routinely expect that I will do so without actually reviewing the product. They aren’t shocked when I ask for a review copy, but they are surprised.

Early in my Internet marketing career, another colleague, a very famous Internet marketer, asked me to recommend one of his programs to my list, and he wanted the endorsement to go out that week.

Since I totally trusted that anything he did would be good, and time was short, I sent out my endorsement without having gone through the program, which was rather lengthy and involved.

When I sent out the e-mail to my list, several of my subscribers scolded me for promoting the system, which they said was a rip-off. Not having seen the system, I had no defense.

When you are approached about doing joint venture promotions to your list, follow these simple steps:

First, make sure that either the marketer has a good reputation or you have reason to believe he is sincere and ethical.

Second, review the product he wants you to promote. You don’t have to read every page or watch the entire DVD set, but at least get a feel for the quality of the content.

I promote affiliate offers to my list when:

>> The author is someone I know personally and believe to be a good teacher and knowledgeable expert on her topic.

>> I already offer my own products on the topic, but I believe the affiliate product offers additional tips and strategies my products do not.

>> The product covers a topic that my subscribers want to know about, but I am not going to produce my own product on that topic—usually because I am unqualified to teach it or someone else can teach it better.

>> The affiliate promotion is for an event, such as a webinar or boot camp, that I think is worthwhile—especially if I am a speaker at the event.

If after reviewing your product, the affiliate says something nice about it, get his permission before using that comment as a testimonial in your own marketing.

Once an information marketer gave a 2-hour seminar I attended, and I was so impressed I wrote him an unsolicited testimonial.

Years later, he began to use—without my knowledge—this testimonial to sell a pricey multi-media information product that was on the same topic as the seminar, only expanded.

Dissatisfied customers of his began e-mailing me. They asked why I was endorsing such a shoddy product and whether I knew that the marketer was not honoring refund requests, which I did not.

Finally I tracked him down and asked for a sample of the product, which he sent without delay.

After examining it, I agreed with his customers that the package was not well produced and not worth the exorbitant price he was charging, and asked him to remove my endorsement.

For many months he did not. Now I assume he has because people have stopped contacting me about this.

Bob Bly is the author of “World’s Best Copywriting Secrets” and has written copy for more than 100 companies including IBM, Boardroom, Medical Economics and AT&T. He is the author of more than 75 books and a columnist for Target Marketing, Early To Rise and The Writer. McGraw-Hill calls him “America’s top copywriter”.

This is an absolute shocker!

Mother of 7 makes solid income from Amazon, Google Affiliate Networks, Commission Junction and other such affiliate networks…Mind you, these networks are cracked by very few real marketing experts, but Sara Young is ready to reveal her personal system for creating quick and easy passive income streams.

Watch over the shoulder of Sara Young as she shows you EXACTLY how you can make your first sale online within the next 7 days!

Back in 1994, Sara was FORCED to find a way to make quick cash online.

Then one kid came after another :) She did have to find a way to make ends meet, and has been making a full-time living ever since.

Sara’s system is so easy that anyone can do it. In fact, many of her students make their first sale within just 7 days!

I highly recommend Sara’s strategy for:

- newbies who are ready to make their first sales online (lots of people have made their first sales this way)

- more advanced marketers who want extra passive income streams

- people who want to test niches BEFORE investing lots of time and money building a site

Easy Paycheck Formula 2 is now launched at the introductory price of $67…you want to take advantage of the price now before it rises!

If you haven’t found a system for making profits online that is working for you, you’ll definitely want to check this out (you’ll thank me!).

We all know traffic is probably the most important thing online, because after all you can’t make a penny if you’re not getting traffic, but what if I told you, I can bring you over 40,000 free buyers to your affiliate links?

How many sales you think you might make?

What you have here is a great new strategy, step-by-step course and software that enable you to funnel large amounts of buyer traffic to any link of your choice.

Watch the video as it explains how Epic Traffic Ninja works.

Do you know people who find themselves buried in stress, depressed and overwhelmed? Maybe you feel this way at times with all the things you have to deal with on a daily basis. I know I’ve been there and I know exactly what it’s like.

In this world full of doubt—states of war, economic crisis, people being killed, hurt and robbed—it is not rare for people to lead a nerve-racking life. We all have tension occasionally.

Khai’s struggle was tough for him but lucky for you, for in his journey of learning and discovery he discovered a passion for helping others with their stress issues.

Khai Ng has created 5 brand new PLR products just to address this issue.

Today I am bringing you a package that you can offer to others that has a wealth of information to bring them the stress-free living they are looking for.

Titles include:

1. Stress And Students—Stress Management Techniques At School
2. Stress At Work—Your Guide To Less Stress On The Job
3. Stress Soothers—Tips And Tricks To Using Exercise To Beat Stress
4. Stress Overload—Stress Symptoms, Signs And Outcome
5. The Psychology Of Stress—What’s Behind Your Stress And How To Deal With It

With the private label rights to these books, you can be sure you rake in massive profits selling these hot titles.

Grab it now at its lowest price!

Productivity for us entrepreneurs is about doing the things that increase the growth and profit of our businesses, so we can increase our income.

Yet as the business grows in size, productivity becomes a challenge that gets bigger all the time, to a point where if entrepreneurs do not have the right strategies to tackle it, business growth will hit a plateau and may even regress while they suffer complete burnout.

And so Eben Pagan has just released a new report and video teaching the 5 steps to increase your productivity as an entrepreneur. I highly recommend that you read it and watch the video if you want to learn how to increase the results and profit in your business.

You’ll learn how to:

* See the hidden obstacles that get in the way of business productivity and profit (many of these are actually emotional, so we don’t even notice them)

* Identify the specific actions inside of your own business that result in growth and profit

* Create an environment that puts you into the ‘flow’ state and almost forces you to do the things that result in making higher income

* Inspire and motivate yourself emotionally, to focus all of your energy on doing those things that grow your business and the money you get from it

A quick tip: Read the report and print out the 2 exercises that go along with it before you watch the video. The video walks you through the steps in the exercises, and it will save you some time if you already have them printed out.

Two ingredients are always, always, ALWAYS keys to a successful viral campaign:

It has to have INTERESTING content, plus it has to be EASY TO SHARE, quickly.

Why not let Facebook’s $5-billion-engine work to your advantage?

“Viral Money Machines” lets you achieve virality, for sustainable autopilot growth!

The Internet revolutionized mass marketing, because it enabled people to sell directly to each other.

So, how did business giants like Facebook get billions of dollars out of ordinary people?

They split-tested hundreds of ads and tracked design tweaks across dozens of categories, to achieve optimal “social proof” pricing. They call this their EdgeRank formula.

If you master EdgeRank, you will master Facebook profits, period.

It would be silly NOT to let Facebook’s public-domain R&D work in your favor!

Use Facebook’s technology for affiliate viral profit endeavors!

Vitaliy Sheremet was a total newbie just a few short months ago, when he went under Aravindh Sridhar’s wing. Together, they conquered CPA profits with viral Facebook traffic (which was, of course, free).

His viral strategies are raking in a bunch of money, with no expenses going out on traffic. Vitaliy is showing his video walk-through to the public for the first time, and you can see it today. There’s an informational PDF guide, too. It’s a bargain, and you should get it while it’s still sold for a low, introductory price.

Vitaliy learned a seasoned veteran’s entire lineup of Facebook fan page traffic secrets. Now, so can you.

Do you want in?

Q: What are the 3 most important pieces of advice you can give to someone who is new to social media?

A: 1) Be engaging. More than ever, social media encourages 2-way communication. Be as much interactive as possible.

2) Publish valuable content. Let your passion about a subject matter shine through by publishing content consistently. Know what’s “in the trend” that gets people to like and share your posts.

3) Plan “goal funnels” for social media: Know what measurable end results you want to get from your social media activities. Plan out your goals, be it for list building or sales conversion, and determine how your followers would act in your social media account to reach these goals.

Whether you’re already among the millions of people who sync and share files with Dropbox or you plan to join their ranks soon, this 82-page e-book will teach you about the many features—especially the non-obvious ones!—that make Dropbox an exceptionally useful and popular online storage service for transferring files and collaborating with colleagues.

Do you know people who find themselves drowning in information and never have enough time? Maybe you feel this way. I know I’ve been there and I know exactly what it’s like.

For years I was like many of us, struggling with work overload, day-to-day planning and making time for myself. For some of you, throw in the raising of kids, single parenthood, and then trying to get a career off the ground or do well in school and you get a burnt-out person.

No wonder we then have people desperate to find answers to their time challenges!

My struggle was tough for me but lucky for you, for in my journey of learning and discovery I discovered a passion for helping others with their time issues.

Khai Ng has created 5 brand new PLR products just to address this issue.

Today I am bringing you a package that you can offer to others that has a wealth of information to bring them extra time, energy and money.

Titles include:

1. What Is Time Management—Your Basic Guide To Understanding Time Management
2. Time Management Tools—Tools To Help You Get The Most Out Of Your Time
3. Time Management For Students—Ease Your Load With These Helpful Ideas
4. Time Management And Motivation—The Secrets To Motivation For Productive Time Management
5. Time Management And Goals—Goal Setting Strategies To Get More Done In Less Time

This hungry market is just dying for tips on how to reach the success they want.

With the private label rights to these books, you can be sure you rake in massive profits selling these hot titles.

Grab it now at its lowest price!

If your blog is not converting in terms of sales or visitor response, shouldn’t you be testing it for underperforming elements?

It sucks to leave money on the table, especially when you work hard on a site only to get very little in return.

Even worse is when you actually get the traffic and none of it converts.

The truth is though that normally one or two little tweaks can take a site from struggling and turn it into a real money-maker that was actually worthy of your time and effort.

The only way to find the little tweaks that work is to test different stuff, right?

But we all know that can be a pain, right?

Well, this WordPress plugin just made things a LOT easier.

Abanana Split Tester allows anyone to setup split tests on their WordPress sites in minutes.

It allows you to split test your banners, ads, blocks of content, videos and even whole pages from a simple and intuitive interface right inside of WordPress.

You no longer have an excuse not to test on your money sites.

Plus, you’ll be able to squeeze as much profit as possible out of each site.