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Does the idea of selling information products on the Internet appeal to you?

It does to GL, one of my subscribers. But she is hesitating about whether to even start.

GL is worried that there are already more than enough people hawking e-books, DVDs, and courses on the Internet.

“Isn’t the Internet already overcrowded with a million info-marketers selling look-alike products on everything from dating to real estate?” GL asked me the other week.

“Aren’t I getting into the game too late to carve out a piece of the Internet profit pie for myself?”

It’s a fair question. And the answer is: yes and no.

Yes, you are getting into the game a little later than some of your peers.

But so what?

The old saying “better late than never” is true.

And in fact, there is still a huge opportunity to make your fortune online.

Newbie Internet marketers despair that there is too much competition on the web and therefore no room for them.

What they do not understand is that the information business is not competitive in the way most other businesses are.

For instance, a consumer shops and makes a decision to buy a certain model washing machine when her old machine breaks down, just as my wife did months ago.

If the consumer chooses your brand or buys from your store, you have her money.

And all the other washing machine manufacturers and retailers have lost the chance to sell to her for at least a decade.

That’s because she only needs one washing machine…and new machines typically last at least 10 years.

But the buying of information products is a bit different. It’s more like the video game market than the appliance market.

Kids just don’t buy and play one video game: they buy game after game and never stop.

They are video game junkies. And they’ll spend a small fortune feeding their “habit”.

It’s the same with buyers of how-to information products.

Consumers of info-products are “information junkies”.

They buy many information products including e-books, DVDs, webinars and e-courses on their favorite topics.

That means customers will buy your information in addition to your competition’s info-products, not instead of.

The first thing you should do if you are thinking of selling information products online about a particular topic is to Google that subject.

If there is no one else selling information products on that topic, you have no competition.

But that’s actually a bad sign. Why?

The fact that there is no one else doing it probably means others have tried and found no demand.

On the other hand, there are some topics that, when you Google them, it seems like there is an almost infinite number of sources for information on those topics…and you despair of how you can ever break through the clutter.

The answer is to narrow your focus: find a niche within that broad topic—a subtopic that (a) people want to study and (b) about which there is a scarcity of good content.

For instance, “make money on the Internet” is an overcrowded topic, one I would not recommend you go into as a generalist today.

But there is still room for niche products centered around making money on the Internet.

For instance, I saw one product recently that told everything you need to know about marketing yourself and your product on Facebook.

If you are an Internet marketer, doesn’t that sound like something you should learn?

Let’s say you come up with a narrow niche topic that you don’t think is overcrowded.

Do some research to make sure Internet users are searching for information on that topic.

You can do this by checking keyword phrases related to that topic (e.g. “marketing on Facebook”) and seeing how many people searched those keywords on Google this month.

Use a keyword research and discovery tool like WordTracker.

Once you determine your topic and niche, you then need an actual information product to sell.

And one thing that stops many aspiring Internet information marketers from getting started is that the idea of creating their own information product intimidates them.

But in reality, it’s not all that hard. Trust me.

In fact, it takes only 5 simple steps to create your own information products from scratch.

And my home study course, “Creating Information Products That Sell Online“, covers all 5 steps in great detail.

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”.

Mike Koenigs and Pam Hendrickson has officially launched an exciting new program that will not only train you but take you through the practical process of building an info-product business.

Mike is no stranger to Internet marketers. He is the co-owner of the 8-figure online blockbuster Traffic Geyser and the mastermind of some of the biggest online launches in our industry to date.

Some people would say behind every successful man is a woman. I’m not referring to Anthony Robbin’s wife. For over 20 years, Pam Hendrickson is THE person behind all of Tony Robbins’ content, products and services.

Using her expertise, she now teams up with Mike to produce a complete 7-step, 7-week online course in the same detailed, compelling, usable formats that made Tony Robbins’ products such best-selling and award-winning stuff.

“MAKE, MARKET, LAUNCH IT” takes people through an easy-to-follow process:

• Finding their ideal target market
• Creating an irresistible offer for that market
• Producing a product that fulfills the promise of their offer
• Successfully launching their product, both in the short and long term

Each of the 7 modules, to be released weekly on the membership site, includes:

• 5-7 video training sessions with Pam and/or Mike
• A thorough, easy-to-follow action guide for each session (to support step-by-step implementation)
• Templates, examples and worksheets (these are not just 1-page Word documents; we’re talking in-depth Keynote and PowerPoint files, detailed Excel spreadsheets and comprehensive swipe files—the stuff all of us would have loved to have gotten our hands on early in the game)
• Product maps that show the specific process to follow to get the fastest results for each step (these alone are worth the entire investment in the program)

While they go over 15 different formats you can use to create your platform and product funnel, the focus is on the 7-step system and process necessary to successfully produce and launch any product, in any form.

There are 7 weekly Q&A live calls (also posted on the site) to correspond with each of the modules as they are released.

They also have bonus interviews with experts in the field (people you’ll want to hear from) and skill trainings on everything including copywriting, design, video production, live events and curriculum design. There’s outsourcing and crowdsourcing training and pretty much everything a person needs to successfully create and promote their online information product business.

The program also covers what NOT to do so people don’t get stuck working on things that aren’t making money or making a difference)

Every customer also gets a ticket to the 2½-day MAKE, MARKET, LAUNCH IT ‘live’ event in April 2012, in San Diego.

And stay tune for more high-value, surprise bonuses to come.

Between the two of us, Mike and Pam have created, produced and sold over 200 unique products and services to the tune of tens of millions of dollars in revenue. Their records are proof enough that you are getting the very best from 2 business veterans. Click here to find out more about the “MAKE, MARKET, LAUNCH IT” course.

When it comes to starting and running an Internet Marketing business, it’s useful to step back and evaluate your progress every now and then.

In my view, Internet businesses fall into one of the following 6 levels…

** The first level is the “getting ready to start” phase.

This is where you are spending an inordinate amount of time and money buying and studying Internet marketing courses…but you aren’t actually selling anything online yet.

** In level 2, you dip your toe in the water. You take some actions that let you generate a few sales online.

The volume and dollar amount of these sales is small—just a few extra dollars in your pocket each week.

** At level 3, you start making a modest number of sales on a steady basis, and your online revenues are a thousand dollars a month.

You’re not getting rich at this level. But to most of us, an extra twelve grand a year isn’t chickenfeed.

In essence, you have a highly profitable hobby. You are having fun and making money in your spare time.

** Your business builds until you reach level 4, which I define as a thousand dollars a week or more.

That translates into around $50,000 a year, a significant, though not life-changing, amount of money for most Americans.

At level 4, you can earn, working an hour or two a day, more than the average American makes in a year at a full-time job.

** At level 5, we go from a thousand dollars a week to a thousand dollars a day.

At level 5, your Internet business is making you well over $300,000 a year in passive income—in the ballpark of what the President of the United States makes.

And you have reached the enviable position of being able to quit your job if you so desire…because you make enough money on the Internet to support your family in a comfortable lifestyle.

** Level 6 is when your Internet marketing business grosses a million dollars a year or more.

At level 6, you are starting to become rich, not just “comfortable” or well off.

A few more comments about some of the levels…

The most common reason I see for people not making money on the Internet is staying “stuck” at level 1 for way too long.

They buy every Internet marketing course they see advertised, attend countless webinars and spend much of their spare time absorbing the material.

The danger is that you become the type of person who’d rather be reading about starting a home business than actually doing it.

To overcome inertia and break through to the next level, you need to stop reading and studying…and actually do something.

Take action now. Start with something small like reserving a domain name. Then set a deadline for creating your first info-product. Start writing your landing page copy. You get the idea.

Do something every day and within 2-3 months you’ll have your first product. As soon as your landing page is up, you’ll start getting a few orders—mostly from organic search if you haven’t done any other marketing yet.

It’s not a small thing. At level 2, making money on the Internet becomes a reality for you, not an abstract concept.

Once you get those first orders in your shopping cart, you’ll taste blood. You’ll be hooked. You’ll be a real Internet marketer, not just a wanna-be.

Once you reach level 5—a thousand dollars of online income a day—you can enjoy a degree of financial security and freedom most folks can only dream about.

You won’t be super-rich. But you’ll have the money to buy most of the things you want and quit your day job if that was your goal.

If you are at level 5, you have to decide whether you want to take the next step and grow to level 6.

You might not.

Reason: most Internet entrepreneurs who reach level 6 find themselves having to make the transition from small one-person business to a “real” company.

They get office and warehouse space, set up a studio for video production, hire salaried employees, get health care plans for them, have company picnics…in short, become a manager.

For me, the best part of being an Internet marketer is the serenity it brings me.

No meetings, no whining employees, no red tape, office politics, or management hierarchy.

Level 5 permits you to lead a simple, quiet life earning a handsome six-figure annual income working at home—without a boss.

For me, at least, that completes the dream. I am content. I would not give up the Internet marketing lifestyle—not even for a million dollars.

It’s just like being retired—steady money coming in from an annuity, while you are free to spend your days as you please.

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”.

Did you see Brendon Burchard has passed over 9,500 comments on his Experts Academy series? Incredible. Now he’s doing a complimentary webinar that I think is a “must-attend”.

Brendon is teaching a webinar called the “5 Most Lucrative Paths to Monetizing Your Advice & How-To Content Online”. It doesn’t cost anything, and you can register here.

You’ll learn:

– Which marketing strategies work best online TODAY
– Why people would pay you thousands for YOUR advice
– What types of advice and content you should release (and when)
– Five example paths that all lead to $1,000,000

If, and I mean IF, it were possible to make that kind of revenue online—I mean millions of dollars—leveraging your genius and life experience, how would you begin?

It’s a tough question and a perplexing problem that Brendon had to ask himself years ago when he was on the verge of bankruptcy. Back then, he had nothing but a dream to inspire and instruct people on how to improve their lives.

Then, as you’ve probably heard, Brendon made $4.6 million in under 24 months by leveraging his advice through books, speeches, seminars, coaching, and online training and information marketing.

He told me that money never meant much to him—because he never had any—but he had to learn how to get revenue coming in to sustain his message and mission.

So, he put together a plan.

On this one-time only webinar, he’ll share his five favorite paths to making $1,000,000 online. Of course, not everyone will be able to do it. But I’m glad Brendon is ambitious enough for you to teach it anyway.

To register for the webinar, click here.

Personally, I think sharing your voice and advice with the world is a worthwhile endeavor whether you make money or not, but as Brendon says, “You might as well be compensated for what you know, and earn an income for all the impact you can have.”

Take notes. It’s going to be a great webinar.

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Everybody likes shortcuts.

We program our GPS units to take the shortest route to our destination. We pick checkout aisles at the grocery store which have the fewest customers ahead of us in line. We buy gadgets and gizmos to help us more quickly improve our golf game, lose weight, cut our debt and so forth.

Truth be told, we like shortcuts. We like getting whatever it is we want in the fastest, easiest way possible.

The same can be said for our businesses, right? All things being equal, we’d like to “speed up” profitability. We’d like to get to our income destination with the shortest route possible.

I’ve found such a shortcut. In fact, I might even be so bold as to label it the “ultimate shortcut” to internet business success.

It’s called iBusiness Owner from world renowned internet marketer Jimmy D. Brown.

It’s actually THREE membership sites in one for only $10.

1) iBusiness Owner’s Manual: Every month members receive a feature length manual 35-50 pages in length detailing exactly how to make more money from any Internet business.

2) iBusiness Owner’s Toolkit: Every month members receive a mixture of “all access” training articles, swipe files, templates, checklists and more to help grow any business.

3) iBusiness Owner’s Club: Every month members receive exclusive perks that include matching credit, free products, licensing to products and much more.

All of this for just $10!

I’m not sure how long the $10 price will be available for this “three in one” offer, but I do know that once you are “locked in” you will never pay more.

Everyone knows it’s 2012 now.

The difference between everyone and YOU is that you may have realized it’s NOW time to make a change in your lack of online profits.

Maybe what you REALLY need is guidance from a guy like this.

Watch and learn EXACTLY how this $41 Million Dollar super affiliate is going to HOLD YOUR HAND and take you through a profitable journey of online profits.

And if that’s not enough, he’s going to give YOU $5000 worth of his best training just to INSURE your success.

Go now, TAKE ACTION and I want to see you succeed in 2012.

Is marketing cheating?

MW seems to think so.

On my blog, she challenged me for saying that my book is an “Amazon best-seller”.

MW didn’t accuse me outright of lying.

Nor should she, considering my book “Persuasive Presentations for Business” (Entrepreneur Press) reached the #2 spot on the Amazon non-fiction best-seller list.

What MW didn’t like is that I used e-mail marketing to promote sales of my book on Amazon.

In fact, you may be familiar with the marketing technique I used, which has become known as “The Instant Amazon Best-Seller Formula”.

Used by many Internet marketers, including Mary Ellen Tribby and Michael Masterson to name just two, this method was pioneered—I believe—by Joe Vitale.

The way it works is simple…

You send an e-mail to your subscribers promoting your book…and get lots of your joint venture partners and affiliates to do the same.

By the way, you can read more about the Instant Amazon Best-Seller Formula.

You offer subscribers a bribe—a bunch of free bonus reports contributed by you and your partners—as an incentive to buy your book.

Here’s the trick: to get the bonus reports, they must purchase the book from Amazon.com on the date you specify.

If they buy it elsewhere or on another day, no bonus gifts for them.

That way, the orders all come in on Amazon on the same day, driving your book way up in the Amazon sales rankings for that day.

MW and many other people I have talked with think that the Instant Amazon Best-Seller Formula is somehow cheating—rigging the system to make our books instant temporary best-sellers.

And it’s true, we are manipulating the system.

But what’s wrong with that?

It’s called MARKETING: using promotions (in this case, e-mail) to promote a product (in this case, our books) to increase sales.

Novels by James Patterson are heavily promoted in radio advertising designed to sell more copies.

Does that mean they are somehow not “real” best-sellers, because they were advertised?

Same thing with Oprah…

If your publicist gets your book into the Oprah Book Club, you are almost guaranteed an instant best-seller.

So why is it perfectly legitimate to advertise your book on radio or in the newspaper or publicize it on TV but a “no-no” to e-mail your subscribers (who have opted into your list because they are actually interested in what you write)?

Answer: Because e-mail marketing is direct marketing.

And direct marketing has always had an image problem with the press and the public.

After all, direct mail is called “junk mail”.

So why aren’t TV commercials called “junk TV”?

It is true that a small percentage of products sold through direct marketing have been of questionable value, quality, or legitimacy.

But that doesn’t make direct marketing uniquely sleazy vs. other forms of sales and marketing.

A small percentage of businesses in every distribution channel and industry are crooked and take advantage of unwary consumers.

For instance, it was mainly Madison Avenue that told us we’d be cool and popular if we smoked cigarettes.

And it is general advertising, not direct marketing, that has our kids growing obese and unfit on fast food French fries and sugar-filled junk food.

Because direct marketing often relies on long copy to make the sale, there are many folks who tell me they find long copy distasteful and sleazy—especially “all those long copy salesletters on the web” as one of my readers puts it.

Again, this is a pretty silly attitude when you think about it.

The longer the copy, the more information you are given about the product.

Is there something inherently unethical or inappropriate about giving prospects more information with which to make an intelligent buying decision?

Of course not.

But the real question for you as an entrepreneur is: despite direct marketing’s less-than-sterling reputation in the minds of some consumers, should you use it to sell your product online and offline?

The answer is easy: unequivocally, yes.

Fortunately for us, the number of consumers who respond to direct response marketing is enough to give us highly profitable promotions.

So direct marketing remains an extremely effective method of selling merchandise and services.

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”.

If you were starting from scratch, and you wanted to make a million dollars offering your advice and how-to content to the world, what 10 things should you focus on?

In other words, if you wanted to become a highly-paid expert in a matter of months, how would you? How are all these authors, speakers, coaches, seminar leaders, and online info marketers monetizing their life’s story, advice, and experience?

This incredible video from Brendon Burchard has the answers!

You’ll learn:

– 10 essentials that will help you build an “expert” brand
– 3 ways to position yourself as a high-value, highly-paid expert
– 4 products that add to a million-dollars in 12 months

This all sounds high-strung, but the video nails it.

At some point, every “guru” or expert decides they want to use their life’s story or their how-to advice for helping other people to earn a real income and make a real difference. This video exemplifies that.

If you haven’t met Brendon Burchard, the guy who did the video, I think you’ll find his story inspiring.

Brendon went from bankruptcy to $4.6 million in the how-to space in just 18 months. He really get results:

– #1 New York Times Best-selling author with books in 20 languages and over 200k e-books downloaded

– Spoken onstage with Tony Robbins, Sir Richard Branson, Dalia Lama, Wayne Dyer, Paula Abdul, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker

– Seminars pulling 800 people at $2000-$10,000/ticket from 42+ countries

– 100+ coaching clients paying $10,000-$35,000 a year

– $4 million-plus online product launches and brilliant continuity programs

– #1, #2 and #3 ranked affiliate for some of the largest online marketing campaigns in the last 12 months

You might have also seen Brendon recently on Anderson Cooper and ABC News.

What’s WAY more impressive is the results he gets for his STUDENTS.

You can see why in his video. The guy cares, he does it himself, and he really breaks it down for you.

Enjoy the video.

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Mo Mulla, in case you haven’t heard of him, is a big Internet Marketing player for over 10 years now. And the guy just has a crazy knack for finding flat-out weird ideas to make a lot of cash.

His latest venture involves “gaming” Facebook and hijacking their traffic.

It’s perfectly legal and rare to see anyone like Mo scoring traffic quite like this.

OK, now that you’re curious check out this video (no opt in required) to see exactly what he’s up to.

Pretty freakin’ eye opening.

Everyone can use a little help from time to time to shorten the time it takes to get your online business running the way you want.

So a long-time online marketer I know has documented all the stuff he’s been doing online for the last 15 years and turned them into a series of “Maps”.

They’re like “Cheat Sheets”—personal checklists any business can use to cash in online!

His original MySmallBiz Map was sold for $97 and sold out in just 7 days but you can download the complete series of his PDF Maps today, for FREE.

The best part is that Maps are interactive, and work for any type of online business!

It’s good stuff and has been updated so download your PDFs today.

One of the questions most frequently asked of me is: “Do I need a lot of money to start and run a successful Internet information marketing business?”

In this article, I want to give you a definitive, to-the-penny answer to that question…something I don’t think you’ve gotten elsewhere.

I find the rule of start-up money is the same for Internet businesses as it is for many home-based businesses.

It’s the “Time and Money Factor” which dictates that you need either time or money to succeed.

If you have little money, then you must put a lot of your time into the start-up—”sweat equity” as it is known.

If you have little time, but plenty of cash in the bank, then you can pay others to do a lot of the work for you.

But you need to invest either time or money…either one will do.

You do not need both.

The corollary, however, is that it is extremely difficult to start a home business if you have no money and no spare time.

You need one or the other. There’s no way to get around that.

However, the one big advantage we have today is the Internet.

You can’t run an Internet marketing business with zero dollars. You need to buy domain names, pay for hosting, design web pages, and so on.

But thanks to the Internet, it is much easier—and far less expensive—to start a business than in the good old days.

It’s also far less risky.

At an AWAI Boot Camp, Gary Scott said “the Internet is very forgiving of mistakes”.

For instance, if an e-mail marketing campaign to your subscribers bombs, you don’t make much money that day.

But sending an e-mail, even to many thousands of subscribers, is relatively inexpensive, so you don’t lose too much money, either.

On the other hand, starting a business offline, especially with a physical product, can cost a small fortune, all of which is risk capital.

According to an article in the New York Post, Conde Naste was unsuccessful with a new business magazine called “Portfolio” which they had launched a few years ago.

Their total loss for 2 years of its operation: $120 million.

In my little Internet information marketing business, I never spend much more than $1,000 to develop and test a product.

Usually I spend considerably less: my first product, an e-book, cost me a total of $263 to launch.

Since most of us have grand plans, ambitious dreams, big ideas, but not all that much money, I suggest you start your Internet business with your own labor rather than begged or borrowed capital.

Especially at the beginning, you’ll work hard. But putting in so much time will give you an edge over your competitors, because most of them simply will not make the effort.

“If you work more hours than somebody else, during those hours you learn more about your craft,” wrote the late Randy Pausch in his book The Last Lecture (Hyperion, 2008, p. 156).

“That can make you more efficient, more able, even happier. Hard work is like compounded interest in the bank. The rewards build faster.”

Starting an Internet marketing business works like the compound interest Pausch describes.

It takes a lot of hard work to start and build a profitable online business…much more work than many “get rich quick on the Internet” promoters would lead you to believe.

But once you get going, Internet information marketing is a business that can generate a steady stream of significant passive income—without you putting in a lot of additional work: you create a product once, and then sell it again and again.

This is the great advantage of having a passive income vs. a service business such as freelance copywriting, coaching, consulting, speaking, dentistry, or dry cleaning.

In a service business, the start-up is simpler and easier: you just start advertising and make money servicing the clients who call you.

But service businesses generate mostly active income: you always have to keep working, at a high level of activity, to make a high level of income.

So starting a business that generates passive income, like Internet information marketing, pays bigger dividends down the line.

As I said, you can start your Internet information marketing with very little money, but not zero.

Exactly how much do you need, then?

I am comfortable saying that if you do most of the work yourself at the beginning, you can get started online with a budget of under $1,000.

Here was the budget for launching my first product on the Internet, an e-book titled “Write and Grow Rich”:

>> Writing the e-book: zero (I assembled it from previously published articles I had written).

>> Hiring graphic designer to put my Word file into a PDF format as an e-book: $75.

>> Registering domain name: $9.

>> Writing the landing page copy: zero (I wrote it myself).

>> Paying website company to design the landing page: $175 (I outsourced to an overseas firm).

>> Monthly shopping cart software subscription fee: $4 (they charge $49 to $99 a month depending on the version you select, but they offered a one month trial for only four bucks, and I started with that).

>> E-mail distribution: zero (I already paid Constant Contact a flat monthly fee for distributing the e-zine I send to my copywriting clients, and I never even came close to approaching the maximum number of e-mails I can send for this fee).

>> Total out-of-pocket cost excluding my own labor: $263.

>> Total revenues to date: $38,844.

Even with a budget of only a few hundred bucks, you should have enough to cover the small initial start-up costs, including hosting, domain name registration, design of landing page, creation of first information product (an audio or e-book), setting up a merchant account and shopping cart software fee (for your shopping cart, I recommend Web Marketing Magic).

The bottom line: if you have ambition, vision, and desire and are willing to work hard at it, at least in the beginning, you can start a successful Internet information marketing business for under $1,000.

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”.

Man the holidays flew by fast! It’s officially 2012 and time to start planning out how you’re going to out-do last year’s online earnings, right? ;-)

Here’s a ‘little something’ that just might help! This is one of my all-time favorite, PROVEN online business models—something to strongly consider if not already applying it in your online business…

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The Free Funnel Model starts with having a giveaway product on the “front end”, such as a report or piece of software, that you offer in exchange for an e-mail address, i.e. for having the visitor subscribe to your e-mail list.

Always, always, always get the lead! As Terry Dean says, marketing is a process, NOT a one-time event. It’s important to “get ‘em on the list” so that you can build a relationship with people, and build their trust—and this is because most people will NOT order on their first visit to your website.

The best way to get people on your e-mail list is to give them something of VALUE. Give them the kind of content or software that *you* would find valuable! Obviously it should be targeted to the interests of the kind of traffic you’re getting. People clicking on a golf ad are going to want a golf freebie—such as a set of free golf instructional videos or similar (sounds obvious to match traffic to your offer, but you’d be surprised how many people get this wrong!).

And then on the “back end”—which simply means after a person has subscribed to your list—you want to introduce your PAID product.

It’s perfectly ok to introduce it right away, on the immediate page people are taken to after they subscribe to your list. But you’ll *also* want to further educate people on your paid offer in your automated e-mail *follow up messages*.

Now, here are a few tricks to this particular business model—which by the way I’ve employed in virtually ALL of my websites, both past and present…

- Create your own paid product that you have total control over. It’s *not* that difficult to come up with a video training course, or even a piece of software if you outsource the task to a decent programmer. What you can’t do on your own, you outsource! What you can’t *pay* to have done via outsourcing, you partner up with the outsourcer on 50/50…You do the marketing, and they create the content or program the product!

- Take a PORTION of your finished/paid product, such as the first video in a video training course, or a “basic” version of your software, and offer it as your FREE front end product. The trick here is that you’re killing two birds with one stone, by creating your PAID product *first* and using a portion of it to serve as your free product. This will also obviously ensure that your free product and paid product are *tightly* related, which is obviously important. The better they compliment each other, the more FREE members you’ll have taking you up on the paid offer.

- Keep things simple! Often, a headline and short video describing the “ultimate benefit” of your free offer are all that’s needed on the front end, along with an e-mail capture form. Meaning, a very basic web page layout with very few components (don’t forget to model after what is *already* working in your chosen niche!) Keep your e-mail sign up simple as well—tests show that asking for nothing more than an e-mail address (NO first name or full name) can increase your opt-in conversion rate by a significant amount, which means more leads and more backend sales for you.

- Focus on providing *quality content* in your e-mail follow up messages as well. Educate. Don’t pressure. Offer “gentle reminders” about your “premium offer” to your subscribers, but don’t beat them over the head. If you have to beat people over the head just to make a sale, you need to re-examine your offer. The real strength of an offer comes from the BENEFIT you’re offering. If it’s an in-demand benefit that people truly desire, and if you can provide *proof* that you can sincerely fulfill that benefit, you’ve got everything you need for a winning offer!

I have a few “done for you” systems where I provide my members with all of these elements *ready made* (and if you’re my member you know what I mean), but that’s not what this report is about…MULTIPLE streams of income are an important key to success online, and the model I’m describing here is one that’s easily *duplicable* in virtually ANY niche…Something that you can set up and do over and over again, with everything from golf to self improvement to real estate to marketing. You name it.

In other words, don’t stop whatever else it is you’re doing to make money online. Simply *add* this model to your business and ramp up your revenue streams until you’ve reached your desired level of income for 2012 and beyond!

Bryan Winters is the architect of the free list building website, 5iphon Hardcore, that gets you 5 *more* subscribers for every ONE you bring in.

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If you have ever tried to make money online, then you know how difficult it can be. There is so much information on the Internet, that if you type in Google “how to make money online”, you will find a lot of related content, most of which turns out to be either garbage or doesn’t tell the full story. Internet has become corrupt, and the big “G” has turned into a playground for marketers to promote some affiliate products.

If you want to achieve something online, you need to know where to start—and that’s exactly where people have the most problems.

Let me tell you my story: I wanted to make money pretty early in my life—when I just turned 18. After reading Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad”, I wanted to become an investor, which turned out to be a really stupid idea; then I’ve tried MLM, but I felt really embarrassed promoting perfume, toothbrushes and other stuff to people I knew and didn’t know. One day I’ve discovered blogging as a way to make money. I’ve created a blog about self-development and wrote each and every day, but almost no one read my articles, and that’s why I’ve decided to quit and sell my website.

Afterwards, I’ve tried affiliate marketing, putting AdSense on my blogs and other known Internet marketing strategies—I still couldn’t earn a dime. I really wanted to quit this whole “make money online business” until I’ve realized where I’ve screwed up: I didn’t focus on only one Internet marketing area and do it well.

Let me explain: every journey has its ups and downs, and usually, it starts off with a series of downs. As I started out, I experienced a lot of failures and made a ton of mistakes. At that time, I saw failures as a sign to quit and not becoming better at a specific area. If I’ve managed to hold on and master one area of IM, I would have made money much quicker.

That is really the main point of this article: before you start spending your money on some courses that promise you mountains of gold, find out what you’re good at. If you like writing, learn more about article marketing and blogging; if you like communicating with people, learn how to market yourself on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets; if you like investing into real estate, but don’t have enough funds to do so, try flipping websites (buying them, improving and then reselling); if you want to become the “Google slayer”, focus on search engine optimization. Find out how Google works: which backlinks does it love and hate, how to optimize a website for the best results, etc.

Now take a piece of paper and write down all of your skills, talents and abilities. Take as much time as you need, and if you have troubles choosing—ask your parents, friends, girlfriend/boyfriend to help you out. They can tell you all about your strong sides from their perspectives.

After you’ve done that, find relevant blogs, forums, e-books and courses that teach the skills you’ve chosen to learn. For example, Darren Rowse’s blog “Problogger” wrote tons of articles about how to become a better blogger; my blog “Try To Learn More” covers various topics, including article marketing, flipping websites, SEO and others.

All you need to do is take action. As in everything, you will need to invest time, patience and money to achieve your goals. But if you follow my above tip, you will have a clear understanding of what our path should look like.

Andrii Demianenko is the owner of “Try To Learn More” – a blog that covers practical ways to succeed online. Click Here Now => http://trytolearnmore.com or you can get more articles by subscribing to his free e-zine. Send a blank e-mail to articles@getresponse.com

I’m going to reveal 3 of the BIGGEST keys to online success so keep reading at all costs!

These are the keys many marketers simply won’t tell you (at least, not all at once!)…

I see a TON of mistakes being made out there, with focus in all the *wrong* places. So as my subscriber, I’d like to help you avoid these mistakes by focusing on what *works*…

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KEY #1 – LIST BUILDING
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Make building an opt-in e-mail list your #1 priority.

If all else fails, you can STILL make good money by having an opt-in e-mail list, which includes building a trusting relationship with the people who join your list.

One of the huge advantages to having a list is not just that it’s a means of getting *instant* free traffic (and cash) anytime you need it, simply by writing or pasting in a promotion and clicking “send”…

It’s ALSO a killer tool for creating *leverage*! For example, it’s tough doing joint ventures with other list owners, without your own list! ;-)

But WITH a list, you can contact other people to do ad swaps, where you send their product to your list, and they send your product to theirs—meaning even MORE endless *free* traffic!

Which brings me to my next key!…

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KEY #2 – PRODUCT CREATION
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Lots of people want to make money solely as an affiliate—promoting other peoples’ products. And you can make a lot that way!

But ideally, you want to ALSO be creating your *own* product(s) to build a *real* online business.

How many gurus do you know WITHOUT their own products? You’re probably lucky if you can name even one.

Quite honestly, from my experience it’s MUCH EASIER to make *larger* sums of money (much faster) by creating your own products!

You can offer both affiliate products AND your own products to your e-mail list this way as well.

The trick is simply to emulate what works, in whatever niche you’re focused on. You can go straight to Clickbank and look at the popularity of products in their marketplace to see what’s selling.

That will SHOW you what works. From there, simply determine what *benefit* is being fulfilled by the products that are selling, and provide the SAME (or very similar) benefit with your product.

Obviously, you want to try to improve on what works, to make your product even better the the competition…Make it easier to use, or offer *more* of the benefit, etc.

It’s important to note that you NEVER want to copy somebody else’s content, or ad copy, or anything like that. What I’m saying is simply that you want to model after what works.

If you’re a beginner, don’t try to model after a software product (generally speaking). Model after an ebook or a video series or something more simple to create, and go from there.

In terms of modeling how a successful product is *marketed* (which is actually the MAIN thing you want to emulate), everything is out in the open!

Think about it. You can watch the salesletter. You can subscribe to newsletter follow-ups. You can see pricing. You can see how an affiliate program is run. Apply what you see to YOUR product and YOUR marketing.

Never, ever, forget this key! Write it down on your forehead for a day if that’s what it takes. ;-)

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KEY # 3 – COPYWRITING
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Becoming a proficient copywriter will help your online business IMMENSELY. I can’t stress it enough. It helps in almost *every* area of your business—even when it comes to setting up JVs or finding affiliates, since it comes in handy being able to persuade others to take action!

That’s all copywriting is—getting others to take some sort of action, whether it’s joining your e-mail list or promoting your product or BUYING your product.

The good news is that everything you need to know about copywriting is available for FREE in books and online. Go to your library and check out books by Ted Nicholas and Dan Kennedy…Read and study them.

Also, before you write your next (or first!) salesletter, go online and check out the 12 Step Fool Proof Sales Letter by David Frey.

I actually have a special little “shortcut” formula to writing absolute killer salesletters that you can use as well – this usually works like CRAZY…

This formula assumes you have a product that offers an in-demand benefit (per key #2 above)…

A. Write a headline that spells out the ultimate benefit offered by your product, including the end result obtained by that benefit.

Keep in mind that *interesting stories* are are a great way to lead people into the “meat” of your salesletter after you’ve captured their attention with your headline.

As for the meat…

B. PROVE your benefit in any and every way possible. In other words, convey on video or by testimonial or in any way possible, that you *really can deliver* the benefit that you’re promising in your headline.

C. Take away risk by *guaranteeing* your benefit (with a money-back guarantee).

D. Give your price, tell your visitor why it’s a great value, and ask for the order!

You see, if you have a benefit that people want, and can effectively PROVE that you can deliver that benefit (whether it’s making money or losing weight or getting a date or whatever), you WILL make sales!

It’s really that simple.

By mastering these 3 keys you can make *all the money you’ve ever dreamed of online* simply by repeating them!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my report and will begin applying these keys to your online business right away!

Bryan Winters is the architect of the free list building website, 5iphon Hardcore, that gets you 5 *more* subscribers for every ONE you bring in.

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