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April 29, 2005
Realizing the Entrepreneurial Dream - Create Your Own Products To Sell Online
The Entrepreneurial dream is alive and kicking according to two new
studies released in the last two weeks.
The dream to work from home, make money from your passion or hobby,
create something people need and want, and to get rich are fuelling
the deeply held desire to start a business in the short term.
Here are the reasons given that motivate many of us to dream bigger
than ever:
Passionate hobby/to do work I love (28 percent)
Be my own boss (25 percent)
To make more money (18 percent)
Create something people need (11 percent)
For the challenge (10 percent)
To get rich (or nearly rich) (6 percent)
Other (3 percent)
It's great to dream.
It's great to want to improve your life situation, live life ON-PURPOSE,
help others, and live a lifestyle that allows you more freedom.
Now, let's talk about turning the dream that more than 50% of
North Americans have into reality - that's where product creation
comes in.
What will really turn these hundreds of thousands of dreams into
success stories?
First, you need something to sell.
As we talk about in both "Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's
Success Package" and "Creating Infoproducts" - information
in the form of content is THE best product to sell online.
You can market your information in many ways - ebooks, books, courses,
workshops, digital audio or video products, membership sites,
newsletters, portals, and more...
The desire for information products has never been greater - never
been more passionate, which means AMAZING opportunity for information
publishers.
Second, you need to get your website up and write a compelling sales
letter to attract people to your products. Here - I've found the
best model by far is Corey Rudl through his "Online Marketing Success
Secrets Revealed"
Third, you need to craft a follow-up email sequence, a funnel to
capture names and re-market your products and services to your very
own, personal list of HOT prospects.
What you really want is to craft an "Automated Income Stream" that
makes money while you sleep, spend time with your kids, and take a
3-month vacation.
Of course, all of this demands that you take action.
To turn the dreams that are outlined in this news article
into life-changing reality, you must have a strong purpose,
a proven system to follow and a never-ending ability to take action,
and constantly improve your results.
Are you part of the more than 50% of people who dream about running
your own money-making venture?
Now, the more important question, are you part of the very small
percentage of those who will snap out of la la land into the land
of action-oriented, life loving, happy entrepreneurs who WILL
succeed.
Interesting question isn't it?
Jeff
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April 28, 2005
Why should be moving your business online....
Breaking news today...
Internet advertising has now grown to a size beyond what it was
before the dot com bomb.
All aspects of online advertising look healthy - pay-per-click leading
the way, classifieds closely follow...
So what you say?
Strength in advertising is a sign of high demand - a strong market.
Think about it - if people are not making money, they are not going
to increase spending on advertising are they?
What this means is online demand, online opportunity is increasing -
if you sell products online, then demand is likely to grow, sometimes
substantially.
Another great reason to sell most anything online, but especially
information -- see this Free Course On Quickly Creating Hot Selling
Infoproducts That Sell Like Wildfire
Here's the news article on Advertising Increase
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April 27, 2005
Your Own "How To" Product Can Make You Rich!
Hi everyone!
Just before I jump on a plane for DC to join in the fun at
Yanik Silver's "Underground Seminar", here's some facts on
the massive opportunity in writing and marketing information
products....
When you see the Billions of dollars spent each year on "How To"
books, ebooks, reports, membership sites, audio products, videos,
courses, workshops and more...you just HAVE to ask yourself, how can
I get in on this?
Some people call them training products, self-help products,
courses, non-fiction books, or "How To" products.
Truthfully, the real market for information-based products is all of
this and much more which means only one thing for those who spend
a few weeks turning their knowledge and experiences into products --
Massive Opportunity To Create and Sell Your
Own How To Infoproducts
As humans, we all have a built in desire to learn and seek
more information. The driving forces behind this desire are
many:
- Greed
- Prestige
- Entertainment
- Impress
- Escape
- Freedom
Even better, this is a market that is not only massive, but
is easier than ever for ANYONE to capture with their own experiences,
interests, passions and knoweldge. Read The Rest of The Article Here...
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April 25, 2005
Passion Or Market Numbers - What Should Drive Your eBook Topics?
Have you noticed, there is a great deal of confusion
around picking a topic to write your ebook, book, course
or workshop about?
You get one group of advisors telling you to focus on your
passion - you must LOVE what you are doing.
At the same time, you have another camp of equally successful
infoproduct publishers that say your passion or love of a
topic is NOT necessary, it's the market potential that really
matters.
After having written several ebooks, courses, workshops and
other information-based products I have to say...
They are BOTH right.
I know that sounds like I'm hedging - taking both sides, but
the truth is... Read The Rest of This Article Here!
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April 23, 2005
How To Write E-Minicourses That Sell...
Regardless of what you are selling online...
You can dramatically increase your sales by adding an
automated follow-up email campaign.
And NOT just ANY follow-up email campaign, but one that
gives just enough content to leave your reader hanging
on the edge of their seat...
Now, I don't know about you, but I found it near impossible
to strike that balance between content and sales pitch in
my e-mini courses, UNTIL...
I found this terrific course written by a true master list
builder and online marketer Jimmy D Brown.
http://www.create-e-mini-course.com
If you've been putting off creating your own minicourse or
follow-up email campaign because it just seems like too much
work, or
If you're pulling your hair out trying to find a version of
your minicourse that converts readers into customers - then
this will be the single best source of information you will
have ever seen...
http://www.create-e-mini-course.com
PS. Remember, this is NOT theory. You get a proven success
template you can steal to write your very own, profit producing
minicourse fast.
PSS. You also get reprint rights to this very popular product,
so you can resell it as another stream of income, keeping 100%
of the profits.
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April 19, 2005
4 Steps To Unleashing Profits In Your Online Business
Ever wonder how the thousands of "under the radar" web
businesses that earn well over $100,000/year (many with
much higher sales) out of their own home do it?
Over the last year I've had the great fortune to speak
with many of these true, hidden entrepreneurs at
conferences, seminars, and in my own coaching and
consulting business.
What I'm about to share with you also came true for me,
and is outlined in more detail in my Ultimate Information
Entrepreneur's Success Package
Here's an example of their business model:
1. Information Products. Without a doubt, each one of
the successes I know market their own infoproducts.
For some, it's an ebook. Others have special reports.
Still others run online coaching programs, membership
sites, paid newsletters, teleseminars, or produce
digital audio or video products.
It's not their only source of income, but is a MAJOR
source of income, and more important, brands them an
expert in their field leading to success with #2 and
#3 below.
2. Market related Affiliate Products. Again, in almost
every case, these online success stories become experts
at finding and creating joint venture deals with partners.
But, they work differently than most affiliates.
They start by ALWAYS reviewing the product they will market.
Second, they look for a different way to present the
product or service - a more beneficial way to show users the
real benefit in the affiliate product. Third, they use
the branding from #1 to negotiate higher commissions and
focus on high commission programs only.
3. They monetize their traffic using Adsense or selling
advertising on their sites. For high traffic pages
where adding paid ads or Google's Adsense will not impact
their own sales, they will run ads to further monetize
their sites.
4. Sell their time. You will find that truly successful
people online LOVE to help people succeed. But...for
every person who is really dedicated to succeeding there
are 10 "tire kickers" who want someone to hand them
success on a silver platter. It doesn't work that way,
nothing works that way. So, in order to leave time to
help those who really want it, coaching programs are
formed. Yes - you have to pay big money, but you should
easily be able to get 10X the value for money spent.
So as you can see, there is no ONE single way to build
your wealth online.
Instead, you build a diversified, rich and healthy
business by focusing on these 4 pillars. Not only will
you earn more money, but your business will be stronger
and build momentum faster when you do.
Jeff
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April 17, 2005
Turning Book or eBooks Into Membership Sites - From Jason Cain's Blog
Here's a great find from Jason Cain's great "Goldblogger" Blog - where
he makes some excellent comments on what it takes to turn your book
or ebook into a successful membership site.
Subscription membership sites can be tremendously profitable, but it's
very important to know the factors that will lead increasingly skeptical
buyers to go beyond committing to just a one-time buy - to accepting
a committment for continual billing.
Check out Jason't article and link to find out what those factors are...
http://www.goldblogger.com/blog/archives/000607.html
Jeff
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April 14, 2005
Want More Traffic? Then Do These 3 Things...
I won't even ask the question, everyone who runs an online
business knows that 2 things impact your sales - how much
traffic you get and how well you convert that traffic into
customers.
These are two very different challenges - though not
completely unrelated.
Generating traffic takes a combination of imagination,
grunt work and an understanding of basic principles of
publicity.
Converting traffic into customers is more related to
understanding your market, psychology and empathy.
Yes, you need both, there is no getting around it.
To get started, you need traffic to test your conversion
until you get a good message to market match - a fancy
way of saying - higher conversion.
Then, you need to really ramp up your traffic in a big way
to take advantage of your new found HOT sales copy.
In fact, you really want to build it fast, because it won't
be long before comptetition will find out what you are doing
and shove you over to try their hand at it.
By far, the most complete, leading edge and well tested
traffic generation products is Traffic Secrets by John Reese
over at: http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/ts
Here's 3 Traffic Generation Tips You Can Use Right Away!
1. Write articles. You don't want just any articles, you
want articles that LEAP out at your audience so that they
can't help but read it. You want to tie your product in
with the article - not just leave it up to the resource box
at the end. And you want to be consistent - an article a
week keeps the traffic rolling nicely. Submit them to
every directory in sight and begin to actively seek out high
traffic sites with articles related to your subject matter.
2. 24X7 Traffic Machine. If you don't have your own
affiliate program, affiliate training, affiliate tools and
affiliate reward system - then start one right now. Start
building your leveraged sales force so they can bring you
massive traffic.
3. Become An Expert In Publicity. Create press releases
feeding off of current events, controversy, celebrity or
other can't miss topics the press just love. Spend at
least an hour each week brainstorming new ways to get publicity.
Make no mistake, the infoproduct TOP GUNS are generating
Million Dollar pay days by using many, little know traffic
generation techniques - there's only one place that you can
find out what they are doing - right here:
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/ts
Momentum is a wonderful thing - traffic generation is what
gets the ball rolling. Use these 3 tips now and check out
John's package - there are over 170 testimonials that include
some AMAZING results.
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April 12, 2005
Quick Way To Get Your Niche Marketing Listed On Search Engines
Confused by blogging? Unsure of how it can help you generate
traffic AND increase your sales?
After getting close to 10,000 unique, new visits last month to just
one of my sites entirely from my blog, I decided to get serious!
The technique you can use is all clearly demonstrated in my latest
7-minute video.
...Watch It Now Right Here
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/video/yahoobloglisting.html
Jeff
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April 11, 2005
Taking Care Of Your Brand
Recent studies have shown that up to 40% of online buyers changed
their opinions about brands due to information they collected
online - click here to see the story from OptinNews.
I don't know about you, but them's BIG numbers.
I would venture to guess that the 40% could be much higher for
industries that depend heavily on their online business model. In
other words, the more they sell online, the more important their
presentation and online presence is to their brand.
In addition to the design, email subject line, webpage content, and
contact utilities mentioned in the article link above, there is another
way to enhance your brand, credibility, and overall word-of-mouth
marketing - creating your own information products.
In The Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package, we outline
methods that you can use to quickly find out what your market badly
wants to know, package information into an ebook, booklet, physical
book, course, workshop, seminar or other infoproduct, and market
yourself online.
You may have noticed that in ANY industry, when you can prove to
people you have published (self-published or traditional publishing
both work here) your own book, ebook or course - you instanly gain
a brand advantage over your competition.
As research demonstrates, you can influence up to 40% (and even more
in certain markets that depend heavily on online sales) by simply
enhancing your brand - do you have your next information product in
development?
Jeff
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April 08, 2005
More Reason To Look At Video Product Development
The momentum has been building for months now, video is
turning up everywhere from online media advertisements,
clips on training sites and now, as content that the
search engines are indexing.
In the recent article Google queues up video, News.com reports
that Google will begin accepting video submissions from you
or I in a few days.
In addition, it will search through the video content and index
them in it's search engine so that when you search for videos
containing "golf swing" for instance, videos containing mention of
golf swing will come up.
It's clear, this is early days for indexing video product content,
but this is just one more reason why you should apply the basics of
"Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package" to creating
your own suite of information products to sell online - including
videos.
Jeff
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April 07, 2005
"Types" Of ebooks That Really Sell Online
A big part of knowing how to write and sell ebooks
is understanding exactly what will turn a prospect
into a hungry buyer.
As you may have already discovered in my "Ultimate
Information Entrepreneur's Success Package", earning
months and years of leveraged income from a few weeks
writing has virtually NOTHING to do with your writing
ability, but EVERYTHING to do with understanding how to
identify and satisfy a raging hunger within markets.
When you think about how to write a sell ebooks,
think about 1 of these 3 proven "types" of infoproducts
that will turn your prospects into buyers...
1. Innovator. You have identified a tip, technique
or strategy that will go one-step further (incremental
innovation) or take a giant LEAP forward (radical
innovation) than is currently available.
To understand how to write and sell ebooks as the
"innovator", you have a very good grasp of both what
the prospector is really looking for and what currently
exists in your marketplace.
2. Collector. The value in this type of information
product is to collect sources of information from a wide
variety of sources and distill it down to the "best of"
or a compilation of strategies aimed at satisfying
a given market demand.
3. Investigator. Yet another method of how to write
and sell ebooks, the investigator seeks to discover
and prove the value of a given approach.
Discovery allows you to bring value by bringing to light
little-known or "underground" secrets to solving specific
problems
Proving the value of a given approach is also of high value
in this age of skepticism and doubt. If you can provide
case studies to support a given approach, you'll be
bringing extra value to the market.
Now, each of these approaches has its advantages and
disadvantages.
When most people think of how to write and sell ebooks,
they think of being collectors, however adding an aspect
of innovation is how you can really differentiate yourself
in your market.
Innovation allows you to claim ownership to solving an
urgent and pressing problem for your market. Out of
owership will come branding, and out of branding can come
tremendous financial advantages.
I have used all 3 approaches and advise everyone who is
serious about becoming an information entrepreneur and
wants to know how to write and sell ebooks to use each
approach.
In your market, you can likely come up with a combination
of innovative solutions, compilations of tips and ideas,
and journalistic ideas such as key interview subjects or
candidates.
PS. Click the comments below and let us know which of these
formats you've used (or are using) to write and sell your
own ebook.
Jeff
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April 05, 2005
Isn't It Time You Cranked It Up!
Are you at a crossroads with your internet business?
You've learned a great deal, and you know you could
make a decent part-time income online - but is that
what you really want?
My goal was to take back full-time control
of my time, energy, creativity and my finances. Part-time
was never an option in my mind.
What about you?
If your daily activities make you feel like a square peg in
a round whole, then it's time to get serious and move
beyond what 90% of internet marketers know.
To get that kind of "inside" information I have turned to
John Reese.
Now, many of you will hear about his massive re-launch of
Traffic Secrets - that is true, it's a masterful campaign.
But...
Don't lose site of the fact that Traffic Secrets is THE
definitive program - likely the ONLY one you will ever need,
to help you build a world class online business.
Here's an open letter from John himself, where he tackles
the issue of PROOF.
If you are ready to get serious about generating traffic,
then John IS the traffic generating genious you will want
to follow.
This information is SO important, that I will give you a
copy of every one of my products IF you order John's course
today. I feel that strongly about his information.
That means you get...
Ultimate Information Entrepreneur's Success Package - $67 value
Create And Market Hot Selling Infoproducts Teleseminar - $47 value
Hypnotic Marketing Interviews with Joe Vitale - $37 value
Autopilot Income Streams - Minicourse Writing System - $27 value
Cash Back Via Paypal - $40
Total Value - $218 IF you order by midnight April 5th ONLY.
Now, here's more from John...
---------------------------
An Open Letter From John Reese
To: Every Online Marketer Who Is Serious About Flooding Their Web Sites
With More Traffic Than They Can Handle
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 ( 8:34 a.m.)
From: My home office in Orlando, Florida
Dear fellow entrepreneur,
John Reese here.
Because the information in this email is absolutely critical to your online
marketing success, I have specifically requested that it be forwarded to you
WITHOUT changing a single word.
I have a very important question for you...
"Are You Next?" (Let me explain.)
A little over 6 months ago, I did something that absolutely *shocked* the
Internet.
(And even pissed some people off!)
I unleashed a full scale marketing 'attack' and released my "Traffic Secrets"
home study course to the public – a course that revealed how I had generated over
1.57 BILLION WEB SITE VISITORS to my sites since I started marketing online.
(And most of these visitors didn't cost me one single penny!)
You were probably one of the people that got *bombarded* by the promotions
for my course. They might have even made you mad since they filled your
inbox!
Many people got a little 'tired' of seeing news about "Traffic Secrets"
everywhere they turned. It was unavoidable.
And when the dust settled (as you probably heard) the course sold over
$1,080,496.37 worth in the FIRST 24 HOURS.
It became one of the fastest selling marketing courses in history. (And
probably one of the fastest selling courses on ANY topic.)
"Traffic Secrets" owners are now in more than 52 countries around the world!
Although many entrepreneurs quickly snatched up their own copy of the much
anticipated course, several others were yelling...
"SCAM!"
"IT'S ALL HYPE!!"
"THIS SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!!"
Tens of thousands of people were extremely *SKEPTICAL*.
Many people were saying this "Traffic Secrets" course must be just hype or
some kind of scam because my marketing was "too good." They figured since
the promotion for it was so heavy (unlike anything the Internet had ever seen)
that the product must be CRAP and just some rip off "scheme."
It's hard to blame these people for feeling that way...
The original marketing launch for the course was so MASSIVE that it really
must have seemed like it was "too good to be true." And since the course
was just released, not many people had a chance to actually put the course
to the test and get results -- so no one knew if it really *worked* or not...
*** BUT SIX MONTHS CHANGES EVERYTHING ***
(It's actually just over 7 months now.)
The results are in...
Not only does "Traffic Secrets" work for growing the traffic to any web
site,
but the course itself has already CHANGED THE LIVES of several
entrepreneurs that invested in the course.
THERE'S NO DENYING *PROOF*
I have just released (this morning) a brand new web site that you'll definitely
want to take a look it if you're serious about generating an income from
marketing on the Internet...
On this site I have put together *real* success stories of entrepreneurs (just
like you) that got their own copy of the (8) DVD, (5) CD-ROM Tutorial,
550+ page "Traffic Secrets" course and put it to the test to grow their own
web site traffic and sales.
And these success stories share *detailed* information about how the course
changed their business forever – many include screenshots of their web site
traffic logs and even merchant account statements to give you PROOF of
what they accomplished.
And this site doesn't have just 2 or 3 success stories...
It also doesn't have only 5, 10, or even 15.
THIS NEW SITE HAS OVER *100* FULLY DOCUMENTED
SUCCESS STORIES!
And I'm not just talking about "testimonials" where people give their
opinion
on how great they think a product is. I'm talking about true SUCCESS
STORIES where people applied the course and got REAL RESULTS.
AND GET THIS!
These are just the results from the first 6 months or so. What's important
to realize is that these people will be able to grow their business almost
FOREVER by continuing to apply the strategies in my course.
So the new web site traffic (and profits) they have already received is
just the BEGINNING for them.
Here are just a few highlights:
** Chris Pizzo skyrocketed his website sales from $5,552 a month to
$41,195 a month, in just 6 short months!
** Brian Campbell raked in $43,890.58 in the first 14 days of January
alone... with a BRAND NEW website that was less than 2 months old!
** Chris Hickman's website traffic soared from 150 unique visitors a
day, to over 8,700 unique visitors a day! (That's a 5,700% increase!)
** And this is just the tip of the iceberg!
(Keep reading to find out how many success stories there are. It will
blow you away!)
DISCLAIMER: These results are not typical. In other words, I'm not
going to make some ridiculous claim that if you get a copy of "Traffic
Secrets" that you will get the exact same results. It would be against the
law for me to tell you that.
NOTE: If you see anyone online promising to make you rich, or
guaranteeing that you will make "X" amount of money, in almost every
case they are breaking the law making such claims. So be careful.
But what I *am* telling you is that tons of people got my course, studied
it, and then took action to apply the step-by-step system and *did* get
AWESOME RESULTS!
You'll definitely want to check out all of the amazing success stories so
they can motivate you to grow your own online business! (Whether you
get the course or not.)
You can learn some great techniques just by reading the information
that's on the site. (No purchase necessary.)
* There's over ONE HOUR of VIDEO and AUDIO clips on the web site.
BUT WAIT!
Before you head on over to the site to read about all of the incredible
success stories, I need to tell you something...
I Am Going To Create *Many More* Success Stories!
I want to see THOUSANDS of other entrepreneurs have their lives
changed forever! So I want to make you a special offer (you can take it
or leave it. It won't hurt my feelings.)
If you go to the site and end up ordering your own copy of my "Traffic
Secrets" course, I'm going to give you some very VALUABLE (but
extremely limited) bonus gifts -- but only if you HURRY.
For The Next 900 People That Get A Copy Of My Course...
I am going to send them (3) All-New DVDs at zero cost!
"Business Building" How-To DVD
- This DVD will give you a powerful A-To-Z training on how to structure
and grow ANY online business."Traffic Conversion" How-To DVD
- This DVD is all about tricks and techniques you can use to squeeze
more cash out of your web site visitors.
"Affiliate Marketing" How-To DVD
- This DVD is all about methods and strategies for making money by
marketing other people's products. So even if you don't have your own
products you can still make a massive income online.
But this offer can only be guaranteed for the next 900 people that get
their copy of "Traffic Secrets."
And just to give you a FAIR WARNING... The last time my course
was launched it sold over 900 copies in the first 16 HOURS alone.
So you don't want to delay on this if you're even partly interested.
Check out the site *NOW* and read about all of the powerful,
profit-producing strategies.
Get All The Details Of Over *100* Success Stories:
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/ts
Are *You* My Next Success Story?
Visit the amazing success story site and find out...
http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/ts
Yours For Online Profits,
John Reese
P.S. YOU RISK NOTHING. Because you get to "test-drive" my
course for a full 90 days entirely on my risk. If "Traffic Secrets" doesn't
dramatically boost your website traffic and online sales... or... if you're
not absolutely thrilled for ANY reason, just send it back for a prompt
refund, no questions asked! :-)
So go here now to read the success stories and claim your own copy
along with the (3) DVD limited set: http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/ts
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April 01, 2005
3-Part Product Idea Testing System - Free Video
I've written a great deal in the past about different ways to test
your product ideas for their profit potential BEFORE you spend days
or weeks or one RED CENT on development.
Well, I got to thinking...
There's nothing like seeing an example to help make the process
faster and easier...
So - here's a video you can acceess right now that gives you a
simple 3-part system for testing any new product idea, topic or
market...enjoy! Click here to listen now:
"Foolproof, Simple 3-Part System For Testing Your Online
Product Ideas"
PS. Please excuse the rather dated disco music intro - it was late
by the time I went to add the music in - I take no responsibility for
sudden flashbacks to the 70's as a result of listening to this video.
Jeff
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