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- Jul 8th, 2008
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A lot of people are doing it. But maybe it didn’t occur to you that you could to!Let’s say you are willing to spend MONEY for traffic. Typically you will be told to head over to Google and set up an adwords account. There are amazing benefits, especially for the impulsive: It’s immediate. It’s free (to sign up). It respects your budget. But if you don’t know the science of proper keyword selection, ad groups, etc., the learning curve to do it right, can cost you a lot, and kill your ‘this is gonna happen’ spirit!
Google Adwords accomplishes one goal - eyeballs to your site. We are not discussing the more important part - how you get a visitor to do what you want them to do once they hit your site, but I think we can all agree we want to gain a LEAD. The ability to retain that visitor in a way that will allow you to repeatedly contact them for whatever reasons.
How about if you were to just take that money and buy LEADS? The costs will probably be the same, but your risk ratio decreases since when you buy a Lead, it usually means the customer has already at best purchased an item, or at worst handed over his personal information.
Here is another suggestion. Imagine you are offering a free report. Not too far a stretch. Would it be worth it to you to pay to get those reports into the right hands. Then perhaps you want to consider a CPA (cost per acquisition) campaign. Affiliates are always looking for ‘freebies’ to promote, so you will get loads of free impressions as they advertise for you. However, you ONLY pay for a lead that signs up, and you can specify from just a name and email address to complete address or credit card #.
In fact, we have witnessed this scenario done numerous times in our very own inbox.. anytime you receive a ‘is X dead’? (fill in X for any Internet Marketing term), the marketer who promotes that ‘free report’ is pocketing around .50 cents per Lead. Yes, that lead is YOU. In case you were wondering how you landed on so many lists. Isn’t it worth the .50 cents per person to get a totally targeted lead??
If this sounds daunting and out or your league, there are web companies, like Simply Ideas, that will assist with just these services. Simply Ideas is a lead generation and online marketing agency specializing in ad buying, search engine optimization, and monetization. If you are looking to broaden your reach, I suggest you give all these ‘paid for traffic’ suggestions some serious looking into.
Please share if you have any negative or positive experiences, or want to hear more about Google Adwords, Lead Generation, Media Buying, and CPA.
This has been a Sponsored Review..hope you enjoyed
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- Jul 7th, 2008
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I went to Tel Aviv topick up my goodies
I turned on one of my new toys - A Flip camcorder! (Thank you Jeff Walker) - and below is my first offer. Following recording, I plugged the Flip into the USB of my computer, selected share, clicked on youtube icon, put it my username / password.. and then upload. About 2 minutes later, the video was live on Youtube, and again, I am embedding it here for your viewing pleasure.
Total time from start to finish = 10 minutes
Total cost to shoot video
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$107 (Flip + shipping to bro in L.A)
$200 (Dinner)My video work usually requires a lot of editing, (as it does here as well), which IS possible with the included FLIP software (the software that immediately starts up after plugging in the USB), but I wanted this first video to be an experiment in:
EFFICIENT
EASE OF USE
NO EXCUSES - ‘You too can make videos’video creation - what the FLIP purports to be all about.
UPDATE:
Wow.. just read instructions. You CANNOT edit a video in the middle. Only snip off the start and end. NOT COOL Flip! How many people don’t umm and ahh and say ridiculously off topic silly stuff (or perhaps pick their teeth) halfway through???
oh well. Looks like I got to work on getting better. Or Caring Less.
Thank you to my costars Jaron & Ashley.
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- Jun 30th, 2008
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Every now and then we have to do something painful. Like Work. So I wanted to take something of the supreme grotesque William Wallace level of pain, and show you, well, as he says : “FREEDOM”TODAYS PAIN: Build a Single page - Landing page / Sales page. No staff, no frills.
In the interest of keeping this shorter, I will ‘assume’ you have certain skills. Please comment if there is an area that you would like more instruction.
1. Select a Domain Name
Lets head on over to GoDaddy.com and find one that is available. My site topic (and Lord help me, I hope she never finds this on this blog) is this: I have a fantastic friend and I want to help her find a guy! I debate between marrymiriam and marrymyfriendmiriam.com and go with the latter since its obvious SHE had no involvement. I am certain there are better names, but at $7 each, I will be happy to splurge when / if necessary.
When checking out at GoDaddy, I skip to checkout. I skip about 10 pages of offers and continue to checkout. Dont let all their offers distract you and confuse you. I use the paypal details I have on file, checkout, pay, and transaction complete. I even take 15 seconds in there to find a current coupon code so that the domain does cost me $7 as mentioned and not $10. The code OYH3 has been working for me consistenly for the last several months.
TIME = 5 minutes
2. Domain Hosting
I need to host my website. I already have an account with eboundhost - an unlimited domain account. I go into my whm account, which is basically the URL of my maindomain.com/whm (the main domain is the account you signed up with originally). I click on create a new account. As instructed, I submit the new domain name, select a username and password .. which will also be my FTP user/pass - click OK and wait a few seconds.. until SUCCESS! A new account has been created.
Time - 3 minutes
3. Point it in the right place
I am promptly emailed all the pertinent details for this new domain/website . Most important information is the Nameservers, user/pass, and the I.P of the doman. I go BACK to godaddy and then select manage domains. I click on my new domain - marrymyfriendmiriam.com and then click on nameservers. I select custom nameservers and basically exchange the information in the email from godaddys default nameservers to eboundhost (my web host). Click ok, and its done. It takes a few seconds, but I am already getting to step 4.
Time - 3 minutes
4. Allow Your Files to Connect to Your Domain!
I head over to my FTP client. I am a bit old fashioned here, as I am using WSFTP. I dont even think you can get it now, but there is no lack of free FTP programs, and they all work pretty similarly.
I select new account. I put in the name field however I wish to refer to it (Marry Miriam) and then in the host name field I put in the I.P address. It will look something like this 65.119.24.35 (-totally made up). After 24 hours or so I should be able to put in the domain name, but the I.P address allows it to work right away. Then I put in the username, password, (the ones my web host emailed to me), click save password and then ok..
I am IN!!
Time= 2 minutes
5. Now - To connect with your Visitors! The Web Page
My plan is to make this like a salespage, pitching my friend, and inviting single Men to leave us with their contact information. Thats the only action necessary. When you need to create a single page site, there are plenty examples that are very easy to mimic.. like almost exactly. They all look the same, and the only part that differs is the graphics. How do you do this?
In your inbox you have probably received no less than 10 pitches in the last few days to a wide variety of incredibly similar (is that an oxymoron?) landing pages -a. Select the one you like the best.
b. Go to View tab, click page source, and then copy the source - paste it into a notetab or an html editor and save it as an .htm or .html page.
c. Make sure to also right click on images and copy those as well. Not logos, but other graphics like borders or backgrounds (EDIT: DO NOT COPY GRAPHICS THAT ARE IMAGES. THIS WAS AN ERROR. Here is what I meant to say - IF YOU SEE A BACKGROUND WITH A COLOR YOU LIKE - JUST CREATE A BACKGROUND WITH THAT SAME COLOR - often times the background you are seeing is NOT an image, rather a color - you will find out if you can read the code or when you upload the page.. .. you can easily google HTML colors and find the whole spectrum of the rainbow to select from without COPYING someone else’s images.)
d. Go to your FTP - create an images folder and upload all the images there (binary) (REMEMBER - YOUR OWN LOGO!! YOUR OWN GRAPHICS !!). Put the new html page in the root folder.
e. View the page online. Go back into the html page and remove all the unnecessary text or code or replace with your own text.Time: 12 minutes
Troubleshooting:
**Text get messed up? Did you remove a block of text, a table perhaps but neglect to remove it completely? Most of these pages are created using original HTML, which is what makes it so easy to rip off, but also not very friendly if you get something wrong. I suggest you use block out codes like (the stuff that looks like < --!) if you cant get it right. Just don't embarrass yourself and make sure to delete the copy of whatever was being originally promoted and just leave the code bare in between the blocked out signals.
**Another suggestion to avoid issues. Find the source of the tables and add border=”2″ inside the <> to them one at a time. Then you will be able to SEE the table you are working on, whats included. When you have finished the work, go back and remove the border. This has been extremely helpful to me the past few years. I am not a big ‘code’ person so I have been shocked to find where a table started and ended!
For the page being discussed - I have enough of my own niche landing pages, that I can just rip off from myself - but they usually originated from some other pitch.
6. Let’s REEL Them IN.
Once you get a lead, it is your responsibility to convert that lead into a sale. Now we head over to Aweber. Click new account. Then go to create web form. I add a little text, then save it. I click get HTML - take the javascript code so I can track results, and then just plop the code into the page, usually between some center tags to keep it centered. I have not yet created a first autoresponse, but to do so: click follow up on the list settings tabs, and then go ahead and start writing…
Time: 5 minutes
The only part I cannot help you with here is the graphics. I am using images of my friend, so It’s not an issue here. Typically I can head over to Rent a Coder and pick up some decent graphic work .. or I may get a minisite graphics package around the $60 price range.
Tell me what works for you here, what’s still confusing? Thanks!
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- Jun 24th, 2008
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I didn’t do it on purpose.I didn’t have a 4 year plan, anticipate my next move, or really… have any choice. I was under a spell.
It started out very innocently. In 1999 I learned some HTML. In 2000 I was hired to work on some websites, and their affiliate links (whatever the heck that meant). A short while after that (and a lot of riduculously interesting information that I am omitting for effect) :
I joined an email list.
Then another.
Then another.
Then I bought an ebook. or two. or three. or ten.
Then I signed up with Site Build it.
Then I stayed awake for 8 pm Eastern time (3 am here) to listen to a teleseminar. again. and again. and again.
Then I was on 30 mailing lists.
Then I bought a coaching program. or two
Then I joined a membership or four.I witnessed more urgency in a stream of ‘if you dont buy / use this / know this then you will NOT be able to succeed online’ pitches than an Emergency Room MD. Trauma care patients don’t know copywriting like these guys. I wonder if the survival rate would increase if John Carlton was pitching each patients case.
The IM’er (as it is labeled for short) Experience.
Lately I have been ‘hanging around’ (in the Social Media sense) a different online crowd. These people may refer to themselves as Internet Marketers, but many don’t know who Mike Filsaime is, or perhaps even John Reese!
While we are always reinventing ourselves, the IM path may sound something like this.. rich jerk, niche marketing, resale rights, PLR, Warrior Forum, Earn $100 a day, list building secrets, social media domination, adsense is not dead, blah blah blah. A more traditional marketer may have their success tied more to scalability, building relationships, and clients. Their means to an end is to create a self sustaining line of work, and yes, a nice revenue stream. (which could actual happen accidentally rather then intentionally - almost never in the IM’er space)
Life is a series of experiences that mold us into who we are. We are the products of our own ‘choose your own adventure’. I dont mean to sound so holistic here, but I feel I owe respect to the experience I had, even if I am prepared to question the fuel that drives it. I also have more leeway to do such since I am partially responsible for supporting it.
Last week I wrote about the surprise I had attending the Mashable Tel Aviv Event to discover so few marketers were aware of web concepts I have been embracing for so long. I also wrote that I had a half written post to dust off about the subject. Here is that post. Partially.. some of the work was done for me in the meantime:
A few days ago the debate was on full steam, ironically, starring.. John Reese and Mark Hopkins from Mashable..
I don’t see that John has anything he needs to defend. Its like a local musician being accused of ’selling out’ since he wrote a song that became a top 10 single and made him famous. Yes, you owe a lot to your fans, but it helps to have a lot more of them, and it helps to be able to afford to keep doing what they like you for
. Next the advent of the e-book, while not making many people at home millionaires, due to it’s ‘mass production’ is able to share golden nuggets of how to take advantage of the web for a much lower price tag than hiring consultants. I haven’t earned from each e-book, but I have learned from each one.
Mark - it is simply that as an outsider to an experience you didn’t have, the vision from where you are sitting allows you to see this for what it actually is. Well, what it is to YOU. A survival of the fittest, MLM style society. Hey I hear you - when my friends start pitching AGEL and NuSkin to me (actual network marketing companies) I laugh and roll my eyes in ridicule - and think they are on crack. However, to them its a very real adventure, they love the products, and its potentially lucrative, so who are we to judge? Maybe more people are losing money than earning, but the same 80/20 rule applies to this as with any other industry. Or the more realistic 95/5 - it CAN be done. You CAN become famous in Hollywood. You can get rich online. Just not many will. Should they stop making movies since it fuels others desires to have what they most likely can’t?
For me? It is directly as a result of this experience, one that caused me to part with so much of my hard earned money, and take time away from my family, that I am able to claim what I can today. I may not be able to drink Pina Coladas all day while the money racks up in my account, no Ferrari in the garage, or a house in the Hamptons (as we have been so frequently pitched).. but I most certainly could get a sick paying job in a big firm, could consult with the best.
How?
Because I DIDN’T learn what they teach new college graduates, because I DIDN’T learn traditional marketing. I learned how to market in a way that turns the web into our own personal ATM’s. I learned marketing the Rich Dad way. I am too wise to go back and relive it, but I cant change what I know, and yes.. I actually make money online.
Internet Marketing is definitely poised for a ‘face lift’, I expect a lot more crossover between the two different arenas. However, as long as people wake up and type in ‘make money online from home’ on Google, there will be products created to cater to them.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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- Jun 16th, 2008
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A few nights ago I got out of my pajamas, charged up the digital camera, forgot the business cards, and made my way oh so far to Tel Aviv. In the U.S., a typical commute is around an hour each way. When an hour away is another City and another climate, it just seems much further and requires an ‘event’ to get me there.I would like to think the video below says it all, but actually it says very little
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Most of the people attending have jobs! They were just going out for a good time and to hang out with like minded people. How admirable. Really. I mean that. Company names and positions were being thrown around, and yes, inevitably, cards are passed, ideas are brewing, and networking happens.. but its hardly organic. It’s hard work. This is called extreme socializing. or extreme networking. Only the most adventurous, and daring need apply. Unless you just want lots of free booze.
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If you notice in my video, I say that I expect to see a lot of personal videos going on. Not only was I SO wrong, if you even listen closely there is more amusement and questioning about the video concept. Of course, the adorable Adam Hirsch did catch on and said “So we’re doing the video thing.” (ok, I think it was Adam).
Here was a room with some of the greatest emerging Hi Tech companies, many involved in video technologies, and other than flixwagon (a cool Israel based company that allows you to broadcast your ‘life’ from your phone), I didn’t see a camera in the house
. Note to self: we are still a way off from too much ’self branding’. Time is ripe. Move full speed ahead (no pun intended).
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My involvement in the Internet Marketing Space is actually more of a ‘niche’ than the accepted norm of online marketing. Here were people creating SEO platforms who have never heard of Stompernet. Someone else I met was hired to do ‘online marketing’ for a startup, but never heard of twitter. The idea of just building websites that make money (yes, what I do) was a little lost. As a result of this anamoly, I plan on dusting off a half written post about the difference between Internet Marketers and .. yes Internet Marketers. No Typo. Stay Tuned.
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Wanted to give a shout out to the local twitterers who helped break the ice and build up the momentum for the remainder of the evening. Some of you are in the video… otherwise you know who you are! Lets do lunch, k?
Enjoy The Video
….sorry about the dark. I am a work in progress.
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- Jun 11th, 2008
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Imagine YOU live in Anycity, Anystate, USA and notice that your local shopping area is not selling Widgets!
EVERYBODY NEEDS WIDGETS!!
so you decide to take the plunge and open up your own local Brick and Mortar ‘We sell the BEST Widgets’ Store. You take another mortgage, borrow from your savings and family and open shop.
Unfortunately, if you are like the majority of small business owners… you do some business, but slowly (or maybe like a stab to your heart quickly) realize that maybe.. just maybe people don’t need widgets as much as you expected, or neglected to consider that the ‘widget store’ a few miles away is in a preferred location, with twice the amount of stock. Another small business. Another failure. Another statistic.
Over high up on my pedestal I look down on the mom and pops.. rather pity (in fact fear comes to mind too).. Don’t you know the place to be is ONLINE? Can you empathize with the hard worker who is putting his guts into this business only to cater to the people in his/her immediate vicinity? Its like being a first hand witness to the Rat Race in action.
BRING IT ONLINE
The motto could be ‘why aim to serve FEW when you can aim to serve MANY’
Typically I educate that the cost of failure when venturing online is almost non existent next to offline businesses that fail. Domain names cost $10, hosting is $120/year, free website builders abound. All you have to lose is time.
That’s if you want to make a small splash on the web. I however, plan to drop a cannon.
As I am currently positioned to dump a sizable amount of money into a website, I am faced with this thought:
Have I been naive all along?
Is there really as much difference to someone putting all their eggs into one expensive fancy website and someone opening up a local store?
Certainly the web has a much much wider market than Anycity, but how hard do you have to work to attract just the RIGHT visitors from the billions of website users, and competing websites. Will my ‘example’ 80,000 web visitors be comparable to the 80,000 pedestrians that walk into your local store? Statistically a greater %age of people who walk in a store will actually make a purchase than actions will result (even it be giving away something free!) from a visitor to a website (I made up this statistic but I am sticking with it). This actually means that you need probably triple to quadruple the quantity of website visitors to reach the same bottom line. This requires proper online promotions and staff to market the proper channels, which means ongoing costs.
Are websites becoming the new Brick and Mortar?
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- Jun 4th, 2008
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Is Twitter a distraction? Hell YES. Can you get more business done without it? Well, it depends on how you define your business.WARNING: The following is all 100% true and I have never met any of these people before.
Part 1
(and part 11 which is just a short scroll down is even better.. so dont go anywhere)
Last night I track down all local twitter peeps to connect and follow. Living overseas, (Jerusalem), the list isnt long, and therefore the connections are that much more powerful. The rest of the world follows the rule of 6 degrees of separation. With Jews and Internet Marketers, there are 2.
It turns out that many of us will be at Mashable’s event next week in Tel Aviv. Great networking opportunity. But I say, why wait until I get there to start: (My running commentary is in bolded black - the images are taken directly from my twitter account)
–hmm Andrea thinks to herself - somebody suggested something to do with marketing their wares (aka themselves)
–Now I see that as an open invite, DONT YOU?
–I jump in. Too much EGO? Perhaps, but I have 140 characters, I am not wining and dining them
–I would say I got Bite #1
–and Bite #2!
–I try to turn the tables on him for fun
–He is a nice guy, but making it clear where his talents lie.
–Problem solved in 140 characters. (Naturally I took a quick glance at their websites to be able to come to this conclusion)
– and it just gets better.. and I dont only mean with the fundraising. I mean…..
READ ON:
Part 2
Social Media Expert Chris Brogan has just finished up a series on Developing a Personal Brand Online
– I chose to write this now since Chris had just made a good morning appearance on twitter. Since it was so early in the morning EST (like 7am), and I thought now would be a good opportunity to tell him how much I enjoyed his series.
–Chris thanks me back! … I was continuing with my day.
–I refreshed at Twitter to see if there was an update to Part 1 above, and nearly missed this. Glad I didnt. Chris has over 8000 followers. I wonder if my famous brothers could
headline an event and get 8000 people to show up (dont answer that).
–Holy Cow. My blog has been pretty subpar lately (only in terms of quantity
) and here is this unsolicited plug. I comfort myself in the 7am thought.
–Chris tells me I am not safe. People look back at what he writes. I know this. I do it too.
–It is true. I have some great stuff coming, but a lot half written (on topic - including how a new connection on facebook is now investing in a website I am building)!
Then I realize what story is better to tell than this one?
This means that you are going to want to read the post after this one too!
Immediate Gratification. Its a Social Media Windfall!
A snapshot of my Gmail Account for the minutes following that ‘twit’. People are following me on twitter, friending me at Facebook, and signing up to my mailing list, and hopefully RSS feed. Since I snapped this screen, It has grown, with more email subscribers, and a linkedin invite, but not too shabby, eh? (names rubbed out for their privacy)
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- May 29th, 2008
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How many of you grew up with Siskel and Ebert? How many of you also wondered who they were related to, who they killed, bribed, and other adjectives I will leave off this child friendly blog, in order to secure those positions?Here were 2 GEEKS (in my youthful opinion), and all they had (got) to do all day was be PAID to see movie after movie and say thumbs up or thumbs down. I am sure I never thought about the equivalent of the journalism ‘mail room’ they may have worked their way up from, or that when they put pen to paper they nailed a motion picture in a few sharp sentences. I am only referring to the 2 guys who I saw sitting on their bums yapping about movies.
Fame (and success attached) used to be analagous to winning a ‘lottery’. Not just the powerball or Ed McMahon, but who was to become the next pop singer, the next biggest movie star, the next Siskel and Ebert. Sure, it took talent, but as my folks used to say = We dont know who the best guitar player is - He is sitting in some corner of a room, playing with no audience to hear.
With the internet and shows like American Idol, those days are (could be) history. Now the talented but unconnected and ‘unlucky’ are breaking their way into all industries, and in a big way!
I could totally litter this page with examples, and it would be a lot of fun actually, but I am going to highlight one such example I came across for now since it is a lot more relevant to what I actually planned on writing today.
I am scouring the web for some of the hottest social networking platforms as I am doing research for a site I am building and before ordering something new, I thought it wise to check out the existing ‘open sourcey’ (apparently open source is not always as simple as the word sounds), and one cannot be checking out social networks and not come across NING. NING allows you to freely create a social network of your own.. let me try to wrap this up since once I hand the floor over to these guys, you will not give too much thought to what I am going on about now…
Allow me to introduce to you, a group of incredibly talented individuals, who have taken advantage of free online tools, and their collective talents, to ‘win their own lottery’ .. Its not who they know.. its waking up and smelling the ripeness of the opportunities and realizing that it’s all fair game. Even Tom Cruise, albeit with a much heftier budget, is heavily advertising his own website to try to gain more commitment from his fans, as the collective pool of talent grows. He created a gorgeous showcase just to remind you of one of the original and most successful lottery winners!
Back to this site that has me completely amazed - the site is called Spill.com, one of the most popular NING sites, completely stripped and remade so you would have to know a Ning site to recognise it. These guys could be high schoolers, they could be businessmen, they could be from harlem… thats the beauty of it. Enjoy.
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- May 9th, 2008
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So you want to make a million dollars this year?
Yes, I am talking to YOU. How do I know you are here? Because my search stats tells me that everyday hundreds of people are finding this page by searching any number of variations on making a million in a year.
If you scroll down you can see the original blog post that was written that attracted Google, etc. to this page. It’s still a good post, and has good information, but lets be serious. We want to make a LOT of sick cash, and NOW. So, the action plan is to read the blog post, but also.. and FIRST, to consider this.
You could have searched to make Ten Thousand dollars. You could have searched to make One hundred thousand in a year. You could have searched even to make $500,000 this year. But you didn’t. You searched on how to make a million dollars. You are serious. you are game on. And you are in the RIGHT Place.
So if you would like access to this information then sign up to this special email and the report for making 1 million in a year will be on it’s way. I don’t want to run the risk of just posting the information here and allowing it to leak to the public at large.. so if you are serious. You know what to do:
Read on to find the original blog post on the subject: …
Here was the challenge My Mr. X posed me with in this post last month (be sure to read the comments on that post - good stuff!) :
Assuming you currently do not have a web presence and no other online assets, how can you make 1 million dollars in 12 months?
First of all, Mr X is becoming a way overused moniker for someone who makes a crapload of money but wants to remain anonymous .. We are given the impression that people would be stalking and calling him all hours of the day, beating his secrets out of him. Mr X is getting a new name, since any Mr X I consort with is WAY cooler and simply cant share his title of Mr X with a bunch of other zombie face millionaires. Any Suggestions? Agent Money maybe?
Back to the money:
This is a unique challenge since MOST people have some leg to stand on… some ’stuff’ in their arsenal.
Here we are just waking up one day.. and deciding to become an online millionaire.
To that I say… NO PROBLEM!!
1 Find where the NEXT convention is
In an industry that interests you, and assuming you are really broke, figure out ANY way possible to get yourself there. Borrow. Beg. Comandeer some moolah! Meeting like minded people face to face wont put money in your pocket immediately, but will open doors, as many doors as you have the time and energy to pursue.
Want proof? I just went to a convention at the end of February 08. Here is my Paypal account balance from Feb 17th 08 until March 1st 08: (I split it up to remove the private info and have it fit on the screen)
- Proof of earnings on paypal
Now, Here is my current paypal account balance up to May 7th ‘08. And it will be growing. 90% from the relationships at the conference and I have been back just over 2 months.
- Proof of earnings on paypal
(btw - you can see that I joined a membership, and that allowed me to cancel a different one that I didnt need anymore)
NEXT
2 Show Off Your Skills
Lets assume you have some skill or talent. Find some ugly backwards but high ranking website in your niche, and SHOW them what you can do for them. Dont send a stupid email. Go to WHO IS, call them up, Fed EX them a personal letter (if you can afford the postage) and do this for MULTIPLE people in your niche. From there the possibilities are endless from a simple affiliate relationship to a product you could whip up as an expert to a split equity deal. It will be the cheapest and fastest way for YOU to grow a high ranking website and make it fast!
Want Proof? I dont have figures, but showing you that I am putting my money where my mouth is: The launch I am working on that I invited you to witness is for a website that belongs to ‘my company’ but is exactly as described above : Ugly, backwards, high ranking, and niche. This guy approaches me, lets call him YOU for now, since he is following the steps I advise, and asks me to promote his product. Then I become YOU, since I actually tell him.. thats not good enough! I dont want to promote some stupid ebook and make a couple of dollars! I want to blow this out! We are dedicating part of the site to this launch experience, and you have been invited to watch. If you have patience since we are both busy!
NEXT:
3 Look At Me - I Am Important
Start putting yourself out there and draw attention to yourself. Garner market interest by being either controversial, out there, influential, funny… How much will it cost? Well assuming you dont already own a digital camera that can do videos, you could prob get a little flip camera or $79 dollar Samsung (the kind you get kids for their Bar Mitzvah, and the kind I have used for all my videos so far), go to UStream or youtube or anywhere and try out for online contests or reply to other peoples videos, and start talking about your niche..
Want Proof?
I should be called the ‘always a contestant, never a winner’.. but I would beg to differ. Exactly a year ago, I submitted my first video ever. A timid, shy, hint of personality, a little loserish entry to the next internet millionaire: (I cant even watch it anymore)
I entered a few other contests and look at how I was referred to a mere 7 videos and 9 months later. The ‘FAMOUS Andrea’ … not that this is my finest work, but
“The Famous “Andrea†Shares Her Top Event Highlights”:
I went from earning - well a lot less than I could - to being approached by an online marketing genius (may he rest in peace) who invested in me, to having personal relationships with many whom I only admired from afar in the past, to gaining serious leverage as a result of all the above, and the ONLY reason I am not seeing the figures I would be otherwise is due to very unfortunate circumstances that has naturally caused a very big setback (refer to may he rest in peace above for clarification).
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4 Do the local circuit
Become your OWN tupperware party! What do I mean? If you know about online marketing, then you are in the .00001% of the population who does. Whenever I leave my house to hang out with the common people
, everyone wants a piece of you. I mean we are skilled in a multi billion dollar industry of how to make money online from HOME. I could be next to Pamela Anderson and still wow the crowd (man.. this ego trip is out of control today!) MILK IT!!
Want Proof? Anytime I run into a group of people who are interested, I am able to do one of the following:
- If they have an online business, take money from them to tell them why it sucks. It usually does. and it could ALWAYS be better.
- Tell them to collect a bunch of people and charge per head to have an evening of live q&a on whatever it is that separates them from not having a clue to getting it. Then you furnish them with an affiliate laden options list and let them move on.. of course they could always pay for private consulting.
- Create a partnership (although usually less inclined since too busy). Here you leverage other peoples unique talents and your skills to do a joint venture. Advisable if you come across a real winner..
- Get more exposure which leads to all sorts of possibilities.. similar to my online videos, just on a local scale.
Just to be honest.. I give away a lot of information for free.. If you enjoy what you do, the adrenaline is obvious, and people respond to it! I mean if making money from home online wasnt enough of a selling point, seeing someone happy and excited certainly helps! This blog is free, there is ample free stuff online. Its not like I am telling them something they cant discover on their own if they had the time, the patience and the skills. I respect that and am happy to give away the farm.
Then WORD OF MOUTH spreads and you can be your own guru to the locals.
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5 Rewards based work.
This blog post is referring to those who are looking to make a million dollars since they will work hard for it, have the drive, ambition, passion, and ability to succeed. Everyone else inherits it, marries it, or is in Hollywood.
Approach a big company and tell them what you can do for them and that your earnings will be a %age share on the growth of the company. This requires some careful attention to detail and hard work, but if they have some capital willing to back you up, this could be a great golden ticket, since those %age residuals could be very cushy and you would certainly earn the respect of the company, and the referrals would define your continual rise to the top of the food chain.
Want Proof? Working on it
.P.S. If you just can’t WAIT and want to know how everyone else is doing it - then you will want to check this out.
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