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When Should You Build a List?

You should build a list as soon as you possibly can. Everyone is different. Some things are going to work one way for someone and the totally opposite for someone else. One thing is for sure, the sooner you start, the faster you will make MORE money.

I would venture to say that if your an absolute beginner at marketing products online then you may want to start a blog first. This way you can learn a little about getting traffic, uploading files and registering a domain, which are all things  you’ll need to know when building your list. Plus you’ll be able to start making a little money ASAP and actually use your blog to build your list too. Building a list takes a little more patients and if done right will take a little longer to get to a sale.

If you are familiar with uploading files and some of the technical stuff then building a list first might work better for you, but I think more times than not, that people new to Internet Marketing aren’t privy to these things.

So basically to sum up when to “Build A List?” ” The Sooner the Better.”

What are You Going to Need?

The first thing you’ll need is an auto responder. The two more popular auto responders are AWeber and Get Response. Then your going to need traffic just like you would a blog. Just use the same methods that you use to get traffic to your blog, the only other thing that you can do that you may not do with a blog is start a small pay per click  campaign.

You’ll need a product or a really BIG SECRET. You can find plenty of resale rights products out there for free. You may want to look at the product very closely if it’s free, because it’s quality might be really poor and need some brushing up. It might be so bad that you couldn’t pay people to take it, so you really need to take a good look at it first. You could also make a small investment for one, which isn’t too much, yet more likely to be better quality. Consider upgrading when you find a good resource for resale rights products to save time in the long run.

If you just want to give away a “Secret” just offer a video to let your customer in on it. You should make sure that this is something real good though, so your not telling someone something they already know.

How to Keep Customers on Your List

In order to build a list you have to make sure you lose as few people as possible. If  people unsubscribe from your list  more than people are subscribing the building process is going to take a very long time right. So since your trying to build a list as fast as possible there is a couple of things you need to do to manage your list the right way.

1. Start by sending out valuable content right off the bat. Something that is going to help them out. You want to send anywhere from 20 to 30 e-mails before you consider asking your customer to purchase from you. This is something you can test out and see what works better for you, but make sure you build a relationship with them first.
2. Stay in contact with your list on a regular basis. You don’t want to overwhelm your customer either, a good rule of thumb is to send out one e-mail a day, maybe two if there is enough value there. This way you’ll also leave some openings for product launch’s you may be promoting in the future.
3. Keep the content as fresh as possible, so your not just echoing what someone else is saying, always be on the search for the hot content.

Why is a List So Important?

There are several reasons why a “List” is so important. The most popular reason is no surprise. MORE MONEY. When your selling products from your blog one person is going to be worth say $30. When someone is signed up for your mailing list, you now have the potential of  making 2 - 10 more sales from them. So instead of one customer being worth $30 they are now possibly worth $60 - $300 or more.

You are now also developing a relationship with them and promoting products is easier when someone has a bond with you. This trust will translate into more sales without a doubt.

“Social Media” is another way to build your list, although it can be a little tricky. The best Marketers on the Internet are still running tests to see what method works best with “Social Media.”

If your interested in using “Social Media” I would not go it alone. You really should look to one of the experts that have already gone through the trial and error process. Ryan Deiss is one of these people and has figured out a way to build a big list fast with Twitter. The method he has come up with works with just Twitter and nothing else, but it works amazing. Some people don’t agree with Ryan’s  method including his good friend Perry Belcher, but it works and it works really good. I highly recommend you check out what Ryan has to offer because he always puts out amazing products and Twitter is so easy to use you’ll be building a big list in no time.

“Twitter List-Building” by Ryan Deiss

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If you have a blog you are probably looking for ways to market that blog. The first things that probably come to mind are how can you do this online. There are also a lot of ebooks and other blogs out there telling you exactly how to market your blog online. There is everything from article marketing to posting in forums. What a lot of people don’t think of is there is another way to market that not many people are even considering doing that you can take full advantage of right now. You can market your blog offline too. There are some very simple yet, not talked about ways ( from what I’ve seen anyway) too market and advertise your blog offline and be very effective.  So, what are some of these methods you may ask, well here they are:

1. Conventions or Conferences: If you see any of these two things taking place in your area it would be a very smart thing for you to attend. When you get there you may find that your one of the few with promotion of your blog or product in mind. You could even have a shirt printed with your blog URL on it.
2. Business Cards: This may seem like a no brainer, but how many people do you see doing this or talking about it for that matter? The great thing about business cards is you can virtually hand them out anywhere and to almost anybody. One thing you should keep in mind if your going to have some printed up is make sure they stand out and catch the eye. I have even seen business’s that have a board or a place specifically for people to post their business cards. Hell, throw them up in the air and let the wind catch them. ( Just kidding, don’t do this please.)
3. Postcards: You could have some eye catching post cards printed up and either pay to have them mailed out or mail them out yourself. The good thing about post cards is they don’t have to be opened and people will more than likely just throw them over by their computer were it can grab their attention.
4. Blogger Meet Ups: If there are any of these in your area I would take full advantage of showing up. Meeting up with other bloggers is a great way to make new connections and potential promoters for your blog.
5. Stickers: This is another great way to advertise your website or blog. You can put one on your car or I just recently read about a guy who brought some stickers to a gathering he attended and the ended up everywhere, on people and in pictures.
6. Offline Newsletters
7. Flyer’s
8. Newspaper Ads
9. Yellow Pages
10. Radio Advertising
11. Brochures
12. Classified Ads

Now I realize that these may cost anywhere from a little bit of money to a lot of money, but it may be something for you to think about in the future.

The best thing for you to do, especially if your new to making money online, is to just experiment with the least expensive of the ideas and put just a little money in to it to see if it’s going to stick. If it does then you can run with it and invest more money into it.

The main idea of this post is to get you to think outside of the box and not get stuck thinking that all your efforts have to be online. There is a whole market out there waiting for you to grab their attention in the offline world.

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When you start Internet Marketing you suddenly realize that this work from home thing is going to take a minute, and time seems to fly right on by. If your trying to learn about your niche and trying to promote it then you have even less time to play with. Not to mention writing articles and posting to your blog. Typing 500 words or more seems to be the biggest hurdle of them all. Especially the article marketing side of things.

Well I have an idea that might work for some. Many of you probably already have this one down pat but some may not. It also may never cross some peoples minds to do something about it. Or how easy doing this actually is. This idea is simply learning how to type. If your struggling when posting to your blog or doing article marketing then learning to type is what you need to do.

You might say that you would be losing to much time by doing such a thing, but you are losing more time by struggling with the seek and destroy method. Plus, learning to type will only take a few days or maybe a week. It will take a little more time getting your speed up, but you can learn the basics in no time.

To give you an idea of the basics of typing is that each finger is assigned a letter, or several letters. Let’s start with your right hand for instance and starting from your index finger the letters assigned would be: J,K,L, ;  and your thumb is always used for the space bar ( it doesn’t matter which one). Then you get your fingers used to these letters by typing: jjj,kkk,lll, ;;; , and then you do the left hand. You can also practice this to music and you type the letter’s to the beat of the music, slowly speeding up the tempo as you go. Next you have the letters above and below each of the main letters, for instance, the right hand again, the letters assigned to each finger starting with the index: y,u,i,o,p. Your going to have an extra one assigned for the upper keys and lower keys. Speaking of lower keys you would assign them the same way. Your right hand would therefore be: n,m, comma, period, ? . Once you know the letters your fingers are assigned to you practice variations of  typing letters, then start typing words when that becomes comfortable.

I would definitely learn to type if you don’t know how, it will save you a lot of time and may make article marketing and other forms of marketing more pleasurable. Like I said previously it really doesn’t take long to learn how to type at all. This post may have just confused you of the whole process, so your best bet may be to get a good software program to show you how. If you look over to the left of this post in the sidebar you’ll see a Clickbank search engine. Just type, “Learn to Type” in that search engine and you’ll find all kinds of programs to help you learn how to type. You can also just click this link and go straight to a page with products listed on it.

I hope this has helped some of you that may have thought it would take months to learn to type and is the reason why you never considered doing it. It really isn’t very hard at all and knowing how to type will up your productivity considerably.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please fell free to leave them in the comment area. Thank You,     Jay Picklo.

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Have you recently lost your job due to the economic downturn? That may not be a bad thing if you are able to recognize opportunity and jump on it. Even if you haven’t lost your job, but have tons of experience in something you need to read this. In every economic downturn there are a new group of millionaires made. This is because they can recognize opportunity when it is there. The economy goes through it’s ups and downs all the time and there are always ways to capitalize on them. In this day and age there just happens to be two different worlds developing. You have the offline world and the online world. Well, the online world is the place to be right now and it is fresh for the picking. You may be saying “That’s great but I have no idea how to make money online.” Let me tell you that is not a problem. I don’t have a whole lot of experience myself. All I’m doing is reading all the free ebooks and watching all the free videos I can to learn. From doing this I have learnt how to make money online. I’m not making millions (yet), but I am making enough to were I am going to be leaving my day to day offline job. So what were you doing before you lost your job. Did you work for GM, or maybe a restaurant outside of GM somewhere? Maybe a clothing store around a brokerage firm that went under or the brokerage firm itself. What ever you did, that is your specialty. You were probably doing it for many years and could tell someone a lot about how to do whatever it is you were doing. Can you see where I’m going with this? There are so many opportunities out there it would be almost impossible to list them all here. Or if I did I would be here for a week listing them all. It’s time for you to take your knowledge online. The fact is there are a lot of  virtually untouched niches out there were big money can be made and you hold the knowledge in these niches. You don’t have to be in the “how to make money” niche to make money. Actually if you have a specialty other than that, that is even better. All you have to do is start a blog and start blogging about what it is you know. It isn’t hard at all to start a blog, if I can do it you surely can do it. Just go to becomeablogger.com where you will find free videos showing you step by step how to start a blog.

This is an opportunity not to be missed. Don’t be the one years from now saying, ” I should have got into that online thing.” There is a big shift coming with more people staying home more often. They’re getting on there computers and finding deals on products and also discovering how they can make money. Even if you don’t have a product to sell you can still make money as an affiliate. All you have to do is post valuable information about your specialty and put a link on your blog to a product that your an affiliate for. There are lots of affiliate programs out there for every niche that there is. Here is a link to a product for shed building and woodworking. I got this link from clickbank which is a good place to find a product to sell and make a commission from. Signing up for clickbank is easy and free. Eventually you’ll start learning how to write your own ebooks and many other things you can do to make money online. This is the best time to get into the online business than there ever was.

I just sit here thinking about all the years of knowledge and experience that some people have and the money that they could be making right now and don’t even realize it. For instance say you worked at a popular hair salon or still do. You could easily start a membership site and offer a 3 month online cosmetology course for a lot less than some of the schools that are available in the offline world and make an absolute killing. Now is the time to get into the online world of business if there ever was. Yes there are scams out there, but there are also legitimate programs a resourses as well. If you visit my blog you will not be scammed. I have posted a few helpful articles on how to promote your business and other things related to online business.  Don’t be the one a few years from now saying I should have.

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how-cbmall-creates-autopilot-income                  If you have been looking for ways to make money at home then you have most likely heard of Clickbank. If you haven’t heard of Clickbank let me tell you a little about it. Clickbank is a place where you can sell other peoples digital  products as an affiliate or you can sell your own digital products through Clickbank as a vendor. Being an affiliate is the easiest way to make money online. This is because you don’t have to have your own product. Producing a product can be very time consuming and people that are just getting started with online self employment want to make money as fast as they can. Learning to produce your own product comes with time and experience. So the best way to get started is to be an affiliate. Clickbank is the largest retailer in the world  for marketing digital products. You can set up a free account here.  Another good place to start is learning resell rights and how to rebrand books. Harvey Segal, who is the owner of “Clickbank Success Forum”, has written a series of books dealing with this subject inparticular. Just one of his many very informative books is ”Clickbank for Newbies”and gives you a detailed account of how to sell CB products and not lose commissions.  I have been doing very well with his products and the many tips and tools he provides. So if your interested in generating income online I would highly recommend being an affiliate and also looking into resell rights. Harvey Segal has said that if he had to start from scratch he would definitely start with resell rights and Clickbank is  the place to find a lot of ebooks and sofware with resell rights. OK, that’s a brief summary of CB and it’s benefits it’s now time to go over the “New Opportunity.”

The CB Mall

Now you know a little about Clickbank and how beneficial it can be I would like to tell you about a new opportunity that CB has come up with to help you make even more money online. I’m not sure how long it has been around but I am sure it hasn’t been long. It’s called the CB Mall and basically it’s a website with all the digital products being sold on CB. There are 40,000 digital products here and you can promote them with one link. The good thing about the CB Mall is, ( just like CB itself) is free to join. You can have your own CB mall for free. They do offer upgrades which helps you with getting traffic to your CB Mall among other great tools and tips. Just with the free membership you get:

• Affiliate center where you can create links with the “Link Builder.” This is great for the simple fact that you won’t be displaying  a long, ugly affiliate link when you promote the mall.  Not only can you create a link to the mall front but you can also create links to specific sections of the mall depending on the niche your promoting. Here is my link to the  sign up page. http://www.cbmall.com/to/club
• I have counted a total of 9 ebooks so far but there may be some that I have missed. One of these ebooks is even a rebrander that you can resell. It also comes with a rebranding tool and video of how to rebrand a book. Amazing!
• There is a support center where all your questions can be answered. If you can’t get them answered they have a reliable contact e-mail address.
• A section on CB Mall security and how to test the system.
• Features a video with targeted ideas on using CBmall with your existing web site business.
• Ideas for people without websites. There are many different ways to drive traffic to your mall.
• Banners and artwork
• Different ideas on niche marketing. No matter what your area of expertise you can make money online with this mall.
• How to buy something at your mall and collect the commissions.
• Product codes so you can track what you have sold if it’s a CB Mall product.

That’s just scratching the surface. There are so many more things that come with this opportunity it’s hard to remember all of them. Clickbank definitely knows what their doing and I’m sure this free offer isn’t going to last forever. So if you have been looking for an online self employment opportunity look no further. Your not going to break your bank account and you’ll have plenty of tools, ebooks and other amazing things to show you exactly what to do. I have been doing this for a little while now and know that some of these products that you will get for free other people are purchasing with a high price tag. All you need to do is look and see for yourself. Clickbank is just going to grow even bigger from this so don’t be surprised if two or three months from now you start hearing a lot more about this opportunity and there isn’t  free memberships available.  

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Getting Targeted traffic isn’t hard you just have to use the best resources.

What are the right places to go to get targeted traffic? I can definitely tell you the chat rooms are not the right place to be. If anyone tells you this hit them with a stick. The resources you want to use for getting traffic are:

1. Websites were you can submit articles or ezines such as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com. Search engines love enzines and this is a really good way to get listed at the top if you use strong keywords with good placement. I wouldn’t over do it though, too many can also hurt you. Writing blogs or articles is something you get good at with time. You won’t just jump in and be a master. It takes some time to do until you get good at it. Try this tool for some help to start out if you want. Click Here.
2. Websites were you can write blogs and there are quite a few of these as well. Just do a search for writing blogs. Google also has a place where you can set up a free blog. Search engines will recognise these as well. Leaving comments to other articles or blogs is good too because you can leave your signature with a link in most instances.
3. Websites where  you can submit classified ads. A lot of these sites will let you submit ads for free, but I think it’s better to have a membership at one of them. Adlandpro has a lot of great tools and resources with they’re gold membership. You can also get some exposure and targeted leads from Orangeleads.com.
4. Social media is probably the fastest growing way to get traffic. You can learn a lot of different techniques for social media at InstantVideoEmpire.com. This is a great way to put yourself out there because people aren’t much into reading and it is easier to show people something than it is to tell them. Just imagine if you had to read a book before you started a new job instead of learning hands on.
5. Another way for the more advanced would be to partner with someone. Offer someone with a popular website a service or ebook you’ve written in exchange for some exposure. Even if your giving an ebook away you will still have links placed in it which will direct them back to your product or website. Make absolutely sure you offer something and don’t just expect something. That would be the quickest way to get dropped like a bad habit.  
6. Forums are another great way to get targeted traffic, because you can look for a particular topic to respond to. You can also find out what kind of questions people have and therefore acquiring topics for your blogs and articles. You are able to leave a signature with a link in it to a product or your website (or blog). You can also do this when you leave a comment. A valuable comment and or post by the way. I see some knuckleheads in the forums just plugging product and not providing any value ( I guess they haven’t heard of classified sites).If you have any questions your research just isn’t answering you will most likely find a helpful participant to give you the answer.                   

So as you can see, there are plenty of ways to get targeted traffic without having to spend a dime. If you are persistent with these resources you will eventually be in the top of the search engines and will be making a good living.

    We have all seen these little tricks if you have been searching and looking long enough for a way either to boost you traffic or make more money. These tricks and underhanded strategy’s should make you run for the exit. Read the rest of this entry »