Oct 14 2008
Whatever our insincts towards entrepreneurs there is no doubt that they will continue to have a huge impact in our societies brining new products to market and shaping social norms.
Continue Reading »
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Oct 04 2008
If you’re looking for a method for creating INSTANT revenue without having to scrounge for traffic or convince people to joint venture with you, this will be the most important message you’ll ever read.
Because I’m going to tell you how to flip websites—like real estate moguls flip houses.
Yep that’s right—instead of building and selling homes, you’ll be flipping “virtual” real estate!
But before I tell you more, let me talk to you about a really special guy. In fact…
He Went From Flipping Burgers
And Shoveling Fries At Wendy’s To
Becoming A Website-Flipping Expert!
His name is Justin Brooke. You see, back in the day, he used to be a real troublemaker in school and didn’t get good grades. It got so bad he actually dropped out of high school.
You’d think a high school dropout was destined for a life flipping burgers at the local burger joint. And you’re right—since Justin did that for awhile to make money to make ends meet for his wife and kids.
But Justin was destined to do more. A whole LOT more. He wasn’t ready to settle for the “status quo” of working for “The Man” and earning minimum wage for the rest of his life.
No Way!
In fact, Justin was SO determine to succeed…
He BEGGED and PLEADED With Internet
Marketing Guru Russell Brunson To Allow Him To
Work As An Unpaid Intern!
After awhile, Russell decided to give this unproven guy a shot. And, boy, did he hit it out of the park!
Justin became a literal internet marketing wizard. He went from working full time to warning enough money to quit his job. In fact, he did so well, his wife was able to quit her job as a full-time teacher to work with her husband from home!
How did he do it? Website flipping!
You see, website flipping is the way to make quick money on the internet. You don’t have to waste time getting traffic to your site for scrounging up people to do JVs with you.
All you have to do is discover a few simple rules for creating and selling websites and you’re off to the races.
Literally…
If You Can Build A Simple Website,
Pay For Hosting, And Write A Letter To
Your Grandmother, You Have What It
Takes To Flip Websites For Profit!
Justin is the best at what he does. In fact people pay him hundreds to THOUSANDS of dollars to learn how to buy and sell websites.
But for the first time, he granted his mentor Russell Brunson one hour-long interview where he grilled Justin on how to make money online as an expert website flipper. I guess you can call it a “thank you” for teaching Justin the marketing savvy it takes to succeed in the internet marketing game.
You get every second of this exclusive interview when you take action today and order:
Website-Flipping Secrets
Your “Insider” Guide To Landing Quick Profits
Buying And Selling “Virtual” Real Estate!
Website Flipping Secrets is your key to discovering how to get a shortcut to this extremely lucrative business. Believe me, this is the easiest way to make a quick buck online, as you don’t have to worry about product creation, getting a stream of traffic to a site, or trying to drum up joint venture opportunities.
In fact, you can start buying and selling your first website in a SINGLE day! Yep that’s right! No other opportunity gives you the chance to get started with hardly ANY money (all you have to do is buy hosting and a domain…which is less than $20) and start flipping websites.
Believe me, Justin Brooke knows what he’s talking about. When it comes to website-flipping experts, he is the “top dog”!
Here Are Some Of The “Closely
Guarded” Insights You’ll Discover On Your
Way To Website-Flipping Riches!
* The three different levels of websites you can go into (This is CRUCIAL to know if you want to make maximum money as a site-flipper!)
* How you can make an extra $100 bucks a day selling websites (That’s $36,500 in a single YEAR!)
* The one site you MUST go to in order to make a quick website sale.
* The secret to networking with website owners (most people are absolutely CLUELESS about these steps!)
* The one person who’ll definitely buy your website (this is completely surprising to most people!)
* The one popular site you DON’T want to sell your site (you can easily make quick money buying from this site and reselling on others!)
* The secret equation for buying and selling websites (if you don’t get this right, you’re just flushing money down the toilet!)
* The three things you can do to increase the value of your website (most people don’t KNOW how to do this!)
* Discover how to resell the SAME site again and again (these secret tips will SHOCK you!)
* …and a WHOLE LOT MORE!
Leave a comment on the post and I’ll let you know how to have the audio for free.
Oct 01 2008
What does the shorter new product cycle and drive towards global economy mean for managers and individuals in an international business environment? Developments will be trace dsimplistically in terms of opportunities and threats.
What are the implications of a global marketplace?
Globalisation ensures specialisation in production of goods and services as more competition ensures unique needs are catered for. – “A good thing?”.
There will be an increase in the super rich and the divide will increase daily between the wealthiest and the poorest. There are billionaires created every day in this marketplace FACT. – “A bad thing?”.
What are the opportunities that international business can take advantage of?
Speed of communication – (Information can be sent with the push of a button from anywhere and be received in seconds. A product launch can be emailed to millions of email addresses with the click of a button.)
Automation – Product may be mass produced at reduced cost per unit. Sales processes can be automated scripted from a call centre. Sales can be automated your web presence can be your 24 hr sales team. (Customer Services, R&D can be automated based on customer feedback depending on your website architecture.)
Centralisation – Can reap economies of scale not only on production but on human resources, a central legal and financial unit would also be sensible options to have on board. Massive cost savings can be had and everything here can be scaled.
Product Lifetime Extension – A re-launch of a mature product in a less developed environment can breed new life and sales. A change of package or presentation can do the same. Do you sell an ebook online? Get it turned into an audio an sell it pre-loaded on an mp3 player on ebay.
Some threats posed by the increase in globalisation
Technology becomes more available - Michael Porter has mentioned five forces in a competitive environment. With the rise of the internet then each individual will face an increase in all five namely
New Potential Entrants
Increased Customer Choice
More Power to existing suppliers
Threat of substitution of product increases
Rivalry among competitors in the marketplace.
Socio-Cultural issues – often called “psychic distance” there are barriers created by cultural disparities between the two countries, problems arise due to differences in social perspectives, attitudes and language. ( It would be wise for international marketers to target countries that are psychically similar to begin launching new products into.)
Some examples of translation issues
A Thai Dry Cleaners – “Drop your trousers here for best results.”
A Spanish Sports shop – “The athletes foot.”
Even for the giants
Come alive with Pepsi – translated “Rise from the grave with Pepsi” :happened in Germany.
Political/Legal – An understanding of the general attitudes of foreign governments to imports and foreign direct investment will be extra specially important. ( Some legal issues will be involved with certain types of MLM type organisations as they are deemed pyramid and illegal.)
The Chinese governments censorship of information has been a barrier to the early entry of Google into that country.
Understanding the processes is key online there are many - How I Quadrupled My Blog’s Traffic In 3 Months Is an awesome post.
Sep 21 2008
Ok social networkers here’s a new twist to the tale. We all look for some added functionality for our online networking capabilities how about if you could combine the power of digg and twitter to let those who veiw your feed at twitter have a feast of your recent diggs. Well now you can with this cool little offering.
Some potential drawbacks might be annoying the hell out of your current following at twitter if you digg 20 posts a day. I do about 2-3 so I don’t think I’ll really piss of my following especially when they start to notice some of their best posts in the twitter feed.
Although the benefits could be multiple growth in the amount of diggs that you and your network receive and end up on the front pages of Digg. Plese bear in mind there is no point ending up on the front page of Digg.com if there is nothing for them to read when there get back to your website that has any value at all to them.
Find me on Twitter.
mind me on Digg.
If your in the internet marketing niche and you post decent content on this site you are in serious danger of me using these tools to promote your site. If you link to my site you are in much greater danger.
Sep 20 2008
1.Turn content into Video
Similar to MP3 files, Camtasia video is hot! Even more so than MP3. Did you find some PLR that walks the reader through various steps on how to use software, their computer, or the web? Camtasia Studio may be the tool for you.
It seems that people prefer to learn through video. It’s a natural fact people learn different ways some are auditory learners some need to visualise others must read to absorb facts meet all these demands. So, you could create an entire video product teaching someone how to set up a database, a service, or software. If you’re brave you could even video yourself showing how to cook, how to train your dog, or how to pich at incredible speed. The possibilities are limitless here just open your idea box.
2.Start a PLR Membership Site
If you want to start a PLR subscription service, you could buy PLR articles, eBook, or software and charge your terms for these products at whatever interval you see fit, most customers are used to paying every month. But, that’s a little overdone and quite frankly you can’t ensure you are delivering quality content.
How about you being the author what do you love and are passionate about? - sound like too much work probably then why don’t you outsource the work to someone else try elance.com or guru.com there are numerous places online you can find a ghostwriter.
Try writing 50 articles a month (or hire it for approx $8/each). You get 50 members at $19.95/month. Then at most you spent $400 and you got $1000.
3.Change PLR to fit your marketplace better
If you buy generic or use free private label goods you can easily change content to be more positioned in your field. For example, if you have a site about alsatian dogs, you could buy a PLR eBook about dog training.
You could add alsatians pictures; change the content slightly to reflect dog training for alsatians, You have a super nichey eproduct for your customers or newsletter subscribers.
4.Put it on your Blog
If you have your hands on some good quality, content related PLR then give it to the web. Let’s face it, starting a blog is exciting and fun, but maintaining and constantly finding blog materil is about as time consuming and troublesome as it gets.
PLR is a godsend for blog copy believe me many top bloggers are members of many plr sites as well as readers of many blogs.
5.Build a Subscriber List with It
You have to have god quality free stuff to give away that sets you apart from the crowd I usually buy a huge firesale package once in a while and never get round to using it all. You have to work for peoples trust and email address something good for free starts that process.
A huge email list will not come to you. You’ll need to give potential subscribers something of real value. That’s where PLR reports, eBooks, and software come into their own. Make it yours retitle it get your mug shot in there and you have a giveaway product.
6. Resell the Private Label Rights
You will have to check your terms of use before you do this, since many products do not allow you to resell the private label rights. But if you are given unrestricted rights, go for it!
Just as you can buy the PLR material and modify it to make it your own, you can resell these rights so others can modify the product and sell it, too.
You probably won’t make a lot of money on this type of sale unless you picked up a fantastic deal somewhere or you have extra PLR content taking up valuable space on your hard drive that you don’t plan to use.
7. Rewrite it and Submit to Article Directories
Similar to Adsense you can chop the copy up a bit, you can take PLR articles and change them around a bit, and submit those articles to the article directories as your own.
Again, there is a duplicate content issue when we post any content on the web, so please make sure you change the article substantially (50% or more would be ideal) before submitting to the directories.
You may be asking, why submit article to the directories? Well, the answer is quite simple and has worked for years – links back to your site are very important.
With every article submission you can place your about me box or signature in the article. These about me boxes should contain backlinks to your other online properties squidoo lenses,blog website your hubpages.
These links increase googles opinion andtherfore ranking of your site, mainly because they are one-way links (meaning you do not have a reciprocal link on your site pointing to the article directory). One-way links are like gold for SEO, so articles should be a very important part of your SEO plans.
For related topics in this article be sure to check out
Enterprise Mastermind - SEO Basics
Andrew Daum - If you’ve used PLR and it’s not working ou for you maybe you really do have to read Network marketing and the dip
Jay Russo - Writing those articles a damm pain?
Sep 19 2008
6. Sell the Resale rights
You can always make money by selling the resale rights to the PLR product, assuming the terms of use allow this. There are many affiliates that don’t want to change the product at all, but they want the ability to sell the product on their terms for whatever price they determine and still keep 100% of the profits.
Those are the people that would happily pay a premium to buy the resale rights from you. If you already sell resale rights on other products, this will take you very little time to set up. This method works especially well with PLR software it is possible to do with PDF’s audio and video as well don’t rule out these avenues just yet.
7. Chop an eBook into Newsletter articles
If one of your biggest hurdles is feeding the weekly newsletter monster with new, interesting content, a PLR eBook is the answer This can be easily spoonfed at regular intervals to your subscribers you could also say that they can buy the whole book now if they are going to have to wait for a long time to get all of the instalments (people are impatient monetise this fact).
When you buy a 70 page eBook for $35, you can supply an entire year’s worth of newsletters by simply breaking the eBook into one-page articles. You shouldn’t have to chop it about here either because you’re not worried about duplicate content when your not preparing web copy.
8. Create autoresponder messages for a Mini course
You can take the same concept as the Newsletter and instead create a Mini Course for potential clients. As I mentioned before, giving free information is a terrific way to develop a relationship with your potential customers once they’ve got a handle on what to expect and it’s your job to make sure it’s good they will be more likely to buy.
Once they are in your autoresponder you can cross promote to these people if it’s a similar product you’ve come accross an affiliate programme for let rip you’ve nothing to loose apart from a few subscribers.
9. Create Adsense pages
PLR articles are all the rage with the popularity of websites made for Adsense. That’s why PLR membership sites made such a splash. Webmasters need more and more content to put into their niche websites so they can rank well for more search phrases submit to article directories and use for squidoo and hub pages.
Duplicate content is however a gotcha with Google’s duplicate content filter being among the best of all search engines. So, gone are the days of slapping up 400 PLR articles purchased at ten cents apiece putting the feet up andwaiting for the adsense check.
Today more caution is required. You can still use PLR articles to create new content for Adsense sites, but you’ll need to change the content around before posting on your site so your page doesn’t get caught in the filter and dropped to the 450th position in the search results on Google.
10. Turn content into an mp3
Everything is portable these days and people want options make sure you offer options you could give away the eBook but charge for the audio.
You don’t have to recite it verbatum word for word but use it for a compelling story. Maybe you have a weekly podcast and are struggling for content use the above strategy and your off and running.
You might also just be doing research someone has already done the work and produced the PLR content saves you time by not having to search all over the internet for it.
Ready to start using PLR to make a profit get some from these nice chaps.
Some help with the other issues in this piece
Chris G - email marketing tips writing effective subject lines
Dotcomnote.com - Making Money Online - Is it possible using PLR articles?
Sep 16 2008
So you don’t have a website. Ok that’s maybe fine your the local grocer, hairdresser, pizza parlour. How do you keep in touch with your marketplace?
Well what do most offline businesses do to produce new customers, they advertise give away freebies as promotional tools to build brand awareness. Some spend hundreds of dollars on these types of promotions. OK and it works out for them or they wouldn’t keep doing it and be in business.
What would be easier build a list of email subscribers that you can mail on demand with your offers for free. This wouldn’t work for me I own a pizza store may be what your thinking!
You are so wrong what if you could send out a mail reminding people that their favourite football team, basketball team whatever you want to market on why would your pizza buyer not want to cook for themselves tonight?
Now answer this question for them and you have sold their pizza they’re already on their way to pick it up.
Why would they want to receive your email well you could give options for people to add themselves to your list within your existing advertising if they join your mailing list they’ll be sent a money off coupon by email.
Please note this will cost you offline guys nothing.
Still looking for some more info check out these tips for using an autoresponder email service to fuel business growth, save time and increase both customer loyalty and profits.
I’m not the only one thinking this?
Towerone.com - 15 Ways to Power Profits Using Autoresponders
Business Money writes about - 12 powerful ways to use autoresponders
Reed Floren - Knows 3 things all affiliate marketers need to know to survive thrive online
and these work offline too.
Sep 13 2008
There are so many opinions out there on which way to go about starting online. Here is a very high quality guide for free download today. What are some of the basics that will be covered here.
How to set up a great one time offer page is a great section within the book Soren details exactly how to do it and how you can get a OTO set up and hosted for you on someone elses server and also your product delivered from here.
Why would you want to be an affiliate rather than the owner?
Grab a copy today IMSuccessFormula.com
Some other thoughts on the benefits of being an affiliate of others and how to go about doing it.
Reed Floren-The many benefits of being an affiliate marketer
Reed Floren-how to build affiliate websites the easy way
Cool Technology Blog writes - internet marketing made simple
Sep 11 2008
That’s the first reason it’s easy to use they give you loads of free tools for example buttons to add to your website for people to share your content with others other places that you can make kenny ritchie public.
Why do I have a sudden love of StumbleUpon?
Well I’m a bit of a stats junkie and I’d never miss a jump in traffic of any note now having a look at my cpanel and mybloglog stats there has been some recent spikes and the refering url’s have been stumbleupon.
Anything to do with me? - well yes I commented on some sites with some helpful remarks and their owners have come back to mine to see the value of the links back to them and low and behold submitted my blog post to 5,946,241 members wow.
What has the value been to me in the last few days I’ve had 26 unique visitors and 110 unique visitors to this site with no furter effort from myself. So the point of linking to other bloggers is not only the fact that they may link back toyou at some point in the future but also the fact that they might just understand how social networking works and drive some traffic to your site because it links to theirs.
What features does StumbleUpon Have?
It’s not a search engine like google it targets the content the veiwer has requested to veiw by tag. Anyone can suggest a site or a blog url to StumbleUpon and give it a classification or tag. I have tagged quite a few recently and will become a much more active on this site it is simply genius.
Stumble Upon will update the sites you are surfing through depending on what you have told it in the past making it a perfect research tool and an almost necessary addition to every student,marketer or information junkie on the planets arsenal of tools.
A peer to peer rating system that will make great stuff be veiwed by thousands without any input from the author.
Web 2.0 and social networking are important to your future personal and business needs check out this recent post at web20portals.
This Free E-Book will explain everything you could ever need to know about this.
A Top Internet Marketer understands this concept.
Sep 10 2008
Free or Paid Hosting
Days 9-12 of the 30 days to internet riches series
This will absolutely come down to do you or don’t you have funds. If you can afford it then absolutely get your own domain. I use hostgator and have found them to be very reliable and they do have the ability to host more than one domain in your current pricing plan.
When going paid - some considerations
Does it have development support?
Any hosting company worth their salt should be offering you the following
CGI
.htaccess
PHP
MySqyl
Python
cron jobs
Ruby on Rails
I would recommed you look for fantastico as an option for auto install, you can save hours on the technical side of things with this tool.
Databases
Most things you will want to host will require databases are you limited in this area, it may hamper your growth later.
Reliability
Look for as close to 100% uptime as possible the web is much more stable than it was previously and if you suffer downtime your visitors will not see what they came for and may see you as a fly by night act that it untrustworthy.
As they have them all I’m sticking with hostgator. Click the image below to see their site, they offer some top notch tutorials on ftp which have moved me from relying on others to doing most of my own web authoring.
No Money no Problem
There are tons of free webhosts out there where you can host your domain or a subdomain for free.
However they have limitations.
I’ve used weebly
Nothing is perfect if you use a service such as weebly.com you can avoid carrying advertising for others but rather than having www.yourdomain.com you would have the website title www.yourdomain.weebly.com.
I’ve used squidoo
Similar issues to weebly although your also tied here to a standard page type and you must create a profile page that will show any other content that you have hosted with squidoo. In this case you will create “a lens” and it will be located at a url which looks like this www.squidoo.com/yourlensname
There are lots more
If you do a google search for free web host you’ll find one no problem but you will more than likely have to carry adverting of some sort for their site. Do not let this stop you from getting started.
Stumble it!
