Too many "newbies" have their hopes and dreams of Internet wealth dashed to pieces by these common - yet easily avoidable -- Internet marketing goofs.
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Dear Freedom-Seeking Friend:
If "make money on the Internet" is so easy - as so many promoters claim - why are so few people actually doing it?
Why, instead, do you hear horror stories ... everywhere you turn ... from ordinary folks, just like you and me, who bought someone's expensive, sure-fire "system" for achieving Internet wealth - only to have it blow up in their face?
You know what I'm talking about: with high hopes, you dig deep into your wallet, and fork over your hard-earned money, to some promoter who brags about his Jaguar and Rolls, and how easy it is to make money like he does online.
Months later, you put his crappy e-book or tapes on a shelf or in the trash, having tried your best to make his system work, only to be not one dime richer - and hundreds or even thousands of dollars poorer for your trouble.
Well, let me ask you a question: do you want the truth about making money online?
I assume you do. So here it is - straight talk on the reality of making money in direct marketing online....
The fact is, you CAN make a handsome six-figure income selling information products -- or merchandise -- at home on the Internet in your spare time.
I'm living proof. Just a few years ago, I had zero online income, no micro-sites, and no products.
Today, I publish and sell over 60 information products ... own six dozen web sites ... and make $7,000 to $8,000 a week "working" only an hour or two a day on my Internet marketing business.
But don't take my word for it. Here's a sample weekly sales report from my online shopping cart that shows I made $7,451 -- in just one week -- selling my information products online:
But again: if it's so easy, why aren't more people doing it?
The answer is that in Internet marketing - as in every other business on Earth - there are common mistakes beginners make.
These mistakes, while completely obvious to experienced business owners in the field, are largely unknown to outsiders.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Internet marketing beginners make not one but MANY of these mistakes, early and often.
By doing so, you sabatouge your own efforts, virtually ensuring that you will make little or no money with your new online venture.
When this happens to unsuspecting wealth and opportunity seekers, they report their failures to others, telling you "Internet marketing doesn't work!"
They never know how close they were to making the transition from puzzled beginner to profit-making Internet marketing entrepreneur!
Instead, they give up, go back to their lives, and continue to work hard making someone else rich -- never enjoying the huge passive income stream that I and hundreds of other Internet marketers rake in daily (as my shopping cart sales report above demonstrates).
But I don't want these common - yet easily avoidable - beginner's mistakes to kill your Internet marketing business before it even gets off the ground.
And now I've found a way to help you succeed where other Internet marketing entrepreneurs fail. If you will let me....
Do you make these mistakes in your
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- The #1 mistake Internet marketers who sell information products make ... and why it can doom you to failure.
- 4 simple Web metrics that can keep your Internet marketing business on track -- and highly profitable.
- The one thing you should do every single week to make sure you reach your online revenue and profit goals.
- Are your landing pages devoid of video? Why this is costing you sales and money - and how to fix it fast.
- How to make a six-figure income with a list as small as 1,000 customers.
- The most common pricing mistake Internet marketers make. Hint: it's not what you think.
- Designing your books to look like "bookstore books" and your audio products to be as beautiful as Nightingale Conant's? Here's why you should avoid this common packaging mistake.
- Why you should create downloadable versions of all your info products - even audio albums and (in the near future, if not this week) DVDs.
- The 4 "learning modalities" and how to create winning info products that appeal to each.
- How to establish "instant credibility" with your potential customers within the first 3 seconds of their visit to your micro-site.
- How to build your e-list at a profit instead of a loss. Plus: how much can you really afford to pay for a new name?
- The 90/90 rule for turning new free subscribers into paying customers with an "OTO."
- How to capture the e-mail addresses of web site visitors who do not buy from you - and why not doing so is leaving money on the table.
- Every one of your Web sites should have an "auto-responder series." Do all of yours?
- How to get 10% to 15% of buyers to give you another $10 or $20 when they check out on your shopping cart.
- The $100 bribe that can double or triple the number of site visitors who sign up for your free e-newsletter.
- Why top Internet marketers are refusing to sell your products to their lists as your affiliate ... and what you can do to change their minds.
- The importance of price discounts and early bird offers in online marketing.
- How to quickly and easily gain expert credentials and a stellar reputation in your info product niche if you have none now.
- The easiest and cheapest way to bond with your subscribers and build customer loyalty online. It has nothing to do with what you say or do on your Web sites.
- The most common refund mistake Internet marketers make -- and how to avoid it.
- How to create free bonus gifts actually as good as the copy you write to entice prospects to send for them.
- The "drop in the bucket" technique for avoiding "sticker shock" when selling high-priced information products online.
- Why you MUST add a sense of urgency to every online promotion you create.
- How to write killer e-mail marketing messages that generate more clicks and orders every time you send them.
- Best location in e-mails and micro-sites for hyperlinks and order buttons. Hint: it's NOT where you think.
- A simple trick for maximizing e-mail deliverability rates (the best copy in the world won't sell if your subscribers don't get your e-mails).
- How to reduce spam complaints to 2 in every 1,000 e-mails sent or less.
- Why you need automatic recurring revenue streams -- and not just one-shot information products - and where to find them.
- How to write a kick-butt landing page that increases your online conversion rates 10% to 50% or more.
- Tips for designing order buttons your visitors can't help clicking on to buy your products.
- How to enjoy the Internet marketing lifestyle, make enough money to do as you please, and not work yourself to death in the process.
- Double or triple landing page sales with "Taguchi testing" - once difficult, now easier.
- Why traditional e-mail marketing to rented lists does not work ... and how to profit from rented lists with a smarter approach.
- Which works best in online marketing - long copy or short copy? It's probably not the answer you are expecting to hear.
- How to own a "Fort Knox" database full of information product gold - and keep it safe from theft or loss.
- Does social networking work? Or are the new media gurus full of hot air?
- Driving more traffic and sales by blogging - even if you haven't started your own blog yet.
- Choosing the right information marketing niche. Plus: avoid this common niche marketing mistake.
- Setting price points for a full product line of low, medium, and high-end info products - what to charge for each.
- Little-known secret for writing strong sales bullets for your advertising copy. Starts before you even sit down to write the first word.
- How to build your back-end sales with "bounce back" URL links.
- The one deadly sin of writing how to information products - and how to avoid it.
- Must you be passionate about your topic to successfully write and publish information products on it?
- How to create profitable relationships with your affiliate network.
- Use the 90/10 rule when deciding which information topics you are qualified to write about.
- Why revising and updating information products should be seen as a profit opportunity rather than a chore or cost center.
- How to let your market design your information products for you - for free.
- Creating a closer bond with your readers though live events.
- How much should you charge for product shipping and handling? Or should you pay the freight and not charge the buyer?
- How to build a huge library of customer testimonials that can make your marketing copy 2X more powerful.
- How to make buying from you easy and risk-free. Plus: must you accept credit card orders online?
- The secret to turning product ideas into profitable products reliably and consistently.
- How to double or triple your personal productivity while actually working less.
- How to protect yourself against hard disk crash, server failure, and other technology disasters.
- And much, much more....
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In the next 18 to 24 months, you could, like me, be sitting on the deck of your new lake house - watching the sun set over the water, drink in hand, content to know you never have to work another day in your life unless you want to.
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- 8 affordable ways to drive tons of traffic to your Web sites. Page 12.
- Converting leads to sales with the "online conversion" strategy. Page 26.
- Most common Web site mistakes - and how to avoid them. Page 41.
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Bob Bly is a full-time freelance copywriter specializing in direct marketing. He earns more than $700,000 a year and became a self-made multi-millionaire while still in his 30s. A copywriter for more than a quarter of a century, Bob has written promotions for over 100 clients including Phillips, Agora, KCI, 21st Century, Weiss Research, EBI Medical Systems, Sony, IBM, AT&T, Grumman, Crain Communications, McGraw-Hill, Intuit, and AlliedSignal.
Bob is the author of 70 books including The Copywriter's Handbook (Henry Holt) and Business-to-Business Direct Marketing (NTC Business Books). He has published more than 100 articles in such publications as Successful Meetings, Direct, Business Marketing, Writer's Digest, and Amtrak Express.
Bob's writing awards include a Gold Echo from the Direct Marketing Association, an IMMY from the Information Industry Association, two Southstar Awards, an American Corporate Identity Award of Excellence, and the Standard of Excellence award from the Web Marketing Association. He has also taught marketing at New York University.
Mr. Bly has appeared as a guest on dozens of TV and radio shows including The Advertising Show, Bernard Meltzer, CNBC, and CBS Hard Copy. He has been featured in major media ranging from the LA Times and Nation's Business to the New York Post and the National Enquirer. He was a featured speaker at the 2006 annual conference of the National Speakers Association.
Known as the "King of Content," Fred Gleeck is widely recognized as a highly ethical, no-hype marketer of information products. Many consider Fred to be one of the best (if not the best) teacher of "how to make money selling information products online."
Fred has created more than 300 audio learning programs, e-books, software packages, and other information products, all of which are marketed online. He is the author of 15 books including Selling Products from the Platform and Marketing and Promoting Seminars and Workshops.
With more than 20 years experience as a speaker and seminar promoter, Fred has spoken at dozens of seminars and boot camps - both his own as well as other people's events - to thousands of attendees. He regularly presents at both the Learning Annex and the National Speakers Association.
While there are many teachers of "Make Money on the Internet," Fred has developed a unique, low-cost, low-risk approach that today generates for him passive income approaching a million dollars a year, with no employees.
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