Marketing Mastermind, Like Facebook for Internet Marketers

Posted by nando | Posted in Internet Marketing, Product Reviews, Promotions | Posted on 30-06-2009


There is a new social community developing online and it is shaping up to become a very useful resource for internet marketers. The setup of the site is much like facebook and gives internet marketers a platform for voicing their opinions, concerns and ideas amongst one another as well as post marketing announcements.

The community is called Marketing Mastermind and is the brain child of Brett Ingram. Brett Ingram is the owner and operator of Think Big publications and has created a very successful online enterprise.

Marketing Mastermind is free to join and is a fully functioning social medium that can enhance your marketing ability by learning from and connecting with other successful internet marketers who can provide guidance and support, an area that is desperately lacking online.

Visit the site and take a look around and see the value for yourself. I definitely recommend it as it can become a powerful tool for forging future joint venture relationships.

Click here to visit Marketing Mastermind


Cheers,

Nando

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The Overcomplicated Marketing Formula That’s not complicated at all

Posted by nando | Posted in Articles, The Inbox, affiliate marketing, making money online | Posted on 29-06-2009


With all of the make money products online that you could get your hands on, it’s no wonder why so many people suffer from information overload and don’t make any money.

The problem is that the underlying formula for creating a profitable business online has been covered up and discounted by the many other business models that exist. With that said, here is an interesting article that will expose the simple proven formula for making money online as written by a very talented and successful marketer.

The Simple, Proven Marketing Formula for Getting Cash from the Internet

by Derrick VanDyke · June 27, 2009

If you’re a successful marketer making five figures per month, then this article is NOT for you.But if you’re still struggling to make a full-time income, or any income online, then this article is definitely for you.

If you’re not making money yet, why not?

Are you over complicating things?

Have you failed to stay focused on the plan?

Do you HAVE a plan?

See, making money is NOT hard. You just need to FOCUS on a

SIMPLE PLAN that’s been PROVEN to work.

Focus => simple => proven => plan

If you haven’t done this yet, then you’re really missing the point of the whole “make money online” thing. It’s not about big paydays. It’s about building an online business.

Copywriters will tell you not to use the word “build” in your sales copy because it implies the four-letter word “work” and people don’t want to work.

I mean, the “Internet Lifestyle” is supposed to be about freedom, right? Walking on the beach while money pours into your bank account…?

What the gurus don’t tell you is that they had to work hard for years to get where they are today…

So let’s stay focused on the PLAN, okay?

Step #1: Target a hungry marketing with money to spend. You want to find people who are desperate for a solution to their problem(s). Anything come to mind?

Step #2: You find out what they want to buy. You can do this with my “Survey Squeeze Page” technique and visit forums and groups to find the hot topics people are discussing.

Step #3: You create a free offer to get them onto your list. If you know what they want, you can give them something that is useful yet incomplete. Meaning, you present the solution that will solve their problem, but they’ll have to buy the product you’re promoting or selling to get all the answers.

Step #4: You follow up and sell stuff. Once you get a hungry prospect on your list, you can sell multiple products and services. These can be your own products or someone else’s. It doesn’t matter. You just sell stuff. Period.

Step #5: Keep driving traffic to the free offer. In other words, keep adding prospects to the top of the marketing funnel and let your autoresponder do the work for you.

This formula works. And if you follow the steps, you can finally take that walk on the beach while your system dumps money into your bank account.

For REAL!

Find out what people desperately want and then give it to them.

It really is THAT simple…

Derrick

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editor: This really is all there is to making money online, take it and put it to good use.

To your success,

Nando

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Affiliate Marketing Sales: The Secrets To Increasing Your Conversions and Profits

Posted by nando | Posted in Articles, Blogging, Personal Thoughts, The Inbox, affiliate marketing, making money online | Posted on 27-06-2009


Wouldn’t it be great to know in advance that every salesletter or presell page you create is going to bring in sales? If you’ve been involved with affiliate marketing for some time or are thinking about it, there is a very important process that you must apply in order to see results.

It’s because this process is rarely considered that most people don’t turn a profit with affiliate marketing. Here is a powerful article that will explain these secrets in detail and take your business and profits to another level. It was written by one of the legends of this business and I’m sure you will enjoy it, but more importantly you will profit from it.

Why You Are Not Making More Sales
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

If you are not making a lot of sales from your website,
and you’ve never been in direct sales before, then
you’re probably making some very basic mistakes, and
can easily increase your sales.

Even if you have been in direct sales before, if you
haven’t thought the process through, you’re probably
making some very basic mistakes on your website - and
that’s killing sales.

Making sales from a webpage is really not that different
than making sales face-to-face. Yes, you have to do it
using html, instead of verbally, but the process isn’t
different.

First of all, you have to anticipate and answer your
prospect’s objections. If you’ve ever gone through any
type of direct sales training, a big part of it was
probably going over answers to the various objections
that your prospects are likely to raise.  You probably
had to practically memorize answers to the most common
objections. You practiced answering those objections
until you were blue in the face.

Your online sales process should be NO different.  You
should spend time brainstorming possible objections
that people who read your website, or email, might raise,
and then you need to have ready answers to those objections.

Since your email readers or website visitors can’t
express those objections to you, you have to answer them
as if they were raised.  You make a list of most-probable
objections and then you answer them - right in your copy.

After you have been marketing your product or service for
a while, and gotten more feedback from your customers,
you will also have them provide you with NEW objections.
You need to incorporate the responses to those in your
revised web copy and emails.

The process of selling is an interactive process. Even on
a webpage it MUST be interactive to be effective. You
must enter the conversation already going on inside of your
prospect’s head.  You must jump into that conversation
as convincingly as you would if that person were sitting
across the kitchen table from you.

Far too many online marketers fail to even consider the
fact that their websites and emails ARE conversations with
prospects.  You can’t afford to do that.

Actually sit down and brainstorm this conversation.  Make
a list of possible/probably objections, and then answer
them.  Incorporate the answers to those objections into your
web and email copy.  Do this and you will notice a dramatic
increase in your conversion rates.

The sales process is largely responding to objections
(reasons that your customer won’t buy).  If you don’t
address those “reasons” then you shouldn’t expect to make
sales.

Now, you know what the problem is and how to fix it.

————————

Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic generation
expert.  One of his favorite traffic generation methods is
distributing articles, videos, podcasts,  and press releases.  To
do that efficiently he uses and recommends the automated submission
service at
http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

I hope this article puts things into clearer perspective for you.

Cheers,

Nando

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Affiliate Marketing Business: Minimize Distractions For Maximum Efficiency and Productivity

Posted by nando | Posted in Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, making money online | Posted on 26-06-2009


So you’ve read alot of information about the affiliate marketing business and you want to get going, but there’s a problem. Too many distractions.

Making money on the internet is tough when you’re easily distracted. Even if you decide to take action, there is always something new that comes into your email and steals your time and attention, but this is not the only source of distraction…

What does your desktop look like?

Is it littered with icons from every plr, mrr and free giveway you ever picked up? How about all the icons to the paid products that you plan to get to, but never find time for before you buy the next WSO?

It gets worse…

What does your workspace look like?

Is it littered with every book on free traffic and blogging you own?

So far as you can see, distractions abound everywhere and if not addressed, the likelihood of seeing any kind of success online is slim to none and slim just left town.

What can you do?

Sit still for a second and write out a plan for what you want to accomplish.

Whether it’s for a new minisite, creating a product, finishing off a promotional sequence for an existing marketing campaign, whatever it is put it down on paper.

Next thing you have to do is arrange your affairs so as to allow for maximum productivity by clearing away the distractions that will eat your time, money and confidence.

Create a new email account if you have to.

Arrange your desktop so that only the necessary tools are available.

Clear your workspace and minimize the amount of manuals and ebooks that you keep out. Use what you need and put the rest away.

You’ll soon see that your ability to produce cash flow from your affiliate marketing business will increase dramatically.

Cheers,

Nando

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Affiliate Marketing Business: What’s Your Commitment Level?

Posted by nando | Posted in Articles, affiliate marketing, making money online | Posted on 26-06-2009


Making money in the affiliate marketing business can seem like an uphill battle at times, but it’s definitely a worthwhile climb. Building websites, getting backlinks, writing articles, ppc and everything else that you can do to make it work can seem overwhelming and may even cause you to burn out.

What’s going to keep you from throwing in the towel?

Your commitment level.

How committed are you to your success as an affiliate marketer? Sometimes it’s good to sit down and analyze what you’re original goals were and see where you are in relation to them.

What’s the driving reason you decided to take up affiliate marketing in the first place? Is that still important?

What would it take for you to quit?

When it comes to commitment, the best thing to do once you’ve made up your mind to succeed is not to look for a back door or reason to give up.

To really smash the barrier to your success in the affiliate marketing business, massive action is what you’ll need to take over and over again and when things don’t seem to be going anywhere…

Take more action.

The reason why some people never realize the earnings that can come from such a cool business is because they quit to fast. If you’ve been marketing online for a little while, you know that it won’t happen over night. But it will happen.

As a matter of fact it does happen all the time, in the form of a sale or sales, a better ranking in the search engines, a higher alexa ranking, page rank , more subscribers on your list, and on and on.

The point is to keep your commitment level high by constantly examining what your committed to and working methodically at your affiliate marketing business to achieve your desired outcome.

Cheers,

Nando


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Get Massive Backlinks Fast In Less Time

Posted by nando | Posted in Product Reviews, Traffic Generation, article marketing, making money online, search engine optimization | Posted on 18-06-2009


When it comes to achieving top spots in the search engines, getting massive backlinks fast is the name of the game. However just any old backlinks won’t do and it’s important that you don’t waste time scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The most powerful backlinks are the kind that are connected to quality content. Quality search engines provide customers with content tightly related and relevant to what people are looking for and as such profit from the massive amounts of advertisements strategically placed around that content.

It is for this reason that article marketing is such a powerful way to obtain high PR backlinks back to your website. However it is important that the articles you provide deliver content that  benefits you as well as the search engines.

Why is this important? Writing quality articles is important because while you may get a backlink to your site, eventually that article will get buried in the article directory and the strength of that link will diminish.

However, do you know who profits from junk articles? The article directory, because there will be about a dozen adsense ads surrounding the article. So if your article doesn’t deliver the searcher will just give the article directory the money. Not good.

While writing quality articles although profitable and good for your credibility is important, they can be quite time consuming to write. To get massive backlinks fast and see really good traffic coming to your site, how many articles do you think you would have to write?

Try 100-300. That’s a lot of work. But what if you could turn every article you write into 10 or 20 quality versions of itself?

What if you could spend 20 - 30 minutes creating 10 - 20 articles instead of one? The alternative is you could spend between $5 to $10 an article from a ghostwriter or buy some private label rights, but even with private label rights you still have to modify the content to include your keywords and make sense.

I’ve tried different article spinners and while I was able to get them to work, it still took a considerable amount of time and effort before I could begin submitting quality reworked versions of my original articles.

Well not too long ago I received a promotion for Matt Callen’s Article Apps and decided to give it a try. I have to say that initially I thought it was going to be just like everything else out there, but this software is really good.

With Article Apps I was able to spin higher quality reworked versions in far less time than it used to take me with other article spinners. You won’t have to deal with these { } symbols and there is even a thesaurus you can use to find additional phrases and words if you run out of ideas.

There are a lot of cool features and it has made the job of writing articles and submitting them to article directories much more enjoyable, because I don’t enjoy writing for long periods of time.

So if you want to get massive backlinks fast for better search engine rankings and higher profits, take a moment to check out Article Apps and start dominating the search engines with your quality content.

You know what else? You can try it out free.

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