Archive for January, 2009

New Article: The Top 3 Money-Making “To Do” Activities

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

PLEASE NOTE: To use the article below on your website or blog or to send it in your ezine or autoresponder, be sure to replace the links below for HomepreneurHabits.com with your affiliate link.

Your link will look like this:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=zzzzz&pid=16

Replace “zzzzz” with YOUR Clickbank ID.

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The Top 3 Money-Making “To Do” Activities
By Jimmy D. Brown
http://www.HomepreneurHabits.com

I’ve always been impressed with those who can take overwhelming things and handle them with ease and poise. It never seemed
to work that way for me, until I discovered the secret for tackling those daunting tasks.

The secret is simple: make things simple!

With just about every major undertaking, things can be simplified into a handful of “core” components. That makes them manageable. Manageable fosters productivity simply because I can work on something that seems accomplishable. And when productivity goes up, desired results come.

I received the following question from one of my clients…

“If you have to pick, what would you say are the top 2 or 3 things we should concentrate on? I’ve heard the domain/site(blog) are the most important, then others say writing info products, others say lists. For short term and long term investment, what is the most important things to
be working on?”

This client wants things simplified. And rightly so. He knows the secret to success is getting things down into manageable
chunks.

So, what are these core practices for building an internet business? There are three things - and three things only - that you need to concentrate on with your business…

1. Offer Development.

You cannot make money online unless you have an OFFER. It’s that simple. Unless there is some way for income to be generated, you can’t get paid. End of discussion. Every business is founded upon a revenue-generating offer. Now, this can either be your own offer (small reports, ebooks, membership sites, coaching/consulting, advertising, etc.) or something you promote as an affiliate and earn revenue for referred sales.

2. List Marketing.

The fortune is in the list. You’ve heard it an untold number of times in the past, right? Building and profiting from opt-in lists should be a major priority on your schedule. You need to devote yourself to attracting new subscribers and then getting all of your subscribers to spend money with you … by purchasing your OFFERS (see #1 above).

3. Traffic.

The third and final thing you need to concentrate on is “traffic”. This includes both traffic GENERATION (getting visitors to a site)
and traffic CONVERSION (getting that traffic to buy). This includes things like: starting an affiliate program, buying PPC ads, participating in joint ventures, utilizing viral marketing tools, raising your visitor value, tweaking your sales pages, etc.

With each of these categories, you have a variety of options to choose from in directing your attention. It would be foolish for me to say “grow your affiliate program” as your number # traffic activity since I don’t know if you even have your own product to sell. That’s why I don’t recommend specific activities, but rather three key categories of business-building.

With each of these categories, find 2-3 activities to work on each week and you should see results in a short amount of time.

I recommend you work on offer development every Monday, list marketing every Tuesday, and traffic generation every Wednesday. If you just spend a couple hours each of these days working on these core parts of your business, sales should come.

In a nutshell -

• Find an offer to promote.
• Setup a list to promote the offer.
• Drive traffic to the list opt-in page.

Keep it simple. Keep it successful.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of the 65-page “operations manual”, Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business. Learn The Internet Marketer’s Weekly R.O.U.T.I.N.E.™ at http://www.HomepreneurHabits.com

How do I make money giving away free PLR memberships?

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I received this question today.

Hi Nicole,

I’d like to know more on how do I get paid
from PLRSO affiliate program by simply
give away the PLRSO membership.

It’s confusing me as I’m not too sure whether
I will get the commission if someone that I
referred bought the new PLR offer somewhere
in the future.

Thanks, Nicole.

And, my response…

Do you have an affiliate link yet? If not, you’ll need to sign up for a free account at Clickbank.com

Once you do, your affiliate link will look like this:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=zzzzz&pid=34
(Replace zzzzz with your clickbank ID to make it work.)

To answer your question, this is how it works…

  • You send people through your affiliate link to PLRSO.com.
  • When your visitor clicks that link, he/she is “cookied” which means that their computer will remember that you sent them for up to 60 days.
  • Your visitor signs up at PLRSO to receive special offers.
  • We send PLR offers and when we do, we do NOT use an affiliate link. So, your “tracking” stays in place.
  • That means that any and ALL of our products are cookied (all of the ones at InfoProfitShare.com) — so every purchase they make during that time will be tracked to you.
  • We’re finding that many people are ordering every offer we send to that list, so you could make multiple sales from one visitor.

Does that help? If you’re still confused, just ask.

Warmly,
Nicole

New Article “How to Create a Buyers Only List”

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

PLEASE NOTE: To use the article below on your website or blog or to send it in your ezine or autoresponder, be sure to replace the links below for PLRSO.com with your affiliate link.

Your link will look like this:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=zzzzz&pid=34
Replace “zzzzz” with YOUR Clickbank ID.

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How To Create A “Buyers Only” List
By Jimmy D. Brown, http://PLRSO.com

Content is king. It gets to wear the crown. And sit on the throne. And rule the world. When it comes to establishing credibility, gaining trust and producing sales, content is royalty.

While I would never suggest abandoning the concept of delivering high quality content to your subscribers, there is another type of list composed of subscribers who couldn’t care less about content.

“What is this type of list?” you ask.

- > The “announcement list”.

I’ve been teaching about the “announcement” list since at least 2002 (on record at an event). And, yet, it’s a widely untapped asset in most email marketing circles.

The main reason is: nobody’s teaching it. And so, nobody knows anything about it, let alone how to effectively create one of these lists.

So, we’re going to revisit it.

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What Is An “Announcement” List?
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DEFINED: An announcement list is a list whose sole purpose is to “announce” (I.E. Inform, notify) when something new is available for review, consumption or purchase.

In other words, it unapologetically says, “Hey, I just released XYZ. Come check it out!”

Now, at first glance you may be thinking, “Who would join a list that offers no content and only sales pitch?”

If you say it that way, it doesn’t sound too good to me either! That’s why you don’t say it that way. Let’s take a look at HOW to “say it”…

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How About An Example “Announcement” List?
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If you go to this site:
http://PLRSO.com you’ll find a textbook example of this concept. PLRSO stands for “Private Label Rights Special Offers” I established this list for the sole purpose of informing people anytime I have a new PLR offer available for them to buy.

That’s it.

I don’t send out ezine articles to them. No newsletters. They don’t get blog posts. There aren’t any special reports. No content of any kind. What they get, in essence, are sales messages.

And there are already 2,822 subscribers, many of which have already purchased some of the PLR special offers that have been “announced” to the list.

Why does it work? Let me give you plenty of reasons…

1. I took something that was “in-demand” (PLR) and I allow people to get a head-start on the world by knowing about new releases FIRST by joining this list.

2. It’s not billed as an “announcement list”, but rather a “Free PLR Club”. Big, big difference in perception.

3. It has it’s own domain name, further adding to the perceived value and importance to those who join.

4. There is no requirement to buy once you join. Buy the offers that you want, pass on the ones you don’t want.

5. A cost example is provided to show what you can buy immediately, further illustrating the value of the complimentary “membership”.

And here’s the big twist that makes this idea of creating an “announcement” list a complete no-brainer…

I allow my affiliates to “give away” no cost memberships to the PLRSO club!

When someone they refer buys one of the offers, they earn a commission. And I get other people to promote and build my list for me. We all win.

So, you may be thinking…

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What Kind Of “Announcement” List can I Build?
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There are a wide variety of “announcement” lists that you can build. Let’s briefly look at ten of them…

* PLR List. You can swipe my idea and create a list of private label rights buyers.

* New Offers List. Build a list of people who love your work and want to be notified any time you have a new
offer available.

* Pre-Launch List. Create buzz and anticipation for an upcoming new product release by building a pre-launch list several weeks (even months) in advance.

* Ezine Publishers List. Build a list of publishers who want to know any time you have a new ezine article that is available for reprint in their ezines.

* Bloggers List. Another idea is to allow bloggers who are looking for ready-made content to post to their blogs.

* Industry News List. How about becoming the “go to” guy or gal to share breaking news about your industry?

* Joint Venture List. Develop a list of partners and affiliates who are ready to promote anytime you have a new offer.

* Incentives List. Here’s a great idea - create a list of people who you offer “incentives” to when they purchase someone else’s new product through YOUR affiliate link.

* Freebie List. Regularly give away rebrandable content (reports, articles, videos, etc.) to these subscribers to earn commissions.

While all ten of these lists aren’t necessarily “buyers” up front, they each can certainly lead to buyers and revenue for you if you implement them.

Content is king. But let’s not forget that there are alot of queens, princes, dukes and earls out there too.

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Jimmy D. Brown, one of the most respected marketing teachers online, has been fine-tuning what and how he teaches when it comes to Internet Marketing since 1999. Now you can benefit from those years of experience and also get full PLR rights to many of his best-selling products - at ridiculously LOW prices (I’m talking Ten Bucks).
Run, don’t walk to this website –> http://PLRSO.com