Newsletter #10
 In This Issue
To many freakin emails - to much hype
& a little rant.
Welcome to our new members
There are some new PLR items in the members
area, a new adsense site for you to download and the
usual special offer at the top of the page.
Enjoy.
A few things I have learned over the past few
months...
If you have been involved
with "Internet Marketing" for long, no doubt you have
received a ton of emails over the last few months
pitching everything including the kitchen sink. They will
lead you to believe that this is easy. If you can copy
and paste you can be rich. It's email overload
hyped with lines like.
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This won't last - He's Gone
Mad |
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Would You Spend $10 to Make
Millions |
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Teenage Prodigy Making $10,000 per
week cracks and reveals "His Secret" at last
to a select 1,000 people (Why?
lol) |
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I can't afford a birthday present
for my wife so I am letting my "Secret
Technique" to earn thousands from adsense go
for $10 (and you can't afford a
present?). |
The Butterfly Marketing Launch was huge, no
doubt it's a nice script but you see every one using it
now basically in the form of a squeeze page, a cheap
product or what have you followed by a one time offer.
The OTO is generally just rehashed or repackaged PLR
items. You don't need a $1,000 script to handle any
of this including your membership site, email list or
payment gateway. If you can afford it great but you can
do fine without it or by using a less pricey
script.
Speaking of PLR items, they are ok for website
content provided you rewrite them some or use them for
list builders. Some of the info is actually good for
those new to the subject matter. But for the most part
there is so much of it sold in such large quantities that
they have lost their value. It will be on ebay for
pennies soon anyway despite what they may put in the
terms of service.
Adsense. The bottom seems to have kinda fell out
of adsense earnings, all the tools to create spam sites ,
auto blogging, rss, you name it are less effective.
Slinging sites all over the web does not earn what it
used to. I have seen earnings fall 50%. You can still do
well if you are ready to pound down some cappuccinos and
stay up all night building sites that will get listed,
earn some money then fall out of the search engines
then... do it again. I still make $200 to $400 just
making a few sites here and there from plr content and
posting free sites that people give away but it is just a
small part of what you need to make a living
online.
So what do you do to make a buck
online?
Here is the short list.
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Sell plr products and adsense
sites to all those people who still want
them. There are people coming online daily
and this seems to be the first things they
purchase in the work from home make a buck
online crowd. Use pay per click and click
bank to do it. A fairly decent product with a
good amount of affiliates can make some
money. |
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If you have the upfront money,
talent or resources start a membership
site. These can gross a large amount of
cash when promoted heavily using affiliates
with large list. Just know that you will need
the skill to setup the affiliate/membership
program or the money to outsource it and the
time to manage the help desk and their will
be plenty of members that need your help :)
You will need to be known in the right forums
and know the right people to get some joint
ventures from the people with a large list.
Not an overnight process. Be prepared to see
the site die on the vine. Your members will
likely be short lived and leave for the next
big membership site that comes along. Time to
build a new one. |
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Adsense - build a real
website with real content for a targeted
sought after niche. Sell advertising spots
from it and embed affiliate links to products
the visitors want. Be prepared to hire ghost
writers for exclusive content, work your tail
off on seo, add content regularly and wait
many months to get it
profitable. |
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Affiliate programs can make
money. In fact other than selling unique
websites on ebay, this has been the most
profitable source of online money for me. No
headaches (well not to many), often no
website. The programs that use split payments
are the best imho. You get paid instantly. If
the program is for a membership site that's
great, you will have recurring payments every
month. You will need to buy the product or
membership in most cases but that's fine it's
being paid for you from your sales. This site
makes a few hundred every month from the
click bank affiliate links spread throughout
the site. With the membership affiliate
programs be prepared as mentioned above to se
the members leave after a while. You may
start out making $2,000 a month from a
particular membership affiliate program then
3 to 6 months later you are down to $200 a
month. |
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Make or have made your own
product for a hungry market. Remember the
market/need must come first then the product.
Don't waste your time making a product no one
wants. You could improve on an existing
product that you think is great but needs
more features. Prepare to have some money to
get it made, promote it, JV it and support it
and all the emails your help desk (yes
Virginia you will need a help desk) will get.
Not to mention copy cats will come along and
eventually the product will likely need
updating, it may quit working due to a change
in something beyond your control, now you
need the programmer (where did he go?) to fix
it. Hmmmm |
The bottom line...
Making money online is not easy, but it can
be done.
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Don't believe all the hype. It is
used to appeal to the do nothing get rich
mentality (and it works for the seller - not
the buyer). |
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There are good products out there
with good information, look for them in
genuine reviews or ask from trusted sources
in forums. |
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Be prepared for hard work and know
you will have to spend some money to get
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The one thing you must have
is...
A LIST !
If you have no one to promote to you will have
no sales. PPC is fine but a targeted list interested in
the affiliate programs or products you promote is
essential. The best tool and information I have seen for
learning how to build your list is Jimmy Browns
List and
Traffic
 Yes this is an affiliate link but this
course comes highly recommended from many people. Ask
around in the forums what is the best way/tool to learn to
build a list and the bulk of the answers will be List and
Traffic for $10 it certainly gets my vote. I paid $197 for
a List Dot Com membership upgrade in return I can email
5,000 people every other day. My return on investment -
$110. Using just one technique with List and traffic I
have a list of 1,400. I send an email once a month or
less. My return? A few thousand in product and affiliate
sales and this is done on a very part-time basis right
now.
Of course you need to have a squeeze page (sign
up page) a site for your members to visit or at least a
blog with a newsletter. Ideally both. PLR rights product
that can be given away or turned into adsense sights to
offer as a signup are good list builders. Give your
members some value. Visit forums and participate, write
articles, lead everything back to your site or squeeze
page. My site is just butt ugly (still working on that)
but it gets traffic that goes largely unmonetized due to
a lack of time on my part right now. But fall is coming
the kids started school today and I will be more active
shortly and... just behind this site is the new site. A
little more tweaking and it will be
ready.
Hopefully this article will help someone new.
Spend your money wisely for your online ventures and take
care. There are many items in the members area you can
use as list builders.
Sincerely,
Tom
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