My experiences are probably not unique, but I’d like to share what I have experienced by doing the Thirty Day Challenge.
Before June 2008 I had never heard of the 30 Day Challenge. I have been in the Internet Marketing arena for over a year now, but it started out as a hobby and boy, was I ever inundated with ‘STUFF’ from other marketers!
I guess when you start out cold, as I did, you are doomed to end up with a hard drive full of information and software and MANY THOUSANDS of emails in your inbox that you just can’t bear to delete just ‘in case’ you miss some really important piece of information.
Until you realize the magnitude of the information people put out there on why you should ‘buy my stuff and get rich’, you tend to fall for all the hype. I know I did.
I have spent a lot of money buying other people’s products in an effort to learn how to make money online. I’ve joined a lot of membership programs in an effort to educate myself… and I must admit that I did learn a lot in the process.
I have made some money, but probably spent most of it buying more ’stuff’ in the hope of finding that special nugget of information or program that will take me to the top of the heap. Especially in the market research area.
Since starting the Thirty Day Challenge, I have found a piece of software that was available for free trial before you buy, another place to automate creating websites, and…… most importantly for me ….. a group of people I can communicate with and hopefully continue with in the months and years to come. All of this is absolutely AWESOME! and not available anywhere else.
I live in a remote area of Australia, and my husband is away for 2 weeks out of every 4. So while I have plenty of time (I am retired) to put into working online, I do it in isolation.
The best outcome for me has been using the social networking tools such as Twitter, Friendfeed and Skype to network with people from all over Australia and around the world. While I can’t attend the meet-ups, I can chat, discuss and share with like minded people doing the same things that I am. It is wonderful.
Thirty Day Challenge has proved to not only be a great learning experience and amazingly a FREE one, but also a great networking opportunity. I no longer feel so isolated. I have learned that there are caring people, good people out there, who are willing to share their knowledge for free.
My faith in the internet marketing community has been restored, I am no longer as jaded about other marketers. Ed and the team he has built around himself are genuine people with kind hearts and endless patience.
I sometimes jump to their defense a bit too quickly perhaps, but overall I have really enjoyed the camaraderie of the this community, the level of support and the depth of experience from the guys presenting this both up front and behind the scenes.
If anyone is still sitting on the fence over starting this journey, I can assure you the quality of information here has been exceptional and the experience to be had is awesome.
The other most wonderful thing to come out of this for me, is that one of my sons has asked me to help him get into online marketing! He lives thousands of miles away, and we can do this together. He’s keen to learn and we chat and work together daily. This is so wonderful and exciting for both of us and I can thank Thirty Day Challenge for it.
Thanks to everyone involved - you have restored my belief in the validity of internet marketing as a business option and opened the doors to me on a whole new community of people and hopefully long time friends. You are all great.
Sharon
While you are creating e-books, it’s important to write a quality e-book. Thin, skimpy e-books aren’t effective - you want something meaty to offer your readers. A truly great e-book is filled with information, with enough bulk to keep your audience satisfied.
Skinny e-books that have little information are often returned, eating away at your profits. On the other hand, an e-book with strong content increases reader satisfaction, which means more profits and fewer refunds. You want to offer a strong, beefy e-book, one that is loaded with value for your clients. So how can you put your PDF e-books on steroids for better performance? Read on, and I’ll show you!
To start, add a table of contents (TOC). This helps your readers to find the information that they want, while adding two or three pages to the total length of your document. Not only is a TOC valuable to your readers, it’s easy to create one - most word processing programs can generate one automatically.
Second, add a list of resources in the back. All of the web sites, blogs and forums you visited to research your ebook should be put in a resources section in the back. You can also put all of the print books that you find helpful as well. Face it. There are tons of resources dealing with the topic of your ebook that you know and your customers don’t. List those and you will provide a valuable service for them.
For your readers, I suggest you include a list of:
- List of books on your topic
- List of magazines on your topic
- Videos online at YouTube and similar sites;
- Web sites;
- User forums and user groups; Blogs (your own or those of others);
For each link, include a short description of the resource to help your readers further. Tell them what information they can find using that link, and how it can help them. This adds more value than a simple list of links, with no rhyme or reason.
Stay tuned for my next article, when I offer three great strategies to bulk up your e-book, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales. By publishing ebooks with loads of content, you make it an irresistible value.
Did you ever wonder how people are making millions of dollars on the Internet? It is just by having their own home based business. Each day millions of people around the world seek to start a home based business. Making fast money online is not only easy but it can be very profitable too.
As we all know that traffic is the main role in our home business. Without massive amounts of visitors we don’t get enough sales to build a successful online business. So the question that always arises is “How to attract traffic to your website?”
If you truly want to be successful in the home-based business arena, you have to take charge of your business and become an expert in these areas. Depending on the knowledge and skills, help you get the job done faster and you can start off with well-written material in the form of articles to your website for example, and then develop to writing e-books. Video and audios are also easy to create online in downloadable format.
Starting a home based business whether from home or not will have its challenges. Nevertheless, be prepared to work hard, to be self motivated and eager to take on new challenges. However, you must have the determination to work through the problems, until resolution. There are many ways to make money from home based business, but this is one of the easiest method. This is one of the main reasons that inspire people to look forward to search different ways to start their own home business
Please be sure about this, because you must want to succeed as a top personal goal. Your chances of success are even better if you need to succeed! Don’t be half-hearted about your business, or it will be an uncommitted business!
If you can find a way to make yourself stand out from anyone else you can make money very easily. Good ideas are the ones that can become a reality pretty quickly and start bringing you an income almost immediately.
As you can see there are plenty of ways to find the best home based business. The key is to enjoy what you do, and of course make some money at the same time. Make sure you believe in what you do.
There are many different approaches you can take to list building but a tried and tested way is to participate in JV giveaway events. These sites allow many different Internet Marketers to contribute a free gift such as an ebook, software program or giving away memberships to a website.
Your free gift can be something that you create yourself or alternatively you could use either a private label rights or resell rights product. If you don’t already have a suitable product then searching for private label rights products should find you something that you can use as a gift either for free or for a small payment.
Once you have a product to give away you will need to set up a squeeze page to capture the names and email addresses of your visitors in exchange for your free gift. You will need to have you own web hosting account to host the squeeze page and an autoresponder to email out the link to your product once a visitor has entered their details.
Once you have your squeeze page and autoresponder working you can then submit your gift to a JV giveaway. When the giveaway site opens to the public visitors will be able to browse through all the gifts that marketers have contributed and download as many of them as they like. If you have contributed a gift and people like the sound of it then they will be taken to your squeeze page and added to your list.
Many JV giveaway sites have a one-time offer that appears when you first sign up as a contributor. In many cases this will be offering you a more prominent position for your gift in the listings so that you get more exposure and in turn more list subscribers. If you have the budget available to you to take advantage of this offer you should definitely consider doing so.
There are new JV giveaway sites opening up all the time so you should be looking out for new ones to participate in all the time. The more sites that you add your gift to the more exposure your squeeze page will get which means more new subscribers on your list.
Contributing gifts to JV giveaways is very straightforward and will only take a few minutes of your time so why not start contributing right away and start building your list?
One of the biggest questions new internet marketers ask is ‘How do I get more Traffic?’
Recently, I have been coming across more and more articles and forum posts on this subject, and it seems that, for a lot of people, it is the biggest hurdle to overcome when they are just starting out with internet marketing.
There is lots of advice going around about how to use:
- PPC
- SEO TACTICS
- SAFELISTS
- FFA SERVICES
- TRAFFIC EXCHANGES
- POP UPS AND POP UNDERS
- ARTICLES
- EZINE ADS
- CLASSIFIEDS
- MESSAGE BOARDS
- TRAFFIC EXCHANGES
- AD SWAPS
- JV GIVEAWAYS
There are probably more, but that’s enough to overwhelm anyone.
The question is - WHAT WORKS FOR YOU? For as many folks who are asking these questions, there are just as many giving advice. It must be very daunting for a new person who is just starting out.
If you have had great success with any of these traffic building methods, what would YOU advise a complete newbie to do? Think about what you would advise your own son or daughter to do to be successful. Let’s be HONEST about what REALLY works!!
Assume that I have a GREAT SQUEEZE PAGE that converts really well, but I have NO TRAFFIC - what is YOUR ADVICE? What works well for YOU?
Let’s help out some struggling new folks with some REAL, valuable information.
I personally use articles and PPC, but then I can afford to buy some of my traffic, many can’t. Articles are free, but a lot of work unless you pay to have them written for you. Again, an investment is required. The trick is to make sure you have a positive ROI (Return on Investment) if you are going to buy traffic. Yes, it’s risky at times, but if it works, (and it does for me) then it isn’t a problem. I make money because my returns from sales offset my investment leaving me with a profit, that I can either pocket or use to buy more traffic.
I am curious about other forms of traffic generation as well.. I admit I haven’t tried many other ways myself. Have You?
Have a GREAT DAY!
SE Fleming
So many people get into Internet Marketing believing it’s an easy way to make money. If you have done any research on the subject, you may have been convinced by all the ‘hype’ out there about making thousands of dollars in a matter of days, weeks or months. In reality, very few are succeeding. Some estimate that 95% of new internet marketing businesses fail within the first 3 months.
WOW! That’s huge. Why? Isn’t it supposed to be easy? Well, it can be - IF you know how. There are any number of reasons people fail in this business, but what are the main things that contribute to the high failure rate? Maybe they don’t have the RECIPE needed to bake the successful Internet Business cake?
1. MAKING OTHER MARKETERS RICH:
Have you seen all those sales pages like ‘How I made $7,698.00 in 3 hours’ etc etc …??? Have you then rushed in and bought the product being promoted, that supposedly ‘tells all’ and will show you exactly how to do it yourself? I would estimate at least 75% of you have done that at least once. Am I right? You bet! Otherwise, the marketers selling those products wouldn’t have made those huge dollars in the first place!
Think about it. If you have bought just one of those products, then YOU are the reason they made that money, along with others just like you. Sadly, in a desperate effort to learn HOW to make money online, you are making other marketers rich!
2. NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW IT REALLY WORKS:
Another reason people fail to make any money or very little, is simply a lack of REAL knowledge. When we buy the ‘How I did it’ products, we may learn a couple of things about how others have done it, but what you don’t learn, are the FUNDAMENTAL things that get the dollars rolling in. There are things that other marketers just don’t teach you. They are selling you a product about ONE TECHNIQUE they are using, not the WHOLE PROCESS.
3. NOT KNOWING WHERE TO START:
Choosing the RIGHT way to begin the journey with internet marketing can be a huge hurdle for a lot of people. The Internet reaches people world-wide, right? So why, with all those potential customers out there, can’t you just put up a website, add lots of valuable content, and get sale after sale? It’s probably because there are literally MILLIONS of other people doing exactly the same thing. Your competition is HUGE. If you want to succeed in this type of market, you NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO START! You need to know HOW to market to such a massive audience. It’s an entirely different mind-set to what you are probably using.
4. INABILITY TO IMPLEMENT THE BASICS:
New internet marketers tend to fall into what I would call ‘Technique Overload’. This is such an easy trap to fall into. With all the information gathering, ebooks and other product purchases, getting overloaded with different techniques that ‘might be’ the next best thing to making millions online, is almost inevitable. When you don’t understand the basic principles to establishing an online business, nothing works like you were told it should. Self doubt begins to creep in, and after spending all your cash on other people’s products, you find that you are getting nowhere. Some will continue to go out and look for the next biggest method to get the dollars rolling in, or become so discouraged that they just give up.
5. TRYING TO GO IT ALONE:
Internet Marketing is usually done from home. The promise being that you can work from home part time or full time and stay close to your family, ditch your job and be your own boss. Have the lifestyle you always wanted etc. All this is true, but…. when you are just starting out, you are on your own! You have to find information that is reliable, find out how others are doing it, get the technical know how to do it, buy the tools and learn the techniques. All by yourself! You don’t learn any of this in school. It’s all totally new and foreign. Other internet marketers could help, but in reality, aren’t they your competition? So, to learn how to do this business is a pretty hit-and-miss affair. Some people are naturals, but most will need help and guidance. Finding a mentor that has your interests at heart and is prepared to help you become successful, needs to be a top priority before anything else happens.
CONCLUSION:
It can be a very rewarding, enjoyable and profitable way to make a living. All we really need is the RIGHT advice, a wholistic approach (not just techniques), a mentor to keep us headed in the RIGHT direction, motivation and a mental attitude that supports success.
Get rich quick is a myth. If you are just starting out, be prepared to take it ONE STEP AT A TIME! Learn the basics, avoid the hype, implement the steps you learn - and go BAKE THAT CAKE!
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