Posted by peter on May 31, 2008 | No Comments
Something is coming, and it’s going to be awesome.
A brand new piece of software that requires…
- Absolutely no computer skills
- No installation
- No messing around with forms
- So simple to use, even a 5 year old can use it!
Imagine the scene, you have just created your first info product. It took 5 damn years, but by God you got there in the end. Blood, sweat and a divorce settlement has gone in to creating this masterpiece as you toiled away on your computer.
You’ve done your homework, you’ve got your JV’s lined up, set up your PayPal form (lost a couple of days sorting that one out!), set up your download link, and now you are ready to go.
The site launches…and wow! What a day! Beyond your wildest dreams, you open a bottle of champagne with your new partner (one that understood that you needed to be tied to your keyword 18 hours a day), and congratulate yourself.
You go to bed happy, and slightly worse for wear after the champagne, but oh well, tomorrow could be even better!
The morning rolls around, you think about turning over and having a well deserved lie in, but the excitement to see how much cash you made while you were asleep gets the better of you, so you race to your office in the spare room in your underwear and fire up the Dell.
Excitement is getting the better of you, you’ve been dreaming of this moment for years, waking up each morning to see your PayPal account stuffed with cash.
You login. Come on, come on, come on (the internet is always the slowest when you want it the most!).
And there it is.
You refresh the page.
Haha, a mistake.
I must be caching the page.
Delete cookies and cache.
Reload.
What the…?
What the flaming hell happened? There is still the same amount of money as last night? Have your JV’s not been sending the traffic?
Check your traffic logs, quick.
Strange, traffic seems to have increased. Where are all my damn sales that I deserve?!
OK, probably some server problem, the PayPal form isn’t working or something.
Check it. Payment went through fine.
Not that then.
Let’s check the traffic logs again.
Now that is strange, it says that your download page has had 3,482 unique visitors, but you’ve only made half that amount of sales.
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Posted by peter on May 27, 2008 | No Comments
In my last post I talked about the latest internet marketing trend to hit the scene; namely Clickbank and AdWords - essentially falling under the umbrella of affiliate marketing.
Well, lo and behold the latest offering in the world of affiliate marketing…
Affiliate Evolution
Promising to reveal some “unknown” secret that allows you to earn commissions up to 300% (eh?!), this audio product tells you exactly what to do to increase your commissions - sometimes even double it.
At $10 you probably can’t help but lose, and no doubt there is an upsell on the other side. But living in India, I can’t buy this product to find out 
Posted by peter on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
Internet Marketing is very cyclic in nature. Different aspects become the hot topics, others fade in to obscurity for a while. It seems to me that we are at the tail end of the AdSense & PLR craze that has dominated internet marketing for the last 2 years.
Taking it’s place seems to be without a doubt clickbank and adwords. Everyday a new email lands in my inbox promising riches and success with affiliate marketing through Clickbank, promoted by AdWords. Tales of extraordinary incomes are being told, done by guys and girls like you and me.
First up we have George Pluss (who doesn’t seem to be updating his website anymore - nil points for you, George! [yeah, you probably have to br British to get that in joke]) who’s selling his Unleashing Business package (You have to be a prior customer to get it though).
The package is being billed as a complete solution, he even provides the keywords and ad text you can
use on AdWords (although how that works when you are competing against 50 other people who are bidding on the same keywords and with the same ads, I don’t know!).
Next, we have Chris from Day Job Killer (a Clickbank + AdWords ebook) promoting a product called The Affiliate Conspiracy (Ooo Err misses!) which is your usual Clickbank + AdWords “how to” guide. The ebook is written by a chap called Eric Rockefeller and he claims to have made over $500,000 profit from Clickbank.
The Affiliate Conspiracy is selling for $77.
A few weeks ago we had Alex Goads‘ Players With Money. This guy claimed to be part of the underground posse raking in huge fortunes from…yep, Clickbank & AdWords. I believe his program is closed to new users at the moment, but you can still signup to see how one guy made $6000 in a day.
The next one to hit the scenes was a 21 year old Mexican who was using AdWords to rake in $16,000 with a $400 AdWords bill. The product is called AdWords Profits and comes in at $47.
Finally I just saw that Alex Goad is promoting another product from a guy that says he’s making nearly $300,000 a year from clickbank. The product is from another “unknown” in the internet marketing arena. It’s called Cracking The Online Wealth Code and if bought through Alex’s link, will set you back $27.
I can’t see if this product also uses AdWords to get the traffic, but it is definitely using clickbank.
So there you have it. The latest trend in Internet Marketing. Clickbank and Adwords. Do you agree?
Posted by peter on April 16, 2008 | No Comments
I guess if you read my previous posts where I often rubbish or belittle various internet marketing products, or take a side swipe about the intentions of people, you might think I’m an old internet marketing cynic with no place in this industry.
Infact, the opposite is true, well, sort of. Yes, I am cynical, but only about certain things. I’m always on the look out for new products and people that are making money. Often it’s the people that are quietly making money hand over fist that I’m most attracted to.
True, not everyone is making millions, but you don’t have to make millions to be successful. Making enough to get by and then some is successful by my standards, that’s why I’m always interested in reading the stories or buying the products from everyday people like me and you who are making a success of themselves from dedication, motivation and hard work.
I’ve recently come across two of these types of people from the Warrior Forum, and am extra pleased because they are both from the UK (sidenote: Support your country’s internet marketers!).
So, if you are looking for some guys that really are making money, but not shouting about it, then go and check out Tony Shepherd’s blog not only does he provide some great content and entertaining stories, he also has a number of ebooks available for free, nada, no strings attached. I srtongly recommend the You, The Guru and Blog Your Wage ebooks, I can’t believe he’s just giving it away for free.
And here’s an extra big tip, sign up to his newsletter and you’ll get a discount on Naked Niches, which is a great book by his business partner Sara Brown. It’s a great, no fluff, ebook that’s really easy to follow.
I want to write a review on his products at some point because I was really impressed with them.
See, whoever said that if you write quality content, you will get natural links is right. These guys (ok, guy and girl) are providing excellent content and I know that by linking to them, I’m providing my visitors (yep, both of them, hey this is only a new blog after all) with great additional content.
Posted by peter on April 15, 2008 | No Comments
Just got an email from Mike Filsaime saying that he’s launched another new site which give you loads of free graphics that you can use on your website.
If you’ve been involved in internet marketing for more than 10 minutes, when someone says that something is free, your bulshit metre automatically goes into overdrive (or it should!). In this case, I can confidently say without a shadow of a doubt that Mike had nothing to do with this graphics package, he’s just putting his name to it and taking the share of profits thank you very much.
Profits? Didn’t you say this was free?
Yes, but like I said, you quickly become a cynic in internet marketing, and when something is free, expect to get the upsell, if you don’t get an upsell, something has broken in the universe, please try turning it off and on again.
The graphics are decidedly average at best - I checked them out, I can’t see myself ever using them, and of course, being the worlds greatest designer (my tongue is firmly in my cheek when saying this!) I would rather do my own!
The upsell is $47, but I don’t see the value for graphics that are no more than average in design. Maybe you will see the beauty in them, see for yourself FreeMarketingGraphics.com
Posted by peter on April 14, 2008 | No Comments
Right, so yesterday I looked at the key skills required for internet marketing success, and I promised that I would look at the skills everyone thinks they require, but really they don’t. Unfortunately, too many people focus on trying to gain these skills when there’s absolutely no need to.
So let’s take a look at the skills “you thought you really needed, but don’t really” (I’m working on the catchy title as we speak).
- Great Design and Photoshop Skills
Simply not true. You can get any number of graphic designers to make you an attractive mini site for less than $100. Alternatively, check out the free salesletter templates I’ve made for all the readers of this site. If you are worrying that you don’t have the design skills for becoming successful in internet marketing, don’t be. Some of the most successful salesletters have been bog standard black text on a white background.
- Copywriting Genius
No way, if you can write passionately about your product, you can write a salesletter, after that it’s just a matter of continuously tweaking and testing different things like headlines, features, bonuses etc. Alternatively you can out source the salesletter writing too 
- The Uber-Programmer
Let’s make one thing clear, of all the internet marketers, 99.9% don’t know their function from their class (that’s techno programmer geek speak to you and me). Programming is the hottest thing to outsource to companies like Agriya.com who can create your scripts for you on a budget.
- SEO Guru
Believe it or not (and being an SEO weanie, I can’t believe I’m about to say this), SEO is not important when it comes to internet marketing. Saywah? Yes, SEO is not an important factor for internet marketing. You need to learn how to sell and convert people that do come to your site. If you know how to sell, you can get people to come to your site
Well that’s my take on what skills you don’t need to become a successful internet marketer. Do you agree? Is there something that I missed? Do you have a different list of ’skills you don’t need’?
To be honest, to have any one of those skills would be nice, I’d love to be a designer and programmer, but I know I’ll never make it (well, maybe if I really had nothing else in the world to do I might try my hand at programming again).
Posted by peter on April 12, 2008 | No Comments
Just need to make a quick post to say hello to technorati.com and prove that I own this here little website.
Kabizzle’s Technorati Profile
Thanks!
Posted by peter on April 11, 2008 | No Comments
Yesterday, I talked about the need for taking action to make money from internet marketing, today I want to look in more general terms what the key ingredients are for success as an internet marketer or an online entreprenuer.
I feel that these skills are absolutely essential, you can’t have one or two, you need the whole kaboodle. If you don’t have all of them, you either need to learn them by routine and practice, find someone who complements your own skills and form a partnership (strictly business, of course!) or go back to your day job…but the last option sucks, so don’t do it!
So, let’s have a look at what I think the key skills are…
- Action
Yeah, pretty obvious, I know. I talked about it yesterday, but it’s so important I listed it as number one. You can read all the ebooks in the world, watch all the videos in the world and attend all the internet marketing conferences in the world, but if the knowledge that you learn just stays in your head, you might as well not bother.
Next time you read an ebook or buy a course, promise yourself that you will spend a minimum of 1-2 months trying out the stuff that they are teaching. If it gives a new great way of getting loads of traffic, try it, find out if it works for you.
- Passion
This is a big one. I was going to write motivation, but that’s not as strong as passion. If you are passionate about internet marketing, or making money online, it should be with you 24 hours a day from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed.
You should be eager to learn, but you must take the action to put the theory in to practice. You have to do this because you absolutely love it, given a choice, you’ll chat for ages with anyone that cares to listen.
- Perseverance
When you start doing your own projects, I’ll tell you now, the devil is in the detail. Trying to write that 120 page ebook? That’s the easy part. The final 20% of your project will take 80% of your time as you work with the details.
If you can overcome the resistance that builds up throughout a project and see it all the way through to completion and launch, you will be achieving more than most marketers can hope for.
- To Know When Your Product Is Ready
There are too many people that are perfectionists. Worse, there are even more people that just don’t seem to care about throwing out crap products. You need to aim for some where in between. The problem with being a perfectionist is that you’ll never think your product is ready. I know people that have been developing products for over two years and it’s yet to see the light of day.
Know when your product reaches the ‘good enough’ stage, and take it to launch, remember, 80% of the people will never read or watch your ebook/video, and the other 19.9% won’t take any action. It’s only 0.1% that you need to worry about - a much easier percentage to handle!
- Dedication
This is in relation to once you have made sales, or got traffic to your site through your action, passion and perseverance, you need to be dedicated to your customers. This means that emailing your list frequently, although a chore, a hassle, a pain and having a big resistance to doing it, it has to be done.
Only by your dedication can you take your business to the next level. Email marketing plays a big part of that, so if you suck at keeping in constant contact with your list, your business income will probably suck.
Have I missed off any important skills? If so, let me know!
Tomorrow I’ll see about writing about what skills you probably think you need, but you really don’t!
Cheers,
Peter
Posted by peter on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
People outside the internet marketing industry will often laugh or criticise various IM products and their claims with something along the lines of “if they can really make that much money, they would be spending their time doing it, not trying to sell you products that will let you copy them”.
I completely disagree with the above sentence. People are making big money everyday in internet marketing, and they can completely share their secrets and you know what? Very few people will take action on that information.
If the biggest names in internet marketing, lets say the top 10, based on revenue, got together and created an incredible product with videos, audios, interviews, step-by-step plans, blueprints, the full works, and then if they gave that product away for free to anyone who wanted it, do you know what will happen?
In 99.9% of cases a person will get it, probably go through some of the material, some may even go through most of the course, but only 0.01% will actually take any action.
That is why the internet marketing industry survives and continues to grow. That is why the guru’s can afford to tell you all their secrets for your $97, they know that you probably won’t take any action.
If you’ve been in the internet marketing industry for more than 6 months I can guarantee that you have at least one ebook on your hard drive that could make you a fortune, hell, even if you’ve never bought an ebook in your life, if you head over to www.ezinearticles.com there are thousands of articles that you can read to find out how to make money.
Trust me on this, if people take action instead of reading/listening/watching they’ll be 100x more successful.
Have you recently purchased an ebook that promised you that you could make thousands? Did you actually take any action?
Posted by peter on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments
I was wondering about something the other day, and that was “Why can’t we all just be friends?”, or more specifically, why can’t we join together and help one another succeed, not just on a forum sharing comments, but really work together.
You might be someone that doesn’t have the resources to get fancy graphics, or you might be someone who doesn’t speak English well enough to write a good salesletter…why are people like this not getting together and helping one another?
The concept that I had in the back of my mind is fairly simple…
Get a group of people, internet marketers to be precise, that are struggling to make money either through lack or resources, lack of education or a mind set that says ‘I can’t do that because of this’.
Maybe have around 4-5 people in the group and one person who has the time resources to act as the project manager. Ideally the group would be compromised of a group of people with complementary skills, ie. copywriter, graphics, jv (people person) skills, email marketing, affiliate manager, the money man etc.
These groups of people interact with one another and create a framework:
- What theme a product is going to be created on
- What format the product is going to be delivered in (ebook, audio, video etc)
- The name of the product
- The features of the product to make it unique
- Whether to create and upsell and downsell
- Whether to outsource the work or create it within the group
- The road map to launch (what work needs to be done and by when)
- Creating the buzz about the product
- Identifying and contacting potential JV partners
- Which account the payment goes to and what payment processor to use
- Affiliate system
- The email marketing followup series
There’s probably a whole lot more that I have missed, but I’m writing this off the top of my head.
So, how about a website that is specifically designed for internet marketers looking to collaborate on projects? So you might not have the confidence to go it alone or the experience, or you are putting off doing a task because it seems like too much of a big chore.
Like I said, it’s just a post musing about how we can help one another.
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