Entries from January 2010 ↓
January 26th, 2010 — Internet Marketing
Most people who dream of quitting their day job and working from home have dreams of following their passion in their business.
I made the mistake of doing the “Follow your passion” thing when starting out online.
As I know now from experience, that’s the worst thing you can do.
I focused on niches that were of interest to me such as personal finance and gardening.
It’s best not to try to turn your hobbies into
businesses. Sure, there are people who have
succeeded in doing so, but as a general rule,
especially when first starting out, it’s best
not to do this.
There’s one very practical reason for this that has
nothing to do with money or traffic or SEO:
You run this risk of losing your passion and hobby
once you turn it into a business. You’ll have just
a business and no hobby and that’s no prescription
for a happy life.
And there’s one very practical thing you do need
to focus on in order to succeed instead of being
swept away by following your passion:
You have to study and find out where there is
both demand and eager buyers.
This doesn’t mean you have to choose a niche
that you hate.
But it does mean you have to focus on buyers
more than your personal interests.
Chris Sempel goes into a lot more details about
this on his website and in his Confessions of
a Lazy Super Affiliate product.
Don’t you want to join all the other lazy super
affiliates and profit from easy traffic?
January 25th, 2010 — General
When’s the last time you read a sales letter and
learned enough from the actual sales page that you
were able to go forth and make money?
If I was writing an email for a normal affiliate
marketing program, I’d probably have to end up
telling you that to get the real secrets to
traffic you’ll have to buy the product.
After all, most sales pages are just festivals of
hype and have no substance.
Chris Rempel does something different and right
on his sales page gives you five ways to generate
endless traffic.
His sales page reads more like an ebook than it
does a sales page.
Check it out:
My favorite of his five ways to generate traffic
is giving away freeware and shareware on your
website.
For example, if you sell a weight loss product
you could give away a free calorie calculator.
He recommends submitting it to all the major
software directories on the web using a submission
service.
And you should require people to register the
freeware so that you can collect their email
address.
Chris claims his best day so far was when one of his
freeware applications got downloaded about 22,000 times
in 24 hours, bringing in about $9,100.00 in affiliate
commissions!
Wouldn’t you like to do the same?
January 23rd, 2010 — Internet Marketing
When I was in junior high my neighborhood friends and I all bought skateboards and became obsessed with them for a while.
Unfortunately we were dumb enough to play tag on our skateboards.
The person who was “it” would tag someone by pushing them off their skateboard.
My mom warned me that I would get hurt if I kept playing skateboard tag.
Sure enough, my fascination with skateboards came to an abrupt end when the neighborhood bully pushed me off my skateboard.
He lost his balance while tagging me and he landed on
my wrist as we both fell to the ground.
In an effort to avoid hearing “See, I told you so” from
my mom, I tried to ignore the pain, which grew
progressively worse.
I went to school the next day but the pain became
unbearable.
Finally I confessed my injury to my mom and she took
me to the doctor. My wrist was fractured and I had to
wear a brace for a while.
I hung my skateboard up on the garage wall and never
used it again, even though I had saved up my money
for it and spent considerable time picking it out at
the hobby shop.
Fortunately I didn’t give up on internet marketing
after my first failure, even though I was briefly tempted
to hang it up, just like that old skateboard of mine.
Chris Rempel’s Confessions of a Lazy Marketer is one
of the reasons I’ve been able to succeed:
I kept hearing about his hype-free sales page so I
checked it out.
It was unlike any other sales page I’ve seen.
And if you read it you’ll see the story of
how his own failure with skateboards led him directly
to internet marketing.
I cringe when I think about some of my early
websites.
I plunged ahead without really knowing what I
was doing, kind of like when I foolishly played
skateboard tag.
I didn’t pick the right affiliate programs – some of
them up and canceled on me without notifying
me – and I even screwed up the Adsense on my
site and Google closed my account.
But Chris helped me to see that, “The more action
you take the more money you make.”
The important thing is to take action, even if
you screw up sometimes.
And the very best action you can take right now
is to make the tiny investment in Lazy Super
Affiliate.
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