Tuesday, June 24, 2008

 

A free 120 lessons "Online Business" video e-course

Erik Holmlund is one of the few survivors on my subscription list - He always delivers good quality information and this summer he is on a mission - trying to teach what he knows about running an online business.

It's a great video e-course for beginners and if you're an online business pro, you will also learn a few tricks.

So, go to:
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson1/

... and watch lesson 1.

Subscribe to his newsletter to be notified of new free lessons.

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Starting your own 100% automatic CD/DVD business

A $10 script that delivers your CD/DVD fully automatic

A couple of days ago I was contacted by a guy that had produced an 1 hour video on DVD and was selling it to baseball and softball youth players, parents, and coaches. He wanted to know if he could use the 7 Dollar Secrets script to market a downloadable version of the DVD.

No problem.

... but what if he wanted to sell the physical DVD?

Lots of work! Copying, printing inserts, labeling the CD, packaging, going to the post office.

There must be an easier way even for a small volume business.

The answer could be www.kunaki.com

They will copy, label, print inserts and put your DVD in a jewel case for just $1.75 ... and ship it to the customer! Total production and delivery cost examples:
USA 6$ - Europe $9

That should leave a good margin for making a profit.

How do you setup a website to handle the process of ordering, getting payment and sending the order to kunaki.com?

There's a couple of scripts that can handle this, and the one that really caught my attention was Disk Mojo:

See the details here ...


A $10 script that handles the whole process of getting paid through PayPal and sending the order to www.kunaki.com

Hands off - fully automatic! I never have to handle any CD's or DVD's - It's just as automatic as selling an e-book and the profit margin is probably higher. You can charge more for a physical product.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

 

Fixed Time Membership

Sometimes you need someone to kick your ... to make you realize you're sitting on a gold mine!

A few weeks ago I bought an ebook by Chris Rempel - The Lazy Affiliate Marketer. I've been reading his blog since then and it's actually quite good - very useful tips.

Yesterday he made a blog entry about "Fixed Time Membership" by Jimmy D. Brown. After reading about FTM I realized that I know this stuff actually works - it's not just some Internet Marketing fluff.

I used this Fixed Time Membership model a couple of years ago on a small scale, but never realized I was sitting on a gold mine.

It's so easy to get lost in all this online marketing information - so many different business models - and most of them haven't worked for me :-(

I completely forgot one of the basic rules in building an online business:

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If you find something that works for you on a small scale,
try to do more of it on a larger scale.
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Here is my story ....

Two years ago I made an online e-course about PC security. The course consisted of an ebook, some online tutorial videos and a series of autoresponder emails distributed during a few weeks. The e-course was priced at $15 and I sold a few hundred copies. I stopped selling the e-course because it needed to be upgraded to the newest information, but I never did get around to make the upgrade - I'm lazy you know!

People even wrote emails to me asking - "When will your next e-course be ready?" - they were practically begging me to take their money. But I was unfocused and kept jumping from one Internet business model to another - and never realized how stupid I was!

The business model I used was almost exactly the "Fixed Time Membership" model.

During the last 6 months I've tried to figure out how to make a membership site without to much work. I'm lazy so I don't want to do all this work finding tons of stuff to a paid membership site and be forced to come up with new stuff every month. Most membership sites starts out with lots of great stuff - a few months later the rate of new stuff on the membership site declines - and eventually stops - it's just too much work.

How can I build a membership site where each new member automatically gets a new "piece of the pie" every week and still thinks it's worth being a paid member of the site?

The "Fixed Time Membership" solves my problem. I only have to make one new "lesson/article" each week - and when I've finished the last lesson, I could go on creating another e-course. Within a year I could have a whole bunch of e-courses in the niche or several niches, each e-course lasting 3 to 12 months.

What is my Online Business plan for 2008?
You're right - my plan is to really focus on FTM in a couple of niches - No, it's not Internet Marketing niches. I know this business model works for me and I have the knowledge and tools to make it happen.

So if you want to know more about the Fixed Time Membership model, go to:

"Fixed Time Membership" site ...

You don't have to buy anything. The model is very clearly described so you can just read the page a couple of times, grab the idea and run with it.

If you want a lot more detailed information, join the e-course. I joined the FTM e-course because it fits right into the plans I've already made for 2008 - and I'm really looking forward to a great e-course, and a great 2008 :-)

Visit the "Fixed Time Membership" site here ...

Any comments? - Just enter your comment below.

Jan Sepstrup
JasMedia.com

P.S. I can't say that this business model is just right for you, but if you know how to setup a website, write some autoresponder emails and you like teaching other people - you should really take a look at this business model: Fixed Time Membership - there's only 300 seats left on the e-course, so hurry!

P.P.S. Jimmy D. Brown, the author of Fixed Time Membership, is not some wannabe guru. Make a search on Google for Jimmy D. Brown and you'll see he has been around for a long time. You
can also check him out at GuruDAQ,com:
http://www.gurudaq.com/guru-30-Jimmy-D-Brown.html

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

 

The Secrets of Winning the Affiliate Marketing War

It's a fact that 95% of people trying to make money in affiliate marketing never earn any money. In theory affiliate marketing sounds as a very easy concept. Find a product that people want, and present this product to the right people. The rest of the process should be downhill - but it's not. What are the problems you're facing as an affiliate marketer?

Remember you are just one of many marketers who are trying to sell the very same product to the very same consumers. If you are determined to win this war, you must have a plan to get your share of the market.

It is hard work
Most people are lazy but you're not going to succeed in this type of marketing without some hard work. Any successful affiliate marketer can tell that it takes daily promotion of the product to get any kind of results. What kind of promotion should you be doing? If you're on a low budget here's some of the tools you should try to master:


Your goal should be to do at least three of these activities every day.

Make people trust you
Most people don't buy the first time you present a product to them, so it's very important to keep the conversation going. This mean you have to build an email list of people interested in your type of product. It's been said again and again - build a list, but a resent study showed that 50% of affiliate marketers don't have a list. Having a list is crucial to any success in online marketing. People will buy from you if they get a chance to know you through your email list.

Give and you shall be given
Building an email list of interested subscribers is not that difficult but it takes time and some effort. When you have a list, don't try to make them buy in every email you send to them. Give something for free - a useful tip, a small report, a link to a great website. When people find out that you really care and that you are a person they can trust, then you have a much higher chance of selling your product or products to them.

Copy what works
Study how other successful affiliate marketers promote a product - and copy their promotion process. Rewrite it, make it your own - but based on principles you know that works. If you see an article you like - rewrite it in your own words. If you see a great ad for your product - rewrite it and use it. Did you find a great small report? Do some more research, rewrite it and give it to your email list.

Don't give up
Affiliate marketing is hard work but it is possible to win the war or at least get a fair share of the market you're targeting. It's important to keep promoting on a daily basis using all the free tools mentioned earlier in this article. Remember, take good care of your paid customers - this is the most valuable asset you have in your affiliate business. Keep them on a separate email list. A customer who trusted you and bought a product on your recommendation will probably be much easier to sell to in the future.

- Jan Sepstrup

Are you having trouble getting any success in affiliate marketing? Visit Affiliate Rescue and learn all the dirty tricks you'll need for success!

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

 

Is ClickBank banning email marketing ebooks?

You've probably heard about several Google slaps during the last couple of years. Google Adwords could bring you tons of cheap traffic to your site - until they started to use the "Quality score" and other ways of filtering unwanted websites. Bidding prices for certain keywords went crazy if you had a low quality site.

Google's Adsense was a huge success and people made 1,000's of dollars showing Adsense ads on their site. A lot of these sites were really crappy sites, so one day they invented smart pricing making it a lot more difficult to make a decent Adsense profit.

Now ClickBank seems to be cracking down on Internet marketing ebooks. When you try to get an ebook about Internet Marketing approved for their marketplace - and promoted by 100,000 ClickBank affiliates, your ebook will probably be declined.

Why is ClickBank not accepting certain Internet marketing ebooks anymore?

Here are some of the rules that ClickBank uses to evaluate your ebook:

Rule #1
You can not have any statements regarding specific amounts of money you can earn using your product/service on your sales page. ClickBank will no longer accept any websites which include these types of statements.

Rule #2
You can not have a graphic of your ClickBank check on your sales page. You can have a printout from your ClickBank account if you make all information anonymous - and the printout must be verified and approved by ClickBank.

Rule #3
You must remove all discussion of e-mail marketing and opt-in list building from your website and downloads. ClickBank will no longer accept products that discuss these topics.

Why use Rule #1?
Probably because PayPal is one of the payment options on the ClickBank order page, and PayPal don't like any kind of "You can make money with this product" on a sales page. If you have been doing Internet marketing for some time, you'll know the story about the famous $7 Dollar Secrets script. PayPal closed a number of accounts because the owners were making a statement on the sales page about how much money affiliates could make by promoting their 100% commission product.

Why use rule #2?
Well, according to ClickBank they think some people are using these graphics for check fraud.

Why use rule #3?
I have no idea why ClickBank is banning any discussion about email marketing and list building - but it will have a huge impact on the kind of products, you can find on ClickBank!

Imagine selling an ebook about Internet marketing and you're not allowed to mention "list building" or "email marketing" on your sales page. You're not even allowed to discuss these topics in your ebook - even if it's just a small chapter - let's say 5 pages out of 100 pages.

How will this affect you?
If you're an author you'll have to find some place else to market your ebooks about Internet Marketing, if you want to include information about email marketing and list building. If you're making money as an affiliate and want to target the huge "Make money on the Internet" market, ClickBank will no longer be the best place to find this type of ebooks. You will have to go to PayDotCom.com, CommissionJunction or join the authors private affiliate network.

Here's the ebook, that ClickBank rejected: Affiliate Rescue - Make Money on a Budget

- Jan Sepstrup

Are you having trouble getting any success in affiliate marketing? Visit Affiliate Rescue at www.affiliaterescue.net and learn all the dirty tricks you'll need for success!

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Sunday, October 28, 2007

 

Review - 911 Affiliate Rescue

How many "Affiliate Success" ebooks can you find on the internet? Hundreds if not thousands probably. Most of these ebooks are just "rewritings" of other books and teaches nothing new to the reader. The only thing you learn from these ebooks is once again the old lesson not to be hooked by a great sales letter and keep your credit card where it belongs - in your wallet!

One of the most important lessons as an online marketer is to develop "sales resistance" - The next fantastic software or secret tips ebook will NOT make you a millionaire. If you want to make money on the internet it takes action - the right kind of action - and a blueprint from an experienced marketer, that you can follow.

Personally I've developed quite a good "sales resistance, which clearly shows in my credit card statement. Only a few time a year do I find a product that really get my attention, and that can actually deliver the results promised on the sales page.

One candidate for "Affiliate Ebook Of 2007" is George Katsoudas's "Affiliate Rescue - Make Money On A Budget". It's a huge value for a modest price.

It's only 70 pages but very, very focused on delivering sneaky secrets for affiliate marketing. This is really good stuff with no fluff.

You should check the testimonials on the sales page - there's a LOT of them. George Katsoudas really delivers what the market needs - a decent ebook about affiliate marketing.

My highest recommendations.

Visit:
www.affiliaterescue.net

- Jan Sepstrup

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Saturday, September 15, 2007

 

John Reese: Blog Rush Traffic Exchange

How do you get traffic to your blog?

If you search for ebooks about this subject you'll find dozens of titles - Social bookmarking, Web 2.0, Bum Marketing. John Reese has opened a new free service to increase the traffic to your blog - letting bloggers promote each others blog - traffic exchange for bloggers.

It's a really interesting concept. If you look on the left side of this page you'll see a few links from the "Blogosphere" - other peoples blog. When I show these links on my blog, other people will be showing my links on their blogs.

Get the details of this new free service - watch the video ....

- Jan

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

 

PPC Prophecy Rewiew

I rarely do any reviews anymore.

Why? Because I got tired of promoting "best-thing-since-sliced bread" products. I guess you also receive tons of emails promoting new launches of internet marketing products and like me you're probably pretty fast at the delete button ;-)

Each month I receive several joint venture proposals and 99% of the time I say no to promoting the product.

Last week I was contacted by Dane Bergen with a JV proposal and I already had my finger on the delete button - but something in his email caught my interest. He had a Warrior Special Offer on www.warriorforum.com and was getting some great reviews for his product - the testimonials you see on his page are from real people.

So I thought - Well, maybe I should check his product.

- PPC Prophecy

Dane send me a review copy and I spend the evening reading his 55 page ebook called ‘PPC Prophecy’.

It’s a simple Pay Per Click system which he has mapped out in a step by step format. You just take the system and replicate it over and over again, creating a number of profitable campaigns.

Does it work? Yes, I've been doing this for quite some time and it does work if you do it right - if you do it wrong you will just be waisting your money on Pay Per Click campaigns.

For example I have this system working for a small $7 report - for every $2 I use on Google AdWords I get $7 back! I never imagined this strategy could also be used for low priced products.

Generally I had almost given up on this PPC affiliate thing. I've spend hundreds of dollars on Google Adwords without much success. Dane's ebook made me reconsider this method because he exactly describes how to successfully do it - and how to fail with this method!

No - he's not promoting make-money-on-the-internet products
No - he's not lining up in the Clickbank affiliate que

Dane is describing in detail how to laser target a niche and make this system work.

He also includes some really valuable bonuses - page templates etc. If you want to watch how this system works there's an OTO offer for some excellent videos.

Check it out now because it’s half price for the first few customers. Don’t keep working hard to make such a small income. This system really does work and I recommend that you check it
out now.

Visit PPC Prophecy

- Jan

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