Building a New Income Stream Everyday in Less than 3 hrs.
A simple Question : – What it takes to create a new Income stream?
A simple Answer :– Sell something that’s already selling.
If I have to tell you, that you can build 20–30 new income stream in next 30 days, would you believe it?
I bet you wouldn’t. But Let just suspend this belief for a moment.
Believe you can do it. Imagine How it’d change your life?
And this is exactly what I am going to show you here. If you’ve been looking at online marketing for some time, then I believe you already have all the most important resources (i.e. Aweber’s list building services, domain, hosting etc).
And you are not going to spend a pretty much a single penny if you already have all the above resources.
When I talked about Income stream, the biggest clue or Idea for you to latch on is by creating product.
Personally I can write a report in couple of hours and get it ready to sell in less than 3 hrs. But I know, not everybody is like me and can type really fast.
So I am going for the next best option. PLR (private label Rights) Products. Now Before you roll your eyes and get angry, listen to me. There are quite a good lot of PLR products out there which can be sold for pretty penny.
Now the biggest everyone makes with these products is that they try to sell it as it is.
What I want you to do what nobody else is doing it (besides me, I guess).
And the thing is called “A little work”. Yup, you are going to work a little. 
Anyways, what I want you to do is,
1. Clean up the PLR Document you have, completely. Remove the titles page and everything useless.
2. Remove All the Un-necessary Junk from the document. This here have to be done carefully. Most of the PLR stuff have WAY TOO MUCH FLUFF. For example, if I have an internet marketing document, it’d start from 1980’s describing how internet came to be and how it all started. (now of course I am exaggerating but not by much).
3. Turn a 100 page document into 30–40 page Report. Make it Succinct, Short, To the point. You get my point right?
Total Time Spent So Far – 30 minutes From My Experience (It helps if you know the topic).
4. Write a New sales letter (You don’t need a 20 page monster letter for this). A single page or two will do wonder for you.
5. No need for graphics, Plain words will do wonders. (With new FTC regulations, you’ll be hard pressed to utilize more of the testimonials, but you can still do a damned good job).
6. Charge a fair price. (Now here’s the thing about reports, Depending on information, reports can get you good price. I have seen 10 page report being sold for $97. Though chances are very for PLR stuff to get that much but you get the idea.)
Total Time Spent So Far – 1 hr, 15 minutes at max (30 – 45 minutes on the sales letter etc).
7. Get Traffic, Build a List. This I’ll talk about later (otherwise just do a search on my blog or check the category “Increase Web Site Traffic”
Rest of time – SPEND IT ON BRINGING TRAFFIC.
Now, I know from experience first 3 steps don’t take more than half an hour to do it right. And I”d spend most of my time getting traffic to that page. If you create 8–10 of these reports and bring enough traffic, You’d be able to sell few reports per day.
For example – $10 per report and 4–5 sales per day is going bring you a neat $1500 a month. It completely depends on how hard you promote them. I’ll be talking about getting traffic in my next post.
100 Article Challenge
100 article challenge.
Right Now it’s 4 PM sunday and a thought came to my mind. Something that can help you build your website, your products and web traffic. On Nov 25,2009 I clocked my article writing speed at 300 words at 7 minutes 55 seconds. I know it’s surprisingly high speed and now you know it can be done.
I am calling this 100 Article Challenge.
The challenge is very simple. You are going to write 100 articles for your website (niche). It doesn’t matter in how many days you can do it. It’d great if you finish is as soon as possible.
With 100 articles written, you have content to promote for your website for next 3 months and 10 days. You can write 10 articles a day and finish this challenge in 10 days. You don’t have to worry about content and what to promote for next 3 months.
You can submit 1 article per day for 100 days (imagine how much it’ll help boost your traffic)
You can put together a few articles and create a PDF ebook to give away to your subscribers and build a list
You can expand few concepts taken from articles and create small reports (sellable at $10 – $30)
There are so many ways you can use these 100 articles.
You have 30 days to finish this challenge.
Post your results and effort on your blogs
UPDATE : Right now it’s 7 pm, and I decided to write few articles after making this challenge. I didn’t cared about how many words I am going to write and ended up 5 articles with varying length. I’ll start posting these articles (and promoting by morning).
Are you going to pull up your sleeves and take this challenge?
Un-complicate things
While surfing around today, I came across a very interesting post by Jimmy D brown titled, “3 Keys To Kick-Start Your Biz In 24 Hours”. Now, now, I know, it’s very salesy title, but the idea or the knowledge he shared is Important here. It wouldn’t do any good to you if you miss the essence of the post because of salesy title.
The essence of the article was to “Un-complicate things”. Like he said, most internet marketers are chasing after the new shiny tool like dog chases its tail.
Like I always talk about “Mastering one way of doing things before you move on”. Often Doing it One way produces far better than spreading out in many different fields. Again, Do not complicate things.
People often equate simplicity = Not advanced enough = Bah, I am an expert, this thing is below me.
For anyone who ever practiced martial arts knows, “Basics properly executed often wins over advance technique”. In MMA UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), Royce Gracie+’s (Elite Fighter) most victories came from simple arm bar.
1. Streamline
2. Systemize
3. Stick
Are the simple formula Jimmy Uses in his life and marketing.
I also use simple formula to explain my philosophy.
Product + Targeted traffic + conversion = $$$.
Then I talk about 1 way of doing things. 1 way to create product, 1 way to increase traffic, 1 way to improve conversion. It starts with just 1 way.
And folks, that’s how you do things.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
Traffic Tactic 7 : Building an Avalanche like momentum
Like I always propose, “Traffic building starts the moment you decide to build a website”. If you think and change your mindset in this way, you’ll see different results. Why?
Because, your planning will depend on :–
What kind of market you are in?
What kind of keywords you are going to target?
What kind of promotion strategy you’ll use? or
What kind of customer retention techniques you’ll use?
How you’ll increase consumption of the product?
Every single questions needs to be answered if you are interested in getting loads of traffic.
Create An Avalanche Like Traffic
To build an ever growing traffic you need to work on your strategies, tactics as regularly as possible. If you remember from my old posts about Active and Passive techniques of getting traffic. Implementing those techniques will surely help, but you need to go beyond that.
If you take an example of avalanche, it starts with a tiny flake of snow and it all starts from there. As the time passes, it grows into a HUGE storm of snow with a huge potential of creating a disaster. This is what your image should be of getting traffic.
To make that tiny flake into Huge Storm.
One of the Techniques that you can use is called “Viral Marketing”. Mark Joyner termed this phenomenon and is pretty much god father when it comes to Viral Marketing.
Mike Filsaime is another person who’ve used something like this with great effect. He created FREE membership sites (with a Paid Upsell) and build his sites and list tremendously. Of course, It’s going to be hard to discuss his strategies in this blog.
But there are 3 things you can always consider from Viral Marketing.
1. Easy to Consume – If you can produce something which is easy to consume without any hassles then the chances of going viral is tremendous.
2. Reason to promote – You have to think Why people should promote your stuff. You have to give them reason, reasons good enough to make them get off their asses and write an email or may be an article or may be create a blog to promote it. Is it easy? Nope. Can it be done? Oh yes.
3. Ease of promotion. If you can make it easy to promote by providing stuff and examples then you further increase changes of getting your name out. In Mike filsaime’s case, anyone could promote his products/membership sites provided they had an email account. Now you tell me who doesn’t have an email account at this day and age?
Viral marketing and Words of mouth advertising is one of my favorite way. Because it pushes you to think beyond your current capability. Most often you’ll see that you’ll have high percentage of failure for these campaigns, but when they succeed, they’ll bring and create a HUGE momentum towards your site. All you have to do is capture this momentum and ride along.
Improving Clickthroughs of your email campaigns.
Recently I ran a email campaign and I was surprised at the results I got. Unfortunately I missed tracking email opening settings in my autoresponder… But I know it was pretty darn high.
As you look into the graph, My CTR is 75%. I am not generating percentage on basis of readership, instead from my subscribers numbers.
Campaign Email Test 1
Campaign Email Test 2
Campaign Email test 3 – This one was pretty slow and failure compared to others.
I know, now you might be wondering how in the world I got so high Click throughs on my test campaigns.
3 very simple reasons. 3 important marketing concepts that you should spend time learning and implementing in your business systems. And they are
1. Segmentation.
2. Relationship.
3. Follow up.
First concept you should understand and learn is segmentation of your list. Depending on how your subscribers behave, likes, you should try to segment your list. For example, I have an internet marketing list, I’d start with segmenting it into Traffic building, content, blogging, copywriting etc. You can further segment these lists.
But the real deal is to understand when to stop segmenting. Unfortunately, this only comes from experience and testing.
Second concept is about relationship. If you have a robotic one-way relationship with your list. You’ll not get high results. I have a very open relationship with my list. Whatever I write, I write in a way that connects with them. Plus, the segmentation also helps in writing.
Third and last concept is follow up. Now this is very interesting concept. If you are not following up, chances of your creating a relationship with your list is very low. When you put people in the sales funnel, you have to follow up. Follow up after they subscribe, follow up after they buy, follow up after some time. You can use follow ups in so many ways.
Follow up should be added in almost every step to the sale and beyond to increase customer experience. Remember, according to the research, it takes 7 contacts to make a sale.
Let’s not forget a good email copy also helps. While segmentation allows you to increase CTR and sale percentage, only testing will show you how to increase opening rate and CTR.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
Effortless writing
“Write without writing”, I first started with this heading. Then suddenly another title popped in my head “Zen of writing”. It sounded cool and a bit zen`ned (if can call it that). Then I realized I am just giving it to ego and trying to show off and getting off the track from what I want to write about.
Effortless writing.
Yes. That’s the thing I want to write about today.
Imagine having to write something without sweating, mental blocks or banging head on the walls.
Imagine flowing from one word to another, from one 1st para to 2nd finishing writing before you even realize it’s over.
Now that I believe is called effortless writing.
Can you believe something like this can exists?
Let me tell you a personal story.
Couple of years ago, I was at my sis’s house playing with my cute lil’niece. She was about 4, may be 5 yrs old. Suddenly she told me to listen to her poems.
She ran out to her room and brought a thick poem book. She opened the first page and started with “twinkle, twinkle” poem while tracing the poem in the book.
After she sang about 8-10 poems(In 2 languages English and Hindi), I was sitting there with my jaws open. My sister was sitting with a smirk on her face watching us.
I asked my sis “is she reading from the book?”.
“What do you think?” she asked.
“I think She is”, I said. Then I picked up the poem book and picked a random poem for her to tell. Again she did it effortlessly. I tried few more times with same results…
Now what was so surprising for me was that this poem book had more than 50+ poems in it. And a 4 yr old child was reading it. There were quite a few tough poems in there too.
“I don’t believe it, I don’t even think I started reading at that age, of course mother crammed few poems in me when I was kid but reading it was completely different”, I told her.
My sister laughed at me and then said, “No she’s not reading it. In fact she doesn’t know how to read at all”.
“Then how?”
“Well her memory is sharp and she picked up my habit of tracing fingers on the book when I was telling her those poems”.
To say I was stunned was an understatement.
Here’s my point.
She was reading (or giving illusion of reading) just from her memory. Her finger knew where to start
and when to stop. All of this came from a very simple thing.
Repetition.
She made her mother tell those poems over and over again. She has done this so many time,it looked
effortless and gave the illusion. Sharp child. eh?
The Thing about “effortless writing” is all about writing repetition.
Did you know, dan kennedy writes couple of pages every day at 6 Am in the morning?
If you look at amazon, he have tons of books out. How did he finished those? Just by repetition.
If you look at top authors like Agatha Christie, Stephan king, they wrote heck a lot. They did it regularly. They churned out great stuff like it was nothing.
Writer’s block or other such limitations like those doesn’t exists for people who practice this. Imagine if you can write like this without these limitations. Can you do it?
Of course, YOU CAN. The only thing that’s stopping you is, yourself. Start writing. Writing regularly.
http://www.imbasics.com/eff-write.html Find out How you can achieve this Effortless writing state.
Varun Pratap
Aim for that peak like mad.
Shadow Such people and Cheer Them On.
My simple challenge – Build your internet business in 30 minutes a day
My Challenge – Build your internet business by working 30 minutes a day
One of the most common gripe I heard about building business is that “It takes lot of work”. Or “we can’t devote lots of time promoting”.
So I ended up thinking up of this challenge. I Challenge you to spend 30 minutes per day for next 30–60 days.
Here’s what you have to do…
1. Create a blog for your website (it helps if you have existing blog).
2. Write a simple blog post every day ( do not spend more than 10 minutes per day writing). This will help you with your writing skills as well as focussing skills.
3. Chose a method of promotion that you can do easily. For someone like me, I’d chose article marketing. Write an article and submit to other sites. Or May be commenting on other people’s blog. Real good comments. The choice is very simple. Chose something that you can finish in 20 minutes.
4. Do it daily for next 30–60 days.
My Prediction?
If you do this daily for next 30 days, first thing you’ll see the increase in the number of visitors per day.
Second thing you’ll see is few sales (if you are good with maths and keep track on conversion, then you might be able to find few tricks to increase sales).
Third thing you’ll see is increase ranking in serps like google n yahoo.
If you keep up for total of 60 days. You’ll be able to see constant income from your website. And the momentum will be in your favor. Now all you have to do is put effort to ride this momentum and in next 10–12 months. You’ll have a solid money making website.
So do you have guts to take this challenge?
Free Website and Wordpress Blog Template
Today, I am giving out one of the Vibrant Website template I designed. I know how much headache it is to convert website template into Wordpress template. So You’ll be getting 2 templates in place of 1.
1. Website Template IMB–Red 1.0
Like I said the colors are vibrant in this template.
You can probably use for almost all the markets (best suited for health,lifestyle I think). It’s table-less design by using CSS.
2. Wordpress template based on the above template. IMB–Red Wordperss 1.0
Preview of the wordpress template : www.imbasics.com/mythemes
Download Both Templates : Download Templates
How to use these templates
1. You can use these templates as a content website or standalone sales page direct response website.
2. The wordpress template can help you put together traffic generation machine for the website.
Or
You can use wordpress as Content Management system to create content site.
It’s all up to you and your imagination.
3. What You can’t Do - Just don’t remove the Author/designer by-line in the footer section. That’s All what I ask.
More Web site Traffic With This challenge
Can You Succeed With Getting More Web Site Traffic With my Challenge?
In my earlier post we talked about how Traffic+ copywriting+product= Internet Business Success.
So, we all know that in the core of it all, traffic is the most essential thing to a successful Internet based businesses. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have good copy well taken care of, it would be time to get to the nitty-gritty of things, generating traffic.
If you check out marketing forums, all you hear is one complain “Getting traffic is HARD”. Well, I leave the whiners and moaners alone. If you want to succeed then you better read on.
So I decided to put together a complete tutorial on getting more traffic. It’s going to be a 30 day challenge. Of course it’s going to be hard work. (On side note, if you are not ready to work hard in business, then you better stop wasting your time.)
What You Need for this Traffic Challenge?
1. Grit, Hard work and Patience.
2. A blog (If you STILL don’t have a blog, shame on you)
3. Onlywire.com account (and access/login to all the social networking Websites)
4. Stumbleupon account.
5. 30 Articles
6. A Keyword Research Tool (Ideally word tracker, get a 1 day subscription with wordtracker)
7. Start this Challenge Tomorrow on sunday Or any Week end (or any day where you have whole day off)
Step 0 : Getting The Boring Job Done First.
First step is to get the boring job done. If you don’t have Onlywire.com account and other social networking sites account. Then create one. It’ll take you about 1/2 hour to do so. Hint: Use same login and password for them.
NOTE: Install All in One SEO pack on your Blog.
Create account on these article directories.
ezinearticles.com
goarticles.com
searchwarp.com
ideamarketers.com
Step 1 : Keyword Research with Wordtracker
We are going to start with researching your keywords. Fire up wordtracker and start researching on your keywords. I want you to focus on keywords with 3 or more words in it. i.e You’ll not search for weight loss, you’ll look into keywords like “weight loss after pregnancy”. That’s a 4 word keyword.
You have better chances of getting traffic with this keyword than with the other one. You are supposed to gather at least 40-50 keywords. If you think you can’t find that many words then use thesaurus. Find different keyword combinations.
Think like a normal person looking for information about your topic will search on search engines.
Here are 3 part tutorial I wrote for 30 Day Internet Marketing Challenge.
1. Day 3 : Sink or Swim : keyword research Premier
2. Day 3 : Relation with Themed Keywords and Latent Semantic Analysis(LSA)
3. Day 3: Mining the Goldmine (Long Tail Keywords)
Step 2: Start writing articles focussed on your long tail keywords as researched in first step
This is the exactly the reason I asked you to start this challenge on Weekend (or off day). You need more time today to write articles. I’d suggest you to write at least 7 articles today. If you can write more articles then more power to you… But 7 is minimum number of articles you should write… I’d prefer if you could write 14…
I’d like you to submit/post 1 article per day for next 30 days.
Pick 3-4 different Keywords that you want to focus. You’ll be writing an author box with these keywords with backlink to your blog in it. As you might have guessed we are going to submit articles with Author bios with link to your website or blog.
Step 3 : Post 1 Articles/Day on your blog.
You have to write 1 post per day on your blogs. There is no workaround on this. Again focus on those keywords while posting.
Step 4 : Submit 1 Article Per Day.
I gave you list of 4 article directories that you can use to post. Google tends to like ezinearticles & searchwarp and yahoo goarticles. So that’s why we are focusing on all the 4 directories.
Now here comes the twist. You are going to re-write your articles and post almost unique content to each of these articles.
Eh, Eh… EHHHH……
I know, I know it’s work… but its more fruitful. That’s your only chance of getting more backlinks & targetting multiple keywords without worrying about duplicate content. If you cannot spend much time, then at least re-write for goarticles and ezinearticles.
For more info on how to re-write your articles, Read “Why your bum marketing sucks“.
step 5 : Use Onlywire to Submit your pages to social networking sites.
Last step in this tutorial is to submit your blog post to social networking sites on daily basis. That’s why You have to use onlywire.com to bookmark your blog posts. It’d help you if you are writing good blog post.
How much time you’ll spend on this?
Lets say you start on weekend Saturday. You spend 1 hr on researching your keywords and then 3 articles per hour. You spend 3 more hours writing 9 articles.
So far you have spent 4 hrs on first day. On sunday you again spend 3 hrs writing 9 articles, you’d end up with 18 articles in 7 hours.
Writing 1 blog post every day (maximum time 20 minutes) , Rewriting your already written articles 4 times (10 minutes per article = 40 minutes). That’s total of 1 hr. Submitting your articles, bookmarking posts etc will take you extra 10 minutes.
So in total you are spending 70 minutes per day. For next 30 days. Plus 5-6 hrs on weekend. Of course as you gain experience you’ll be cutting your time down.
This is hard work, that’s why I called this a challenge. If you follow this very simple plan you’ll have 30 blog post, 120 articles distributed around the net.
Getting traffic is simple. All you need to do is create more entry points for your websites.
Study Other Businesses : Non stop learning curve.
Yesterday I talked about studying and evolving your business to another level. Like I explained you have to be student of marketing as long as you live. So today I am going to give you some ideas on how to study other marketers.
Study very carefully how successful people online operate.
1) Sign up or Join things online for the soul purpose of learning from them. You may not necessarily need the product or services offered, but you are curious about how they do that! This can include newsletters, memberships and other programs.
There have been many times, I bought the product or joined a website only because I wanted to know more about sales process. (Oh Yeah, there are some great marketers beyond internet marketing niche, if you ever found one then there’s good opportunity to learn from them)
2) Study Sales Pages and Copy. How are they designed and set up? Not all of them are effective; concentrate on the ones that are. Start what’s called a “Swipe File” where you keep ideas for sales pages… The structure of sales pages are not copyrighted. Just the content is…
Here are how you should find sales pages.
Try out www.earlytorise.com and check out their ads (in the newsletter)
Find some good copywriters and check out their resume (Portfolio) you’ll find tons of good stuff there…
If an ad generates a response from you… it might be good for swiping it for later.
3) Watch people in forums… the people running the joint. I almost fell of my chair the other day when I saw the moderator of a forum come in post and draw attention to a batch of products without anyone suspecting a thing…
This is just the tip of the iceburg, but you get the idea. Just train yourself to recognize or look out for these things. You should learn not only what people are teaching you to do, but more importantly study what people are doing!
Places like Sitepoint.com or warriorforum.com are great places to start out with. But again like I said earlier, Don’t stick to marketing theme. There are tons of other markets with some great marketers… study them…
And not even the Gurus… If you see someone was successful at something or had an idea that worked, try to discover the why and how.
I also suggest picking up some sales books that can teach you these techniques… not from gurus or the online world.
I suggest Robert Ciadlini’s Influence : Science and Practice. This is great book on understanding others..
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