The Simplest Blueprint to Internet Marketing Success
When you are starting out in internet marketing, you tend to look into secrets, hidden knowledge and end up wasting your time, money and resources. That’s what happened to me when I started out in early 2004. I spent 13 months without making any profit (I was making money but losing more every month).
Sometimes I think If I have to give myself simple advice, what I’d give?
1. Choosing a Market – I’ll tell myself, don’t try to find obscure niche markets. Go where competition is, go where people are already buying. At least you know what kind of products are selling and what not.
There’s no need to be afraid of competition. Internet is big enough to include you too.
2. Choosing an angle : Michel fortin calls it power positioning, Others call it USP (Unique selling proposition). I prefer to call “Choosing an angle”. Why? It makes easy for you to think and act upon it.
It’s better if you think how you can enter in a market and start selling immediately. Same product, same offer rarely win. Even if you have a better product, it won’t be help at all.
Same blogging course, same weight loss tips, same dog training techniques won’t work for you. Think how you can add to the existing market and profit from it.
3. Create a product : Create a product fast. Do not dilly dally. Do not waste time in getting the perfect product. Get it done. Do not take more than 7 Days to create a product. If you take too much time, your current enthusiasm will drop, your energy will be low and you’ll be surrounded by negativity (I wonder if It’d sell).
Focus on a product and get it done before any negative though process break into you.
4. Start getting traffic and improve conversion : Getting 100 unique visitors per day is not hard in any market. If you improve your conversion to 1% and your product price is $47. You are well onto making $1350 per month. Add few more products and back end. You’ll be able to generate a great livelihood from internet marketing.
5. Consistent Effort : The above figures can be true, if you put consistent effort daily.
You should be spending time out to get traffic.
You should be spending time to write more content (or create product).
You should be spending time to get to know your market.
You should be spending time to think how you can further increase your conversion.
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How I started podcasting with these 8 steps.
Do you want to start podcasting and improve traffic?
If you have a website, podcasting has many applications that allow you to get in front of your customers, get your name out there, and ultimately make you more money. You’ll find there are tons of people who love to listen instead of reading a blog post or an article. These people download the podcasts on their IPod and listen as they go.
8 Step to Create your Own First Podcast.
1. Spend 1 to 2 minutes and brainstorm some topics you are interested in. He doesn’t have to be new and brilliant content for your first podcast, it should simply be something you have a passion for.
2. Select one or two of those topics that catch your eye.
3. Spend 1 or 2 minutes and brainstorm interesting facts that you know about those topics
4. Group those facts together under one or two headings.
5. By now, you probably see the one you want to podcast the most. If not, you’ll need to choose one now.
6. Go online and find a web site that talks about that topic as well that you can review in your podcast.
7. Write down an upcoming event that is related to your area of interest. For example, if the area you’re going to podcast on his genealogy, you might be able to find a local genealogical society which has a genealogy fare coming up. If you can’t find anything, think of a past event that you can review.
8. Develop a brief script on your own, or from the example in the Example box that follows this exercise.
Here is an example script for your very first podcast
“Hello and welcome to our very first podcast at [your web address, which you will get shortly… in the next exercise]. My name is [your name] and today we’re going to be talking about [your topic].
In this podcast we’ll be talking about [heading #1] and [heading #2]. Later, we’ll review a website and talk about an upcoming event.
First, we’re talking about [heading #1]. Did you know that… [talk about the interesting facts you wrote down].
Second, we’re talking about [heading #2]. Did you know that… [talk about the interesting facts you wrote down].
Now is the time in our show where we review a website. Today’s website is [say the web address and the name, if it’s different]. [Briefly describe the website and rate it on how helpful or informative it was as well as how easy it was designed to navigate around].
Finally, we’ve got to mention the [upcoming event]. [Mention who, what, where, when, cost, what to bring, what to expect].
We’ve had a great time on the show today and look forward to having you tune in next time!”
That was easy, wasn’t it? Sure! There’s nothing to it.You probably don’t even need the script. Often you just need a simple cheat sheet with you about the topics you are going to mention in your podcast.
As for as I am concerned, I need the whole script as English is not my first language. Even then I try to not rehearse when I am doing any kind of audio recording.
So what’s stopping you? Get going…
Oh Here are few links for you to get started too…
1. http://www.podcasting-tools.com/ This is an excellent site about podcasting and takes you through everything from an introduction to how-to-podcast as well as the technical aspects of podcasting. It doesn’t look great but it’s quite functional and informative.
2. http://www.podcastalley.com/ Podcast Alley is the podcast lovers portal. Featuring the best Podcast Directory and the Top 10 podcasts, as voted on by the listeners.
3. http://www.podcastingnews.com/ This might be a little advanced for the beginner, but it is an excellent and comprehensive news site devoted solely to podcasting news. Once you’re familiar with podcasting and want to really benefit from the industry and stay on top of it, this should be in your “favorites” folder.
Oh btw, if you go there right now, You’ll find story about Gary Vaynerchuk who started Winelibrarytv.com. Its complete interview. You should head over there right now and read it.
Create, Influence and Sell – The simple Internet marketing success system
Internet marketing success = Create products Fast + Traffic + Sales letter. More products you create more chances of your success increases… So where are you now?
Lighting fast product creation – Is it even possible?
If you have been following my strategies on the blog, then you know I can create short reports, ebooks in no time (my best time is 45 minutes for 20 page e-report). I like to push my limits, so I ended up with this my new product. From start to finish in 28 minutes. My next product was even lesser than that… How did I do it?
Here are steps you can use.
1. Researching your niche.
I know what you are thinking? this has been hammered to death many times, but hear me out. People always start opposite. They start with a product idea. I don’t want you to do that… You’ll start with a market and then drill down the multiple product ideas. I want you take a look at the niche you are in. Think of ways to narrow down your niche more. This is very important step. Find a market or product idea that has decent searches on daily basis and don’t care much about competition.
If you are knee deep in any market, then you always have an idea about these kinds of narrow niche ideas. That’s why I asked you to start from your own niche rather than trying to find a new one.
2. Decide on the product type.
After you have drilled down the niche, its time to decide how you are going to provide the products. Now my preffrences is written material material. I can type faster than normal folks and my mind flows better while I am writing.
3. Create your product.
Remember this is low entry product, so you don’t need to write 100 pages or create 2-3 hours of audio. You can create few pages of material, format is out properly in about 30 minutes or so. For example you can create 1/2 hr of audio product discussing the problem in the niche. There is no magic in here. You have to work it out.
The PLR route doesn’t work in this method. Why? because PLR products are way too general. Same for public domain products. So in the end you have to do it yourself. If you are doing it yourself, then you can create and start selling your product in about an hour.
Learn How I create products from idea to researching competition to creationHow to create products“.
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