How I stopped Losing Money and Started Making Money With Online Marketing

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Value Speaks Louder Than Ads, Or How I Stopped Losing Money and Started Making It
I sucked at the internet and at internet marketing. I couldn't make a dollar no matter what I was doing. Everything that I tried just kept losing me money. Until, I heard two things that finally got into my head. One was Rich Schefren talking about how he gave away full courses and his business started to grow even more. And then it was Dan Kennedy talking about how it's never a concern about what information you give people, or put in your books, cause people still want more information.

So, I started releasing real content, real information, unencumbered by the idea that I'm giving too much away. My father kept saying, "But you're giving it all away." But, that was when the money started to come in.

There is a key to content, I started to find out, that drives even more business, and that allows you to give away the best information that gives people the most value and that they can get stuff from, but, still want more.

The answer is, give them the what but not the how. You can take people through entire strategies that explain to them what to do, but never gets involved with how to do it. As I did this, I started getting huge responses from people, I started booking up client after client, and not needing to worry about where my next client was going to come from.

But, I wondered what would happen if I started adding some how's in there.

And so, I discovered this intriguing formula that I thought other's might like with their content marketing.

I take any process (this could be for weight loss, confidence, leadership, marketing, consulting, just about anything), and I break it down to 5 to 10 steps, and I give two to four steps with the How.

Now, everything I'm giving them is valuable information, and creates for them the conscious incompetence needed to get any success. But the first two to four strategies are meant to create conscious competence, so that they feel completely learned and ready for success.

The goal of these two steps is that they can take immediate action on these two pieces of content and get value, some greater understanding. This means that they'll then have to either abandon going forward, go to self-study to learn how to do what you showed them, or get your material or services.

Just some fun work on the content creation that I've been putting together lately as I've been working with different types of businesses and finding that this type of content creation works through any business and attracts a lot of people that consistently start to become buyers.

Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author wisdomwing
    thanks for giving valuable information... can you suggest me where can I find qualitative articles.... I tired from writing myself..... where can I get help?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Cascio
    I've been using http://www.hirewriters.com lately with good results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sage Lewis
    I completely agree with this strategy. In fact, I'm always thinking about what I can give away free next.

    Information wants to be free. We need to let it.

    I've also, however, recently found that it's useful to also regularly offer things for sale while you are giving things away. I believe this gets people in the mindset of potentially paying you something.

    I've been working on building up a tiered product line.
    $5
    $10
    $10/month
    $49
    $49/month
    $79
    $79/month
    etc....

    Just step them up little by little.
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  • Profile picture of the author curtkreil
    Thanks for the awesome advice. This helps with any one struggling or just starting out with this business venture.
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    • Profile picture of the author debburns47
      I disagree with some of this. I agree with giving things away, to a point. You need to do this to some extent to build relationships and demonstrate quality but giving too much away smacks of desperation. If people can get too much for free I think they stop valuing what you're giving them. It's a fine line.

      I also disagree with creating products of value to give away in the beginning unless you are particularly skilled in a certain area and can do it quickly to a high standard. There are a ton of great products outs there that you can buy for very little compared to the cost of creating them yourself. The internet is a huge place and the likelihood of someone coming across the same freebie is low.

      Tiffany Lambert has a great PLR minimart where you can buy lots of great PLR, cheaply without having to download the kitchen sink, like a lot of the PLR packs (I hate those packs that take ages to download because there's so much stuff, a lot of which you will never use). Because you're looking at a giveaway product to build a list you don't need the content to be unique and you can always combine it in different ways create your own products.

      Why would your spend hours creating your own stuff when someone who is a great writer has done it for you. The key for any newbie I think is building traffic and there's not enough time to mess about creating too much material when you have to work so hard to do that. You're better to blog more and focus on getting your blog posts out there.


      To our success

      Deb
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      • Profile picture of the author MPPTrainer
        Originally Posted by debburns47 View Post

        I disagree with some of this. I agree with giving things away, to a point. You need to do this to some extent to build relationships and demonstrate quality but giving too much away smacks of desperation. If people can get too much for free I think they stop valuing what you're giving them. It's a fine line.

        I also disagree with creating products of value to give away in the beginning unless you are particularly skilled in a certain area and can do it quickly to a high standard. There are a ton of great products outs there that you can buy for very little compared to the cost of creating them yourself. The internet is a huge place and the likelihood of someone coming across the same freebie is low.

        Tiffany Lambert has a great PLR minimart where you can buy lots of great PLR, cheaply without having to download the kitchen sink, like a lot of the PLR packs (I hate those packs that take ages to download because there's so much stuff, a lot of which you will never use). Because you're looking at a giveaway product to build a list you don't need the content to be unique and you can always combine it in different ways create your own products.

        Why would your spend hours creating your own stuff when someone who is a great writer has done it for you. The key for any newbie I think is building traffic and there's not enough time to mess about creating too much material when you have to work so hard to do that. You're better to blog more and focus on getting your blog posts out there.


        To our success

        Deb
        Okay, I feel like my article was misunderstood here. I don't give courses away, and I don't go out of my way to create any more content than I would usually create. I'm talking about being an expert in your field and always releasing powerful valuable content. I take these reports that I write, turn them into youtube videos, I post the reports, and the youtube videos on my facebook page, and in facebook groups.

        As you can see, I explain how to break down your information to get them to your product. I always recommend 2 to 4 value pieces of information per piece of your business. So when I was a coach for confidence and leadership, I had 4 articles and videos that I sent out for confidence, and 4 articles and videos on leadership.

        I'm always creating information, it's very easy for me. Let's see, for confidence alone: Self-Image, Self-Talk, Self-Understanding, Self-Love, Grounded, Now and Presence, Appearance, Attitude, Personal Beliefs, Mental Patterns, Nerves, Shyness, Anxiety, Self-Consciousness, Self-Awareness, Self-destructive behavior, Soothing behaviors, Confident Man, Confident Posture, Confident Body Language....

        When I was coaching in confidence with a 2,500 dollar program that I over 100 clients with, I did about 1 to 4 articles on each of those topics, little emails, videos, write ups. Every day they got an email and every day they had something of value and a call to action to schedule their call or to take the leap and be confident.

        I think people minimize how much they can actually write on and create videos on and create content, I think any subject has so much peripherals to it that people enjoy it. I send them an email each and every day, it better be more than a sales pitch. I love content cause content is power and my ability to produce content and distribute it across multiple channels will eventually make me rich.
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  • Profile picture of the author hardworker2013
    Thanks for those inspiring words, but what i found out in my over 6 years doing internet marketing is that people like free stuff so instead of giving away all your content why not do like a partial copy like the first chapter or an overview and then collect emails in return for the full copy? Its hard especially if you are writing your own content to just give it away for free like that....
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  • Profile picture of the author TonyAndTanya
    Hey, it sounds counterintuitive, give it away to make money! But as a newbie to affiliate marketing and blogging, that's what a number of people have told me, I am now going to blog once a week and try to develop a free item of value once a month.
    Thanks for reinforcing what looks to be a very profitable bit of advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author unlimitedoptions
    Hi MPP: Good article. Lot's of the really successful bloggers and internet marketing "GURUs" employ the same or similar strategies.
    Guys like Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income.
    Guys like Anthony Morrison. He gives a away a lot of content, bu he also sells alot of different products.
    Guys like Anik Sengal gives a little away, but he is constantly selling something 2-3 times per week. It gets a little un-nerving, but it must work because he claims he has sold over $100 million in digital products in the past 14 years.

    You are on to a winning formula

    Dan.
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  • Profile picture of the author MPPTrainer
    I sell a done for you marketing service for small businesses, where i create the funnel, the advertisement, and they pay the ad spend and me. So, I like people that have products or services that are 1,000 or more, cause that way, getting one or two clients pays for my service, and the third usually pays for the ad spend.

    I do always sell stuff. I usually sell stuff at the end of my content. ABC is still the law of the land. You need to be AAV (Always Adding Value!)
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  • Profile picture of the author MPPTrainer
    P.S to Deb

    You're absolutely right. I don't believe content should be created to get traffic. People should create a simple opt-in funnel, whether or not they have an offer, and start getting people to the page and getting names and emails and giving away content. My content stuff was for the unconverted in my list. I was running a 2,500 dollar coaching program and I could take the stuff I was writing about and use it in my own coaching of clients later. It worked out. The content I created also then led to higher conversions.
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