Set Up A Plan And Stick With It
Way too many newcomers find themselves headed right in the wrong direction from the beginning.
While I know many find themselves in desperation mode when it comes to finances, Jumping at every shiny object that floats by only makes the owners of the object rich.
It is much better to build a business upon a solid foundation. The foundation that has consistently made me the most money, no matter what the niche, has been building a list that I have a good relationship with.
Before I learned anything else, SEO, Copy Skills, Driving Traffic, or whatever, I would set up an autoresponder series designed to build a relationship and then sell when the time was right.
You need very little copy skills to set up a responder series that builds a relationship for the fact, at least in my experience, all you really need to do is be yourself and write to the list member as if you are sitting in their living room talking to them.
With a bumper crop of social venues available nowadays, getting people to your new list is easier than in any other time in history. The list doesn't need to be huge either.
1000 or so people looking forward to your emails can be a very profitable venture .. for you as well as the list member.
Don't let everyone's apparent success take your eye off the ball.
In most niches, but especially the IM niche, more people are faking it until they make it than those who have actually made it.
I made money from a list, using a Free Yola site (They were not Yola then but can't remember their original name) to place my form code on, and pay pal links in the actual emails.
Being determined to make my list work first and then add the new elements of online marketing I was learning to that foundation, helped me pay the bills rather quickly.
If I had jumped from list building to straight sales to services to whatever, and never built upon the foundation, I would be writing forum post with headlines stating after 14 years I was giving up.
Never quit learning
After I had My list making enough money that I could eat regular, I started learning how to set up a static site and then a word press blog. If I knew then what I know now, I would have learned keyword research and SEO before I built those first sites as it was hard to get traffic to those sites for the fact Google didn't know they existed.
Still, each new skill I acquired just brought more and more people to my capture pages.
Once I learned Traffic driving essentials, Studying the master's sales pages (many of them are on the WF still today) helped me with conversions, even though all I was ever trying to sell was them putting a name and an email address in the form.
I never took my eye off the ball, my job was to always turn a reader into a list member, build a relationship with that list member, and then, if what I had to offer could help that list member, hopefully my help was worth some financial compensation.
Now list building could be the furthest thing from your mind. It might not even work for you. But I can't think of many niches it doesn't work good in.
The main idea here is to find something you can make money at a small scale with and keep building upon that foundation until it is large scale. In closing I want you to think about something.
If you can not get at least a little result with a project on your own, no amount of traffic or affiliates can make that project a super success.
If I can ever be of help to any of you, I am just a PM away
Troy
While I know many find themselves in desperation mode when it comes to finances, Jumping at every shiny object that floats by only makes the owners of the object rich.
It is much better to build a business upon a solid foundation. The foundation that has consistently made me the most money, no matter what the niche, has been building a list that I have a good relationship with.
Before I learned anything else, SEO, Copy Skills, Driving Traffic, or whatever, I would set up an autoresponder series designed to build a relationship and then sell when the time was right.
You need very little copy skills to set up a responder series that builds a relationship for the fact, at least in my experience, all you really need to do is be yourself and write to the list member as if you are sitting in their living room talking to them.
With a bumper crop of social venues available nowadays, getting people to your new list is easier than in any other time in history. The list doesn't need to be huge either.
1000 or so people looking forward to your emails can be a very profitable venture .. for you as well as the list member.
Don't let everyone's apparent success take your eye off the ball.
In most niches, but especially the IM niche, more people are faking it until they make it than those who have actually made it.
I made money from a list, using a Free Yola site (They were not Yola then but can't remember their original name) to place my form code on, and pay pal links in the actual emails.
Being determined to make my list work first and then add the new elements of online marketing I was learning to that foundation, helped me pay the bills rather quickly.
If I had jumped from list building to straight sales to services to whatever, and never built upon the foundation, I would be writing forum post with headlines stating after 14 years I was giving up.
Never quit learning
After I had My list making enough money that I could eat regular, I started learning how to set up a static site and then a word press blog. If I knew then what I know now, I would have learned keyword research and SEO before I built those first sites as it was hard to get traffic to those sites for the fact Google didn't know they existed.
Still, each new skill I acquired just brought more and more people to my capture pages.
Once I learned Traffic driving essentials, Studying the master's sales pages (many of them are on the WF still today) helped me with conversions, even though all I was ever trying to sell was them putting a name and an email address in the form.
I never took my eye off the ball, my job was to always turn a reader into a list member, build a relationship with that list member, and then, if what I had to offer could help that list member, hopefully my help was worth some financial compensation.
Now list building could be the furthest thing from your mind. It might not even work for you. But I can't think of many niches it doesn't work good in.
The main idea here is to find something you can make money at a small scale with and keep building upon that foundation until it is large scale. In closing I want you to think about something.
If you can not get at least a little result with a project on your own, no amount of traffic or affiliates can make that project a super success.
If I can ever be of help to any of you, I am just a PM away
Troy
"Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone." - John 8:7