Sorry! You AIN'T Gonna Make it in IM....unless...
I have a few thoughts and some of them may help some of the new folks who are just starting out.
1) Effort/Action - too many people spend all of their time reading, checking stats, checking email, posting, etc. ANYTHING but setting up systems, setting up landing pages and email followups - crap that's work and it's not fun. (of course, here I am posting - go figure) I have a full time job so I get up at 4am and work between 4am and 7am. Then I get home at 5:30, work out, and then sit down and work until 10 or 11pm. That means I get almost an 8 hour day in of IM work. But if you are working at the wrong things, it's because you don't have a....
2) Vision/Plan - most people new to IM think that all you have to do is put a few affiliate links out there and BOOM you will be rich. Sorry - this is not the way it works. The very best thing to do (In my opinion), is to learn how to set up an autoresponder optin page with a sequence of followup emails. The corner stone of any successful business is having tons and tons and tons of prospects for whatever it is you want to sell. Without prospects, you are wasting your time. So, your vision or plan, MUST include gathering prospects for whatever it is you want to sell. In order to gather prospects, you MUST know how to use an autoresponder. If your plan is to sell a "How to Make Radio Controlled Sailboats" ebook, then you need to find a way to target hobbyists who are interested in that and GET THEM ON YOUR LIST. Whatever product you choose the one thing you MUST have is...
3) Traffic - You can use SEO, Article Marketing, Web 2.0 sites, or PPC - it doesn't matter but it MUST produce traffic to your landing page. I have used a combination of SEO and PPC for a year now and can honestly say that the PPC traffic converts better. The cost per sale is higher but the traffic is highly targeted and gets people on my list to the tune of almost 100 a day for one niche. Just like a brick and mortar place, Traffic to a place equals sales for the business. In order to get prospects on your list, you MUST have traffic. Your VISION or plan, must include your traffic generation. DO NOT even begin to build a sales page or an otpin page unless and until you already KNOW and can VISUALIZE what you are going to do to get traffic. Will you sit up every night until midnight posting to get backlinks? Will you write articles for hour after hour with a link to your optin page? Will you 100% COMMIT to the vision and then do it? IF and only IF you decide and commit to succeed, will you need a...
4) Sales Page - your money page - the place you actually take your orders. This is the final step in the process - not the first one. If you are not willing to invest the time and effort to make the vision come true and spend the time to generate traffic, you do not need a sales page. You have to KNOW in your mind what the sales process is. You have to be able to imagine your prospects experience that you are creating for them. Having a sales page ONLY will get you some sales but having a PROCESS of traffic to landing page to email followup to sales page will get you extreme $$$$$$.
Just a few thoughts... Decide... Commit.... SUCCEED
1) Effort/Action - too many people spend all of their time reading, checking stats, checking email, posting, etc. ANYTHING but setting up systems, setting up landing pages and email followups - crap that's work and it's not fun. (of course, here I am posting - go figure) I have a full time job so I get up at 4am and work between 4am and 7am. Then I get home at 5:30, work out, and then sit down and work until 10 or 11pm. That means I get almost an 8 hour day in of IM work. But if you are working at the wrong things, it's because you don't have a....
2) Vision/Plan - most people new to IM think that all you have to do is put a few affiliate links out there and BOOM you will be rich. Sorry - this is not the way it works. The very best thing to do (In my opinion), is to learn how to set up an autoresponder optin page with a sequence of followup emails. The corner stone of any successful business is having tons and tons and tons of prospects for whatever it is you want to sell. Without prospects, you are wasting your time. So, your vision or plan, MUST include gathering prospects for whatever it is you want to sell. In order to gather prospects, you MUST know how to use an autoresponder. If your plan is to sell a "How to Make Radio Controlled Sailboats" ebook, then you need to find a way to target hobbyists who are interested in that and GET THEM ON YOUR LIST. Whatever product you choose the one thing you MUST have is...
3) Traffic - You can use SEO, Article Marketing, Web 2.0 sites, or PPC - it doesn't matter but it MUST produce traffic to your landing page. I have used a combination of SEO and PPC for a year now and can honestly say that the PPC traffic converts better. The cost per sale is higher but the traffic is highly targeted and gets people on my list to the tune of almost 100 a day for one niche. Just like a brick and mortar place, Traffic to a place equals sales for the business. In order to get prospects on your list, you MUST have traffic. Your VISION or plan, must include your traffic generation. DO NOT even begin to build a sales page or an otpin page unless and until you already KNOW and can VISUALIZE what you are going to do to get traffic. Will you sit up every night until midnight posting to get backlinks? Will you write articles for hour after hour with a link to your optin page? Will you 100% COMMIT to the vision and then do it? IF and only IF you decide and commit to succeed, will you need a...
4) Sales Page - your money page - the place you actually take your orders. This is the final step in the process - not the first one. If you are not willing to invest the time and effort to make the vision come true and spend the time to generate traffic, you do not need a sales page. You have to KNOW in your mind what the sales process is. You have to be able to imagine your prospects experience that you are creating for them. Having a sales page ONLY will get you some sales but having a PROCESS of traffic to landing page to email followup to sales page will get you extreme $$$$$$.
Just a few thoughts... Decide... Commit.... SUCCEED
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