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11 years ago

Hi Snaps,

without a shadow of a doubt matey, this is what you need to do below. Don't waste your time on anything else. The further you stray from these simple steps, the more difficult you're gonna make it for yourself...

So do this - nothing else

Step 1) Create a 10 - 15 page report offering huge value and interest in your market/niche (this will be your freebie giveaway)

Step 2) Also create a 30 - 40 page book that solves ONE SPECIFIC problem in your market. And this will be your PAID PRODUCT.

Step 3) Put together a Squeeze Page on a related name domain, and offer your freebie on it.

Step 4) Put up a Sales Page offering your Paid Product for a low $7 to build buyers list. When people subscribe to your freebie, you immediately send them to this page as an OTO.

Step 5) Drive traffic to squeeze page - redirect opt-ins to your Sales/OTO Page

Step 6) Be sure to remove buyers from your freebie list. Have two lists 1) leads 2) customers

Step 7) Send auto responder emails to your leads list with links to your "paid" product. Again, segment anyone who purchases onto the buyers list exactly as before.

Step 8) Survey your "Customers" (not "leads") to discover what they need/want to know more about. What are their pressing problems? Then, based on their responses, promote either affiliate products or better still, your own products, to them.

Step 9) When your next paid product is created, you sell that to your Buyers List, and you can segment those buyers onto another list

Step 10) The, you just keep refining your sales funnel in this way. Promoting and creating products, moving your customers from a low priced product up to a high priced product, and segmenting your lists along the way.

Come back and post again when you have this set up and are making dough from it

Hope this helps buddy...

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Snaps 11 years ago

Hi PCH,

That's a very interesting approach. The only thing is its a bit daunting creating a product. Not sure I have the expertise to write a whole book!
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- PCH 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Snaps
  
  Hi PCH,
  
  That's a very interesting approach. The only thing is its a bit daunting creating a product. Not sure I have the expertise to write a whole book!
  
  That's what a lot of people think. Google PLR (type in "Weight Loss PLR" [without the quotes]) or in whatever your niche is, and grab a pre-written book for a few bucks. You could sell it like it comes, but that wouldn't be great. Instead, modify it a bit, add a front cover, nice image from fiverr, contents page .... and hey presto - your own product for a bit of effort and a few dollars.
  
  Alternatively, you can easily research enough for a 30 to 50 page ebook. Look on forums for the questions people are asking in that niche. Type those same questions into google and you'll get heaps of info.
  
  It will be a bit of effort, but what I've described is no more than a couple of hours or so either method.
  
  If you check out a few signatures here you'll get plenty of clues.
  
  Does that help?
  
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JoeRemington

11 years ago

Originally Posted by PCH

Hi Snaps,

without a shadow of a doubt matey, this is what you need to do below. Don't waste your time on anything else. The further you stray from these simple steps, the more difficult you're gonna make it for yourself...

So do this - nothing else

Step 1) Create a 10 - 15 page report offering huge value and interest in your market/niche (this will be your freebie giveaway)

Step 2) Also create a 30 - 40 page book that solves ONE SPECIFIC problem in your market. And this will be your PAID PRODUCT.

Step 3) Put together a Squeeze Page on a related name domain, and offer your freebie on it.

Step 4) Put up a Sales Page offering your Paid Product for a low $7 to build buyers list. When people subscribe to your freebie, you immediately send them to this page as an OTO.

Step 5) Drive traffic to squeeze page - redirect opt-ins to your Sales/OTO Page

Step 6) Be sure to remove buyers from your freebie list. Have two lists 1) leads 2) customers

Step 7) Send auto responder emails to your leads list with links to your "paid" product. Again, segment anyone who purchases onto the buyers list exactly as before.

Step 8) Survey your "Customers" (not "leads") to discover what they need/want to know more about. What are their pressing problems? Then, based on their responses, promote either affiliate products or better still, your own products, to them.

Step 9) When your next paid product is created, you sell that to your Buyers List, and you can segment those buyers onto another list

Step 10) The, you just keep refining your sales funnel in this way. Promoting and creating products, moving your customers from a low priced product up to a high priced product, and segmenting your lists along the way.

Come back and post again when you have this set up and are making dough from it

Hope this helps buddy...

Now that is solid advise given here and one that I'll second.

Good job

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PCH 11 years ago

Thanks Kris and Joe R,

It's no surprise really. It's just that people don't seem to do it, - maybe they dismiss it because it seems too simple. Who knows?
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Martin Salter

11 years ago

Originally Posted by PCH

Hi Snaps,

without a shadow of a doubt matey, this is what you need to do below. Don't waste your time on anything else. The further you stray from these simple steps, the more difficult you're gonna make it for yourself...

So do this - nothing else

Step 1) Create a 10 - 15 page report offering huge value and interest in your market/niche (this will be your freebie giveaway)

Step 2) Also create a 30 - 40 page book that solves ONE SPECIFIC problem in your market. And this will be your PAID PRODUCT.

Step 3) Put together a Squeeze Page on a related name domain, and offer your freebie on it.

Step 4) Put up a Sales Page offering your Paid Product for a low $7 to build buyers list. When people subscribe to your freebie, you immediately send them to this page as an OTO.

Step 5) Drive traffic to squeeze page - redirect opt-ins to your Sales/OTO Page

Step 6) Be sure to remove buyers from your freebie list. Have two lists 1) leads 2) customers

Step 7) Send auto responder emails to your leads list with links to your "paid" product. Again, segment anyone who purchases onto the buyers list exactly as before.

Step 8) Survey your "Customers" (not "leads") to discover what they need/want to know more about. What are their pressing problems? Then, based on their responses, promote either affiliate products or better still, your own products, to them.

Step 9) When your next paid product is created, you sell that to your Buyers List, and you can segment those buyers onto another list

Step 10) The, you just keep refining your sales funnel in this way. Promoting and creating products, moving your customers from a low priced product up to a high priced product, and segmenting your lists along the way.

Come back and post again when you have this set up and are making dough from it

Hope this helps buddy...

Sound advice and the right way to go about it.

You mention that you are passionate about your subject, but then go on to say that you may not be able to write an entire book.

First of all, being passionate about your first foray into IM is a GOOD THING. Do not let "Gurus" tell you otherwise. The reason for this is that this way you will be more likely to keep on going (ultra important as too many give us JUST before the finish line) and you can learn from the steps you take.

Document the boring stuff cos you can use that later to "train" VA's and others to replicate what you do in other niches that do not interest you so much. But the first project is always good to have an interest in.

If you have a passion you will be surprised at just how much you do know, so do not worry about it. Find your own voice and style. If you try to be someone else it will show eventually in your content and you will lose the followers that you built up until that date so do not be afraid to be yourself, have opinions and stand behind them.

Have fun doing it! Many get loaded down with the boring stuff and forget why they are doing it. It then becomes another J.O.B rather than the fun it started out as.

Have a plan (use the steps you have been given above as a guide) then manage your time to get things done rather than spending all your day researching! Research is important, but worthless if you are not being productive.

A good quote I heard recently was "Get out of the Stands and on to the Playing Field".

Welcome back to IM. It still works, and all the best to you.

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RedShifted

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Snaps

Hi All, [LIST][*]The industry I want to work in. I'm aware that it's very competitive but it's where's my personal passion does lie so I'm hoping that makes a difference

Passion is good. But I've found more success by ignoring my passions and doing what my gut told me. Which was to test as many things as possible whether I'm passionate about the niche or not.

Go with what works best. Then scale that up. Worry about passions later. Thats how you make money.

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11 years ago

The internet keeps changing. Now we have many restrictions. Everything is becoming harder with time.

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11 years ago

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Kris Walker

11 years ago

PCH has it absolutely nailed on.

Follow the steps he said above and you will see resuts

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Snaps

11 years ago

Thanks everyone for the advice and suggestions! Great forum!

PCH thanks so much for pointing in this direction. Thinking about it now it might actually be a really good idea to write my own book and share some knowledge to help. With that being said, once I have the book how do you recommend I drive traffic to get it noticed? That was one of the huge problems I had before, getting traffic!

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Kerryrus

11 years ago

Hell yeah keyword research is still relevant. It allow you to reach people in your target audience who are looking for very specific things and blogging is the best way to get started in my opinion.

I really wouldn't worry about competition. The main thing is that you're passionate about your topic. Competition is a GOOD thing because you can leverage their success to grow your online business much faster with the right approach.

BUT you'll need a slight shift in mindset. Before you can see success online you need to grow an audience who know, like and trust you and that takes time.

In your blog posts you can recommend products and services that you trust (and use yourself) but make sure you're content adds value to your readers - very important!

If you just want to make a quick buck that doesn't really lead to anything long-term then just create a product, send traffic to it and burn your list like most people are taught to do.

Alternatively, invest the time to create epic content that adds value to your target audience. Build a trusted relationship with them and they will buy your recommendations. You'll also be building a profitable, long-term business that you can scale and grow over time.

Hope that helps!
Kerry

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MikeHollings

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kerryrus

Hell yeah keyword research is still relevant. It allow you to reach people in your target audience who are looking for very specific things and blogging is the best way to get started in my opinion.

I really wouldn't worry about competition. The main thing is that you're passionate about your topic. Competition is a GOOD thing because you can leverage their success to grow your online business much faster with the right approach.

BUT you'll need a slight shift in mindset. Before you can see success online you need to grow an audience who know, like and trust you and that takes time.

In your blog posts you can recommend products and services that you trust (and use yourself) but make sure you're content adds value to your readers - very important!

If you just want to make a quick buck that doesn't really lead to anything long-term then just create a product, send traffic to it and burn your list like most people are taught to do.

Alternatively, invest the time to create epic content that adds value to your target audience. Build a trusted relationship with them and they will buy your recommendations. You'll also be building a profitable, long-term business that you can scale and grow over time.

Hope that helps!
Kerry

Great Advice Kerry, couldn't agree more.

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Vid Yo

11 years ago

Originally Posted by RedShifted

Passion is good. But I've found more success by ignoring my passions and doing what my gut told me...Go with what works best. Then scale that up. Worry about passions later. Thats how you make money.

Originally Posted by Kerryrus

The main thing is that you're passionate about your topic

In the past, I've been torn between these 2, polar opposite, types of advice. I know this isn't the premise of yor posting OP, but it really is the START to being successful (or perhaps "failing" again) online.

I reccommend doing both: Follow the DEMAND now. Make money from that to feed your PASSION later.

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high_plains_drifter

11 years ago

definitely pick a niche you have an interest in, are you really going to want to wake up every day, curate, research and create content you don't have a passion for......i doubt it, and if you do, it'll probably only last a few months.

Don't worry about competition

I personally wouldn't go down the PLR route, create something unique and personal to you, and get it PROFESSIONALLY designed. I'm a graphic designer and so many of these ebooks are just horrible to read.

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Dmalcom 11 years ago

Bookmarked this thread because PCH's reply. Very nice, you should write a book on it d=
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Victor Saha

11 years ago

Some of the comments is really helpful here. Best of luck mate.

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SandraLarkin

Banned 11 years ago

A lot of niche marketing is STILL the exact same mostly. You just need to be aware of huge changes in serps algorhitm.

The same basic principles of attacking a niche back in 2004, apply today, with a lot of different variables.

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Marco Moeschter

11 years ago

Blogging is still a very doable way to start you IM business. The IM world is changing almost daily but most things which worked in the past still work today but people tend to chase always the new thing which brings them results immediately. But thats not the right approach if you ask me because it will bring just short time results.

I would go the classic way:

Build a Blog
Build a squeeze page to start with list building
Drive traffic to it
Build a relationship and trust with your list
Start promoting to your list but just after you added enough value to them

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datingworld

11 years ago

Follow PCH advice.
Very useful post PCH specially No 6

Step 6) Be sure to remove buyers from your freebie list. Have two lists 1) leads 2) customers

This is really important for long term profitable business.

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Reddy20

11 years ago

I suggest blogging and a little help from people who are into technology.

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gcbmark20

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Snaps

Hi All,

So I've decided to get back into internet marketing after a failed foray into it years ago. I want to give it another go and really make it work this time but it's been so long I don't know where to start now. I do know :

The industry I want to work in. I'm aware that it's very competitive but it's where's my personal passion does lie so I'm hoping that makes a difference
I know what type of products I would be selling as an affiliate and a good idea of the audience I want to target

What I don't know is Keyword research still relevant?? Is that where I should start? If so what tools are still free? Seems that everything requires payment these days. Is blogging a feasible way to go about creating content and directing people to the sales Page? What about traffic?

Sorry if all this has been asked before. It anyone could even direct me towards a good guide to getting started I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Hi,

Here's the way I see things when people talk about the need for having
a passion for something:

1. When you get good at something you want to do more of it.

2. This then turns your original interest in something into PASSION.

3. But you're now good at it and you're passionate about it too!

I mean what if you're passionate about something that cannot and won't
make you any money?

The reason why most folks end up hating what they do is because they
didn't LEARN before they EARNED!!!

They don't have any goals, they don't have a clue where to begin and they
don't even know what they're supposed to be doing in the first place!

They just want to make money online.

Why not go to the WAR ROOM, find a method someones giving away
for FREE (some very good strategies there by the way).

WORK the hell out of that strategy.

Make it WORK!

Share that strategy with others (make it your own).

Give parts of it away (to build your lists).

Build relationships with your subscribers and make rock solid repeat
incomes from your lists and continue to grow your lists!

NEVER STOP!

This is something that should never stop once you get into it.

Build your own lists by giving away stuff that is very valuable and can
help others get what they want.

All the best,
Gavin

"There comes a special moment in everyone's life; a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission-a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour."

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xxxjay

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Snaps

Hi All,

So I've decided to get back into internet marketing after a failed foray into it years ago. I want to give it another go and really make it work this time but it's been so long I don't know where to start now. I do know :

The industry I want to work in. I'm aware that it's very competitive but it's where's my personal passion does lie so I'm hoping that makes a difference
I know what type of products I would be selling as an affiliate and a good idea of the audience I want to target

What I don't know is Keyword research still relevant?? Is that where I should start? If so what tools are still free? Seems that everything requires payment these days. Is blogging a feasible way to go about creating content and directing people to the sales Page? What about traffic?

Sorry if all this has been asked before. It anyone could even direct me towards a good guide to getting started I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

Look at the strengths and weaknesses of everything you did before that made money and build on them.

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