There is an interesting phenomenon in the online marketing business and it goes by the name of “program hopping”. Many of you will have encountered it, most of you will have succumbed to it, and a lot of you will continue to fall victim to it!

I know from personal experience how easy it is to jump from one “next best thing” to another. You may even, like me, have justified it in your mind as “research”. You may have kidded yourself that you were “diversifying” or “building multiple streams of income”.

There is nothing wrong with research, and certainly much benefit to be gained from diversification, but it needs to be done the right way. Remember the saying “walk before you can run”? That applies to online marketing on many levels.

So make a commitment to yourself right now; identify your PRIMARY business and give a minimum of 90 days where you are focused on that and that alone. Ignore any other “great opportunity” that comes your way and build your primary business.

Once your core business is up and running, once it is providing you with income, and once you get to where it needs minimum attention to KEEP running, that is the point at which you can look to add another income stream.

I recently made a similar commitment to Changing The World 2Gether, and even went so far as to CANCEL memberships of various systems I had joined. It was actually quite a sobering experience to realize just how many things I had joined in the last 12 months for “research purposes”. Even more sobering was realizing how much I had spent, and was continuing to spend on systems that were simply gathering dust.

So my “biz op detox” went a little like this - I cancelled anything that had a physical product being sold via MLM. I cancelled membership of systems that paid out on referring other members. I even dropped my Direct Matches account back down to free status.

The money being spent on those systems can now be used on the ONE BUSINESS that I am focused on for a minimum of 90 days.

Like a more conventional “detox” I feel a heck of a lot better, my focus is very clearly defined, and my time and energy are being used more effectively. The previous approach was in danger of derailing my successful business activities.

If this sounds like you, start your business detox TODAY!

Gaz
http://ChangingtheWorld2gether.com

Affiliate Marketing is by far, one of the easiest ways to make money online. It is a revenue sharing business relationship between the affiliate who agrees to promote the products or services, and the merchant who offers them.

The affiliate advertises the merchant’s products and services and gets a commission for every successful referral. Every time a customer is referred to the merchant’s site, through the affiliate’s efforts, and makes a purchase, the affiliate gets a share of the profit. No payment is due to the affiliate until successful results are realized. Compensation is based on either number of visits (Pay-per-click), registrant (Pay-per-lead), or commission for each sale (Pay-per-sale).

Affiliate Marketers can earn a few bucks to thousands of dollars with affiliate programs. The opportunity to earn in affiliate marketing can only be limited by the affiliate’s determination, creativity and strategy. It is a brilliant way to earn online, and you do not have to produce your own product or service to make a buck. By advertising your merchant’s products passionately, you get more in return. Profits in affiliate marketing usually start small but can get larger as the campaign starts to build up steam.

There are many ways that an affiliate marketer can do to maximize their profits. If you ask any affiliate marketer how many affiliate checks they would want to receive, they will most likely want to get as many as possible. Some affiliate checks are small, amounting to nothing more than $25.
While others are large and can easily reach the thousands and even more. Over time, these affiliate checks may build up to a really impressive amount. However, making a fortune in affiliate marketing is not instant. You should put in enough work and effort as well. You have to use your imagination to find more ways to attract more web traffic that can convert to sales for the merchant and profit for you as well.

How many affiliate checks do you want to receive? Most affiliate marketers will enthusiastically reply that they want to receive as many affiliate checks as possible. However, is it as easy as it sounds? Does joining many affiliate marketers guarantee more affiliate checks that really amount to something? The answer is No. Most affiliate marketers assume that joining multiple affiliate programs is a wise option. Because, it is very easy to join affiliate programs and there is really nothing to lose, affiliate marketers are tempted to join as many programs they can get their hands on. Thus, they fail to give their affiliate programs enough attention and work that they ought to receive. The maximum potential of the affiliate programs are not realized and the resulting income from these programs will almost certainly be disappointing.

The best way to achieve multiple streams of income is to concentrate on one affiliate program first. Choose a product or service that you can promote passionately. Pick a product in which you have complete trust. The best products and services to promote are those that you use personally. Your prospects will be able to sense your sincerity whenever you promote a product that you have experienced. This will greatly enhance your credibility as well as your product’s marketability and will really encourage your prospect to purchase or avail of the product or service.

As soon as your first affiliate program is making a reasonable profit then you can proceed to joining another affiliate program and repeat the process. “Too much, too soon” is a common pitfall in affiliate marketing. Joining too many affiliate programs simultaneously in the hopes of having multiple streams of income simply does not work.

Focus first on one affiliate program and work on it so that it makes a good profit. Then, go find another promising program and give it your best effort. The question should not be how many affiliate checks you want to receive, but how many “high-paying” affiliate checks can you receive. The answer lies in your determination to succeed and determination to maximize your earning potential. With the right tools, the right actions, and perseverance you can definitely make a good profit out of affiliate marketing.

About the Author: Reimund Lube is a full time Internet Marketer who enjoys helping other people become a success online. I recommend that you visit WednesdayGift, FridayBlowout or WeblantisHost for further information about our services.

Wise Online Entrepreneurs know that the best selling products online are health products and health-related ebooks, books, tapes, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

Now World famous Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her latest “shocker!” that makes it possible for just about anyone to profit from this fact.

She’s making it possible for someone to get a fully-operational online “store” that specializes in “health-related” goods and services.

Literally now anyone can get a complete Internet “health” business in a box!

This complete website has a main product as well as up to 90 separate products that all center around breakthrough health products. And where YOU can earn some really HUGE CASH!

It seems that Dr. Suzanne has really done her homework (especially for YOUR benefit!)

First she correctly determined that according to Forrester Research (which is perhaps the most powerful & accurate online research database to date!) “health-related” products and information is by far the most sought after things anywhere online.

Nope! — Despite what you might have thought, “sex,” “porn,” and “UFOs” are NOT the most searched for items on the Internet (but “health stuff” is hands down!)

Second, Dr. Suzanne’s “Top Secret Fat Loss Secret” shook the entire World with its release recently - and she’s even made a special lead-capture page that you also get central to this amazing site!

Why is this important?

Simple: because Dr. Suzanne’s affiliates are making millions right now with what is perhaps one of ClickBank’s HOTTEST products (and this same product is the central seller at your new health e-Biz site!)

Third, the site you get also acts as a “database” that never stops growing so that you get 10,000’s of customers you can continue to sell to over and over again other things!

Why is this important?

Again, very simple: anyone who’s wise online knows that “backend” sales are chief to making long term and extra profits!

Dr. Suzanne’s NEW “Health Biz In a Box” complete and fully-operational website you get for next to nothing contains an electronic “Automatic Sales Manager” (like a salesman robot - Ha!) built-in that works to upsell to your list over and over again so that you enjoy additional “automatic” income!

Fourth, Dr. Suzanne health-biz site also includes a complete health-related products Shopping Mall so that your site visitors stopping by are likely to buy at least 1 to up to 90 additional products creating instantly for you up to over a dozen other income streams!

This way you get the “most bang for your buck” so to speak!

As if all this weren’t enough, the fifth (and perhaps the very best) thing about this automatic seller is the tiny spokesmodel “Rachel” that literally walks out onto your Health-Biz site and guides your site visitors (like a tour guide) through your entire site and what it has to offer!

Dr. Suzanne carefully tested the site both WITH and WITHOUT “Rachel” and accurately determined that the addition of “Rachel” boosted sites sales by as much as 396% (meaning nearly 4 times as many sales!)

Dr. Suzanne believes that having the spokesmodel adds credibility as well as an informative approach to the site so that it generates a much higher “conversion-to-sales” ration at large.

And ALL these amazing features stand to make YOU very, very rich as you get all of them with your own “Health Biz In a Box” website!

If any of this floats your boat, then I highly recommend you get over to:

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…and because rumor has it that Dr. Suzanne may put a ceiling on the number of these Internet “health-biz” sites she’s giving out in order to avoid everyone having one and risking market saturation.

Already people securing theirs have had nothing but great things to say about this:

“I’m so happy with mine! … Having this site professionally set up by Dr. Suzanne’s Team for us was the greatest thing we ever did! … the site literally is just pouring money into our pockets even while we’re doing other things, vacationing, and even crashing out!”
-Cynthia Conrad, Atlanta, Georgia

“I never knew that making money online could be so easy!”
-Richard Bosworth, SLC, Utah

“Health stuff is the real way to make money online easily … everybody sooner or later has to have it!”
-Carla Dupree, Boise, Idaho

“I’m making about $6,000 a week with mine … and this after failing on the Net for nearly 10 years trying to sell everything else!”
-Jason Herman, San Dimas, CA

“$500 a day is what this biz is shoving in my pocket! I even went out of town for nearly two weeks and my health biz site completely ran itself!”
-Michael Sorbowski, Mason, Ohio

As you can see by these people’s comments, everyone grabbing their own automatic health-products Internet business is raking in the cash! (And now you can too!)

Just grab yours now simply by going to:

http://inthegame.healthebiz.hop.clickbank.net

I guess I should have added above that not only do you get all the things I’ve described thus far, but you also get professional customized set up at no extra charge!

That’s right! - Dr. Suzanne’s own Team of web experts actually build your “Health Biz” for you so you don’t have to!

They:

- design your site
- put all the 90 income streams into place
- install the electronic sales manager for you
- add sharp selling graphics
- add powerful videos
- add several other webpages
- and a complete online shopping mall of health products!

All so that you can earn big income online and while you sell product that help people and that you can be very proud to sell.

So all in all this is perhaps one of the BEST instant online ventures worth your time.

Get your now before the ceiling number is reached and maxed out…

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There is a popular ad on TV recently showing people carrying around a big orange number - apparently to represent the amount of money that particular person has to have saved in order to retire with the same kind of lifestyle that they lead currently. I found myself getting angrier and angrier every time I saw that ad, and I really didn’t know why.

Then I realized it wasn’t really anger I was feeling, it was more of a sense of desperation and anxiety. My wife clued me in that that was exactly what this company wanted me to feel, so that I would be inclined to follow their advice. That’s what negative advertising is all about. It did get my attention, but I don’t think it generated the kind of response that the company was hoping for.

What this company wants is for you to sign up with them as financial advisors, and they’ll help you reach your number. While this might be a solution for some people, especially younger ones, I just don’t feel it applies to someone like me that’s in their fifties. I have put a little money away, but I don’t feel there is any way for me to save more than a million dollars by the time I’m 65! That’s the minimum amount of most of the numbers under the people’s arms.

What are people my age supposed to do? I’ve decided that I’m going to generate multiple streams of income coming into my bank account every month for the rest of my life. Furthermore, I think this is a great solution for most baby boomers. How do we really know what that number is, anyway, with the rising cost of gas and the decreasing value of real estate. These are uncertain times. So how do we generate those multiple streams? Here are a few ideas.

1. You can refinance your house with a reverse mortgage. If you have a bunch of equity in your primary residence, you can take out a loan and not have to make payments. You can then get a monthly payment, a lump sum, or just have it available to use if necessary.

2. You could get a job. Maybe all you’ll need is a little extra to supplement your pension, savings, and social security. A part-time job might fit the bill to help you stay afloat.

3. You can purchase a franchise. There are all kinds of businesses out there if you’re willing to put up the capital to get started. Some are very expensive, and some aren’t. Do some research, this might be a great option.

4. Start a home-based traditional business. If you’ve got hidden talents, this could be a great option for you. Maybe you know how to work with wood, and you can build birdhouses, or furniture, or guitars. Then, you can sell them on Ebay.

5. You could start your own home-based internet business. Affiliate marketing is a hot topic right now, and you can make a some good residual income by setting up websites that promote other peoples products. All you have to do is send the customer to that merchant’s site, and you’ll earn a commission. Once you get the sites set up, they are self-sustaining and can generate income month after month.

6. A network marketing business. This is my top choice for the simple reason that it offers both leveraged incom and residual income. Leveraged income means that you sign up distributors underneath you, and you are paid a small part of any sales they generate for the company. Residual income is accomplished by setting up customers that continue to buy your companies products on a month-to-month basis, and you earn commission on every purchase they make.

These are a few ideas. Everyone is different: you’ll have to discover what works for you. But do something, it’s never too late!

About the Author:

Matt is an internet marketing guide, helping people learn how to build their business online. His focus is on attraction marketing. You can read a full version of this article at Baby Boomer Retirement Plan.

The truth is, it just doesn’t work that way. Soon you find out that you’re going to have to call and do the prospecting yourself if you want any results. That’s just part of marketing your business unless you have access to automated marketing tools which you have to pay for. That gets pretty expensive unless you become an affiliate of each and every one of them. Then you have to market all of them and get sign-ups just to pay for their fees, and for that, you need some really good organization skills and a website to advertise them. You can put banners and links from each of them on one website and list that website with all the traffic exchanges you can sign up for and that you think you can surf within one week. About half the traffic exchanges will give you no problem about it. The other half will disapprove your site because “there are too many redirects on your page”. Then there’s email campaigning using safelists and autoresponders as well as ads to post and forums to join. There’s also blogs to run. That’s what it takes, advertise, advertise, advertise in every possible arena you can access.

Also, most of the MLM programs tell you to call your friends and family and talk them into giving it a look, and you do this until they run when they see you. There are a few that teach you not to do that and how to find the right people to work with. So how do you market a multitude of opportunities and tools with one system? As mentioned above, there are marketing programs that you can join free and use the free marketing tools the company offers to persuade you to give them a try. The person whose website through which you signed up, will begin calling you to interview you in order to determine whether you are serious enough, about building your business, to sign up as a pro member.

That is exactly how the business coaches and experts train you to view it, as an interviewing process to sift out the serious from the curious. First, you are usually invited and sometimes urged to attend their training calls. Then, they direct you to their website and ask you to read everything on each page or to watch a video while taking notes. Then, they either call you with certain questions about what was explained or email you with a list of questions, about the information, to answer so they can determine if there is a chance that you may be serious. In other words, they give you homework assignments. Depending on the company policies, they may give you one to three homework assignments to see if you’ll stick with it. One of those assignments may be to study an overview of the objectives, tools, training, resources and investments involved. If you’re still interested or have decided to take the plunge, you may be sent a contract of sorts which you will be asked to carefully read and note any questions you may have to discuss with your sponsor as you are emphatically urged not to join until you fully understand what will be expected of you.

When you fully understand the commitment you’re about to make, you may be asked to initial a number of statements listed, sign it, date it and fax it to your sponsor so he or she can sign and date a copy and fax it back to you. They don’t want to waste time on anybody who isn’t serious. A lot of experts are advising you to use reverse marketing and targeting Internet marketers as part of what is taught by the coaches. You are taught to take the position of a serious CEO interviewing potential partners or board members who are realistic. You’ll learn to find marketers who understand that they will be expected to invest time, diligent work and money in order to succeed.

Summary

There are a lot of get-rich-quick scams out there promising big pay with zero work involved. However, there are also some honest people out there too who will tell you up front that to succeed, in any business, you will have to invest a certain amount of time, work and money. These people will not baby you. Babies don’t belong in business as Dani Johnson, a successful entrepreneur and business coach, put it. They will go to great lengths to make sure you are serious before they invest their time working with you.

By April Lowe

Setting Up Multiple Streams Of Online Income

by Theo McLanahan

Though most successful businessmen tend to be quite
enterprising, less of them than you might think believe that
multiple streams of income can be found. The phrase
multiple streams of income is attributed to Robert Allen.
This is actually one of the best ways to not just become
rich, but stay that way.

Creating multiple streams of income has become a reality for
entrepreneurs all over the world because of the
opportunities that the Internet has created and here are
just some of the many ways to help you get started building
your income portfolios.

1. Google AdSense

Google’s AdSense program is probably one of the easiest ways
for anyone, even a complete newbies, to start building a
passive stream of income. AdSense is a pay-per-click
advertising network that pays you every time a visitor to
your website clicks on an advertisement. Apart from placing
a simple piece of code on your website that AdSense
provides, the only other real work you have to do is create
relevant content and drive traffic to your site.

2. Create an Online Directory

Online directories make great bait for search engine spiders
because of its ability to create lots of content very
quickly. You can place AdSense on your directory and watch
your income grow, but an increasingly popular way of
building a passive income with an online directory is by
selling text links.

As opposed to more traditional banner advertisements, text
links appear in the directory itself. Such links can be
sold per month, year, or permanently. Using this system
will help to increase your income.

If you don’t want to create a directory but you already have
a website, you might consider creating a category where you
place links to other websites for a fee. The higher the
page rank of your website, the higher the fee you can
demand.

3. Get Paid to Review Products

Being paid for writing a blog is now a very popular way of
earning money online. You can be paid for using your blog
entries to review other blogs or specific products. Many
advertisers are willing to pay for bloggers that do this
type of work. Websites like PayPerPost.com and ReviewMe.com
are examples of such a revenue system.

4. Create a Membership Site

You could start a website with a monthly fee if you believe
you can offer information worth such a payment. Offer
special services and content to paying members. Knowing
that there is specific content reserved for members only
will help build your membership and eventually allow you to
raise the monthly fee.

5. Selling Domain Names

Buying and selling domain names is a great way to build your
income fast if you know what you’re doing. There are folks
making a full-time income doing this, but there is a
learning curve required to achieve optimum results. There
is money to be made in selling domain names so learn the
trade if you’re interested.

Are you setting up multiple streams of income in your
(http://www.netmarketingchaos.com) internet business? If
not, you’re putting your business at risk. A single source
of income puts you at too much risk. Visit the Internet
Marketing Chaos blog at http://www.netmarketingchaos.com to
learn how to diversify your efforts to make sure your
business has a strong foundation.

In this article, I shall reveal a few strange money habits some of these super-rich folks have.

Interestingly, besides having multiple income streams, a few of them actually opt for a life of frugality instead of flashy extravagance. In all likelihood, they need not worry about their monthly bottom-line anymore but unbelievably, they still take pains to spend carefully. Believe it or not, here´s proof using a few examples:

1) Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad drives a 15-year-old Volvo, flies economy, avoids expensive suits and eats simply at lower-tier restaurants.

2) Investor Warren Buffet (world´s richest man 2007) lives in the same house he bought for just US$31k nearly 50 years ago instead of building a grandiose mansion with sprawling grounds.

3) British billionaire John Caudwell cycles more than 23 kilometers (14 miles) to work everyday to save cash (probably a few petrol dollars) and stay fit. He even cuts his own hair to save time and that extra few pounds!

4) Indian billionaire Azim Premji, owner of technology giant Wipro, serves food on paper plates at a lunch reception honoring his son´s wedding!

I don´t blame you if you have problems believing how incredibly frugal these billionaires are. If you´re already self-sufficient in cash, try and experience for yourself some of their cash-saving habits. It´s a little nutty but it´s fun!

Otherwise, if you´re hard up on cash, why not learn from their cash-making habits instead. That is, through multiple streams of income.

Kumcheong Tang wrote this article. If you liked it, there´s more where that came from! Visit his Multiple Streams Of Income website to start your billionaire dreams, and grab your bonuses at no extra charge.

June 06, 2008

Have you ever wondered how world´s richest 10 persons earn their billions? And they achieved this while the rest of us struggle with our monthly paychecks?

Their secret to success is plain to see: all of them amass their massive fortunes through creating many income sources. That is, they all had successful multiple streams of income.

Here´s proof on how they did it. Below is a list of the world´s Top 10 richest people in 2007 and their income sources.

1) Warren Buffett (US; Net worth: US$62b): Stocks and shares investments, acquiring out-of-luck companies, re-structuring them and re-selling at much higher prices. His financial vehicle Berkshire Hathaway holds controlling stakes in big companies such as Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Johnson and Johnson, Wrigley and so on.

2) Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico; Net worth: US$60b): Major investments in Mexican equities market, telecommunication networks, electronics.

3) Bill Gates (US; Net worth: US$58b): Operating software, computer hardware, portable entertainment systems, acquiring competitors.

4) Lakshmi Mittal (India; Net worth: US$45b): Heavy industries, manufacturing, controls the world´s largest steel-maker Arcelor Mittal.

5) Mukesh Ambani (India; Net worth: US$43b): Heavy industries, petrochemicals.

6) Anil Ambani (India; Net worth: US$42b): Heavy industries, petrochemicals, telecommunications, power supply.

7) Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden; Net worth: US$31b): retailing, restaurants, furniture and household appliances.

K. P. Singh (India; Net worth: US$30b): real estate, land investments.

9) Oleg Deripaska (Russia; Net worth: US$28b): aluminum trading, coal production and energy deals.

10) Karl Albrecht (Germany; Net worth: US$27b): retailing, grocery and discount supermarket business.

Of course, success leaves clues and can be replicated by anyone determined enough. However, chances are none of us are in the midst of buying a steel mill or launching a satellite telecommunication system next month.

So let´s get back to reality. The good news is everyone, including you, is absolutely capable of making his first million bucks. And just like them, from multiple streams of income, of course. See what I meant by ´success leaving clues´?

In fact, earning passive income from multiple streams can be pretty easy once you learn the tricks, practice hard and get the hang of it. Start humble like them and perhaps one day you´ll make it to the top 10 list of the world´s super-rich. Best of luck!

Kumcheong wrote this article. If you liked it, there´s more where that came from! Visit his Multiple Streams Of Income website to start your billionaire dreams, and grab your bonuses at no extra charge.

For example, let’s take a basic online store. Perhaps a book store specializing in romance novels. Doesn’t sound too profitable, does it. Let’s see what this store can do:

• AdSense

• Charge for editing books, perhaps even for reviewing them and featuring them on the site

• Put Amazon ads on site

• eBay ads for all things bookish

• Write your own ebook on how to get published and sell it

• Affiliate with a company that will print hard copies of the books

• Feature art pertaining to your books or the writers

• Find other affiliates who have bookish things, perhaps even bells, books and candles

• Locate affiliate for the “romance” of the website. Perhaps flowers or chocolates or diamonds

• Sell the books themselves!

Now, instead of just one possible income stream, there are ten! Now THIS is a real business.

In building your multiple income stream business, there are two things you need to keep in mind, no matter what your product area:

• Find the right niche

• Diversify your streams of income.

If you can accomplish those two things, you can have a successful online business.

EBOOKS. Write your own, or see what others have written. “Jiffy books” do pretty well. These are short, 10-20 page ebooks, that sell for under $5. Also check ClickBank. ClickBank authors tend to be pretty generous with commissions, so if there is a good ebook there, promote it. You can also do both: write your own AND feature ebooks that others have written.

PUT ADS ON YOUR SITE. AdSense is the biggest company doing this, but there are others. You place blocks of ads on your site. They are easy to set up. All you do is decide how you want the ads to look, and place the code in the right spot. Easy peasy. Whenever anyone clicks on these, you get paid. The rate of pay is determined by your topic, and the page the ad is on.

AFFILIATE MARKETING. Another company has a product you like. You see they have an affiliate program. That means that you can show it and sell it on your site. Every time you make a sale, you get a commission. The money transaction is handled by the merchant, so you don’t need a shopping cart. Check out Commission Junction for a slew of affiliate based products. You will need to sign up, but it is free. Linkshare is another big company. Also check out Affiliate Programs and the Direct Selling Association.

CREATE A MEMBERSHIP SITE. Do you have special knowledge in a unique field? Let members pay to join and offer them premium knowledge, products and networking.

BRING EBAY INTO YOUR WEBSITE. You can set up your own eBay store, featuring the types of products that your visitors would like. A cake decorating site could sell molds for devils on the page about devils food cakes! eBay has so much to offer that they sky is the limit.

CREATE AND SELL YOUR OWN TRAINING PROGRAM DVDs. Sometimes visual works better than written material. If that is the case for you, create your own training program. You can sell them as a download, or in hard case DVD, or both.

CREATE YOUR OWN SHOPPING MALL. Thousands of different kinds of products lurk in different shopping malls, from teddy bears to samurai swords. Track down your vendors and create your own very unique shopping. Once you start looking, you will be amazed at the variety of product you can offer.

JOIN A TRAVEL COMPANY. For all travel sites and geographically oriented sites, this is a must. And it’s a nice source of income. A travel site is a natural for network marketing, and would include many of the other streams of income that we note here as well.

PROMOTE YOUR SERVICE BUSINESS ONLINE OR SELL YOUR OWN PRODUCT ONLINE. From massage parlors (the legit kind) to dentists to attorneys, there just isn’t a corner of the business world that couldn’t benefit from a good website. Have online coupons for your customers, both from your business and from affiliated businesses. Or do you create jewelry? Write children’s books? Design stained glass doors? The internet is made for you. Nowhere else can you reach such a wide audience, at such a low price. And it’s not just for “creative” folks. One of the most successful webmasters I know sells kits for people to set up their own concrete driveway contractor business. Honest.

GENERATE FINDERS FEES. Real estate finders fees may or may not be an option in your area. But if you bring an artist a new client, that should certainly generate a finder’s fee. Look for companies in the same general area of interest as your website and cut your own deal.

ACT AS AN AGENT FOR OTHERS. A very successful lady books rooms in local inns in a remote island, and earns very nice commissions doing it. Her site attracts the guests, and she forwards the requests for rooms to her clients. Another webmaster books trips to Australia. He doesn’t actually do the booking himself; he just forwards the request to other agents, and collects his commission. Both are great network marketing options.

SELL ADVERTISING ON YOUR SITE. Unlike a newspaper, you’ve got all the space you want. So sell some of it.

CREATE YOUR OWN AUCTION. When you’ve got a specialized product, let others bid on it. Setting up a whole auction site like eBay is very expensive, but you can do “blind bidding”, i.e., let people submit bids without knowing what others are bidding. Results can be quite nice with this approach.

MLM. Multi level marketing is not always the best option. But once you find a good company to work with, it cannot be duplicated anywhere.

About the Author:

Every time you launch a new product online, you have the chance to drastically increase your profits. As I explained last week, the best way to generate momentum, interest, and monster cash flow is to turn the launch into an event. Internet users have millions of messages vying for their attention all day long. And by creating an exciting event, you’ll break through the clutter and get tons of eyeballs looking in your direction.

I’ve already given you some ideas on how to do that. I showed you how to use a “pre-launch” to get people salivating for the actual launch. And I talked about how to use different media to grab the attention of as many potential customers as possible.

Now, here are five more strategies to make your first Product Launch a huge success.

1. Use social proof.

Social proof is a mental trigger that makes people want to do what other people are doing. So if you can show that other people are buying your product (or planning to), you will have an easier time selling it.

During your pre-launch, for example - when you get lots of people commenting on your blog or on message boards about how much they like your product… that’s social proof. Your prospects can see that other people are excited about buying it. That will make them more inclined to buy it as well.

How do you get all that buzz? One easy way is to run a contest where you give a prize to whoever who posts the best comment on your blog.

Another good example of social proof is testimonials from people who have benefited from your products in the past. So be sure to include lots of them in your marketing copy.

Yet another way to use social proof is with “case studies.” (Actually, a case study isn’t much more than a long testimonial.) For example, when I began the pre-launch for my new Product Launch Formula 2.0, I published an extensive video case study of a man (John Gallagher) who literally went from food stamps to having a six-figure business. At the end, I invited my readers to comment on the case study on my blog. Within a couple of days, I had more than 300 “rave reviews” from people who had seen it.

You can see the John Gallagher case study here.

2. Use scarcity.

Scarcity is another mental trigger that makes people want to buy. When there is less of something, they want it more.

You can create scarcity by limiting the quantity of whatever it is that you’re selling. But I usually don’t like to do that because it limits the amount of money you make. I prefer to limit the amount of time people have to take advantage of the deal. So I set a deadline, after which the price will be higher. And I offer extra bonuses that people will no longer get after the deadline.

I do this with almost every launch. For example, in the pre-launch for a membership site for loan officers, I offered bonus teleseminars for people who signed up on the very first day. This gave them a big incentive to act right away when the launch went live.

Your prospects will respond to a deadline like you wouldn’t believe. Don’t forget to send a last-minute notice 24 hours before it expires. And again about six hours before the deadline. Get ready for a rush of orders right at the end.

3. Get joint venture partners on board.

When you get other people promoting your launch to their lists on an affiliate basis, you multiply its effectiveness.

Give your partners a reason to mail to their lists when you are still in pre-launch by giving them some high-quality content to use. The content should lead people back to your site so they can sign up to be on your pre-launch “priority notification list.”

Communicate with your partners throughout the launch. Let them know what’s coming and why they should continue to send you traffic. And keep giving them reasons to mail to their people multiple times. The best way to do that is to give them a series of pre-launch content pieces to be released at different times.

For example, in a recent launch in the massage therapy market, one of my students released a series of content-rich downloadable PDF reports. These reports not only had solid information that would appeal to massage therapists, they were designed to get people excited about the launch. The joint venture partners were encouraged to send their lists to a page where they could download these reports… and join the pre-launch priority notification list.

4. Don’t be afraid to keep e-mailing your prospects.

I call each e-mail leading up to a successful launch a “touch”… and you want to keep touching your prospects. But you have to have a reason for each touch. (No one wants to get an e-mail telling them to watch out for another e-mail in a day or two.)

For example, long before the product launch (and while the product is still actually being developed), I often send a survey to my list, asking them what they think the product should have or do. When I get their feedback, I send another e-mail to thank them for their responses and tell them what I learned. I follow up that e-mail with one or more e-mails that answer any questions or concerns they may have raised about the product. (I take one question per e-mail, and answer it thoroughly.) What I’m really doing here is pre-selling the product.

None of these e-mails are hype-filled sales messages. I am either asking for or giving solid information in each one.

As I get closer to the launch, the frequency of my e-mails increases… and I start to talk more specifically about the product and the offer.

Now this might sound like a lot of work. But it really isn’t hard to do… especially when you consider the enormous payoff.

5. Perfect the launch process.

The single best thing about your first product launch is that it’s just your FIRST launch.

You can take what you’ve learned and do it over and over again. And each time, it will get bigger and bigger. Soon enough, you’ll be thinking about your own six-figure (or even seven-figure) launch.

So good luck. Go get ‘em!

[Ed. note: Jeff Walker is the creator of the Product Launch Formula.

You can read lots of real-life case studies (including the amazing story of a guy who went from food stamps to a six-figure income using product launches) at Jeff’s site.

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