2/10/08
Home Business Training And Business Courses
There's an old saying that goes like this "If you think education is expensive try ignorance" Well said!Education is considered to be one of the most important and essential things in a person's life.
Fundamentally, education is what separates successful people from unsuccessful people.
You don't have to pay one penny to learn how to build a home business if you don't want too.
Home Business Training And Business Courses are free if you know where to look.
Business Training is an essential way of improving the performance of your home businesses by empowering your skills and knowledge. But, the volume of information is overwhelming, and the quality can be difficult to judge.
If you don’t create a learning guide to help you organize self-teaching activities and gives you all the information you need you may spend months or even years in the research and training phases. So if you want to jump start your learning curve create a business training plan and stick to it.
What is a Business Training Plan
A business learning plan is personalized action plan designed to help you set and meet timed deadlines for completing goals. It’s a document that maps out what you expect to learn during the training, what your objectives for the training are, and what do you aim to achieve.
Learning objectives are brief statements that define results expected in a specific period of time.
It might fit on a single sheet of paper. It could be as simple as a goal with a few steps. So what is the big deal? The big deal is without a learning plan you can't go anywhere.
Get your business from the ground up!Preparing A Personal Business Training Plan To Start Jump You Learning Curve.
- Evaluate your skills and classify your capabilities to know where to start learning.
- Set your educational goals. It is important to be as clear as possible about your educational goals and expectations. The best goals are stated so that it will be clear whether or not you have achieved them. In this case, setting a goal means making a decision about the type of skills you're going to earn and find out how to reach them.
- Be specific to exactly what you want to accomplish.
- Assess your learning needs and find out how much time and money you need to invest.
- Decide on learning priorities. Once your learning needs and priorities are identified the business learning plan can be developed.
- Schedule your business training time for accomplishment in a defined period.
- Get the necessary resources. Search for your resources, put them together or know where you will find them and start your work.
- State in measurable terms results to be accomplished.
- Be realistic, but challenging.
- Review and update your plan regularly as your needs and skills change.
At first I suggest that you start by reading every thing you come across. Read, read, and read some more; read lots about different subjects, but keep it general.
Read about marketing, finances, yoga, cooking, traveling, gardening, dog training, cars repair, sports, etc.... keep it general and don't read intensely.
If you don't have time to read just skim, don't try to soak in every word. Seek information from experienced people about subjects that interest you.
The key about reading is to get great ideas such as home business creation idea, marketing ideas, product creation idea, website promotion ideas, business development ideas, etc....
Sometimes ideas come from things you see other people doing. Great ideas happen when two or more other ideas bang into each other to form something completely new.
Subscribe to as many newsletters as you can from different topics. Download free ebooks about business small startup and business guide small startup or any other ebook you want.
When you find good idea write it down in a notebook or save it in a special folder for further use.
If you are serous about your internet business and you like to reach the top, I'm sure you would love the opportunity to learn from the pro how to build a money making home business in no time frame!
Preparation for starting home business
This is our third article in the series "How To Start Work At Home Business On Strong Basis"Here we will discuss how to prepare yourself before starting a home business to increase success, and reduce failure.Whatever the business to start from home, it is essential that you prepare yourself in advance so that you will be geared up to deal with future problems when they arise. Before starting home business sit down and visual what the end is that you are looking for and then ask yourself questions such as:
- What do I have that I can use to start my home business?
- What I am expecting to achieve and why?
- How much money do I need and how/where do I get it?
- What services are there that can help me to get started?
- Do I have a room in my home where I can set up an office?
- Who is going to support me in a starting home business?
Analyzing your strengths and weaknesses skills and abilities, assets and liabilities will tell you if you are going to reach your goal, have the needed capital to start on your own and really know yourself. Doing so you will be prepared for whatever comes your way and will be better prepared for business success.
Do you Think That Starting a Home Business Is An Easy Task?
You may have heard some people saying that starting a home business is difficult. They're not kidding. They tell the truth! If you heard something else run away and don't look back.
Starting a home business, in many ways, like building a house. The stronger your foundation will be, the longer your home based business will remain safe from unforeseen circumstances. Without a proper foundation, it won't resist and anything you build on it will fall apart in no time. Your foundation strength should much your home business size. The bigger you want to build your home based business, the stronger the foundation you need to build.
Are You Prepared To Fail And Keep Trying?
No matter what other marketers may tell you, chances are that you won't be as successful as you think you will be. A bad surprise may be waiting for you if you don't take precaution. So, do not expect to succeed at first. Expect that you will fail, and work hard to avoid it.
Here are some really scary statistics.
- There is a 50:50 chance that 5 business owners like you will go bankrupt within the next 12 months.
- One out of ten people who start a home business will be successful enough to last over 5 years.
How To Start a Home Business?
So, before starting a home business make sure...
- You acquire the needed skills to create and run your Internet home based business.
- Decide your budget - Make sure you have the money to operate your home based business.
- Expect that you will not to make any money in the first few months as only very few people achieve success immediately. Most often it takes from 3 to 6 months before you start to see a return for your efforts.
- Believe in yourself and your home business - There is no reason why you can't succeed in your home business. It may take some extra months to see results but success is within reach!
- Do not give up - If you don't see results and you feel like you can't make it to work, do not give up in despair. Instead stick to it, try again, you are one step away from success. All successful home based businesses spend plenty of time doing badly before they start to pick up.
- Starting a home business is stressful. It will affect you mentally, physically and emotionally. You need to be strong to deal with this kind of stress. Read Self Improvement, Inspiration & Motivation eBooks and/or have someone to turn to for support.
- You need to be the kind of person who respond to things when go wrong by working harder and getting them fixed, not someone who cries and goes into hiding.
- You need to be a “never say die” kind of person. You need to be always ready to try again, no matter what gets thrown at you. Remember that it's not when things start to go wrong that you fail! You haven't failed until you've given up.
- Be Prepared to Work Hard - Be prepared to work hard and you will find that the opportunities to advance will arise. Be 100% committed and ready to take chances. Learn more than you could possibly imagine about your business and competitors.
Your Business To Start From Home is Nothing Without Work!
I started my own business from a cyber-coffee with no money, no PC, no Internet connection and little knowledge of English. On top of that I had 6 kids a wife, and a pile of bills to pay adding to the degree of difficulties.
Does this sound familiar?
I'm proud to report that. After 4 years of learning, trial and error my business business started producing enough income covering my expenses. And, slowly my profits increased while at the same time my work load became more manageable and enjoyable.
So, don’t let the warnings mentioned above scare you. I told you that to warn you and be prepared for any unwanted situation. If you do that, then there's no reason why you can't succeed just like I did.
Watch this video and see how people like you and I are generating extra income from home.
2/9/08
How To Start Work At Home Business On Strong Basis
If you are thinking of starting a work at home business - online or offline in order to realize your dreams. The process detailed here can be applied generally to almost any startup business, so have a look around and investigate the simple but powerful principles detailed in this article series.
Nothing you will see is beyond you - anyone can put this process into practice. The results will blow you - perfectly simple actions will soon lead to a perfect home business.
This is the start to an article series that walks you though the process of starting a work at home business from scratch. It will provide insight to those considering starting a home based business.
This is a step-by-step instruction to get the basics from A-to-Z of based business home start. I can guarantee that you will get your time's worth. If you read them carefully. If you don’t have time to read, feel free to bookmark this blog or print them out for later.
The secret of success is not to stop halfway through the business selection process as so many people do. Follow these steps to start a work at home business that will succeed rather than just being a drain of your time and money.
Before you get started I want you to remember three sayings from experts that I have them written in front of me, and they was responsible for my home based business success.
- "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." (Henry Ford)
- "An once of action is worth a ton of theory." (Friedrich Engels)
- "Never, never, never give up" (Winston Churchill)
Doing The Right Things The Right Way Leads To Home Business Success!
Do You Know What It Takes To Create A Successful Home Business That Builds Long-Term Value And Allows You To Earn As Much Income As You Want?
The most serious dilemma is...
What steps needed to be taken to build a successful work at home business and make enough money to Never Have to Worry about Finances Again?
The Solution...
- Follow the exact blueprint to online success right in your face, right now! If you follow this blueprint, you will reap the rewards you've always dreamed of.
- Without taking action you will never move forward and reach the results you want.
- Without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
I'm not a guru, I'm not a newbie either. I'm just a guy who shares his experience with others. (You can learn from the Huge Mistake I Made not from my success story to avoid them).
Well, first off I can promise you that I speak from experience. I have spent more than five years in online marketing. Second, I have used what I will be teaching you to change my family lifestyle and helped tens of people succeed!
It took me years to learn how to do it and to compile this information. Now it's time to share my experience with you to save you the frustration I experienced, not to mention the lost time and money.
Believe me you don't need to buy expensive ebooks, courses and assist costly seminars to create your work at home business if your budget doesn't allow it and my case is a life example!
There are a lot of products out there where people are selling dreams. And, there are a lot of great products too. But, it is difficult to new business starters to figure out the good from the bad.
Anyway - all this talk won't make you money so let's get back on track.
What I want to emphasize is the fact that this method will give you your ticket to financial freedom and you will have the ability to do all this and more. Just keep in mind that each person's success is built one step at a time.
Why People Fail in Work At Home Business?
There are several reasons why people fail in business:
- Wrong Expectation
- Lack of plan
- Lack of discipline and consistency
- Lack of skills (General skills, finance skills, management skills, marketing skills, etc.)
- Quitting too soon!
Does Earning Money Appeal to You?
Are you serious about getting Your Work at Home Business Off to a fast start? Do you want to catapult yourself to success?
If your answer is "yes" then take action now not tomorrow! "Start today because tomorrow never comes".
Ok, Let us start from the end, and answer the question "What is your goal?"
You are reading this page because you want to make money. Right? Then, your goal is the MONEY!
Here are all the steps need to create a work at home business on strong basis ...
1 - Winning Attitude For Success.
2 - Preparation for starting home business
3 - Getting Organized to Ensure Home Business Success
4 - Home Business Training And Business Courses
5 - How to find the best home business ideas that suits you most
6 - What Business Model You Want To Run
7 - Determine Your Small Business Financing needs
8 - How to Perform Market Research For Home Business Success
9 - Create a business plan.
10 - Get the needed Internet Marketing Tools.
11 - Create a professional Website.
12 - Learn To Drive Targeted Traffic.
13 - Build an Opt-In Lists.
The order of the steps above is significant. But if desired the order can be altered to suit your needs.
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2/8/08
Boost Your Profits With Joint Ventures
Talking of joint venture deals, lets move on now to the fifth and final section on crossing your resources over and talk about the do's and dont’s of probably the most lucrative marketing method in the business. Of the five main resources, your joint venture prospects and partners will likely be the least numerous of all your resources, but with the most stopping power per person. When you think that some of your JV's might end up being seen by lists of ten to a hundred thousand or more, it suddenly becomes clear how important this is. Let’s look at where to take your joint ventures with regards to the other four resources, starting with list.
Turning Your Optin eMail List into Joint Ventures
Now as far as turning your list into joint ventures goes, this is a pretty easy but also open ended and rather variable in results until you actually see what these people are capable of further down the line. Similar to previously, when we talked about gaining feedback from your email list you can in the same way, gain joint ventures from your list, again, as the example in Building Your Affiliate Marketing Chanel () article with the affiliates, this is often far more widely used, and for good reason.
I urge you once again, not to relegate your joint venture prospects to those who visit your website, and the individuals you pick out through the top performing affiliates, but to actively seek them through your list. The reason we're doing this is simply because there's a good chance someone will be out there that won't progress down your line of resources otherwise. If they're experienced, have a big opt in email list of their own, or the ability to get in touch with your target market, you're going to miss out if you’re not telling them that you want their services.
For example, an experienced marketer that subscribes to a selection of lists to keep up with what’s going on around them, happens to subscribe to your email list where you're selling an info product such as this. He or she won't buy your how to product, because they’ve got their system set up already and it just so happens, that they only promote their own stuff to their own lists, unless it's a joint venture (this is very common among the big guys by the way), they won't buy your big product for the same reason, and they won't be joining your affiliate program for the above reason.
He or she is a heavy hitter with a big list, but you're missing out. These are the people you're aiming to cater for here. It's not good if you're leaving massive holes like this, because you're missing out on some massive profit potential. In fact, as we speak the majority of marketers out there are very obviously leaving these types of holes.
The problem with joint venturing through a list at this stage is it becomes kind of a lottery if you're not careful. You can't just send out a mailing asking for anyone with a list over ten thousand people to contact you for higher commissions, because then everyone else feels cheated and you may alienate some potential affiliates.
In general terms joint ventures should be a private thing, the deal will also vary from person to person, depending on your product, their list size, what they want in return and what you can grant in return. The best way to go about this is to keep it that way. Don't do a mass mailing just requesting joint venture for the reasons above, we can't do that for this particular resource.
What I'd suggest you do instead, which you should be doing with your list anyway, is carry on as your normally do, sending out your un-intrusive surveys to help with your research and find out as much info as you can about the people on your list, for something in return. For example a short valuable report that you've written on your area of expertise.
In exchange you're getting vital info that not only allows you to tailor your ads to your list providing a better response rate, but at the same time you're building up a picture of who the good joint venture prospects are. Once you've done that, you can go through the results you've collected, and pick the top performers, the knowledgeable, and the people with the most resources, and contact them individually.
Turning Your Customers into JVs
Turning your customers into joint venture prospects works in much the same way that you carried out for your list. You'll also be pulling research numbers from these guys, and from that research you'll know who to pull up for joint ventures. This is the only way to effectively do this and keep the joint ventures personal, instead of just mass mailing a list. It keeps you in the driver’s seat.
Of course, at this stage there's no other way to do this, chances are your list of customers who have purchased from you even though not as big as your list, will be too big to talk to all of them personally at this stage, which without this or affiliate stats, you have no other way of knowing who you want to make deals with.
Tunning Lifetime Customers to JV Prospects
Turn your lifetime customers into joint venture partners, small or large, lifetime customer or casual customer. Keep in mind that this isn't by far your most effective way of generating joint ventures on a small scale, (ad swaps, list access, etc.) or even on a large scale (full blown partnerships of products, each playing a specialized role), however, you'd be surprised what happens when you start talking to people. This article series for example wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for that factor alone.
While we won't dwell on this for too long, I do want to make sure you understand I'm not telling you to go out, and start spending your day talking to your customers, and as anti professional as that sounds, we can't strike conversations up with all these people, especially as your business starts developing over a number of products, the numbers can get a little overwhelming if you’re going to try and pull something like that out of your hat.
What I do want to make sure you understand though is to look for those signs that the long term customer that is contacting you would be a viable target for a joint venture offer, whether they mention they have a large list of their own, or on occasion you just get talking, and if it's with the right person, you might just find yourselves pulling some great ideas out of the bag together. Watch out for this, because it can, will and does happen more often than you may believe.
Turning Your JVs into Affiliates
First up, you should keep in mind that most joint ventures that you receive after launching your fist two products or so will come from your affiliates anyway. As far as those who don't, they’re really glorified affiliates only. As with the difference between customers and lifetime customers, you'll find that even with those who aren't your affiliates, you'll be in contact with them pretty frequently anyway, whether they're on your instant messenger list, or you just fire emails at each other when you each launch new products.
Building up a circle of contacts that act in this way is extremely powerful in itself. Just, it takes a little more time to set up when it comes to product launches. Maintenance won't be a problem if you're using good affiliate software and a professional autoresponder. so, in this respect, keep your joint venture prospects separate. They're something special, and you'll likely find yourself in contact with them even more so than your long term customers, and they will be your first line of attack when launching future products. So when it comes to turning JVs into regular affiliates, don't bother, because they're all that and more already.
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Turning Your Optin eMail List into Joint Ventures
Now as far as turning your list into joint ventures goes, this is a pretty easy but also open ended and rather variable in results until you actually see what these people are capable of further down the line. Similar to previously, when we talked about gaining feedback from your email list you can in the same way, gain joint ventures from your list, again, as the example in Building Your Affiliate Marketing Chanel () article with the affiliates, this is often far more widely used, and for good reason.
I urge you once again, not to relegate your joint venture prospects to those who visit your website, and the individuals you pick out through the top performing affiliates, but to actively seek them through your list. The reason we're doing this is simply because there's a good chance someone will be out there that won't progress down your line of resources otherwise. If they're experienced, have a big opt in email list of their own, or the ability to get in touch with your target market, you're going to miss out if you’re not telling them that you want their services.
For example, an experienced marketer that subscribes to a selection of lists to keep up with what’s going on around them, happens to subscribe to your email list where you're selling an info product such as this. He or she won't buy your how to product, because they’ve got their system set up already and it just so happens, that they only promote their own stuff to their own lists, unless it's a joint venture (this is very common among the big guys by the way), they won't buy your big product for the same reason, and they won't be joining your affiliate program for the above reason.
He or she is a heavy hitter with a big list, but you're missing out. These are the people you're aiming to cater for here. It's not good if you're leaving massive holes like this, because you're missing out on some massive profit potential. In fact, as we speak the majority of marketers out there are very obviously leaving these types of holes.
The problem with joint venturing through a list at this stage is it becomes kind of a lottery if you're not careful. You can't just send out a mailing asking for anyone with a list over ten thousand people to contact you for higher commissions, because then everyone else feels cheated and you may alienate some potential affiliates.
In general terms joint ventures should be a private thing, the deal will also vary from person to person, depending on your product, their list size, what they want in return and what you can grant in return. The best way to go about this is to keep it that way. Don't do a mass mailing just requesting joint venture for the reasons above, we can't do that for this particular resource.
What I'd suggest you do instead, which you should be doing with your list anyway, is carry on as your normally do, sending out your un-intrusive surveys to help with your research and find out as much info as you can about the people on your list, for something in return. For example a short valuable report that you've written on your area of expertise.
In exchange you're getting vital info that not only allows you to tailor your ads to your list providing a better response rate, but at the same time you're building up a picture of who the good joint venture prospects are. Once you've done that, you can go through the results you've collected, and pick the top performers, the knowledgeable, and the people with the most resources, and contact them individually.
Turning Your Customers into JVs
Turning your customers into joint venture prospects works in much the same way that you carried out for your list. You'll also be pulling research numbers from these guys, and from that research you'll know who to pull up for joint ventures. This is the only way to effectively do this and keep the joint ventures personal, instead of just mass mailing a list. It keeps you in the driver’s seat.
Of course, at this stage there's no other way to do this, chances are your list of customers who have purchased from you even though not as big as your list, will be too big to talk to all of them personally at this stage, which without this or affiliate stats, you have no other way of knowing who you want to make deals with.
Tunning Lifetime Customers to JV Prospects
Turn your lifetime customers into joint venture partners, small or large, lifetime customer or casual customer. Keep in mind that this isn't by far your most effective way of generating joint ventures on a small scale, (ad swaps, list access, etc.) or even on a large scale (full blown partnerships of products, each playing a specialized role), however, you'd be surprised what happens when you start talking to people. This article series for example wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for that factor alone.
While we won't dwell on this for too long, I do want to make sure you understand I'm not telling you to go out, and start spending your day talking to your customers, and as anti professional as that sounds, we can't strike conversations up with all these people, especially as your business starts developing over a number of products, the numbers can get a little overwhelming if you’re going to try and pull something like that out of your hat.
What I do want to make sure you understand though is to look for those signs that the long term customer that is contacting you would be a viable target for a joint venture offer, whether they mention they have a large list of their own, or on occasion you just get talking, and if it's with the right person, you might just find yourselves pulling some great ideas out of the bag together. Watch out for this, because it can, will and does happen more often than you may believe.
Turning Your JVs into Affiliates
First up, you should keep in mind that most joint ventures that you receive after launching your fist two products or so will come from your affiliates anyway. As far as those who don't, they’re really glorified affiliates only. As with the difference between customers and lifetime customers, you'll find that even with those who aren't your affiliates, you'll be in contact with them pretty frequently anyway, whether they're on your instant messenger list, or you just fire emails at each other when you each launch new products.
Building up a circle of contacts that act in this way is extremely powerful in itself. Just, it takes a little more time to set up when it comes to product launches. Maintenance won't be a problem if you're using good affiliate software and a professional autoresponder. so, in this respect, keep your joint venture prospects separate. They're something special, and you'll likely find yourself in contact with them even more so than your long term customers, and they will be your first line of attack when launching future products. So when it comes to turning JVs into regular affiliates, don't bother, because they're all that and more already.
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2/6/08
Building Your Affiliates Marketing Channel
Our process of “How to Increase Profits Without Increasing Traffic” demonstrate a step by step guide showing for everyone of you the techniques used on how to take your existing resources - Your optin email list - Your casual customers list- Your lifetime customers list - Your affiliates list and your joint venture partners list and cross them over in such a way that they begin to build themselves. This marketing strategy allows you to boost your promotion power exponentially when others are having trouble even building a list that makes a single sale.
Turning your email list into affiliates
One thing I do want to say to you now is, if you have sixty five, seventy, eighty percent, or even more to give away through your products’ commissions, don't be afraid to tell people about it. Not so long ago in fact, maybe two or three years ago, there was a spate of big affiliate commission sites popping up that offered anywhere from 80-100% commissions that did incredibly well on the resource building side of things simply on the basis of promoting their high commissions more than the product itself.
So whatever you do, don't think that gaining affiliates is all about that little button at the top of your sites with 80% for affiliates written in big letters. Hey, we spend money to promote free products to build our lists all the time, why can't we do the same for our affiliates? Well we can, and to be honest, one good affiliate is more valuable than a hundred subscribers, even a thousand subscribers in my eyes, for the simple reason that they may have an audience of tens or even hundreds of thousands on their lists that they're willing to give you access to. Imagine the resources that would land in your lap and the power you'll have for future promotion when a few ads like that start to go out.
So the rule here is just this. If you're following the charts we've put up for you, this guide or a modified version of it, built around your own needs, and your commissions are higher than the average fifty percent, go ahead and make sure people know about it through your promotion. Make it a prime concern of yours and you won’t be disappointed.
Can You Convert Your Lifetime Customers into Affiliates?
So, let's take a look at what you're going to do with your lifetime customers in regards to turning them into affiliates. Understand that when we talk about this, it may not be suitable to do so depending on your product. Turning any one of these resources into affiliates is especially important in the world of online marketing software or info selling, because after all, affiliate marketing is at least 20% of the whole picture. That's a huge chunk.
Well, after telling you that I'm going to have to turn around now and tell you straight up that turning your long-term customers into affiliates, (or trying to) is a bad idea. Remember, these people have already spent their money with you, and have seen your affiliate offers several times. Many of them will be on your list receiving the ads for your affiliate program solely, as we talked about earlier. For this reason there is absolutely no need to hassle these people directly with anything unnecessary.
Remember, this group has already spent a whole lot of money on your stuff, and if you want to keep them coming back, every time you contact them it has to be your best work. You need to be giving them something that they want, not just sending them ads, ads, ads. Also keep in mind, this particular list of yours should be the least numerous, but the biggest spenders.
Some of these people may come along to you and buy two thousand dollar product after two thousand dollar product. You can immediately see how valuable they are.
You can also see through a little math how much more devastating it is to annoy anyone on this list or cause them to leave for any reason. Granted, you may argue there's plenty more out there, but this is where most of your advertising funds are going. Getting people to buy your products that are going to be bringing you in a mighty profit in the first place isn't a short or easy task. Be very careful what you do with this list. This is going to be the long running theme in this section about your long term customers.
What to Do with Your Affiliates
Now we're getting to the interesting stuff. Affiliates are up next, and after running through the do's and don’ts of your paying customer base, things start to get a little more flexible here again, for simple reason that the situation is clear cut, and affiliates are more numerous than your long term customer base for example. By clear cut, I mean you know what these people want. They're here solely to promote a good product, and make good money doing so. You don't need to carry out any research to confirm that one.
Now, as far as turning your affiliates’ attention to your list, I'm going to advise the same as previously just to make one hundred percent sure no one reading forgets that each of these resources should be a list in itself, with a clear goal, and a clear reason for being there. When you come to mailing them, you need to know what they want from you, as well as what you can give them in return. What we're not going to be doing in this particular case, is sending random adverts to your affiliates, not even for your products, because, as we learned earlier, they're more important than even your immediate profit, in fact, they're going to be the ones bringing in the majority of your new resources together with joint ventures (coming up next in the list).
We do however, get to send our affiliates ads of some sort, in fact very similar to the ads we talked about for your list, this time though, you're not trying to sell them on products to earn you hard cash, oh no, you're sending them ads to sell them on the promotion of you newest and latest products, not forgetting to give them the needed tools to help them marketing your products, mention to them how well your sales letter performs and giving them a nice visual picture of how much they can earn through your words. It might look different on the surface, but you're still selling them something, and all the rules you learn throughout this report apply to both monetary sales, selling free stuff, selling yourself and your products to gain joint ventures, or selling the potential to earn money through your affiliates. It's all about selling all the time.
That's enough covered to demonstrate my point, and we'll take it further in a moment when we go on to talk about joint ventures.
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Turning your email list into affiliates
One thing I do want to say to you now is, if you have sixty five, seventy, eighty percent, or even more to give away through your products’ commissions, don't be afraid to tell people about it. Not so long ago in fact, maybe two or three years ago, there was a spate of big affiliate commission sites popping up that offered anywhere from 80-100% commissions that did incredibly well on the resource building side of things simply on the basis of promoting their high commissions more than the product itself.
So whatever you do, don't think that gaining affiliates is all about that little button at the top of your sites with 80% for affiliates written in big letters. Hey, we spend money to promote free products to build our lists all the time, why can't we do the same for our affiliates? Well we can, and to be honest, one good affiliate is more valuable than a hundred subscribers, even a thousand subscribers in my eyes, for the simple reason that they may have an audience of tens or even hundreds of thousands on their lists that they're willing to give you access to. Imagine the resources that would land in your lap and the power you'll have for future promotion when a few ads like that start to go out.
So the rule here is just this. If you're following the charts we've put up for you, this guide or a modified version of it, built around your own needs, and your commissions are higher than the average fifty percent, go ahead and make sure people know about it through your promotion. Make it a prime concern of yours and you won’t be disappointed.
Can You Convert Your Lifetime Customers into Affiliates?
So, let's take a look at what you're going to do with your lifetime customers in regards to turning them into affiliates. Understand that when we talk about this, it may not be suitable to do so depending on your product. Turning any one of these resources into affiliates is especially important in the world of online marketing software or info selling, because after all, affiliate marketing is at least 20% of the whole picture. That's a huge chunk.
Well, after telling you that I'm going to have to turn around now and tell you straight up that turning your long-term customers into affiliates, (or trying to) is a bad idea. Remember, these people have already spent their money with you, and have seen your affiliate offers several times. Many of them will be on your list receiving the ads for your affiliate program solely, as we talked about earlier. For this reason there is absolutely no need to hassle these people directly with anything unnecessary.
Remember, this group has already spent a whole lot of money on your stuff, and if you want to keep them coming back, every time you contact them it has to be your best work. You need to be giving them something that they want, not just sending them ads, ads, ads. Also keep in mind, this particular list of yours should be the least numerous, but the biggest spenders.
Some of these people may come along to you and buy two thousand dollar product after two thousand dollar product. You can immediately see how valuable they are.
You can also see through a little math how much more devastating it is to annoy anyone on this list or cause them to leave for any reason. Granted, you may argue there's plenty more out there, but this is where most of your advertising funds are going. Getting people to buy your products that are going to be bringing you in a mighty profit in the first place isn't a short or easy task. Be very careful what you do with this list. This is going to be the long running theme in this section about your long term customers.
What to Do with Your Affiliates
Now we're getting to the interesting stuff. Affiliates are up next, and after running through the do's and don’ts of your paying customer base, things start to get a little more flexible here again, for simple reason that the situation is clear cut, and affiliates are more numerous than your long term customer base for example. By clear cut, I mean you know what these people want. They're here solely to promote a good product, and make good money doing so. You don't need to carry out any research to confirm that one.
Now, as far as turning your affiliates’ attention to your list, I'm going to advise the same as previously just to make one hundred percent sure no one reading forgets that each of these resources should be a list in itself, with a clear goal, and a clear reason for being there. When you come to mailing them, you need to know what they want from you, as well as what you can give them in return. What we're not going to be doing in this particular case, is sending random adverts to your affiliates, not even for your products, because, as we learned earlier, they're more important than even your immediate profit, in fact, they're going to be the ones bringing in the majority of your new resources together with joint ventures (coming up next in the list).
We do however, get to send our affiliates ads of some sort, in fact very similar to the ads we talked about for your list, this time though, you're not trying to sell them on products to earn you hard cash, oh no, you're sending them ads to sell them on the promotion of you newest and latest products, not forgetting to give them the needed tools to help them marketing your products, mention to them how well your sales letter performs and giving them a nice visual picture of how much they can earn through your words. It might look different on the surface, but you're still selling them something, and all the rules you learn throughout this report apply to both monetary sales, selling free stuff, selling yourself and your products to gain joint ventures, or selling the potential to earn money through your affiliates. It's all about selling all the time.
That's enough covered to demonstrate my point, and we'll take it further in a moment when we go on to talk about joint ventures.
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