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A List Building Question – Where to Focus on Getting Traffic?

[Question] I would like to know where I should focus most of my technical efforts for list building. For example, should I go to Ezine Articles, guest bloggging, forum and groups, Facebook, a personal page, a business niche page, LinkedIn, Google+, affiliate programs – one of those?  Maybe I should build out my member site…

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Email Tools I Use in My Six-Figure Business

Last week I shared some of the tools I use to run and optimize my six-figure business.  Today I’m going finish that list out with what I use to mail my lists – and my thoughts on “all-in-one” marketing software.  Click Here to Read Part 1 Email Tracking For email tracking the software that I…

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What I Use to Run a 6-Figure Internet Marketing Business

Maybe I could spit out the 5 names of software that I use in 2 minutes, but would it really change your life? Because these software programs may not be right for you. You may already be using something that works. You go try out whatever it is that I use and you say “I…

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Getting More People to View Your Sales Page

I want us to now imagine that we could get some people to view the sales page twice.  If someone views it twice, they have twice the opportunity to purchase. Now, instead of having 100 views to our sales page, we can have 150 views to our sales page.  If we have 150 views to…

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Take Email Optimization to the Next Level

I want to take this one level further. I want you to imagine that you’re doing this.  You’re getting 100 subscribers. Let’s say that you do get to 16 sales per 100 subscribers. These are $100 sales each, and you’re generating $1600 for every 100 subscribers within the 20 days. Would that allow you to…

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The Traffic Firestarter

There’s 2 sides to traffic.  One is the people that you directly invite to your website through email or organic search or similar.  Or, that you pay them to come to your website.  Those are the two things we can use to invite them.  There’s 2 ways to direct people to your website, one is…

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Building an Expectation of Worth

There are two additional elements that you need to have in your campaign. The first element is creating an expectation of worth. There are a few different ways that you can do this without selling your prospect. For example, let’s say that you want to create an expectation of a worth of $200 per hour.…

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Quick Tip: How to Build Credibility Outside of Your List

As you work online in any particular niche, you’re going to gain experience and as you gain this experience you should use it in your email credibility campaigns. No one starts off with a CD program or an article with rave reviews, they start with nothing to begin with! It’s important to just build from…

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A Guaranteed Tactic to Beat Your Competition

One of the things that really drives me in my business is knowing that I’m held accountable for everything that I do. I value the relationship I have with my subscribers and clients. So I want everything I do to be the best. If I teach on something, I want it to be the very…

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How to Create a Master Product Plan for Your Business

The very 1st thing that you’re going to do is to create a master outline of all of your knowledge in your niche. A master outline of all of your knowledge in your niche. This may take you several hours to do, but this will be well worth your time for the rest of your…

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How to Write a Sales Letter That Sells Without Hype

You want to help people – you’re in the business of helping people, right? I’m in the business of helping people. If anybody buys my book “Anybody Can Coach” I want their life to be changed. In fact, if they just read the introduction to the first chapter, their life is probably going to be…

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Why You Should Write Your Own Sales Letters

I’m assuming you’re going to write your own copy. You’re not going to outsource it – you’re going to write it yourself There are a couple of deep thoughts, big thought that I have on that particular concept: if when we’re copy writing, and remember copywriting can be: When we’re writing sales copy When we’re…

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How to Find Out What Challenges People Have

Promising to solve your prospect’s problems is a powerful way to hook them, build trust, and share your class or product with them. But first, you have to know what they’re struggling with so you can create a solution (or position your solution) that meets their needs. I’ll tell you what I’ve done over the…

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Q&A On Creating Products for Your Funnel

Product creation should be easy. Of course you’ve got to have the knowledge and do the work to create the product, but it’s not complicated. I’ve shared my process with you (Click here for my method for outlining each of your products). It’s still a little intimidating to make a product, however. Here are some…

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Launching Your Business with a Free Teleclass Series

This is a question I received from a new entrepreneur, and I thought it might help you: Question: I want to create a product using teleseminars like you suggested. I guess I should just say, here’s a teleseminar series on XYZ situation, and here’s the cost. But I’m really new, I haven’t worked with a…

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How to Use a Payment Plan to Upsell More Products

Not everybody is going to purchase your high-ticket upsell, at least not at first. How can you increase the number of people who take that higher-ticket offer? Let’s say that we use our automated campaign to market to these individuals for 3 days in a row, the $997 course, and we have a percentage of…

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Add Value to a High-Ticket Product By Adding Access to You

Let’s talk about what access to you could look like. Giving personal access to your expertise can take many forms, and each of them greatly boosts the value of your online course or product. Here are some tips for adding you into the mix: You could offer unlimited email access. Please, don’t allow yourself to…

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How to Set Up a Proven, Automated Email Sequence

Many beginning information marketers come to me with this question: “How do you know which order to place the emails in your autoresponder sequence in? And how do you know when to tell those emails to go out? Why do you send certain content pieces at certain times?” Here’s my answer: What I do is…

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How to Move Customers Through Pricing Levels in Your Funnel

Here’s the thing you need to know about pricing: you can go higher, you can go lower. I have found in many niches certain price points work very, very, very well. In the past I found that if you started out with a product that had a price of much less than $100, you tended…

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How to Add a Coaching Program to Your Funnel

You’re probably familiar with a pretty basic funnel formula: a 1 – 2 hour initial entry product, then a more elaborate online course (generally 6-10 hours or so). Or half of that, or part 1 for $497, with some payment options – there are different ways you could mix it up but that’s the general…

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Why You Need to Do Your Own Market Research

Now, at this point you may be asking, do I know if they’re profitable? You don’t. You don’t. Not unless you’ve got a good friend in the business. It’s the same thing as the pizza business. If you walk in cold, to the pizza joint, and you ask to speak with the proprietor, and you…

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When Should You Offer An Upsell?

This is the definition of an upsell in digital marketing: if someone purchases Product #1 from you, they have an opportunity to buy Product #2 on the download page, or the thank you page, or on a one-time offer page. That’s a great place to create some more revenue right now. However, I’m not fully…

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Creating a Funnel That Grows With Your Business

We’re going to cover how to create a complete information marketing funnel – and how to do it quickly. The biggest trap people fall into with an information business is not having products. That’s what will hurt you the most. It’s easy to rely on affiliate marketing. Then your business becomes centered around other people,…

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The Base Recipe for a Successful Online Business

Let’s look at the root issue here. The root issue is, we need people that have needs, and we need people who are willing to spend money. The easiest way for us to look at this. In fact, I want to give you an offline example: I want you to imagine that you’re thinking about…

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The Key to Success Online

One of the lies online is how easy it is to build a new business. People believe that. The read sales letters and even watch late-night infomercials about how many new niches, new opportunities there are. That data is made up for the purpose of the infomercials and the sales pages. This “data” is everywhere…

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Coaching: Maximize Profits and Customer Loyalty Fast

What is coaching? Why would you consider coaching? How do you know if coaching will work for your niche? These are critical questions to ask if you want to increase profits in your business and increase the amount of money you make per customer. How do You Know if Coaching Will Work? Before I tell…

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Why Old Methods of Niche Selection Won’t Work

In either case, whether you’re looking for a niche, or a sub-niche. Looking for that best angle. Or, if, unfortunately, you’re in the place where, hey, I just want to make money, I’ve got 1 or 2 ideas of things I might be interested in. What I’m getting ready to share with you will give…

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Using Risk to Your Advantage in Business

Entrepreneurs have to balance risk. Different people can risk it all in different ways. Let’s just say that you are starting with nothing in life financially. You can risk it all, you have nothing to lose. But, if you’re multimillionaire, you probably don’t want to risk it all but, you might be willing to set…

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Quick Tip: How to Use Your Problems to Create Great Products

Maybe when you first started online you were all gung ho, really excited about it, whatever. You’ve written 100 articles, you’ve created products, you’ve got 100 subscribers, you’ve answered a few emails. You do this for 90 days, you get done and you ask yourself, “Is this working?” “I’ve made a few sales, I’ve talked…

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Quick Tip: How to Take Risks that Build Your Business

It’s crucial for an entrepreneur to know when to keep pushing on a project, business, vision… and when to change gears. One of the things that I’ve discovered about entrepreneurs (even in myself because obviously, I’m an entrepreneur): we come to a decision place and we ask, “Should I continue working on this? I’ve heard…

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How to Build Success Out of Failure

Do you remember the very first time that you did some slow dancing or the very first time that you did some line dancing or the very first time that you did some sort of organized dancing? I want you think about that in relation to success and failure: The very first time you had…

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Creating Sales Letters for Low-Ticket Products

Okay, so I talked about low ticket products and why I chose the Warrior Forum. It’s just easier to break into. Over at JVZoo, affiliates kind of have to notice you. On the Warrior Forum they’re somewhere right there to promote it. Using My Own Pages One the things I wanted to share is why…

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Quick Tip: Examples of Using Emotional Triggers in Niche Emails

There are several different types of emails you can use in your campaigns, and one is the question email. The question will be related to your niche. We’ve talked about this a couple of times, but I want you to understand how powerful this is. Let’s just say that you’re in the psychology niche and…

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Tactics to Keep the Cash Flowing in Your Business

We’ll cover a few ideas to keep cash flowing in your business – starting with packages. Packages of trainings can create a big windfall in your business. If you’re in the IM niche, private label rights, or resale rights package, works really, really well. They work well for other big niches, like weight loss, survival,…

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Quick Tip: Creating Emotional Connection in Your Email Campaign

There are a few different things that go into writing an interactive email campaign. An interactive email campaign is one in which when you’re communicating with your subscribers; you’re mimicking and offline relationship through the process of interacting with your subscribers. Creating Emotional Connection A good emotional campaign takes your emails from being one sided,…

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My Personal Upsell Formula

So, the formula that I use for the upsell. I want to give this to you. Because, I’ll tell you, there’s a lot of upsell formulas out there, some of them work better than mine. First: Why I Don’t Do Video Upsells If you’re doing the whole video thing, that I don’t do. And you…

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Quick Tip: Building High Trust Leading Up to a Launch

If you look at the very beginning, because this is where our focus is, the first 14 to 21 days, this is where the bulk of our sales is come in initially.  Our very first engagement campaign is likely going to be the first engagement campaign that goes before our launch series. The first engagement…

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Outline of a Simple, Successful Launch Email

What about launch e-mails? Here’s what I do, I have a special launch e-mail that I use, and I’m going to tell you what that e-mail looks like. It works really, really well for me. I believe I learned this, I believe Jason Parker taught me to do this, a LONG time ago. And, I…

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Quick Tip: Organizing Ideas for Your Next Product

The most valuable products that Internet markets can create are those that enable their customers to solve a particular problem. The more unpleasant the problem, the more that they’ll want a solution. Your job, therefore, is to give them exactly what they need. You may have to ““dress it up” in the form of what…

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How to Use Engagement Emails to Build Social Proof, Trust, and Sales

Now that I have taught you the psychology of how to do these emails, let’s discuss how we can run these in a sequence. Let’s brainstorm some patterns. Let’s say that we start our sequence out with a statement and a question, the next email could be another question, then a follow-up question, followed by…

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Quick Tip: Make Sure the Right People Are Reading Your Content

The most important question to ask yourself when you create any content is who it’s for. Who is your audience? What do they hope to learn? What are they expecting you to say? What promise have you made in the title? And more than anything, what do you expect them to do as a result…

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An Example Email Campaign You Can Use

When someone joins your list, they get all of our emails. They get our download email, a credibility content email, then a PDF download email that shows people how strong we are in our niche. Then on the fourth day we could send out a homework assignment, then a deep question, then a follow-up question.…

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Quick Tip: How to Give Your Content a Compelling Title

Article marketing is still one of the most effective ways to promote your online business. It allows you to communicate a central idea logically in just a few words that can be read in not many minutes, and simultaneously teach one topic, idea or concept – something that the average person can understand and apply…

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Use This Powerful Email in Your Autoresponder Campaign

Engagement emails are powerful pieces to add to your email campaign because they get your subscribers to interact with you, and that builds trust and creates a bond. One of the engagement emails that I absolutely love is the homework email. A homework email will take this to the next level. Because not only does…

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IBU on the Web 2/16/16

Seeing a date like 2/16/16 always makes me smile 🙂 Okay but let’s be serious now and see what you can learn from IBU today! On IBU itself you can get some content marketing inspiration with: Writing Content that Sucks Your Reader In and we also cover: Two Secrets to Making More Sales (this article…

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Quick Tip: Writing Content that Sucks Your Reader In

Articles are the bedrock of your content marketing strategy. If you are going to enlarge the size of your Web footprint, then you must start here. That’s because so many other things can be developed from them as a result. Most guidance on how to write articles tells you to start from the beginning: decide…

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Two Secrets to Making More Sales

Okay, I want to give you two more secrets that were critical to the total dollar number. And, I’m going to talk about why I’m not using those secrets any more. Okay, before I get into these two secrets. The first thing is, there’s this idea of doing whatever it takes to get the buyers.…

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IBU on the Web 2/15/16

Here’s the roundup for today’s content! On IBU we posted a straight-to-the-point article that will get you away from checking social media and watching cat videos and into building your funnel: How to Create Your Lead Magnets Fast – this is how customers enter your funnel, so check this one out. And once your subscriber…

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