The only four? No, but possibly the most important four. Passionate. Purposeful. Profitable. Portable. While I’m not totally convinced about the passion requirement, it is important that you at least have an interest in your niche. Without that, you’ll need to be making money very fast, or you will
While I’m not totally convinced about the passion requirement, it is important that you at least have an interest in your niche.
Without that, you’ll need to be making money very fast, or you will get bored with constantly working in a niche that holds little interest.
You’ll probably quit before you reach your income goals.
However, if you’ve built it the right way, you will have something to sell.
If you are only doing this to make money, get a job.
You should think that you can make a difference in someone else’s life or that what you’re doing is worthwhile in some other way.
It probably doesn’t need to be said that you do need to make at least enough money to cover your costs.
Profit is not a dirty word, despite what some others might think.
Being able to work wherever you happen to be is one of the best aspects of an Internet business.
You may have noticed that I go on holiday whenever I feel like it, but the emails hardly ever miss a day.
How would you feel if you could go on holiday for as long as you like and have all your expenses covered by your Internet business?
Where would you go, and for how long, if you could do that?
The key to that is building an email list.
One of the fastest ways to build a profitable email list is to create a membership that drip-feeds a low-cost email course that solves a pressing issue in your chosen niche.
A series of 5-7 emails is enough, but any number that covers the problem and provides a viable solution is the aim.
You can break up a PLR product for the emails rather than sell it in its entirety.
Once they’re on your list and the drip-feed sequence has ended, keep emailing them with news about the niche, etc.
There are a couple of ways to get ranked on page one, and then make sure you get to position one for almost any keyword in almost any niche. To most of us, SEO is a dark art that seems to require roots from obscure plants dug up by the light of a full moon after midnight.
There are a couple of ways to get ranked on page one, and then make sure you get to position one for almost any keyword in almost any niche.
To most of us, SEO is a dark art that seems to require roots from obscure plants dug up by the light of a full moon after midnight.
You’ll also need to be able to chant special incantations while dancing naked around the pot that boils those roots and then apply the resulting liquid to your computer keyboard.
Wait.
That’s not right.
You’ll only destroy your keyboard and possibly your computer like that.
Don’t do it, OK?
And don’t send me photographs or videos of any naked dancing.
According to people who study these things the content of your web pages only counts for the humans visiting, so make that great content.
That content will not help you rank because the Google bot cannot read your web page.
Like most computer programs, it only searches for what it sees as relevant text.
The relevant text is the keywords you want to rank for.
The bot looks at the URL, the page title, what’s in the first H1 tag, and what’s in the H2 tags.
If it finds the same keyword or a semantic equivalent in those places, that’s what you’ll rank for.
OK, that’ll get you to page one.
It might get you to position one, but there is a way to ensure that happens.
Look at the snippet on that keyword ranking page.
Duplicate that snippet at the top of your page, and you should get to position one in days.
Position one gets 35% of all the traffic searching for that keyword.
Let me know how that works out for you if you try it.
Make them an offer they cannot refuse. Sounds very gangsta. It’s not. Think about this for a moment. Around 5% of Internet Marketers make enough money regularly to live comfortably. The rest scrabble around, not really knowing why they’re not making money.
Affiliates are pure gold for successful marketers.
They bring a constant stream of free traffic that is already pre-warmed.
However, many of those affiliates will not bring you good prospects.
This is how you fix that.
You supply your affiliates with a PDF that has their affiliate link embedded inside to use as a lead magnet.
They don’t get to rewrite anything in the PDF except their affiliate details because if they don’t have copywriting skills, they’ll almost certainly screw it up.
Use the same principles you’d use to build a bridge page for your product, but allow them to use it for free.
OK, so how do you do this if you don’t have good coding skills?
Head over to LeadsLeap and build one there.
The PDF they create can promote any page or product anywhere.
This is a Pro-level tool, and the Pro level on LeadsLeap costs $20 per month, but you won’t need any special skills to make this work.
I get many friend requests, ‘people’ wanting to strike up conversations with me via FB, etc. I always check their profile and their posts before accepting. 90%+ are fake accounts. It’s mostly young women, apparently. They show a lot of flesh in their short entries.
None of my younger relatives have nothing on their FB accounts.
None of them have accounts that are less than a year old.
None of them have accounts with no or very few friends on their lists.
What, then, is the purpose of these fake accounts?
I think they’re building up a bot army to sell likes and posts to unsuspecting wannabe marketers.
You’ll find them on Fiverr touting their credentials, but you’ll get fake likes and posts, not real humans.
The people in my friends list are real people; some I already knew, some have real-world stuff in their FB posts, and some are marketers touting real products but also have non-marketing stuff on their timelines.
What would be the benefit of just accepting everyone who asks?
I don’t think there is a benefit, but I think there are definite negatives.
From what I’ve read about the FB algorithm, it will only show your latest post to a small subset (10%?) of your friends and followers.
If you get good engagement, they’ll show it to a few more.
This means that having many fake people in your friends and followers list who will not read or like any of your posts will negatively impact your ability to get your posts read by real people.
FB does this because they want you to pay for ads, not grab free traffic.
Cull your friends list to improve your posts engagement.
Check their profiles and get rid of the fakes.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. In a really smooth transition, this tool can help you turn dusty PLR into engaging social media posts.
You’ve heard the old saying, “If you fail to plan, then you’re planning to fail.” It. Is. True. Unless you stumble into getting it right through sheer dumb luck, things probably aren’t going to work out well in the end. The good news is you don’t have to leave your PLR future wholly to chance.
True statement for everyone unless you have used it to generate subscribers, traffic to a website or income. You’ve left money on the table if you have any PLR that you haven’t used. :: Waves hand in air:: Yep, I have PLR on my hard drive that I haven’t used…yet.
Can it really be that simple? Yeah, it really is. Your first posts, text, video, audio, images, etc., do not have to be brilliant. They only have to be you. Your thoughts, ideas, what worked, what didn’t, etc. You can play with the AI tools and post the results.
Your first posts, text, video, audio, images, etc., do not have to be brilliant.
They only have to be you.
Your thoughts, ideas, what worked, what didn’t, etc.
You can play with the AI tools and post the results.
Tell people it’s AI-created; they don’t care.
Share videos you’ve watched and thought were good or bad.
Share why you thought they were what they were to you.
Let others disagree with you.
That’s fine.
Do more of that.
Haters will hate and come back to hate some more.
Lovers will love and come back for more.
Both will share.
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ~ Revelation 3:15-16.
This quotation holds true for all human activities.
You cannot please all the people all the time; that’s what politicians and used car salespeople try to do, and the public despises them because of it.
Perhaps not despise, perhaps ignore.
Online, you do not want to be ignored.
That is the sign of the end of your business.
The most successful email marketer I know alienates people deliberately.
He polarises his audience and kicks people off his email list for any infraction of his rules.
He is opinionated, very clever, and highly successful.
I couldn’t do what he does.
That’s not how I roll.
So, make a stand.
Create content from that stance and stick to your beliefs.
Don’t be like a politician who said, ”Them’s my principles, but if you don’t like them — I kin change them!”
P.S. The video I have linked below was made by a young lady from New Zealand.
She has done extremely well for herself online and is happy to share because she knows that only 5% of the people who watch her training videos will do anything.
There is a commonality when I talk with people doing stuff online and making money. Stupid is a lot harsh, but being smart isn’t an advantage. The reason is that smart people tend to overthink things. They’re smart enough to know that problems, roadblocks, and issues can impact what they do.
Stop trying to make things more complicated than they need to be.
Making money online is simple.
Find a product.
Find where the traffic is.
Put your offer in front of the traffic.
You can reverse the order of #1 and #2 because the process is the same.
Any product you can find or create will sell at some price.
Some products are much harder to sell than others.
Check out ClickBank, select a product with high gravity, work out the sub-niche that works for you, create relevant images for that sub-niche, and post them to Instagram.
Find others on Instagram in the same or related niches and follow their followers.
Some will follow you back and unfollow those who don’t follow you after a week or so.
What I would add to this information is that you can build the bulk of your content with AI, YouTube videos, etc.
Set the front page up as a sales page and set a reasonable price.
Drive traffic from forums, social media, solo ads, etc., with a coupon to get access for free.
It must look like a paid membership or you won’t get people signing up.
Drip feed the content to keep them coming back and email them each time the new content drops.
One video per page with content either transcribed from the video via Rev or Otter, or you can ask ChatGPT to summarise the video for you and post that as the text.
P.S. Here’s a simple way to build original videos from existing videos.
Ask ChatGPT to summarise a video, start a new chat and ask ChatGPT to convert the summary into a video script without the scene suggestions or Narrator flagging.
Take that script to Pictory and create an original video.
Back in the heady days of ‘anything goes’, Internet marketing forum spamming was all the rage. The forum owners didn’t like it and put steps in place to stop it. Those steps worked, but the traffic is still there for the siphoning. The only change is that you first have to
Most forums require you to have multiple posts before you can have a footer.
The footer is where you put your links to your money pages.
The great thing about this is that when you qualify for the footer, it goes on all your posts, not just the new ones, so the qualifying posts become valuable as well.
Building up your qualifying posts involves answering relevant questions about the product you want to promote and providing real, honest, valuable answers without naming the product.
Most people can create enough posts in a day or so, meaning that you can have live humans landing on your pages in less than a week. Then, all it takes is an hour or so a day on multiple forums to get a steady flow of people arriving where you want them to go.
A big tip that should be obvious is to ensure the forums you’re posting on are active, have many members, and rank for the niche you are promoting.
ChatGPT or Bard will happily give you a list of forums in your niche.
The Google Keyword Planner tool, or any other keyword tool, will tell you the volume of traffic and the main ranking keywords for each forum.
Another big tip is to use an AI tool to compile enough content regarding the niche to put into a PDF or a Google Doc to use as your front-end page.
If it’s a useful resource, the forum owner and subscribers will thank you for the content, even if it includes a link to a sales page.
You could collect email addresses via the Google doc if you wish.
People are happier to give you their email address if you have already given them some useful content.
Try it.
You might find it’s far easier than anything else you might have tried.
If you want to build an email list from this method it would be useful to create an email sequence for the subscribers as well.
Any AI tool can do this for you, so you have something in place that you can rewrite later.
Free platforms that you can use for this are LeadsLeap and Systeme.
Both have a free level, both have built-in autoresponders, both have easy-to-use page builders, the funnel builder in Systeme is easier to use, and LeadsLeap has built-in traffic.
