Archive for April, 2009

The Accelerated Niche Profits Newsletter

Issue #2

The first issue of the Accelerated Niche Profits newsletter went down a treat so I’m back with an even better, more content packed, and freebie filled issue.

My aim is to make this the most valuable free internet marketing publication, but I’ll need your help. I need to know what you want to learn about and what you want me to cover in future issues. So, leave a comment at the end of this issue.

The other thing I need your help with is expanding the readership. For me to continue publishing this newsletter, it needs to be profitable for me. Obviously providing fantastic value to you is the most important thing, but I do need to be making money at the same time.

The more people that read this newsletter, the more money I will make, and the more time I can dedicate to providing you with fantastic value, so all I ask you to do is encourage one or two friends or associates to become an Accelerated Niche Profits subscriber. To do this, simply send them to the web address below where they can become a subscriber to receive all future issues:

http://www.AcceleratedNicheProfits.com

Perhaps post a link on your blog, on your Facebook page, or make a quick Tweet on Twitter. Anything you can do, I will really appreciate it.

Anyway, back to today’s issue. Here’s what’s coming up:

- Get Off The Damn Computer! (Article)
- How You Can Get My Two Best Selling Reports For Just $10
- Niche Domination – How To Find Red Hot Niche Markets (Free Report)
- How I Make Money While I Sleep & How You Can Too
- The Affiliate Commission Engine (Free Video)
- How A Beginner Can Make $350 In 14 Days
- Final Thoughts

Get Off The Damn Computer!

When I first started working online I was so eager and so desperate to start seeing some results that I would work almost day and night. I’d regularly spend 14 hour stretches sitting at the computer.

That’s not a way to live your life. And it’s not a way to run a business.

Now, my routine is much different. I rarely work more than three hours in a day, but I still get more done.

You see, when I say I was working 14 hour days… I wasn’t really. I was checking my emails, my Paypal, my Adsense and my affiliate accounts. I PRETENDED I was working, but I wasn’t really.

Now I actually do work for about three hours a day, and my productivity has increased dramatically.

I go out now, I socialise, in fact I’m rarely at home. But I still get more done.

If you want to really grow your business, you need to do the same. You can’t spend all your life on the computer. You’ll become jaded and more seriously you can become very ill.

Spend time with your family, go out with your friends, enjoy the finer things in life and I assure you, your business, your happiness and your life will prosper.

How You Can Get My Two Best Selling Reports For Just $10

Okay, this is something I debated about doing, but decided to go with it.

I’ve created two major internet marketing reports. Accelerated List Building and Short Report Profits.

Both have received fantastic feedback, and combined would cost you $37. But today you can have both for the one time investment of just $10.

Here’s how you can secure your discount.

That’s all you gotta do.

Niche Domination – How To Find Red Hot Niche Markets (Free Report)

I’ve got two freebies in today’s issue. Here’s the first one, the other comes later. It’s a direct download to a fantastic report called ‘Niche Domination’. It reveals how to brainstorm an abundance of niche ideas and then analyse these potential niche ideas for profit potential.

Get your free copy here

Let me know what you think of this report by leaving a comment at the end of this newsletter.

How I Make Money While I Sleep & How You Can Too

Making money while you sleep is the ideal scenario, but often it doesn’t work like that.

Recently, I’ve been waking up to an extra $50, $100, sometimes even over $200 every single day.

So, how do I do it?

Membership sites.

Promoting recurring payment membership sites is one of the most profitable business models. I dedicate a lot of my time promoting two main membership sites. One of them in the internet marketing niche, one of them in the anti aging niche.

Both cost $97 per month and I get a 50% commission. Across the two sites I’ve referred over 70 members, obviously some have unsubscribed over time.

For the month of April I’ve had 41 people rebilled resulting in a $48.50 commission and a total of $1,988.50 in commissions on complete auto-pilot. And it’s only the 27th April at the moment.

Another case study…

A few years ago when I had just started building my internet marketing list I decided to promote a new membership site. I only had about 600 subscribers, but I created an email and blasted it out.

The membership site was called Mentorship Monthly from John Thornhill. It cost $10 per month and I got 50% commissions which was $4.50 after fees.

I promoted 22 months ago and only referred 9 members, but look at the image below to see how much that one promotion has earned for me.

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If we add all the processed payments together then there are 121. That means I have earned $4.50 121 times, resulting in nearly $550. Plus, I still have 3 members subscribed who will be rebilled next month, and the month after and the month after until they unsubscribe.

Do you think I could have generated $550 from one mailing to 600 subscribers if I was promoting a regular $27 product at 50% commissions? I’d make about $13 per sale so would have to generate over 40 sales to come anywhere near – that just wouldn’t happen.

So, if you want to start promoting membership sites but don’t know where to look, then head over to Clickbank.com, go to the Marketplace, choose a category and then select sort by ‘Future $’.

You will then be presented with a number of sites that pay recurring commissions in the niche of your choice.

The Affiliate Commission Engine (Free Video)

This is another freebie for you. I gain absolutely nothing from sharing this with you. (Apart from the fact you might really like me after sharing so much valuable information with you J).

It’s called The Affiliate Commission Engine and is a video from John Reese.

I always planned to share this system with you in a future newsletter, but I thought why bother when John has summed it up perfectly in a clear 15 minute presentation.

Go here to watch the video

P.S. This is a fantastic system to use to promote recurring income membership sites.

How A Beginner Can Make $350 In 14 Days

This is a fantastic DVD that I’ve been dying to share with you for some time. I know a lot of my subscribers are beginners, and if so this is a MUST GET DVD.

It’s called Beginners Mastermind and reveals how you can make your first $350 online in just 14 days.

Get all the details here.

Final Thoughts

Thanks again for sticking with me through another issue of the Accelerated Niche Profits newsletter. I really appreciate your continued support, but remember that to continue to publish this newsletter I need a wider readership.

You can help me by Twittering about the newsletter, by placing a link on your blog or by simply referring some friends. Simply send them to http://www.AcceleratedNicheProfits.com

Don’t miss out on the fantastic offer I currently have running where I give you Short Report Profits for free with your purchase of Accelerated List Building. These reports reveal two fantastic marketing system that combined are incredibly powerful. Get Accelerated List Building here and then email me.

Again, thanks a lot for reading and for being a subscriber.

That’s it for today. I’ll be back in a little while with even more incredible content.

Over and out,
James Penn

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I’ve decided that I’m going to use a newsletter format from now on. It means I can share some of my best insights in one easy to produce publication, rather than sending you a whole bunch of emails.

I’ll test it out to see how it works. If you like it, leave a comment at the end of this post. If you don’t like it then leave a comment and let me know why.

If you read my last blog post then you’ll know that I promised I’d share one of my niche websites that makes me a WHOPPING $3 per day. I was supposed to get that out to you last week, but was tied up all week as my girlfriend was down for the week. I’ve included that article in today’s newsletter, as well as a clever little competition I have running with said girlfriend that is motivating me to greater wealth. Here’s the full details of what exactly is coming up in this issue.

  • My Super Simple Niche Business Model In Action
  • My Girlfriends Challenge To Me & How I’m Going To Win
  • How I Make $3 Per Day From One Of My Niche Sites & How You Can Replicate This Hundreds Of Times
  • Free Report – 6 Months Of Magic: Zero To $20,000 Per Month In 161 Days
  • Access To An Incredible Traffic Generating System

My Super Simple Niche Business Model In Action

I’ve written about this system a lot. I go on and on and on about it, and for good reason… It works. I even wrote a whole report about it… TWICE. You can get the free version at http://www.AcceleratedNicheProfits.com if you don’t already have it.

In essence, you create a quality report, you sell it for $5-15, you pay affiliates 100% commissions and you build a list of buyers. Incredibly simple… incredibly effective.

I’m going to outline this system one last time because I’m almost fed up of talking about it. But I do want you to know how effective it is, and how you absolutely definitely MUST be using this model in your business.

1. Find a BROAD target market that’s already spending money (weight loss, internet marketing, dating, etc.)

2. Create (or have created for you) a TOP QUALITY 10-25 page report.

3. Create a HOT sales letter selling this product.

4. Sell the report for about $10 – give or take a few dollars.

5. On the download page offer a higher priced affiliate product related to your main product.

6. Set the report up on the Rapid Action Profits script so that customers are automatically added to your list and set the affiliate commissions at 100%.

7. Create a cash producing auto-responder sequence that builds trust and gets subscribers to purchase other products.

8. Recruit affiliates and JV partners and watch the viral nature of the RAP script take control.

Simple as that.

And if you don’t believe me that it works then just take a look at one of my products in action.

Accelerated List Building

In the first 7 days of Accelerated List Building being on the market, I’d sold nearly 250 copies. This added nearly 200 buyers to my list (some didn’t confirm their email address).

A list of 200 buyers produces about $500 per month. And this is just the start of it. All I’ve done so far is promote to my list, run a Warrior Special Offer and contact about 6 JV partners who I’ve worked with in the past. There are still hundreds of JV partners I could still contact.

On top of this, I have a one time offer (OTO) after a customer buys the main report. This has produced an additional 46 sales at $17 or nearly $800.

Plus, on the download page I recommend a $197 product that pays me 50% commission ($98.50). I’ve made 3 sales of that – or $295.

Finally, on the download page I funnel customers into a $1 14 day trial offer for a $97 per month membership site – (I get $48.50 per month commission). I’ve funnelled 12 people into this membership site and from previous experience promoting this membership; I presume 6 of them will go on to pay the first $97 payment. That’s nearly $300 and it is RECURRING income.

Now do you see the power of this business model?

My Girlfriends Challenge To Me & How I’m Going To Win

If you checked out the link to Accelerated List Building then you may have noticed the price was only $10, despite my promise to increase it to $27 last Thursday.

I did increase it as promised, but it didn’t work out. Conversions dropped and considering the business model relies on getting customers, I decided to put the price back to $10.

There was also another reason…

My girlfriend, Daisy, and I had a challenge. I said I’d be able to get 1,000 sales of Accelerated List Building by the end of 2009… she said I wouldn’t.

I’ve sold about 260 copies so far in two weeks.

YOU can help me reach the 1,000 sales target and you can also profit in the process, significantly.

The first thing you can do is buy a copy. Not only to help me, that’s just a bonus! But instead to gain access to an incredible list building system that you can implement TODAY. Get your copy HERE.

Secondly, you can become an affiliate and sell Accelerated List Building for 100% commissions and 50% commissions on the $17 OTO. Payments go instantly to your Paypal account. You can become an affiliate HERE.

Email me using the Contact link at the top of this page for some emails to send to your subscribers.

A final thought on this matter is that a competition can really help to increase your motivation and increase your profits. Find someone close to you and have a little bet with them if you find yourself losing focus.

How I Make $3 Per Day From One Of My Niche Sites & How You Can Replicate This Hundreds Of Times

Automatic income.

That’s the aim of the game. Earning money on auto-pilot is the ideal scenario.

I have one site that earns me a consistent $25 or so per week without me lifting a finger. I know that sounds like a pathetic income, but you can set as many of these sites up and it takes about a day at most. Probably just a few hours in truth.

Here’s the site:

http://www.caribbean-charm.com

I know, it’s horrible isn’t it?

I’ve had that site since 2006. Since then it’s generated me $20-$30 per week, every week.

Here’s how I did it:

  • Found a niche that pays a decent amount per Adsense click.
  • Paid a writer to create 25 articles based around a few keyword phrases in that niche. The keyword phrases I used were poorly researched. With better research I’d be earning WAAAAY more from this site. It cost me $125 for all the articles.
  • Set up a simple site with five of the articles. Included some Adsense ads in prominent places. Also include an opt-in form.
  • Submitted the 20 articles to EzineArticles.com at a rate of about one every other day. Promoted the website in my author bio.
  • Sat back and relaxed as an INCREDIBLE twenty or thirty people visited my site every day and clicked on one or two Adsense ads per day.

I’ve been averaging about $3 a day from this site for about two and a half years. I’ve also got about 180 subscribers.

One afternoons work and $125 has generated me about $3,000 on complete auto-pilot.

Do you think this is something you could replicate? You don’t have to pay for the articles, you can create them yourself. Your only expense is the domain name and hosting.

You could do one of these sites a day for a month and by the end of the month you could be earning over $100 per day or more.

This is a simple system that you can set-up and start producing you some revenue while you continue to work on bigger projects.

Try it for yourself.

Free Report – 6 Months Of Magic: Zero To $20,000 Per Month In 161 Days

I’m going to try and give you a freebie in every single issue of this newsletter, just as my way of saying thanks.

I’ve got a great freebie today called “6 Months Of Magic: Zero To $20,000 Per Month In 161 Days”.

I really advise you read it; it will transform your business.

Get it for free by clicking here.

I have one more freebie for you. I shared it in my last blog post but here it is again if you missed it. It’s a free video called “The Quick Cash Escalator”.

You can get it here.

Access To An Incredible Traffic Generating System

Generating traffic is one of the most important things you can do online… it’s also one of the hardest. What you need is a system. There’s a fantastic do-this, do-that traffic generating system called Automatic Traffic Blast.

It’s a physical product and truly is ‘plug-and-play’.

Get your copy of Automatic Traffic Blast by clicking here.

Final Thoughts

I’ve quite enjoyed writing this first newsletter, and I really hope you’ve enjoyed it. I’m not one of those marketers who pitches product after product. I provide value for my subscribers.

I really hope you have found value from this newsletter. Let me know in the comments below. Also, suggest other ideas for things I can discuss in the next newsletter.

Don’t forget to get your copy of Accelerated List Building, get your freebies and take a look at Automatic Traffic Blast, as well as to act upon the vast amount of advice I’ve shared in this newsletter.

Time for me to take a break now. I’ve been writing for hours.

I’ll be back soon with another issue soon.

Over and out,
James

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Hi guys

Hope you’re all enjoying the Accelerated Niche Profits blog. Just a quick post today.

The first thing on the agenda is the imminent price increase for Accelerated List Building. It’s currently at $10, but I’ll be bumping that up to $27 in just a few hours. Make sure you’ve got your copy before the price increase.

I’m a big advocate of testing, and that includes price. It may well be that $27 is not as profitable for me, in which case I may put the price back down to $10 - or maybe somewhere in between. I advise you get your copy quickly though, because there is even a small chance that the price will go HIGHER than $27. I don’t want you to miss out.

Get your copy here.

The second thing on the agenda is my impending absence for a week or so. My girlfriend, Daisy, is visiting for the next week. We met at university, but live about 300 miles away. She already jokes that I love my emails more than her, so it’s best that I stay off the laptop for a while (at least while she’s down!) :]

I’ll still be around to answer support issues or any questions you have, and I have one blog post prepared to go out in a few days. It reveals my “pathetic” little money maker. I reveal one of my niches and my sites which makes me a WHOPPING $3 per day. And how you can replicate this with hundreds of sites and in hundreds of niches. It all adds up. Make sure you’re subscribed at the top of this page under “Free Report” to be notified of when the new blog post is posted - plus you’ll also receive a great report called Accelerated Niche Profits.

The final thing on the agenda today is a fantastic freebie for you. It’s from Lee McIntyre. You’ll see me recommending a lot of his stuff over the next few weeks and months and there’s a good reason for that… because I only recommend QUALITY products. Not good products, quality products.

This one is no different and it’s free, and not your usual free where you have to enter your name and email address to gain access. This is a direct download. It’s called Profit 13 Ways and you really should get it.

Get it here.

That’s it for today. Remember to keep a look out for my next post, and to get a copy of Accelerated List Building before the price increase. You may already be too late.

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I wanted to kick off the Accelerated Niche Profits blog with some of my best content. So, in this blog post, I’m going to share with you a simple three step system to build a business online.

But first, I thought I’d give you a gift as a thank you for visiting the blog. It’s a free video from Lee McIntyre and reveals how he went from zero to earning $7,230.95 in 30 days. You are receiving exclusive access to this video.

Click Here To Get Free Access To The Video

Let’s go on with this business model.

It’s important to mention that this is a business building system, not just a money making one. This system enables you to build a long term business that you can grow and leverage.

I think this is my favourite system. It’s simple, easy to implement, affordable, can be replicated and you don’t need to be a marketing genius to make it work for you. It works for me :)

#1 – Driving Traffic

Sorry to bore you with this, but traffic IS the lifeblood of your business. There is no way to make money online without traffic, and especially using this system.

There are an incredible amount of traffic generation strategies. I won’t share them all. Over the life of this blog you’ll hear the great majority of them. In this post I’ll simply explain the mindset behind traffic generation.

What you need to realise is that there is no such thing as free traffic. If time is money and it takes you time to generate traffic, then that has cost you.

The important thing with traffic is to work out how much traffic a strategy can produce and how much money that traffic will generate you.

If you work out that on average each article you produce and submit takes an hour to create and that each article generates you an average of 20 visitors and each visitor is worth $1 to you… then are you prepared to work for $20 per hour.

As an internet marketer you don’t want an income that’s relative to the time you invest. An income that’s completely relative to the time you invest is just like having a JOB!

Of course, there is a correlation between the amount of effort you invest and your online income, but we want to be able to make money while we sleep, while we’re out, even while we’re on holiday.

Instead of continuous time investments, it would be more efficient to spend an hour setting up a Google Adwords campaign.

Instead of spending one hour to create $20 with article marketing, it would be better to spend $10 with Google Adwords to generate $20.

Remember: time is the only limited resource you have. Money is not.

With the article marketing example, you could work 8 hours per day and create an income stream of $160 per day.

With the Google Adwords example, you could create an unlimited amount of income. You could set your daily budget at $100 and generate $200 in revenue per day. You could set your ad budget at $1,000 per day and generate $2,000 in revenue.

Which would you rather do?

Article marketing or Google Adwords?

I hope I’ve managed to get my point across here. Sometimes I struggle to put my thoughts into words.

If you want some more specific steps to drive targeted traffic, then take a look at my guide Accelerated List Building. It gives you eight simple do-this, do-that steps to start driving hordes of traffic and building your list.

#2 – Converting Traffic Into Subscribers

Okay, now that we’re driving traffic, we need to convert this traffic into subscribers. I believe list building to be the most important thing you can do online.

With your own list you have incredible leverage.

I find converting traffic into subscribers to be surprisingly easy. Here’s how I do it.

Firstly you need to be driving traffic to a page with the sole purpose being to get the visitor to become a subscriber. This is called a squeeze page and is essentially a short salesletter.

You can see one of my most successful squeeze pages HERE.

This page converts at about 42% CONFIRMED opt-in rate.

  • I believe your squeeze page should contain:
  • A strong benefit focussed headline
  • An opt-in form ABOVE THE FOLD (meaning the visitor doesn’t have to subscribe to see your form)
  • A few paragraphs about your offer
  • The benefits of subscribing
  • Perhaps one testimonial

It’s also important to test various squeeze pages. Just change one small factor on each page and compare the conversions. Once you find a winner, test that page against another.

The major problem with double opt-in is that a lot of subscribers don’t confirm their email address. Inside Accelerated List Building I reveal a simple trick that I used to more than double my confirmation rate.

#3 – Converting Subscribers Into Sales

There’s no use having subscribers without converting them into buyers. This could be for your own products and services or for affiliate products you recommend.

Believe me when I tell you that you will make 100xs more if you treat your subscribers well, provide valuable, original content and communicate with them with various types of media, such as video, audio and text than if you simply send promo after promo after promo.

You need to see your subscribers as real human beings; not as names and email addresses. At the end of every email you send is a human being. Consider their thoughts, emotions and desires when you email them.

Of course, send the occasional promotional email – that’s how you make your money, but don’t do it all the time. I recommend you follow the 75% content and 25% pitch rule. In other words, three out of four emails should be pure content and the other email can be a promotion for a product or service.

Still, make your promotions educational. Share some tips within the promotion. It will drastically boost your response rate. Look at the page below from Chris Rempel. He’s selling a report, but gives away some of the most valuable information within the sales letter. Very clever marketing!

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Skip the video”. You’ll see the sales letter on the next page.

Clever Marketing From Chris Rempel

I hope I’ve given you an actionable system to start working and profiting with. It really is as simple as I say in this blog post.

Drive traffic, convert it into subscribers and convert them into buyers.

Simple and actionable. Just like we like over at the Accelerated Niche Profits Blog.

Leave your comments below.

Until next time,
James

P.S. Don’t forget to take a look at my guide Accelerated List Building for more specific steps to generate targeted traffic to your squeeze page.

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I hate writing these “welcome to my blog” posts, they sound so cliché.

Nonetheless, let me give you a quick overview of why I’ve set this blog up.

I like to help people. I constantly encourage my buyers and subscribers to email me with any questions they have about marketing online. I get a kick out of helping people, but my time is limited and I can’t help as many people as I want with direct email – so instead I’m going to post some of my most valuable, actionable marketing advice right here on this very blog.

I also love everything marketing (except the technical stuff, DON’T talk to me about technical stuff!). I’m really looking forward to sharing some of my knowledge with you over the next few years – that’s if you’ll stick with me! :)

So, if you have any questions, then use the ‘Contact’ link at the top of the page to send me an email and I’ll try and get back to you as soon as I can.

Leave a comment below introducing yourself and let me know any topics you would particularly like me to discuss and I’ll do my best to address them in future blog posts.

James

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