I have an email in my auto-responder that asks my subscribers…

“What level of marketing are you currently at?”

I’ve found that a surprising number of subscribers are just starting out and haven’t made any money online yet… I want to change that. So, I’ve written this short guide to help you start making $1,000 per month quickly. It’s very brief. I might elaborate on it at a later date.

As always I’ll present this business model in a step by step way so you can get going with it quickly.

Step #1
The Market

First you need to pick a target market. You should target a broad market with a lot of products to promote. Things like weight loss, dating, money making, health etc. Check the Clickbank marketplace to make sure there are a number of products you can promote.

Step #2
The Fundamentals

You need a domain, hosting and an auto-responder. You’ll need these throughout your online career. For hosting I use Bluehost.com and register my domains through them as well. For an auto-responder I use Aweber.

Step #3
The Free Report

You need to create a report that you give away to encourage visitors to part with their email address. The report only needs to be 5-10 pages. You can write it yourself, hire someone else to write it, compile a series of private label articles or simply use a private label report.

Step #4
The Squeeze Page

We need a simple squeeze page now that encourages people to submit their email address. Here’s one of my squeeze pages that you can model yours on.

http://www.turn-back-the-clock.com

Step #5
The Opt-In Process

Once a prospect opts-in redirect them to a page which explains how to confirm their email address. Also present them with an offer for an affiliate product.

Once a prospect has confirmed their email address, redirect them to the download page. After the download link present them with another offer for an affiliate product.

These are just small ways to squeeze money from your opt-in process.

Step #6
The Follow-Up Sequence

The follow up sequence is where the real money is made.

You need to create a deep, cash producing follow- up sequence. This is where you schedule emails to go out on set days after a prospect has subscribed. The emails should include valuable, informative articles, as well as promotions for affiliate products. Even in the articles you can include subtle affiliate links.

Here’s how I set up most of my follow-up sequences.

Day 1: Article

Day 2: Article

Day 3: Promo

Day 5: Article

Day 7: Article

From then on I schedule emails four days apart with about 70% of emails being content and 30% promotions. Develop your sequence so that it’s very deep and goes on for at least a year. You don’t have to create a whole years worth of content before you start getting subscribers. Have a weeks’ worth of emails ready and just keep adding to them as time goes on.

Super Time Saving Tip: Many product owners offer their affiliates tools, including ready made solo emails and reprintable articles. Simply plug these into your auto-responder and you don’t have to worry about content creation. Another way to save time is to buy a ready made follow up sequence. You can get some of these for a variety of niches at: http://www.plrminimart.com/annualplr.html

Subscribers will continue to get emails until they decide to unsubscribe. Many will purchase a product from you. Some will purchase two, three, four, five or more.

You can find products that pay over $100 commission or you can find membership sites that pay commissions monthly to ramp up your profits.

Once you get a feel for the best converting offers, move them to the front of your follow-up sequence. Subscribers are more responsive the newer they are.

Step #7
Driving Traffic

Everything is set up now, it’s simply about driving traffic now. The more leads you pump into your follow-up sequence, the more money will drop into your bank account. It’s as simple as that.

I’m not going to talk about generating traffic in this article. But I am going to send you somewhere that will teach you how to drive THOUSANDS of visitors per DAY to your squeeze page.

Do you know how much money you would make with this business model if you are driving thousands of visitors to your squeeze page every day?

Anyway, I used to SUCK at getting traffic. I’d struggle to get over 30 visitors per day. Then I got Automatic Traffic Blast, implemented the strategies and now I get thousands of visitors every single day.

I really can not recommend it enough. It’s incredible. It’s the best traffic generation course I’ve ever bought. And if you get it too, and implement it, you’ll start to get thousands of visitors per day.

You can get it by clicking here.

I really hope you’ve enjoyed this blog post and that it helps you make your first dollars. And if it does, then drop me an email and let me know

Leave a comment below and let me know what you thought.

Talk soon

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List building can take a lot of time simply because many strategies do not work right away. A perfect example of this is article submissions. You can wait weeks or months for your articles to make their way onto other people’s sites. There are much better methods available to you.

Here are five free strategies that will enable you to build your list much more quickly.

1. Ad swaps involve finding other marketers in your niche, or a complementary niche, who have an equally sizeable list. You provide each other with ads to promote to your lists for mutual benefit. In essence, this doubles the number of your potential buyers and multiplies your chances of enticing people onto your own list.

2. Giveaways enable you to distribute viral materials that contain links to your opt-in form. By encouraging people to pass your giveaway around, you can quickly reach a significant number of prospects. With giveaway events, you can leverage the marketing efforts of the participating marketers.

3. Press releases can work faster than article marketing, although both are excellent ways to build your list. With press releases, web site owners and online magazine editors are looking for news. By making your opt-in offer newsworthy, you can create a press release that gets posted immediately onto those sites and through email newsletters.

4. Forum participation is an excellent way to reach out to people who are in your niche. Find niche-related forums, respond to people’s questions with valuable advice, and plug your squeeze page giveaway in your signature file.

5. Social marketing puts you right in front of the people who are most likely to want what you are offering. Visit relevant blogs and add snippets of helpful information in response to posts that refer to the topic of your giveaway. This is key. You want your plug to naturally flow with the topic of the post so that people will be anxious to find out how your product can help them.

When choosing social media sites and forums, make sure they allow do-follow links and that you can add live links in your signature file, as this is the whole purpose of this form of marketing. Not all blogs and forums allow active links.

All of these methods work. It’s a matter of finding the ones best suited to your offer. Forums and social media work best if they have a significant number of visitors or members. If the numbers are small, it will be tougher to get the traffic that you need to build your list quickly.

By utilizing all five methods, you can reach more of the right people faster. Meet their expectations, and you will grow your list.

List building is one activity that you can share with other marketers for your mutual benefit. Not only will you be able to grow your list in record time, but when done correctly, you can see the results of your efforts years down the road.

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In this article, I’m going to share a product creation method I’ve never revealed, and you’ve probably never heard of it either. It’s an incredibly powerful method and requires very little work on your part, establishes instant credibility, and secures you a number of very high profile joint venture partners in advance.

I don’t have a fancy name for this method, but it involves creating a scenario and then getting some of the top experts in your niche to reveal how they would deal with this scenario.

That’s not the best way to explain it, so here’s an example of a product created using this method.

A few years ago a very high profile marketer by name of Shawn Casey created a product called Desperate For Money. Shawn created a “scenario”. The scenario was:

“Imagine coming home one day only to find that armed terrorists (I politely called them “desperados” during the challenge) have invaded your house, are holding your family hostage and strapped C4 explosives to each and every one of their chests.

“They blindfold you, handcuff you, bring you to a secret location in the woods and throw you into a concrete bunker. They take away your food and water for 48 hours, hold a trigger in their hands that’s one push away from annihilating your entire family, and point a loaded AK47 to your head.

“In the bunker, they hand you a computer that’s connected to the Internet, a telephone and just one credit card with only $200 of available credit. Then, they issue this demand: ‘Make $1,000 on the Internet in 48 hours, or we will kill your family’.

“The challenge: What would you do?”

Shawn put this challenge to some of the top internet marketers around. He received 15 responses. Each contributor produced a 1,000 word guide revealing how they would make $1k in only 48 hours based on the scenario. The guide has been selling since 2006 for $39.99. I bet it’s sold thousands – perhaps even tens of thousands - of copies.

It’s a fantastic product creation strategy. You have to do very little, you piggy-back on the credibility of the contributors, you have a fantastic quality product, and there’s a good chance those contributors will do a promotion for the product when it’s launched. Instant product, instant credibility, instant leverage, instant sales, instant business.

Here’s how you can get going with this method right away.

Firstly, find the most severe and common problem in your market and create a scenario around this problem. For example, if you’re in the weight loss market then the scenario can be to lose 10lbs in 14 days while still eating the foods you love. If you’re in the anti-aging market then create a scenario to look 10 years younger using only natural remedies.

Secondly, contact some of the “big players” in your market and see if they’d be interested in contributing their own article, audio or video. Explain that they will greatly increase their exposure because you will sell x number of copies. You could even offer an extra incentive, such as a $100 bonus, or a free advertising slot on your website or in your next newsletter.

Thirdly, compile all of the responses, add your own contribution, tidy the product up. Create a salesletter, have some graphics created, set it up with an affiliate program and roll it out to your lists and with JVs.

It’s so incredibly simple and works in any market.

With just a few hours work you’ll have your own $27-47 product, have rock solid relationships with some of the top players in your market and you’ll have inherited instant credibility.

Have a quick think about a scenario you can come up with in your market and just get out there and do it. I’m already planning to roll out a product like this in one of my main markets (anti-aging).

As always, let me know what you think of this blog post by leaving a comment below.

Talk soon,
James Penn

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