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When starting your own online business you will probably not have your own product so the next best thing to do is sell a product made by others.If you sell you get a commission.This is affiliate marketing.

As you build your list of email subscribers you can then move to Private Lable Rights or PLR products which are information products that someone else has written but which you can change and then sell as if you had written them.

These tend to be ebooks of 20-30 pages in length.You set the price and you get all on the money not 50% as is the case with most affiliate products.

My experience is that you offer one PLR product for sales and then have a pop up lightbox appear on your sales page after 10 seconds, which offers another PLR product for free.You will get many more email subscribers grabbing your free ebook than buying your paid product.BUT you will be growing your list.

This will in time become your most valuable asset.

In the meantime grab Tony Shepperd’s freebie“Quit Your Job in 90 days” ebook.It’s what got me started.

Best Wishes
Andrew Collinson

PS I’ve now sold two PLR ebooks,not many I know but all the greats started here.

Thanks for coming back,please feel free to post any comments you may have.

Building a list is of course the most important thing if you want to make money online.

For that you will need an autoresponder.Trying to work with Outlook will just not work if you want to track conversions and avoid having your emails going straight into your reader’s junk mail folder.

All autorepsonders have a spam check which will which check your email before they go out and give the email a points score .The higher the number the greater the risk of going to the junk folder.

I have found that the quickest way to build a list is to offer a free product,usually an ebook 20 to 30 pages long.

In exchange for the ebook your reader gives you their email address and thus they get added to your list.

The best way I think to offer the ebook is with a lightbox pop up.This is a pop up which appears 10 seconds or so after your sales page is loaded.When it pops up the rest of the page darkens so the reader is compelled to read the pop up.

Keep your message short and tell them to sign up.That is your most wanted response so tell them where to put their email even though to you it’s blindingly obvious.

I would recommend Aweber as it has  great array of webforms which include pop ups that you can customize.

Once you’ve got the form you want,you copy the code and add it to you main sales page.

I would recommend a ten second delay before the pop up appears,this gives your reader time to at least scan your sales page headline before the pop up appears.

Try it and your list will grow quickly.

Best wishes

Andrew
 

PS which is the best autorepsonder for you? leave  your comments below.

Well I have got my first sale on Clickbank so it it time to reveal the training I have been following to build an online business.

It is a great feeling when you get that first sale.All that hard work is finally starting to pay off.

Now that first sale may not seem like very much and certainly won’t be enough to quit the day job,but in many ways it will be the most important sale of your online career.It proves that you can do it.

All that is required now is the repeat the process that got you that sale,so that it increases to a level that matches or beats your current monthly income.Then sack the boss!.

So anyway, the course I have been following is the Kickstart Course by Tony Sheperd.You can get it here

The link actually gives you three other freebies as well as the opportunity to sign up for the Kickstart course on a 14 day trial for $1.For that $1 you get the first for lessons for free.If you like the system after the 14 days you are billed $27 per month.The course last for 12 months,so you get 52 lessons.

Tony’s program is a weekly pdf file delivered to your inbox,each one packed with information on how to build an online business.How to find a niche,how to build a sales page and drive traffic to it.Each lesson gives you real hands on advice of how to perform a task on a click by click basis.Lots of screenshots,which I like.

So many online business building course give only vague instructions on how to do something leaving you scratching your head.Not this course.I have created 4 sales pages and an autorepsonder follow up system that is getting me traffic and now sales.All this from Tony’s training.

So try the Kick Start course now.It works for me.Click here for instant access.

Best Wishes

Andrew Collinson

“The money is in the list”

That being so I have started to build said list.I have bought some PLR products from the guru I am following.Cost was $97 for 12 products.They are well put together and relate to the make money on line niche.

I have used one to sell through Paypal and then added a free ebook via a pop-up webform.

So far no one has bought the main product but quite a few are grabbing the ebook  which gets me their email address.

So now the list is starting to build.I have 16 people on the list as I write this.Not many I agree but it is a start.

The important thing to remember is not to use every email you send out as a product pitch.You will get substantial opt outs if you do that.

The process is build a list,build a relationship with that list and then market to that list.

It’s the middle bit most people leave out.They so want to pitch products and make money they forget about building a relationship.The reader will just think “this person does not care about what I want they just want to sell me stuff”.

So give REAL content and give it free.You can introduce affiliate products from time to time but ensure they tie in with what you blog or websites is about.

Have your emails 4 days apart which is the default setting on Aweber the autoresponder I use.

After about 7 emails spread any subsequent emails out to seven days apart.

Follow this strategy and your own list will grow.

Best wishes

Andrew Collinson

All internet marketers will tell you that the way to make money is to build a list.

You offer a free ebook or some other information product in return the reader gives you their email address.Then you start to market products which they have to pay for and you earn money off.

Well I am please to say my list is starting to build.

I now have three information products for sale now and two free ebooks.

So far no sales of the paid products but I have a total of 15 subscribers over three lists.None of them have unsubscribed yet which is good news.

I am now busy writing follow up messages and offering a mix of affiliate products and helpful content.

If you do this,mix up the offers with helpful advice.It will keep the unsubscribe rate down.

Time now to launch the fourth product on SEO.I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

Best Wishes

Andrew

I now have three sales page sites up.You can see one here http://www.tubetrafficmagic.com.
Just need to get some traffic to them now ,so doing some article marketing.

No matter what kind of website or blog you have,if you are to move up the search engine rankings then you have to have backlinks to your site.Asking other webmasters is one way of doing this,however the more popular ones,the ones with a high PR ,can afford to be more choosy who they link to.

Then tend to stay away from newbie sites so you have to look at other options.One way is to write article related to your niche and post them at various article directories.The one I use is Ezine.com .You should use these articles to give value to your readers not just do a blatant sales pitch.

The is a signature box at the end of the article where you can place a link to your website or blog.This is the backlink to your site and will improve your ranking.

It is a good idea to write some articles that are not related to your niche,Ezine like that.I just did one and I have now achieved expert author status which means my article get greater prominence on the site

So think of some topics you are interested in and write 400-500 word articles.This will improve your profile as someone who wants to help not just sell stuff.Go and do it.

I have bought a year’s subscription to a Private Licencing Rights site for $97 which I think is good value,All the products are in the “make money on the internet” niche and come with a excellent sales page.This is easy to upload to my hosting service and then tweak before launching it on the internet.

Now I am using them to use as an upsell on my MLM site.This means altering the page any subscriber to my list sees after then have grabbed my free ebook.But right now I cannot configure my autoresponder so it redirects to the right page.This may be because the java script I loaded which generates the pop up window overrides the autoresponder  commands.

I am now investigating this with the guy who wrote the java script files.I will keep you posted.

Andrew

Well the pop up for my free ebook is up and running you can see it here.i have tested the opt in and that works too.

A day later I got my first sign upwhich is a first for me.

Now I need an upsell product that will appear on the page which tells someone they have successfully subscribed to my list.This will be a one time offer offering a product at a big discount on the usual price.The idea is that if someone has opted into your list they are the frame of mind to buy something from you.

The heavy discount that is offered only once is a big incentive to buy now,so the chances of an upsell are high at this point.

But first I need a product and that means buying the PLR rights. So we will see what’s out there then I’ll come back to you with details of what I have chosen.

Bye for now

Andrew

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