Before I tell you my usual stories of courage, honor, and marketing achievement, I’ve gotta get something off my chest. Which is:

This whole “recession” thing everyone’s blathering about was merely fabricated by the media (you know, the people we trust to deliver the “news” to us) so they’ll have more to, uh, g-r-i-p-e about while they assault us with election propaganda.

Did you know that ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN have predicted 40 out of the last 2 recessions?

Yeah, look out baby, cuz the sky is falling. We’re teetering on the brink of financial disaster and you should yank all your money outta the bank and hide it under your mattress and retreat into a fallout shelter with your portable TV. We can all stand together holding hands in stark terror, as Katie Couric faithfully reports the demise of planet earth.

Whatever!

I’m not participating in the current recession and you don’t have to either. Look, grow your business, buy your beer, go on vacation, live life as normal and ignore the prophets of misery. OK?

I’m dead serious about this. The recession IS a fabrication of the media, but becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Because of the talking heads and all their cheery news, the Mortgage biz is nearly in Intensive Care. Yeah, some people are being affected by this.

And some not.

So understand this: Whatever happens, whether it’s a mild blip or bigger than that, there are two kinds of people:

1) Passive Victims (the 95%)

and

2) Alpha Warriors (the 5%).

Passive Victims see all this as bad, bad, bad. They react in fear and hunker down for a l-o-o-o-o-ng winter. They cut back advertising and training budgets and just sorta wait until everything gets better.

Sorry, but here’s the problem with that: A whole bunch of ‘em just go out of business. It’s like that saying from the Wild West: “The cowards never started. The weak died along the way. Only the strong made it through.”

Alpha Warriors don’t fear economic downturns. Because that’s when they put their roots deeper. They find less obvious ways to acquire customers. Many times they do the opposite of the crowd and invest more into customer acquisition than everyone else, not less. While the Passive Victims are holding hands watching Katie Couric, the Alpha warriors are quietly making headway.

The water goes up, the Passive Victims drown, and when the water drains away, the landscape is cleared and the Alpha Warriors enjoy a feast.

That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA: Then there is something else I want you to think about….

We live in a GLOBAL economy. Hey pal, listen up: People in China and the Philippines and India and Australia ain’t listening to Ms. Couric. They ain’t taking ownership of any “recession.” (That’s why you see so many mixed signals in the financial world. Like a headline I saw today, “Stocks Up Despite Economic Fears.”) The market is too intelligent for any one person’s version of ‘How to lie with statistics.’

You can decide to lose, but that only guarantees you that someone besides you will win.

You wanna slow down? Somebody else in some other country will speed up. This is the Internet age. You can get things done, products made, services delivered, from almost ANYWHERE. More than 1/3 of my own customers are overseas. The people from Australia and Singapore and Hong Kong who come to my 4-man intensives and Gladiator and Roundtable meetings, they’re SHARP. Hard working. Eager students.

Above all you cannot afford to lose your edge.

I LOVE working with 5% Alpha Warriors. There’s nothing like a restless mind that is constantly searching for another way in, a better way to present that offer, a new “Widget” to promote, a new way of engaging the customer’s attention. And there’s nothing like what happens when Alpha Warriors get together and exchange ideas. You wanna recession-proof your business? Surround yourself with Alpha Warriors who together dominate markets and assemble kingdoms and fortunes with digital magic. Alchemy. Turning lead into Gold.

Last week my Roundtable members and I met together privately in Orlando, Florida. Picture this: Well over a dozen people who, for the most part, dominate their industries. Captains of a publicity firm, a drug rehab, a membership site for Home Schoolers, a custom wood shop, a hi-tech business consultant, a telemarketing firm, a FAX service, a UK real estate specialist, a corporate organizational consulting firm, a cognitive engineer, a preeminent web hosting company… ALL of us discussing both our victories and our most perplexing problems, iron sharpening iron. The intensity in the room is palpable.

For the most part, these guys are slaying the competition too. In November one guy did about 3 days of research on negative keywords and slashed his AdWords cost from $70,000 a month to $40,000 a month with no drop in sales. Now he’s re-investing the money into: You guessed it, more aggressive marketing.

Another started with my Definitive Guide to Google AdWords three and a half years ago and has built his company from scratch to $8.1 million in sales. An Alpha Warrior.

You can go to the poorest country in the world; you can go to any big city in the biggest recession you’ve ever seen; and despite the outside conditions there will ALWAYS be restaurants providing fine dining to astute individuals who are unaffected and undeterred by the gloom and misery around them.

Those are the 5% Alpha Warriors.

If you’re reading this and not liking it and wanting to tell me about your six friends who all lost their jobs last week, then… I’m not so sure you’re an Alpha Warrior. These thoughts I’m planting in your head might be bad for you. They might interfere with the News Media’s mind-control scheme.

On the other hand, if you find yourself resonating with this, if you know that when things get gritty you like to dig deep, hunker down and carve out an even deeper groove in the world, then yeah, you’re an Alpha Warrior.

I’ve set aside some dates in my calendar for Alpha Warrior meetings, 4-day intensives that I hold in my office: February 19-20 and 27-28; March 12-13 and 26-27. This is the on-ramp to my Roundtable group that meets privately three times per year. If during this so-called “recession” you plan on putting your roots deeper and dominating your market even more thoroughly, this is the place you’ll want to be.

Carpe Deim - Seize The Day.

And don’t let Katie Couric screw with your mind.

“How can I contact specialist writers on health issues, who may need a job in third world countries and may be willing to help me to quickly write the books?”

The best 2 places on the web that I know to do this are www.Elance.com and www.Guru.com

You can also try Googling “work for hire India”, “outsource to India” or “copywriter India” and those kind of phrases (and obviously whichever other country you like).

But be careful when outsourcing to such countries as to the type of work you will get back.

Certainly in my experience a number of Indian writers whose work I have looked at is written in a form of English a little different to what I and most of the UK, USA and Australian market are used to.

They tend to use a more old-fashioned English which may be harder to understand for ebook readers.

This could result in dis-satisfied customers and potential refunds………..definitely not a good thing!

But on the upside you can get some extremely well-qualified and well-educated doctors and health care professionals to write for you at an exceptionally good rate.

The good thing is that sites like Elance and Guru mentioned above give you the option to view the writer’s ratings (by others who have used them) and also to see samples of their previous work.

Do your homework and look through the samples carefully………if they look and read fine to you then great go for it and hire them……….

You can even ask them to write a short article (often they will do it for free as a promotional exercise) to get further proof.

But if you get some kind of archaic manuscript that looks like it’s from Victorian times then keep on looking….!

To be honest I tend to use USA and UK writers and generally can negotiate a pretty good price with them anyway………especially when buying in bulk (I go for individuals whenever I can rather than the bigger companies which tend to crop up more and more on Elance).

One final tip………….refer to the work you want done as a “report” not an “ebook” this should get you about a 10% lower price most times (as it’s perceived as less work by the writer!)

“I have lots of information on my hard drive which needs collating and editing into an ebook, which I plan to sell on -line. I feel I am too close to all the information. How can I get someone to pull all this information together and produce a knock-out product without it costing the earth?”

Now this is a major headache for so many people - it is OK having ideas and information on a topic which COULD do well online…………

But without getting it out there quick and easily you can soon get pretty frustrated.

So it can be a great idea to have someone help you pull it all together.

Two obvious places to go to get this done for you are:
www.Elance.com

and

www.Guru.com

Now both of these are “reverse Ebay” situations - you post a job and people bid to fulfill the service as cheaply as they can.

But remember cheapest is not always best and be sure to look at previous feedback on their work, samples and what it actually is that they have done……..

For example someone who compiles mini-reports in a specific health niche may not be the best person to help bring together your “how to make $10k per month on the stock exchange” product.

Also only put the barest of details on your initial post (e.g. “I am looking for someone to help me on my ebook project pull the ideas together..”) and then enter into a private message board with them on the full details for your project….

As there are many people that rove these sites to look for niche ideas and would happily steal your idea and have a product written by a ghostwriter for themselves.

Also in the “real world” you may know someone already with the talents to help you or you could put an advert at the local college or university for a student to help you do this……..

A student may well do for a small fee and the great entry on their CV that this will bring (i.e. part of a successful ebook publishing team).

But make sure that they actually know what the aim of an ebook is and how they are written - as this is very different to a normal offline book.

But remember that they key online is a good enough product (ie it does what it says plus a little more and has a very low refund rate) and a knockout saleletter.

The product itself is not what makes you rich online it is the selling of it through a laser-targetted knock-out direct salesletter.

Recommended Resource

Jim Edwards How to Write and Publish Your Own Ebook in as Little as 7 Days is an excellent starting point for anyone serious about writing and/or creating ebooks online which you can find out about by going to www.7DayEbook.com

Discover how to master pay per click advertising so that you don’t lose the shirt off your back…..!

Ok I am going to tell you right up front - I love Google Adwords.

Not as much as my gorgeous wife or my new baby daughter - but none the less it’s pretty
awesome!

For those who don’t know; Google Adwords are the paid adverts that you see on the right
hand side of any Google search page underneath where it says “Sponsored Links”.

As I am sure you are aware Google is the biggest search engine on the planet and it is
estimated that any keyword results found using the Overture Search Tool can be
multiplied by 4 for Google results.

So it’s a big deal and is going to put you in front of lot of people quickly.

But as well as being big; Adwords is very clever and allows you to test advertising
and product ideas quickly, easily and at a very low cost.

One of the great features of Adwords is the ability to write multiple ads and have
them automatically rotated by Google so that different visitors see different ads.

You can then quickly test to find the best performing ads by their Click Through Rate.

Click Through Rate (or CTR) basically does as it says - it measures how many times a
person who sees your Adwords advert clicks it to go through to your website.

CTR of around 1% should be a minimum you look for with 2-5% being good and
5% + being really good.

This may not sound a lot but in a market with 60,000 visitors per month
just a lowly 1% ctr will get you 600 visitors each month, get 2% and you have 1200.

So when you start any Adwords campaign always look to write at least 2 or 3
adverts to test against each other - as I guarantee you will get different responses.

The secret to good CTR is basically good copy (the very limited words of text
you get to put in your ad). More on that shortly…

The whole Adwords system is quite a learning curve that I cannot possibly cover
in a short email.

So for this purpose I would highly, highly recommend one resource above all over in
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His free 5 Day Course is definitely worth signing up for if nothing else…

If you do decide to invest in it - print it off and read it twice to really absorb what it is telling you.

Anyways that said several great tips for
Adwords are:

• Always include your keyword in the headline as it will boost CTR better than virtually anything else.

• Steer clear of using “free” keywords if you are quite new to Adwords (i.e. “free web templates” “free web hosting”) as these people will generally burn your ad. money and unlikely to be buyers.

• Always start with a low conservative bid price and daily price - you can always increase it as you begin to get success.

• Use some “power words” help to make your text seem more dynamic and appealing (e.g. words like “proven” “tested” “secrets” etc.).

You can get a great free list of
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Now let’s be clear up front with this when I talk about free traffic I am talking about
getting traffic to your website that does not cost you money.

But as we all really know nothing in life is actually free; despite what Janet Jackson and
Luther Vandross may think in that classic 1990’s track “The Best Things in Life are Free”……….!

Well free traffic may not cost money but it does cost you time though and more
than anything on else on earth your time is so valuable.

So always bear that in mind - whether or not you are the best placed person to carry out
some of these free traffic activities -or if it is possible to outsource some of them (e.g. paying someone $6 or $8 to write an article for you).

As we just mentioned articles let’s jump in right there….

Writing highly targeted articles about interesting topics in your niche of about 500 to 700 words can get you some great free traffic.

You write them and then submit them to article directories such as
www.GoArticles.com
www.EzineArticles.com
www.SearchWarp.com

And also www.Squidoo.com which I mentioned in an earlier email.

Other web site owners who are often desperate for content will then use your articles
on their websites (which have a link back to your site on them).

There are also cool ways that you can get high SEO ranking on articles but
I will cover that another time.

Another great free traffic source is exchanging links with other websites who are in the
same niche as you.

But the important point to remember is to link to sites that complement what you have
to offer rather than ones in direct competition.

For example if you have a site selling computer printers then you don’t want
to link to another computer printer site.

Instead link to sites selling computer paper, ink cartridges, “how to mend your
own printer” ebooks etc.

This will also begin to help your SEO rankings but again that discussion is
for another day.

Posting helpful questions and comments on forums related to your niche market (with a link back to your site in the bio. box) is another great free traffic method.

Finally and one of the most profitable is JV and affiliate traffic.

By persuading another webmaster with a list to send his subscribers an email
outlining some of the benefits of your product with his or affiliate link in
there………..can lead to a major pay day.

You can make a bunch of affiliate sales and if you are clever build your list as
well with people opting in to your free offer.

OK there ends the free traffic lesson for today and the next email is the last
in the course so I hope you have found the content helpful and already
using some of it.

Last time we talked about some of the important factors in designing a website
and how you can learn a great deal from other sites.

But once you have a rough idea or “blueprint” how are you going to get the site made?

Well unless you are well versed in html web code then you need to make a decision.

You really have 2 options - to learn to do it yourself or hire a web coder.

Now their are software applications known as WYSIWYG which stand for What You See Is What You Get.

These are pretty easy to use once you get the hang of them.

They do not require that you have any knowledge of web coding and work on
principles not dissimilar to making a document using Microsoft Word.

I learnt how to put a website together from A-Z using a WYSIWYG that
you get free with Mozilla called Mozilla Composer (just Google it to find it).

The advantages of making your own sites are that it is a repeatable skill and you can
do it again and again for your websites and save yourself a great deal of money.

You could even offer your skills for hire as an extra income once you become
proficient in this area.

It will also mean that you are much more adept at explaining what you want doing
if you were to hire a web designer in future.

The obvious downside is that it takes time to learn the skills in the first place.

So the other option is to have a freelance web designer make the site for you.

I have used www.RentaCoder.com for several websites and always been pleased with the
results.

You basically post a description of what you need doing on Rentacoder and in a
reverse eBay approach coders will bid for the project (I say reverse as you are
looking for lower rather than higher bidders).

Like on eBay coders are rated by people who have previously employed them to
do freelance work.

Several tips for using the site are:

* Don’t use coders with poor ratings or no ratings (Newbies)

* Start each bid with the words “this should be a straightforward job for a competent
coder…” as this will stop incompetent coders applying and also keep the price low.

* Lowest price is not always best - check into ratings and what other work the coder
has done.

* Only put the basics of your web design up in the initial project description and
give the full details in private message with interested coders (to stop prying
eyes copying your ideas…!)

With these tips in mind you should be well on your way to getting your website built.

One crucial thing that you should know is that your average website designer knows
next to nothing about internet marketing.

They can often make pretty sites with lots of flashing animation and fancy graphics -
but does this really maximise your sales process…?

On the whole the answer is no - in test after test internet marketers find that
what tends to work best at selling online is a basic website with an extremely
compelling sales letter about the product on it.

That said, how do we educate the website developer to make us a site that sells?

Well a little research can go a long way.

Let’s say for example that you wanted to go into business selling ebooks and other products teaching people how to sell successfully on eBay.

You would type in your keywords on Google such as “eBay’s sales tips” or “how to sell
on eBay”.

Then methodically go through the top 20 or so sites that appear (particularly on the
paid ads side) and take notes in Microsoft Word or Notepad.

Look at the layout they use, the colors, the type of text and graphics etc. and note
down the good points to each site.

Remember to write down the web url (or webpage) that they appear on so that if you
decide to use a web designer you can simply say “I want a cool header graphic that looks
like that one on coolebaysite.com” (this is just an example I made up - not a real site!)

Now I am not suggesting for one minute that you copy other web sites as this is illegal
and unethical.

However you can use other sites for inspirations, ideas and themes (no one
can copyright an idea).

There are a number of components to getting a successful internet marketing site.

Three of the key areas that you must take care of on your website are:

1. A compelling headline (look at any good internet marketing site and they will have a great headline).

2. Compelling sales copy (As above - check out how other people write copy and begin
to learn this skill it is invaluable).

3. An opt-in box to capture visitors email address in return for a bonus (newsletter or
report), for repeat marketing.

I would also stress that a plain looking site (with maybe one or two good photos
or images) with a good sales letter will generally outsell a fancy looking site with
a poor sales letter or no sales letter at all.

Think of it like this - the website basically has to do the selling for you.

In the same way that you would have to if you were going around door-to-door
trying to sell your products.

But the sales pitch is all written in the letter.

OK now you have an idea what to look for when designing a website be sure to tune in for
the next email which addresses the question “how do I get it done?”

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Success Always,

SL

• Eat protein at every meal, including breakfast.

• Eliminate wheat- and flour-based products for the time being. And yes, that definitely includes bread and pasta.

• Eat unprocessed foods. Ninety percent of what you eat should be a combination of (in this order of importance) raw vegetables, steamed vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, and maybe a few fruits if necessary.

• Reduce starch to one portion a day, and don’t eat that portion during your evening meal. Best choices are beans, sweet potatoes, and oatmeal.

• Don’t overdo fruit: one a day maximum, and only the low-sugar, high-fiber variety. Apples, pears, plums and berries all are good choices. For now, fruit should be eaten alone or with something light, like low fat nuts. Lose the fruit juice completely.

• Reduce or eliminate dairy for the time being, especially cow’s milk. Exceptions: reasonable amounts of  low sugar, fat free yogurt.

• Lose the booze. Despite what the “studies” say, you lose no health benefits by giving up alcohol (including wine). There is nothing essential in alcohol that you can’t get in fruits and vegetables without all the bad side effects that go along with it.

• Stop using vegetable oils such as sunflower, safflower and corn. The supermarket kind is highly refined, and it oxidizes easily when heated, contributing to arterial plaque. Use olive oil instead, and apply it to food after the food is cooked when possible.

• Watch which types of fat you’re eating. The amount of fat you eat is probably less important than the kind of fat you eat. The worst are fried foods, margarine and foods that contain hydrogenized or partially hydrogenized oils. The best is omega-3, found in fish and flaxseed oil.

• Obsessively drink water: At least 8 ounces for every 20 pounds of bodyweight you’re now carrying around, each day. Every day. No excuses.

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Writing a book gives you total control over your financial destiny.

That’s a bold statement so let me back it up with a simple analogy about becoming an author, and then show you how you can become an author in 28 days or less…

To get the most of writing a book, you simply need to understand the difference between these 2 people:

Person A: is told that they must work HARD, get a good job, work for years at that job… and then they might be able to live their dream life.

How many of you work hard? I’ll bet everyone reading this works hard!

How many of you are truly wealthy?  That number is probably far less than the number of you who work hard…

What happened?

Let me tell you what happened - ‘THEY’ lied…

Now Person B:  works SMART.  Maybe they write a book and become an author, maybe they do a little research and learn how to market a book, maybe they take that a little further and get a publisher for their book.

I know you’ve heard others say that you need to work SMART, but in today’s society working smart means… that you do the things that give you long term income ‘whether you decide to continue working or not’ - like writing a book that has longevity on the
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At the end of your life are you going to be like person A or B.

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What safety methods are you setting up now so you don’t have to worry about laying on your death bed thinking about all you’ve done in life and asking why that whole ‘Working Hard Thing’ didn’t pay off?

Who’s going to remember you in 10 years?  What about 20 years after you’re gone, or 50 years?

Are your great grandkids going to admire what you achieved while you lived?

Are they going to be able to use you as a role model…

Think about that for a moment because that was one of the most profound thoughts that was put into my head right before I wrote a book - in fact I wrote my first book with the goals of helping the greatest number of people possible - to outlive me and make my
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See that subject line? That’s like music to my ears…

Because so many people are working too hard for too little these days, and their hope for a brighter future and more freedom from their jobs is diminishing quickly.

People like David Smith.

David not only works a full-time job, but he also owns an electrical contracting company. So to say he works hard for his money would be an understatement.

David was looking for a better way…a way he could become a published author and earn a great living, without being a slave to an 85-hour work week.

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“I flip flopped through various mindsets of success and failure.  I wanted to be a published author, but had no idea where to begin.

I knew there had to be a way to convert my expertise into products that would help other people, but I was clueless, and frankly I didn’t have a lot of hope that dream would ever come to fruition.

So I’ve been over committed in my career for quite awhile. What I CAN say is that my hope has been restored!

Now, having participated in Chris G program, I am very excited that I have a solid plan of action. The milestones I’m accomplishing are a direct result of the training and processes I’ve learned from him.

Just as a result of getting in touch with my ability to create, I’ve come up with 2 other products and uploaded them to my website. Now we’ve created two sites with multiple custom built pages designed to seamlessly attract prospects into my sales funnel.

Whereas 6 months ago I couldn’t gain clarity at all, now I can envision the first draft of my ebook, and published soft-cover book.

And although I’ve had to practice patience during this process of product creation because I average 85 hours per week,  Chris’ step by step plan has kept me focused on distinct, achievable benchmarks in this system for writing a top-selling book.

This program has forever changed my attitude, and my outlook for my future.  And I’m charged up about helping as many people as I can to make a real difference in their
lives!”

Whoa!  An 85-hour work week. Can you imagine?

Family, friends, hobbies, free time…all taking a backseat to a full time job and a business that sucks the very life out of you.

But now, with the Automatic Best Seller program, David is taking specific action to eliminate this horrendous lifestyle.

He’s moving away from being another casualty in the job market, and moving towards a life filled with more time, more energy, and more freedom to do the things he WANTS to…instead of the things he HAS to.

Can you relate?
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Maybe you’re stuck in a situation like David’s, where every waking moment is spent toiling for something (or someone) that is not only going to alienate you from the people you love, but may very well drive you to an early grave.

I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be this way. You can have a better life, with more time, more freedom, and more money than you ever thought possible.

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Why aren’t you?

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I’m showing you the door that leads to a way out. And I’m handing you the key.

You going to open it?  …or are you going to wait another year?

The choice is yours - it always has been.

Let me to help you create your legacy,

P.S. David’s story is remarkable, and there’s a lot more to it than you see here.

In fact, below is a link to an audio where David speaks about his first teleseminar, and how he quickly and easily boosted the value of his content by 300% using the techniques he learned in the Automatic Best Seller program.

Take a listen here…
http://www.automaticbestseller.com/davids_story

Lawyers solve legal problems.

Dentists solve teeth problems.

Cell phones solve communication problems.

Everything was created to solve a problem.  I was.   You were.

All of us were. I call the problem we were born to solve our LIFE ASSIGNMENT.

Ever since I was 19 years old, my vision was to create a platform to positively influence hundreds of thousands of lives, then millions.

For years, years, I didn’t understand how to turn my passion into a profitable business helping others.

It was VERY frustrating. Very.  I struggled and struggled and struggled.  No fun.

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I became a #1 best-selling author and built a business helping individuals in over 40 countries.

Since that time, I’ve showed many, many people how to do the same.

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P.S. I know the life of an entrepreneur can be lonely at times. Frustrating at times. I do.

I know they’re days you doubt yourself. I have those days as well. We all do.

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If you’ve been reading my newsletter for a while, you know that I LOVE old success books. I just love them.

Success books written from 1900-1930, I devour them.

Like a 6 year old eating chocolate cake at their birthday party.

Yes, many of them are hard to find or out of print, but they’re such a treasure.

The insight of the success authors of that day are unparalleled. Pure genius.

I just re-read yesterday the book at the link below. It’s from 1917 and it’s a MUST READ.

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To Your Success

SL

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Success Always,

SL

In the previous email John Hillage touched upon the ease of creating your own ebooks.

“Notice that he say “creating” and not “writing”.

As the quickest way to create an ebook is to have a ghost-writer write the whole thing
for you.

You can find people who will do this for you at www.Elance.com

All you need to do is research the profitable niche (this is the key part and so I would not consider outsourcing this) and then get someone else to write it.

You could find a niche, put a survey up and then get a ghost-writer on Elance to write the book for you from your survey questions.

However you may decide to write your own ebook because you are bursting with ideas on
the subject, money is tight or just because you want to learn the whole process of ebook publishing from start to finish.

All three applied to me when I wrote my first ebook.

The “industry standard” for ebooks is that they are digitally published in PDF format
(Portable Document Format) using Adobe software.

The official version is quite expensive from www.Adobe.com but there is a student version
which is heavily discounted (so to save costs go look for a student with valid ID to buy it
for you)!

Once you have Adobe all you need to do is take your ebook in Microsoft Word format and pressa couple of buttons and Adobe will convert it to a shiny looking PDF in next to no time.

OK so now you know that ebooks are a good basic product to build on.

A quick and easy way to build a second product is to read your ebook out loud, record it and turn it into Mp3 files to sell as downloads.

I do this in one niche and get about 20% of people who buy the ebook to upgrade to the
audio version too.

I hired someone from www.Guru.com to do the whole thing (recording, editing and some
background music) for about $250 and he just sent the completed audio files back to me.

Once you have established the market through such low risk digital products then you can
consider more expensive physical products.

These could be set of CD’s (maybe interviewing experts in your niche), DVDs (teaching certain skills in your niche) and other such products…

…..the limit is really your imagination…………..”

Success Always

SL

Another topic by John Hillage on What Is The Sellable and Profitable Product?

“Well by now in this course you know that in order to be a success online you need to
find a hungry market and then supply them with what they want.

For me products can be broken down into physical and digital products.

Physical products need shipping to a customer and could be a bottle of vitamins, a DVD or an item of clothing.

Whereas digital products are instantly downloadable from the internet such as ebooks,
audio mp3 files and software.

There is money in both types of product but here are my thoughts on how to approach this when starting out.

I started out online selling ebooks as an affiliate (this means selling someone else’s
ebooks and keeping a percentage of the sale which is often 50%).

By doing this I was able to get started quickly and easily (not needing to worry about creating a product yet).

I was able to learn the basic skills of what was needed to drive traffic to a website for profits.

The sales letter, traffic conversion, customer support and all of that was down to the guy who produced the ebooks.

So I was able to get up online and selling quickly - then over time I began to learn all the other parts of the equation like sales copy, putting a website up, email marketing, testing and tracking website results etc.

I would recommend this approach to most beginners and you can sell either digital
or physical products as an affiliate.

Now as for creating your own product - there is nothing in the world to stop you doing
that first up and forget about learning as an affiliate marketer first.

But you need to be aware that the learning curve will likely be steeper and the potential for losing money likely to be higher.

I was about to write “the potential for failure is likely to be higher” but that is just not true.

As every attempt at doing something takes you further forward to success and not failure.

Thomas Edison famously took 700 (or 10,000 depending on which internet source you trust!) attempts to make the light bulb.

When quizzed he said that “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

Now I am not suggesting that you need to be THAT persistent but the only real way to
learn internet marketing is by doing it (and learning from things whether they have
gone as you had planned or not).

Sorry for the quick history lesson but I feel that the psychological side of any business
is crucial to its success.

Anyway on to product creation…………….I would strongly advise anyone starting out to seriously look at creating an ebook product.

They are real easy to get done (and you already know how to do this from my earlier
email about surveys).

In addition they are low cost or even no cost (if you do all the work yourself) to create.

….And cost nothing to deliver as they are digitally delivered over the internet.

The idea is to profit and further test your market with a paid ebook first then you can look at more expensive physical products further down the line like DVD’s, CD’s, CD ROMs, physical manuals etc.

Much more on product creation will follow in the next email of this series.”

Success Always

SL

John Hillage writes about How To Find And Profit From Niche Market for those internet marketer, especially for all the newbies out there.  Check it out!

“I am writing this email to you one-handed as my baby daughter is balanced precariously
across me taking a bottle of milk from myother hand!

Who said men can’t multi-task……..?!

Anyway let’s get into it……

So where did Brett McFall find the idea to target a product at the Scrap Booking market
from?

Well very simply - it was a news item on his local TV station about the craze for
scrap booking.

So he went on to his computer visited a couple of websites and learnt about the
potential profitability of this market (more on how to do this shortly….).

But apart from the “idiot box” how else can you find great niche ideas.

Now there are different schools of thought about whether or not if you do something
you love, the money will follow.

I don’t really believe in this approach and in the offline world in my own town
of Portsmouth in the UK I see literally dozens of new specialist stores open and
then close within a very short space of time every year.

My wife has become very used to my often repeated phrase that greets the arrival
of such a new store:

“I’ll give it 6 months…..” and about 90% of the time I am right within 6 months they
are gone again.

These shop owners are obviously doing what they love but just didn’t check their market
first.

However I do believe that finding a niche that you know and understand a bit about (especially for your first project) makes good sense.

It just makes the whole process of product creation, web copy, research etc. just that
bit easier.

That said here are 5 great questions to get your creative juices flowing with ideas:

1. What job do you have now or have you done in the past?

2. What leisure pursuits do you follow or have followed in the past?

3. What clubs or societies are you a member of or have been in the past?

4. What types of books or magazines do you read?

5. Any or all above the questions in relation to your family or friends?

Now try not to be too rigid about this as your day job may not be a perfect fit for an information product but there could be something related.

For example I work as a social worker and I am pretty confident a “how to be a social
worker” eBook would not work.

There is tons of free government stuff on this and it is hardly a high profile,
exciting or well paid job anyway.

However I was able to look at my job and find some specific niches within it.

Sorry to be so vague on the actual sub niches I am talking about - but that is another
important marketing lesson…..

If you find a niche market that works well for you…..don’t get around telling
everyone……..!!!

Because before you know it you will have half a dozen “rip off” products crowding
you out in your own niche market!

OK now I want to tell you of a couple of great places you can go to check out other
niches:

http://www.Clickbank.com - This has thousands of downloadable products for you to search through

http://www.LearningAnnex.com - This great resource has loads of great niche courses that you can find ideas from.

http://www.nicheaday.com - These guys will email you a niche idea every day of the year for FREE!

Now the final part of the equation is looking at the numbers.

The best free tool on the internet for internet marketers was called the Overture SuggestionTool but that has pretty much died now!

There is a great new free tool that has come up fromWordtracker

With this tool I would be looking for about 1000-2000 searches per day before considering the market as worthwhile.

A final step is to then look at the number of Google Adwords (those paid adverts
that show up on the right of a page on Google) for your keyword or market.

If there are more than 25 different ads then the competition may be pretty fierce and less than 5 may well mean that there is simply not much money in this market.

You can count the individual ads by scrolling down the pages once you have put your keyword into Google.

So that pretty much wraps it up for niche markets - it’s up to you to start brain storming ideas and find those profitable niche markets for yourself.”