My Favorite Web Stuff

I just came across a book that just impressed the socks off me: Licensed to Quit your Job.

Now I did it backwards, and it was high time I found this book…

I printed it out immediately last night and read the whole thing, and I’m starting to work on it right away.  Its authors, Sara and Tony explain everything step-by-step in language I can actually understand, and the whole system makes a lot of sense. And they’ve been using it to make a nice reliable income.

Look for the resulting products right here and just about everywhere else really soon (we’re talking a week or so).

Thanks go to Travis, the ultimate bum marketer and creator of the Bum Marketing System, who alerted me to it in one of his informative emails

The embarrassing thing — that particular email had been sitting in my inbox since about January, and I just found it because I went back over all of his emails looking for some sort of enlightenment.  And hello…  There it was.

And here it is:

This is one product that’s worth every penny! What’s the deal with the worn paper thing? That’s what it used to be written on as Sara followed it step by step over and over until the paper almost fell apart. So then they wrote the book

It’s way cool!

So go get that worn paper that could be YOUR license to quit that day job too.

(Guest article by Terry Telford:)

Did you know that there are literally thousands of ways to make
money online?

One of the most solid business models to ensure a continual
monthly income is a subscription based membership website.

Members pay a monthly fee for access to a private memberís
area where they can access your information. You can provide
a variety of information in as many formats as you choose.
You can offer articles, reports, audios, videos,
teleseminars, downloads, software, almost anything you can
imagine.

Even if you offer a low cost membership, it only takes a
few members to make a comfortable income. A membership
website that charges $9.97 a month, only needs 300 members
to generate $3,000 every month.

And setting up a membership website has become remarkably
simple with advances in software that can be set up in a
couple hours, even by the average non-technical person.

But while it’s just that simple, once you’ve figured things out,
in the beginning, it takes some time
and energy to put the whole project together. But then it’s
simply a matter of updating, maintaining and marketing. So
let’s look at the steps to put together a successful
membership website.

Step 1
Choose a market. This is critical. You should look for a
market youíre going to enjoy working in as well as a market
people spend money in. People spend money where they are
passionate. Markets like sports, pets, business, and hobbies
all make hot markets to launch a membership website

Step 2
Test the market. Visit forums and chat rooms and ask people
if they know of any good websites that offer up-to-date
information.

Step 3
Use your research from Step 2 to develop a rough outline of
what your website will offer your members

Step 4
Write a sales letter and have the graphics professionally
designed. If you canít do this yourself, hire a freelancer
from elance.com or guru.com

Step 5
Set up the membership software to run the site.

Step 6
Populate the site with your content

Step 7
Market your site and let the cash flow begin.

7 simple steps and youíve got a membership website that
will generate a solid monthly cash flow for you. Each step
takes some effort and energy, but you can have your first
membership website completely set up and running in less
than a month. Then you can repeat the process as many times
as you like to increase your membership portfolio and your
monthly income.

URGENT UPDATE

Here’s great news: for 7 days, you can bypass the whole
membership website creation process.

Now you can get your complete membership website,
ready to upload to your server today. You can have a fully
functional membership website ready to take orders in the
next 2 hours. It’s only available for 7 days (or until they
sell out, so make sure you visit today.

Want a membership site? How about an instant membership site where almost everything is created FOR you? Except that you can customize it any way you want?

Sounds too good to be true? Depends on who’s offering it. This one is the creation of Terry Telford and Edwin Ryan. I know Terry Telford — met him at the Las Vegas Conference (Masters Seminar organized by Ross Goldberg), and Terry is not only a really nice guy, but he’s also brilliant!

So when I saw this offer, it was irresistable. And it’ll be gone in a flash.

They say it’ll be available for only 7 days — BUT there’s a second part: or until sold out, and I would bet that it will sell out WAY before the 7 days are up.

I knew I had to have one and so I immediately jumped on it. So look for invitations to join MY membership site shortly

Where can you find this amazing offer?

Right where it says Instant Membership Site.

Do Check it out and let me know what you think…

Plus come back soon, coz I’m going to give a way a few FREE reports very soon!

Instant Membership Sites Here!

Oooh, and if you like, feel free to check out my Squidoo lens on the subject.

If you liked the Faster Webmaster I (you know the one that helped Erik’s Grandmother create a website from scratch, and his Mom too), then you’ll LOVE The Faster Webmaster II.

The new one is a total internet marketing blueprint and solution, and all of it in Erik’s special take-you-by-the-hand step-by-step method, which is friendly, unintimidating, and this time helps you actually build a whole business from scratch.

What questions did you have? Chances are, it’s covered.

Check it out right here: Erik’s New Course

And even though Erik Stafford has made quite a fortune over the last year (so he knows of what he’s speaking!), he’s still as nice as he was when he first came out with the Faster Webmaster Version I.

He actually answers his own emails, and gives helpful advice. How’s that for cool?

Anyway, go take a look at the new Faster Webmaster. and build that e-biz already. You’ll be glad you did.

The second day of Pat O’Bryan’s UnSeminar5 is almost over, but not just yet. At the moment, there’s the blues show featuring Pat O’Bryan and Joe Vitale and others. They rock, and I’ll be back there in just a minute.

But I just wanted to tell you about a little embarrassing snafu. Turns out, some of the opt-in forms here seemed to miss the “submit” button, and I hadn’t noticed (just wondered why so few people signed up!).

I fixed it now, though, and unless this blog messes with my forms, it’ll stay fixed too!

So if you want to get on my Internet Marketing Step-By-Step Newsletter, here’s where you can sign up:

And yes, I will respect your privacy completely. Your name and email address will be neither sold nor otherwise shared. And of course, you can unsubscribe at any time with the handy-dandy unsubscribe button at the bottom of every single email.

Now back to the show!

Elisabeth

I’m here at UnSeminar5 where I learn to build and expand my portable empire

You know about Pat O’Bryan’s “Portable Empire,” don’t you? One of my favorite books (sitting right next to Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Work Week” and, like that book, inspired me to take my economic fortune into my own hands.

Arrived late last night (lots of delays due to assorted “weather” across the country). In fact, I almost didn’t come because I was so worried about the hurricane (I’m a chicken!), but there wasn’t any hurricane there when I got here!

Just had breakfast in the very nice Drury Hotel in San Antonio and getting ready for the first session. Can hardly wait for it to start. Will report back!

P.S.: Why the long delay between the last post and this one? Relapse of the flu! Details on my self-help blog.

What happens if an English professor discovers internet marketing? Or at least THIS English professor, technically a linguistics professor teaching in an English department at the time?

Well… I was fascinated! For two reasons:

First, I’ve been studying persuasion and how people get other people to do things with words (or at least try to), and so when I found myself reading marketing emails and salesletters and couldn’t get my credit card out of my wallet fast enough, I started wondering….

How in the world do they do that? I have great respect for masters of persuasive writing, and so I started studying the techniques they used to make me feel like I simply HAD to have whatever they were offering, and have it NOW. And not only that. Many of the dozens of people who fill my inbox on a daily basis are starting to feel like they’re my friends. This is copywriting artistry!

After a while, my scholarly interest turned quite practical. Hey, I wanna do that too! And once I started earning my first affiliate commissions, I was hooked.

And as I started learning about internet marketing and saw what worked, cleaned up my mistakes, and gleefully put up blogs and websites (this from someone who used to hate computers not so long ago), I had yet another idea…

See, I spent years teaching grammar, and had made it my mission to explain it in a way that makes sense. I liked to empower people to discover how grammar works from the inside out. So what does that have to do with the internet?

Plenty! Learning about the internet can be daunting, and it involves quite a bit of complicated technical stuff. Like grammar And I’m good taking complex technical information and breaking it down into small, digestible parts. Sooooooo…

Why not teach what I’ve learned (and keep learning)? And thus was born my new email course on internet marketing step-by-step. At the moment, it’s in its beta version and you can actually get in for FREE. Eventually, I’ll turn it into a paid fixed term membership, where people will have to pay to get their once or twice weekly lessons.

So this is what’s in it for you: If want to make money online and you’re new to internet marketing, or if you’ve tried your hand at it for a while but haven’t gotten results, or you’re just really confused and/or frustrated, this is your chance to learn for FREE from someone who has plenty of experience explaining complicated stuff in a nice and friendly step-by-step format.

How can you get in on this? Simple! Just fill in your first name and email address in the box below and make sure you look in your inbox for the confirmation email. Open that and click on the confirmation link. And that’s it!

And of course, your email address will NEVER be traded, sold, or otherwise given away. I hate spam as much as you do, and I’ll safeguard your privacy. And if you ever want to unsubscribe… every single email will come with a handy-dandy unsubscribe button. Naturally, I hope you’ll never want to use it

There’s even a free ebook for you once you’ve confirmed your subscription.

See you on the other side…

Elisabeth

Yup. That “secret” technique is not something you hear a lot about in all those “how to build a list” books and workshops. Why? Maybe they want to keep it all to themselves?

When I first found out about it, I was a bit concerned. Was this legit? Would it work? It sounded almost too good to be true. I mean, the last thing you want is a spam complaint, so it’s generally a good idea to be very careful about services that promise tons of subscribers overnight, especially if those subscribers come in the millions for just a few bucks. That’s a spam disaster waiting to happen.

But in this particular case, the answer to both of the above questions turned out to be a resounding YES! It is possible to accelerate your list building process and there are legitimate ways to do so. And yes, those legitimate ways are considerably more expensive, but, well, you won’t have to worry. And I found a service that meets both criteria and works really well.

I tried it, and now I’m a convert and my lists (note the plural!) are growing at the sort of brisk clip I had been hoping for all along.

Is it free? No. Is it expensive? Not very, especially not when you think of building your list as an investment and consider what it will help you earn over time…

Okay what the heck am I talking about? I’m talking about an organization, owned and run by a major authority in list building, where you can advertise your newsletter and people will sign up for it. Yes, really. They will. It’s a process called co-registration. And it’s totally legit.

Every day you’ve had sign-ups, they’ll send you a file with your new subscribers and you then add them to your autoresponder service.

And there’s the rub… Aweber, the most-used autoresponder service won’t allow what they call “purchased leads.” Technically, these leads are indeed purchased insofar as that you pay for them, but what you really purchase is the advertising and the logistic arrangement of having them gather up the leads, making them confirm their subscription and then passing them on to you. That’s very different from those other offers floating about on the internet (you know, the millions of email addresses for ten bucks kinds of offers).

So where CAN you import those links? Fortunately, my favorite shoppingcart system does allow you to import them. And yes, they’ll make them confirm AGAIN and only about a third or so of them will do so, so you’ll lose a few.

But hey, those people probably would have unsubscribed sooner or later anyway and probably wouldn’t have ever bought anything. So it’s not THAT big a loss. And on the bright side, that extra layer of protection will protect YOU — from spam complaints — so I’m not complaining.

How much does this cost then? Thirty-seven cents a lead, counting those they send you by email. Eventually, every lead I’m getting out of that co-registration system (i.e., every lead that actually confirms again and makes it onto my personal list) costs me about a dollar, maybe a little more.

And with expert opinion being that every subscriber on your list eventually averages you a buck a month in income (and potentially considerably more if you treat your subscribers well, which includes providing them with quality information and building a relationship with them), investing in leads through a co-reg service is such a no-brainer I can’t believe it took me so long to finally figure this out.

So that’s the secret. Obviously, I’m using the other list-building strategies too — I publish articles, and post on forums, and yes, I’m getting subscribers that way too, but co-reg just works like a charm and so much more quickly.

And that is important because I’m going to start launching my first teleseminar very soon (stay tuned), and I do want some people to show up!

So if you too want to turbo-charge your list, check out http://www.turbo-list.com, and if you need a shoppingcart system to go with it, get a FREE 1-month trial at the best integrated shoppingcart system around, which also happens to be the one that allows you to import your shiny new subscribers.

Happy list building!

I’m really excited! I have just started a NEW newsletter, which is really an extended e-course. And it’s FREE! For now anyway

Clarification: If you sign up now, it will be free for you as long as you stay subscribed! But eventually, I may start charging it by making it into a paid e-course. But as I said, if you get in before I made that change, you’ll get all the info for free.

Why? Oh, out of the goodness of my heart of course. Seriously, I love teaching stuff I’m excited about, and so if you enjoy it and find it useful, that’ll be my reward.

It’s also new, so any feedback you might have will be helpful to me and I’ll incorporate your suggestions into future issues and into the future paid version. In fact, occasionally, I’ll send you a quick survey (just a question or two) and that’ll help me to make it relevant to you.

What is it? It’s a course where I will walk you step by step through the process of how to build your own online business and make money on the internet. For real! No tricks!

Another clarification: This is for you if you’re NEW to the internet. It’s easy, friendly, and technical stuff explained nicely and clearly and in terms as untechnical as I can possibly make them.

You’ll even get a FREE ebook if you sign up:

Rob Toth’s “Dear Employee: Your Job Sucks!”

I love that book! It’s VERY inspiring!

So where can you sign up for THIS particular list:

For now, right here:

And just in case you wondered: I will not share your name and email address with ANYONE. I hate spam as much as you do. All you’ll get from me is my lessons and occasional news and recommendations, and they’ll appear about twice a week.

Many of them come with a little action step. And there will be the occasional freebie too!

If you decide you don’t like it, you can easily unsubscribe. Just click on the handy unsubscribe link that each and every newsletter comes with.

But of course I hope you will absolutely LOVE my newsletter/ecourse and will send all your friends!

So please check it out.

Thanks a bunch, and have a GREAT day!

I recently discovered PayDotCom, a great alternative to Clickbank. Well, not really so much something I’m going to use instead of Clickbank but in addition to Clickbank, at least with respect to Affiliate Marketing. More products to choose from is always a great thing.

And when it comes to actually SELLING products, that Clickbank Alternative looks even better! If you want to sell on Paydotcom, you’ll have to upgrade to Platinum Status, and yes, there’s a one-time fee, but it’s only $29 (at least for the moment — they say they’ll raise it soon, but of course they all say that so you COULD take your chances with waiting…).

What wil that $29 buy you? Unlimited listings! Yes, that’s right. You can list as many products as you want, for no additional charge! Does that rock or what? You probably know what Clickbank would charge you for that, every single time for every single product! For those of you who don’t, last time I checked it was $49 for EACH product!

Where does PayDotCom make its money? Well, they’ve got to eat and pay their hosting fees, so yes, they charge fees when you sell, but they’re not bad and pretty similar to those you get charged at other venues.

Another big bonus? And, you know, this is the one that first got my attention to be honest:

When your product sells through PayDotCom, YOU get your money right away. ‘Nuff said.

BTW, I’m going to add my updated and upgraded (with workbook!) version of my stress ebook to Paydotcom’s Marketplace to recruit more affiliates. If you sign up, I’ll soon be sending you checks (or PayPal deposits) too.

And, by the way, once that new version is out, it’ll be quite a bit more expensive. So if you want it now, before the price goes up, go right to Instant Stress Relief Strategies and get your copy while the getting is good.

What about the workbook? Anyone who buys the book before the new version comes out will get ALL the new stuff FOR FREE as soon as it’s available!

And just in case you wondered: Instant Stress Relief Strategies is a new and updated version of Feel Better Quickly. You’ll get the same deal no matter which version you buy. So the little teddy up on the right hand side (or is it a dog?) still works to get you the same deal (for now).

Have a fantastic, stress-free day!

Elisabeth