Online Success in 50 words or less

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Hot Niche Markets, inspiration on Jul 13th, 2010 | 11 comments

What advice would you have for someone that is desperate to earn an income online? The catch is this…

You have to answer them with around 50-70 words.

o Look into selling other people’s stuff on eBay (consignment selling). Advertise your service cheaply locally and specialize. Don’t get trapped into selling cheap junk. Go after big ticket items and keep at least 30-40%. There is plenty of this business out there right now.

o Find a partner that has a trusted reputation, potential to be followed by thousands, but is afraid of the Internet. Help them get their stuff online. Every expert knows they should be doing this, but many never have. Use this success formula: Step 1. Give away great content and grow your email list.  Step 2. Ask the list what they want Step 3. Over deliver what they want at a great price.

o Join MySilentTeam.com and go through the bonus pool FILLED with fantastic ideas. Discuss your ideas and challenges in the forums with the other thousands of users.

o Talk to local businesses about helping them with their Internet marketing needs. You already know far more than they do. Ask a bunch of questions and you’ll find many ways you can help them out. Something as simple as setting up and running a facebook page for them could be both beneficial and lucrative for you both. Joining OfflineBiz.com (6,000+ members) will give you a community and support that you need to flourish in this type of business.

o Similar to previous idea, but with a different approach. Find local business websites that rank well on the search engines, but lack one key feature to their website…EMAIL CAPTURE. Help them set up and manage the only marketing tool that gives back $50 for every $1 spent. EMAIL! OfflineBiz.com has details on this simple biz model as well.

o Produce SIMPLE yet high quality free content (articles, video, blog etc.) on any “big niche” topic such as:

• health/weight loss
• relationships
• self help
• crisis management (i.e. divorce etc.)
• business/income/debt etc.
• cooking

… and all the while grow your mailing list while GIVING away great content. There are countless ways to monetize such a list. Be truly helpful and useful for your readers and they’ll want more an more of what you have to offer.

Want further detail on 20 great online ideas like these?

Check out:

Best20Ways.com

What ideas do YOU have for online income? Any feedback on the ideas listed? Leave a comment.

What are you building?

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, inspiration on Jul 6th, 2010 | 7 comments

By nature we enjoy creating things. It’s a part of our nature that I believe is put there by God (it’s in his nature).

The most fulfilled, excited, and successful people I know in business are CREATING things that they believe in. They are BUILDING SOMETHING. They have a vision of where all their efforts are heading.

What does all that have to do with the Internet and YOUR online success?

I’ll get to that…first consider this…

In the history of the world there has never been a better time to be an “idea guy”. The amount of time it takes to go from “concept” to “reality” has never been shorter thanks to the Internet.

Finding any of the necessary experts, partners or tools that you might need (assuming you need any of those things) in order to “build” has never been easier. The cost of failure has never been lower and the potential rewards have never been higher in all of history.

Got an idea?

Get in on youtube.com.
Start a blog.
Write some articles and post them online.

Get it out there!

Sure you may have to give it some time, and sure, not every idea will be a booming success, but GIVING UP is the only way to fail long term when the odds are so stacked in your favor.

Every success story starts with a spark of passion and a simple idea. What are you building? What would you like to build?

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I’m endorsing Main Street Marketing Machines and offering a HUGE bonus. Here’s why…

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Main Street Marketing Machine, inspiration on Apr 18th, 2010 | 27 comments

In the two years since I opened the doors of OfflineBiz.com we’ve officially endorsed a total of TWO products.

Traffic Geyser is one of them.

Because of the success of Traffic Geyser the company has grown from 3 people to over 50 and has just put together their latest effort “Main Street Marketing Machines“. This is their best effort to date by far. This is a MUST BUY for those that trust my endorsements.

This just launched April 26th.

Traffic Geyser has been the absolute FAVORITE tool of the thousands of people that take my advice about generating leads and sales for “real world” businesses, and it continues to impress us daily. It’s the BEST way to get predictable results on the search engines for any business in my opinion.

Below are the details of an unbelievable bonus package for everyone that uses my affiliate link to purchase:

Here’s my affiliate link:

http://www.MainStreet-MarketingMachine.com

How To Research This Product
(and make a good decision about buying it):

1. Watch these amazing videos

My good friend Mike (Fireman Mike) is featured in one of the. That will probably be all you need to see, but if you want more info…

2. Listen to this short audio that explains the opportunity from my perspective:

If you can’t see the play button above here’s the MP3 audio:
http://www.offlinebiz.com/JimTalksAboutMainStMarketingMachines.mp3

3.  In the unlikely event that you STILL want more detail listen to this audio of my former coaching student turned successful Internet business pro and “Traffic Geyser/Main Street Marketing guru” Jim Orr and I talking about why we endorse this package. (I helped Jim quit his “real job” and go full time online. He loved Traffic Geyser so much he asked to work there…and they hired him on part time as the lead trainer!):

Click Here To Access Audio of Jim and I talking about the new Main Street Marketing package from Traffic Geyser

4. Email me any questions you have or post a comment below.

5. Consider my bonuses below – and then make an informed purchase. In many cases I’ve improved the bonus package listed here over what I announced earlier so if you hear or read of a smaller package somewhere else you should go with the list below as my official bonus package for Main Street Marketing Machines.

IMPORTANT: Buy from the links on this page when you decide to purchase the Main Street Marketing Machine package. These links are my affiliate links, and if you use any of my affiliate links when you purchase I have some killer bonuses for you. Plan on revisiting this blog page on or shortly after April 26th to ensure you get in on the new MSMM offer.

My Bonuses:

• >Exclusive access to Mike Lemoine (Fireman Mike). He’s the featured success story in the launch of the new Main Street Marketing Machine package with Traffic Geyser because of how quickly he helped local businesses get ranked using a unique strategy that had the crowd of nearly 400 mesmerized at the Traffic Geyser event that I also spoke at about a month ago. Mike and I are here to personally help you and we’ll do a call together to help you understand EXACTLY how to use Mike’s strategy to make a killing with the new Main Street Marketing Machines package. This call is easily worth $500-$900, but it’s FREE if you buy from my link.
• >An original book by Jim Orr who I coached personally to the point that he left his full time job to go full time online. He was then hired by Traffic Geyser and is now helping shape Traffic Geyser into the amazingly tool that it now is. This book is a quick start guide to success with Traffic Geyser (and the “Main Street Marketing Machine” package). This book would likely sell for $50-$80 IF it were sold, but it’s not! This is a bonus you can ONLY get if you buy the “MSMM” package using my link.
• >Exclusive access to a call with Jim Orr and I. We’ll go over the features, benefits, and fast start strategies that will help you put the tool good use. Jim is a big fan of outsourcing and I am too so we’ll even talk you through how to put others in charge of making your investment a success. As with the call with Mike Lemoine, this call is worth hundreds to those that put the info to use. Access to Mike is something that serious Traffic Geyser users CRAVE, and you get us on the phone for free. My estimated value for this bonus is $500-$900…and that’s WAY TOO LOW.
• >One FULL YEAR of access to MySilentTeam.com. Current members will have billing pushed back a full year. This is a severely under priced $300 value – yours free. Thousands of members pay monthly for this industry leading cutting edge membership site for Internet marketers.
• >Unlimited full access to OfflineBiz.com - THE premier paid membership community online for all Internet marketers working with real world businesses and assisting them with their online marketing needs. With over 9,000 on our mailing list and hundreds of active members interacting weekly on our lively forums this is THE place to gather to stay current on what working with “local marketing”. Current members will have their billing permanently turned off. Lifetime access to OfflineBiz.com is worth THOUSANDS to those that are in this business. My estimated value if I were to sell it though is $800.Total bonus package value: MINIMUM of $2150-$3,000

To claim your bonuses (If you purchase):

Send an email to: JimMSMMBonus@gmail.com along with the issued receipt number that you’ll get when you order. We’ll confirm your order and forward you details within a few days of your order.

More details soon…this blog post will be changing so keep an eye out!

Feel free to ask questions using the comment button below ESPECIALLY if your question and the answer might benefit others as well.

OR…If you’d like to talk to me directly, please call me!

I’ll be personally answering the phone in our offices as much as possible for the next several days to help address any questions or concerns you have about Main Street Marketing Machine. The phone number is (in the U.S.) : (317) 422-5108

Jim’s NEW Top 10 Rules of Online Business Success

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Hot Niche Markets, Main Street Marketing Machine, inspiration on Apr 13th, 2010 | 20 comments

IF you use twitter click the retweet button please!

I sent out an article last week that has generated a lot of email responses back to me so I thought I should put the entire article here for us to discuss. If you have questions, agree or disagree please leave a comment below. Let’s see what the brilliant readers of my newsletter think of my list:

Here are some big picture observations I’m making about the online landscape currently.

1. Google (and slowly but surely all other search engines) can’t be fooled or relied on long term. If you are trying to do either you need to stop now.

Note: Only great websites will be on page one very long and even they aren’t safe no matter what anyone tells you. The ONE POSSIBLE exception is local search – more on that in a moment.

2. Affiliate marketing is HARD and getting HARDER. It’s no place for a “newbie” to play. Sending other people all the customers you are generating IS NOT a good stand alone business model for the long term. If you can’t grow a mailing list you certainly can’t succeed at affiliate marketing.

3. Building a website is NOT the place to start. Building relationships or a following is where you start.

Note: If my 10 year old can get 30,000 views in a few months on youtube.com there’s no excuse for the rest of us not to be growing a following.

4. Good ideas are a dime a dozen online. I’ll take a big TARGETED audience over a good idea any day.

Note: If you ask me, “Will this work?” I’ll ask you, “Where’s your audience and how do you plan to reach them without spending a fortune?”

5. eBay and Amazon remain a VERY reliable way for any online entrepreneur to profit in creative ways very quickly.

Note: I know so many people still doing SO WELL on those two sites. Most of the “complainers” have all stopped selling there, but a lot of sellers are STILL getting rich there RIGHT NOW. eBay also remains a great place to grow your prospect list when done right.

6. Grow your email list. Learning to do this is the ONLY “techie skill” you’ll ever need.

Note: Lifetime customers are possible in a way unknown to business in the past. Take advantage of this! Here’s a link to my brand new course that shows in step by step video how I’ve grown HUGE email mailing lists…and it’s ALL people that LOVE to hear from me. You can do this too. The price of my course is very low compared to the other “list growth” courses out there.

7. You need to be an EXPERT at something. The world NEEDS experts now more than ever. Even tiny niche ideas are seeking leaders. Step up.

Note: The fastest way to “expert status” is to write. Articles, a blog or better yet, a book. Can’t write? SPEAK into a microphone and pay a transcriber that edits spoken word into easy to read copy.

8. The fastest way to success is to go where success is already happening and partner with it in a win/win/win way. Lone wolves nearly always die online.

Note: Win/win/win happens when you win, I win AND the email list or audience that either or both of us have also wins.

Speaking of “lone wolves”, you NEED a community of like minded people supporting you. A great way to find partners, new ideas, support, and friendship among your peers is to join a community of like minded folks. A great example of such a community is my membership site at MySilentTeam.com that boasts a membership of thousands with active discussion forums.

9. Many of the best online opportunities for you RIGHT NOW are probably within a few miles of where you are living RIGHT NOW. Note: This is why OfflineBiz.com is so popular and growing so fast. Local businesses lack Internet skills. The opportunity to partner with local businesses even to do something as simple as sell excess inventory on eBay is HUGE.

Perhaps the best TOOL ever released to help you dominate as a local Internet Marketing expert helping small businesses is Traffic Geyser. I’ve been endorsing it for years and it keeps getting better.

10. Your reputation is your ticket. Do things right or you will be exposed EASILY and it will burn you in a big way. Always over deliver!

NOTE: Reputation management will become a huge industry. Your ability to influence and succeed will be tied to your reputation in an exponentially increasing way.

I promised ten rules, but…

11. (Bonus rule. Over deliver!) If it can’t be automated or nearly automated don’t do it. There are too many low hanging fruit opportunities online to waste time chasing “jobs” that require all your time, effort and energy. Stop trading dollars for hours – your life really is too short for that.

12. ANOTHER BONUS RULE: No matter how great the “big launch” of the latest income earning system looks to you please just WAIT IT OUT. If an idea is great RIGHT NOW it will still be great in a couple months when the price drops, or someone else comes out with a cheaper version of the same course, or as occasionally happens, the course turns out to be a real dud and NO ONE is still talking about it etc.

I’ve been observing the online marketplace for a decade and I doubt you’ll find many people that have a list like that they can give you based on watching thousands either succeed or fail.

Please leave a comment below – let’s discuss this.

Why I’m endorsing Niche BluePrint 2.0

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Hot Niche Markets on Apr 6th, 2010 | 9 comments

Selling “real goods” that you’ve secured from a legit wholesaler (or drop shipper) from your OWN website is a great business model and you don’t need “techie” skills to get it set up fast.

These types of sites are FAR EASIER to get ranked on the search engines than are “blog sites” or “mini sites”.

Here’s a great course from a trusted friend of mine that covers EVERYTHING you need:

http://www.MySilentTeam.com/NicheSites.html

What you’ll learn:
1. Choose a niche (they show you how)

2. Find Products to sell
(and the company that will ship them for you)

3. Get a website set up
(you push a couple of buttons and it’s done in a flash)

4. Blast straight to the top of the Google.
(easy when they show you – product sites are EASY to rank!)

Look for his “bird cage” site that recently sold for $173K (after he bought it for under $2K) – the story was even on Fox news.

I’ve reviewed and fully endorse this course. If you are going to build a commerce website THIS is the type of site to build and this course is step by step.

HINT: When/if buying this course be sure to look for the exit page discount of $100 off. It pops up when you attempt to leave the site the first time.

http://www.MySilentTeam.com/NicheSites.html

Want a great legit business model? This is top notch.

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More information based on some questions I’ve gotten:

Q. Is this building multiple ‘mini sites’ to drive affiliate income? No it’s not. This is a step by step plan to build one robust site at a time to promote tangible products. These types of sites are easier to get ranked on the search engines. It is getting harder all the time to reliably produce affiliate income (although many are still doing it). The smartest sites to build right now in my opinion are robust sites with solid info on a niche topic or product.

Q. Is this course really worth the price tag? Absolutely yes. To begin with, I don’t promote anything that isn’t well worth the price being asked. Next, if you actually follow through on this course you’ll have a business making you money every day. What’s that worth to you? Finally, even if you just watch the videos and DO NOTHING with it you’ll have a great education on what actually works online. This is great material. Think of it as a college course in “making money online”. It’s great content.

Q. Are you just returning a favor to a friend in promoting this course? I’ve never done that and I never will. I’ve damaged my reputation in the industry on several occasions because of my policy of not “returning favors” when someone promotes my stuff and expect me to do the same automatically. My decision to promote or not promote a course or anything else for that matter is never based on my list of who I owe a favor to. The best interests of my readers is the only determining factor. For example, I’ve promoted the excellent products of people that I don’t even know, or have any relationship with in the past. I’ve also passed on promoting other products that were put together by people I really like personally…but the product wasn’t a good fit, or didn’t meet my standards. Not everyone in this business operates that way, so I have fewer “friends in high places” than I could have as a result, but my readers appreciate my approach and I answer to YOU before any “guru”. It’s the most ethical way I can run my business.

Q. Can a beginner benefit from this course? A. Absolutely yes. The videos are very comprehensive.

Q. Do you have a bonus for me if I buy it? A. If you buy this course using either of the above links (my affiliate links) I’ll send you free access to my latest course that will soon be selling for nearly $200 (WAY under priced). The new course is my brand new email list building course that will be a perfect supplement to the Niche BluePrint 2.0 course. Just send your Clickbank receipt number to us along with a request for ‘Jim’s email course’ and once my new course launches (within days – not weeks) you’ll get my new email course sent to you for free. Use this email address to let us know you are taking us up on the offer: msteamwebmaster (at) gmail.com (remember – your purchase receipt MUST be included in the email. The receipt will look like this: ’2EHJSNC6L’ ). I will delete this offer at any time from my blog – probably shortly after my new course launches. If you are reading this it means the offer is still valid as of today.

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