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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

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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.

My youtube “body of work”

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Hot Niche Markets on Mar 16th, 2010 | 4 comments

Instead of spending 15 minutes reading my newsletter this week I’ll instead point you to some of my YouTube.com free videos. These are all popular videos that have gotten a bunch of good feedback.

And it’s all free.

I’ve put a lot of solid advice and instruction in these short videos. If you haven’t been on my youtube.com account lately go check it out.

Some viewer favorites are:

Grow your email list WITHOUT a website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdemYscFhY

Ideas on what to sell on eBay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbz_PE9LmCI

eBay Classified ads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtiSumDP-PY

Save a TON of time dealing with email (a little fuzzy, but GREAT video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39R_4lMr8jo

Just for fun… a paper airplane video game (my most watched video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgiMAPQfC4

Have a video you’d like to see me make? Have feedback on any of these? Leave a comment below or on my youtube.com account.

Can we talk?

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, General, Hot Niche Markets, inspiration on Mar 2nd, 2010 | 24 comments

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Want to succeed in life or business? Hang out with people that are already doing what you’d like to be doing. Get into a conversation with them.

I just recorded an audio for you that is a “conversation” with me. After you listen be sure to take my one question survey and then leave me a comment below with your questions or feedback.

Here’s the audio:

Can’t see the play button above?
Here’s a link to the MP3 audio:

http://www.MySilentTeam.com/SilentJimdotcom-March2010conversationBlog.mp3

Links Mentioned in the audio (and other stuff worth seeing):

Have a question or comment about ANY of this? Click the comment button below and let me know about it…

Why I’m endorsing John Thornhill’s Website Builder

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Hot Niche Markets on Jan 3rd, 2010 | 14 comments

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UPDATE: Jan 6th, 2009

The price has increased for this product at MultiProfitWebsite.com, but by using THIS LINK or either of the other two links in this blog post you will continue to get the discount (the lowest price ever offered by John) as a favor for my readers!

Here’s the original blog post:
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I’ve decided to endorse John Thornhill’s Multi Profit Website Builder

Here’s a link: Site Builder

I didn’t participate in the big launch of John’s product back in October ’09 because I needed time to check it out first.  Everyone that works with me in this business knows that I’m not a “scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” kind of guy when it comes to product endorsements. This has lead to some hard feelings by some in the industry, but I don’t really care.

At the end of the day I answer ONLY to my readers and subscribers. An endorsement by me means that I LIKE THE PRODUCT. It does not mean that I like or dislike the person that recently did or didn’t do me a favor.

In other words just because someone has promoted one of my products DOES NOT mean I will promote their product. Even if the guy on the other end is someone as amazing as John Thornhill I still have to test the product out myself and see how the market reacts BEFORE I’ll jump in!

Bottom line: I’m endorsing it!

Here’s John’s VERY COOL site builder that is constantly improving and already loved by many of my best customers (several glowing reviews among customers on MySilentTeam.com).

FYI: There will be NO discount for MySilentTeam.com members (rare I know, but true), and the price WILL NOT be lower ever than you see right now I’ve been told

For those that REALLY follow my online advice here’s an audio explanation with a lot more detail of the reasons WHY I’m endorsing John’s product:

…and if you don’t see the above play button here’s the MP3 version of the same message: Why I’m endorsing John Thornhill’s Multi Profit Websites

As always I welcome your questions, feedback, and thoughts. If you have been using John’s site builder let us know what you think! Click the COMMENT button just below.

Ten things you can do in ten minutes to make things happen

Posted by admin in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, inspiration on Nov 16th, 2009 | 2 comments

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Do you ever feel like you are wasting time online? Commit 10 minutes to any of these ideas and just watch what happens next…

(Can’t see the play button above? Use the below link to the MP3 file.)
Ten ideas that take ten minutes

Links mentioned in audio:

  •  blogger.com / wordpress.com
  •  ezinearticles.com
  •  facebook.com or twitter.com
    (if you join either be sure to follow me using either facebook.com/jimcockrum and twitter.com/jim_cockrum)
  •  MySilentTeam.com (talk about this stuff with other people here!)
  •  OfflineBiz.com
  • eBay.com classifieds (link to my video about ebay classified ads)
  • Don’t forget about craigslist.com – it’s 100% free!
  •  aweber.com

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