Silent Sales Machine 7.0 finally launches!

Posted by Jim in Affiliate Marketing, Creative Ideas, ebay tips, Email Marketing tips, Finding Cutomers, Great Business Ideas, Information Marketing, Offline Biz (IM for Brick-n-mortar) 98 comments

SilentSalesMachine.com was my first “big hit” ebook back in 2002 and I’ve just released the 7th update.

I’m rolling it out to loyal fans – many of which have read EVERY version!

Since 2002 I’ve been updating and re-releasing what is surely one of the all time (if not the all time) best selling ebooks in the world.

What’s this book about?

Quite simply, it’s about what works NOW and what doesn’t work NOW online. It’s about where to get started and what to avoid. It’s the story of my success online and the success of thousands of others that I’ve taught, but better yet, it’s how you can do it as well.

Yes it’s true-  thousands of people have used past versions of this book to launch their online income streams.

Here are the details on the “Silent Sales Machine 7.0″ ebook update:

•   If you are a member of MySilentTeam.com log in to get the latest update at no charge
•   If you bought the book in the past I’ve emailed you a copy by now (or you dropped off our email list).

If you are a long time loyal reader of “Silent Sales Machine” I have a favor to ask though:

• Read the new version
• Send me your feedback (as an email, or post it as a comment here)
• If you have a story of your own success that belongs in the book send it to me! I’ll include it (once verified of course). I always have room for new success stories!

Ready to pick it up at the $5 launch price?
Visit SilentSalesMachine.com

Have a question, comment feedback etc.? Please leave a comment using the comment button above! We will publish all comments that others might find useful, but if you have a private question you can leave it here as well and we’ll respond to the email address you leave us.

CONTEST:

For the next several weeks, each week I’ll be randomly selecting one comment from ALL comments left on this blog post. The winner will get various prizes. Your comment DOES NOT have to be positive to be eligible of course!

The only guideline for eligibility:
Your comment must be feedback about what you thought of the latest version of “Silent Sales Machine”. Other feedback, questions or other comments are welcome of course, but only feedback left about the book is eligible for the contest.

There will be various prizes for the random weekly winners…a signed copy of my 101FreeMarketing.com book for example, or access to a membership site of your choice (offlinebiz.com or mysilentteam.com etc). Go read the SilentSalesMachine.com book, and leave a comment on this blog post! It’s that simple!

WINNER #1: Larry (screen name morecustomers). He’s been contacted via the email supplied when he left a comment!
WINNER #2 : Jacqueline. She’s been contacted via the email address she used for her comment.
WINNER #3: TBA SOON

P.S. Want to get paid to tell your friends about this book on facebook etc.? Check out the affiliate info at the bottom of the SilentSalesMachine.com page.

My “Free Marketing 101…” book has launched and it’s TEARING up the charts!

Posted by Jim in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Finding Cutomers, Grow Your Business, inspiration, Outsourcing, Traffic Generation 127 comments

GET THE BOOK HERE

GET THE AUDIO VERSION HERE

The story behind this book:

I was approached by a major publisher nearly one year ago (the “For Dummies” publisher – Wiley and Sons) and they asked me to write a book about how to START or GROW a business (or spread and idea, a cause, an organization etc.) using free and virtually free marketing ideas.

After nearly a year of hard work on this book I think you’ll love what I’ve come up with.

What made me qualified to write this?

From the perspective of the publisher I’d achieved something that many others would like to accomplish. I’d grown multiple successful and creative online businesses…and had done it WITHOUT ever needing to invest a wad of cash. In the rare instances where I did spend any money it was either on inventory that would quickly sell for very nice profits, or it was nominal expenses like $5 for a video, or $30 to have a long audio transcribed into writing etc.

I’ve been a ravenous consumer of effective and “Free Marketing” concepts for over 25 years.

From here forward I’m considering the self appointed title of:  “World’s Foremost Expert on Free Marketing Ideas”.    You like it?   ;0)

Seriously though – the book is CRAMMED with my best ideas and the first few dozen reviews are all RAVING.   It’s so stuffed with great ideas that they asked me to shorten it but I refused. Since they initially asked if I had 100 ideas to fill such a book and I agreed…I decided to deliver those 100+ ideas on MY terms.

The final product is the best ideas from my nearly decade of success online. It’s not a cover to cover type of book though. Whether you have five minutes or six hours to spend with this book I hope you’ll walk away inspired (that was my goal).

I can sniff out winning ideas like a bomb sniffing dog on caffeine. It’s a gift and a curse, but I tried to capture that way of thinking and put it all into a single book.

Click the book image or visit 101freemarketing.com for more info.

Want to see the reviews from readers? Click Here for Amazon’s Reader Reviews Page

Tearing up the charts! It’s a #1 Top Seller Worldwide!

Can you help spread the word?

Finally, here’s my invitation to you to help spread the word about this book. I also explain where the proceeds are going (I’m not keeping them).  You’ll also see a video of my wife, kids and I seeing the book for the first time ever just a few days before it hit store shelves – it was a fun family moment!

Be Sure to buy more than just one copy!!

o   Booster seat for toddlers
o   Have any business minded friends? They’ll love you!
o   Have non-business minded friends with insomnia? They’ll love you too!
o   Christmas isn’t that far off!
o   Sell them on eBay? (or Amazon) and get most if not all of your money back? (the book is still at pre-launch pricing temporarily but that WILL change soon.)

Have a question? Leave a comment and someone will help you out.

I want an Internet business. Where do I start?

Posted by Jim in Affiliate Marketing, Creative Ideas, ebay tips, Email Marketing tips, Information Marketing, Offline Biz (IM for Brick-n-mortar), Selling on Amazon 65 comments

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I’ve been helping my readers and students launch successful online and Internet based businesses for nearly a decade. Even though I’ve been part of helping thousands of people achieve significant online incomes, I’m aware that much if not most of my audience is still stuck at square one for one reason or the other. This is a visual map to help you pick an idea to start with, or if you’ve had some success and want a new income stream you’ll find my favorites here.

Welcome to my “Opportunity Landscape” or “map”. A lot of thought went into this – I hope you like it.

To download this full image (bigger) use this link.

I’ve made three very short videos (under 5 minutes) for you to explain the detail on this table. Please let me know what questions you have by leaving a comment (use the comment button at the top of this article).

Did I leave anything out? Do you want more detail on any of these opportunities? Do you disagree with where I placed any of the opportunities? Let’s talk about it… (also – for additional reading check out my SilentSalesMachine.com book. It’s the best $5 you’ll ever spend to help shape your online income goals.)

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Please leave a comment! The button is at the top of this post.

How do most businesses get new customers? Knowing the answer is powerful.

Posted by Jim in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Finding Cutomers 35 comments

See if you can answer this simple business question…

…but first the “back story”:

David Frey has done marketing consulting for Fortune 500 clients and mom and pop businesses alike for well over a decade. He’s helped online businesses thrive and he’s helped offline businesses alike.

He often asks a simple question when he meets business owners (online and offline).

He asks businesses:

“Where do you get most of your new clients and customers?”

What answer do you think he hears the vast majority of the time?

The answer is “referrals”.

Thanks to all who took a stab at the answer BEFORE I revealed it.

I asked my readers to take a guess at the answer in the blog comments and several of you nailed the answer.

The opportunity:Very few businesses ever deploy a solid referral strategy with a systematic approach. Which leads David to his next simple question he asks business owners which is:

“Do you have a simple system in place to automate and capture referrals?”

If you are bold enough to ask those two questions you could have a thriving, fun business.

David is the sharpest guy I know is this arena – you’ll meet no one better.

He’s agreed to do a training webinar with me to teach you some new things that I promise you’ve never seen before. He’ll also show us a tool he uses to generate literally MILLIONS for his own business.

Watch a  replay of the webinar by clicking here

Here’s  some of what we covered:

• He’ll show us the tool he uses to automate referrals for his own business and multiple other businesses.
• He’ll reveal his most successful advertising campaign ever (he’s NEVER shared this before online and has revealed it only once before to ANYONE outside his business).
• Shows you the system he uses to generate autopilot income month after month (and has been using it for years)
• One of the things he’ll show us is what I call a $150,000 business model that I believe ANYONE can duplicate
• Shows us a simple service that those of us in the “Offline Biz” world can use to attract and serve clients in a way unlike anything they’ve seen before
• David will share with us his PERSONAL CELL PHONE number if you want more detail about what he’s teaching us

The webinar is aimed primarily at those of us that work with “offline businesses“, but even if that’s not part of your business plan you should attend this webinar or watch the replay. David will teach you some simple stuff that ANY business can benefit from including your own.

He’ll be revealing the MOST POWERFUL WAY HE’S EVER SEEN to attract and build relationships with prospects and clients. It’s not to be missed if you have a business of any kind.

If you have any questions or comments about the webinar or the topics we cover feel free to post them here as a comment.

Have a question for David about the presentation or SOC? Here’s his email address:
SOCDavidFrey[at]gmail.com (replace [at] with @ of course)

How to be known and trusted by thousands online

Posted by Jim in Creative Ideas, Email Marketing tips, Hot Niche Markets, Information Marketing, Offline Biz (IM for Brick-n-mortar), reputation and influence 12 comments

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It’s a strange story to start with, but did you know that I have a partner that I’ve never met?

Actually we’ve never seen each other or spoken to each other and yet he and I run an active, growing, profitable (five figures monthly) website as 50/50 partners with thousands of adoring fans visiting the site weekly as paid members.

How is all of that even POSSIBLE?

Here’s a new business truth you MUST grasp in order to “get it” so that you can then benefit from it:

TRUTH:  For the first time in human history it is now possible for any of us to establish rock solid trust with individuals or even large groups of people globally without ever meeting them, speaking to them, or seeing them in person.

You can get as large as you’d like online once you grasp that TRUTH.

This one truth is probably the biggest “game changer” that the Internet has brought to the world.

I’ll cover “how to do this” in a moment, but first…

What impact has this truth had on us all?

This single truth is behind the movement away from “old advertising” methods where advertisers tried to interrupt their way into our life without any trust being established first.

Now we expect far more from those that we do business with. Without even noticing it your own standards have likely risen dramatically.

For example, why do the vast majority of us now go to Google to find the services we need instead of just opening the Yellow Pages?

Is it just the “speed” of the research? Maybe, but there’s another factor that has lead to us chucking the yellow pages.

I think a big part of the answer lies in the fact that we want to make sure that we do business with someone that has a good reputation and is trusted by others. It’s pretty easy to do online – but the phone book can’t do that for us.

The 50/50 business partner I mentioned above is Andrew Cavanagh. He and I run a very successful membership site at offlinebiz.com. We have over 9,000 members, and make multiple decisions weekly as a team, but we’ve never met.

Better yet, we’ve never even spoken because he lives in Australia and I live in the United States. The time zones just don’t accommodate a whole lot live phone calls (neither of us like working late, or getting up early), so in the four years we’ve been working together we’ve never spoken–not even once.

For the first time in human history it is now possible for any of us to establish trust on a big scale with individuals or even large groups of people globally without ever meeting them or seeing them in person.

Do Andrew and I trust each other? Yes, implicitly. As much as any two business partners ever could. How is it possible to go into business with a total stranger and put tens of thousand of dollars seemingly at risk with them? Are we both just crazy? (perhaps, but there’s a better theory…)

Here’s what we know that you should know by now as well:

It didn’t take Andrew very long to research my reputation and see that I was among the most trusted experts in Internet marketing. It also didn’t take me very long to do the same research on him and see his expertise being freely shared on popular discussion forums in our niche. We agreed to a partnership within about two days of having swapped our first email.

How can you set about building a reputation online that positions you to be instantly trusted? It really is simple.

• Find discussion forums where people that you can help hang out. Help them.
• Find experts that have large audiences of people that you can help. Support and help that expert.
• Find popular websites that attract the sort of people that you could be helpful to. Be helpful.
• Write a useful report and give it away – while growing your email list of course. More info on that in the “Email Marketing Tips” section of my blog)

Establishing trust can happen faster, and on a bigger scale than ever before, but it still starts with proving that you are trustworthy and capable.

In my own business I frequently invite my own top customers and proven followers to join me in growing my business. How do I find these people? It’s easy, they are the ones that spend time helping others, and truly enjoy doing it.

If you aren’t the type of person that enjoys helping others, you will struggle to ever establish a noteworthy presence in the new economy.

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