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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.

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.

Have a comment? Post it here! Have a question? Post it below and I’ll reply here.

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

Use Twitter? Please Retweet using the button on the right!

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):

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