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How To Build An Online Biz – work in progress

I am working on a project to set up a series of email articles taken from a PLR e-book which I wanted to sell but have decided for now to break it down into a series of email lessons.

First step is to set up my autoresponder.  I have  two systems Global NPN and TrafficWave. I like these two because they don’t start charging you more once the list gets over a certain size. They also have great affiliate programs.

Here are my links:

http://budurl.com/twmain1

http://budurl.com/npndm3

(You notice that I use ‘budurl’s. This is like bit.ly, but better! Means I can check which links are being clicked, so great for tracking.)

http://budurl.com/buaffil

Back to my project.

I’m taking my time setting up the autoresponder series as I have a concept in mind. Both NPN & TW have templates which I can use, but I decided to go with TW because I am already familiar with how it works. NPN does it a different way. So I thought, right now I don’t need to learn yet another system, I have enough to do.

I’m planning to have 14 or 15 emails to go out every other day, so that’s a month’s worth. I’m also going to make available some free downloads – mindmap, workbook – which can be used with the lessons.

And they will be proper  lessons – not a load of pushy ‘buy the latest system/you must get this NOW’ type of message which my inbox gets stuffed with every day. No, this will be free, real, genuine information to move people forward in their online biz, not to take money from their pockets.

Yes, I will have some links to the stuff I use, some of which will need paying for. Only this morning I decided to change my template (fortunately I had only set up two messages!) to include a side-bar – and that’s where I will put my promo/links to my tools etc.

One of the places I will use it is on my site howtobuildanonlinebiz.co.uk.

Link to website how to build an online biz.co.uk

So, watch this space and I hope that before too long I will be able to put in the capture code so that you can subscribe to my project too.

Until next time.

Design Your Own Graphics, Headers, Banners etc

There’s a great program I use to design most of my graphics and splash pages. I used it to do the header for this blog too. OK, so it’s not the most intricate of designs, but it took me all of 5 minutes and will do for starters. (I prefer not to use the designs which come with themes etc – at least when I do my own, they really are unique.)

So, even though you may not have the slightest idea about html, and don’t have a clue about adding images etc, the system I use is so easy a child could do it.

What’s more, even if you do know the tech side of design, you can take advantage of the clipart, images and designs which are sitting there just waiting for you and make simple ads really quickly.

The program is AdKreator and it has been developed so that anyone can design their own splash pages, squeeze pages – also called lead capture pages (useful when you are building your list) – banners, headers and small graphics too.

For example – you can use a 125 x 125 banner on your webpage or blog to link through to another site.  Here’s one pointing to the site where I get free websites:

Sample small banner

Sample small banner

and here is a text link to a splash page I have set up using AdKreator which goes to the same site: SEE EXAMPLE PAGE

(Both will open in new tabs and to demonstrate how they work, they will go to the site they represent.)

There is also an option to share your designs, so if you are building a team and fellow members also have AdKreator membership, you can let them have a copy of your work. They will just need to change the destination link to their own.

What alse is clever?

  • Statistics – these are not very detailed, but you can see lifetime clickthroughs and ‘today’ stats.
  • You can change the page colour which sits behind your design
  • Tweet It, Like it
  • Download it ready for uploading to your webpage. (That’s how I put the little one into this blog post.)

As a free member you can check how the system works and if you like it, upgrade to a monthly subscription.

And here is a banner AdKreator have provided for me:

So why don’t you pop over and have a good look round and experiment with your own designs.

 

4 Reasons YOU Are Failing to Make an Online Income

Found this great article by John Thornhill and thought I would pop it in here as it is so apt to many of us in online business. I know where I fit with it! I sort of know John from a few years ago.  I had been made redundant so I signed up for John’s consultancy programme. It certainly gave me a fantastic introduction to everything. I admit to going off on a tangent, but I learnt an awful lot thanks to John. (BTW, I have not corrected his spelling!)

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4 Reasons YOU Are Failing to Make an Online Income
By John Thornhill

In these times of recession, job losses/redundancies, huge debts etc. Many people are turning to the internet to look for another possible source of income. However, most of these people, no matter how hard they try, never seem to make anything close to what they want to achieve online. In this article I am going to outline 4 reasons why this is happening.

Firstly, many of these people want to earn money for doing next to nothing. They see all these internet millionaires who only seem to have to send an email to make tens of thousands of dollars and believe that they should be able to do the same.

What they fail to realize is that these millionaires have been online for 5, 10 maybe 15 or more years. Working hard day in day out to build their business to a level where they don’t have to work hard anymore. For those of you out there who believe you can make millions online, overnight, with next to zero work, you are sadly mistaken.

Secondly, there are people out there who are scared of failing. They believe that they must do everything correct on the first try or they will be laughed at or shunned by the marketers who have already got a successful business running. I will let you in to a little secret you may not have thought about. Most of these marketers were in your shoes when they first started, the only difference is they were not as afraid of making those few failures before they tasted success.

As they have been in your shoes, most marketers will be only to glad to help with minor tasks or things you simply don’t understand. There are forums all over the internet where there are accomplished marketers only too willing to help those newbie marketers out with takes they once struggled with. Do not be scared of failure and do not be scared to ask for help.

On the other hand, there are those newbie marketers out there who are quite accomplished with the technical side of internet marketing. These marketers can build blogs, websites, products etc. Without any problem. However, some of them still fail in the long term, they make a few sales here and there with their first product but this sales slowly stop and their second product will be lucky to make one sale. The reason this is happening? They aren’t building a list!

I am sure no matter how long you have been online you will have heard someone say ‘the money is in the list’ or ‘success lies within your list’ and if you haven’t, you have now. This is possibly the greatest piece of advice you could ever be given online. Think about it, with a list you can sell to people on demand, whenever you need to, by sending an email and promoting either your own product or someone else’s. In the beginning you may only get 1-2 subscribers a week, but this number will grow as your online business grows and before you know what has happened you have a list of 1000s.

Finally, many newer marketers out there need a mentor. Someone who can teach them what to do and what not to do. Someone to walk them step-by-step down the right path, avoiding mistakes and giving them tips. Someone you can depend on and turn to in those moments when you are well and truly stumped.

The reason a mentor can be the difference between success and failure for a newer marketer is one I have already briefly mentioned. They have been in your shoes, they have taken those first steps before, they have made the same mistakes and been stuck with the same simple things. This experience makes them an invaluable asset to have when you are starting an online business and an asset which can take your business past beginner and to the level you always dreamed off.

John Thornhill is a former factory worker who is now a successful full time Internet Marketer.

John can show you how to succeed in 3 easy steps.

In this free to attend webinar discover how anyone can succeed in 3 easy steps.

http://www.webinarwithjohn.com/3_steps_to_success/

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I hope you enjoyed that. I’m off to carry on building my list!