Are You Gonna Produce Or Are You Gonna Consume?Subtitle: The real answer to why only 3% succeed and how
to know if YOU will be part of the 3% or the 97%.
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Are You Gonna Produce Or Consume?
Let’s get it straight.
All the money in this business is made by being a
producer, not a consumer. Now, being a consumer is NOT bad
or wrong.
But here’s the secret: You consume to produce.
Let me share a fact: It’s been estimated that 97% of
customers of info products don’t make anything. Why?
Because the never produce and promote.
They just consume and make up reasons why they can’t do
it, why it won’t work for them, why they are different,
why their situation is different, and why later not now is
the time to start.
True story.This fact is true of ANY info product business where you
are teaching people how to do things. Whether it’s how to
invest in stocks, real estate or anything else.
So realize this happens in EVERY industry, not just mine.
It’s really crucial that you get this straight in your
head. For one thing, in the U.S., you are supposed to
publish “typical results.” No one does. Why?
Because the typical result is 3%. Now, colleges do fair
slightly better. 80% of the people who graduate with a
degree NEVER work in the field they got their degree in.
So if 4 years of college and $50,000 or $100,000 can’t get
people a $30,000 a year entry level job, why is it that a
small minority of people with a chip on their shoulder,
think they can buy a $97 course and with almost NO effort
grab six figures?
Why is that? It makes no sense. That a human being with
intelligence could think that baffles me. People want
something where someone else gives them a defined set of
instructions, they do it with no risk, and they get a
check.
THAT is called a “job,” not a business.
You don’t push a few buttons and money magically appears
– NOT until you have a list or form agreements with
people who DO have lists. Then, yeah, you push a few
buttons and money appears.
This is not a job. It’s a business. And by nature,
business is volatile, uncertain and there is risk involved
and no guarantees. If you can’t deal with that fact, keep
your day job. Honestly.
If you’re lazy and think you’ll make 100 g’s a year by
being dumb, stupid, in-informed and uneducated, keep your
day job. But you’re about to be fired from there — so you
better have a check up from the neck up.
There IS no room in the world for people who cannot
produce and promote, even if all you’re promoting is
yourself at your job.
On the flip side, if you take the number of people who
product and promote at least 3 products with a degree of
intelligence, diligence and effort, I imagine the results
are pretty good, if not really good.
The reason 97% don’t get results is 90% or more didn’t
REALLY give it their best shot. They stuck a toe in the
water and “tried” just to see if “this thing is real.”
Well guess what?
That isn’t how it works.
You don’t read one book on chess, and enter a chess
tournament to see “if this book is worth anything.” It’s a
skill that takes practice and repetition.
“Yeah, but Marlon, all the sales letters say it’s easy.”
Actually, a few do but most by respected, legitimate
marketers don’t. They promise to show you how THEY and
maybe a few customers have gotten great results far above
average (remember, the average result is nothing because
people don’t implement at all or precious little).
Now, I LOVE being a consumer. I have vast libraries in my
home because I love to read and learn new, exciting
things. And when I speak, I speak from experience. I
prefer consuming to producing.
Why?
1. Things go wrong when you produce.
The software doesn’t work, you can’t figure this or that
out. Something doesn’t work right. That can lead to
feelings of frustration or even feelings that somehow
something is wrong with YOU that you can’t figure this
out.
But follow me on this: Your FEARS of your own stupid
feelings of failure or frustration. NOT of what it takes
to get things done.
Murphy (Murphy’s law…look it up) is a part of any business.
2. Nothing works the first time
Write it down.
It never works out the way you want the first time. If
that wasn’t true, then sports teams would only hold ONE
practice session before they played games that counted.
Think about it.
Even the great Tiger Woods and the greatest athletes in
the world practice over and over. Yet, to my absolute
mystery, somehow a few people think they can have the
Internet lifestyle by reading one ebook and working 15
minutes a day.
Please. Get real.
There IS an Internet lifestyle. But you pay your dues
first. You learn, you practice, you test, you tweak and
you learn some more. Now, I’ve seen that compressed into
literally very short time frames.
My friend Jason Fladlien is 20 months into the Game and
bringing in $30,000 to $50,000 a month BUT he has PRODUCED
dozens of products in that time span and promoted them to
a small list of only a few thousand names (but a list
growing rapidly now).
Doesn’t matter you have a small list. THAT is how you
start out. You start out, you produce and you hit singles
or bunts to start with NOT grand slams.
If someone DOES hit a grand slam their first time at bat
at product creation, THAT isn’t typical.
Typical is like me — my first products hardly sold. Like
my one on how to avoid TV Repair Ripoff that I advertised
in the TV Guide. If your TV was broke, would you be
READING the TV Guide? Those are the dumb mistakes
beginners make.
It’s part of the normal learning process.
Are you a NEWBIE? If you are, you can STILL produce $10
reports, little pdf’s or audios you sell, simple things.Get in the HABIT of producing and promoting and not just
consuming info until you are a bloated info glut.
I got a real problem with people who want and expect something
for nothing. For people who think an ebook or even a coaching
program will magically open the doors to the Internet lifestyle.
You produce and promote.
Like breathing.
Do it over and over and sooner or later you’ll pretty good at it
and that’s when your luck finds you.That’s when your money finds you.
That’s when success happens overnight.
Now it helps if you produce and promote things with the perception
of value that people want to pay for. That helps a lot.
=================== So What DOES Work? ===================
What works is to produce while you consume. Start building
your list, creating and promoting products.
THIS is what works.
Even if you’re not competent, even if you make mistakes,
even if you get frustrated, even if you don’t feel you
have the right to create a product, even if your web page
is kinda ugly, even if you aren’t confident in what you’re
doing, even if you don’t know everything, even if you
aren’t a good writer, even if you sound less than perfect
on audio.
NO EXCUSES.
You get your assets busy and you produce and promote.
Produce and promote.
Produce and promote.
Repeat after me.
Produce and promote.
Produce and promote.
It’s a mantra.
Say it now. Produce and promote. Produce and promote.
Stop over analyzing.
Stop your second guessing.
Stop making excuses.
This is the ONLY mantra that virtually guarantees your
success….I say “virtually” because not everyone succeeds
– at anything. Not everyone succeeds at golf, tennis or
chess. Business is no different.
But as a general rule, if you persistently and
relentlessly create, produce and promote products that are
wanted and needed to audiences known to be passionate
about buying and spending money, it’ll be hard for you to
NOT succeed.
This is the straight and narrow path to success — the one
I have been teaching and preaching since 1998 and before.
This is the EVERGREEN path to success. The money you spend
to learn it won’t be wasted because it’s a skill.
Producing and promoting never “stops working.”
Back in 0 B.C. people were producing crops and promoting
or selling them. They were producing cows or donkeys or
whatever and promoting and selling them.
This is evergreen.
It’s not as sexy or exciting as sending one email and
having 100 g’s come in the door. The most read email I’ve
had recently was the Terry Dean report I gave away about
how he brought in 100 g’s by sending 1 email.
Which is all true.
But he had a list of qualified prospects to send that
email to. But it shows that even on my list of people who
hopefully read this ezine every week, people are entranced
with the idea of pushing a button and having their bills
paid for the year.
Get real. Honestly. Aren’t we both adults here? Aren’t you
aware that the path to success lies in producing and
promoting and not magic. Cavemen believed in magic. In
third world countries where books and education are
lacking, people believe in magic.
But you aren’t a caveman, you have books and the Internet
and you’re in charge of educating yourself.
So cut the crap, forget the magic and get your assets busy
producing and promoting. And if you don’t want to do that,
keep your day job and seduce yourself into believing that
your job is about something OTHER than producing and
promoting, which of course it isn’t.
You just don’t have responsibility for the ultimate
product and the exchange obtained for it. It’s a matter of
what you FEEL you’re responsible for.
Those people who go in forms and complain that they “tried
Internet marketing” and it didn’t work.
Did they produce and promote? Produce and promote?
No. They tried promoting affiliate products to a really
low quality list they built using questionable, unproven
methods because they wanted to “try it and see if it
works” instead of committing to do it.
So someday when the NEWS hits the fan that “97% don’t make
it in Internet marketing,” ask yourself out of those 97%,
how many do you REALLY think followed the mantra 3, 4 or 5
times?
You know why people have jobs?
Because they are comfortable letting someone else do the
hard work of producing and promoting, and they just want
to be a cog in the wheel without much responsibility for
producing and promoting the thing that is actually sold to
the end buyer.
You STILL produce and promote on a job. But you have
defined steps with a known outcome. That’s called a job.
An entrepreneur lives in changing markets and an uncertain
world where any one product may or may not sell jack.
That’s life. That’s marketing.
You can do surveys and market research to put the odds in
your favor. But it’s STILL uncertain. They cure is to
produce and promote a LOT! Not a little.
So I got a question for you.
This next week are you ONLY consuming?
Are you ONLY reading my ezine?
Are you making excuses for all the reasons producing and
promoting won’t work for you and how you need to wait for
some reason, and why your equipment isn’t good enough,
your voice isn’t good enough, your writing isn’t good
enough, you don’t have the confidence and you aren’t sure
it’ll work.
Or are you going to shut the muck up and produce and
promote?
Really, this choice is yours.
Do you want a job?
Or do you want the Internet lifestyle?
If it’s the latter, start producing and promoting.
Marlon Sanders
The King of Step-By-Step Internet Marketing
For anyone who has just started as a Clickbank marketer, or is planning on becoming an affiliate for Clickbank products/services, you are going to encounter what may seem a mystifying issue after you have made some sales, and that is , getting paid!
Has anyone really read Clickbank’s Accounting Policy? Number one, by default Clickbank has a payment threshold of $100.00, but this can be changed by you to be as low as $10.00. However,in order for Clickbank to comply with US Law, Clickbank will withhold payment to any account balance until certain criteria are made.
: sales made with five or more different credit card numbers
: sales made with two different payment methods such as Visa, Mastercard, or Paypal. Paypal purchases do not count toward the five different credit card numbers. At the very least you’ll have to make five sales before being paid, and you’ll be paid at the end of a two week pay period, also you’ll have to have received three paychecks from Clickbank before being able to opt in for direct payment to your bank account.
Let’s assume you have made five sales paid for by Visa, then you hit a dry period, no sales for another month, or two , or three. You’re still not paid because of the criteria having not been met. But did you know that charges are applied by Clickbank to dormant accounts? $1 per pay period after 90 days, $5 after 180 days, $15 after 365 days.
Did you know that at least 90% of clickbank affiliates are dormant. So now your money is being chipped away bit by bit, no wonder so many newbies to Clickbank marketing end up frustrated and quit.
Would you like to know a way that will allow you to easily overcome this seeming hurdle of having your money tied up or being eaten away at by these policies as you are first starting out as a clickbank affiliate? Of course you would, who wouldn’t? Having said that, I want to offer to you a highly revealing E-Book, jam packed with proven strategies for such a short read. You can download it right here, right now. You’ll be glad you did! Your privacy is paramount, your e-mail address will never be shared or sold to any other party, gauranteed!
Kindly , Bruce
So many Guru’s, so many secrets to making it big, offers galore, buy this system, but that system. It literally makes your head spin. If you happened to buy into any of these so called systems, doesn’t it still seem like information overload, aren’t you left feeling like you now have more questions than before? Has anybody actually explained to you exactly the process of how a web business works, how does it all tie together? Probably not!
I’d like to save the clickbank newbie from what could possibly be months of headache, frustration, and lastly but not least of all, avoid the “no income status”.
For the Clickbank newcomer, affiliate marketing is perhaps the best way to get your feet wet. Affiliate marketing today is expansively huge, and what it means quite simply is, you sell somebody else’s product/service, and when successful, you will get paid a commission.
However most people including myself have been going about marketing for Clickbank totally wrong. Many of us have been trying to generate traffic directly to the sales page, or landing page if you will, with the express purpose of making a sale. If your lucky enough to make a sale this way, that’s it, that’s the end of ever seeing that customer again. As the months roll by with a trickle of a sale here and there, frustration and disillusionment set in which could very well cause a person to quit. I have, but I’m a little stubborn and don’t like to quit. I decided I am not going to be beat, I will beat it..no pun intended. Obviously this is not a way to successful marketing.
What I will attempt to do here is, without the help of graphics, draw you a diagram of a successful marketing process for all you clickbank newbies. First of all I’m assuming you already have a product/service that you wish to promote. Let’s start with step one shall we!
Firstly you will need a “squeeze page”. Now a squeeze page is a one page website, but it is a particular kind of website whose only purpose is to capture a person’s name and e-mail address. This page is an enticement where you are offering something “free”, that is of value. Key point here. The only way to receive this free gift is to enter your name and e-mail address in the built in opt in form, that is the only exchange taking place here.
You are not selling anything! It could be that the free product you are offering will have a link back to the sales page you are ultimately trying to promote, but your offering should have some relevance to your end product. Why offer a health product if you’re really trying to sell a lawnmower? So this is the page you will be trying to generate traffic to, not your end product page, or affiliate landing page.
What has happened here are two things. First and foremost, you are now starting to build a list by attaining legitimately a name and e-mail address. Secondly, you will be starting to build a relationship with your e-mail client by sending them a Thank you page with a link to receive their free product. Any seasoned marketer worth their salt will tell you a list is extremely important, if not the most important ingredient to having a successful internet marketing business.
As your list grows, you are building a client base that is literally at your fingertips, at the click of a mouse, to any product/service you wish to promote in the future. However, I cannot stress enough the importance of relationship here, the building of trust with your client base.
If all you do is try to cram down their throats product after product, you’ll have a whole boatload of unsubscribers on your hands. Your credibility and integrity will be shattered, and therefore your business and income will suffer!
Why not just drop a line now and then, say hello, show you’re interested in them, what they are doing, maybe you can help, etc. Seamlessly promote your product/service without actually blatantly selling or coercing. Remember, they are thinking breathing people just like you. Again, develop a relationship where you build trust, and you shouldn’t have a problem suggesting other products or services and have them bought.
Now all of this generating of e-mails, thank you pages, and delivery of products gets done automatically by computer programs built especially for this purpose. The one service that stands out and is probably the best known is “Aweber”. You can open up an account with them, they charge a monthly fee, and they also have a series of videos to help you set up your autoresponder service. If you prefer downloadable readable versions, they offer that also.
So here it is again, step by step. Squeeze page, name and e-mail address, Thank you page, delivery of free product, links to your end product.
Yes, there are many other ways to do business online, but this is a time tested, provable, working model of a web business process that I would suggest to the new and upcoming clickbank affiliates. Thank you for your time in reading this, I hope it to be helpfull.
To read this and other similar articles, visit the Article Dashboard right here
Kindly, bruce
There are a good number of reputable business opportunities out there for the internet marketer as well as cleverly disguised scams. The problem lies in knowing how to distinguish between the two. Another factor I might introduce is addressing the level of greed we might have in our heart and I would stress this point out because it just could save you from joining what will ultimately be a lot of fluff, not necessarily scams. You’ll find your bank account being drained rather quickly because that level of greed in your heart will be played upon rather heavily by promises of countless riches. You’ll need to moderate your desire of money into a level balance of well thought out intelligent choices and action.
There is one particular scam being played out right now involving Google work at home programs. Quite a few shady operatives have taken this offer, even using the as seen on TV in their ads, and ultimately all they want is your credit card information. The offer is free and all they ask for is for you to pay shipping and handling by providing your credit card info, then you’ll notice monthly billings of between $30 and $50 dollars being charged to your credit card.
Before getting involved in anything, take some time to research. Even if you check with the BBB, try to be sure it is a valid complaint. Some people are pretty quick with the trigger finger in making accusations. You’ll find this is happening in forums also where people feeling frustrated by their own lack of being able to make money find an audience to vent off steam. It could very well be that they haven’t followed step by step instructions and had the patience to allow for time to take effect on these efforts.
A great example of this took place with the Warrior Forum. An internet program was introduced which claimed that you could get all your PPC costs paid for and make a profit at the same time. In effect, it was stating that you could have all your advertising costs free. Well it wasn’t long before a chorus of scam was being sung led by one marketer, which eventually led to a lot of people not buying into the program. Eventually some of the more seasoned marketers who checked it out thoroughly began to tell the people
to cease and desist their crys of scam, that if they took the time to read through the whole system they would discover that it is a workable, viable method that does what it says it will do. “BANG”, $40,000 of sales were made in one day of this system through that forum! I checked it out myself, and I see a lot of the big name marketers using this very same technique themselves. To be honest, I haven’t tried it myself yet and am kicking myself for it because I know it to be a very effective method of attaining a nice income. I’ve been so busy with other things that I need to re-priortise my duties. If you’d like to look into it check it out here!
In short you’ll need to read carefully terms and conditions to see exactly what you are getting into. The terms and conditions may be very tiny to see at the bottom of the screen, Just don’t be shy to read them. Check out their customer service to see how easily available they are. Anybody can boldly claim money back gauranteed to reassure you as you fork out your money but just how easy is it to get a refund?
I had the experience from one so called Guru that took me three months before I could actually get any response regarding a refund. He even placed his phone number on his main webpage as well as an address, again to reassure you, however the phone number didn’t work, the address that I sent inquries to were never answered, the support line didn’t function properly.
True legitimate internet businesses are not shy about providing contact information, and don’t try to hide the terms and conditions regarding the business/service they are offering, but do some research and try to find real users who give it a positive review before making any purchase.
Just remember that at least 90% of affiliate guides out there are outdated or recycled to sound fresh but are generally useless. Also remember that not everyone is out to get you either. Take your time and sift through the information you come across, there are some real gems out there also.
Kindly, Bruce
For the clickbank Marketer, especially the new and upcoming Clickbank Affiliates, writing articles is a time proven formula for success. Using a high targeted Keyword Phrase effectively in an article related to your product or service, can get you a high ranking with Google. Your article’s popularity will be measured by it’s backlinks and reads that it is getting. One single article can potentially translate into thousands of dollars, in fact there are many clickbank Marketers who have experienced this for themselves.
Some of the more reputable article directory’s do not allow blatant commercial links in the content of your article, however most have a resource box at the end, and this is where you would be permitted to include those links. It is here that would continue to add to your article as seamlessly as possible, the enticements to encourage the reader to visit either your squeeze page, affiliate link, or your own landing page containing your product/service.
Another effective form of creating backlinks are through Forums, usually a forum that has some relevance to your product/service. I wouldn’t advocate joining one just to ram through your article and links. Take an active part in the discussions. After, when you have developed a relationship within the forum, you’ll see opportunity’s to promote your article with it’s links. An example might be in response to a question a person has, and it just so happens your article contains information that would be helpful to that individual. You would then post your reply to the question by directing that person to your article, thereby creating another backlink in the process and possibly a sale. As well, after fitting in with the forum, you could easily start a new topic and then include your article with it’s links.
An important factor to remember when writing an article or headlining a post, is make sure the Title is composed of High Targeted Keywords, or Keyword Phrase. Very important in ranking high with Google.
Don’t under estimate the importance of backlinks created through forums, this will help you immensely in getting your article out there way above the rest who are doing little to promote theirs.
Another brief but serious point to remember, is that your article, if popular could be picked up by other services or blogs that have been added to their own related website to use as content, thereby helping their rankings and at the same time exposing your name to a wider audience.
Hope this article was to your advantage,
Add Just 1-Line of “Magic” Code to Any Site & Money Pours into Your Pocket!
Kindly, Bruce
There are a number of ways you can promote yourself as a Clickbank affiliate, but to get to the very root basics, you should at the very least get yourself registered with a domain name and website. What’s a domain name/website? Let’s look outside at the real world with all the exixting marketplaces.
Each has a name, and each of them market something. So it is on the web, your domain name is the name of your marketplace, your website is the marketplace. Now, where to register? In order for you to attain a domain/website, you need a “host”. Much like a shopping mall hosts a marketplace, so on the web you need a host.
There are quite a few out there, however for the purpose of this article I’ll name two very reputable one’s. “Godaddy.com” and “Hostgator.com”. Check them out, and see what offers they have available. The main difference between the two basically is that “Hostgator” allows you to have many domains for one price, whereas “Godaddy”, you get one. I think now they are offering a second domain cheap with free hosting. I might add you will get excellant support for any issues you might have getting set up, as well as answers to the many services they provide.
Preferably your Domain name should have a direct reflection on what it is you are marketing. But then again, if you never heard of “Google” or “Yahoo”, would you be able to ascertain what they are by their names? The main reason for the idea of having a domain name associated with your product or service has to do with what are called “Keywords, or Keyword phrases”.
To touch upon lightly, “Google” and “Yahoo” are the main search engines on the web. Whenever you type in a search using their services, you are entering in what is called “Keywords”. These search engines use technical software utilising algorithims to locate all pertinate information regarding keywords.They call them “spiders”, and if your website has a fair number of these keywords built into it, your website has a better standing in the rankings, or so it used to be. There are many other factors involved but these search engines change the rules for what will contribute to a good ranking rather often, so it’s hard to say that what worked yesterday will work today. Now that is another article in and of itself.
Getting back to Domains. You can have a Domain name without a website, while acting as an affiliate for clickbank. As you promote your product through the many ways available to you such as ” forums, ad sites, article submissions, social networking, etc.”, you leave your domain name as a link for the reader to click on. As they click on your link it is immediately redirected to your affiliates landing page. This is made available to you very easily at the host you registered your domain with. Contact them for help if needed. Using this method does away with the need for your own personal website. In this way you can purchase a number of domains, thereby promoting a number of products for different affiliates and save yourself the constant need for updating your website/s as well as the extra costs involved.
Alright, let’s assume you now have a domain name relevant to the product or service you intend to promote, with or without a website. You would now visit clickbank and go to their “marketplace’. There you can type in the relevant name of your product and a whole list will pop up for to peruse through. Remember, Clickbank is the world’s largest provider of digital products, in other words, products you can download on the internet, so you have quite a selection to choose from. For instance , two products that I’m involved in promoting can be viewed here, and here. You are able to promote as many products as you like. However I would suggest that you first check out the landing page of the affiliate you are thinking of associating with, to see if they have a professional, clean looking site, with working links, etc. This is important for promotional purposes and will affect sales.
Once you have made a decision and are satisfied that you can promote and sell the product, you will need to create a hoplink associated with your website or domain name. It is the nickname you use when registering with Clickbank that is unique to you. Embedded within this hoplink is your Clickbank nickname to assure you the credit of any sales made through your efforts. Make a copy of it and keep it safe, and use this link for all your promotions.
There are innumerable methods of promotion. Educate yourself, be wary of irresistable offers, it will take a little time. There are plenty of free resources available to you online, and yes, there are people of integrity and virtue out there, you just have to shake and sift, but even they as do we all are out there to try to make a living. Commit yourself for the long haul, it will help during times of frustration and you want to quit because things aren’t happening fast enough. Eventually you’ll get a clearer picture of how all this works. Just do something everyday, a minute, an hour, a whole day, whatever, do something always to promote, it is inevitable that you will see the fruits of your labour emerge. Anything can happen, a sudden clarity of an idea smashes through your psyche, next thing you know, you suddenly have your own product and now you’re welcoming affiliates to promote it for you and now you have an affiliate program of your own.
What a beautiful, wild, sometimes wacky, wonderful world we live in. All the Best,
Add Just 1-Line of “Magic” Code to Any Site & Money Pours into Your Pocket!
Kindly , Bruce
How I added another 40 – 60 hits a day to my site : Check it out here
Clickbank has the reputation as beeing the best known reliable affiliate for the newcomer as well as seasoned internet marketers. You can join for free, however they do change a modest commision on any sales made through their network; considering the tools and services they provide, it is minimal. Any new affiliate would have the recommendation to join Clickbank as their first business start up.
The products Clickbank deals with are digital, therefore they are downloadable on the internet. With more than 40,000 products avalible, one has quite a menu to pick and choose from. The commision’s an affiliate could expect to make from the merchants are usually high, 50% commision is usually standard.
Thousands have joined Clickbank as affiliates and regurlarly earn incomes from it. The amounts of course, vary from very high to minimal, based on the many factors of the affiliates own efforts, as well as the choice of product. Some products sell more than others, that’s life. Do a market research before settling on a products or product.There’s a New Ebook I have just come across which I predict will become very popular.
It solves a problem which causes most newbies to quit affiliate marketing with ClickBank.
ClickBank for Newbies, written by Harvey Segal (Mr ClickBank) is a quick easy read, written without hype and not littered with annoying links.
And the cost of this book ?
It’s free ! And it ends with an amazing idea for making you money from the book itself.
I’d rush to get this book now if I were you right here
You can check out just who “Harvey Segal” is,and what authority he has regarding ClickBank by visiting this site:
http://www.gurusportal.com/
Promote Your Service/Product Through Forums:
Try to find forums that relate to the information or product that you have. After registering, get involved with the discussions, ask questions, answer questions from other forum members. Do not blatantly add your promotion in the body of your text, however many forums allow you to add your signature at the end, e.g: name, website link, or affiliate link.
Promote through Traffic Exchange:
There are quite a few exchanges out there, just Google it. Most of these exchanges are free to join, and most also have the option of a paid upgrade that offer more promotional attributes. It could be a one time fee, or a monthly fee. Most of them work by having you register, and then have you place your promomtional advertisment with them. The oppertunities of your add being noticed more depends on your contribution of clicking on other people’s ad’s which earn you credits. Some of these may well appeal to you, just as your’s may appeal to others!
This might be the most important of your efforts, because this involves the building of your list. Attaining E-mail addresses must be done through legitimate means. In other word’s, they must be given to you willingly. There are many ways to obtain addresses such as through forums, chat forums etc., but the most effective argueably is through an opt-in placed on your website or squeeze page. Try not to just cram your products down their throats, with E-Mail’s, develop a relationship, earn their trust. Offer free products. Remember, they are living breathing Human Beings, get personal, talk to them as you would a friend, and treat them as such.
Promote through your Website:
When all is said and done, you ultimately must have your own website, or blog. A nice clean looking website that will reflect on your product, and not be hard on the eyes of your viewers. With your own website you are able to modify and change up as you please. A couple of ads nothing more, text links to promote your product, and Opt-in forms to collect E-Mail’s for building up your list will suffice.
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Thank you so much for your time in reading this,
Kindly, Bruce
