From: Tony Shepherd
author of 'The One Month Magnate'
Dear friend,
Yes, you really can get your own
Internet business started in just a few weeks. It's a lot simpler than
you might think.
Before I go any further, I want
to make it clear that I am not talking about shady "get rich
quick" schemes or questionable biz-opps or low-paying "work
at home" plans. I'm also not talking about selling other people's
products through drop-shipping or affiliate programs.
I'm talking about you selling
your own products, that you create. I'm talking about a real business,
with real products that you can be proud of. And a real potential for
significant long-term income.
How much?
I can't say. I don't know you
personally. The real question to ask yourself is, how much do you
want, and how badly do you want it?
I have friends who only put in a
few hours and make a few hundred extra each month. They see it as a
fun and easy way to add to their retirement investments. I know people
who make thousands a month. And I know other people who make
tens of thousands a month.
None of them are what you'd call
a genius, or gifted in any way. It seems to me that the more 'normal'
you are, the more money you can make.
All of it online. And almost
without exception, every single person I've ever met who made a
serious income online started with one of the ideas you're about to
learn.
What you make personally depends
on you, your goals and your willingness to do a little creative
thinking. I can tell you that the amount of work involved is probably
a lot less than you think right now.
I'm not going to give you fairy
stories here, though. Some people will try this and fail. It happens.
They don't listen, or they get stuck on one idea and refuse to try
something else when it's clear the first one won't work.
Worse, they try to create
something that no-one else in the whole world cares about. Instead of
adjusting their approach and giving people what they already want,
these folks try and "educate the market."
Be warned: Even the most
experienced and well-funded marketers won't touch that sort of thing.
People want what they want, and they don't want someone telling them
what they should want. Especially when that someone just
happens to be selling it...
Other than just not trying, the
single biggest cause of failure in online business is trying to sell
something no-one wants.
If you can keep that one thing
in mind, your odds of making a lot of money online just went way up.
If It's Such A Simple
Thing, Why Don't More People Do It?
The truth?
The majority don't do it because
they don't try.
They don't try because they
think it's too complicated, or it will take too long, or it will be
too expensive to get started or they don't know enough about business
or or or...
But is any of that true?
Surely it takes a big investment to get started?
Assuming you already have an
Internet connection, you can start an online business with no cash
expense outside of a domain ($8.88 at namecheap.com) and a very basic
web host ($39 at Streamline.net).
Less than $50 a year for
everything you need to get started.
Yes. Really.
And that's assuming you don't
just sell on eBay and skip the whole website thing entirely...
What about software? Isn't
that expensive?
Some is, sure. But you can get
everything you need to create very high-quality products for free.
Everything from powerful graphics software to a professional-level
office package and all the rest. Free.
It's got to be complicated!
Can you type? I don't mean fast,
just... can you type?
It can be more complicated than
that, but it doesn't have to be.
I know people who worked at a
business 12 hours a day for years and never made any money. I can't
afford that kind of time.
That's not a business. That's a
job.
Let's say you decide you want to
write a small manual on how to do something. Say, 30 pages. You can
type that up in a week, working an hour or two each evening.
Then you type up a page telling
people what they'll get from your manual and how much it costs. That's
your sales page.
You now have the first product
for your business.
But what about getting paid
and getting the product to my customers?
Here's how that works. You
create a web page for your sales letter. Something like the one you're
reading right now. You put in a link to PayPal or whoever you're using
to handle the money.
You can get the software to make
those web pages free, too.
When people decide to buy, they
click the link and give PayPal the money. PayPal sends them to another
page that you've set up where they can download your product without
you ever having to handle it. PayPal takes their cut and puts the rest
of the money in your account.
You are now in business.
It really can be that simple.
What If
I Don't Want To Write A Book?
You can do a lot of different
things to make money online. You can:
- Sell how-to books
- Teach people using recorded
audio
- Create and sell art or
poetry
- Run an editorial "blog"
- Develop your own
software
- Market products other
people create for you
- Use free teleconference
lines to do consulting
- Publish a newsletter
- Run a local
entertainment site
- Become a music publisher
... and a lot more.
There are tools and systems available to fit every preference. The
Internet gives you access to people of every professional and personal
interest you can think of. That makes it almost certain that anyone
can make a living online, if they'll just find out what some group
wants and offer it to them.
How Do I
Get Started?
Assuming you really want to
start your own business online, you have two options at this point.
You've just seen the absolute
basics. With what you've read, you could hit the search engines and
eventually figure out what to do and what order to do it in.
You don't really need me to get
started. But I can save you a few weeks of research.
And I can hand you a few
hard-won tips that you'll only get from someone who's actually created
and sold a lot of their own products online.
I've put together a little
manual, about 70 pages, that will show you exactly what you need to do
to get started in your own online business - fast.
It includes:
- Tips on the mindset and
processes you need to understand before you
even get started. These are as important to your success as your
choice of
products.
- The 4-Step process you need
to follow to get a product done and actually making you
money.
- The 7 tactics you need to
use in every action you take in your business.
Keeping these in mind from the start will give you a powerful edge
on many
more experienced marketers.
- A process that will
dramatically improve your offer and give you a much sharper
focus on what's important in developing and selling your product.
Not one person
in 100 uses this approach, and it's as simple as it is surprising.
- Ways to develop killer
product ideas, and to get them turned into high-quality
products quickly.
- A resource list that gives
you links to all the free software I mentioned earlier and
then some, along with some excellent paid resources that will help
you as you get more experienced.
- The simple reason why
complete strangers will often believe in you more
than your family and your closest friends.
- Proven processes for getting
a book done quickly, even if you hate to write.
- Rules for creating a
successful software product. And what kind to avoid
developing at all costs.
- What you must include in
every sales site - and what will kill your sales without
you ever knowing.
- A quick and simple system
for writing sales letters that actually sell.
- Why - and when - being a
great writer can actually work against you.
- How to get other people to
sell tons of your product for you - and thank
you for the opportunity.
- The three most effective ways
to get people to visit your sales page after you've
completed it.
- And much more.
The book is called "The
Smart Marketers' Handbook," and it's just that. Everything you
need to start your own business on the Internet, and to get it into
profit fast.
There are people out there
making fortunes using nothing but what you'll discover in this book.
Almost everyone I know who's making real money online got started
using one or more of the systems you'll find in those 70 pages.
So, what would it be worth to
you to have this kind of a head start on the game?
Seriously. What would it be
worth? How long do you think it would take to find the parts of this
that you can find using a search engine, and then putting them
in the right order?
How much more money do you think
you can make, and how much faster, by knowing what to watch out for in
advance? And knowing the simple things you can do that will
dramatically speed up your business growth?
Would it be worth ... $47
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