Way back in 1996 I started to get tired of my job and my 2
hour round trip commute. So I started looking for ways to make
money from home. I figured if I could make a few bucks to
supplement my income that would be great. I even dreamed of
maybe replacing my job someday, but thought that might be too
lofty a goal. Frankly, I just wanted to dig out of a little
debt.
I sent for a few courses on starting a home business and
decided that working with info-products would give me the best
shot at success. So I started experimenting with a few info
products I bought the rights to on floppy disk (remember floppy
disks?) and started looking at how the self-publishing
business worked.
As I was learning the ropes and discovering ways to get leads
and customers, I decided to share my experiences with others.
That was the best business decision I ever made.
Before I knew it I was packaging up all my notes and my
marketing experiment results into my own info-products to sell. And
people were buying them up like hotcakes. Even back then there
was a huge market for "grass roots" do-it-yourself marketing
help. (The market is even bigger now.)
Six months after I started the whole experiment, I was making
enough money to leave my day job. I have to admit, it was scary.
I was always a 9-5'er and liked the security of a weekly
paycheck. But I couldn't ignore the fact that info products were
much more lucrative.
And the funny thing is, I had no idea my little experiment would lead
to an annual six-figure income when I started. I had a modest
goal of making some extra money.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that as you can clearly see from my own experience, you don't have
to have a grand vision to become self-employed. Even the modest goal of simply taking some stress off
your
financial situation is a good enough starting point. You
never know where you'll end up once you get started.
And that's the first secret to reaching even a modest goal...
getting started. Putting a plan together and attacking it on a
daily basis.
Right after this quick sponsor break I'll show you all the
steps to making money with info-products online...
P.S. This is my top recommendations for
affiliate marketers in 2012. ~ Jim Daniels
Here are the steps I'd take if I
were starting a new info-business from scratch today...
Step 1: Decide what niche I want to work in. I'd start
with something I enjoy or
find interesting. I'd make sure it is a niche where people buy
products or services I can either create, purchase the rights to or sell as an
affiliate. (If you're not sure what niche to work in, you may want to
consider the one I'm in - helping people with online business.
Grab my
free training course that shows you how anyone can get into this
niche.)
Step
2: Get a .com or .org domain name containing keywords my target
audience would use for help in that niche.
Step 3: Put up a blog using the free self-hosted WordPress
software and start posting articles to help people find
answers to their questions.
Step
4: Create or attain the giveaway rights to a few irresistible
products that
people in my niche would want and need.
Step 5: Add an opt-in form at my site or blog using
aweber (the easiest to use and highest delivery rate
autoresponder service). This would allow people to request my
free gift at my site or blog.
Step 6: I'd make sure I had a nice a follow-up sequence of emails in
place in my
aweber account so that every person who downloaded my
giveaway received an email every few days for a period of at
least a few months. This series of emails would be a mix of
helpful content and recommended products and services, via
affiliate links. Every recommendation would fit nicely within my
niche, of course.
Step 7: Broadcast a newsletter or update weekly or bi-weekly with more content for
my subscribers. This would keep me in front of them and continue
establishing my credibility in that niche. Once a month I would
also broadcast a recommended product or service that was either
my own or that I was an affiliate for.
Step 8: Submit my articles to ezinearticles.com and other article
directories with my URL in the footer (signature) of each
article. This would get me more credibility, more incoming links and more
subscribers. (I actually
use
SubmitYourArticle.com to automate my submissions across a
network of sites. It saves me time and gets me much more
exposure.)
Step 9: Create a new info-product or service every six months, for the
niche I chose, then tell my growing list of subscribers about
each new product as I release it.
Step 10: Invite other sites, blog owners and
newsletter publishers in my niche, and related niches to promote
each of my new products/services at 50%
commissions and then reciprocate their efforts to my list.
Whew.
I know, that's quite a list. And a process like that takes
some time. But that's a good thing. It means you don't have to
do it all at once. You pace yourself and get one task done every
couple weeks. The real secret is to just get started and to work
on it continually.
Sure it will take some work, and that's precisely why most
people never implement that plan. It's human nature to want easy
money, not money that takes time and effort. But once you
understand that you WILL be earning easy money once you do that
work, you may decide to try it.
OK, you have the plan, now all that's left for you to do is
to start working it every day.
Again, if you're not sure what niche to work in, you may want to
consider the one I'm in - helping people with online business.
My
Guru-U.biz training site just re-opened today, Feb 3, 2012.
(But only for a few days.)
At the site you can watch my 90 second intro video and claim
my training package for free...
Jim Explains "Gurudom"
IMPORTANT: After grabbing your free membership,
read my welcome letter carefully, it explains how to get into
this niche without all the hard work I went through.
(If membership is closed when you get there,
leave your name and email and I'll send you a message when it
reopens. I open the site a few times a year, but only for a few
days.)
Jim Daniels
Jim at bizweb2000.com
