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Newbie Case Study: $1,000/mo in 30 Days

Here’s how you can begin earning a consistent $1,000 a month or more while building your list and do it starting in less than 30 days.

I’ve seen this done before and it’s been tried and tested by many over the years because it’s simple and easy to do. It’s sort of a classic, and it performs as well now as it did 5 or 10 years ago. Here’s how it works, and I’ll use Gina for our case study.

Gina was brand new to marketing 2 months ago and wondering what to do. On a bit of advice, she spent a week in a deep dive creating a free report, an upsell product and a squeeze page.

Notice she owns her own upsell. Doing this with an affiliate product as your upsell won’t work, and you’ll see why in a moment.

This is a self-liquidating funnel, meaning the upsell pays for the traffic she drives to the offer. She’s building a list of people who get her free offer as well as a list of buyers who took the upsell. In her case her upsell is just $9, but it’s converting well enough to easily pay for her traffic which comes from ads.

To create her free offer and her upsell, she started with some premium PLR and then changed it to her own voice so that it’s unique to her and something she’s happy to offer her visitors.

Okay, so far that’s a traditional funnel, but here’s the twist: Ginna created a second sales page with a video that tells her visitors how well her funnel is performing. She mentions the front-end freebie opt-ins, the number of sales on her upsell offer, sales that are coming in from emailing her growing list and so forth.

She really sells the benefits of how well her funnel is working. Of course, the first week she did this her video was a little different, in that she talked about the potential benefits because she didn’t have numbers yet. But by week 3 she had her permanent video up with stats.

She shows this video sales page to everyone who opts into her funnel, and then she offers them full white label rights to the entire thing for $99. The white label rights have the condition that it cannot be resold but only used.

At $99, 11 sales a month equals a $1,000 income. Her first month she did in fact make 11 sales, but this second month after a little bit of tweaking and increasing her traffic she is on track to triple that amount.

Remember that these customers who are buying the rights have already been through the funnel themselves, so they have already seen how effective it is. Gina lets them know that buying the white label rights is a great way for a newbie like themselves to get started building their own list.

If you try this yourself then keep mind you can charge whatever you like or whatever the market will bear. I might recommend increasing the price or even offering a payment plan, such as $97 for three months.

You might be wondering about saturation and that’s a good point. But the fact is, 95% of people who buy an offer like this never use it. That’s not something I’m happy about, but it is a fact.

And if you do indeed see a bunch of your funnels popping up, you can simply revise your funnel to look different. In fact, you might want to update it every so often anyway, to give it a fresh look and test it to see if you can’t continually increase your conversions.

This is a great way to get started in the online marketing niche. You’re building a list for no cost and making money besides.

And remember that these folks opt into your funnel before they see the white label offer, so they end up being their own testimonial or social proof that it works, making easy sales of the rights for you.

Creating Shareable Content

Creating Shareable Content

We’ve talked a little about creating content people will want to share. How do you do that? It’s such an important part of staying fresh and relevant in today’s search engines and on social media. You have to make sure you consistently have great content that people feel intrinsically motivated to share.

The first thing to note is that if you are trying to get a stale dinosaur of a website to rank, you’re going to have a difficult time. If you haven’t added any content to your website for years, it’s time to freshen things up. You should be posting on your website or blog consistently. You shouldn’t just be posting any old content, you should be posting content that’s going to shake things up a bit and help your site get noticed.

We are going to talk a lot about writing great content when we get to the section on blogging. Note that most content-related discussions relate to blogs and static websites. There are some great things you can do to light a fire in your blog content so it spreads like crazy all over the web.

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From $1 a Day to $100,000 a Month

I knew a guy who started one business after another only to have them fail. This guy wasn’t stupid, either. In fact, he was probably smarter than 95% of people, but there was one thing he had all wrong: His mindset.

While he had several flaws in his thinking – none of which I dared point out because of his hot temper – his most devastating problem was his expectation that a brand new fledgling business should be earning him 6 or 7 figures within the first couple of months.

This guy would do everything right, start a business with a real product targeted to a niche that wanted it and still fail because he would give up and pack it all in at the first obstacle.

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Writing What You Want, Following Trends, and Lasting Forever

What About Writing What You Want?

Sometimes, you just want to write what you want to write without worrying about its salability and doing a lot of research. Maybe you have a particular business objective in mind or you have a story or topic that’s been nagging at you.

Of course, one of the great things about Amazon is that you can write whatever you want to write (so long as it doesn’t violate their rules). And that’s just fine. But when you can, try to combine what’s selling with your great idea. You may as well make money for your hard work.

If you have an idea in mind already, try to find a sellable angle. This will help you connect with an audience that’s ready to buy books.

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