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Spanish Gold Rush Blog

2009-12-11T16:18:00.005-05:00

Check out the latest information on the Spanish Gold Rush blog and submit your comments and replies. We want to hear what you think and what you want help with in Spanish marketing.

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Make Money with Spanish Marketing

2009-11-12T13:22:00.002-05:00

Spanish is the second most spoken language on the planet. Over 330 million people speak Spanish and with over 130 million Spanish speaking people using the internet... it is the third largest group language based internet users worldwide. Only English and Chinese is larger.

With numbers as big as these you would think that marketers are aggressively trying to attract online consumers in the Spanish speaking markets. However, the opposite is quite often the case. When doing market research on the internet it becomes abundantly clear that niche markets are wide open in Hispanic markets.

Often times pay per click can be pennies in the Hispanic marketplace compared to the same categories in English.

There is a product available for purchase online that teaches you how to enter the Spanish speaking marketplace and make money with Spanish marketing.

Social Media: Make Money Without Pissing People Off

2009-07-16T23:39:00.004-05:00

Social media is one of the most powerful marketing tools of our lifetime. When used properly you can build huge lists, make more money, and build a profitable business… and you can do it quickly!

The biggest benefit to social media is that you can use it FREE!

Check out the social media money making system

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube! These are all part of the social media network and the list goes on and on.

Perry Belcher is a social media expert that has exploded his internet marketing business and consistently makes tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars each month with social media.

He has a new free report that he just released that is a social media money system and it teaches you “3 Big Ways To Monetize Social Media without Pissing People Off!”

Making Money Through Couch Surfing

2009-02-23T14:32:00.004-05:00

How do you use couch surfing to make more money?

I met a person this weekend at a seminar that has been traveling the country and crashing on strangers couches, while he finds himself in new places, meeting new people, and having exciting adventures.

Ori, from CouchSurfingOri.com, has been bouncing from couch to couch, meeting new people, developing relationships and friendships, and finding all types of adventure since 2007.

He describes himself as a workaholic who needed some adventure in his life. He also describes himself as funny, interesting, and a little bit weird.

I found him to be quite accurate in his self descriptions. Ori by far was one of the most interesting and entertaining individuals at the 400 person seminar. He seems to have a genuine interest in people and had some great stories to share about his couch surfing.

He thinks he has couched surfed with more than 100 people, but stopped keeping track around couch number 60.

He has crashed on the couch of cage fighters, roller derby players, models, successful business owners, and CEOs.

Ori also uses his high level skills as a talented photographer and videographer to capture and record his adventures.

If Ori couch surfs with you, you can be sure that he will leave you with some amazing photos!

So, How Do You Make More Money Couch Surfing?

Besides the fact that Ori accepts "gas money" contributions at his website, there is a bigger lesson here.

This lesson is about networking and building relationships with prospects, customers, and business owners.

Ori is developing some powerful relationships which have already opened up opportunities for him in the business world. When he meets people he isn't looking for "what they can do for him."

He has a sincere and genuine interest in people and relationships. Some of these relationships will open up doors for him. Some BIG names in internet marketing have already offered to lend support, offer free masterminding, and connect him with other people.

Couch surfing may be an unconventional method of networking, but it is working for my new friend.

Tony Hsieh, CEO of the billion dollar company Zappos.com, agreed to let him couch surf at his home when Ori makes it to Las Vegas!

Ori is building relationships, expanding his comfort zone, and having some fun. I commend him on his courage to go outside the box and do something that 99.99% of other people would be too scared to do.

These are ESSENTIAL skills that entrepreneurs need to develop to reach new levels of success, and Ori is doing a great job with all of them.

I HIGHLY recommend that you follow his adventures.

You can follow him on Twitter for daily updates of where he is and who he is with at:
http://twitter.com/couchsurfingori

You can also help him out by donating a tank of gas at http://www.couchsurfingori.com/donate.

He evens throws in a FREE 2 hour massage (when he arrives in your town) for every 20 tanks of gas that you donate! The two hour massage will only cost you $1,000, but you'll also have a chance to meet and hang out with Ori and learn all about his adventures!

Not a bad deal.

3 Easy Ways To Increase Revenues For Any Business

2009-01-09T20:29:00.002-05:00

When choosing a product or service to sell on the internet you'll need a basic understanding of marketing. It doesn't matter how great your product is or how great you think it is. If you don't know how to market your product/service, then you can't sell it.

Most entrepreneurs make the mistake of believing that they are in the same industry as the product or service that they sell. A woman that owns a dry cleaner usually thinks she is in the dry cleaning business. A woman that owns a restaurant usually believes she is in the restaurant business. A man that repairs shoes may think he is in the shoe business.

Nothing could be further from the truth. If you own a business, then you are in the marketing business. It is your job to get people to buy your product. It is your job to raise awareness of your product. It is your job to bring in new customers and get those customers coming back to buy from you again.

This, my friend, makes you a marketer and puts you in the marketing business. A business owner that continues to believe that they are in the business of dry cleaning, restaurants, shoe repair, or whatever product/service they sell will never achieve their maximum potential. Your business will skyrocket when you truly believe that you are in the marketing business because then you will learn how to get more customers that spend more money with you and buy from you more often.

There are only three ways to increase revenues in any business.

1. Get more customers.

2. Get customers to spend more money per transaction.

3. Get customers to buy from you more frequently.

It doesn't matter what business you own, these are the only 3 ways to generate higher revenue. All three of these can be accomplished when you understand good marketing and take it upon your shoulders to achieve them.

The interesting part is that a small increase in each of these areas can bring explosive growth to your company's revenue.

Let's give a very simplified example:

Assume that your business has 1000 customers in a year that spend an average of $50 per transaction, and average 3 purchases per year.

These 1000 customers equate to $150,000 in revenue to your business.

1000 customers X $50 per transaction X 3 purchases per year = $150,000.

Now let's see what happens when all areas achieve a 10% increase.

1100 customers X $55 per transaction x 3.3 purchases per year.

This 10% increase across the three areas of the equation would result in $199,650 in revenue to your business.

This is a $49,650 increase in your revenues!

This overly simplified example doesn't account for the long term growth as these customers purchase from you year after year!

This is exactly why it is vitally important to understand marketing and how to achieve incremental increases across these categories in your business.

This is how marketers think. You need to think like a marketer because that is exactly what you are my friend. When you understand this concept, then your daily activities can be geared at doing the things that increase your customer base, increase transaction sizes, and increase frequency of purchases.

These are the ONLY three ways to increase revenues.

Niche Marketing: 6 Steps To Make Money Online

2009-01-09T20:27:00.000-05:00

There are many ways to make money online. I do use several strategies to generate income for myself; however, my single biggest profit center is selling my own products. Selling your own products is where the money is waiting for you.

The best way to do this is to find a niche market and sell an information product.

Here are 6 simple steps to niche marketing:

Step # 1 PRODUCT CREATION: Researching and creating multiple products in multiple niche markets and offering those products for sale on unique websites.

There are many ways to make money online. I do use several strategies to generate income for myself; however, my single biggest profit center is selling my own products. Selling your own products is where the money is waiting for you.

When it comes to selling your own product, you can sell a digital product which is downloaded from your website after the customer pays you for it or you can sell a physical product that needs to be shipped to them. I sell both and you should start with what you are comfortable selling. I started with digital products because it is simple to do.

Some of the benefits of selling a digital product are that you have no shipping because it's immediately delivered to the customer via download; you have no inventory, and you have no product cost after the product has been developed.

Step # 2 COPYWRITING: Writing a KILLER sales letter that becomes your 24/7 salesman on your website (money site).

Your product is sold by the words that prospects read on the screen when they arrive at your site. So after developing a product, the second step is to put a sales letter on your website that becomes your 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year salesperson.

The sales letter has only one job. Sell your product! I have found that many people shy away from writing sales letters or they do it completely wrong.

The truth is that it's really not that hard once you understand the psychology behind it and learn a few proven formulas. Yes it will take some practice, but once you get more comfortable and get your style polished, then you'll be able to whip them off over and over again.

Step # 3 GENERATING TRAFFIC: Once you have a sales letter on your website, then you need to send traffic it.

There are many ways to get traffic, but I think the easiest and quickest way is to pay for it. For example you can buy pay per click, banners ads, or ads in online newsletters. These are only a few of the many ways that you can buy traffic.

I've found that the next quickest and easiest way to get traffic is to start an affiliate program. An affiliate program is similar to having a sales force working for you without the headaches of hiring or managing people. As individuals (or businesses) sign up as an affiliate with your program, then they get special links that they use to send prospects to your website.

Step # 4 CAPTURING SALES: The fourth step involves the proper tools that allow you to accept credit cards and process a sale. You'll need a merchant account or an account with PayPal or Clickbank (Clickbank is only for digital products).

1Shoppingcart is also a very powerful tool that allows you to automate your sales process and your customer follow up.

Step # 5 INCREASING VISITOR VALUE: Increase the value of the customer by up-selling, cross-selling, and offering backend products and revenue generating sources.

There are ONLY three ways to increase revenue in any business. The three ways to increase your revenues are:

1. Increase your number of customers

2. Increase the average transaction size

3. Increase the frequency your customers buy from you

The easiest of these three strategies is increasing the transaction size (number two above) and the second easiest strategy is increasing the number of times a customer buys from you (number three above).

Step # 6 DUPLICATING YOUR EFFORTS: Once you have your first product selling from a website, then duplicate your efforts and begin your next project. One site is good, but two is better.

As you make profits from one website, then you can direct your efforts to your next project and start over following steps one through six again.

Go Wide Into Niche Markets For Multiple Streams Of Income

I have many websites that make $200 to $600 per month. I have less websites that make thousands of dollars per month or even tens of thousands per month. The secret, however, is to go wide into many niche markets.

Introduction to Lazy Ass Internet Marketing

2009-01-08T02:39:00.003-05:00

Ryan Ringold speaks at The Underground Training Lab Seminar held in Detroit, Michigan.

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Selling Products Online

2009-01-08T02:30:00.002-05:00

This video clip is from Jeff Johnson's Underground Training Lab Seminar in Detroit, Michigan. Ryan talks about selling your own products online.

Ryan Ringold is a niche internet marketer who has generated more than $2.5 million on the internet by selling his own products and services.

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Discover The Truth About Ryan Ringold

2009-01-04T01:07:00.003-05:00

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PPC Tips: Keyword Bidding

2009-01-04T00:32:00.004-05:00

I make it no secret that I am a big fan of PPC traffic. I've always been able to use it as one of my marketing tools to generate big profits with my online marketing. However, I've met many individuals who have never been able to build profitable PPC campaigns for their business.

There are several possible reasons why PPC hasn't worked for these internet marketers. Let's assume that these people are smart marketers and understand how to use PPC effectively. This is a big assumption because I've seen plenty of individuals 'think' they know what they are doing, but really don't. It's a shame to see this happen. I don't like to see anybody wasting money on ineffective marketing strategies. Nothing can be more ineffective than doing it WRONG!

So, let's assume that they actually know what they are doing. In this case it is possible that the market they are in is too competitive for them to compete. This can be true if most of their competition consists of large corportations or big businesses. For example, if you are competing with corporate giants that sell $20,000 software programs to businesses and you sell a $69 info product, then it may be tough to fight them for good ad placement. They will be willing to pay much higher per click because of the profits they can make.

(FYI- Here is an interesting way that you can actually get your Google ads free.)

Another possibility is that these marketers are targeting keywords that are too general for their audience. This can happen easily and go unrecognized by the marketer. In this case, they may be able to create a profitable campaign by eliminating the keywords that are generating traffic but not converting to sales.

Pay per click can be a rough game for all marketers, especially newbies. Sometimes the only way to get a campaign profitable is by tweaking and fine tuning multiple variables. This costs money. There is no way around it and it can often knock a newbie out of the game before they ever get started.

On a side note:

If you are sick and tired of the PPC game and want a way to get FREE search listing traffic, then checkout the system by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly. It's called the Ultimate Search Engine Loophole and they use it to get free traffic in just about any market.

This system shows you how to get a ton of traffic from MSN. I've found over the years that traffic from MSN is some of the highest converting traffic that I get. It doesn't deliver the quanity of traffic that Google does, but the quality seems to be better from my tests.

Google Launches SearchWiki: Make Your Search Your Own

2008-11-21T01:37:00.003-05:00

Google does it again!

Google has launched a SearchWiki which allows users to customize their search results. You can remove, comment, or promote the results that are displayed on Google search.

Do you like the listings that are displayed? Promote it.

Don't like a listing? Remove it.

This is the latest in Google's mission to mold users' search experiences... trying to make each experience a great one.

If you are not clear that Google is focusing on user experience, then this is yet another clue for you.

Your long term strategy for building your business on the internet should take into account Google's mission.

Google reports, "today we're launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong."

Get more information on SearchWiki here.

Google Search Based Keyword Tool

2008-11-20T10:36:00.003-05:00

Google has released a new keyword tool to help webmasters target more keywords with Google Adwords campaigns.

This free tool adds to the arsenal of weapons that Google freely distributes to website owners to help them get more targeted traffic.

How Does It Work?

Here is what Google has to say about their search based keyword tool:

"Based on your URLs, the Search-based Keyword Tool displays a list of relevant user queries that have occurred on Google.com (and on other Google search properties, such as google.co.uk) with some frequency over the past year; these suggestions can be found under the Keywords tab, in the New keywords related to (site) section. In the Keywords related to your search section, you can see a broad list of keyword ideas that are also relevant, but aren't necessarily based on your site"

How Does This Tool Differ From Other Google Keyword Tools?

Here is what Google says about how this new search based keyword tool differs from their other keyword tool:

"The main difference between the Search-based Keyword Tool and the Keyword Tool currently in AdWords is that the former generates keyword ideas based on your website, and identifies those currently not being used in your AdWords account. Additionally, the Search-based Keyword Tool provides more detailed data for each keyword, such as category information, suggested bid that may place the ad in the top three spots of a search results page, and ad/search share. Both tools, however, offer the option of browsing all keywords across all categories."

This tool makes a nice addition to put in your arsenal of keyword weapons and I recommend that you add it today!

Happy keyword hunting!

Google's SEO Starter Guide

2008-11-16T03:30:00.003-05:00

Google has recently released a document showing how to optimize your website. Google is actually handing you a free SEO guide that can assist you with getting better website rankings in their search engine.

This has raised questions around the internet in the blogging world and with webmasters. People are asking why Google is teaching you SEO.

I have an answer.

Google is a publicly traded company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. This basically means that Google has a legal obligation to make shareholders more money.

So, how does Google make more money for their shareholders?

The most obvious answer is to increase revenues and profits from paid advertising. One way to do this is to make sure that internet users find highly relevant information when they use Google's search engine.

If users find what they are searching for, then users will return to Google and use them again. So the long-term game plan for Google should be to focus on user experience. If they can create and maintain an excellent user experience, then more users will increase their average frequency using Google search.

If there are more search customers, searching on Google more often, then there are more people clicking on Google's paid advertising and Google is making more money. Now, I'm sure there are plenty of other ways that Google plans to monetize traffic on their search engine in the future, but today they make their profits on paid advertising.

Google wants your website to be easy to navigate and well organized. They want you to have titles and descriptions for users to determine if your site is relevant to their search query.

Google wants your website to deliver a great experience and they are willing to help you do that with their free SEO guide.

Ryan Ringold Shows You How To Make Money From Home

2008-10-31T00:41:00.002-05:00

Ryan Ringold, the self-proclaimed "lazy ass internet marketer" talks about setting up an internet business on autopilot.

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Ryan Ringold is an internet marketer who has sold over $2.5 million of products or services online, while working from home in his underwear. He believes in putting systems in place so that his internet business runs on autopilot.

Registering A Domain Name at GoDaddy.com

2008-10-23T11:12:00.003-05:00

How To Register A Domain Name

I normally don't discuss things this basic, but I have been seeing so many want-to-be entrepreneurs that get stuck with some of the most basic steps and keep themselves from taking steps forward.

If you want to make money online and if you want to own your own website, then you'll need to register a domain name. A domain name is the name of your website. You can do this for around $10 per year. This is NOT hosting. Domain name registration just gives you a name of a website. That's it.

So how do you register a domain name? It is very, very simple. However, many people will get confused because companies will try to upsell you fifty other services or options. Right now all you need is to register a domain name.

Keep it simple. Spend the $10 and get a domain name registered for one year.

This video walks you through the steps at GoDaddy.com:

"They All Laughed When I Said That I Could Make $2,347,443 Online, Working From Home... Until They Saw My Bank Statements!"

How To Build an Opt-In List, part 1 of 2

2008-10-13T22:49:00.003-05:00

This video explains how to build an opt-in list for your internet marketing business. All marketers understand that the list is worth it's numbers in gold. The bigger the list and the more responsive it is, then the more profits your business will make. This video is part 1 of a 2 part video series.

Watch part 2 by clicking here ==> how to build an opt-in list

3 Quick and Easy Ways on How To Build a Opt-In List, part 2 of 2

2008-10-13T22:42:00.005-05:00

When it comes to making money online, you've probably heard that the money is in the list. These words are very true and a good list can bring you fat profits for years to come. The trick is learn how to build your list and this video will show you 3 quick and powerful ways to build it quickly.

Watch part 1 of this video at: how to build an opt-in list

4 Reasons To Start A Home Based Internet Business Today!

2008-09-30T00:11:00.004-05:00

The internet is an exciting, fast moving, and ever changing marketing medium for building value and delivering content to customers. It has come a long way since its humble beginnings, yet it is still in its infancy and it will be used in the future in ways many of us haven not even considered.

Desire

Nowadays, anyone with a strong desire and a will to succeed has an opportunity to capture a small percentage of the billions of dollars being spent online. Affordable marketing tools make it easier to accept sales, track statistics, create websites, follow up with customers, ship products, and build customer loyalty.

Million dollar businesses are being started, built up, and operated from the comfort of one's home regardless of age or prior experience levels.

The internet makes it possible for just about anybody to become successful, and the objective of this book is to deliver information that you can use to achieve success.

Right place at right time

Have you ever wished that you could be at the right place at the right time? Most of us have thought about it at one time or another.

Perhaps you have wished that you could go back in time and buy stock in Microsoft or Google when they started. What if you had the foresight to purchase hundreds of website domain names before the internet became popular like Nike.com, Coke.com, IBM.com, McDonalds.com, or GM.com. You could have sold these names for millions of dollars. Some people made plenty of money doing this.

FACT: You are at a very special time in history... right here, right now.

The internet is just getting started and it is in its infancy. The internet has already changed the world. It has changed the way business does business, and it has changed how consumers buy and spend their money. The internet has allowed ordinary people to start extraordinary businesses. It has given people an opportunity to make incredible profits, even from the comfort of their own homes.

Modern Day Gold Rush

Today, opportunities available to home-based business operators can be equated to a modern day Gold Rush.

The prices of computers continue to drop rapidly, while with each new generation of microprocessor chips, their technological capabilities have dramatically improved. Therefore, the equipment needed to operate an online business is minimal-- far more affordable than ever before to get started. In fact, you can launch an online business with little more than a PC with a basic internet connection, and an idea for a product or service to sell.

Faster dial up connection speeds, DSL, and broadband Internet connections allow users to surf the web faster than ever. Audio and video are exploding online with these faster speeds, giving users new multimedia experiences.

People from all walks of life and of all ages are becoming computer literate and finding themselves exploring the Internet on their own. People from almost all income levels are finding their way into cyberspace in records numbers, with thousands of new people making their way online every week.

Most of these people, just like you are consumers with major credit cards, checking accounts, and a PayPal account for making online purchases with their computer.

The Internet's fast-growing popularity has made it an attractive and viable marketing tool for companies looking to reach a broad audience of computer users, plus niche markets made up of people with very specific interests, wants, and needs.

The good news is that it hasn't even scratched the surface.

The Explosion of Online Sales

Online shoppers in the United States spent only $7.7 billion in 1998. By the year 2000 that figured almost quadrupled to $28 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Since then online retail purchases more than quadrupled again by jumping to over $130 billion in 2007.

In 1999 online purchases made up only .6% of all retail purchases in the US. Today, 3.4% of all retail sales are made on the internet. This is a 567% increase in 8.

Let's put these explosive numbers in perspective: If you owned a home in 1999 that was worth $150,000, then in 2007 it would have been worth $850,500 if it increased by 567%. It would have increased by $700,000 in just 8 years!

Imagine if the price of a $30,000 car increased by 567% over 8 years, then it would sell for $170,100. Could you imagine having to pay another $140,000 for that same car 8 years later?

Consumer spending on the internet is exploding and there is no end in sight. Skeptics claim that shoppers will slow down because of identity theft and credit card fraud.

I say no way.

The numbers prove it.

Online security is increasing. Consumers are more educated with the risks online, and how to avoid falling prey to internet scams.

These numbers will continue to climb with more consumers getting online daily. Online purchases also climb as consumers become more comfortable purchasing online; which results in more frequent transactions from customers and higher dollar volumes spent through internet purchases.

Is it too late for you to get started on the internet with an online, home-based business?

I believe there is no better time. What are you waiting for?

Discover How To Build Your Own Online Internet Business!

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Making Money Online In 6 Easy Steps

2008-09-30T00:05:00.000-05:00

Google Knol Unleashed- Wikipedias New Competition

2008-07-25T20:20:00.002-05:00

Google publicly launched Knol--(their term for a unit of knowledge) on Wednesday. It's Google's answer to Wikipedia and allows authors to publish content and articles about their area of expertise or interest.

Unlike Wikipedia though, you can set your knols to prevent users from adding, revising, and making changes to your knols. After creating a few knols today, it seems to be more like a Squidoo or Hubpages than Wikipedia.

It will be interesting to see if Google gives any extra weight in the search engine listings to their Knol pages over Wikipedia pages. Of course, Google says that they won't, but with Google placing their ads on Knol pages it seems it might be in their interest to display their pages above their competition.

This is going to be a huge opportunity for online marketers to create knols in their area of expertise that can help brand them as experts, introduce their services, and drive traffic to their websites.

One caution of warning! If you are a marketer that is looking at Google's Knol as an opportunity to drive traffic to your site, then use best practices and do not be spammy.

Ezine Marketing - An Introduction

2008-07-14T13:11:00.004-05:00

Introduction To Ezine Marketing

by Ryan Ringold
Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

Ezine Newsletters are one of the fastest and most effective ways of delivering relevant information to your audience. A good ezine will have many benefits for the publisher. It can target its audience, learn its preferences, and provide subscribers with what they need. An ezine can be a free (or low cost) method of increasing your revenues, and helping you reach the right customers for your products. You can use your ezine to establish your credibility, and earn free publicity. Besides, you can also sell advertising space in your Ezine and earn additional profits.

An Ezine offers what everyone needs – free useful information! You have the liberty of writing and publishing anything under the sun, anything that you feel passionate about, anything that you firmly believe in. You not only get others to listen to you, you also get them to click on the ads published within your Ezine and earn a part of your advertisers’ profit in return.

There are innumerable benefits of starting your own Ezine. You can increase your business to multifold proportions if you utilize your options effectively. One major advantage is that you communicate directly with your potential customers without the help of any mediator. This makes it easier for you to enhance your subscriber base. A large subscriber base implies that your publication and advertisements will reach more customers. This also means that you can increase your sales with the click of a button.

A few other benefits

An Ezine is more widely read and easily accessible compared to a web page. Sometimes, web page navigation, if not well designed, can become monotonous. Plus, the convenience of having an Ezine delivered straight in subscribers’ inbox, which they can read whenever they want to, is a one-up for Ezines. Besides, you don’t need to beat around the bush when you want your readers to get your point. You can convey your message directly and go straight to the point without going through any clutter.

The key to improving your subscriber base is great content. The number of active readers would multiply if you deliver quality content. You have to establish your reputation in the minds of your readers and prove incessantly that you know what you are writing about. The more credible your content, the easier it would be for your readers to appreciate your work.

Ezines, like I said earlier are great marketing tools for other products. However, to be successful at it, you need to carefully plan each of your strategies. First, you should do some research and find out what should be your target clientele. Once that is done, you need to find information like names and email addresses of targeted readers and feed it in to your Ezine database. All you have to do is simply write a few interesting and effective articles about the product. For example, if your product is a vacuum cleaner, search for customers interested in this and write articles that will arrest their attention.

You can write about ‘effective cleaning techniques’, ‘why vacuum cleaners are the best and most efficient cleaning gadget’, ‘what are the newest gadgets available in the market’ and so on. Your readers would surely appreciate interesting, unique as well as useful information; and, just when you know that you have convinced your clients to invest in a new vacuum cleaner, you can place your ad for the vacuum cleaner strategically in your Ezine.

Through effective Ezine marketing techniques you can achieve phenomenal increase in sales. You can not only minimize your total cost but also earn huge return on investments through Ezine publishing. Compare it with other ways of advertising and you will realize how easy it is to save money when you employ these tactics. If you use postal mail to send flyers, information brochures, etc. to your potential customers, your message might not reach the right person and besides, it can cost you a lot of money.

Discover How To Own Your Own Profitable Ezine

e-Books Marketing

2008-06-17T19:49:00.002-05:00

How To Sell e-Books For A Profit

Written by: Ryan Ringold

Choose A Niche Market

Many marketers make the mistake of diversifying too much in order to target all kinds of audiences. Focus in on a niche market and build your product line in that niche market. Not only do you build your credibility in your niche, but you can sell multiple products to interested customers. This allows you to create more profits by offering multiple products to less people. In addition, any complimentary products should be associated with your e-Books. Do not sell a mixture of unrelated products. Nothing discredits you more quickly than when you cross-sell products that are not related to each other.

Think Long Term

Do not expect to make riches overnight. e-Books like any other legitimate product require a persistent marketing effort. It may take days before you sell your first e-Book. A sizable number of prospects won't respond to marketing communications the first time, for various reasons. But presenting the message repeatedly - perhaps a second, third, fourth, fifth time, or more - will increase your conversion percentages.

Stay Current

There is no use selling products that have outdated content. Information has to be constantly updated. Updating can inject new life into an e-Book, and its newness can be used as a 'hook' to gain valuable free publicity. Besides, focus on subjects that are new and interesting. Age old topics would not attract many customers.

Do Not Sell On Price

You may think that pricing an e-Book low would bring in more sales. Many times the opposite is true because it can be perceived as too cheap. When a product is perceived as too cheap, then it loses it's value. Customers feel like it must not have good content. Educated buyers feel that you get what you pay for. If you price your e-Book very low compared to your competitor, a prospective customer might think that the e-Book is not of good quality. Price your book competitively. In addition, increased prices can equal increased profits.

Test Your Product

Testing frequently is crucial for succeeding in the e-Book business. You do not want a situation where you have invested too much time, money and effort into your product only to find out that the topic of your product is outdated. The only way of avoiding this is to start with a simple product and gather frequent feedback from your customers. This way you would find mistakes and areas for improvement until you have a proven seller.

Test Your Marketing Campaign

Like the product itself, your marketing campaign also needs to be tested frequently. You need to be extra cautious with the way you use your limited capital. You can lose a lot of money quickly, if not careful. Testing your marketing campaign would help you to figure out which strategies work well and which do not. This will certainly maximize your ROI.

Make Money On The Internet: Myths vs. Reality

2008-04-06T22:39:00.002-05:00

How To Make Money On The Internet:
Myth vs. Reality

Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

All too often I hear reasons to why someone thinks that they can’t build their own business. I hear reasons to why they feel that their dreams are not attainable. These “reasons” are really “excuses”. In business and in life you can’t have both success and make excuses at the same time. You must choose one or the other.

Most of the time excuses are based on myths. When you discover that these excuses are myths and not reality, then it makes it easier to move forward with confidence.

Here are some of the most common myths about building a home-based internet business:

Myth # 1: Web design is too hard and I don’t know how to build a website.

Reality: Building a website has never been easier. Most hosting companies have templates that allow anybody who can type to build a website. In addition, there is software that makes building a website as easy as using a word processor. I recommend that you learn basic web design skills so that you have an understanding of how it works. However, you can also outsource this to a professional or hire a high school or college student to do it for you. Depending on the complexity of your website, a professional shouldn’t charge you more than $500. I’ve had complete sites built for as little as $200. This may be even cheaper if you find a local student willing to make a few extra bucks.

Myth #2: I’d like to sell an information product, but I’m not qualified to write a book or make a product. Only experts are qualified for this.

Reality: Firstly, you may be an expert in something already and not realize it. You may know more about raising children, training dogs, stamp collecting, coaching, teaching, knitting, carpentry, or [fill in any subject] than most people. Secondly, it isn’t difficult to become an expert if you are not one already. If you know just a fraction more than the next person, then you can be perceived as an expert. In addition, you don’t need the “expert fairy” to come along and waive a magic wand declaring you as an expert. You do not need anyone’s permission to become an authority in a subject matter. Go to the library and read 10 books on any subject and you will become an authority compared to everyone else. If you don’t want to become an expert, then borrow the expertise of someone else. Build a partnership with an expert. Interview experts and consolidate all the information into a book.

Myth #3: I don’t have time.

Reality: You don’t have time NOT to find time. You have the same 24 hours per day as the rest of the population. This life is not a trial run. This life is the real thing. If you want to own your own business, then you can’t afford not to schedule the time. I understand that you are busy. Everyone is busy. Make the time to do something each day or each week—even if you schedule only 20 minutes per day or one hour per week. A lack of time is an excuse. Put time in today in order to have more free time in the future... make it happen.

Myth #4: I don’t know/understand software, shopping carts, credit cards, accounting, legalities, or [any other excuse] of starting a business.

Reality: C’mon... are you really going to let a weak excuse like this stop you from pursuing your dream? Go to the library and get an understanding. Find a friend who is an attorney and ask them. Find a friend that has their own business and ask them. Get the information you need so that you feel comfortable.

Myth #5: It’s too late in the game, or there is too much competition.

Reality: The internet is still in its infancy. More people are getting online ever single day. Consumers are spending more and more money online every year. The marketplace can handle competitors. Do you think Burger King refuses to put up a restaurant because McDonalds was on the corner first? Did Bill Gates refuse to start Microsoft because IBM and Apple computers existed? Yes, you may see competitors in the marketplace, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed. It doesn’t mean that you can’t become bigger and better than companies that already exist. There is usually more than one dry cleaner in a neighborhood. There is usually more than one restaurant in any given area. There is often more than one car dealership on the same street. There will always be competition... get over it.

Myth #6: I need to find the one magic bullet, or that one piece of information that will give me all the answers to success.

Reality: We discussed this earlier. There is NO magic bullet. Gain some knowledge and then try. Gain more knowledge and then try some more. Don’t be afraid to fail your way forward. Just take some action and get started! You will have to go through a learning curve to achieve your desired success. It will take work, dedication, and commitment. You must commit to gaining the knowledge and put that knowledge into action. You have all the power to make your dreams reality—there is no magic bullet.

Myth #7: I need a new or original idea.

Reality: While it would be great if you found a brand new idea that has never been done before, it isn’t how most people achieve success. My experience tells me that most success is found by modeling an existing idea. Much success is reached by becoming a direct competitor of an existing idea or product that is already successful. Don’t waste your time trying to reinvent the wheel. Look for something that works and make it better or add to it. It is much easier to see what is already working and follow the path of least resistance.

Myth #8: I need the perfect product and it will sell itself.

Reality: Nothing sells itself. Good marketing and advertising sells things. If you spend all your time trying to think of the perfect product, then you might never get started. Everything has its flaws. Find out what people want to buy and sell it to them.

The sooner you believe that these “excuses” are only myths and not realities, the sooner you can get out of the way of yourself and begin building a successful business.

Remember... you cannot make excuses and have success at the same time. You need to choose one or the other.

What do you choose?

Starting A Home Based Business

2008-03-13T21:36:00.002-05:00

How To Start Your Own Home-Based Business: Discover Your "Why" or Die

Before you begin any business venture, it’s important for you to decide the reason “why” you want to do this. I call this your “big fat why”. If your why doesn’t make you cry, then it’s not big enough. You need to know your why and concentrate on your why so that when things get tough (and they will), you’ll stay focused and driven so that you keep on going.

The internet is your opportunity... right here, right now... to build a successful home-based business. Never before in history has it been easier for someone to start their own business.

Without a big fat why you are likely to quit when things go wrong or don’t meet your expectations.

So, I ask you... what is your big fat why?

Maybe your reason is to make some extra income. Maybe you want to fire your boss, or wake up in the mornings when you are done sleeping and not to the annoying ringing of an alarm clock.

Perhaps you are looking to build a nest egg for retirement, become financially independent, buy a dream house, help out your aging parents, give your children a better education, donate to charities, or be your own boss.

Whatever your reason is... it’s YOURS. Write it down in a journal and read it at least twice per day. Write it down on 3 x 5 cards and tape them to your mirror, computer, and refrigerator. These will be your daily reminders to give you the winning edge and proper attitude when building your home-based online business.

You are the only person that can knock yourself out of the box of this incredible opportunity and you need to be mentally prepared when you hit obstacles in the road ahead of you.

Develop a Winning Attitude

2008-03-13T21:33:00.000-05:00

It doesn’t matter whether you’re just beginning, or you’ve already achieved some success online, attitude is everything.

If you believe you can be successful, then you can achieve success with the proper steps. Napoleon Hill said, “Whatever a mind can perceive and believe... it can achieve”.

A winning attitude in business starts with recognizing that others have already done what you are setting out to do—make money online with a home-based business. Coming into line with the obvious fact that it is not impossible is a great help. Yet all too often we look at a challenge as if no one had ever been able to do it and make it seem way bigger and more difficult in our mind.

As silly as that sound look at the way people approach an obstacle that plenty of people have already overcome. It seems extra difficult for the person currently facing it. They really act as if it just can't be done. You can hear it in the way they talk about it. They can't see the possibility of themselves doing it. They know full-well that others have done it, yet for them it just somehow seems not possible.

As Mark Twain said it, “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one”.

Develop a winning attitude and have a positive outlook with a cheerful expectation that this will work for you. Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you’re right!

Your mental attitude will make or break you. I challenge to develop a winning attitude not only with your business venture, but also in all areas of your life.

Internet Marketing: A Modern Day Goldrush

2008-03-07T16:27:00.002-05:00

Article by: Ryan Ringold
Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

The internet is an exciting, fast moving, and ever changing marketing medium for building value and delivering content to customers. It has come a long way since its humble beginnings, yet it’s still in its infancy and it will be used in the future in ways many of us haven’t even considered.

Nowadays, anyone with a strong desire and a will to succeed has an opportunity to capture a small percentage of the billions of dollars being spent online. Affordable marketing tools make it easier to accept sales, track statistics, create websites, follow up with customers, ship products, and build customer loyalty.

Million dollar businesses are being started, built up, and operated from the comfort of one’s home regardless of age or prior experience levels.

The internet makes it possible for just about anybody to become successful, and the objective of this book is to deliver information that you can use to achieve success.

Right place at right time

Have you ever wished that you could be at the right place at the right time? Most of us have thought about it at one time or another.

Perhaps you’ve wished that you could go back in time and buy stock in Microsoft or Google when they started. What if you had the foresight to purchase hundreds of website domain names before the internet became popular like Nike.com, Coke.com, IBM.com, McDonalds.com, or GM.com. You could have sold these names for millions of dollars. Some people made plenty of money doing this.

FACT: You are at a very special time in history... right here, right now.

The internet is just getting started and it’s in its infancy. The internet has already changed the world. It has changed the way business does business, and it has changed how consumers buy and spend their money. The internet has allowed ordinary people to start extraordinary businesses. It has given people an opportunity to make incredible profits, even from the comfort of their own homes.
Modern Day Gold Rush

Today, opportunities available to home-based business operators can be equated to a modern day Gold Rush.

The prices of computers continue to drop rapidly, while with each new generation of microprocessor chips, their technological capabilities have dramatically improved. Therefore, the equipment needed to operate an online business is minimal—far more affordable than ever before to get started. In fact, you can launch an online business with little more than a PC with a basic internet connection, and an idea for a product or service to sell.

Faster dial up connection speeds, DSL, and broadband Internet connections allow users to surf the web faster than ever. Audio and video are exploding online with these faster speeds, giving users new multimedia experiences.

People from all walks of life and of all ages are becoming computer literate and finding themselves exploring the Internet on their own. People from almost all income levels are finding their way into cyberspace in records numbers, with thousands of new people making their way online every week.

Most of these people, just like you are consumers with major credit cards, checking accounts, and a PayPal account for making online purchases with their computer.

The Internet’s fast-growing popularity has made it an attractive and viable marketing tool for companies looking to reach a broad audience of computer users, plus niche markets made up of people with very specific interests, wants, and needs.

The good news is that it hasn’t even scratched the surface.

Buying Incoming Links

2007-12-07T15:53:00.000-05:00

Should I Buy Incoming Links?

Buying links to help better your website's search engine rankings has been around for a long time and has been used as a tool for website promotion.

Yes, there are legitimate companies like, www.text-link-ads.com, who pioneered link buying strategies years ago, however, until fairly recently link buying remained an underground strategy. It's popularity is now definitely reaching mainstream marketers as a powerful tool to promote websites.

It's important to understand that Google frowns upon link buying strategies and it may be this understanding that keeps paid links from exploding into a powerful economic force.

However, there are millions of dollars exchanging hands every month... including Fortune 500 companies... and with millions invested in companies that facilitate the commerce of links, it's tough to say that link selling has not gone mainstream.

Search engines are hostile towards paid links because they unnaturally affect their organic listings. Since paid links can tip the balance between the natural search rankings amongst competitive businesses, search engines have taken steps to combat the practice.

If you decide to purchase incoming links, then be aware that you may suffer repercussions from the engines like Yahoo and Google. These penalties may range from minimal to outright banning in the SERPs (search engine results pages).

It's true that search engines may have a difficult time identifying paid links, but it's not known to what extent. It's clear that Google has become proficient at identifying "irrelevant" links from sites that aren't relative and causing them to pass little or no PageRank, but to the extent that they can determine if a link is "paid" for is another story.

One must guess that the search giant is at a minimum manually graphing paid link networks, which will soon (if not already) devalue link sellers.

The immediate risk to a site owner comes from its competitors. Google encourages webmasters to actively report link buyers and makes it easy through their Webmaster Tools section.

In summary, if you decide to purchase links to help with your website promotion, then "buyer beware". Yes, you may increase your exposure by moving up in the SERPs, but I feel that this is a short term strategy at best. The party will come to an end... whether it's 6 months, or 2 years. Let's face it... Google is too big, too smart, and has too much money to sit back watch this continue to happen.

Lazy Ass Internet Marketer

2007-12-07T15:46:00.001-05:00

Who is the "Lazy Ass Internet Marketer"?

Ryan Ringold is a self proclaimed "lazy ass internet marketer" because he sets his internet business to run virtually on autopilot, making tens of thousands of dollars per month while working from home in his underwear.

The lazy ass internet marketer began earning a full time income on the internet in 2002 when he launched a success website called www.ultimatespeeches.com. Since the inception of that first website, Ryan Ringold has launched numerous successful internet based companies that will help him generate over $600,000 in sales this year alone.

He now teaches both beginners and experienced marketers make money using the internet.

For more information and to receive a FREE Report, visit: www.lazyassinternetmarketing.com

Internet Marketing-- How To Get Massive Traffic To Your Website

2007-11-30T18:37:00.000-05:00

How To Sell Free Information

2007-10-25T18:20:00.000-05:00

"How I Made $12,176.95 Last Month Selling FREE Information...

and How You Can Do It Too!"

No... my title is not a mistake. It really does say that I made money selling "free" information.

Actually, I've been doing it for a long time and the $12,176.95 that I refer to is only one of my products. I have several more. I tell you because I sell more than one piece of free information.

You may be asking, "But Ryan, how do you sell something that is free and who would pay for it"?

Great question!

Allow me to retort...

With the internet nowadays, you can find almost anything if you search for it long enough. You can also walk down to your public library and get as much information as you could possibly ever need and do it for free. Whether you want to learn how to buy real estate, learn computer programming, learn Spanish, or discover how to give a seminar... you can get it all for free.

However, there are people (including me) that sell this type of information every day over the internet. People pay me every single day for things that they could get for free and they are happy to do it.

Why would they buy it?

Because it saves people time. It offers instant gratification. It fills a need and provides a value. It offers pride of ownership. It fills their personal library. These are only a few reasons for someone to buy information that they could otherwise receive free.

I've been making money online since 2002. Many of those years I've made a nice income selling free information.

There is also information that you can sell that isn't necessarily free. For example, you may have personal knowledge that you've acquired through experience, or a precise formula for making something more successful that you've developed over time.

This information is unique because it's yours. Yes, much of the groundwork may be something that people can read about, but your unique experiences and specialized knowledge make this information special. When you have a unique or specialized knowledge of how something works, or a twist on an old idea... then this information can be very valuable if it fills a need.

If you want to start a business selling information, then start with your own knowledge. Everybody is good at something. Everybody knows things that others aren't familiar with.

What is your passion? What is your hobby?

Take this knowledge and organize it into a product or service that helps people solve a problem and you will have a making of your own business.

About the author:

Ryan Ringold is a self-proclaimed "Lazy Ass Internet Marketer" because he sets his internet business to run virtually on autopilot. Since 2002 his websites have generated over $1.5 million in sales while working from home in his underwear. For more information and a FREE Money Making Report, visit: http://www.lazyassinternetmarketing.com/

Create Products To Sell In a Flash

2007-08-16T16:30:00.000-05:00

How Create Products To Sell In a Flash

I've been getting a lot of emails lately asking me more specific questions about how to create products that you can sell from your own website.

Since 2002 I've created products in several niche markets.

I've been fortunate to have sold tens of thousands of digital products to customers worldwide since I began my online business.

A worldwide customer base is a huge benefit of having a website because it doesn't limit your pool of potential customers to your local neighborhood like a traditional business does.

The problem with creating products is that you need to have a system to research new ideas to determine if it will be worth your time and be a profitable business.

This problem is now finally solved.

If you want to make the really good money selling online, let me give you a secret . . .

Create your own product.

It is now possible to do this even if you:

1. Don't have expertise in a field

2. Aren't very good at writing

When you have your own product, you can launch your own associate program and have hundreds or potentially thousands of other resellers all promoting your producton their web site for you.

To date, you have probably not created your own information product because you feel you aren't an expert at anything. And you aren't good at writing.

Now, these obstacles no longer have to hold you back. There's a new product that shows you simple, proven ways to get around these obstacles and have your own product to sell in a flash.

It reveals a tested, proven, step-by-step system that has worked for a number of people.

I highly recommed you check it out right now.

To read more, go to:

Creat Products In a Flash

To your success,

Ryan Ringold,
"The Lazy Ass Marketer"

Product Creation For Niche Markets

2007-07-19T17:04:00.001-05:00

How To Find and Create Products To Sell In Niche Markets

by Ryan Ringold

You may have heard marketers talk about "niche" markets. In a nutshell, niche marketing is simply breaking markets into tightly targeted segments of potential customers. The truth of the matter is that almost every market is already a niche market, however, when we talk about niche marketing we narrow in our focus even more.

What do I mean when I say every market is already a niche market?

I mean that all prospects you target are already a smaller sample of a bigger population. Whether you sell to women, men, young, old, business owners, boaters, skaters, engineers, train enthusiasts, etc.... you are selling to a group of people interested in your product or service. However, when we say niche marketing... it tends to refer to lasering in on even a tighter segment of prospects and customers.

For example, if your product usually attracts extreme sport enthusiasts, then a "niche" market to go after might be skateboarders. If your product attracts women, then a niche market may be women that work in a hospital.

How To Find and Create Products

One tool that I use to brainstorm product creating is a free tool from Overture (now YahooSearch). This tool allows you to type in search phrases and keywords to find how often internet users are searching for them.

For example if you type in the word "dog training" this tool will tell you how often people are searching for dog training online. It also suggests more "niche" terms around dog training, like "dog behavior training" or "dog training school". The terms that are more niched may suggest that people searching for these terms are closer to a buying decision.

For example if you go to Google and type in the movie "wedding crashers" then you may be looking for a video clip, the cast members, dvd information, etc. It is very broad and general. However, if you type in "wedding crashers Toms River New Jersey AMC 20 Theater", then you may be looking for showtimes at the AMC 20 in Toms River, NJ. It is much more specific.

Knowing the specific terms that internet users are searching for is a HUGE advantage for several reasons. One advantage is that you can bid on those specific keywords with PPC search engines and the people that click on your ads may be closer to a buying decision.

You can play around with this with the FREE tool at: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Type in phrases, keywords, thoughts, ideas, your self interests...whatever... and see how often these terms are being searched for. Then you can go to Google.com or Yahoo.com and again type in the same keywords and see if other advertisers are paying for PPC ads.

If advertisers are paying for ads under those keywords, then there is a chance that they are making money with whatever they are selling.

This is a great way to research the market before you decide to sell a product. Use this to brainstorm, research, and develop your products and then go out and make money!

This is one simple way to develope and create products for niche markets.

If you currently have products and use PPC, then I recommend you check out a powerful way to get free pay per click at www.MyGoogleAds4Free.com

Adwords Ads Now Free?

2007-07-12T06:38:00.000-05:00

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to get your Google AdWords pay-per-clicks FREE!

A gentleman from New York discovered what he calls an “oversight” on the part of 99.9% of all marketers that allows him to get otherwise paid-for advertising at Google as well as all other search engines that allow sponsored ads.

And no, nothing about his “secret” is illegal – nor does it require that you know someone on the “inside” at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Overture and others.

Instead, the New Yorker boasts proudly “…this is something that I caught onto just before 2000 when there was so much search engine craze running around, and started doing small just to test things at first … but which I later expanded on after getting the hang of it.”

This same fellow went on to start and operate sixteen separate online companies selling everything from pet food, DVDs, children’s toys & games, books, software, and sold not only his own manufactured products but became an affiliate for other web businesses – all the while applying his mastermind secret.

Over the course of nearly eight years the New Englander confesses “I’ve actually gotten over $87 million in advertising that using my secret I never had to pay for … and the largest share of which was more recently in Google pay-per-clicks as well as other forms of pad advertising at search engines … all of which I got for free …”

So powerful is his secret that he’s able to monopolize any niche online, and can always secure the top premium spots just above the usual organic results featured at most search engines.

He still has to set up an account with the search engines – but after applying his secret he is removed from having to pay for all the costs otherwise involved.

Again, nothing about his secret is either illegal or robs from the search engines.

One spokesperson from one of the most popular search engines said chuckling after being made privy to this amazing secret “Wow! Ha! This is really unique … and in my expert opinion it would only serve to enhance and bring more business to us at [name of search engine withheld for legal & confidentiality reasons] and not cause us to lose business in the slightest. Amazing!”

The northerner revealed that in this nearly eight years’ period of time since applying his secret he’s done well over $300 million in sales revenue with a most diverse line of products, and most recently in the last two years netted nearly $166 million after really “buckling down and pressing my secret to its fullest potential.”

Now to everyone else’s fortune, the city slicker is releasing his secret for getting an unlimited amount of pay-per-click ads to the general public. But he’s not promising any of us for how long.

A bit of an eccentric, the gentleman says “We’ll see just how long I can make it available before it saturates things.”

One famous public web guru pointed out that although this man may gain economically more so as a result of the publication of his secret “he’s already so amazingly rich that whether he continues or discontinues its sale will neither make nor break the man, but not grabbing it for yourself while it’s still available could prove disastrous for you as you may only have one chance, and a very limited one at that, to get this.”

It is currently available at:

Free Google Adwords Ads

…so you may want to head on over there now and get it.

It’s in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you’re there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in targeted advertising now made freely available to the rest of us?

To your success,

-Ryan Ringold

Randy Charach's - "Internet Marketing Crash Course" Reviewed

2007-06-29T20:15:00.000-05:00

"Internet Marketing Crash Course" Reviewed

Randy Charach has an internet marketing course called the "Internet Marketing Crash Course".

Internet Marketing Crash Course provides you with a complete guide to marketing your website - it covers both the basics and the more complex tactics.

It's an extremely comprehensive package so it would take me forever to list everything here. This package comes in the form of 12 CDs with another 322 pages of info.

Frankly, I doubt if there is a package available anywhere that is as comprehensive as this. It's probably the first thing that I recommend to anyone who is NEW to internet marketing.

It will definitely help you to understand everything that you could and should do for your site to make it profitable. Here are some examples of the information:

- The "sure-fire" method of approaching potential JV partners
- The 7-step formula for setting up profitable JV deals! This will take you right from the "root-to-the-fruit" without any "road bumps"!
- How to become an expert in your niche market in 6 months or less
- How to get to the top of Google AdWords without bidding on the most expensive keywords!
- Who exactly in the media to send your press release to for the maximum chance of getting media coverage
- Why having a smaller list can (in many cases) be much more profitable than a huge list!
- The #1 thing you have to be very wary of when setting up a membership web site - if you don't get this figured from the get-go… your membership site might just become the bane of your life!
- A neat little way to get others to eagerly create great content for your membership site… and gladly do it FREE of charge!
- How to immediately multiply the revenue of any offline marketing campaign… at no additional postage cost!
- The absolute FASTEST and surest way to make it in the seminar business!
- The very best days of the week to hold a teleseminar!
- How to use blogs to "bypass" the aggressive spam filters!
- How to use emotional marketing to get people to justify almost any purchase - no matter how costly!How to create an info product that knocks the socks off any other competing product in your market!

And what impresses me most about this course is just how complete it is.

I've purchased other Internet marketing books and resources before, and they all seem to focus on just ONE thing. For example, they'll tell you how to build a great-looking site, but won't tell you how to get anyone to visit it!

Or they'll tell you that you need to start collecting e-mail addresses from your visitors -- and then they don't tell you HOW to do it!

The Internet Marketing Crash Course is almost like an encyclopedia of Internet marketing, since it explains in tremendous detail absolutely everything you need to know about how to start, run, and grow a profitable online business. I give this product my absolute highest recommendation.

Learn more about Randy Charach's Internet Marketing Crash Course

Marketing: Branding vs. Direct Response

2007-04-07T12:06:00.000-05:00

In the world of marketing there are two completely different methods to promote your business or products.

The first is branding. Branding is a method that large companies use to "brand" their image, their name, their products into the mind of the public. Branding can costs millions and millions of dollars each year and the goal of branding is to get consumers to think of a specific company or product when the need comes about in your life for something.

For example, Rock Financial is a the largest mortgage company in the state of Michigan. You can NOT turn on the radio or TV without hearing and seeing their commercials. You can't drive down the street without seeing a billboard advertising their services.

They spend millions to keep their name and image in front of us.

If you are a small business, then you can't compete with them when it comes to branding. There is no way that you can put that kind of money out there and expect a return on it. Most smaller businesses do not have that kind of marketing budget.

However, if a small business uses successful "direct response" marketing, then they can build their business very quickly and build a very successful business and make a very good living.

Direct response is a very measurable way to advertise and market your business. The idea behind direct response marketing is to see an immediate, measurable response to your advertising.

You are trying to get prospects to take action and do something to get them into your marketing funnel so that you can build relationships with them and earn them as new customers.

An example of direct marketing is when you hear a commercial advertising a free report or free dvd or free sample product. The commerical is pushing something for free in order to motivate a listener to get up and call an 800 number or visit a website to order the free item.

Once a prospect orders the free item, then you now have an opportunity to sell your product to them. This can be done with follow-up marketing. This can be done at the time of ordering the free item. It can also be done both ways.

The important aspect to direct marketing is to get the prospect to take some sort of action NOW! This is so very different then branding because with branding you are not trying to get the prospect to do anything right now. You simply want to burn it into their mind that when they are ready for what it is that you offer, then they'll think of you because of your branding efforts.

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Ryan Ringold is an entrepreneur that has been making a full time income using the internet since 2002. His websites generate hundreds of thousands of dollars and are virtually on autopilot. Ryan also consults, teaches, and coaches people interested in online business. He is a self-proclaimed "Lazy Ass Internet Marketer" because he strategically launches websites that can run on autopilot, which gives him freedom to travel, play, teach, and help others.

For more information visit LazyAssInternetMarketing.com
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Good Web Hosting Company

2007-03-27T14:32:00.000-05:00

I recently wrote about a website hosting company that I've had a terrible experience with and I highly recommend that you stay clear of them.

Since then I've had several people ask me to recommend a hosting company that I use and have had good results using.

I recommend that you use Blue Host if you want a strong hosting company with good support and all the necessary tools that you need from a good company.

They are very reasonably priced and I've had a great experience with them over the last couple years.

I currently have over 12 sites hosted with them and I've been very happy.

Check them out at:
BlueHost.com

Infinology.net - Infinology.com - Infinology Webhosting - Infinology Host

2007-01-30T17:47:00.000-05:00

Web Host Review Of Infinology.com - Infinology.net - Infinology Web Hosting

Let me start by saying that I've never done this before, but I can't say that I won't do it again.

If you are looking for website hosting or if you have been thinking about trying Infinology services, then do NOT subscribe to their web hosting service!

I repeat! Do NOT use this company!

I've been using them for over 3 1/2 years and their customer support began to deteriorate well over a year ago. It should have been a wakeup call for me to get the hell out of there, but like an idiot wanting more punishment... I've stuck with them.

Now, I'm regretting every minute of it. I have been trying to contact someone for customer support for over 2 months and I haven't gotten any reponse. No phone call, no returned emails... nothing!

A phone call leads to a "full" voicemail box and you can't leave a message most of the time. Emails have gone blatantly unanswered and if you try to trick them and ask for the "sales department" when calling, then sometimes you can talk to a real person.

Unfortunately, the sales department says they will have technical support call you back... which is a lie.

So this review of Infinology is as much of a venting session for me as it is as a warning to you.

If you are looking for good web hosting companies, then I recommend you read the reviews at:

http://www.webhostingunleashed.com/

I found the site recently and it appears to have some very good feedback from customers and how they rate hosting companies.

You can review hundreds of companies from the "best" to "worst".

The hosting company that I use for several websites is Blue Host and I've been very happy with them. I would highly recommend that you use them if you are looking for inexpensive hosting with all the bells and whistles!

Good luck!

Selling To Niche Markets

2007-01-29T11:51:00.000-05:00

Are You Really Selling To Niche Markets?

Here's How To Double, Even Triple Your Business!

by Ryan Ringold,

The Lazy Ass Internet Marketer

I've written several times before about finding needs in niche markets and filling those needs. Many times entrepreneurs develop products, services, and businesses because they are filling a need that THEY need and can't find a good enough solution in the marketplace.

However, I still see companies all the time missing the boat with niche markets.

Let me tell you a story.

I recently did some consulting for a company that offers weight loss supplements for sale on the internet. They have a strong customer base and did over one million dollars in sales last year on the internet.

After about 20 minutes of asking them questions about their target market and the demographics of their best customers, it became clear to me that they still were not marketing to "niche" markets the way that they could be and were losing out on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in revenue.

The founder of this weight loss supplement company explained to me that he always thought he was selling to a niche of people interested in weight loss and health.

He's right. He is trying to sell to a niche interested in weight loss. However, aren't there even tighter niches that are more laser focused that he could target?

How about:

"Quick Weight Loss For Brides"

"Quick Weight Loss For Grooms"

"Quick Weight Loss For New Mommies"

"Quick Weight Loss For Men In Their 30's"

When you tighten your target audience and get laser focused on a niche, then your marketing message should be tightened so it relates and speaks to your tighter audience.

It won't be any surprise to you that you need to have a separate webpage for "brides-to-be", "grooms", "new mommies", and "men in their 30's".

You tailor your webpage so it "speaks to the listening" of each of these niche groups.
When you tighten your message and your marketing so it "speaks to the listening" of these differnet groups, then you will skyrocket your sales.

Let me ask you a question.

Do you think that a bride would rather purchase a weight loss supplement that is made for "anyone" trying to lose a few pounds; or would she rather use a weight loss supplement specifically designed and manufactured to help "brides" lose unwanted pounds before their big wedding day?

She will want to buy the "brides" weight loss supplement, especially if you do a good job of focusing your marketing message on her needs and wants.

If you are currently selling a product or service online or offline, then you need to continue to work on developing niche markets within your bigger niche.

There is money waiting for you!

About The Author

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Ryan Ringold is an entrepreneur that has been making a full time income using the internet since 2002. His websites generate hundreds of thousands of dollars and are virtually on autopilot. Ryan also consults, teaches, and coaches people interested in online business. He is a self-proclaimed "Lazy Ass Internet Marketer" because he strategically launches websites that can run on autopilot, which gives him freedom to travel, play, teach, and help others.

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Sell To A Starving Crowd

2006-12-28T20:25:00.000-05:00

Power Of "A Starving Crowd"

If I offer to set you up in the fast food business, with a hamburger joint, and you can have any one special advantage you want, what'll it be?

A clown, great location, special sauce, great burgers, a big ad budget? Would you choose any of these? What would the one advantage be that you would like to have?

How about "a starving crowd."

Don't you think this would be a good advantage to have over your competition?

You can see proof of that this is true in the "roach coach" business (the food trucks that come around to factories and business parking lots). They usually don't have the best food and it is usually overpriced, and they are STILL swarmed with eager customers every place they go.

Why?

Because they go to where the starving crowd is waiting.

What is a "starving crowd"?

For example, it can be (1) a market in chaos, in trauma, in transition, like, right now, the health care professions (fearful of the negative impact of managed care on their futures).

(2) It can be a market where everybody is in pain, like insurance salespeople (hamstrung by over-sensitive parent company enforced restrictions on advertising and sales practices, faced with declining commissions).

(3) It can be a group of people who are especially, extraordinarily hyper-passionate about their particular interest. Golfersare this type of rabid buyers.

In one way or another, it should be a group of buyers with an aggravation that gives them sleepless nights, ulcers and rage, that you can solve, and/or a burning desire for something you can provide.

Identifying such a market and building the right offer for it is a far, far superior means of doing business than is developing an offer then looking around in bewilderment for who might respond to it.

Copywriting Workshop

2006-11-09T21:53:00.000-05:00

How To Write Sizzling Copy For Big Profits

By Ryan Ringold

The Lazy Ass Marketer,

www.thelazyassmarketer.com

The single biggest factor to making me money all day long, even while I sleep is copy writing. The ability to put words on paper (or on a website) and then sit back and let the words become your 24 hours a day, 7 days a week salesperson.

The sales letter can't call in sick. The sales letter can't miss appointments. The copy that you write can't complain in any way, shape, or form. It just sits there and makes you money.

It doesn't matter how much traffic you get to your website, if the website doesn't convert visitors into paying customers, then you don't make money.

So, how do you write a killer sales letter that will have your customers whipping out their credit cards and buying your product or service?

Here are some tips for writing a killer sales letter:

1. Headline: The headline is the critical factor in writing a good sales letter because it grabs your prospects attention and it's job is stop your reader dead in their tracks.

Headlines that have success in the past can usually be reworked over and over to be successful in the present and future. Human nature is fairly constant and pyschological triggers can stand the test of time. I've compiled a handful of headlines below that have been successful in selling other products and services. You should be able to use these and they should give you ideas of your own.

"Stop Dieting and Lose Weight"

"Corn Gone In 5 Days Or Money Back"

"Discovered-- Amazing Way To Grow Hair"

"They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano-- But When I Started To Play!"

"The Secret To Making People Like You"

"How To Win Friends And Influence People"

"Why Some People Almost Always Make Money In The Stock Market"

"How A Strange Accident Save Me From Baldness"

2. Establish Credibility: Why should the reader believe what you say?

3. Problem - Agitate - Solve: State a problem that will relate to your reader. Then agitate that problem in the readers head and get them completely worked up and in a frenzy until they are ready to jump off a bridge... then offer a solution (your product or service).

4. Introduce your product: You must formally introduce your product and this is the solution to their problem so it makes a smooth transition.

5. State features as benefits: Customers buy benefits so make sure that when you state a feature of the product that you list it as benefit driven. Remember the customer will always be thinking "What's in it for me?" and benefits are a great way to tell them what is in it for them.

6. Testimonials: Use real life testimonials from satisfied customers. Use as much personal information in the testimonial as possible. Readers will believe a testimonial more if it has a person's full name, city, state, profession, etc.

7. Build Value

8. Reason Why Copy: It has been proven that if you give a reason why you are doing something, then it becomes a more powerful persuader. For example don't just say that you are giving a discount on the product if they buy today. Tell them WHY you are giving a discount on the product if they buy today. The reason doesn't even have to be good. Just give one.

9. Offer bonuses

10. Create scarcity: This can be done by limiting the amount of product you are willing to sell.

11. Guarantee

12. Close: Give a call to action and tell your prospect EXACTLY the next steps to take.

Use these ideas in your sales letter and watch your conversions skyrocket.

For more information about copy that sells visit ultimate copy writing.

How To Make Money Sending Emails

2006-11-05T14:21:00.000-05:00

They Laughed At Me When I Told Them I Could Make $2,000 In One Day From Home, Using Nothing But Email on My Computer-- But When They Saw My Bank Deposits Their Laughter Turned To Amazement!

by Ryan Ringold

Marketers often talk about the one secret that has the potential to make you big money over and over again.

This secret is another very simple tool that is responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars to my business every year and most people are still struggling to take advantage of it. Once you grasp the real power of this tool, then you will discover that you basically have a legal license to print money from your home!

I've talked about this many times before, however, I'm finding that people still fall into two categories: 1. They still have many unanswered questions for me about this topic; or 2. They still don't comprehend how powerful this strategy really is and they are not taking any action to build their business with this incredible tool.

So, I find myself writing about it again here so that it may help both types of people that I meet and talk to you.

Okay, you may be asking what this simple, yet proven strategy is and how do you use it, right?

Drum roll please....

What marketing tool is so powerful that it basically gives you a legal license to print money?

The LIST!

The money is in the list. The money is in the list. The money is in the list.

How many times have you heard marketers talk about this concept? All the time! Why? Because it is true.

Let me give you an example of what this means and one way it can be used on a small scale.
One of my websites has an email list of about 15,000 prospects. I built this list over time by collecting names and emails of visitors who landed on my website. Normally, I bribe them to enter their contact information by offering a free report or something of value that they can download in exchange for entering their name and email address.

This is a strong list because the prospects that visit my website are interested in what it has to offer. So I can now "drip" follow up email messages to these 15,000 people to keep my name, product, or service in front of them forever! I can send them emails to bring them back to my website and try to sell a product to them. I can send them an email with a special offer or sale price. I can send them free articles and content that they have interest in to build my relationship with them.

I can send as many follow up emails as I want for as long as I want and it basically costs me NOTHING to do this. I spend a small monthly fee on software that I use, but it's a fixed cost. It doesn't matter if I send 10,000 emails or 10 emails, the fixed cost is the same.

Let's discuss a real life examples of how I recently used this to make money.

First, I recently made an extra $1,000 by sending a Halloween email to my list offering them 30% off my products if they purchased during a 3-day Sale that I was running. This email was simple. I just explained that I'm doing a Halloween Sale and they can save money on my products if they buy now. It had a link in the email message to a website that described the products and had purchase links.This little "Halloween Sale" made me $1,000.

At the same time I was doing this, I had another website in an entirely different niche market with an email list of around 12,000 prospects. I sent an email message to these prospects offering a brand new product for sale. The product sold for just under $40 and I sold 50 of them.
Let's do the math. 50 units sold at $40 each equals $2,000! That's an easy $2,000 I made by sending out an email.

Do you begin to see how the "money is in the list"?

If I didn't have a list built like the above examples, then I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do what I did. However, there are ways to make money with lists even if the list isn't owned or built by you.

I'll discuss this at another time.

If you want an inexpensive, yet powerful product to learn more about making money from emails, then I highly recommend you check our Yanik Silver's product at million-dollar-emails.

If you have questions or comments, then please feel free to post them here.

make money online and work from home

2006-10-11T21:21:00.000-05:00

Make money online and work from home

There is no better time in history to make money from home and work from home.
If you want to make money online and work from home, then all it takes is a desire and effort. There are thousands of people making money from home by working online.

You can make money several ways. You may have heard of people making fortunes on eBay or selling their own products or services. You can also make money by selling other people’s products and services as well.

Here is a small list of ways to make money using the internet:

1. make money on eBay
2. Adsense
3. Affiliate programs
4. selling advertising
5. PPC
6. arbitrage
7. ezines
8. newsletters
9. membership sites
10. niche markets
11. Clickbank Mall

People all over the world are making extra income or full time income with one or more of the above ways to make money online.

You can learn to leverage your time and earn income starting today. Don’t let a lack of experience, a lack of time, or a lack of money be your excuse. You need to make it happen by gaining the necessary knowledge that thousands of people already have.

Internet marketing and selling online use the same principles as offline marketing and selling. There are plenty of programs that you can buy that will cut your learning curve in half so that you can quickly get up and running.

For more information, get a FREE report at http://www.choice-1-marketing.com/

Make More Money

2006-10-06T13:13:00.000-05:00

"How To Make More Money In One Day

Than Most Make In One Year"

By: Ryan Ringold, Lazy Ass Marketer

I just came from my friend's office. He is an internet marketer like me and had me laughing because he just gave himself almost a $12,350 per month pay raise. That money was all made in one day. That is an extra $148,200 per year and it was made in one afternoon. I don't know about you, but that is exciting! The internet is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Oh yeah... it was made from internet marketing.

Let me explain.

I'll give you the short version. My friend endorsed another company's new product/service. This product sold for just under $800 monthly. Yes, monthly. The charge is automatically made on your credit card each month for this product. And no it isn't a house or a car. ;)

In case you're curious, I'll tell you that the product is to make you more money with your internet businesses, so it is an investment in your business. If you invest $800 per month on this service, but in return you make an additional $1,500 per month in new business from it, then it is a great service.

Make sense?

Anyway, this is suppose to be the short version. This company pays my friend a 30% ongoing, residual commission for each customer he refers. He referred almost 50 new customers to this company at $800 per month. That equals $247 (approximately) in ongoing, monthly commission multiplied by 50 customers. That's $12,350 per month that he made per month. Again, this was all done in one afternooon. How would you like to be in control of your income like that? How pumped would you be if you gave yourself over $144,000 per year from one afternoon.

And yes... I am happy to say that I'm a new customer of this product/service and I'm excited about it and I was referred by my friend (let's just say he can pick up my next dinner).

It may sound like a lot of money to spend on something, but the truth is that I spend big money all the time if I feel like it will benefit my business and move me forward.

After buying this product I'm probably in the neighborhood of $15,000 to $20,000 this year alone on products and services. Most of that is spent on internet marketing information, internet marketing tools, and resources to increase my business. Some of it is spent in travel expense in order to attend a seminar on internet marketing.

Anything that can make me more money or give me new ideas is worth buying.

Unfortunately, not all people look at it this way. I say that they are short sighted because they think I'm crazy if I tell them that I just bought a new product that costs $800 per month or almost $10,000 per year. They think I'm nuts if I tell them that I spend $5,000 to go to a seminar for a few days. They roll their eyes when they see a big box of crap land on my porch for which I paid $1,000 or $2,000.

If you are not investing in yourself by gaining new knowledge or just refreshing yourself on the knowledge you already possess, then you are losing out. Every great success that I personally know are in a constant state of self education. They are in a constant state of investing in themselves and their business. If you are not doing the same, then you AND your business will suffer.

Yes, the internet is a beautiful thing. My friend is now making an additional $12,000+ per month and he does't have to do a damn thing! I say fabulous. I also say good for the company that is selling this new $800 per month product/service because as I understand, they acquired just over 1300 customers in one day. That is over $1 Million per month in revenue-- now that is awesome. They achieved that all through the internet. Can I say that I love the internet one last time? God bless the world wide web!

The moral of my story today is actually to benefit you. I want you to understand that even though I'm a huge proponent of selling your own product or service, you can also make a boatload of cash in this business by referring customers to other companies that pay you a commission.

We call this affiliate marketing. It's a brilliant concept because you can have an army of people (affiliates) out there referring prospects to your website and you only have to pay a commission when you acquire a paying customer. This is great because you don't have to spend money upfront in advertising to make a sale. You only pay out after a customer has purchased from you.

Your affiliates like it because they don't have any customer service or inventory. They simply lead prospectso you and then they get paid. Easy enough, huh?

I not only have a small army of affiliates that make me money every single day, but I also refer customers and prospects to other companies that pay me an affiliate commission.

If you have your own internet business, then you need to offer an affiliate program so that others can help make you more money. You can sign up as an affiliate with Clickbank which is very easy to do. This will allow you to both recommend other people's products AND have others refer business to you. Clickbank tracks everything for you and collects the money and sends it out every two weeks to the appropriate people.

There are also many more services that you can try, but Clickbank is very simple and quick. It will get you started in the right direction.

Product Creation

2006-10-03T15:36:00.000-05:00

Product Creation For Online Success..

How To Create New Products At Lightening Speed

and Skyrocket Your Profits!

By: Ryan Ringold

I was invited into a meeting today with a women's group that meets every week to discuss business opportunities and making money online as well as offline.

Our topic today was product creation for selling on the internet. It was interesting to hear their ideas that they have come up with so far by brainstorming amongst themselves. They had some great ideas and insights. It was also interesting to discover our little differences because they were all between 45 and 55 years old and female, while I'm 34 and male.

This is important because my experiences and passions are quite different than most of their experiences and passions and it never ceases to amaze me how much you can learn by asking questions and listening to answers.

They brought me into this meeting to get some ideas about creating a product to sell on the internet. The product that they had in mind was targeted at women. It is a neat product and I think that if they could get prospects to learn about the product, then there would be interest in buying it.

However, I spoke to them about taking the path of least resistance when creating a new product and bringing it to the marketplace. So often new entrepreneurs get caught up with trying to think of the next latest and greatest invention that it often cripples them in moving forward. In addition, it doesn't take the next latest and greatest to make you money.

We talked at length about finding a market of people that need solutions to their problems and pains. The path of least resistance is not to create a product that nobody really knows about or has interest in. It doesn't matter how great it is if nobody wants it. Sure you can spend a boatload of money and effort trying to convince people of how wonderful your product or service is, but isn't it much easier to find out what people want to buy and then just sell it to them?

That is the secret to product creation that most people get wrong. Forget about what you think is great and wonderful and focus on what customers want. They will tell you exactly what they want and then you can customize a product around that demand.

If you follow this strategy, then customers will line up and practically beg you to take their credit cards. They need what you sell. They want what you sell. You don't have to convince them of anything.

One of the first websites that I ever developed sold over $75,000 worth of product in the first 12 months. This was over 4 years ago. That site today still does well over 6 figures yearly. Why? Because I found a product that people were looking for and then I made it and sold it to them.

It really is that simple.

When you are thinking of a product to sell, then take the path of least resistance and you will be able to duplicate your success time and time again.

Feel free to click on the "comments" at the end of this article to ask any questions or leave feedback.

Increase Your Profits

2006-09-30T20:10:00.000-05:00

How To Boost Your Profits By As Much as 50% This Month!

By Ryan Ringold

Can I let you in on a secret that is so simple, yet so powerful that it could increase your profits by as much as 50% this month alone?

It's called the upsell.

I still know of plenty of businesses both online as well as offline that fail to use an upsell approach at the point of purchase. An upsell simply offers your customer something more than what they are in the process of buying. You could upsell a bigger and better version of your product or service, an additional product that complements what they are buying, a how to guide, or whatever else can give value to your customer.

Fast food chains use the upsell every day to make millions of dollars more each year. When you order a cheeseburger at McDonalds, they immediately ask if you want fries with that. Or they will ask you to supersize it for 50 cents more or whatever it is.

This is an upsell.

I have a website in a niche market that sells a $69 information product. When the customer clicks on the buy button they immediately get hit with an upsell. The upsell is for an additional $97 product that complements the first product they are in the process of buying. This takes the total sale to $166 from $69. I have found over time that approximately 25 %- 30% of customers choose the higher price point and buy the upsell.

If only 3 customers per day purchased the upsell, then that would be almost $9000 extra per month pure profit (the $97 product that I upsell is digitally delivered so there is no cost to me).

I have another product that offers an upsell at the point of purchase that raises the price of the product by 20%. I have found that 75% of the customers choose the higher price point. I've found that if your upsell is less money than the main product they are buying, then more customers will purchase it. This of course will vary depending on the market you are in and you will need to test it yourself to find what works best.

The first time I convinced a student of mine to offer an upsell at the point of purchase he began profiting an extra $1000 per month.

Offering an upsell is a very simple technique to skyrocket your profits without doing any additional work. The problem is that I see too many businesses not offering an upsell to their customers. Why wouldn't they offer additional services or products?

For starters, they may not understand how the technique works and may have never thought of it. Not all business owners are great marketers. Secondly, sometimes business owners feel like they are interrupting the sale or are being too aggressive. I say hogwash! It is your duty to get your products and services into the hands of people that need them. If you believe in what you sell, then you need to present it to customers and give them an option to buy it if they choose.

If you don't know what you can offer for an upsell, then post your questions or comments below telling me your situation and I'll give some ideas.

Ryan Ringold on Internet Marketing

2006-09-23T22:48:00.000-05:00

If you are looking to start a home-based business and you are looking for low startup cost with low overhead and flexible hours, then the internet is where you want to be.

Making money from home using nothing but your computer is an amazing feeling. You never have to fight rush hour traffic and you can spend time with the people that you care about and earn as much money as you want to earn. It sometimes seems to good to be true. I personally know of hundreds of people that do exactly what I'm talking about and I'm one of them.

We are like an underground community that silently puts out a net to capture some of the raging river of cash that is being spent on the world wide web by customers all around the world. I wake up every morning with money in my account from customers in several countries. The most common are the U.S.A, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But I also make sales to people in Japan, United Arab Emirates, France, Mexico, Spain, Iceland, Ireland, and more.

How does this work?

It's acutally quite simple. I send prospects to my different websites that offer a product or service that they are interested in and then I make an irresistable offer to them so that they practically whip out their credit cards and beg me to take their money. They enter their information, hit submit, and presto they've just purchased from me. Most of my product and services are digital downloads... this means that I have no inventory for them and the customers download the product from the internet just moments after purchasing.

This is a beautiful thing because then I don't have anything to ship. The transaction is done automatically and on autopilot. They pay, they download the product, their happy. I don't have to take phone calls or go to the post office or deal with predetermined hours. Customers can buy from me at anytime from anywhere in the world and the transaction is completed without me having to do anything. I do get a little customer service now and again, but the majority of it is handled via email and I also outsource that work to an independent contractor.

If you have questions about how to do what I do and if you'd like to learn more about how to start your own home-based internet company, then leave your comments for me by clicking on the comment link below.

Ryan Ringold

2006-09-23T17:47:00.000-05:00

How This Self-Proclaimed "Lazy-Ass" Internet Marketer Rakes It Truckloads Of Cash... Day After Day, 7 Days Per Week...

While His Business is on Complete Autopilot!

My business this month will do approximately $60,000 in sales. That figure is not huge by any means and most people might believe it to be a small number and not impressive. It becomes more impressive, however, when you learn that it is done 100% using the internet from my home in my underwear. I have no employees. I don't have an office. I have no commute in rush hour traffic.

This is ALL done by driving thousands of prospects to my websites and then letting my website make a sale. I don't have to answer a phone. I don't talk to customers. Any customer service is handled by email.

I spent time in Las Vegas in August and then in the month of September I travelled to West Palm Beach, Florida for vacation and then I flew to Chicago for a four day getaway and then I spent four days in San Diego. I took my laptop to check in on things, but mostly I just check to see how much money is being deposited into my bank accounts each day.

I like to spend time with friends and you can often find me at an expensive seminar that charged $2,000 or more to attend. I only spend the money so I can go have fun and meet new people in this business.

When others ask me what I do, I often respond with "I'm a lazy-ass internet marketer" because I sometimes go months without doing much work. I'll brainstorm ideas because I really enjoy doing it, however, most people that know me well would say that I don't have a job and I don't work. The truth is that I do work... it's just much different than what most people are use to. Like I mentioned before, I like to spend time brainstorming... that is work. I also will spend some time making changes to my websites or my marketing messages. Again, that's work also. It just isn't really hard work and I can do it from anywhere at anytime.

You may ask yourself, "Ryan Ringold, are you really that lazy? I'm mean c'mon... nobody can make that kind of money without working!"

I'd like to tell you that I work my ass off day in and day out to bring in that kind of money (approx $60,000 this month). However, when you follow certain principles of marketing and apply them to the internet you can basically set up your business to be on complete autopilot. Money comes in day after day without having to do anything. Before this happened though, I spent hundreds of hours setting up my business.

Back in late 2001 I didn't know anything about internet marketing. I understood marketing because I had also been in sales and marketing. I had tried to start several businesses that usually ended in failure. When I began online I had been bankrupt once and was $30,000 in debt again.

It took me approximately 1200 hours to learn how to initially make money using the internet. Since then I've spent thousands and thousands of hours and tens and tens of thousands of dollars to become very good at what I do and to set up my businesses to run without me. Now, that is WORK. I had to have an operation on my elbow from being on the computer so much that I now have a 4 inch scar that reminds me of my journey to get where I am today.

There is no need to put in the time and effort that I put in back in 2001-2002 because there are people willing to show you how to do what I do. Most coaches charge high fees to pass their hard earned knowledge onto you, however, it is available so that you don't have to go through the learning curve that I went through. If I had any money back when I started, I would have hired somebody to help me get up and running much quicker. But as fate had it... I was broke and had to learn on my own. I don't regret it because it was a great journey... but still one that you do not have to travel.

Through the years I have helped several people make money from home using the internet. The first person that I took on as a student was my own brother. I begged him for almost two years to let me help him make money online before he finally joined me. Within one and half years of getting started he was doing around $25,000 per month on the internet. The second person I helped was a friend of a friend and within 45 days he was earning an extra $3000 to $4000 per month from his new online business.

I love watching someone's face when they make that first dollar online. The latest project I took on involves my father and his site after 6 months reached $46,539.20 in online sales-- that is in the 6 month alone (not all 6 months added together)! Not too shabby either.

I've had many people ask me if I will offer my services to help people either make more money using the internet or help people get started making money online. The answer is yes I do offer these services. I've also started this site so that you can ask me questions and get help. It will be my way of helping individuals learn what they need to know to make these kinds of dollars from their personal computer.

Feel free to leave comments and questions for me and I will do my best to answer them for you as quickly as possible. You can ask questions about general marketing, internet marketing, sales, and advertising. You can also ask me for recommended resources or anything else that you need answered.

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