How to go full time online – working from home

So based on those hyped-to-buggery Clickbank sales
pages here’s how the dream goes…

You’re working in a job you hate.

You use their new supery dupery system

You quit your job because you’re earning 6 figs a
month.

Has it ever happened like that?

Not a bloody clue but if it HAS, I’ve not heard
about it.

Here’s what it was REALLY like for me:

When I first went full-time I did ANYTHING to keep
money coming in.

Piling coffee down my neck at 3am to finish off a
salepage I was writing for some guru

Spending 8 hours a day writing posts in forums to
drive traffic to my offers because I couldn’t
afford paid traffic.

Dabbling with importing and selling stuff on Ebay.

Panicking when bills came in but somehow managing
to pay them, then worrying about next month…

Not the seamless transition from wageslave to
successful marketer that we see on the box eh?

Well I’ll tell you now that if I HADN’T gone
through that I wouldn’t be in the position I am
today.

I’m not talking about ‘serving my apprenticeship’
or anything so twee.

Balls to that.

If I could have found a fast-track to getting rich
by shaving my head and wearing an orange curtain
you’d be listening to finger-cymbals right now.

No…

I needed that ‘struggle’ (and let’s face it, it’s
NOTHING compared to working as a coal miner or
fighting one of the pointless wars we’re involved
in at the moment)

I needed it so I could ‘see’ success from the
viewpoint of a wannabee marketer. I need to put
myself in the arena I wanted to work in albeit at a
lowly level initially.

Hold that thought a second and I’ll tell you about
someone else who did it the same way

One of the people we employ to do our support is a
great example.

A very nice, very clued up chap he is.

He quickly realized that he wanted to work full-
time from home and by diversifying his income
stream he found a way to do it.

He now provides a very high level of support for
some big name marketers (and me), and also has his
own products and blog.

I’m sure he won’t mind me saying that having
multiple streams of income gave him the ability to
quit his job that he might not have had if he’d
started developing his own product and wouldn’t
consider anything else.

You following me?

Most successful marketers I know started out doing
‘a bit of this’ and a ‘bit of that’ in order to get
themselves into the game.

Once you’re involved in IM full-time in WHATEVER
capacity, you’ll start really seeing yourself as a
marketer rather than someone with a 9-5 who ‘does a
bit of marketing at weekends’

Look – I’m a realist. I know that mortgages have to
be paid and bills met and more importantly FAMILIES
supported so I’m not saying quit your job right
now.

But there’s no doubting the fact that if you get
yourself in the position where you’re working full-
time online doing WHATEVER IT TAKES then you’re in
a much stronger position than if you’re
working a 9-5.

For a start you’ll find that when you quit your job
the ideas will flow in a way you never imagined.

After working 40 hours a week you’re often mentally
and physically knackered and couldn’t put up a
shelf let alone a coherent business strategy.

But once you no longer have your time sapped like
that, you won’t believe the opportunities and
potential that open up for you.

And it doesn’t half feel good too.

I’m not suggesting you quit your job now and dive
in head first, although if you’re in a position to
do that why the hell not?

Instead I’m just suggesting you should keep your
eyes and mind open to the possibility that going
full-time online, if that’s what you want, might be
easier than you think.

You just need to shake the illusions that we’re
sold that say you have to be in a job one day then
massively successful the next

You don’t – if doing a bit of affiliate marketing,
a bit email support for another marketer, a bit
of ghost writing and selling a few copies of your
own report brought in a grand or two a month….

Would that be enough for you to take the plunge
into full-time IM, and then work your arse off to
stay there?

Because that’s more like what REALLY happens than
any Clickbank salespage 🙂

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Dan Flower has just produced a FULL case study of
the methods and techniques he used to go full-time
online.http://www.jvzoo.com/c/7617/10529

This is warts and all stuff, and he holds nothing
back.

It’s no fairy story for sure – some of it involves
grunt work but this is NOT pie in the sky stuff
because Dan has been full-time online for almost a
year, all thanks to these methods.

And his business is growing every day. In fact I
happen to know that he’s running it from on
vacation all week this week.

This is something that is actionable by pretty
much anyone and as Dan says about his journey

‘Quite honestly, once you’ve seen the potential
that exists for making money online, it’s pretty
bloody hard to let go of it!’

He includes ALL actual figures, struggles, wobbles
and successes.

He’s also priced this at less than a decent cup of
coffee and a fancy biscuit…

…so if you want to know the REALITY of how an
average bloke gets into IM full time check out the
link below for more details:

http://www.jvzoo.com/c/7617/10529



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Is THIS why you’re struggling to make money online?

I’ll explain the picture halfway down this post 🙂

So if you’ve been in internet marketing for any length of time you probably know what you should be doing to make money online right?

Find a niche – go through the research thing, desperate buyers and all that, have some graphics made, produce some content, bung some Adsense on there and all the rest.

You know the score.

Or maybe you prefer affiliate marketing.

You start an authority blog that you post to daily, or maybe some smaller blogs that you optimize for SEO then put Clickbank ads on there, or Commission Junction ads.

Or maybe you just build a bloody big list and send them emails every other day recommending products through your affiliate link.

That’s how it works right?

NO!

It’s all big a pile of steaming cow crap, complete with grass poking out the top.

I’ve got a fair idea of what I’m doing with this internet marketing game, and there’s not a chance in HELL that I would ‘do some niche resaerch to find desperate buyers….’ and all that rubbish.

At least not unless I added something of my own.

Because everything EVERYTHING you’ve been taught by 99% of the marketers you listen to is WRONG.

Not intentionally of course – they know what they’re doing and more importantly it’s working for them.

It just won’t work for you very well.

Here’s why.

You’re missing out a vital ingredient.

and that’s YOU.

Your personality.

Let’s back up a second and imagine I have piles. Huge throbbing dangly great hemorrhoids that give me grief day and night.

I snap at the kids, can’t sleep properly and would rather throw myself off a cliff than even THINK about going on a bike ride.

And it’s 3am and I want a cure.

I’ve had enough and I want one now.

I start googling and I come across a handful of sites, one of which is yours.

They all have affiliate links to Clickbank ebooks about how to cure your piles with a wire brush, a 12 year old single malt and a clothes peg (to bite down on)

(I’m being silly of course but there is a point to this)

Which site do I buy from?

Well which site would YOU buy from?

Well personally I would check out at least a couple of these competing sites to see what they had to offer.

And I’d buy from the one that resonated with me the most

The one I related to.

Liked.

Now you don’t have to agree with me (net yet anyway) because there’s more…

Think about the last 5 products you’ve bought online. I’m doing the same while sitting here writing this on a sunny morning at about 7.30am

I bought one of them because I had wanted it for a while but never gotten around to grabbing it.

The other FOUR I bought from links in email from marketers who I like and trust.

I read their blogs, I open their emails.

Now when was the last time you bought something from a random site you visited from a Google search?

Quite a while ago I’d guess.

Oh sure I go Googling for stuff that I need. I get the results and read through a few sites.

I probably type in the word ‘review’ after the product name to get a few opinions on it.

But then when it comes to buying I’ll mostly buy either from the main link (Amazon or Ebay) if it’s a physical thing that needs posting to me, OR if it’s en e-product, course or membership I’ll buy through the guy I’ve either heard of or like the sound of the most.

Why do you think perfume manufacturers, car companies, insurance companies and shedloads of other pay Hollywood stars, sports stars and pop stars to advertise or endorse their products.

Yep that’s right – it’s because we know who they are and the companies assume we’re more likely to buy because of that.

You open my emails right?

Who are your top three favourite marketers (apart from me of course :)?

Why do you like them?

They tell the truth, you like their way of imparting information, you trust them

Whatever your reasons just look at WHO you follow and WHAT you buy

How much of that is anonymous – just a random visit to a site or an email from someone you don’t know?

Probably not so much eh?

So why the f*ck are we taught that internet marketing. niche marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing is all about anonymous, sterile, non personality marketing?

Because it ISN’T guys – if you’re doing it like that you’ve got a long hard struggle in front of you to get anywhere.

Several years ago I got an email from a young school teacher who was trying to get into internet marketing. He (flatteringly) called for advice and to ask for a JV which we subsequently did.

We met up for lunch in a pub, had a few pints and chatted about internet marketing.

He was Lee McIntyre, and he’s one of the biggest marketers around now. He’s a great bloke and an outstanding marketer.

And look at the amount of personality he puts into his marketing. ‘Blimey’ and crisp butties.

Little things but they make him real.

It would fall flat on it’s arse if his marketing was crap of course, but it isn’t.

And neither is yours.

If you’ve not hit the success you want at this moment in time try putting your personality into your marketing more. A LOT more.

Look at the ‘new’ marketers who have come through in recent years – Garry Sayer, Simon Greenhalgh, Oz, Mark Lyford, Dean Holland

They’re all personality-driven businesses.

You don’t have to put yourself out in video all the time – I don’t – or be as flamboyant as a gay gypsy, all lyour have to know is let people know your opinions.

Which is what most new marketers are scared of.

I tend to let my opinions loose on my blog and it loses me readers and subscribers.

But it also gets me rabid fans.

If you share your opinions and values it WILL upset some people.

That’s their loss.

You CANNOT please everyone no matter how hard you try…

…so DON’T try.

Be true to yourself and put your personality into your marketing.

Safe is boring.

Reading someone who can see ‘everyone’s side of the argument’ is mind-numbing.

I want to read someone who knows their own mind.

I do quite often get emails from people who say a particular post offended them.

Welcome to real life!

No-one has ever exploded because they read someting that ‘offended’ them.

It’s not being offenseive either, it’s just expressing what you think. If another person CHOOSES to be offended by that well that’s their problem.

Heh I’m waffling – let’s get back on track.

It’s just as important whern you’re marketing to tell people what you DON’T like as well as what you do.

I tried article marketing for quite a few years.

Now I have the honest opinion that anyone who follows advice to ‘write and submit 20 articles a day for two weeks’ needs locking up for their own safety REGARDLESS of the results it brings.

You may disagree 🙂

But I think that the internet has changed, and it’s no longer a place where cold hard information is king.

It was, which is why people were making a hundred grand from AdSense ads each month.

But now information is COMMON on the net.

There’s shedloads of it.

What counts now is how it’s presented and who presents it.

We’ve followed how TV works, and now the easiest way to get rich online is to use the marketing skills you’ve acquired since you started – the email marketing, the SEO, the list-building, the blogging, the LOT…

...and inject your own personality into it.

Start a blog.

Find your own style and use it in your emails

You don’t need to pretend to be something you’re not.

You just need your honest opinions, your beliefs and your personality.

Without that you’re just another website.

 

Let me know what you think – comments below!



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