•100,000 Subscribers In 30 Days?
100,000 Subscribers In 30 Days?
by: Willie Crawford
Two years ago, I sat in Joel Christopher's "Master List Builder Seminar" listening to ideas on how to build my list faster. The room was filled with seasoned on-line and off-line marketers. They all told us that the money was in the list... something we all knew intuitively.
People in the room shared just about every method imaginable for building a list. They covered what worked, what didn't, and what you definitely should not do. They...
•A Secret To Extraordinary Accomplishments
A Secret To Extraordinary Accomplishments
by: Willie Crawford
I sat watching a documentary on U.S. Navy SEAL Team Training on the local exercise channel. It showed young men, mostly in their early 20's, enduring grueling ocean swims in near-freezing water. It showed these same young men forced to swim underwater (holding their breaths) until a major percentage of them passed out and had to be rescued by their instructors. It showed weeks of grueling training in which ordinary men are...
•A Success Essential - Join A Mastermind Group
A Success Essential - Join A Mastermind Group by Willie CrawfordIn the quest for secrets to internet marketing successsome very obvious factors are often overlooked. Onethat you may have noticed but not acted upon is themastermind principle. Since so many people don'tuse this principle in building their business, you havea tremendous advantage if you just begin using thissimple tool.It's a recognized fact that when you have several peoplebrainstorming and working on a project you get more...
•Are Internet Marketing Seminars, Conferences And Workshops Worth the money?
Are Internet Marketing Seminars, Conferences And Workshops Worth the money? by Willie CrawfordI just came back from the Internet Marketing Power Workshop and wanted to share the experience with you. Part of the reason I wanted to do this is because I am sure many of you wonder about the real value of all of the workshops, seminars, and conferencesyou see advertised. I attended as a speaker/instructor, but also because I knew I could, and did, learn a lot from all of the other...
•Are You A Pelican Marketer?
Are You A Pelican Marketer? by Willie CrawfordWatching the pelicans catch fish near my housereminded me of how some online marketersbehave. These pelicans fly high over the waterwhere the unknowing fish don't notice them.The pelicans spot a big fish and dive athigh speed into the water. A few seconds laterthe pelican surfaces and gulps down the fish.There's only one problem with the way thisparticular species of pelican fishes. Their method eventually leads to their demise. Yousee, as the...
•Are You Still Broke With 10,000 People In Your Downline?
Are You Still Broke With 10,000 People In Your Downline?
by: Willie Crawford
How many hype-filled emails have you received by someone who recently joined a network marketing company and in only a few weeks had over 1000 members in their downline? They encouraged you to get in early because this one was "really growing fast." They encouraged you to get in on the ground floor to take advantage of all of the momentum and guaranteed "spillover."
I get these almost daily.
Do these emails...
•Ask For A Better Price
Ask For A Better Price by Willie CrawfordYears ago, I was in the US Air Force, stationed atClark Air Base, Republic of Philippines. I lovedthe place and regretted when our unit was moved.The biggest lesson I learned during my tour ofduty there was to bargain. This was a concept thatwas, and still is, foreign to most Americans.One day while in "the market" I saw a shirt thatI really loved. It had a drawstring waist and wasmade from an old flour sack which had been printed.I asked "how much."...
•Beware The Internet Marketing Value Vampires
Thousands of aspiring Internet marketers come online every year, filled with hopes of earning a full-time living from the Internet. They learn HOW to actually accomplish that, yet they never reach their dreams.
Many get so close, and yet they are stopped by ONE thing.
They are stopped by an insidious poison that is so subtle that it kills all chances that they have of success in a way that leaves them with a smile on their faces.
That success killer is a "class of poisons" called "The Value...
•But What If You Can't Create Your Own Product?
But What If You Can't Create Your Own Product? by Willie CrawfordThe real money IS in creating and marketing your ownproducts. You don't have to be on-line long before thattruth begins to sink in. It's no different than off-linereally. The off-line manufacturers earn substantiallymore than their sales representatives. On-line, whenyou create your own product, you become amanufacturer. Your affiliates are commissioned salesrepresentatives.But don't rush into creating your own products...
•Can You Really Make A Fortune Off Of Reprint Rights?
Can You Really Make A Fortune Off Of Reprint Rights?
by: Willie Crawford
Visit Ebay or any of ten thousand other websites and you'll see people offering reprint rights everywhere. They all tell you that with their great reprint rights you'll be in business instantly with "your own product" and that you get to keep all of the money.
By can you really make money selling reprint rights and is it worth your time?
Let me give you a few examples from my personal experience, and then you be...
•Candid Conservation Between Internet Millionaires
Candid Conservation Between Internet Millionaires by Willie CrawfordI sat around in a hotel room chatting with two other*very* well-known internet marketers recently. Webrainstormed and shared observations until three in themorning :-) I thought you might enjoy the simple yetprofound insights and wisdom shared by these twomulti-millionaires. Look for ways you can directlyapply this knowledge to your business activities.The most profound observation that we all made wasthat most on-line...
•Confession Of An Internet Marketing Expert!
Confession Of An Internet Marketing Expert!
by: Willie Crawford
Do you really believe that there are people making VERY comfortable livings selling stuff over the Internet? Or do you believe that they're just a bunch of fakes who'll tell you ANYTHING just to get your money?
Like many of you, when I first came online I believed that it WAS possible. Then, meeting with marginal success for a while... as I marketed many different products, I began to doubt. It was during this time that I...
•Cut Out The Middle Man For Maximum Profits
Cut Out The Middle Man For Maximum Profits by Willie CrawfordWe all know the secret to saving big money whenbuying something in the off-line world is buyingit wholesale. We know that the more hands an itempasses through on the way to us, the more it'sgoing to cost. Everybody involved in the processhas to mark the item up in order to cover theirexpenses and give themselves a little profit.Any layers that can be trimmed in the processof getting an item or service to the consumerlowers the...
•Don't Get Ripped Off Getting A Merchant Account
Don't Get Ripped Off Getting A Merchant Account
by: Willie Crawford
Far too many people get ripped off when setting up a merchant account for their online business. The biggest reason is that they don't understand their options and are intimidated by the whole process. Now, armed with the proper knowledge, you don't need to become a victim of this process.
You may be like me when I first decided my online business had grown big enough to justify a merchant account. Maybe you have...
•Don't Pretend To Be An Expert - Become One!
Don't Pretend To Be An Expert - Become One! by Willie CrawfordExperts on the internet are created so fast thatmost of us totally discount the title "expert."We watch people log-in online one day... askingquestions about how to create a link in a webpage.A week later, this person has written a bookoffering to share with you his last five years of"experience" from operating a business online. I have actually seen one individual do just this!He's no longer in business on the net since people...
•George Bush's Secret To Successful Internet Marketing
George Bush's Secret To Successful Internet Marketing
by: Willie Crawford
Former U.S. president, George Bush Senior told the following story during a broadcast back in 1989...
A young boy and an old man were walking along a beach. As they walked, the boy picked up each starfish he passed and threw them back into the sea. Confused, the old man asked him why.
"If I left them here," the boy said, "they would dry up and die. I am saving their lives."
"But the beach goes on for miles and...
•Getting A Solid Internet Marketing Foundation
Getting A Solid Internet Marketing Foundation
by: Willie Crawford
As we look at building our online businesses, many of us acknowledge, early-on, that we don't know it all. Those who don't, are almost certain to fail because they often attempt to apply techniques that simply don't work online - to their online businesses. The quickest way to online success is to model those who are already successful at what you want to do. It' s that simple.
Of all of the chores involved in building...
•How I Get ALL The Subscribers I Want, And You Can Too!
How I Get ALL The Subscribers I Want, And You Can Too! by Willie CrawfordThat's a very bold title, and even more impressive because I DOget all of the subscribers I want on a continuous basis. Howcan this be true and how do I do it?First of all, I do have limits on the number of subscribers thatI want. How many subscribers I desire on a list depends upon thepurpose of that list. I hope that you build your lists the sameway. Many online entrepreneurs just build lists as large aspossible...
•How To Avoid Getting RIPPED OFF On-line
How To Avoid Getting RIPPED OFF On-line by Willie CrawfordMillions of you dream of someday starting your own business andachieving financial success and independence--it's a universaldream. Many also discover the internet and are led to believethis is the perfect medium for making that dream a reality. Whichis true, because you can accomplish things on the internet thatyou don't have the resources to accomplish off-line.However, many of you looking to start a business on-line alsohave a big...
•How To Avoid Having Filters Eat Your Emails
How To Avoid Having Filters Eat Your Emails
by: Willie Crawford
You've probably read 1000 times that "the money's in the list." If you're an Internet or email marketer, that's only partly true. The truth is that the money is in properly written emails, that get delivered to your list members. That last part is what most online marketers are missing!
An article in the June 2004 issue of Time Magazine reported that 40% to 70% of email sent to the four major ISPs is deleted at the server....
•How To Earn A Great, Long-term On-line Income
How To Earn A Great, Long-term On-line Income by Willie CrawfordEverybody wants to make their on-line fortune instantly.We don't want to slowly build our on-line empires. Thisis what drives many of the ebooks and special reportsthat I see lately. The question of how do you do it in30 days or less is even the main question in an ebookthat I was recently featured in. However, in Joe Kumar'sbook, the need to earn an on-line income in 30 days orless was presented as if it was an emergency...
•How To Generate A FLOOD Of Free Website Traffic
When I look back on my 12 years of being "an Internet marketer" one topic has earned me more money, and caused more online marketers incredible frustration, than any other.
That topic is actually getting visitors to your website and converting those visitors into customers.
The great fact is that without website visitors you really AREN'T in business.
This whole traffic generation "thing" is incredibly simple though. You just need to identify where a LOT of your ideal customers are, and...
•How To Get Listed in Yahoo!
How To Get Listed in Yahoo!
by: Willie Crawford
Getting listed in Yahoo! (The Very Top Search Engine/Index) is a lot like getting a date with the most beautiful girl in high school - often all you have to do is ask PROPERLY. I can make that statement because I have NEVER submitted a site to Yahoo! that wasn't listed. I've read a lot about how difficult it is getting listed, and how frustrating it is - so maybe I am just very lucky. Then again, if you follow the same steps that have...
•How To Get Massive Free Website Traffic
There is only one real secret to getting a lot of visitors to your website. That is merely figuring out where lots of your ideal visitors are, and standing in front of them.
When you think of it in those terms, it's really simple.
There are also only three real ways to get in front of the traffic flow. You can buy traffic, borrow traffic, or create traffic.
You buy traffic using pay-per-click search engines. It's very dependable, and can give you a steady flow of consistent traffic.
The...
•How To Leverage Your List to Grow It Even Faster
People are peculiar creatures... more alike in our thoughts and behavior than we like to admit. One thing that is true of most people, regardless of culture, and unique circumstances is that they like to know something that other people want to know.
We also like to share that information.
It makes us look and feel smarter :-)
It allows us to appear to have inside information and we like that. Not only do we like to share information, we like to steer our friends and family in the right...
•How To Market Your Products and Services On Twitter
Twitter is one of well over 1000 social networking sites that I know of. I actually have a list of that many, but have only checked out a handful of the most popular ones.
Actually, my list is about 1800 bookmarking and social networking sites. I may share that list with my inner circle soon... after my assistant go over it with a fine toothed comb :-)
I've already shared my list of the most popular (and productive) bookmarking sites in an ebook called, "How To Bookmark Effectively For...
•How To Quadruple Your Website Sales In Under 10 Hours
How To Quadruple Your Website Sales In Under 10 Hours by Willie CrawfordPractically every webmaster I come across could easilyincrease his web sales. Some could generate ten timesthe sales with only a few hours work. Yet, most seemoblivious to what they *need* to do to make this happen.They just plod along without implementing this one simplechange, and expecting to miraculously start making a lotmore sales from their website.What is this one thing that practically any webmastercan do -...
•How To Recruit 500 New Affiliates With Very Little Work
If you run an affiliate program, but are struggling to get it off the ground, you can change that. You only really need a few dedicated affiliates to start making sales, and after that the affiliate program can actually grow itself automatically.
A little-acknowledged fact is that with many affiliate programs, the top 5% of affiliates make 95% of the affiliate sales. Indeed, with many affiliate programs that I've studied, the top 1% of affiliates make 95% of affiliate sales.
So, it's not...
•Internet Marketing In A Room FULL Of Naked Men!
Internet Marketing In A Room FULL Of Naked Men!
by: Willie Crawford
NO, that's not one of my secret dreams :-) It's an observation that you need to make. Years ago, I read Harvey MacKay's fantastic best-seller, Beware The Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. I really enjoyed the book and even sent Harvey a note. He sent me an autographed copy of his book "Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive." It's one of my most prized possessions - but back to the naked man...
When you surf...
•Make An Absolute Fortune Teaching Ecommerce To Local Businesses
I've been marketing goods and services online since late-1996, and I have never seen a better time to start your own Internet marketing business. Current economic conditions around the world are driving millions to the Internet looking for additional income and a better lifestyle.
Sadly, thousands of people coming online every month enter the WRONG niche. They enter the most challenging niche that I can imagine. They enter the niche of people earning a living by teaching people how to earn a...
•Make Your Readers And Customers Love You - Tell Them How-To Do It!
Make Your Readers And Customers Love You - Tell Them How-To Do It! by Willie CrawfordOne of the bits of feedback I've gotten many times from myezine readers is that they want more how-to articles. Everyonetells them "what" to do to: build their business, drive moretraffic to their websites, make more sales, etc. However, veryfew people tell them "how". Many readers have told me that they really want step-by-step how-to articles. Newbies to yourbusiness are looking for this same how-to...
•Making Money Online Real Fast
Making Money Online Real Fast by Willie CrawfordOne of the questions I get asked most often in emails latelyis "How do I generate an online income really fast?" Thisquestion is usually from someone in a bit of a bind... which seems very prevalent these days. I generally try tohelp these individuals do some brainstorming. So I've thought a lot about that questions lately. The real answerthat I finally arrived at.....The single best way to earn a lot of money real fast onlineis through joint...
•Only You Can And DO Decide If You Will Succeed
Only You Can And DO Decide If You Will Succeed by Willie CrawfordSometimes it seems like identifying why some businessessucceed while others fail is impossible. After all, ifyou could readily identify why businesses end up in one category or the other, then it would also seem to be fairly simple to decide the fate of your business. The fact that many businesses - online and off-line - fail would suggest it's not so easy to figure out.This is something I have discussed at length with a number...
•Savvy Internet Marketers
Savvy Internet Marketers
by: Willie Crawford
You know that your business will probably grow slower than molasses in the Winter unless you joint venture and partner with other online marketers. If you're just launching your own product or service, you really need access to their lists. You need access to their contacts.
You also know... intuitively, that people like partnering with their friends. They like partnering with people whom they actually know and trust. Consequently, you know...
•Search Engine Optimization Secrets Of A #1 Google Ranking
It doesn't matter how great your product is, what a bargain your price is, or how beautiful your website is - Without traffic none of that matters.
So at its most basic, the biggest determinant of your web businesses success is "getting eyeballs looking at your webpages."
When looking at where the traffic comes from, it begins with others linking (or pointing the way) to your site. Since most people automatically turn to the search engines when looking for something online, that naturally...
•Secrets Of The SUPER Super Affiliates
Secrets Of The SUPER Super Affiliates
by: Willie Crawford
A super affiliate is an affiliate product marketer who has the ability to sell a LOT of affiliate products. Since this affiliate can produce much greater results than an average affiliate, he is often offered special deals by affiliate program managers. Affiliate program managers know that 5% of their affiliates are going to produce 95% of their results, so they reward top affiliates handsomely.
Being a super affiliate is no...
•Some Facts About On-line Riches
Some Facts About On-line Riches by Willie CrawfordA recent discussion on an on-line discussion forum remindedme of when I was involved in mail-order in the early 1970s.My introduction to "income opp-ortunities" was when Ianswered an ad offering a plan for making $100 a day stuffingenvelopes. The ad offered a plan for $1 and a self-addressed,stamped envelope. In exchange for my dollar and envelope Ireceived an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet telling me to run the same adand when I got responses, send them...
•The "Secret" Joint Venture Secret
The "Secret" Joint Venture Secret
by: Willie Crawford
You don't have to be in business online long before you hear or read hundreds of times that joint ventures are the secret to big success. The fact is, that joint venturing with those who are already in contact with your target market is a big shortcut to profitability. However, you have one big problem...
The next time that you're sitting in traffic at a busy intersection, spot one pedestrian in the crowd. Observe this person for a few...
•The Perfect Internet Product - A Cookbook?
The Perfect Internet Product - A Cookbook?
by: Willie Crawford
So you've decided to go into business for yourself on the internet. You've heard it's the perfect way to supplement your income with little or no investment. But what will you market to achieve fame and fortune?
Actually it all depends upon your goals and interests. You do need to offer something for which there is a proven demand. You need something that can be delivered cost effectively over the internet. You need...
•The Quickest Way To Get Cheap Sustained Website Traffic
During a recent radio interview, one of the callers asked for several ways to get fast, cheap, sustained website traffic. She added on top of that "tall order" that she didn't want to use pay-per-clicks!
Digging deeply into my toolkit of traffic generation techniques that had actually work beautifully for me, I suggested joint ventures and article marketing. Then I had to admit that article marketing often doesn't produce an immediate flood of traffic but that it can be sustained and highly...
•Traffic Equal Sales???
Traffic Equal Sales???
by: Willie Crawford
Everything being equal, more traffic to your website translates into more sales. Hence you read a lot lately about ways to generate more traffic to your website.
I'd like to begin by saying that more traffic does not necessarily equal more sales. Your website can attract tons of traffic for the freebies and if it is not conducive to making sales, you will probably not make more sales. Being conducive to more sales means offering quality, needed...
•Using Mirror Pages Effectively
Using Mirror Pages Effectively
by: Willie Crawford
Thought I would share with you a very effective technique for adding new customers to your mailing list. These are individuals who would not otherwise discover your products or services - because they did not come to the internet specifically looking for your products or services. This is through using what some call a mirror site or mirror pages.
To construct a mirror site, chose a topic of interest and build some content rich pages...
•Using Rebrandable Ebooks to Build Your Opt-In List
Webmasters and ezine publishers scramble daily to find fresh content on hot topics for their websites and ezines. They want to give, or sell, this information to their insatiable audiences.
Knowledge grows exponentially, and there is a huge demand for the latest of that knowledge to be summarized into digestible pieces. Ebooks are a great way to distribute that information while creating a list-building virus.
Ebooks are big with website owners and ezine publishers. They have a much higher...
•What Rich Internet Marketers Know That You Don't
What Rich Internet Marketers Know That You Don't
by: Willie Crawford
Thirty years ago, I sold information via small classified ads in "ad-sheets" on how to make money teaching others how to make money. We sent out these packets of flyers called "Big Mails." We sent them to people who answered out ads and sent us the postage or a self-addressed stamped envelope.
One of the most prevalent plans back then sold for $1. It offered to teach you how to make one hundred dollars a day stuffing...
•Why You Should FORGET About Website Traffic!
Why You Should FORGET About Website Traffic!
by: Willie Crawford
The headline read, "A funny thing happens when you don't promote your website... NOTHING." Experience has taught me that that's a fairly accurate statement. If you are not promoting your website, you're not building your web business.
However, there is one thing you need to focus on MORE than generating traffic. That is converting that traffic into buying customers. If the visitors aren't converting, and you're spending...
•You Must Create Top Of Mind Awareness
You Must Create Top Of Mind Awareness by Willie CrawfordYour customers and prospects are bombarded with thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of advertising messages every day.Getting your email though to them is a very small part of theproblem. After it gets to your reader, you have to connect withthem on a conscious level. Something about your message hasto make them really read, understand and digest your message. You have to create a "top of mind awareness." Otherwise, yourmessage isn't...
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