Traffic is the holy grail for generating a full time income online! Marlon Sanders covers his steps and how he used this formula to generate 199,540 Optin Subscribers and produced over a million in revenue. You will find his cheat sheet very helpful and an easy formula to follow. Marlon has been at the internet marketing game for over 10 years now and been creating fulltime income long before 99 percent of all other marketers online!

Here’s Marlon’s cheat sheet for generating leads online:

1. First you need to know how much you can afford to spend to get someone to join your email list.

a. After people opt in, you’re going to present them with an immediate offer, either on the thank you page, or the page after they confirm their email.

I’m going to call this “sale 1.”

a. Count the total revenue generated from sale 1, including upsells and downsells.This is the KEY. When they buy sale 1, it’s critical you immediately have upsells and downsells.

b. For example sake, let’s say after they opt in, you present an offer for $27 and, on average, including a $250 upsell and $50 downsell (if they decline the $250 offer), you net out $50.

If you’re converting 10% of opt ins, that is $5 per opt in. Now, you know you can conservatively spend $2.50 to get an opt in. I’m going to use this $2.50 as an example. You have to calculate your own numbers.

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Let’s return to simplicity. There are all kinds of complicated things you can do to market online. But let’s just look at the simple things we know work. The following formula will work for you whether you have your OWN products to sell or you’re promoting affiliate products.

There are 6 basic things you gotta know to get your Formula working for you:

1. Who is your target audience? This is the FIRST thing you have to know. Who BUYS what you’re selling. In today’s world, this is easy to find.

a. You search Google for the keywords people interested in buying what you hope to sell are likely searching
for.

b. You take the top 10 web sites under those keywords.

c. You go to Quantcast.com and type in the URL’s.

Now you know who your audience is.

2. What do they want to buy

a. Go back to the SAME websites in step one.

b. Look at what they’re selling.

c. Now you know what people want to buy.

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Yesterday we spoke of Blogger and WordPress as blogging options if one wanted to go the free route and today I want to finish up with some of the intricacies of things when it comes to blogging, and talk a bit more on its benefits to you, whether you use it as a full blown business model or if you simply use it as a information management system for your current website.

Blogger is actually owned by Google, so some say  it will be detected by Google’s radar faster, frankly I am not real sure if that is true or not. I do know that it really doesn’t make a bit of difference, considering when I put my first blog up, it was only a day before Google came by and indexed my first post, so no biggie there as far as benefiting from blogger.

However, WordPress blogs are better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Trackbacks and Categories, sitemaps and googles analytics. The shear volume of plugins made available to you as a blogger is staggering and 99.9 percent of them are totally free. The other thing you will quickly find attractive to you blogging with WordPress, is the choices you have when it comes to themes. Themes truly make you unique and to your tastes. Read the rest of this entry

So what was truly hot in the year of 2008?? Its simple really, there were 2 things that stand out in a big way. Popularizing blogs as a business model and the other is jumping on promotion through social media and social networking sites. I have mentioned this a few times before and if you have been with me for any length of time you know I am huge fan of blogs. The reason is simple really, they work and they are so flexible and allow the user and myself so many options!

The one question I get with frequency is, don’t blogs take a lot of your time and don’t you have to create blog posts every day? Where do you come up with the information to keep your blogs active and fresh. Lets answer the first question. As far as time goes, they do take more time than a static standard kind of website, and yes in order for your blog to viable and something someone would want to visit, you do have have to create post a couple 3 times a week at the very least.

As far as the information to write about, well it comes from you, my readers. I get questions day in and day out that need answers and I simply read your emails and write about what it is you want to know.

Lets get into what blogging is really all about and why blogs have become such a mainstay for so many. Blogs and blogging is all about flexibility and interaction with your prospects and or customers. When blogs first started out there really were no business applications and what I mean, is people simply didn’t use them as a business type of format. Static sites were all people were putting up, whether it was a simple sales page or a full blown store with 20 to 50 items. People typically used blogs as an online journal or a platform for online rants about a given subject. Read the rest of this entry

There is no doubt nor question in my mind on the future of affiliate marketing and blogs. Using blogs as your format is extremely beneficial to both the reader and the your perspective customer as well as you as an internet marketer. Lets look at from the stand point of what the search engines want. First they want fresh, new optimized content that they can add to their indexed pages. So it becomes a simple decision, you simply supply them with the keyword optimized content and you supply the prospect with the kind of information that will help them with a buying decision and you also position yourself as an expert.

becoming an authority is pretty easy when you are loading your blog with solid information that the reader is looking for. It strengthens your credibility and gives the buyer the kind of information that allows he or she to make an educated decision. However you want to be sure that you stick with the soft sell and recommendation and not get yourself into to much of a sales pitching blog. Leave that to the product creator. Read the rest of this entry