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How to focus

Focus.

It sometimes seems that all of us suffer from an attention deficit. Working alone makes it easy to let ones mind wander, there is no one close by to keep your nose to the grindstone so to speak. Working from home you have to multi task and it is so very easy to use that as an excuse to wander off track. A little bit of "research" here, checking that out there, and before you know it you are so far off course that you are totally lost.

How to avoid that trap? Very good question, especially if you are new to this online stuff. Many of us are starting from very close to ground zero and are as lost as we have ever been. One of the biggest problems is impatience. We want to be profitable now and I mean now. It is very easy to get into the situation where you need some funds now or yesterday.

So we "research" and sign up for the latest and greatest. If you are lucky you do not have any charges on your credit card. But your inbox is inundated with newsletters. Breathless hectoring newsletters. How anyone expects you take notice of some of them is beyond belief. Even if you read fast a couple of minutes on each can easily waste an hour or more.

What is the answer? I wish I knew. I do have some ideas. Take a large grain of salt. A saltshaker full in fact. Take your time to learn some of the ropes.
There is no free lunch in this business or any other and dues have to be paid. The motto of Ken Evoy's Site Build It is slow and steady wins the race. That company’s motto is the tortoise.

Try and work with some one. At the very least strike a relationship with a companion. Even if you are both novices you can give each other a reality check.

There are many mentoring programs out there. Most are not cheap and all very difficult to assess their competence. I have one that calls me on a regular basis
but I have not found a way to check them out.

One I did try was about $4000 and did tell me a thing or two, but was it worth it? I don't think so. The one on one was only for half an hour for six weeks. Just enough time to get comfortable with the mentor and have some idea of direction.

I attended an "Internet Marking Center" seminar the other weekend. It was a sales pitch but not obnoxiously so. I learnt a lot and do plan on working with them in the future. I think you do need to have some basic knowledge of this business to learn from a mentoring set up. "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet"

What has this do with focus? Working with another will help you stay on course.
Mark Joyner's " Simpleology course is a very simple way to clear the mind and focus on the essentials. He is also a very prolific author here, this one is free.

Set you target, Aim at it, keep you eye on it and follow through. No gazing out of the window dreaming.

Rob

The Burg
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Gadgets By George
R Solutions Inc
The Interface Financial Group

Drop Shipping

Drop shipping? What is it and does it work? There is a lot of buzz about drop shipping and the fortunes that can be made from it.

If you become a drop shipper all you are is the order taker. You don't own anything, you never take possession of anything. All you do is take the order, take the money, pay the drop shipper giving them the address of your customer. The dropshipper takes care of all the shipping and storage and hastle. Many dropshippers will even personalise the paperwork and packaging with your name. All you do is pocket the difference between what you are paid and what you pay the dropshipper.

Simple? In theory yes. However the margins on most things are not all that great especially if you are thinking of selling on EBay. There are a lot of people doing the same thing, look around on there and notice all the identical ads. The competition is fierce. Many of the coaching programs guide their clients in this direction. These so-called coaching programs will be the subject of another article.

Too make it work you really have to research your market and hope when you find a good one you can make a few bucks before the competition catches up with you.

Some points to consider.

For

No capital required, you do not pay out anything until you have been paid.
No inventory to store and take care of.
No shipping and packaging to take care of.
All you need is a computer and internet connection.
You do not even need a website if your are going to auction stuff.

Against

The margins are slim and competition fierce. I do make a little on EBay but it is a lot of work.
You have to come up with well writen copy to stand out from all the others selling the same stuff.
You have to be very careful who you team up with.
The customer is yours and the order fulfilment is out of your hands


A good source for reliable drop shippers are these guys:



An even source is to find a local manufacturer who does not have a national presence and offer to take care of the marketing for him.

This is a drop ship web site Gadgets By George

Bottom line? It works but you really have to know and research the marketplace.

Internet Marketing Center

The Internet Marketing Center. In the past I have made much of the free offer and its pitfalls. My last post was about the fact that you do not have to pay for information. I am on David Gehl's Internet Marketing Center's Newsletter. As a Result I received an invite to a "Free" two day seminar being held in various locations around the country.

Very sceptical at first - free but you have to give them $97 first to be refunded if you show up. I was going to be in Seattle on the appropiate weekend so I signed up. No Regrets. Two days of jam packed info. There was the sales pitch but it was bearable.
About 14 hours of great free content and maybe an hour if that of sales. I can live with that. Of course you could use the $97 as a rebate on some of the programs they were offering - I did.

Plus I got to make some decent contacts. Had a chance to chat to their training staff who knew what they were talking about. Two note pads worth of notes.

Just wish I could afford their full mentoring program. Already wasted my budget on another program to much regret..

The presenter was Jason Bax. Very good at it. Also very approachable and if he does not know what he is talking about makes a damn good show.

It was also nice to know that some of my sites do not seem to be too bad, but a lot of work ahead.

It does help if you do have some experience and a web site - shameless plug for one of mine The Kapstone Report.

Definitely a thumbs up event and if they are in you area grab the chance to attend one, you won't regret it.

The Seminars are still being held with these dates coming up:


San Diego, California -- November 18th and 19th, 2006
Featured speaker: Derek Gehl & IMC Team of Marketing Specialists
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- November 18th and 19th, 2006
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Calgary, Alberta -- November 25th and 26th, 2006
Featured speaker: Derek Gehl & IMC Team of Marketing Specialists
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Vancouver, British Columbia -- November 25th and 26th, 2006
Featured presenters: Jason Bax & IMC Team of Marketing Specialists
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Miami, Florida -- December 2nd and 3rd, 2006
Featured presenters: Jason Bax & IMC Team of Marketing Speciailists
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You don't have time to go to one of the seminars, or want to get up to speed before you go. Check this out; the #1 best-selling Internet Marketing course online for more than 7 years running, the "Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet"


Rob Stone "The 'Burg" 11/13/06

Do You Have To Buy Information?

Is an affiliate based business model for you?

Do You Have To Buy Information?

If you are looking to start an online business one of the big problems is information overload. You are inundated on all sides by information that you have to pay for or free information that is really a teaser to get you to buy information, which is a tease to buy the next information e-book or program.

However there is an abundance of truly free and worthwhile well written informed information out there.

Interested in adsense? Go to Google Adsense pages and learn. They invented the program and do know a little about it. I have adsense on some of our sites, not get rich quick, but it is money for very little or no outlay. We also have a few sites up using adsense templates. Not yet sure if they will be profitable.

Interested in Google adwords? Do the same on Google adwords site. Very comprehensive FAQ. These are the basis for many of the affiliate programs. Get your mind around these and build on the foundation.

The next step will be to get into a forum or two. Also a newsletter. We recommend Alan Gardynes newsletter and forums here.

Ready to learn more? To of the easiest ways to get onto affiliate marketing are with ClickBank and "Commission Junction" Both ClickBankand "Commission Junction" have very comprehensive information about their programs on their respective sites.

As you can see not all information has to be paid for. Just spend some time checking things out and do all you can to resist the urge to buy the latest and greatest. Not everything on these sites is perfect, after all they are promoting themselves, they do however have their reputations to take care of. In out experience this sort of experience is worth its weight in gold.

Once you have a basic grounding in the subject do a search for forums using the keywords that your are interested in and join in.

Then feel free to go out and buy knowledge.

The Kapstone Report.

Beware The Free Offer.

Everybody loves a free offer, but beware there is no free lunch. Any Internet business is totally reliant on one thing and one thing only.
That is traffic, no traffic equals no readers, no buyers, no affiliate buyers, no clickers on ads, equals no money.

The whole idea behind a free offer is to add you to their database. Or use it as a hook to get you into something that pays. It is perfectly legitimate.
Every business does it. What you need to be careful of is not forgetting to follow up.

Do not use your regular email address to sign up for the free offer whether it is a course, e-book or whatever. If you do there is one sure guarantee. Your mailbox will fill up with email, newsletters and offer after offer, but no really a free offer It will also help to distract you from the task in hand, which is to focus. If you jump from one information bite to the next all that will happen is information overload. At the most stick to no more than one thing at a time.

Please remember that no matter what the hype states the chances of turning a decent profit immediately are about the same as reading the truth in a political ad at election time.

The ones to be really aware of are those that get your credit card number to pay for the shipping and handling or a token $2.00 for example. If you forget to cancel before the 30 days are up you will be automatically charged the full subscription.

Read the small print and write down when you signed up, test the course or whatever out, and if you do not like it or think it is not worthwhile cancel. The onus is on you.

I have not had too many problems getting cancelled, but have had more than one subscription be paid before I realized what was going on.

There are many who give unconditional guarantees; these are the ones to get involved with. A mentoring program is not essential but it does flatten out the learning curve. They are not cheap, some running into many thousands. Get one where you have some time to cancel. Beware of those that find out how much your credit limit is and are willing to adjust the rate accordingly. They will try and flatter then cajole you into spending more than you can afford.

A good mentoring source is The Millionaire Of The Month Club It is a free offer, so try out for one month and if you don’t think it is worth drop out.

What are good mentoring programs? It needs to be ongoing, Find someone whose service you are using. Build a relationship and pick their brains. Always remember that they are in the business of making money and do not abuse the relationship. After a while you can build a mutual support system, swapping links etc. There are many good forums out there. My personal favorite is Site Build It Forum


Also when you get into forums it is a good way to publicize your site. Most have some restriction on what you can put in as links. Definitely do not over do it. But it is one of the best free ways to get your site out there. And DO not be devious.

If you want to try a genuine free offer, try this one.

Do You Want to Make Lazy Money?

Invent or buy into a system.

Set it up, maintain it, and be ready to find and use the next system when this one gets outdated.

Not lazy enough for you?

Once you have the system in place, hire people to manage it for you.
OR, have a team that works together to alleviate some of the work for you.
Think of the MEGA earners Bill Gates, Don Trump, Ross Perot (reaching far for that one).
They all made a lot of money but you wouldn’t call them lazy by any means.
Maybe you should re-evaluate what you’re going for.

Money can come easily and it should come easily- but answering ads that appeal to "Lazy Money Seekers" more often than not, brings disappointment.
Some of these programs below, will yield results but only if you put hard work into them. Not lazy by any stretch of the imagination.
Automated perhaps, but not Lazy.
Experts say that it can be done even without a web site Let's examine some in detail.  Remember, if these programs are to work for you, they cannot be approached with a lazy mindset.

Chris Carpenters Google Cash although now a bit out of date – Google has recently changed things around a bit - does however give an excellent overview of how the system works – and also a 90-day money back guarantee. Another huge bonus with his system is that yuou do not need a web site.

The whole methodology of an affiliate program is that the outfit you are affiliated to relies on you the affiliate to drive traffic (and potential customers) to their site. There are many good sources of books explaining the finer points of how this works.

One of my must reads is the The Rich Jerk Generally believed to be Kelly Felix. Plays hard at coming across as obnoxious. The short e-book has virtually no fluff fill content, though it does repeat itself a bit. This is in total contrast to most e-books. If they were tightly edited there would not be much there. I have probably learnt more from this book than all the rest put together about tactics and how to market etc.

Another one of the definitive books is by Rosalind Gardner. Again it shows the system through rose-colored spectacles. However for total beginners, which most of us were once, out it lays out the roadmap. Once you get familiar with the terminology and how the system works you are half way there.

There are also turnkey deals. CB Mall is one. Put together by Jeff Mulligan. (Who does answer his own phone!) It is just a site of links for Clickbank. Just a storefront you drive traffic to either by PPC (Pay per Click). Through your newsletter, through your website. Jeff has come up with a cool idea. One stop shopping for an amazing array of sites and information, check it out here, or if you would like to try one out check out this 15 day course.

YOUR OWN STORE

You can start your own store for a total outlay of less than $100. You do not have to worry about employees, but a teammate is very helpful at any stage of the game.

• a laptop


• DSL or Dial up, or wireless connection 


• cell phone.

You can practically do it from a bus- or the steps of a post office! (what?)

Part time, full time or anything in between. Most of the really successful players do have a staff and all the support that that entails. A lot can be outsourced and can be based from home so no matter how large you get you do not need a physical presence.

So give up your JOB, charge up the cards, and don't worry about anything. This is the INTERNET, and it's easy to make LAZY MONEY.*

*We do not for one second suggest you give up your J.O.B, unless of course your significant other can and more importantly is willing to support you.

Most of this affiliate stuff is simple in concept, but the devil is in the details. If you even needed to read this disclaimer to realize that the last line was a joke, perhaps you should get a paper route first. (No offense meant towards paper boys, or girls - paper people(?))