What If You Just Want To Keep It Simple And Make Some Money? December 31, 2008
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You Won't Need This Right Away.
Hello Fellow Internet Marketing Enthusiasts:
Alert! I want you to know that I put some links in here that are necessary to you’re well-being! Be on the lookout! I made them BOLD..I underlined them, and they are hard to see. It’s always something.
As near as I know, this is the only place you can actually get everything you need to have a money making website up and running fairly easily. The first month will cost you $52 dollars less sales. The months after that will cost $30 less sales
If you want to get things simplified and actually started (ie money coming into your account) I’m going to tell you how I did it…and then did it again.
First you need a no brainer, extra good, converting web/sales page offer WITH 5 units of autoresponder all ready to go, at a killer price. I have it for you. You can sell it! You practically can’t stop it from selling. It’s a ready to go mini site. See it here.
But first there are some things you have to know in order to take advantage of a lead pipe cinch.
There’s always a catch, isn’t there?
Still, the “catch” is that you are going to have to learn some things that you are going to have to learn anyway, so let’s just see you get it done!
What are those things?
One - You’ll need to edit this website in an HTML editor. That is a great way to learn to actually BUILD web pages! I have your tutorial and FREE HTML EDITOR SOFTWARE right here for you. Later, if you decide you want to sell this tutorial on another simple little website, you can purchase the license for $9.
Two - You’re going to need a domain name and hosting. I recommend Hostgator. They have very reasonable prices AND (this is important) the best support help I have EVER encountered.
Three - You are going to need FTP software so you can upload and download HTML files to your new servers as well as edit them and move them around! A word of caution…this is really easy so quit sweating it.
There are two programs I recommend. They ARE FREE and they appear to be the BEST! Go to Cyberduck and/or Filezilla.
Fourth - You are going to need an autoresponder - the automatic email follow up wonder that makes you money even when you are passed out! Or asleep. Works there, too! I recommend AWeber and NO OTHER!
Fifth - You are going to have to drive traffic to your spanky new site and COLLECT MONEY! Oops, that’s two things.
Go here and get my FREE Tutorial on Article Marketing. Use it. Make Money.
Last but not least… GET PAID! The first time you see money going INTO your PayPal account will be a big day for you! Open a PayPal account! Jump through their hoops. It’s OK.
Naturally I have one of these up and working. That’s good for you. You can see what it looks like after you brush it’s hair and put shoes on it.
What’s next? Oh, my turn. Go here and purchase the best little money maker you’ve seen in a long time. $7. Go for it.
Then get the above stuff done, get your baby up and running! Then sell it to other people. Make some money.
Here is the best part. (Did you think the best part was getting it up and making money?) That’s the second best part!!!
The best thing is…NOW you know how it’s done and now it’s easy. It’s tough for everybody at first. That’s where you want to be… at that place where it’s easy and you can do it over and over!
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: Let me give you one more thing - Here, the 10 Basics.
PSPS: This is no fools gold snipe hunt. You do everything on this page ( and it isn’t much) you’ll be earning money and you’ll be your own man. Always worked for me. Ask me questions! riley@rwestdotcom.com
The questions thing is good until I am overwhelmed…which is happening.
Infrastructure First - Offers In Place - Traffic Is Next. December 27, 2008
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Building Bridges
Hello Aspiring Internet Marketers!
I’m addressing this message to people who are interested in building a business online that will support them year after year and grow while doing it.
Here’s what you are going to need, beyond a computer, internet service, and a place to sit.
You are going to need a blog. You will use it as a content management system/blog combo and, you don’t know it now, but it’s super helpful in managing all your website offers. I recommend Wordpress and so does just about everybody else.
I highly and proudly recommend hostgator. I use them and I think they have the best support staff in the world! I think you should get your first domain name there and your hosting, too. Here’s why.
Hostgator comes with a ton of extras but, right now, you just want Fantastico and they give it to you at no extra charge. Fantastico will slap your Free Wordpress Blog up on hostgators servers at your domain address so fast it’s fun!
Now…I’m telling you exactly what I did to build my business. I went to Yahoo for my other domain name - rwestdotcom.com/. They make it so easy but here is the main reason to have them host your html web page offers.
I love how easy it is to fix a webpage at Yahoo. This is big! You are a beginner. There’s going to be mistakes.
Listen to this…when I spot a misspelled word on one of my webpages (and I have many and growing) I can, with one click, be right in among the files, and usually I can fix it right there. That’s without having to download the file out of Yahoo to my HTML editor, fix it, and then re - upload it.
This is a killer time saver and makes you look like a pro when you can fix a web page mistake on the fly.
So that’s me now. My blog is at Hostgator and all my HTML sheets are hanging over at Yahoo.
By the way, I have dozens of webpages selling for me on ONE DOMAIN and HOSTING plan at Yahoo. They don’t seem to mind heavy loading. Think about how much that saves you!
Here’s how that works. my domain name is www.rwestdotcom.com….if you go there it is my index page but I hardly ever use it.
But, if I want a salespage for my website tutorial I just bang out the rough draft and, with one click, I upload it to a new domain name that I just make up! Make them up intelligently so you can tell what it is from it’s file name.
It’d look like this ….www.rwestdotcom.com/websitesalespage.html and THAT is right where my website sales page resides. Go take a look. It took 5 to 10 minutes from scratch so you ought to be able to put a good sales page up in an hour or so.
I have one other piece of infrastructure that, for me is indispensable and that is my $20/mo AWeber autoresponder. This single piece of equipment is what makes it possible for your website/blog combo to sell something on automatic without you having to be there! You CANNOT do without it.
I almost forgot PayPal! Just do it. It’s so easy. You can get fancy, expensive checkout systems later when you might need them. This is how you get paid! Why not keep it simple?
Now, that’s the infrastructure. Here follows a list of other things you’ll need.
1. You’ll need a website HTML tutorial and the software. I have it for you.
2. You’ll need a blog installation tutorial to get your Wordpress Blog up at Hostgator. I have that for you.
3. You’ll need an FTP program for when you want to move a LOT of files really fast.
I have located two free FTP’s and I use one. I’m on Mac. I have them both for you here FREE! Cyberduck…and…Filezilla.
4. You’ll need an article marketing tutorial so you can learn to drive traffic to your offers and blog. No traffic no sales BUT…this is cool…blog’s attract traffic because search engines love them. Still, you need articles for great targeted traffic.
By the way, the first things I sold were the very things I used to do what I did.
If you want to see what I did go to my blog and look around a bunch. Click a ton of the links. Don’t worry, these links don’t cost me anything.
So what I am telling you is that my blog/web page combo works fine and is producing sales. You can have one just like this one. Just use all the things I did and copy me.
The only thing you can’t copy is the actual “copy” or words that I use in the way that I use them. They’re copyrighted.
And, you are going to have questions. Use me for that at riley@rwestdotcom.com.
This way works. I was shown it by my mentor at the time because he knew it worked. You are welcome to it, a proven path to sales and a growing business.
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon Pioneer making his way in the trade
Make Yourself Feel Good And Make Yourself Some Money! December 26, 2008
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You Can Dress Any Way You Want!
December 26, 2008
Hello again:
Well, I hope you had a good Christmas. I also hope that you are feeling positive. It helps!
Here’s a way to feel better fast - Smile!
Scientists have proven that certain chemicals in your brain that make you feel good flood your brain cells when you turn up the corners of you mouth slightly. Even picturing a smile in your mind produces these chemicals.
So go for it! Smile. You’ll feel better. People you meet will feel better. It’s a winner all the way around.
I gotta think that you are interested in finding a way to make money online…am I right? Well, I am one stubborn guy when know I’m on the right path and I believe I am on the right path.
What path is it?
I picked the niche of Internet Marketing because I came from offline marketing and so much of this is the same. The big differences between marketing online vs marketing outside is the tools used and the cost to operate them.
Online marketing is incredibly cheap. With a little bit of labor I can set up a full fledged Internet Marketing business for under $200. That’s impossible in the offline world.
How can I say that? I have an offline business www.rileysrealwood.com/ Yep, that’s mine. Take a look. It’s named after me!
The overhead (cost of doing business) on that nice little store runs $40k - $45k per month) So, if you are using the 45,000/mo figure that means you have to PROFIT $1500/day to break even. That takes between 90 and 100 thousand in sales per month. Phew! No wonder so many of them go broke.
When I discovered Internet Marketing(IM) I was fabbergasted at the low operational expenses and at the same time overwhelmed with new terminology and equipment.
The marketing was about the same though.
I got thrown out of the store quite a while ago, so I had some time on my hands. And I had a laptop. And I saw IM as a fun opportunity.
So much money…so many ways to make it.
This morning, the morning after Christmas, I got up determined to do something for my readers in this post.
I’m going to tell you exactly what I did to get money going INTO my paypal account.
I’m also going to make you an offer that I am fairly certain a lot of you will want.
And then, if there’s is time I’m going to show you a “Biz in a Box” that I rigged up
But you are going to have to know how to do some things. The same things I did.
So, I barged right into Internet Marketing. I learned how to build a webpage.
Then I bought a domain name/ hosting package for it, and I put my webpage online.
I used FREE FTP and loaded some files by hand!
Then I started a blog. This one. I wanted to use the blog to detail my experiences going from knowing nothing about Internet Marketing to actually having money going into my paypal account. What a thrill!
You gotta get there! Don’t let the rush of making money out of the air… while you sleep, slip out of your grasp. If you are cut for this sort of thing then, by all means, do it!
Well, this happens. I’ll get a quick start tomorrow and finish this up.
Remember I’m going to tell you how I did it and what I used.
Then I’m going to make you an offer that I am sure you’re going to like.
And, I’ll show you that “Biz in a Box“ I rigged up so you can look at it thoroughly. I’ll show you the “kit and I’ll show you the kit deployed and working.
Biz in a Box - Everything you need
You May Be Able To Make Money Online By Yourself…But… December 22, 2008
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Removing The Barriers
Hello again!
In the last post I detailed one of the “stumbling blocks” I have encountered in some of the “Do It This Way AND You’ll Have Big Cash In Two Weeks!” type programs.
Yes, I have fallen for the siren salespage that made it all sound so easy. Hasn’t everybody?
My main point in the last post was that they always seem to leave something out. That is…that their “step by step” plan is missing a step or two!
It seemed to me that, no matter how hard I tried to follow the plan, that I would invariably get to that place where I didn’t know how to proceed!
In my case it was when I got to the step that started with “Open a Google Adwords account.”
For a lot of folks, opening an account is achievable, but actually building an ad campaign that earns money faster that it costs money is practically impossible.
There’s too much that can go wrong, especially for beginners.
So that’s one example of a place you can get hung up and even hurt, financially, if you don’t at least have some familiarity with the “step”.
And almost all the programs that claim to be “The Way” to making money online will have these “steps,” that a lot of people won’t get past. Be it for reasons of patience or whatever people hit points they don’t want to go past. It becomes too difficult for them and they either quit or look for another way, which is going to have the same problem.
I fought that a while. When I first started looking into this it all seemed so reasonable.
You see, I’ve been in marketing a long time…say 35 years. But NOT Internet Marketing, and, naturally, it has it’s own unique methods. And tremendous growth potential.
One thing I can say for certain is that ALL the current sales techniques were being taught to me by the world’s best in the late 70’s. BEFORE we had computers we used TV, Radio, Newspaper Display ads, and most important, cheap rate snail mail. (If you’d like to read a bit about it I have a free book offer here - a book that I contributed to.) If you want just go past the sales pitch, get your free ebook which is unlike all others, and sign up to get your FREE, PUBLISHED, NO BUGS VERSION as soon as it is out.
So, I saw this problem for what it was and I decided to eliminate my ignorance of all things mechanical in Internet Marketing.
My theory is that, as long as you don’t understand the mechanics (which I often refer to as “Infrastructure”)…the specific ones you don’t understand are going to stop you.
Well, I didn’t want to be stopped.
So I joined an Online Internet Marketing School and I immediately set about learning what I didn’t know and making a list of those things I had to have down pat so that I could do what I wanted to do.
And THAT’s Direct Sales by means of the Internet. At that time I knew Direct Selling but I didn’t know Internet Marketing Infrastructure.
Prior to this I really didn’t know what I didn’t know.
Things like “Building a Web Page.” I didn’t know how to do that and was seduced by those who said, “You can make money online without a website!”
Same with blogs, only I had heard that Google loves blogs AND now, every day, I get visitors to this blog from SERP’s (search engine page results) that Google served up to their query. (the words they typed in) A blog makes Traffic!
Other things I knew very little about were simple things like Domain Names and Hosting.
I avoided FTP (file transfer protocol) for a long time because I found a harder way first that was simply loading my website files up to my Hosts servers one at a time - by hand!
I could understand that. Then I found out later that FTP is FAR easier and will do other good things for you,too. Like back up large numbers of files or just transfer them someplace. Or duplicate or delete them!
I didn’t understand the autoresponder, list building, and email marketing. (Also known as “back end sales.”
Now I was on my way but I felt I needed to understand this at a higher level and I found that higher level training in a program run by Ken McCarthy called “The System.” I go into that a bit more on my next post. It’s important.
But, before I quit today let me tell you what my goal was, besides the obvious one of understanding Internet Marketing.
I wanted an online business that made money even when I wasn’t there to watch it!
Tell me that doesn’t sound great.
Now, I know what that takes and I am doing it…if at a low level. More on that later, too.
One more thing…if I had found this PDF when I started I would be a lot further along than I am. So, go there and get that. I’ts FREE!
Once again, it’s been fun…comments welcome,
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: More on developing skills and finding your way in the next post. - rw
Updated! Did You Know a $7 Report Can Earn You Real Money? December 13, 2008
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Only Seven Bucks, Man!
Hello again:
You probably already know a little about good, low cost reports.
If you come around here often you know I am big on products that will…
One. Teach you a valuable skill…and
Two..Are an actual product that you can then sell.
Honestly…what could be better. You know there’s no free lunch.
I picked up on this quite a while back. Think about it.
You spot an under $10 plr report that covers something you need to learn and/or looks like something that would be a natural to sell on your site.
You pay some measly amount…usually under ten bucks, and download it.
You learn a valuable way to make money.
And you are provided the product and everything you need to sell it. And now, you start selling that. You just have to get started and it will happen.
Man, that sounds easy and straight forward.
Except for one thing. It’s always something. Ask Roseanne Roseannadanna! (Google her)
Like…do you have a domain name yet, and hosting. If not - full stop - you can go nowhere.
Pick a domain name and register it immediately. Or quit.
And…do you have hosting? (a place to hang your web pages. Your offers.) Get some right now and get this dumb obstacle out of your way!
Like…are you familiar with FTP and uploading HTML files to your Domain Address at your Host? No? Really! Get FREE FTP software for MAC… learn it in one day and get this obstacle out of your way! Really!
Yep, those few little things are what makes it impossible for good qualified people to get ahead in this biz.
My suggestion? Get ‘er done! Open the gates to IM Heaven! Knock down the obstacles! Figure it out! It isn’t hard! It just looks that way at first. Get with it! Just do it!
It is absolutely necessary and all those guys out there trying to sell you a “plan” KNOW in their heart of hearts that you won’t go anywhere because you can’t handle the basics.
What are the basics? I was hoping you’d ask.
First pick Hostgator and get a domain name and a hosting plan.
Why do I say that? I’ve had several and these guys are great! Best customer support I EVER had! Reasonable pricing too! Just take my word for it…my word is good. I’ve been there.
As for FTP? Surprise! It’s FREE! Choose Cyberduck or Filezilla and just go!
At the time of this post there is trouble at these sites but I guess it will be fixed pretty soon.
With the above in place all you need now is an HTML web page to upload! I call that “hanging’ the page.
Do it back and forth a few times (with changes), so you learn how to correct typos! Typos happen!
You do know how to edit an HTML file by now…right? If not you can know all about it here….WEBSITE EDITOR HERE!
So, now that I’ve bugged you about the basic stuff you may not know, let me make up for it by showing you this…
HOW TO GET STARTED PUTTING MONEY INTO YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT!
Just click here, buy it, and get to work. You are close!
One more time…
1. For simplicity Get a .com Domain Name for About 15 bucks and the reason I use the Hosting Plan below is 1. They are reasonably priced. 2. Best support in the world, no exaggeration. 3. Unlimited Sites - One hosting fee!!! That’s Hostgator and that’s the one I use and recommend.
You can get going today for $25 total for your first month and 10/mo after that! Do it! That’s HOSTGATOR!
Hostgator Rates
Use this FREE Software to make your pages.
Use this Free FTP for Mac and FREE FTP for PC to upload and download pages to your server.
Get this done and I’ll show you how to put a FREE Wordpress Blog up and running in 5 minutes.
Then I’ll show you how to put HTML sales pages up for your offers. That’s free too!
After that you can experience the fun of posting blog content and making you first sale happen.
You do this…you’re in business. And you control it!
And you did it all for $25. Not bad…not bad at all.
Email me if you have problems or questions. riley@makinganinternetmarketer.com
We’ll get you going.
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
What Can You Do When You Build a Site That Doesn’t work? December 12, 2008
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This Doesn't Work!
Hello again:
I’ve had a couple of sites that didn’t make any money. But each time I felt I got closer. I don’t know why there can’t just be a place you can go to be told why your site isn’t working.
I like the idea of Instant Site Review.com/ I don’t think that kind of thing exists.
Now it does! This unassuming little article is that place. Or one of them.
Did you ever hear that idea of doing a website about something you just really like? Well, I’m crazy about Dachshunds, so I made a big elaborate site. Took me a long time.
Turns out wiener dog words are cheap so I flooded the site with a ten dollar a day budget and a few articles.
I had a signup rate of about 15%. The list really took off!
Let me tell you that a wiener dog site is easy to do! Wonderful pictures AND I made a page where anybody could send me pictures of their dogs and themselves and I would post them up right away. That got busy!
I had CPA offers and affiliate offers and adsense and ONLY adsense paid. It paid about three bucks a day and I had $10 per day in PPC.
People liked the site, but they wouldn’t buy. I didn’t get it.
I declared the whole thing to be a great learning experience and shut it sown. Maybe, if I’d stayed with it…but I had all five of the criteria below going pretty well and it didn’t work.
Call me impatient but I bagged it.
Look at these following points of discussion about the efficacy of websites. One of these might explain why your site isn’t making any money.
Low Traffic - If no one sees your sales page you are finished right there!
You have to actually recruit visitors to the site! My favorite method is Article Marketing.
Unless you are very competent, depending on the Search Engines to bring you traffic is unlikely to ever work, and, really, you need to be proactive.
The best ways to drive traffic to your offer (site) are PPC, Article Marketing, and Web 2.0 Social Networking.
I’m still old school.
PPC bums me out, most of the time. I made $70,000 with ppc in 2007. But, it wasn’t repeatable.
Currently I have a blog. It gets traffic. More each month! I’m working on it.
I use articles to send people to my blog where I have several offers on webpages linked from the blog.
Bad Site Design - If you have traffic to your site, the next thing to look at is how visitors perceive your site.
If it looks unprofessional, if it’s tough to navigate or is a little ugly… it’s unlikely that visitors will trust you. They just won’t give you their money.
Good webpage/salespage/website design is easily and cheaply available. You can even do it yourself. Read all about it!
Bloggers can look good through nicely designed Wordpress themes and templates.
If you aren’t a blogger, consider using website template services for ideas.
But, I gotta tell you, being able to build or at least modify your own HTML websites is an absolutely invaluable skill…especially at first. Learn about it a little…it’s actually easy after you expose yourself to it for a little while.
Bad Traffic = Untargeted Traffic - This is pretty straightforward but a lot of people get it wrong. Example, if you have a wiener dog site don’t use “dogs” as a keyword, Broad, Phrase, OR Exact. You’ll pay for tons of traffic and very little of it will be interested in Dachshunds.
Watch your links! If you can send traffic somewhere (a valuable skill) DON”T make the mistake of sending them to the wrong place accidently! OMG! Yes, I did that very thing.
Short Story - A couple of years back I remodeled my main website. I also changed the URL address to a better one… I thought. I made a little typo. Check your links… then double check your links!
Because of that little typo I sent $700 worth of PPC to the 404 Forbidden Zone! You should have seen my face when I discovered that!
When selling specific items, send your traffic directly to the most relevant page on your site that gives them what they were looking for.
Copy Problems - If you send traffic to a beautiful page that promotes a specific product and it isn’t working, you may want to consider your copy!
Does the copy have spelling and grammatical errors? The kiss of death! Throw yourself down the staircase, kid…you can’t spell! How smart can you be? I should take your advice? That’s how a lot of people judge you, or the image of you…by the words you use and the way you write. This includes spelling and grammer.
Rewrite your copy to the best of your ability and then find someone to edit it. (proofread)
Good copywriting is what makes sales happen. Sell the benefits and tell your prospect how a product will improve their life.
No E Mail Follow-Up marketing? What if you did it all right? If your prospect left your site without buying…it’s OK…If you have their name and email address. And if you follow up with an autoresponder series.
Way back, when I was learning sales and marketing from the leaders at that time…they had a mantra. it went like this…
“We studied the best salespeople in America and we found that the top producers closed the sale on average on the seventh closing attempt (read… An email to the prospect)…AND…when you take into consideration that many salespeople know two closes and only USE one…then you have some idea of why there are so many peons in this business.)”
The lesson is this…If you want above average results, attempt to sell AT LEAST SEVEN times! Otherwise…accept low returns.
And, you can use your autoresponder for this!
So, EACH of the items listed above is critical to your online business success.
Here’s the nugget. Get the website, salespage, web page…whatever you want to call it… really looking good. Now, send it a lot of targeted traffic. Articles are my favorite. PPC is my next choice.
Pay attention, bank the money and then…PAY ATTENTION AGAIN! You will learn and prosper!
Oh, by the way, reconsider your offering (product)…if it’s not so hot, all the stuff above will still leave you with no sales! Don’t try to sell baldness remedies to people who are looking to lose weight. You want Targeted Traffic!
So, now you have it! Do all the above AND make sure it’s a killer converting product!
Thank you again…Go forth and prosper…and pay attention…you’ll get it.
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: Would you like a free ebook on spelling and grammer? Couldn’t hurt.
One of The Best Kept Secrets In Internet Marketing-PLR. December 8, 2008
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Don't Tell!
Hello Folks:
A newcomer to Internet Marketing is looking for a way to sell something online.
They have visions of it being lucrative and, even easy.
Well, it is easy, if you know what you are doing.
I get asked this question from newcomers and it goes like this…”What’s the best way for me to make money online?” (MMO)
You see, there are actually many ways to MMO and that is actually a bit of a problem.
One of my answers is “The best way for you is the way you’ll stick with.”
An awful lot of newcomers do that thing where they bounce around trying to land on the right way.
After I did that for a month or so I knew I had to get some skills learned and some terminology down about Internet Marketing.
So I joined on of those Online Internet Marketing schools and dug in for a while. It really helped.
You see I “studied” Internet Marketing for at least a year before I took a shot at getting money INTO my paypal account!
Yes, I learned a LOT of tech stuff about the mechanics of website creation, blogs, article marketing, including autoresponders, HTML, Hosting, Domains, SEO, Adwords, keywords…it just goes on and on.
And I know a LOT about it! A whole year and I didn’t make a dime. I spent a lot of money, though. My wife insists it was over ten thousand dollars.
I can hardly believe it, but, my lovely wife is the tax preparer, bookkeeper, and money manager for a good size concern in our little town. My guess is she’s right.
I spent over a year examining Internet Marketing from every angle I could find. I found a lot of angles.
But I wasn’t making any money.!
I’ve been in business 35 years and one thing I can say for sure about retail selling or sales in general is this…
Provide Value!
That’s always been the mantra. Provide value. It makes sense. Otherwise the customer will just keep his money.
Well, here we are, you and I, right in the middle of this whole Make Money Online industry and we have newcomers asking…
“How Can I Make money Online?”
People are looking at this business for a lot of the same reasons you and I are looking at it. We want to make money. It’s that simple.
But, really, don’t you think that you should have done it, and succeeded at it, before you start telling others how to do it? Especially if you are asking for money for the information. The info has to work!
You may be able to argue that both ways but the fact is…
I have done it.
And, now, I can tell you how I did it. That’s kind of fun! Especially if I make a little money on the deal.
If you sell them a book on how to make money online, and especially if YOU HAVE DONE IT, it’s the perfect deal. Even more so if you wrote it!
You ought to be able to describe to them in detail exactly HOW you did it. And that’s value. Just what they’re looking for.
I get emails asking me how I’d make money if was brand new to the Internet Marketing Business. A year ago I was telling them do do what I did. Go to school.
Yes, there are Online Internet Marketing Schools! Does this surprise you? Maybe you ought to take a look.
One of the reasons I made money quickly with plr info ebooks was because, as I told you earlier, I studied Internet Marketing thoroughly for a year before I saw that PLR was the path for me.
That, mixed with an equal or better amount of original content.
So I had websites and blogs down. I had an autoresponder. I’d been around a while.
Get this, even when someone has a proven plan for making money online…still, there can be hurdles to cross.
Let’s say you now have a plr product, all revamped and revised, ready to go, you’re anxious to start and chomping at the bit. Good! You’ve got an honest ebook with valuable information.
How are you going to promote and sell this info product? Great question and we’ll get right into it in the next section of this report.
In this case, since we’re in the blog, the next section will jbe one of the next posts, a few days from now.
Once again, it’s been fun, please comment!
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
My Favorite Ebooks on Internet Marketing! December 3, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , 5commentsHello again…Riley here:
There are a lot of Internet Marketers out there that will show you what they want you to buy, usually based on the products sales volume and commission structure.
I bought and absorbed a $2000 marketing course. I learned a LOT! I don’t recommend it for people who are looking for an easier, softer way into the world of Internet Marketing (IM).
Looking back, I think a person could get into this, including getting to the “make money” stage for less than $500 bucks and a LOT of homework!
But I have to tell you, that for me it was hard, costly, stressful, and, at times, I thought about just stopping. But then I realized that, if I stopped, I’d never get there. See that’s the secret. If you start down this road…don’t quit!
I’m in that old situation where if I’d known what I know now I would have been in the money a lot sooner.
I bought and read Butterfly Marketing and Google Cash and I qualify as an affiliate salesperson for those two very popular titles. But I won’t recommend them.
They aren’t presented in the personal, personable, casual way I want my information to be. I always was like that and won’t change. When I met these Marketing Mavens in England I was so taken by their style of instruction that I bought ALL of their books (about 20) and had them printed.
As soon as I started applying what they showed me, things started to happen for me. For example this blog was at their urging and it has kickstarted my sales like non other. If you would like the book of theirs that I purchased to start this blog, email me at riley@rwestdotcom.com and I will send you the very same book…FREE!
I’m certain they are the best and they might be for you too! So, for starters, here are four of their books I think no one should miss.
1. The Smart Marketers Handbook.
4. Licensed to Quit (Your job)
And finally, their very good and compehensive Kickstart Marketing Course.
Finally, If you have any questions about these recommendations.. pop me off an email to riley@rwestdotcom.com and I will answer as many as I can!
Thank you Again,
Here’s to Your Success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade
PS: There is one other very high quality info site and I can honestly say that I have benefited greatly from just their FREE INFORMATION. The free info you’ll get there is better than 95% of the “Paid For” Stuff.
You have less than nothing to lose and you have a lot to gain. Go here!
Listen, I have to tell you this…this link is to The Man who invented Internet Marketing and he is a very cool, down to earth guy, and that’s why I like him.
His name is Ken McCarthy and he is the real deal. Be on his list.
Go there….be unafraid.
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
Learn to Build and Publish a Webpage in One Hour or Less! From Scratch! November 23, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , 2comments
MacBook Pro
Hello Folks:
If you could make a simple website with a decent offer on it and make a little money for doing it…would you?
Apparently a lot of prospective Internet Marketers are right at that point.
I don’t know why it’s such a formidable barrier. But that’s because I can do it. Easily.
But it was impossible for me less than a year ago.
How did I do it? I made the decision to go forward.
I had been studying Internet Marketing for quite a while and the whole time I was looking into it I was avoiding the website thing.
It seemed too complicated! Too technical. They talk in code!
I remember the day. It was a beautiful early summer day and I was in my van down by the river. No I wasn’t living in it.
I had my two little wiener dogs with me and a packed lunch, including dog treats.
I was also blessed with a MacBook Pro AND I had rigged up a high speed wireless antenna with a wire running the full length of the van that had a tendency to get caught on all sorts of stuff.
My van is a legendary mess but the stuff thats in it is all good stuff. Still, it does look like maybe a homeless soul dwells among the debris.
Anyway, I had everything I needed that day, except the ability to build a webpage, no matter how simple.
And I had come to that place in my heart of hearts where I knew I had to fish or cut bait.
I had a nice lunch, listened to the radio, watched people floating by on inner tubes, and played with the dachshunds a bit…all the while gathering up the determination this was going to take.
We got back into the van and I rotated my little computer table into position and got online…I was going to do it!
I wasn’t intimidated anymore, I was just going to do it. Get ‘er done.
So I found NVU and downloaded it onto my trusty Mac. It’s free software that has been in development for years by this group of people so altruistic that they are willing to work for the good of the people. FREE!
If you type NVU into Google it’ll come up number one. Wish my sites would do that.
So now I had it, right there in front of me. Nothing could stop me.
It took a while to boot, must be a big program, but soon there was a blank document with a tips box that I read and clicked off. I was good to go.
NVU isn’t intimidating. It looks like a word processor.
I had close by a special, not supplied by NVU, tutorial I had gotten somewhere. It looked a lot easier to follow than the instructions NVU provides, and it turns out it was!
First I saved the file as “firstattemptatwebsite” to the desktop so I wouldn’t lose it.
Second thing was, I had to look at the top of the blank document for a bit and notice all the little icons across the top.
No problem. Some of the icons were familiar but most of them were foreign to me. I decided not to let that bother me.
I moved the mouse arrow up to the “Table” icon. A box appeared on my formerly blank document, a little one, about an inch long. But it had those grabby things so I grabbed it and made a big box!
This is progress! I had a big, empty box! I moved the arrow up to the little icons for rendering text to be right, center,left, or fill space. I picked “center”
Voila! The box was centered. I decided to save this now because I didn’t want anything bad to happen and this was, after all, my first webpage! I chose to make the box light blue. Wow.
The box has a little blinking thing where you can do text. Wow, now I’m on text! What next?
I typed in “Riley’s First Webpage”. It was at the far left, centered vertically and was in small Times font. That would not do.
I “selected” that text and moved my mouse arrow up to the icons I had just used and chose “center”.
Nothing happened! I couldn’t believe it…something has gone wrong already.
The dogs are staring at me. Total elapsed time from start to here, about 5 minutes.
They don’t need to go out yet. I consult my tutorial. Aha!
I go up to the table icon and watch it drop down. It has two tabs. One for tables and one for cells. What’s a cell?
Anyway, in the “cell” box I find that I can move the selected text to center top and there it was, at the top in the center. I’ve come a long ways.
Not one to rest on past achievements I move my arrow to the upper right to “Headings”. I think it should be called “Headlines” but I’m not down there at NVU working for no wages.
I select Heading 1. My text gets big! It’s a headline! It’s black though and I want to change it to red even though I’m not at that part of the tutorial yet. So I do. It gets red. This is easy!
But somethings bothering me. The text is at top center but the tops of the letters are too close to the border of the box. It looks cramped.
So I go back up to the “table” pulldown and I discover “padding”. Padding? It is set at 2 pixels. Way too close! I change it to 10. Bam! The text moves down a little and looks a lot better.
I have a webpage! Sure it’s not fancy, but if it’s this easy so far it might stay easy all along. I’m a webmaster! Not much of one but a webmaster, nonetheless.
But it’s not up on the web! Oooh, FTP…I start to re-feel the intimidation vibes.
Thinking ahead I have already looked well into Cyberduck FTP and have it installed.
Another thing I have already is a domain and hosting package at Yahoo. They make it so easy.
My name is Riley West and I have been using rwest as a short version since high school which was way before the computer era.
So I register rwestdotcom.com….I thought it was clever. Whatever.
Next I save my first HTML webpage file and I fire up cyberduck FTP. I’m growing comfortable with all these foreign terms. I am preparing to upload and publish. More new terminology.
I had to go to Yahoo! and get my secret code words so that Cyberduck can claim it represents me and none other, and be allowed access. More new things.
Cyberduck is waiting. I tell it which file I want uploaded to rwestdotcom.com.
In the pulldown menu in the window for Cyberduck I select “upload” and “choose file”. I select firstattemptatwebpage.html and click upload.
About four seconds later it’s done and declared “successfully uploaded”. Man!
I have come so far in the last half an hour that it just blows me away! I’m excited.
But now…the real test…is my webpage on the web with hungry hoards looking at it?
As it turns out…no hoards. The only person in the world that knows it is there at this point is me. And I never changed it from that day on.
Let’s go there. Ok. I go to Yahoo and get into my website management area and go to “File Manager”. OMG there it is! I click on it. It comes up on the web!
It has an address. Actually it’s a URL. Uniform Resource Locator. Who knew?
My first website is at http://rwestdotcom.com/firstattemptatwebpage.html Paste this URL into any browser and you are there. Incredible, really.
Go there. Prepare to be impressed. The whole thing took about 30 minutes. Now I could do it in 5, including changing or correcting text, etc. Typos happen!
I’m a webmaster. It feels good.
Now, if you need to be able to do this, just do it. That’s how I did it.
I actually became capable of making money online that day down by the river with my dogs. It took less than an hour.
I followed this tutorial which you can download right here - FREE!
I have webpages now that are more complicated but the basics stay the same.
It is actually easy and I was afraid of it. Human nature I guess.
To recap…Go to Yahoo and get a domain name and hosting. The cheapest one.
Then download NVU and Cyberduck. They’re FREE!
Next, make your simple webpage and upload it! You’re in business. Welcome!
If you’d like that tutorial I used, guess what? It’s FREE! And it’s right here! But you might have to endure a little salesmanship. It comes with the territory.
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
Riley West
Traffic from Article Marketing. It Works! November 14, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , 1 comment so farHello Again:
Boy…I have a good one for you here. This will serve notice that I am more fallible than average!
I closed down a site several months back. I just hadn’t done it right and there were many things about it that no longer pleased me so …down it went.
The site had been rather quiet for some time due to me actually getting tied up into a Google adwords campaign for several months. I made some good money, about 7 to 8 thousand dollars net per month for 10 months in combination with a furniture store in my hometown that I own but don’t work in.
Well, it’s Nov of 2008 and as you know there is a big retail slowdown going on, out there in the real world. So that campaign has become unprofitable but for ten months it took me away from my interest in that other site and, right or wrong, I let it languish. I had considered it a starter site for learning purposes so I didn’t mind the idea of letting it go and starting something a lot better now that I knew more.
And I did!
But I forgot something. In 2006-2007 I had written about 30 articles and posted them to the 10 top article distribution outfits including ezinearticles, go-articles, article alley and the sort.
So I had 30 articles, written by me but forgotten, on 10 sites for about 300 links back to a website I had taken down! I had traffic! Going nowhere. What a waste. It was hundreds per day. I had changed url’s and failed to think of all that lost traffic!
I’m now in the process of converting all these articles, and rewriting bits of each, to have a link to this site that actually is up and running.
I told you a while back (appx 2-3 weeks) that I was going to push on article marketing for a while and see if I could get enough traffic to get excited about.
So, as well as converting articles I already had all over the place I started up with that new article submission service that I told you about.
It’s called www.submityourarticle.com and, so far I really like it, especially now that I am past the learning curve.
Here’s how it works. You write an article targeted to keywords you want traffic for.
Then you take your article into their section called “article leverage” where you write a few variations of your title, your intro, some random individual sentences, alternate resource boxes and article leverage takes these well done (because you did them) changes and applies them randomly across some 2000 article sites. What an idea!
I haven’t seen a traffic increase yet but I am just finishing as I write. I would expect to see something soon.
I’ll keep you posted.
In order to keep in focus what this blogs intent is here is the Mission Statement.
This blog, The Making of an Internet Marketer, is here to inform visitors about sales by way of the internet and to make money for it’s owner (yours truly) while concentrating on the basics of Internet Marketing. The basics…hear that. I found that until I had a good grounding in the basics I just couldn’t move ahead. See the link at the bottom of the page and download “The basics”
Here’s a great website software tutorial -
Here’s a great Wordpress blog tutorial.
http://rwestdotcom.com/wordpressguru/WPsalespage.html
Here’s a great Article Marketing for Targeted Traffic Tutorial
So there you have it. Webpages, Blogs, and Traffic to them.
Old school still works and works well!
Here’s to your success,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: get the FREE “Basics” PDF here. Enjoy. Read. Learn. Do.
