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Seven Simple Steps to Promote Any Internet Business Opportunity. This is the original, series one, version of SimpleSevenSteps.com
The Simple Seven Steps are listed below...
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The actual planning will unfold gradually as we work through the Simple Seven Steps. However, our objective is to maintain a simplistic easy way to promote our business. As you experience the internet you will see that there seems to be an endless variety of opportunities. New opportunities are sprouting up each day promising what there predecessors could not. By maintaining simplicity we are suggesting you NOT join every new offer that promises to make you a millionaire. The fact is, there are many profitable programs out there if only we would promote them, effectively and consistently enough to make a profit. The reality of business is that it takes time and effort. The profits you achieve are most always proportional to the time and effort you put into it. Planning is always a work in progress. You will see new programs you'll want to bookmark or change over to; update and maintain profiles of your programs and systems; read up on new resources and information. Through it all your emphasis should always be promotion~ advertising and exposure that is what sells, A buyer rarely appreciates the preparation that occurs before the sale. So you want to be efficient, do not let research and preparation procrastinate your advertising efforts. Advertise daily. Our sermon concluded, we ask you not to complicate the simple steps that follow by adding a multitude of new promising programs into the stew. Ironically, the more programs we try to promote at one time the thinner the stew. That is, our opportunities for success are diluted as time and energy is expended over too broad an area. One of the concepts we will introduce is the counting of pennies. We want each day to produce income of some sort so that with time and energy expended there is income. We want time and energy to literally translate to money, 'time is money' as the saying goes. And our motto is better to spend 20 minutes making some money than spend 4 hours making no money. We will talk more about this matter later in simple step 5. Our objective is to keep it simple and make money each day, even if it is a small amount. By keeping it simple, we minimize the complexity and intensify the dividends of our time and energy, producing measurable income that can truly be duplicated by our down line. And, for once, many of us can tell our down line, "I've found a simple system to promote anything and I'm making money!" Let's proceed to Step 2 - Building our Mailing List...
You may feel good about the programs you are currently promoting. If you do, that's great! I want you to try and incorporate that program into the Simple Seven Steps. Keep it simple, get behind one key program and make it your primary promotion. You see below there are several different programs. We will learn how to promote ONE program, get results, and then build our downline in the other programs. Here are some programs I recommend promoting:
There are different ideas as to what is the best method to promote. Many feel a lead page is best. Gaining prospects, building a list, so that they can email their various business opportunities to them. These individuals promote a lead page and when people sign up or request more information several things take place. First, the person becomes a "lead" to which a series of emails are subsequently sent which encourage them to sign up for such and such program. Or they may become a trial member, free member, or even receive a "lead page" of their own, creating a network of lead pages or opt-in subscribers to receive and send out email ads. GotPaidAgain features lead pages that captures prospect names. Listxplosion is a lead page based system, when a prospect signs up they become a lead, but they also receive their own Listxplosion page. In the member area of Listxplosion members build their downline in a variety of other traffic exchanges and programs. Regardless of whether you get leads on your own or you join opt-in safelists you want to send ads that compel your prospects to join your program. I might promote Simple Seven Steps using the ad copy and the subject heading, "A Quick and Simple Way to Recruit More People into Your Downline." Whatever headline we use make sure it answers the question, "What's in it for me?" A lousy headline that lacks substance is something like, "Wow, This is Really Great!" which tells us absolutely nothing about the program. Remember to use the AIDA formula when designing your ad copy:
Another, more direct, way to promote is by promoting your affiliate program on traffic exchanges. Whichever way you promote, remember its a numbers game~ whoever gets their ad out in front of the most prospects wins. Most people need at least seven exposures to a product or service before they buy or sign-up into it. That day you take off from advertising is a break in those exposures and you lose momentum to competing marketers. The more you advertise, the greater will be your success. Simple Seven Steps recommends promoting using primarily traffic exchange programs. Most traffic exchanges are free to join, simple to set up and maintain, and guarantee like minded marketers will be viewing your business opportunity.
Traffic Exchange Programs, TEPS, are a mainstay of internet advertising. They can guarantee targeted advertising of a real person viewing your website. These persons surfing TEPS are internet marketers just like us, with the difference, hopefully, of being swishy washy enough to jump from there program into ours. From there we hope to stabilize them into making real money and being long-term promoters in our down line. ...and they will be once we get them to follow the simple seven steps system of promoting their business. Each day there seem to be newer more innovative traffic exchanges premiering on the net. They are effective advertising that does work but how do you surf all of those traffic exchanges effectively? The answer is, you can't. Well, you can, but as we mentioned before this would produce only diluted returns on our time and energy. Our goal is not to win awards at surfing the most TEPS. We want to find the TEPS that give us the best results and surf these TEPS consistently enough to produce quantifiable income. The TEPS listed below are by know means definitive and certainly not an exhaustive list of all the TEPS out there. However, you will notice that some TEPS are 'old timers' and some are very new. Some TEPS are listed with the 'prestigious' http://www.traffichoopla.com/cgi/p.cgi/8256 and some are not. You will also notice that there are only seven TEPS listed in keeping with our goal of keeping it simple. If you have the time outside of our simple 20 minute plan to surf more TEPS I encourage you to do so using the Amazing Perpetual Traffic Machine, http://www.mistergoodbuy.com/ptm.htm. If you are already surfing a lot of TEPS, I encourage you to plug all but seven of your TEPS into the Amazing Perpetual Traffic Machine and compare the Simple Seven Steps with your own marketing efforts. IMPORTANT: Join Buildreferrals, http://mistergoodbuy.buildreferrals.com, and put all the urls you wish to promote into their "site rotator." We will only promote one program using the site rotator. Choose a url you wish to campaign for that week or month by assigning it a weight of "1." Assign a weight of "0" to all the other urls. Now the site rotator will only promote that one campaign url. Place the siterotator url into all of the traffic exchanges below~ the auto-surfs are optional. You now can change the url you're promoting in all the TEPS with one simple step. Even though you're not using the site rotator as a "rotator" It's url, http://mistergoodbuy.buildreferrals.com/siterotator.cgi, gives it away to the TEPS as a rotator. If you wish to disguise it, please email me to request a cloak for the site rotator and instructions. Join 4daily, http://4daily.com/?ref=2784, it's an auto-surfing exchange but you earn money as you surf. I recommend joining the following 7 manual TEPS:
Notice some of these TEPS; topsurfer, nomorehits, trafficroundup, are older while the others are newer and maybe a little more innovative. There are also pay-to-join traffic exchanges where the members that join are, maybe, more apt to buy~ if you joined these you may want to surf your pay to join TEPS also. But, whatever you do, keep the TEPS you surf using the Simple Seven Steps down to a minimum. If your time allows you to surf more TEPS and or you have already joined a lot of TEPS check this url out http://www.mistergoodbuy.com/paid2surf.htm Now the first TEP mentioned, 4daily, is an auto surf that can generate money for you on a daily basis. 4daily allows you to surf for money. Here we are counting pennies, making our time and energy pay off in one way or another. After you join your seven TEPS write down your id name or number, your password, your referral page url, and your starter/ surfing page url in a separate notepad and or in a word processor folder in your computer. You will be needing easy access to this information later and you'll appreciate having it in an easy to find location.☻
In a sense our engine has already been created for us we just have to assemble the parts. Once our engine is built we will use it to drive traffic to our website. The first part we will need for our engine is called a rotator. We will join buildreferrals to obtain a url rotator, which we will use to rotate the seven TEPS we joined. After you join buildreferrals log in and click on "home rotator. Fill in the seven starter/ surfing page urls in the spaces provided. Update the page and load the buildreferrals home rotator url as your browser's home page. (click on tools, internet options, then general tab should be open, put the home rotator url in the space provided at the top and click "ok." Congratulations! You've completed a small part of your engine. Now every time you load your browser one of your starter page urls will load and you will get credits and even surf a little if you like. As an alternative you can create your own starter page rotator. Create your own rotator page (startpagerotator.htm) by copying and pasting the code below into a free website builder like http://www.domainnamesanity.com. Name and save the page "yourhomepage.com/starterpagerotator.htm," then edit the html code below with your own starter page urls. Use this rotator start page as your one start page url. Every time you open your browser the rotator will randomly select one of the starter pages and display it for you to surf. Now let's set-up for more extended surfing. You will download http://www.crazybrowser.com, preferred, or Firefox 1.0 at Mozilla.org. Launch crazybrowser and make click on the "option" tab and make sure "new tab from address bar" is checked and both "Always activate new tab," and "Activate previous tab" is unchecked. Now click on the "options" tab again and click on "advanced options" scroll down and click on "Pop-up Blocker." You want to "enable smart pop-up blocker." Now type or copy and paste one of your seven starter page urls into the address bar of the crazybrowser, make sure the page is loaded. Repeat this with the other six starter page urls. Now all seven starter page urls should be loaded. In the menu bar click on "Groups" from the drop down menu select "Save all pages as group..." Name the group "Simple Seven" and click ok. You will now spend a minimum of 10 minutes per day driving traffic to your website. Just open up your crazybrowser, click on groups, then select your "Simple Seven" group. We only want to surf long enough to keep a constant flow of traffic coming to our website. If we are consistent and surf everyday we will have all the website traffic we need to make good income.
Could you use an extra $33.60 per month of pocket change? Can you afford to lose $400 per year? The objective of this step is to convert that wasted time into productive income, income that has the potential of eliminating your J-O-B. That's an additional eight hours per day to spend as you like! But to reach that goal you must be willing to start out spending 20 minutes per day working towards financial independence. Gradually, as we indicated, you can work toward spending 2 hours per day compared to 8 hours per day at your J-O-B! There are many programs that pay you to click on emails. Perhaps you've joined a few yourself, but figured, like me, that those few pennies were just a waste of time. Again, if you were like me, you poured all sorts of time and energy pursuing sign-ups in various internet programs. You may have been partially successful, but for the most part, that residual income was elusive. If only, you think, I had invested some of that wasted time into stacking pennies. Well now is your chance. Dust off those old pay to click programs you pushed aside and take a fresh look at their earning potential! Remember to keep all the name of the programs, ID name or number, passwords, and url addresses all in one place for easy access later. Here are some programs that offer paid to read emails etcetera...
Spend at least ten minutes each day
clicking or surfing paid advertising. You will encounter more of these
type programs as you surf the internet. Join the ones you like that pay as
advertised. And remember, keep it simply to what you can in your scheduled
time period.
We've mentioned safelists and include a list of them here. If you're open to alternative advertising in safelists I strongly recommend joining reality-networkers, http://www.reality-networkers.com/index.php?refid=139060. Reality networkers is a team of internet marketers committed to building, read, an active downline using safelists. They provide step-by-step thorough instructions on how to succeed successfully with safelists. There are also variety of ways to tap outside internet markets such as creating and passing out business cards, bumper stickers and signs advertising our website, and classified newspaper ads. Be creative! I tape a typed 4 point font sized paper domain name ad on the backs of quarters and drop these in conspicuous places! A waste of money? Consider these are targeted ads we place where our target audience is likely to pick them up. Think of the surprise someone has when they pick up this ingenious ad. Do you think they'll share our website address with at least one more person before they scrape it off and pocket the change? We know they will! Compare ten dollars of strategically placed quarters in library counters, restaurant tables, mall benches, and bike paths to a ten dollar ad in a newspaper. Here are list of outside internet advertising sources we can use:
Let's briefly review our Simple Seven Steps:
But always remember to keep it simple. If you join a program do it with the purpose of promoting your primary business opportunity. Oops! There is one thing I almost forgot; whenever your downline signs-up in any program pass on to them your simple seven steps to success. I've provided a simple cut and paste copy below. Paste it in your email after you've changed the urls and edited out any programs that you are not promoting. Yes, this email letter is where you promote all your other programs and business opportunities! And I strongly suggest sending this email to any existing downline in any of your existing programs. Make sure you save a copy of your Simple Seven Steps email in a word processor file. |
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