The hardest money online is the first $100- $1,000. Beginners will buy the courses and read advisories, vaguely understand it needs visitors and a sales page etc.  To make money online can be easy, but overwhelming at the same time.

But nothing comes together. Not enough visitors, so it’s hard to tell if the sales page works. No sales…

Maybe the sales copy isn’t good enough? Or the product isn’t right? Or maybe it just needs more visitors.

The problem is, when you lack experience, you can’t tell where it’s going wrong. It becomes very confusing.

There is only one certain way round this, which is to pick a product you know works, with proven sales. That means choose somebody else’s product which has already proven itself and that means Clickbank!

You need a Clickbank account and if you don’t have one, go over there right away (www.clickbank.com) and get signed up.

In the CB marketplace you can choose a product that’s right for your website, you can see its performance and how much commission you’ll earn. Usually, these products have their OWN sales page. You customize the link with your own Clickbank ID or nickname (that’s called a hoplink). Put the hoplink in your promotions and somebody else’s sales page does the work; you get the cash.

All that’s left, then, is traffic.

Gimme chance to get a coffee and I’ll give you a really easy tip for complete newbies…

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It seems like at least once a week I get one of my students calling me about how they’re quitting their job. Does working in the corporate sphere really suck that bad? It got me thinking.

Paid vacations, fortune 500 benefits, great salary, bonuses, company car…life couldn’t be greater…right? If it’s such a great gig, why do so many people spend 80% of their working day thinking about how much they hate it? The answer is simple, it’s engrained in our DNA.

Really. I’m a scientist* so I should know :)
(scientist=high school drop out)

In all seriousness…throughout history mankind has striven to explore, to lead, to create, and to invent. It seems to bring us a feeling of greatness that can only be achieved through entrepreneurship. While working for someone else CAN be fulfilling, there is a certain group of “unemployables” who will always know, they are destined to go out on their own.

For me, I couldn’t keep a job. I hated working for other people…really I hated listening to them because they wouldn’t listen to me. I wanted my ideas heard. I wanted to create and invent. To be noticed. I eventually realized that the workplace wasn’t for me. I quickly go out of it and over a short period of time became finacially free online. I made more money online in a month that I had in a year working for other people…

Fast forward a few years and I own a multi-million dollar company teaching others my secrets to success.

Fortunately, it’s not as hard to do as many think which is why I get so many people calling me about their “quit” day. Most of them have a specific date set in their minds and strive to reach it. A few, do it on a whim after they generate a quick 5 figures online.

If you want to reach that goal, you need to have one set. Sounds simple but it’s the first step. Set your quitting date because…working sucks.

Keith Wellman

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The Gateway To Wealth Event is now just around the corner and I am excited as ever…

I plan on picking up some new JV partners whom I have never done business with… You should plan to do so also. That’s one of the main reason to go to a live event. It can turn your business around OVERNIGHT.

Anyways - I wanted to share 10 tips that will be helpful to you while attending any live event…

1.) Set goals for yourself before attending the event.

2.) When talking to someone new, ask them non-business related questions as this will open them up and make them feel more comfortable around you…

3.) If someone is in the middle of a conversion, do not interrupt the conversation or butt in mid sentence… Just wait till that individual has a free moment to introduce yourself…

4.) Buying a drink for someone can do amazing things

5.) Do some research on the speakers… Know who is going to be there and what they have going on… It is great to look up the speakers on Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, or MySpace to find out about their personal lives and interest… These findings are great conversation starters…

6.) Be Prepared… (business cards, notepad, laptop…)

7.) Have a positive attitude and be someone who you would want to approach.

8.) If you have a product, bring a few copies, however, don’t push it to hard.

9.) Be memorable and be sure to make a lasting impression…

10.) Follow up - after the event be sure to contact all the new connections you made letting them know you enjoyed meeting them…

If you haven’t yet booked your ticket to Gateway To Wealth, now is the time. It’s FREE and you get to meet some great speakers.

www.gatewayseminar.com

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One of the hardest things in business is not growing but surviving growing!! The explosion of Apple nearly crashed it and cost Steve Jobs his position. At FX marketing we are experiencing exciting growth but it’s pushing us close the wire as far as managing the flood is concerned.

Recently, as we bent under the torrent of orders for the Autopilot Sales Formula, I realized we had passed a certain critical mass. It was time to get help.

I’m not a business person. This is the first time I have ever owned and run my own business. The actual management is a whole different ball game to marketing products which, I admit, I’m good at. But that doesn’t qualify me to run a business.

It’s smart to know when you need help and I realized I didn’t know enough to cope with fast expansion and not fall into chaos at the office. I decided to bring in consultants and we are having a team move in to teach us sound business methods and systems.

I hope all customers will soon appreciate the beneficial changes.

The liberation of doing business on the Internet is great. We all long to live the life of freedom and luxury, but it is still a business and has to be run like one. That’s probably one of the big mistakes of Internet newbies: not treating their venture as a serious business FROM THE START.

I talk about this in “Everyday Money”. It’s a free CD, you pay shipping. So you might care to get signed up and give it a listen. You can also sign up for Profit Creation Monthly, my magazine newsletter for Internet entrepreneurs.

You can do both here: www.scamfreeCD.com

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Hey guys,

We’ve cracked it with support tickets. A major blast got these down to zero (just for one glorious moment, before the next ticket came in)!

Seriously though, we’ve cracked the problem. We can now deal with tickets as they come in. Hopefully you won’t need us but if you do, you will notice your query gets handled swiftly.

It’s not that we don’t want to deal with problems. But the recent overwhelming success of Autopilot Sales Formula has stretched our team to the limit. We simply fell behind.

And – I gotta say this – some people were less than straight shooters, signed on for the free deal and then canceled the ongoing immediately they got their package. This increased our ticket load enormously. These were the ones howling most about lack of support, don’t you know it.

I can’t figure out how people hope to make money on line if they think that’s the way to do things. I can’t wish for them that their customers do the same tricks. I’d rather they learned to play straight. But these guys probably have the most to learn, is all.

The other thing that puzzles me is why anybody wanting to learn the secrets of autopilot sales and money making would cancel before the course is barely started!

There are some really great Masters Of The Month series to come and will build into a powerful course. For less than $30 a month you can have a real marketing expert over your shoulder week after week.

That’s neat.

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One of the most important things you can learn about making money online is networking OFF-line!

Excitement is now building for the August “Gateway To Wealth” seminar in Orlando. It’s going to be a great event and the staff are pulling out all the stops. The list of speakers is awesome and includes Christine Comaford-Lynch, who is a world-class celebrity these days!

Why am I telling you this? Just to advertize?

No! I’m telling you because you NEED to be there. One of the most important teachings about Internet marketing is that you need to meet and interact with people in the real world, not just cyberspace. All of us really committed to this business can tell you categorically that the most important connections we made — the ones which spurred our business on to real wealth — were at live events.

Just to sit at home and read eBooks and listen to audios about how Internet marketing is done is not enough. You can’t learn to be a brain surgeon from books.

OK, Internet marketing isn’t brain surgery. But it’s still complex and subtle. You learn by doing. You learn by speaking with people who have already gone before. They know how it works.

Here’s something to think about: I have observed that everyone in this business is willing to talk with beginners and share what they know. True, on the websites people post copyright notices and want you to pay for their knowledge. But offline, everyone is informal and has no sense of competitiveness. It’s sharing and caring.

In any case, it’s not just about meeting with the speakers and talking to them. Your fellow attendees are also good contacts. You can meet people, like yourself, who are just learning. But that doesn’t mean they are not already doing well.

I’ve had attendees with a 50,000 list in my audiences. You get to talk with them over coffee or cocktails and you will probably learn as much that way as you will sitting taking notes in the auditorium. You can find partners for JVs too.

You have to have an offline presence to succeed n the Internet. Believe me.

Here’s a FREE event (a $100 deposit is refunded as soon as you send proof you booked your flight or hotel).

You gotta go! It’s as simple as that…

We call it the Gateway To Wealth. Find out more details here

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“This lottery win will not change my life one bit!”

Did you ever read stories like that? Some guy wins $10,000,000 and when interviewed for the newspaper says “It won’t change me”.

What?

Is he (or she) insane? Why would you not want to change? The WHOLE POINT about getting rich is that it does change you!! You’re different in every fiber. It’s amazing! I love it!

Years ago, before I discovered the secret of making money online, I was unhappy. I was struggling and felt down on myself. I couldn’t pay the bills. I felt I would lose the respect of my wife and wasn’t taking care of my kids.

That doesn’t feel very nice, trust me.

So when I finally hit on the knowledge I now share in my teaching programs and it made me wealthy, I felt a completely different person. I held my head up. I’m proud and when my wife says she loves me, I know she’s not just being sympathetic or trying to console me. She means it!

This transformation was very important to me and inspires my work. I want everyone to have this good feeling. I know you can do it. What’s more anybody can earn more than me, a lot more!

I’m not a fanatic. Dudes, if you want to put in 60- 80 hours a week you can earn double what I earn.

I’ve no problem with that! Grab the ball and run!

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Troubles when you are rich and successful

We’ve thrown a blitz into handling support tickets. With Amy away on vacation, a backlog quickly built up, despite putting several staff onto it. My concern was to get people the help they needed as fast as possible. Nothing affects a business more than the way its after-sales care is perceived.

And I do mean “perceived” because it doesn’t matter how conscientious and honest you are, people only care about their own interests. If you keep them waiting for more than a couple of days, you start to read words like “scam” and “crooks” and other unpleasant accusations.

It’s not a requirement that customers seeking support should be polite but if I had my way, it would be.

Many customer support problems are quite genuine (you would be surprised how many are ridiculous or trivial) but that does not mean that the person who has to deal with the tickets is the cause of the problem or in any way to blame.

I feel sorry for Amy when she has to take the brunt of really rude remarks from people seeking answers. It does not serve the cause which, at the end of the day, we all have in common, which is solving the problems encountered.

And another point: I’ve sold tens of thousands of products, good products, knowing they work and work well. The army of satisfied users attests to that. So when some unpleasant character, who often can’t or won’t read the instructions or can’t or won’t carry out the assignments to get the results we are guaranteeing, starts claiming the product is nonsense (or worse) I know we are dealing with a buffoon.

Yet we are supposed to take these obnoxious tirades politely, without retaliating, and still come up with answers that satisfy.

It’s something you folks are going to have to learn when you get successful and, believe me, it’s not easy.

Don’t get me wrong. Millions of dollars income solves lots of problems and it’s a salve for a lot of wounded pride. Join me, won’t you.

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Peace and productivity making money online

The launch of Autopilot Sales Formula has been pretty smooth. Ideally, the kind of Internet business you want is one where nothing much ever happens! You just press the button and sit back: no glitches, no nasty surprises, no irate phone calls, no broken links, no download problems and so forth. Peaceful, relaxed, is good! It’s a measure of your control over the process.

Already we have stacked up over $200,000 in affiliate commissions, which will be going out on time to a happy affiliate army. This has been a really amazing launch for me in that I decided we would pay our affiliates 100% commission. In other words we eat all the initial costs and make our money later. That’s how much faith I have in the product.

We resisted the temptation to go play golf or take a fishing trip and instead started work on our next project (ooops! there’s another success tip I let slip!)

Seriously though, you don’t succeed without hard work. I’m simply making the point that a quiet office is one where we can all get our work done. Lots of commotion, activity and phone calls SOUNDS busy but it’s the wrong kind of action. Quiet and harmony go hand in hand.

When you get your Autopilot Sales Formula working properly you too will feel the quiet! It’s a great life.

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You know what’s great about Internet marketing and why it all works? It’s because there are LOTS of other people out there who want to make money online too. They’ll help you, if you help them! So you can sell their products to your list and they can sell your products to their list. It’s usual, with digital products, to split the proceeds 50/50.

It’s called a “joint venture” relationship. Effectively it doubles your marketing exposure at a stroke (assuming their list is about the same size as yours). Brilliant!

But why stop at just one JV partner? If one partner is good, ten would be great. In fact we recommend you try to find about 30 partners for a product launch. That will give your product a real impact. A jv venture is probably the best way to make money online.

All benefits aside, Joint Venturing requires some planning. Here are some important DOs and DON’Ts:

DO. Select your partners with care. Make sure they are people you know perform well (you’ve been watching them online), or they work with someone you already know and trust or (best of all maybe), someone you met in person, perhaps at a seminar.

DO. Research your potential JV partners. Sign up for their publications, visit their websites, read everything about them and their history. Try to understand their values and motivation as best you can from what they make public.

DO. Figure out what you can do for him or her, not the other way round. Start asking, what value could I provide this partner? What do I have that they don’t? What could they be doing that they aren’t? What challenge or goals are they pursuing and how can I help them get there?

DO. Remember that JVs are a personal one-to-one thing, not based on mass mailings. You get to know each other, learn to like and trust each other. Truly great joint ventures with the potential to make you rich will take root only with a customized, personal approach.

DON’T. Be afraid to approach strangers. One of the great things about making money online is that even successful people will be open to an approach from you. Why is this? Probably because most online business owners realize, ‘you never know where then next great idea or opportunity is going to come along.’

DON’T. Approach a potential partner without a clear project in mind, preferably ready to run with a launch date in view. In other words, do NOT approach a joint venture partner with the following: ‘So, what do you think? Wanna do something together?’

If all you have is a vague ‘Hey, let’s do something and make money online together,’ you won’t have answered their first obvious question: ‘Why should I work with a stranger, when I can sit around and brainstorm with friends.’

It’s like fishing; you get the lure right and the fish will surely bite.

In this case you don’t eat the “fish”, they become firm friends and make you a lot of money.

Good hunting!

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