The top 5 things you CAN’T live without
I need your help!
My team and I are busy putting the final touches on our new turn-key business creator, which we’ll reveal to you at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 24th.
We’re currently in the last stages of testing, making sure that every feature of this brand-new product is designed to help even the rawest beginner through every step of building a business that makes REAL money, as quickly and as easily as possible.
So far, everything’s looking great…
(Which is hardly surprising — after all, we’ve taken all the research we’ve gathered through working one-on-one with more than 1100 customers over the last year and distilled it to make the ultimate step-by-step business creator!)
… But I’m not going to sit back and rest on my laurels until I’m completely convinced this product is 100% perfect. (Much to my overworked team’s chagrin… 
By "100% perfect," I mean, a COMPLETE all-in-one business creator that provides every single tool, training resource, and scrap of information you need to build a profitable business faster than you’d ever think possible.
That’s where YOU come in.
I want to know what you would expect to find in the "perfect" all-in-one business creator.
What are the 5 essential things you NEED to build your business?
Leave me a comment below and let me know — because I want to make absolutely sure we’ve included everything you’re looking for!
I’m excited to read your comments… I’m 99% sure my team and I have nailed all essential ingredients you need to build a business that makes REAL money in record time — but I need your input!
To your success,
Derek Gehl
P.S. If you haven’t signed up to get advance notice for when we release this new business creator, don’t delay! On January 24th, we will present this new product ONLY to people who are on our "first movers" notification list. We will NOT be mentioning it on our main website or advertising it to the public at large.
The ONLY way to make sure you receive your invitation to be one of the "lucky 250" is to pre-register today at: www.marketingtips.com/success08.
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Hi Derek,
Here’s what I really need..
1) What do I sell
2) How do I build my site
3) How do you set up payment
4) How do you look after customer and prospect list
5) How do I get buyers to come to my site
Hope that is not too much to ask.
Thanks
I am going to ask for a lot. Everything I have bought this past year seems to only take me halfway or is a just a trick that promises to make me money. I’ve learned that these don’t work unless I have a site already.
1. I need all the steps explained and help with doing each one. The “why” also would be helpful. Don’t assume I understand the tech talk.
2. How do I find something that will sell. I want to have a website that makes money.
3. How to set up a sales letter that works
4. How to build a website that is easy for me to do. I am not a website person but would like to learn.
5. I would really like to have some help too – I haven’t come across anything that allows you to contact the seller for help and this is really frustrating.
It sounds like this is what you are building. I am hoping it is something that will get me started with my web business.
Thanks Derek
Hi Derek,
Here are the questions that I concern the most:
1. How do I find what to sell?
2. Do I need to be familiar or have interest in the stuff I am going to sell?
3. How to build the site for this? I had some experience for that but I don’t think to build a whole new site is a good choice.
4. How do I find the buyers effectively at a low cost?
5. Will it affect a lot if I am not a native speaker? e.g., I may find it is difficult to write an attractive sales letter.
I am really looking forward to having something real to start with.
Many Thanks
hi derek,i believe what you are about to do on jan.24th.will be the answear to 250 peoples dreams,
and i hope to be one of them. the number one thing is your honesty, along with your reputation,and the follow up help, that your not left hung out to dry. their is so many hyped up gimmicks out there
that take your money and run.as you can see i have a website which i purchased with all the promises,now i didnt expect it to start spitting money when i plugged it in, i am very interested to learn and to give the unlimited time it takes. thanks for your time as always.vincent
1. Inexpensive leads that convert
2. Reliable consistent relevant traffic
3. Point & Click system to drive such traffic
4. Refreshing relevant content for particular business model
5. The truth about how big time earners are actually building their home businesses
Acutally I’ll keep this simple because theres only ONE thing I really want, something that actually WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent 1000s of dollars last year on a website that was supposed to set me up for life, and how much money has it made me so far? Nothing, nada, zip!!!! It came with a slick lookign websit design and a product to sell and everything. And this is a helath product that is supposed to cure pretty much every single health problem under the sun so WHY tell me WHY won’t people buy it????? I guess its the kind of thing that people just don’t buy online but it sure would of been nice to know that BEFORE I spent all my savings on it.
I’m beginning to suspect that this whole “make money online” thing is a complete joke and the only ones who make money are the ones who are selling useless craps to suckers like me.
So prove me wrong Derek. What makes YOUR all in one business better than all the others out there?????? And why should I believe its actually going to make me one red cent???????
Basically, I need a crisp business plan, implementation strategy, tools and training (complete blueprint for success):
1. Help and direction in selecting a high value niche.
2. Products to sell to that niche
3. An effective website: Business center, lead capture pages, sales pages, merchant system, etc.
4. A very cost effective and focused promotional strategy, plan and tools.
5. An effective follow-up communications system and strategy.
6. A Web 2.0 strategy, as this seems to be the latest thing.
7. Ongoing critique and coaching.
Bottom line is, I have the time and motivation to do this, but need very clear direction on how to get it done with a maximum of sweat equity and a minimal up front dollar investment. I am very willing to reinvest a significant portion of earnings to continue to build.
1) What do I sell
2) How do you look after customer and prospect list
3) How do I get buyers to come to my site and keep coming back.
I have a web site with minimual hits so far.
The top 5 things to make this fly.
1 You do all the work for me
2. I want free traffic and do not want to advertise if it going to cost me more then $5 a month.
3. I just sit on my sofa collect checks
4. I can call dnd complain all that I want
5. I can request a refund if I dont make a profit in 72 hours
I need the following:
How to set up a website that works
How to automate the system that it runs basically by itself
How to set up paypal to take peoples orders
How to set it up to send newsletters,ebooks,reports,etc and not need my input apart from in the beginning
How to find niche markets with hungry customers
Find the products or services that people want
How to get regular traffic
I better stop now.
Hope I haven’t asked for too much.
I need to make money for a good reputable company.. I dont want to go through PayPal as they told me these get rich quick companies are illegal..& also every time i try to login & give my card number they tell me its a wrong number, & it is a brand new card changed from my old when when i got into a fraudulant website….I would hope this will work for me as i am on a fixed income & desparately need to make money!! THank You,PHyllis ( And not take my money & run with it!!!) The top 5 things you can’t live without are:1 MONEY, 2 Money,3MONEY,4,MONEY,5 MONEY!!!!!
Been a year now..
To me what I need is one only: A Coach to help along the way.
Derek,
Thanks for this opportunity for my 2-cents worth!
Most important to me with any site:
1. Easy to navigate back office.
2. Well written text ads. Not all of us are great writers.
3. A compelling squeeze page. Something more than “give me your info” and good luck.
4. A “short and sweet” website for promoting. Anything more than a few minutes will drive most people away.
5. A strong Affiliate support page.
Thanks again and I look forward to the Launch.
Good day to everyone.
I’m good at finding things for my friends and helping them in their marketing. When it comes to me, I’m not so good at these things. “Can’t see the forest for the trees”.
I put together a fun site that has 500 people. But I don’t know what to do to monetize that. It’s not a field I am familair with. Funny huh?
My first stumbling block is finding my niche. I am a jack of all trades, and master of none. I get bored easily and become fairly proficient at what I do pretty quickly. Thus I don’t become a master at it. I move onto something else.
The one serious hobby I have, only 5000 people around the world enjoy it. Go figure.
What to do, what to do.
If I could find something, then off to the races. The next step would be is putting together a ‘real’ marketing plan with specific steps. “What to do when”. With an outside eye looking in to see what I am missing.
Yeah I know you wanted 5 things, and I only gave you 2. It will have to to do.
Have a great day!
Randy, Vancouver BC Canada
In order for this to be the best business package to get anyone making massive money quickly, I need………….
1. To be able to quickly assess a market and determine what to sell and to whom I will sell it.
2. The resources to be able to run and track the business (auto-responders, websites, tracking, easy affiliate sign-ups)
3. Acess to specialists in my chosen field. (IE. If I want to make a software product, where do I go to get a good programmer; If I sell socks, where do I find a distributor)
4. Training on your system in order to maximize my profit.
5. Your ongoing support (free of charge) until my first reasonable goal is reached. In essence, keep me motivated.
Thanks Derek. Hope this helped you come up with a killer app!
I agree with the above comment from vincent mckevitt – lets cut out all the hype B*** S*** and get down to builidng a solid profitable business.
1. a plan to get and running generating cash fast – may not be the end all of what you want, but will be making money
2. if you have an existing business how can we use this course to jump start our brick and morter businesses
3. how do develop successful informational products
4. how to find good products to represent
5. selecting good long term niche to develop
As always I remain the biggest septisim of them all. It is great to build a website and have the traffic but at the end of the day it comes down to the product people will buy. I can’t play the guitar or dance or sell a video on how to play golf better and no one wants to listen to me on how to enjoy a beer while doing a BBQ on a hot sumers day!! I am a blue collar worker with nothing to sell but am able to work hard so my list is as follows
1.real product to sell
2.real product to sell
3.real product to sell
4.real product to sell
5.Step by step setup and maintanace of how the site works and the ability to continue to gorw it.
The one thing that you all forget is to make it easy, in step by step scenerio, or a area that one can go to and see each step shown via webcam, you showing the people the actual steps to take, all you so called people who want people to join forget about us the idots.
Hi hope you good,
I would like to find out:
How good will your product be to drive good leads to my web page, (good traffic is what I really need)
and how much will it cost me.
Most of all, I want to thank you for your hard work
Yours sincerely
The main problem I have faced is about how to set up a site, and understand what I need to know (and what not) about technology and programming.
Thanks a lot, I look forward for the business creator.
Kind regards:
Joaquín.
Ditto on all of the above comments. Also:
(1) How do you drive repeat business to your site?
(2) A personal mentor who works 1 on 1 with you (and is available
to you when needed)to help you attain your success. This
person would ideally be the same person all the way through so
they can learn about our individual needs (each of which I
suspect would be unique). This mentor support idea seems to be
the underlying theme on many of the other comments.
(3)EFFECTIVE marketing stratgies to drive solid quality traffic.
Obvioulsy a website is no good if noone knows about it or ever
visits it.
(4)A program that meets each of us where we are at. Some will
be “experts” – others like myself brand new. A program
strictly geared towards the “experts” would not be useful to
me, just as a program geared towards “beginners” would not be
helpful to the “experts.” Again a 1 on 1 mentor program would
be helpful here.
I set up a new website to market your program and one other one. The problem I am finding is that I have wasted a lot of time trying to get a Google AdWords Ad to run, only to find that it is cost prohibitive and Google doesn’t want these type of websites advertised with AdWords anyway. There is little profit margin on each sale, so what is a cost effective way to advertise websites that are promoting business opportunities? Is targeted guaranteed traffic advertising and/or opt-in email the most cost effective way to get high volume traffic with lower costs? I have just received your course and have not had time to read it yet, so the answer might be in that already. Cost effective legitimate advertising is what I want to learn about.
Hi Derek,
The 5 essential things I personnaly would be looking for would be:
1. What product I would be selling
2. How to go about selling it through the internet as I am a newbe.
3. Procedure for receiving payments.
4. Step by step guide to get my website ready
5. Help when I need anwers.
Good comments already posted.
A couple I would add:
1. How to set up and manage an “opt-in/opt-out” list to collect email addresses
2. How to manage and protect the subscribers’ email list
3. How to set up autoresponders
4. How to get your newsletter out to your subscriber list
Thanks for asking!
Ready to go! – Steve
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Derek Ghel,
Sir,
With most respectfully I inform you that I am totally a new comer in this field.Infact, I have connected with you for to know your business also to earn mone.Though, till today I did not get any kind of monetary help from your end.It is nice to say without earning I am to pay internet charges+electric bill+maintenance of computer charges.How long I will be able to research your business without earning,I am a retired person though I have the interest in internet and also your site.If very soon something happen to my life from your end I shall try my best to do.****What Is URI**** if I know the exect meaning it will be helpful.
Yours faithfully, Chitta Ranjan
India
Hi Derek,
I’ve got all your training material, I’ve done the courses, I have the products – so why am I still like a rabbit in the headlights?
I have a business idea that I am convinced will be huge for a specific market and what I need (apart from a real kick up the btm!)
Is guidance on:
- where to start in building my business system (without wasting time and money)
- how to build it while at the same time making it effectively operational
- then how to enable it to be supported and managed thereafter, so that I can really have the lifestyle I’m looking for.
The rub is I have a lot of daily time free for this project but little finance thus time is of the essence if you see what I mean
With regards
Janet
Hi Derek,
I would like to find out:
How good will your product be to drive good leads to my web page, (good traffic is what I really need)
and how much will it cost me.
Most of all, I want to thank you for your hard work
Yours sincerely
Hi
1. How can I create a product to sell.
2. How can I set up a smart website for this products.
3. What type of bonuses should I include.
4. How can I get huge real buyers to my site.
5. How can I modify my product to the best.
Thank you for your invitation.
Hilal
Derek:
#1 Straight talk, low sales hype, on the product that is to sold!!!! (Been too many sales hype seminars that leave me flat.)
#2 How much will it cost me and is a money back guarantee?
#3. Included with the cost, a license to copy and resell in any way that I have available to me. e.g. ebooks
#4. jpeg photos of the product to easily transfer to a website, downloadable.
#5 Paying through paypal to be more secure, no annual fees automatically deducted, unless I want them! By signing a re-up agreement to renew licenses and website links.
Thanks for asking
Laurie W
As far as I’m concerned it’s all about traffic.
Id like to know
how to use articles to best advantage
ditto for squidoo/hub pages etc
how to do social bookmarking properly
Adwords techniques
getting backlinks
If I could get 500 hits a day I’d be happy….
Johnpea
What do I need? Where do I start… Let me count the needs!
1) Since I am a novice, never having set up all of the necessary components to have a successful Inrernet presence, I would need ‘hand holding’ and plenty of it. I am a physically challenged senior citizen, who, probably at my age should not even be involved with this ‘younger generation’ business.
2) Nevertheless, I am determined to succeed! However, if you tell me what to do by reading training manuals, work books, etc. it just AIN’T GOIN’ TO WORK. As I mentioned, set me up and get me running and then I am sure I can succeed.
3) Because, if it takes ambition… if it takes drive… if it takes sincerity… That I got!! Obviously, money is very tight, but if it could be worked out; that is what I would need and want!!
Right now I feel like the Energizer Bunny… going and going and going, but going around in circles… with no direction, and certainly with end target!
You asked… I answered! do you think it is hopeless for me, or is there still a possibility??
Hi Derek,
What I need will be in your system, but…..I hope you don’t only target the US but make things work for Europe as well….
Greetings
Ton
Arnhem-The Netherlands
5 things
A list of who to sell to
A website and autoresponder to do minimal work
No monthly outlay without sales produced
Step by step guide and help to get going
Profit-Make a big profit
Ok, Derek . . . even though I have had a website for 4 years now, I readily admit I am ignorant as to how to make my website profitable. I know it is garbage, so I want to start over and really have a successful online business. Here is my list:
1. Some kind of “dictionary” which explains the most common tech words! It’s like learning a foreign language!
2. Deciding what to sell and recognizing a profitable niche market
3. Samples of good, successful salescopy
4. How to identify successful “key words”
5. A REAL successful way to get traffic to your website
I actually could list some more of my “wish list”! I am really looking forward to your new system! It sounds like it will be simple enough for even me to follow!
Dear Derek;
I would nor only need the funds available to me, but I would need to find something that I could do from home easy and something that I was good at. I would need help to get going. I would also need someone to be there for me if and when I needed help. I have never had a home businesss before, but I can no longer work due to my Disability so ido definietly need something that I can do from home. I am on such a limited incom that I have to even fight to pay my Rent, see my income is only $429.00 per month and my rent is $576.00 per month, so as you can see I am desperate. This does not leave anything for food, clothing, medicine, or orther necessities, let alone pay all of my RENT.
Anyways you asked what I would need and I guess this answers your question because I would need everything to get started.
Yours Truly;
Susan
Hi derek, I am from india. Its awesome that you are releasing some information for us genuinely for the newbiews like me.. Derek i want to learn many things from you… I will list out few things below..
1) How to build a list
2) How to minimize the costs of adwords and increase the sales
3) What is the real secret behing the traffic generation
4) How to build a profitable business in ebay
5) How to find the best product for affiliate promotion
6) Teach me how to write a follow up emails to my subscribers which provides good conversion
7) And last but not least, please teach me to write a sales letter which converts like crazy into sales..
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Here is my list of 5 items I feel I need to have in order to obtain a successful online business.
- Niche or product.
- Web building tools.
- SEO tools.
- How to monetize site?
- How create lists?
I would love to see a reality show where you work live with a person from scratch and prove that the techniques that are being taught can work for any market and any kind of business.
1. How to develop a long-term strategy?
2. How to set my USP and define my market profile?
3. How to drive significant amount of traffic?
4. How to outsource essential parts of my business and make sure that there is a good ROI?
5. How to leverage web 2.0 using a ’systematic’ process?
I need a step-by-step business plan. I have made unsuccessful attempts at starting Internet business’ and have failed because of lacking a plan and/or knowing how to proceed and not having a guide/mentor. I would like:
1) What to sell, my own product or work as an affiliate and if my own product, what?
2) Building websites or finding someone to build them for me that I can trust that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.
3) How to properly market my website/product and build a list and then what to sell on the backend if it is my own product.
4) This works with #3 – setting up and properly using an autoresponder.
5) How to find the time to accomplish the above quickly so that I may profit and realize my dream up becoming a successful entrepreneur and have the freedom (time & financial) that I long for.
it’s simple…
1. Marketing system that is not outdated (ie.safelists,traffic exchanges,etc…)or overused (craigslist is flooded with bizopps and people are getting flagged for no reason)
2. REAL TECH SUPPORT
3. DON’T CIRCLE JERK ME WITH MORE AND MORE UPSALES!
4. Free updates to the site, and the ability to “brand yourself” in the capture page and “get to know me” pages, and last but not least…
5. If the product is over 500 dollars, MAKE IT VALUABLE AND NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN RESEARCH THE NET AND GET FOR FREE!!!
Hi Dave
this is what I think make a good business
(1)find a niche market that everyone needs
(2)Be the only agent for that product
(3)advertise that product at a price that anyone can afford
(4)leads the best way of selling is by recommendation
(5)know the product you are selling it’s ammazing how many people do not know a thing about any product they sell
My list of 8:
* a method to determine you have found a hungry market.
* a method to create a compelling message.
* a website with focus – simple with sales in mind.
* a method to drive traffic
* a method to capture subscribers email address and names.
* a method for other sales opportunities – back end.
* a method to identify other income streams.
* a method to dazzle them – hot tools and unique techniques to wow your customers.
I guess I couldn’t confine it to 5.
Hi Derek,
I am a new ZRII representative and I am very excited to be part of this pre-launch. I have found a product & company that I love and will make this work. I love to search online all day to find better and inexpensive ways of promoting my site. Here is what I would love some assistance with:
1. Promotional strategies that allow my bank account to stay on the positive side.
2. Reliable & consistent real relevant traffic (my product & marketing system sells it self).
3. A top notch system to drive real traffic to my sites.
4. How to link my website (s) to other pages that get great reviews from Google.
5. How to get indexed by Google and what is this Web 2.0 stuff?
Thanks so much.
I love your site, besides all the great info it is very clean & fresh looking in which invites the reader to read the page.
Julia Cespedes
We’re not idiots really. We are just not educated and what you want is what I need too – because I’ve never learned this sort of thing. Your interest and desire to learn is very essential in all of this. Giving another person the needs that you have in order to learn something new is commendable. Commendable because you know what you need in order to learn and gain knowledge. I’m with you all the way – it’s the only way I can learn too. And because we now have experts that can show us and are happy too – and only the intelligent people will do so – let the party begin.
Hi Derek, in response to your request for requests, What I really need is,
1 I have a very good idea to write an ebook, but have no idea how to do that, and how to sell it or promote it on the web.
2 How do I find a niche market
3 I need every thing explained in the simplest terms, I’ve looked into and got stuff from a few places and have been flooded with so much info and marketing concepts, and different opportunities that I feel overwhelmed and want to through it all in the garbage, just to clear my head, not mention all these offers that you supposedly don’t need a site for, when the info. comes ,YA, you do need a site. I’m sick of the crock, I need something real, and simple.
4 I need to know up front what computer capacities I need to do the job, as I can’t watch videos on this box, and want to know what tools I will need to set up a simple site, and get it started.
5 I need to know the costs, up front to start, and what I will need to carry thru and actually start making money online.
Of course I need to know all the other stuff that goes with making a decent living on line, but starting with the baby steps is a good place to start
Keep the main thing, the main thing. Anyone can sell if they believe in what they have. But the question is what is the market looking for and can I supply it, and have repeat business. hell if the product their after is good, i`ll practically give it away to get the repeat business. The big money is in the follow up!
Everyone has great points, cant wait for the rest.
1. a mentor available via phone to walk through set up and start!
2. serious help with the shipping, accurate costs of all products.
3. where to market and advertise successfully.
4. effective management of business (time and money).
5. i don’t know what i don’t know! you tell me the secret!
1 how to start the business up
2 how to get it noticed
3 what to create the business about
and thats about it really
1) Top selling items
2) An easy to use website design I can use to aim my website to make sales.
3) Marketing to bring business in and keep them coming back
4) Easy to use tools on the marketplace, sales and inventory reports
5) 24×7 support if needed
First, the product needs to be one that is actually sought after – not sold by everyone else in a MLM that isn’t really a product at all. No fly-by-night get-rich-quick scheme – something that can and will generate sustainable income if you actually work at it, but not something that promises you a ferarri with a celulite model standing next to it in front of a huge mansion on the beach…we know that’s not reality don’t we everyone?
Second, a knowledgeable coach – to be there when needed for questions. If that person wants a cut of the profit to be a coach – so be it…
Third, EZ How-TO information. Something laid out in a step-by-step process with the end users or non-computer savy person in mind.
Fourth, something affordable to get into.
Fifth, access to marketing materials – precreated if possible, that can be tweaked.
Sixth, for those non-internet savy folks, access to website templates and a low cost web option. The only thing is most folks are clueless about getting their website to rank highly in search results, so someone needs to explain how to do that or have a tool that is available at a reasonable cost to input those keywords, etc…
Finally – something where you dont need to blatantly break rules to accomplish it. It’s one thing to do a little outside-the-box or push the envelope, but no breaking rules. It has to be legitimate…this probably should have been first.
I’m sure I could go on, but there you go.
1.a great support team
2.a popular niche
3.the best back office
4.does not require paypal
5.an affordable product
steven wilson
Help no comments via email
1. How to build the website to sell your product – in my case an ebook.
2. Include how to use an autoresponder.
3. How to build towards a membership site and what sort of information should be included on a membership site.
4. How to upload the website from your program (mine is Dreamweaver) to the host remote site.
5. How to set up marketing the site using adwords and search engines and all that stuff…..
1 make it quite simple
2 provide me with assistance
3 make it AFFORDABLE
4 make it a cut to the chase oportunity not something wishy washy that you have to be a lawyer to figure out amd make it realistic
5 show how to genate the traffic to want to join the system and make it simple for us that can t type @ pro speed
1.What do I sell
2.Good team
3.Good comunication
4.Good instructions
5.How to start
Derek,
It seems kind of strange to be asking this very serious yet basic question when you are so close to your reveal date. I’m betting you already know these answers.
What I need is to know:
1) What do I sell
2) How do I build the best site
3) How do I set up payment
4) How do I generate traffic without using spam
5) How do I become #1 on Google’s search engine
Hi hope you find this asvertis whit 2×2
Most of us seem to have pretty much the same idea, but here are mine:
1. What am I going to sell?
2. How do I gain a targeted group of BUYERS to my website?
3. How do I convert the visitors into buyers?
4. How do I get them to buy more/again?
5. How do I process payments?
Good luck!
Steve
i too, am VERY interested in how to build sales from a gathered name list. critical to max sales!
if you have 500 people, we should learn how to collect names of people who “hit” our sites and make it easy to send link to others who might buy.
success builds on itself.
good point that needs to be answered!!!
Hi Derek,
I want:
1) Great rankings in the search engines
2) More traffic
3) Well written text ads
4) repeat customers
5) links from other sites
Should help the starters in
– brainstorming
– validation
– feedback
– sales copy help
– some way to help with identifying niche markets etc
should have some accountability system so that people who like to start up some business not procrastinate…
The FIVE thiongs I’m looking for are:
1.How to build my own website.
2.Tech support to walk me through the process.
3.Product.
4.Drive traffic to site
5.Increase sales exponentially.
Latest marketing strategies that work and not any of the old horse’n buggy outdated methods. Also, I’m in agreement with other comments where I don’t want endless additional product purchases like thousands of DVDs and CDs that essentially don’t live up to their hype and promises. And who has time to listen to when you have a business to run? Let’s be realistic here. I simply want a hands-on, how to system that actually works for me.
I have read many of the already posted lists and don’t think I can come up with any thing not here. Like most of the others, a product, a way to advertise, a way to build my list, a merchant account, help with ad copy.
i am a retired silver server,several stokes (one erased most of my short term memory)-attention span low! even if i don’t get a business going i want to be able to point my kids into the right direction for help.
1) maybe a summary of the different avenues which are available to create an ebusiness (structure of different approaches) and which marketing ideas are outlived / pitfalls
2) a rough guide (1-10) how profitable each approach(like selling info or products etc)
3) a realistic time scale for setting it up
creating business
should become profitable
4) who can help whilst doing 3
5)outlook what’s next? mobi future? safe guarding your business.
kind regards
peter
wow!!! what can I add to the comments allready in? WELL— 1.Help ,help and more help in web-site design especially opt-in code for building a list and code for downloading pdf’s and e-books so pople can navigate my sit as easily as the best sites without spending the big bucks 2.A product I’m proud to sell–in fact most people want this one thing more than anything else. The rest of the commments above covered most of my issues and I look forward to the 24′th
Hi Derek;
If you come up with something that is not like all the others that I have wasted money on – it would be a treat!! What I am looking for is:
Direction for a niche
Products for that niche
Effective site that is easy to navigate
Cost effective
Coach/Mentor
I am sure I am like many others in that I have the desire and willing to do the work but have minimal upfront money or we wouldn’t be looking for something more and not all of us have the savy to create it ourselves.
Looking forward to see what you have done!! Thanks
These are things I thought of I would like to know:
1. Realistically, how much time is needed to make this a profitable venture. So many businesses spout out that you can make a huge amount of money in very little time. Although that may be true for some, it takes a ton of time and energy and $ to get to that point. I want to know if this is something that needs to be treated as a full time job, or if it really could be done successfully on part time hours. How does the time spent evolve and change over time.
2. What are the various roles,and how much time do you need to spend on them each day or week? Marketing, posting products, customer service, shipping, etc. Existing systems on how to complete these various roles to use time efficiently would be great.
3. Live person to consult with regularly and to get feedback from. Being accountable to someone, and receiving feedback pertinent to the business you are doing, is very valuable. To just receive materials is often not enough. To be able to talk with an experienced person could make all the difference.
4. Frequent updates on new information for marketing and products to sell.
Cheers,
Lisa
1. phone & email contact with a mentor who can deal with a range of webmarketing fine tuning issues in an accelarated manner.
2.an integrated listbuilder, autoresponder, shopping cart that is configured to dynamically keep my list segmented, from leads, to cutomers to repeat customers, all with an output to a simple accounting system. Basically 1shoppingcart, but with a mentor built in.
3. An ongoing review of solid niche marketing case studies involving viral marketing in ways that are relatively easy to reproduce.
I currently have a business and 20 domain names still not making me real money online,
1, I want a product that just sells without having to have stock,
Such as Ebooks, where to start with these is another story,
2, I want to be able to run it from some sunny beach in Bali,
3, Must make me enough money so I can take my friends and family with me,
4,I dont want to have to sell how to make money on the internet as thats your business,
5, Ultimately some one if this is so easy should be able to do it for us, set up the business and make them running and hand them to us on a plaste all we have to be is the $ reciever,
Anyway I want into making $ on the net by selling thin info,
thanks for all the advice and lest we not forget Cory,
Happy new years alround,
Customers
Route to Customers
Product that meets a market need
seamless back office
efficent fulfilment process
1) Finding a market and figuring out what type of product they want.
2) What kind of website to build for what types of products/markets — a blog, 1-page sales letter, huge website, social networking page/site, Adsense ??
3) How to start and build a list.
4) What to expect and how quickly — how do I know when to “abandon niche?”
5) I’m sure this one is unique to me: privacy issues as an Internet Marketer. If one has a nasty ex spouse, a stalker, etc. how does one conduct Internet business(es)(and blog posts, sales letters, and author e-books) to attract customers but not unwanted people from the past?
I reviewed the comments and the wish list express on this page. Derek , if you and your team can put a total package that covers all these .
1. tools and support, which covers all items from finding the right product or pruducts,to bring clients to your sit over and over again and seend their friends there as well.
2. Good traing and upport from you and your team.
3. Be able to run this business,without putting 70 to 90 hours in a week for a small income at the end of the week.
4. Being honest is a key factor in getting this off the table on all area of business.
I can wright a book on this but if you and your team can put this together . With the group that have express their comments on this page you will have a good starting team.
Thanks for leting express my comments and looking forward to working with you all.
Dan
Hi Derek
5 Essentials?
1 Keep it simple for dummies
2 Offer good support ex USA
3 Access to all tools and no upsells or nasty extras
4 How to really, really, really find those customers
5 No niche no $. How to get a good niche in depth
Cheers
Ian
I’m looking for a product that will afford me the opportunity to follow clear and concise steps with the end result being an income producing website.
I want to be able to read through your product and implement specific steps rendering a live, income producing website in a relatively short amount of time.
Provide me the means of generating traffic in the most logical, cost effective manner that will generate sales – quickly.
Then provide me the resources, and guidance to reinvest and increase marketing strategy to grow sales.
And please, do not require that I fly to the West Coast – with my commitments at the moment, I cannot leave for a few days. I have to be able to do this while still taking care of my other responsibilities.
Finally, let’s get ‘er done. I see the Internet as a way out of the quagmire I’m in, and I’m ready to go!
Thank you,
Phil
Thank you! Mr.Derek and your team included your staffs.
I’m very excited about opening time the New turn-key biz on Jan-24th(Thursday)10AM for success.
Your staffs are all the time helps me my biz marketing.
Add to this(your all-in- one site opening), after that your company may have expectaion of success.
futher more, other persons are more hepful with this affair.
thank you to good and light forwards!
Regards Myung.
Case studies would be very useful. Real life examples step by step as presented in a harvard case study or as appear in the book the four hour work week.
an example would be case studies for market research and in finding a niche as presented in your existing course.
I hope this helps.
Derek,
You asked so here it goes. I have been in a few MLMs and made some money and lost some money. So with that said and us being in the throws of a recession (whether Wahington believes it or not)here’s what I am looking for.
1. Honesty-no smoke and mirrors
2. Top notch product or products
3. Fantastic customer service
4. Easy way for customer to pay and for me to get paid
5. Quick path for potential customers to get to my Website
6. Something that is not going to cost a lot of money and take forever to recoup. If we can show people that they can make money quickly then they are happy and keep going. If all they do is put out money, work the plan and don’t see anything going into their bank they quit/
I believe I can say “aye” to virtually all the previous comments. The one thing I might add is, how does someone with a lot of general interests but no overriding passion find a good niche? I am the quintessential generalist: I know a little bit about a lot of things (in some cases just enough to be dangerous!) but I don’t believe I have true “expertise” in anything. Similarly, I like a lot of things, but the one I might put at the top of my list will probably be different on a daily or weekly basis. Nearly all the Internet gurus (including you, Derek) say one should select a product/service that he loves and/or that he is expert at; well for me, that could be anything and nothing. If I could break through THAT brick wall, there would be no stopping me. HALLLP!!!
Derek,
My number one is – what niche and what to sell? All of the tools and techniques to draw traffic and close the sale are worthless unless I have products that the public wants to buy. If I am selling what a thousand or more other websites are selling, I am not sure that is a niche. I don’t have the time or resources to “test” this product or that product or to research what is may sell. I do recognize that markets do change, I knowing how to find those emerging markets would be my second need. Recognizing it takes time to develop high placement on search engines, knowing which techniques to use first (a priority) to get the biggest bang and real honest facts as to how long these techniques will take to achieve high traffic would be third. Fourth would be to know the proven techniques to convert the people who come to your web site into buyer’s. I gotta tell you, scrolling through one long web page to get to the bottom to find out how much it costs is really not my cup of tea. If the headlines grab my attention and I go to a web site I would expect a means to close the sale way up front, not something way down at the bottom … I’m not going to go there; I don’t have the time and will go somewhere else or decide I didn’t really need the product anyway. Fifth, would be point and click tools to put up and maintain a very clean, simple (by design) professional website that will get my message across and close the sale.
Hope this helps and I also look forward to being one of the 250 to put your turn key business-creator to work for me.
Steven
Hello Derek,
I think the five key tools needed are:
1) a very easy to use keyword search tool to help find target markets and good keywords to bid on
2) an email and list management system to automate sales and marketing
3) access to your database! (or an affiliate recruitment & management tool)
4) a tool to distribute articles automatically to the main blog and article durectories
5) a step by step DVD to take you through the whole process
It goes without saying that you also need to work up the right attitude – and take action!
All the best
Mike
…….mmm…………..5 things?……
1. A scheme that actually works,so if it says your going to make money you do
2.actual lists of people genuinely interested.(i bought into a mailing company that is supposed to be full of contacts actually interested in affliate programs.in 3 months i haven’t had i sale/enquiry.)
3.no more sign up”3/5 people get this etc.”there is no way on earth i’m able to bring/refer/sign anyone else up.(hence buying into a mailing service)
4.getting more people to websites (same reason i bought into a mailing service)
5.Genuine money making system.I’ve been trying since oct 2007,signed up/paid out a lot of money on all sorts of schemes.Money i’ve earnt? absolutely nothing,zero,nil.One company actually told me it was because i’m lazy.Hell no,(i’m bed ridden at present recovering from major surgery and won’t be able to work for 6 months, so i turned to the internet to supplement/earn some cash.)i’m spending between 2-6 hours daily promoting furiously so to be told i’m lazy……….and if there is a money back guarantee make sure the money is easy to get back,and you’re not going to make people jump through hoops.
one Company refused to give me my money back (quoting “lazy”)after stating that if after,etc.,etc. well you know the rest………and i’m still waiting.
1. paying customers
2. ”
3. ”
4. ”
5. ”
Real Visitors that pay with real money,you can have the best site the best product but without an affordable way to generate traffic it is all useless..
I am so tired of spending money on promises. “Purchase this and you’re on your way to financial freedom.” All I can say is BULL! I am on a fixed income, I need to make money now, not two or three years from now. I am so frustrated.
I need:
1. A website and someone to show me how to set it up.
2. Products that are going to sell.
3. How to get traffic to my website.
4. How to get customers to purchase my products.
5. Not left on my own when I need help.
Please, please let this be real, the perfect all-in-one business. I hope that I am not asking for too much. I hope I am one of the 250 lucky people to find out on January 24 / 08.
I am in marketing for a few years now.
the number one you need to have is:
A step by step plan that works for everyone that is willing to do the effort to make money and not to fill Your pockets. Make te steps visible with camtasia or something.
A great support place to answer questions especially for the new guys.
Point people the right way for advertising, there is a lot of scam out there.
Learn everyone step by step how to gain real traffic to there site.
Make it automated so people don’t have to call because that is something given only for creators and real salesmans.
A good paying processor. Not paypal (bad policies)
Open up a weekly chat (liveconference) to learn and teach not for telling how wonderfull everything is working. Some people need to get the right direction.
Best of all
Everyone could do the same like powermarketeers only if they’ve been teached like the pro’s
Ian, You must know something, being a blue collar worker what do you do? what are your intersts, do you have children? what are your life experiences? what are your hobbies? do you gammble? do you play sport? do you have a story to tell? any of these things can produce the background for an ebook for example. Dont sell yourelf short you may know more than you realise.
I bet you know how to cook a great BBQ maybe you can coume up with good BBQ recipes.
I am not a computer wiz, but I know my way around. I have purchased products in the past, which seemed to be over my head, I feel I need a bit of guidance with technology while I’m building. I am willing to give it all the time needed to get up and running, examples of persurvence include attending college to become a RN while workinf full time and taking care of a young family, two and a half years ago I started a new business (arts and craft toy store) which is thriving. Really I’m not a dumb person, but some of the steps requested in the other programs ~ I feel were too technical. I want to be able to purchase a step by step program using layman terms for building. Maybe a glossary tutorial with visual and sound to take us through the process. After the build, we need guidance on how to run the site and keep up with any new techniques to drum up business, which is an on going task. Also setting up payment options.Thanks, Jamie PS I look forward to the 24th.
I have never been involved in an internet business before although I have ordered plenty of “packages” over the internet to start such a business. Many times they were overwhelming and not basic enough for newbies.
These are the things I would need in order to have a successful internet business:
1. Assistance finding a hot niche market, and would it be possible to match the niche market with my personal passions and interests?
2. Website building including autoresponders, email sign-ups used for drip campaigns, etc. Visual assistance (as well as pdf backup for later viewing) on how to build a website that I would also understand how to later be able to access in order to make corrections and/or updates.
3. An effective marketing campaign–How do we get people’s attention? (How many emails do you delete each day without looking at them?)
4. A system and process so we know steps A thru Z in order to eventually have our internet-based business working for us instead of us working perpetually on our business. In other words, working smarter, not harder.
5. A live person to contact when we need assistance who can assist even the newest of us successful internet business owners!
Thank you for asking!
Hi Derek,
The 5 essential things I personnaly would be looking for would be:
Here’s what I really need..
1) What do I sell
2) How do I build my site
3) How do you set up payment
4) How do you look after customer and prospect list
5) How do I get buyers to come to my site
Thanks
Barbara
Lets keep this simple
A plan to build an optin list – as thats how ALL of these comments got here!
Best Regards
Paul Easton
A Plan for F.ree Web Traffic
Get it Here:
http://www.SEOTrainingLive.com/
I have a tendency to lean toward the monkey see monkey do attitude.
So video over the shoulder will get a click from me.
Keeping the price low also.
Having access to my coach,having a proof reader to check things out.
A site to submit your trial piece so it can be tweaked out.
Bandits stealing all your hard work.
Thats about all I can think of for now.Im sure there”ll b more once i get everything implemented..
I really only need one thing.
How do I find a “niche” that is profitable.
I have tried wordtracker. All of my searches come up with very low KEI’s (the probablity of profit.)
Every program I’ve purchased fails in this same area. They say “find and area you’re knowledgeable in and enjoy.” The only problem is that there is no money in any of the areas I have look into.
As a matter of fact I can’t find any niche that isn’t already overrun by thousands of people.
Maybe you can explain how someone can take one of these “full” fields and make it profitable.
1. I would need capitol $
2. Customers
3. Marketing
4. Know my competition
5. Location is everything (or a huge part)
Hi and it sounds like you have been in some oportunities that let you down. I myself have been in three in the past four years and have not made a dime. They all said how easy it is and just follow my steps and you can’t go wrong. If only that was the case. I have lost over eighty thousand dollars in these four years and just about everything I own. Lets say I developed my own system. I perfected it found my secrets made a ton of money. Well the people of whom got me in were TOP INCOME earners and good at what they did just like in any business. They had every reason why I should join make alot of money and live a successful life style. Once they got your money and you started to train it seems like they were never around when you needed them. So guess what I had to try on my own and all three times it was the same and didn’t work. Its pretty sad to NOT make one dime. I have learned alot about what it takes. Its funny when I read the 5 things you wrote that makes this fly. I whats even better is I have asked people who have called me and telling me how good thier offer is and how much money you can make is fine I will join if you pay and when it showes me it works I will give you your money back. Boy do they get quiet. Its like if your so sure its going to make me money as well as yourself why not help me ?
1. Simple, user friendly, directions.
2. Specific information on marketing a product or products.
3. Tech support.
4. Updates to stay current.
5. Perhaps information geared to beginners as well as advanced users. Do not assume we all have the same techn ical expertise.
PLEASE NOTE:
http://www.piperstores.com currently under construction.
Derek:
Acknowledging the obvious .. “If you have something many will buy .. there exists a business opportunity for you! Pursue IT!”, quoting a grandfather of four .. ME! In the “bricks and mortor” requirements of selling there are three important factores to be considered and they, in order, are:
#1. LOCATION
#2. LOCATION
#3. LOCATION
What are the 5 essential things I NEED to build an eBusiness? For me:
#1. SIMPLICITY
#2. SIMPLICITY
#3. SIMPLICITY
#4. SIMPLICITY
#5. SIMPLICITY
Now, if you can mix these five factors with some “Sincere Honesty and Intregrity” I’ll eat at your table anytime!
To everyone’s continued success!
Charles Williams
……….mmm……..5 things?
1.genuine scheme that if it says you are going to make money you do.(i’ve paid out alot of money into schemes which are “the next best thing/don’t miss out on this/i’m making full time money on p/time hours” …………etc. etc. etc.i think you get the picture.)
2.genuine lists of names interested in your products.(i have bought into a mailing system that is supposed to be full of genuine people interested in affliate programs how many response have i had? NONE.)
3.no more “sign up 3/5 people to this” etc.There is no way i’m personally going to be able to do this,this is why i joined a genuine mailing list.
4.a genuine money back guarantee that doesn’t make people jump through hoops to get it.(i’m recovering from major surgery,bedridden at present,and unable to work for 6 months,so turned to the “net” to supplement/earn money.As i’m spending daily between 2-6 hours promoting/advertising my affliate sites which have earned me NOTHING/NIL/ZERO i was refused a refund by 1 company because they said i was lazy…….)
5.genuine people interested in your products.
All is fine and dandy like free traffic sources and automated email lists. Here are the 5 things I’d need to maximize a monthly passive income.
1- a membership site where I charge a minimum of $10 a month- income so I can get a monthly passive income
2- valuable info and ways to give target market what they want so they keep their monthly membership
3- accountability-
4- how to get more readers to leave comments on your blog
5- how to get readers to email you feedback on how to give them info they really want.
Thanks Derek Gehl for asking for feedback.
1. Optimize information given (decrease your tendancy to repeat)
2. What areas, strategies should someone with limited time be considering (I can put in a few weekends to start, then 1 hr/day)
3. Do micro-niches generate sufficient sales?
Need: every step of your Greatest Program! in lay-language; a pre-kindergarden in this field – also, though, with a child’s eagerness to Learn and Succeed. Your’s and your Team’s commitment to your customers offers us shoes for our feet in this Internet briar-patch and inspiration to put our racing BEST into our Sprint to Success! Thank You.
i do not understand the mechanics of websites especially how the links are set up and made to work;How traffic is generated at little cost and how 1 person can make so much money!!However i can see the massive markets and huge potentials its so frustrating watching it and not being able to get a piece of the action especially when i’m addicted to the Internet!!
All i want is a program that doesnt meant i have to spend years building up an opt in list,,i just want to be able to get set up quickly,and contact potential customers,without spending a lot of money on bogus companys.
FROM WHAT IVE SEEN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS,EVERYBODY JUST WANTS TO SELL YOU SOME FORM OF E.BOOK.
what about setting up a company that doest charge you anything.but helps genuine people make money,and in return it takes a percentaga,,seems to work for companys like kleeneze,and the like.
Or mayby all internet companys are just a rip off…You tell me.
Derek… my 5 things wish list: Basically, I’m looking for tried and tested systems that I can follow to be successful. Basiclly I would like to have Step-by-Step, detailed instructions on each of the following:
1. How to find a really PROFITABLE niche.
2. How to select or find products that have a high probability for selling to the selected niche(s).
3. How to build an attractive website / salespage – with content that SELLS !!
4. How to drive tons of traffic to my site.
5. How to use Web 2.0 to help make sure I am successful.
Lastly, I would really appreciate On-going mentoring / assistance at least until I am up, running and enjoying some success.
I’m looking forward to the opportunity to get started.
Larry
I am in complete agreement with Elizabeth.
I have been promoting all your cut and paste emails for years and apart from one month when Corey was still with us, have never had a sale.
I would like to see just what I am doing wrong or NOT doing right. I have a list of just over 1000 and send the emails out via mailloop7
Yeah I think…
1. A Personal Mentor/ Coach – With Easy Access
2. Constant Industry Updates – Maybe twice a week
3. Increase Targeted Traffic
4. Best Companies or Affilites to work with
5. Ready made Professional Businesses to go – like a franchise as such….rather than finding your own niche. People need telling what to some times when they come from an employee background as such.
Hi Derek,
I am a “newbie” to the earning an income on-line venture but determined to make a go of it.
The 5 areas of concern for me are:
1. How (process) to use to determine product to sell/niche market?
2. Step by step guidance in how to set up a site. Directions must be in plain everyday language, not in techi language.
3. Guidance not only in determining Keywords, but examples of how to write up phrases (no, I am not asking that it be done for me but meant to learn).
4. How to change/add a website from one host to another without to much fuss and requiring a change of program?
5. Ongoing affordable support with with the cost of your firm’s assistance/guidance taken out of earnings (all parties would then have a stake in the site’s success).
HI,
I’m sure that you thought of everything to make it easier for mewbies.
But I know that when I began to look for making money on internet, I saw a few flaws. So, for me the 5 things I would love to have at that time and still would like to have are
1-a business simple to operate, no MLM or things like that
2-a dictionnary of the term like MLR, RSS, safelist, opt-in list,
autoresponder, SEO,
3-what you need to have a list and how it works (ex:autoresponder) and the best way, best ressources
4-how to advertise cost free (I hate it when a guy told me I was a looser because I didn’t buy his tool à 197$. I was well over my head with debts and no one to pass me money)
5-how to make a squeeze page to make my list
They’re a lot more but I think that’s more important.
Thanks
Marthe
Hi Robert
Bill Ogilvie here I have been trying to do the same things for about ten years now and I am still in the same spot , i have tried umteen times to get it right but no I have been trying to make some much needed cash on line but no we get plenty of those NO BRAINERS on line but they forget you have to be a whiz kid first and Robert I just cant make coffe on the computer like some of the whiz kids not only that I have been robed quite a few times so I dont like puting info on line. I wish they would bring a program out that you could pay out of money earnd ,I am a pensioner and cant aford to loos good cash
Hey I had best shut down or I will run out of space
YOURS
BILL
(PS I am not going through spell check )
I am amazed at the consistency of the requests here. I’m not going to repeat what has already been said. I know that most all of the mechanics of IM can be shown to people fairly easily and I would bet that most of the folks here have already gotten at least enough bits and pieces that can be brought together into a logical marketing system by someone that knows the game.
So, let me cut to the chase. It’s trying to compete with the top dogs in the best money-making categories that has been the problem for most budding marketers. If someone REALLY wants to make a difference for those trying to break into IM, this is where the solution would happen. I personally get around that by selling products that they don’t even have access to. That’s why I generate 50-70k mth. selling physical product almost entirely over the Internet. I realize that not everyone can do that, at least not in the beginning, but perhaps some sort of co-op can be formed to market solid products and not be eclipsed by the gurus.
I don’t knock them, I know that they work hard to earn their dollars (contrary to what others may have you believe). But, that doesn’t change the fact that it is almost impossible to compete with them on their turf unless you have (or can put together) the same clout. Sure, newbies may be able to make a few bucks here and there, but to develop a thriving internet business, it takes clout in numbers and lots of it or else a lot of work to become one just like them.
After reading through most of the comments before mine, I have come to one conclusion. The scam artists definitely outnumber the good guys and they are ruining it for anyone who attempts to fulfill the dreams of many people to just want to make a decent and legal living on the internet. I wish you all the luck in the world convincing anyone that you are the “savior”. As you can see, I’ve been burned just as so many other people in this blog and it’s going to take something that is new and very believeable to turn most of us around. I don’t have a lot of money so that’s another deterant. All I want to do is have some extra money to add to social security when I retire soon so I don’t have to live under a bridge. I wish you good luck and I will look at your “system” closely!
HELP! I only wanted to subscribe to comments about my comments. I do not want to receive every comment to the blog, please shut it off for me. Thank you very much.
THanks so much for asking,this great.You have done something no one else even thinks about.Everyone has said exactly how i feel,so i will just add:i am looking for a real honest way to make a decent living on the internet.Everyone hypes their offers and once you have been burned you do not trust anyone.when you send e-mails or try to call you get no replies.Also,you are offered the so-call great ways to earn money,after they have used it for all it is worth.Ihave tried everything and have maded nothing,but a fight to get my money back,please make sure it has a GURANTEE.ALSO,DO YOU NEED DSL/FAST INTERNETSREVICE?????I SENT A EMAIL TO YOUR OFFICE WITH THIS QUESTION AND ONE ABOUT CUT AND PASTE,HOW TO DO IT.Everyone is not computer nerds/geeks{smile}Sincerely,BESSIE
Derek,
I’d be for all the list above plus one more. If you are so sure you have the source for making money on the internet I’d like to test drive your system at no obligation and pay you for it out of the first proceeds it makes for me. I’m not a freeloader. I just have no way of knowing your system will work.
Thanks a million!
Joe
Hi Derek
thank you for helping me to be successful in 2008. These are my
5 essential things I need to build for my business?
1. How to create my business to close more sale with my website?
=> How do I get effectively buyers to come to my site
2. How can I sell more than my competition to have more sales succes, to increase my income (double, trible,…)?
3 How to builde a team and to find new people, who are also happy to have such a good business, so that they also can take their career to the next level. And that these people know, that the products I have are really the best.And that the products aren’t only one advertises-promise.
4. How to put my business at the top of my industry?
5. and to achieve all these wishes (better resulte to close more sale by finding effectively buyers and building a stable team,…) with low cost.
These are the 5 essential things and some more, which I need to know and to lean, that I can achiev my personal and business goals faster for 2008. So that I can life the life I always wanted.
the turn-key solution, which you are going to present the January 24th, 2008 at 10am. Could you please tell me the time for europe?
If english is not my navtive language, will it be difficult to follow your programm?
I hope to be one of the 250 peoples and can not wait to start my succesful year 2008 with you.
Thanks
Hello Derek
For me the most important five things which are very essential in internet marketing are in these order:
1) help in building a website which is user friendly having easy to follow product/s info and simple order processing;
2) easy to locate sourse of cheap product/s which is/are that sell in hugh quantity;
3) help with driving traffic to my site;
4) help with mail shot programe
5) finally, help with blogging.
I am looking forward to the January 24th and be lucky one to be in the 250.
Best regards
Chandrakant
Hi Derek,
For me most important thing is:
1) Quality Traffic
2) Targeted Visitors.
3) Visitors that Convert.
4) Repeated Visitors.
5) Quality Products or Services.
Regards,
Joe
Hi Derek
Five things that I will need to get off the ground.
1. How to do the market research to find a product that I can sell.
2. How to create the product.
3. Creating a sales copy that will sell the product.
4.Which keywords would give me high ranking in Google, MSN and Yahoo.
5. How Can I then improve the business for more customers.
Thanks
Hi Derek ….greetings from Rio de Janeiro.
Of all the comments I´ve seen to date, I would like to support and reiterate Tracy´s as probably the 5 most relavent to my needs.
1. Inexpensive leads that convert
2. Reliable consistent relevant traffic
3. Point & Click system to drive such traffic
4. Refreshing relevant content for particular business model
5. The truth about how big time earners are actually building their home businesses.
I believe I have the intellectual property to sell, but the killer is to establish the system in place to get it out there.
best to all and abraços from Brazil.
Hi Derek,
I’ve just read your letter.
1. How to build a successful pre-launch marketing campaign /how to build a momentum for the launch/
2. Market and Keyword research tactics which would make this process faster, easier
3. How to write a very good sales letter which won’t create an impact on the visitor that I ONLY want to sell them something
4. WEB 2.0 marketing tactics
5. DETAILED Caseworks about businesses You saw or helped to build up for success ; from the beginning to success
Maybe another Internet Marketing Reality show would be nice. Like the one that Joel Comm created. You would choose for example 5-10 people with nice business ideas, and would help them to build their business up from scratch, in front of an Internet Audience which would watch this reality show through web-video, written e-book documentation, and through audio.
I would watch something like that for sure!
Best Wishes,
Matt
1. Regular timed emails to help me keep on track – eg. time to do this now …..
2. Software for eBooks – ideas I have
3. A real wish …. list building help … seems to be a key point and I need to know how to get started on this – can you get started without a list?? without spending big money?
4. Knowing how “the other folks” (you said this would be a limited number of people) are doing – sharing not whining!
5. Oh and more timed emails to remind me about the reminders……
My greatest need for now is for a programmer. The person must be capable of developing a website with multiple semi-private storefronts while making it simple not only to replicate for new clients but also easy to update each and every storefront with new products. The programmer needs the ability to develop a social networking site that interfaces with the website/storefronts as well as the ability for the Web 2.0 site to link into another semi-private storefront that can be stocked with items selected by the user. Finally, the programmer needs to be able to develop a module that will supply password-protected reports to our various users as well as integrating the entire system into both operations management and financial management software.
Am I asking too much?
Hi Derek,
I would like to see a html editor, banner creator (all types including swf.), domain registering and hosting, lead generation system, traffic section, rss feeds, blog, Ezines, articles, article, blog, directory submission service, auto update news letters, email copies, auto-responder, several ways to pay besides Paypal and not have to spend all day setting up the system.
Also the system has to be able to make a nice Turkey Sandwich
Ricardo
Hi Derek,
1) Videos, complete videos (on every step, leave nothing out)
Gary Amborse once said it in a video. “Sometimes we leave the small steps out because we think everyone knows them”. This has never been more true.
2) autorepsonder directions
3) how to build traffic
4) setting up the files to be uploaded
5) uploading to the internet
I had to cancel my membership due to finances and I just want you to know I really MISS being in the forum. Geoff especially.
Sincerely,
Barbara Tasker
protasker@yahoo.com
thats great! i love it!
seriously, most of these online businesses really only make money for the few that are really good at, not the rest of us tech-challenged idiots. lets face it, the online world is run by highly intelligent geeks that are not at our level, just average folks who need cash, not some business to gloat about to our “techie” friends…if you really want to make money online just click here!! hahahaha, just joking!
I would want to see some very basic info: ftp, uploading video and audio, and other basics of this nature. Often people who have been in IM for some time forget that people just starting out do not know the very basic info for proceeding.
JB
first i need to know how much up front moneys needed before seeing a return? so it can be budgeted.
can everything be done through you? (your company ) which is how you will be making money off us.
how great is your garantee ? If I give it a great try through you and nothing seems to be what you say, do I get all invested money back? not just the initial box ,but every cent spent to get to that point.
I have worked in both the corporate and government worlds, and know the challenges that we face on day to day bases. The way the corporate world sells us things. That is why I am leaving those worlds and going into the private sector. I have done my research and homework scanning the different websites getting a feel for what catches the eye and what works for selling a product.
I think the major thing that I would like to see is Marketing. It does not matter what you are selling if you don’t have a marketing plan it will not sell. I could sell ice cubes to people but if I don’t know how to market them, they will never sell.
Also a good business plan, or help going over the plan tell me where I need to improve.
Hi Derek,
My 5 would be:
Clear step by step strategy
Ech step having fundamental step by step training videos
support, easy to use programs and resources.
Up to date ie Web 2.0 processes and information
quality and responsive support.
All this must cater for the absolute beginner when providing fundamental tutorials. Far too many today make assumptions that the student already knows the fundamentals and people can get hung up on this.
Alan
video is HOT today
so step by step video tutorials by camstasia?
so we can really SEE the steps over your shoulder.
95% is new bee for internet marketing,so i hope
it is for the starter.
I live in Europe is that a problem????
For support it s difficult to call a coach or your team
Last week i got another offer from a “guru(s)”
a well known hot program on the internet but it costs $1300.
95 % really need the money and cant afford this,so i hope
your program will be reasonable.
Most of us spend already many wasted $$$$$ with other gurus.
I want to spend time, $$$$$, and effort/action in it because my
boss is reorganising the company and i am feeling bad about that.
It would be nice to fire your BOSS in 6 months.
Good luck and happy 2008 for 250 starters. Al Netherlands
I’m a skeptic. I don’t part with my money easily. I tend to be a see proof then pay.(probably my stumbling blocks). I don’t go into a store and blindly buy something I haven’t seen the specifications on or the actual product in my hands. I need to get my feet wet as it were, seeing a website actually produce revenue.
1. Product to sell, preferably completely handled by the website, so informational, I guess. (no shipping, etc.)
2. Exact instructions on what to do.
3. Did I mention Exact instructions on what to do (not, you need one of these, one of those, look here and here for this, etc). I want “go here”, “type this”, “enter that”, etc. Precise details, step by step.
Even if this is a temporary website I turn over to you after a specific time period. I will have done the work and seen it work and will be able to hopefully repeat it for myself. Almost like a home-study course. I have nothing against turning a site over and/or not collecting revenue in exchange for the chance to gain the knowledge it takes to make a similar one. I’d actually prefer that to paying for something I had to stumble through on my own.
4. Reviews – “nope you did this wrong”, “you need this text”, etc
I need a quality website complete with:
1. Autoresponder
2. Tech Support when I need it, like NOW!
3. Quality and consistency in learning the process.
4. Methods to drive traffic to my site that are reasonably priced.
5. Free access to all tools needed to make the site successful.
(No back end stuff or trying to sell me, “must have to succeed”
products.Hell,you already made your money.)
6. Statistic page so I can monitor what is working and what isn’t.
That is how most successful people make money online, appealing to my vulnerability because they know I’m looking for anything that I think can help me become a successful online entepreneur.
What I see most people asking for here, I already have. Corey did a great introductory job for beginners (he certainly helped me), but there’s a lot more to the equation these days.
I’m mentoring a couple of people now, and every single one of them has stated essentially “How come nobody ever talks about this (aspect)?
I think it’s because so much is so obvious to so many, they forget about the rest of the folks. That, and keeping up with major change.
I want to suggest one thing which might/should be considered essential: Master Mind groups of users of your products/services. Forums should be considered mandatory, but MMG’s will really make a difference. The one I run is pretty rigorous, slackers are out because they pull down the team. It seems those who contribute the most (paying forward) are the ones who are most successful, and the effect is contagious.
NOTE: I’ve just launched the site above, but the general public is locked out until extensive beta testing is completed to my satisfaction.
(No, viewing the source code won’t help you get in 8<)
I expect great things from you and your team, Derek, through this launch.
Best wishes to you all, including the folks writing in here;
-David
video is HOT today
so step by step video tutorials by camstasia?
so we can really SEE the steps over your shoulder.
95% is new bee for internet marketing,so i hope
it is for the starter.
I live in Europe is that a problem????
For support it s difficult to call a coach or your team
Last week i got another offer from a “guru(s)”
a well known hot program on the internet but it costs $1300.
95 % really need the money and cant afford this,so i hope
your program will be reasonable.
Most of us spend already many wasted $$$$$ with other gurus.
I want to spend time, $$$$$, and effort/action in it because my
boss is reorganising the company and i am feeling bad about that.
It would be nice to fire your BOSS in 6 months.
Good luck and happy 2008 for 250 starters. Al Netherlands
1. What to sell
2. Site hosting and transaction/payment methods.
3. How to market site. Get most people visit it.
4. How to sustain, stay in business/grow.
5. All of the above please…thanks!
As a totally newbie and have norwegian as my first language I give up before getting started cause I don`t have a big list,don`t know business english and so on,so on
Wish it could be simple so I could understand what I am going into
Derek
I think most people just want something that is honest and rewarding! there are so many scams out there!
If you create something that is,
#1 simple to do !
#2 will give you good ROI for your efforts !way’s to get quality leads that convert well(Buyers)and get them to the website effectively!
#3 A seamless application-Written Ads-Autoresponders and so on !and once setup will run like a well oiled machine, With a little daily maintenance and upkeep !
#4 Something that doesn’t take a great amount of time and effort to do !although everything needs action to be taken, I think everyone must understand that!
#5 A do this or do that 1-2-3-4- And so on plan laid out for everyone in simple terms,That if done in the order you lay out to the people, You cannot fail! You’ll Have A Winner!
I think most people all want the same things!
Sincerely
Tom!
Here’s my wish list
1. Identifying the target marketing (even if they are hard to find)
2. Finding out what they want to buy
3. How to generate traffic and build an opt-in list with out spending a fortune
4. How to establish the relationship with the list and get them to buy
5. How produce new products and backend sell consistently
Hi DG,
Here’s part of what I wd like to be addressed:
1- You recommend “Wordtracker” to identify potential profitable niche markets.Is it possible to use “keyword elite” to reach the same goal?
2- Will you provide valuable downloadable audios and videos showing the whole process of setting up a profitable site for those who like me don’t live in your part of the world?
3- I plan to begin with affiliate marketing. Will you treat that topic? Is it possible to become a super affiliate with your system?
4- Money is told to be in the list or rather in the relationship with the list.How to manage opt-in lists and make the persons behind feel valuable?
5- Where to find valuable information for my future potential subscribers. I guess that’s they primarily want to have before ending up buying.
Hope to be among your next success stories
I have all your training material, I have done the courses, I have all of your products – the difficulty I have is putting them all together?
I have a business idea that has huge potential for a specific market but I cannot fix on a direction, I have confused thoughts and jump around too much.
There are many comments above from people wanting some magical solution but I doubt that this is what you can provide and you shouldn’t need to, all of the information is already there and the tools are available (of course they cost money) I need to know how do you put it all together.
At times I think you provide so much information people become confused in which way to go, there are too many things to take in at once the internet marketing course gives me a heap of information, I have knowledge of many things but have difficulty pulling them all together, and I have knowledge of the internet! so how does a newbie figure it out?
So: Absolutely Number 1. is keep it simple (the Kiss system)
2. The new system should be set up so that we understand how all of the bits connect togther i.e. mailoop, ebook pro, connecting to Paypal or some other financial institution, autoresponders etc.
3. Templates for web pages and how to use.
4. Templates for sales letters and how to use.
5. Ability to set up a Blog and how to use.
6. Organisation and writing of news letters, news letter templates.
7. A direction that can be taken marketing the system
7. To add to my number one point make sure that the system has a logical sequence of events, do not leave to much decision making especially to the newcomer, maybe you need to have a novice and advanced section.
Thats it from me, I guess I could write an ebook on this, now there is an idea for someone.
Thanks for the opportunity to have a say.
Hello Derek – this is third time I have tried to send my comments
so I will now change first priority !
1. Keep it very clear and simple – don’t have much time after family and day job so the technology etc has to be relatively pain free.
2. payment system – paypal etc -
3. how to promote ebook/blog/product for niche market.
4. great website/sales template
5. create members/customers/return customers etc
thanks – now I’ll try and post this again!
rgds Sara
Derek, I’m with Gus, after searching for six months I have found nothing. Some of the programs might be good programs, but when a person doesn’t know very much about navigating around the inside of a computer it is almost impossible. I have come to the conclusion, it takes computer savy. I have given up “for now” and will try step one….learn the computer. One thing I have learned is how to spot a scam. I have spent hours investigation every opportunity that comes along, this a after I have been scammed. Most scams are interlinked with another scam. They are even getting very professional looking.
I’ve been doing this for about a year now and have made a little bit of cash on the side. There are alot of comments in here about how to do this and how to do that, but all that information can be readily made available through The IMC article archives. I get the newsletters and have followed alot of the tips, and they work. But the thing with the internet is that it is so saturated it gets harder everyday. The 5 things that would make internet marketing easier…..
1. Being able to provide information/service that hasn’t become overmarketed or scammed by conmen the world over;
2. A system that automates the majority of the small remedial tasks (but not all of them cause that takes away pride of ownership and customer service)
3. A program that isn’t MLM Related.
4. Support, Support, Support – there are too many “turnkey” systems that wet you up but then leave you out in the cold to freeze or fail
5. A program, even though step by step, that will require the individual to work at it and put some effort into the program, keeping all the lazy-get-rich-quick-pay-me-for-doing-nothing types out of the competition arena and limiting the poor quality sites that degrade the reputation and hardwork of those serious about owning a business and providing a reputable service for those seeking it.
If you aren’t willing to work for it, you probably don’t deserve it.
1. Diagram of a succesful marketing plan that I can hang on the wall to visualize the process from beginging to end of getting a prospect, backends etc.
2. How to set up effective email series and follow up series for buyers.
3. How to locate and exploit untapped niche markets.
4. How to structure my business for growth and maximum revenue/profit. Lcc, s corp etc.
5. A list of activities I should do daily to grow business, like write articles, seo, developing products, test marketing etc.
“By “100% perfect,” I mean, a COMPLETE all-in-one business creator that provides every single tool, training resource, and scrap of information you need to build a profitable business faster than you’d ever think possible.”
My opinion is that we must be serious. This isn’t possible!! It is only a very known affirmation of marketers, but unhonest. Do you actually belive in such things?
In the last month I was very surprised when I have discovered a veritable “net marketing mafia” of so called “gurus”. To solve a problem of creating one site must go to other, and after to another and so on until the circle was closed with the first.
It is very real that Linda said above, but and many others too.
1. A website and someone to show me how to set it up.
2. Products that are going to sell.
3. How to get traffic to my website.
4. How to get customers to purchase my products.
5. Not left on my own when I need help.
I am working just for my pleasure, but very hardly, because I have a pari mutuel with me and I want to win this. I have begun with nothing, but now I can tell more about my history on net. The most expressive fact is that the importance of different things is visible just when must be solved and so the list of the top 5 MOST ESSENTIAL things you need to build your business is always variable accordingly with the experince acquired and the stage of actions on the very long way to succes.
I am very furious when I see:
- You don’t need a site;…something to sell;… any thing to know… and so on. What is necessary? In this case the single response is ” Foolishness” as I have experienced that. Thanks for leting express my comments and looking forward to working with you all. Good luck for you all!
I have many of your products (EBook Pro, Mailloop, and antique version of the Internet Marketing Center Course)and I would love to be able to do something with them.
1. I have ideas for EBooks, but will they sell and if so for how much. Maybe ideas on what to sell and how to put it into action.
2. I need to find out a good Web Site service, and then I hope to find out how to set up a web site properly.
3. I really don’t have an email list, I’m not sure the best way to acquire one. I have found the same problem as others by paying big money for useless lists.
4. I work with a non profit organization in my spare time, and would like to do something where I can add my fundraising project to my website.
5. Last but not least, I need a program that I can do in my leisure. I’m retired, with many projects (mostly construction) that I have to be able to drop what I am doing and take care of. Trying to schedule a time that I know I am available seems to be nearly impossible. I don’t have a problem with having to work, to make some money. Besides most of the money I want to make will probably go to make things better for my kids and my favorite non profit organization.
Hi,
I think between all of the comments above we have said it all. I will be just saying the same thing, something that works etc.
My biggest problem is getting a list of people who want to follow me. I have built web sites for people for business, I can do that, I can get numbers of people to visit those sites but I need the right people for what I am selling.
I did that with a wholesale business I used to run a couple of years ago. I made the web site, registered in the right places and waited. Nothing, so I paid to be in a list of wholesale sites and bingo, the business took off. This was selling glassware to retailers so was not a full time making money on the web, web site with big numbers as people are promised.
After losing money to some of these that web sites that expect you to have a list I am skeptical and only register with the free to look at sites, and then hardly any.
Looking forward to what you come up with.
Paxo.
Hi Derek,
Here’s what I’m looking for
1) How to write a very good sales letter which won’t create an impact on the visitor/prospect
2) step by step video tutorials
3) Marketing to bring business in and keep them coming back
4) Easy to use website to monitor, sales and inventory reports
5) 24×7 support, easy to use programs and resources.
Thanks
Kim
I’ve been in so many forums and bought so many products my eyes are spinning in my head. I pick up one piece here and another one there, so it’s slow going. Here are my biggest challenges right now.
1. Finding a good key word tool and REALLY learning how to use it
2. How to test a niche before going full steam ahead
3. How to write really good, motivating content to drive traffic and most importantly convert to sales
4. Understanding social networks and how to use them for traffic (!!!!!)
5. How to build and manage a list
I found a great thread on IEC about starting with a broad KW and digging into it to flush out a niche. It was a HUGE revelation. I get the concepts. But – I haven’t been able to find anything clear cut about how to use KW tools to get from Point A to Point B. It’s these little things that others seem to take for granted and are holding me back.
Just my $0.02 cents!
Amy
I AM ONE OF THOSE IDIOTS.
1. step by step video instructions.
2. website to sell product or service. back office to keep track of sales and any tools that will be provided.(example:autoresponder,some way to be paid by customer {paypal or clickbank}.please when you pick a product or service make it one that you don’t have to buy to be a part of.
3. one on one support for at least 3 – 6 months until money is coming in.
4. reasonably priced for someone who doesn’t have a lot of money.(less than $100.00)
5. if possible 50 leads to plug into the system to get off to running start with the program.
This web site is expected to be up and running by Jan 23. The 5 things I need help with most are:
1. Incoming linking without buying into links for sale.
2. Driving relevant traffic to my web site
3. All I can get on blogging – I have your “blogging for dollars” – may be all I need, I haven’t tried it yet.
4. Help with XML sitmaps
5. Need to understand how often it is necessary to resubmit to search engines. When you are the only one maintaining the business and site(s), time is very important.
Thanks
Step by Step videos.
Figure ranges that I should be aiming at from keyword research, Clickbank and in Google/Yahoo/MSN for a good niche market.
Simulation sites for PCC advertising to test if making profit or not before paying for PPC to minimise risk.
Links for where to find good niche markets and products.
Guides for what to write in articles.
The Seven things. . .Truth and someone we can trust is the first thing we need. The second is hand-holding step by step instructions and not assumptions that because you provide the tool or tell us what it is that we automatically grasp how to use it. Third, we need some level of coaching or responding to issues. Fourth, we need information in the right dosages for the average learning styles, and… Fifth, we need to know we are being led by someone who has walked the walk. Sixth, we need some measures of accountability: how do we know how well we are doing, and Seventh, we need room to grow and change with social, technological and other changes.
That should cover it. Thanks for asking.
Thank you for your request and openness for input in your desire to get as close to optimum from the get go.
I’m about to catch a plane for San Francisco and have but a moment. In going over the other valuable and comments which I align with to a great extent.
I just want to take these few moments and comment on what may be or may not be a red flag. In listening to your two videos this past week, there were some key words that stood out for me being a businessman and may have antenna too acute.
Not a money tree and takes much work and attention is absolutely a positive. Anything else would be suspect.
But also as I recall were words like: “no tire kickers;” “serious and ready to get started;” and a few others in that vain that has caused concern that “This is what it is, it will take $___ to see it and take our word for it. Basically “Trust us.”
I hope this is not the case and a review of what the package is with as much detail as possible would be given before asking for a commitment. This is sound from the subscriber’s perspective and a better active group if viewed and not a bunch that just chalk it up and put it on the shelf.
Thanx for your attention,
LeRoy
Hi Derek,
I will be a member of your system. But I don’t like to read a fat book and I not have some knowledge about the business. I live in Denmark I would like to know more the system work. I hope that it’s easy and really work in DK. Thanks.
Derek
1. Simplicity
2. Excessive Traffic
3. Duplicatable
4. Really large income earner
5. Repeatable Customers
Earl
1. Treat me like a potential business partner, (not a business opportunity welfare recipient): Lay out what I need to come to the table with to make this opportunity work & the details of how I can and will work this opportunity for our mutual benefit.
2. Guide me to integrate my personality, my talents, interests and abilities with your program for maximum effectiveness. (Don’t stick me with a cookie-cutter website, but show me instead where my creativity can take this opportunity to unlimited places.
3. Tools dude! Don’t give me weblinks to the “10 essential tools of successful internet marketers” that I can buy at inflated prices. Integrate only excellent tools as part of this opportunity or negotiate a great discount price & deliver them with top notch training in putting them into effective use in my business.
4. Knowledge cowboy! The kind that differentiates the successful internet marketers from the rest who keep buying “the next great ‘you’re gonna make millions!’ ebook and still don’t see results. There is a ton of outdated, useless or less-useful information clogging the industry. Shoot straight with the ’silver bullet’ of what’s going to really help my business!
5. I expect a breakthrough program to cost. I expect it to work, (if I do!). But with your whole retinue of reknowned experts, what can I expect from you and your team After the sale? Once you have my money… do I have your continued support? If I suceed, to a degree… are you there to assist me in getting up to the next stage of success?
Those are my five!
Bernie
5 things I need -
An edge over my competition on the internet;
How to design a website that brings in the most traffic;
Other ways of driving traffic to my site besides straight search inquiries;
How to get the most benefit out of money I spend on my internet business;
List of reputable sources for internet business needs;
Someone (who is honest) that can teach me how to use the interntet to its full potential.
I have found that doing business on the net can be quite different than local store front business. Personally, I prefer internet business to local store front. I just need to learn how to do it better.
Hi Derek,
Thanks for asking. What do I need:
1# How do I find or create a product that really sells?
2# How do I find paying customers (or better, how do they find me?)
3# How do I set up a squeeze page?
4# Where do I find nice and easy to apply graphics?
5# How can I distinguish the real offers from the scam?
Best wishes,
Anita
Whew! A lot of comments! I can see why SOME of these people have not made any money — I don’t think they’re going to make it in ANYTHING, no matter HOW great the product.
Anyways, I’ve got a few of your products as well as some from other ‘gurus.’ I think the ‘Insiders Secrets’ is a money well-spent and I really like the professionalism of it, especially when compared to some of the other stuff out there selling at much higher prices.
I’m not going to list all 5 things I need, just a couple. Probably the most desireable thing would be step-by-hand-holding step videos (Camtasia?) of various processes. To name a competitor, Marlon Sanders does a great job of hand-holding on his Dashboards.
The other very important resource that I need is… time. If you can include that tool, or a site where I can buy it through PayPal, that would be fantastic! Another IMC product sold!
I’ll comment something relevant and not relevant regarding this!
I have an entrepreneur spirit, and constantly look for HOW TO do something, anything to start my own business. Right now I in local company in sales staff. However I am REALLY restless, because I simply cannot stand of working for somebody else… and I always want to serve people better than others; others never treat customer the way they must… they simply just do the work.. AGHHhhh.
So how to start something and give real value to clients…
You say FOR YOUR BUSINESS… which means the business you have!
What about us that haven’t started yet some online business!!
Five TOP Five:
1. WHERE and HOW to start if I have not YET started the business?
2. What shall I look for? and How shall I look for it?
3. How to compete against and distinguish yourself from others that have more capital (but deliver ‘rubish’) versus YOU… with good ideas and intentions BUT no brand name and capital!
4. How to compete with others and deliver online service of great value
5. I MAY have IDEAS, but HOW TO BE SURE THAY MAY WORK… and WHAT ARE THE CONCEPTS, METHODS, TECHNIQUES, of STARTING from NOTHING to online business.. from just plain new idea?
and 6 (exception) – how can someone in distant state and country, in distant place, at the end of the world… make great PLAIN ONLINE business with good value… and get GOOD money in GLOBAL marketplace..
PS. some alternative viewpoints?!
1. Current hot niches
2. Ideas for a unique selling proposition to those niches
3. Ideas for a front-end and back-end products to those niches
4. Top 5-10 traffic strategies for those niches
5. Any kind of specific information on maximizing conversions to those niches.
P.S.I understand that no information product could ever have these 5 components. These elements are the “work” part of Internet marketing. People who sell info products want you to do the work while they re-hash the same basic formula for success. And so it goes.
LOL!
You got it Rainer.
It can be really depressing to see people so enthusiastic, but unaware that a real business is not created from a cookbook.
Otherwise, every high school would have a cooking class – where entrepreneurs come out – half-baked.
I do have a lot of faith in Derek, and am sure he recognizes the huge opportunity this presents.
I think he has a debt of honor to fulfill to Corey, and he’s doing well at that. So, If people want another highly visible opinion other than mine, check out gurudaq.com; THAT seems to address one of the five things people appear to be concerned about: “is Derek for real?”
Cheers,
david@sucess-fully.com
1.What type of internet business can be apropriate for countries like Papua New Guinea, apart from developed countries
2. I want a business idea that is easy to follow and make money in days and weeks
3. How do I redeem my money made in internet business
4. How do I set up my own web page and get more trafic to my site
5. I want to have direct access to email contact with companies that I purchase their business idea, for further consultation
Here are the top 5 things I would look for…
1) Does it integrate with AWeber
2) Easy IPN integration with Paypal and other top processors
3) Is there a good membership site software/script.
4) Community for swapping ads, AR messages, JVs etc.
5) Good affiliate program (but I know you already have that)
Keep up the good work Derek (and team). I hope to see you
live in 2008. I will be in the US a few times.
I am responding to comments by Dave. He pretty well sums it up,
about what i need also.
Hi Derek,
There is a lot of information on the internet about getting traffic to someones site, but actually building a site is what a lot of people are looking for. We are not all computer geeks and have no idea where to start to put a site together.
OK, there is the Opt in Form, Sales letter page, Order form page,
Download page, how do you connect them to each other? How do you put pictures and elements on the pages, you know all that computer geek stuff.
Thanks
To me the main five would be:
1. how to build an internet profile
2. how to create an authority site
3. how to build a list
4. how to maximise use of an autoresponder
5. how best to use social marketing
A lot of other things, tools, etc are subsumed in these five but they seem to me to be the pillars of internet marketing while no 1. is also the foundation.
Best wishes for your new venture, Derek.
Ron P.
1. A SEO optimized site that converts sales
2. Some really killer sales copy and graphics for prmotional purposes.
3. A great opt-in sign up and autoresponder sytem to automate the process.
4. Tools to be able to offer your own affiliate program
5. Other cheap (Paid or Free) but quality sources for promotion purposes
The 5 things that are important to me in will be
1. Help in finding a niche market… ( Everyone makes it sound so easy yet, it’s the most important to getting started)
2. Filling a need with a product to sell to that niche, (information or a physical product to fill a demand in the niche.)
3. How to Use Web 2.0 marketing to send targeted traffic to my site. (I’m currently in someone’s course about marketing. But with all the research I’ve done, I’m having issues finding a niche that meets the numbers they discussed in the course.)
4. Developing a Professional Website without going broke.
5. Managing my new business where it can grow.
This is what’s important to me.
Omar Shaqur
1. A list of well researched high value niches and products (including back end products)to sell to that niche
2. An effective system: lead capture pages, sales pages, shopping cart, etc.
3. A cost effective and focused promotional strategies to include follow up systems and up sell tactics
4. A clear and concise step by step plan
5. Ongoing critique and coaching.
Hello,
My top five are:
1.What attractive item do I sell on a shoestring budget.
2.How do I build my site,with little knowledge of HTML,FTP etc and a shoestring budget.
3.How do I set up payment
4.How do I generate and maintain good traffic on a shoestring budget.
5.Show me some African success stories;if there are none,then adopt me as your first project.
Michael
Hi Derek,
How do I find or create a product that really sells?
Some level of coaching
Honesty
How to find a niche market?
That’s it
Cheers
1. How do you handle, Federal, State Income Taxes, State Sales Taxes, etc?
2. What kinds of business statements must be filed with governmental agencies?
3. What are the governmental accounting reporting requirements?
4. What kinds of tools are recommended/required for all aspects of bookkeeping? Are there tools for Mac users?
Hi Colleen,
It’s not everything you ask for, but we have an eBook and email course called Get Started!
It doesn’t go into a huge amount of detail, but it does give you the basic steps to get going from zero to having a basic website and a list you can sell you ebook to.
And it won’t cost you a penny – download it for free at http://www.cash-smart-kids.com/ebooknichegift.html with my compliments.
Good luck with it,
Jenny
I agree with Rich’s comments. I heard an interview between you and John Assaraf on a One Coach call and I felt you had a tremendous amount of knowledge and integrity. As long as your program continues to build on that perception then I am interested.
Finding a niche has been my biggest frustration. I have looked at 100’s of affiliate programs and there are too many people already marketing them, and many are doing a fine job.
I have no way to manufacture a physical product (money would be an issue), and all my ebook ideas are everywhere.
I think that having a ‘hands on’ mentor would provide the breakthrough that I need. Perhaps I am missing some important ingredients to make this viable.
Hi Don,
We have an eBook called “Finding The Right Niche For Your Cash-Smart Kid”.
The process works just as well for grown-ups.
Download it for free at http://www.cash-smart-kids.com/ebooknichegift.html with my compliments.
They key is to find a niche where PEOPLE WANT TO SPEND MONEY and you are interested enough to do the research and ongoing promotion. The book will show you how.
Good luck!
Jenny
1. A business plan.
2. A web site with the ability to take credit cards and other forms of payment. Also with the ability for me to ftp into the site to change it myself.
3. Marketing lists.
4. An advertising plan.
5. Quality training.
I need the hungry market and the idea, what to sell them. Everything else I will manage…
Br
Barbara
p.s. ihave idea what to sell, but help me discover if there is hungry market for this
Everything else was already told, uffa – probably my “must”thing too…
1. Find your niche. There’s no sense in selling a product you don’t like or believe in.
2. Direct your product to a targeted market with buying power. Don’t try to sell earmuffs to Florida residents.
3. Setup an effective Lead Capture Page & Sales Page and use an autoresponder system to amplify the product and exceed its value beyond your potential customers’ wildest expectations.
4. Create traffic through purchased advertising, traffic exchanges, squidoo, network of blogs etc., to drive traffic to your Lead Capture or Splash Page to develop your most precious commodity, your list. (Use Lead Capture as it usually asks for a name and e-mail address and that’s what you want, right)
5. Ask for a call to action either through a one time offer (OTO), an upgrade, a small purchase that will keep your customer coming back time and time again. This should be combined with a system to delicately educate your customer with an easily duplicated system and support structure so that they may have the opportunity to join you and build their business and develop their list.
1) Can you include details about how you yourself got started with your own business?
2) Can you tell us what prompted you thinking, in the early days, that this would be a worthwhile, and eventually successful thing to give a shot to?
3) Can you tell us about the major obstacles that you, or others you know, came across that nearly stopped you or them in their tracks, as so many of us have been. I’d guess that running out of time and money have a funny way of stopping many of us in our tracks. Can you tell us, then, what you found yourself having to do to overcome those obstacles to get to where you are now?
4) Can you tell us what products you found worked for you, besides selling the information about online business that you are selling today? The info products you sell today are terrific, it seems to me; but it also seems that you couldn’t have started with them (nor can we) before you could actually have picked up considerable financial success with them.
5) Can you offer multiple approaches that have been successful for you in drawing selected, buying traffic to your sites; especially in your early days when, probably, you had about as little money to throw away as most of us do today?
Thanks for asking, by the way. Good luck in this new stuff. We’ll look forward to it.
Jack Peters
1 – Paying Business Model
2 – Excellent Product/Service
3 – Targeted Prospect Generator
4 – Efficient Sales Process
5 – Automation
Thank you Derek.
The top 5 things I need:
1. A ready-to-go Website or a template that I can use easily. Although I had set up a very simple website before(using a template!), I found it a struggle and it took me ages. After three months, I have zero traffic.
2. I need help with building op-in list.
3. How to automate email campaign.
4. For the technical stuffs, I hope someone to show me step-by-step. I’m not an idiot, but am a bit slow to absorb technical instruction.
5. How to attract traffic.
For someone who is a bit advance in age and rather clumsy with technology, I find that it takes a long time to learn and REMEMBER what I have just learned. Often, after a little while, procrastination takes place, and the project stalls.
What I really want is a simple model with which I can learn the business and knowhow, the ABC…
Theresa
I would love to see a business an internet business that doesn’t line your pockets with bullshit and scams to rip you off right from the get go, my philosophy and experience, if it’s to good to be true it isn’t, I read some of your feedback and people have the same reaction an impression that I do it ruins it for the real movers and shakers that are trying to earn a hard fast living, for instance lawn chair millionaire yes he is right he is making the millions and sucking everyone dry, metaphorically speaking of course. I would love to see a business that unconditionally builds a huge supplement of income right off the bat but where is it. every dime that I have invested lined the pockets of the scammers, and has given me an isolated theory that everyone on here rips off everyone. In my lifetime I have not met one person who even says they made a dime on any internet business except for EBAY sellers now they make money. It’s what you put into it personally not a fabrication of words but an item with a return. If you can prove to me Derek that you have found the answer show me the money..
The Zman
1. Initially provide a real life, real value “quality product” to sell
2. A web site system to sell point (1) above, incoprating Web 2.0 customer comments/feedback to help build popularity of the site together with all the other necessary business web site attributes and features BUT it should be simplicity personified so that even kids can understand how to use it (i.e. not a monster nightmare of jargon and complications).
3. In reference to point (2) above, this web site system should be adaptable to other products, services and ideas as they come along i.e. either by plugging in another section and/or easily duplicating the original web site system
4. The package/system must be “lifetime” solution or “in perpetuity” of the package/system “owner” (i.e. the person paying) rather than simply that of the provider i.e. no point in “stating” or “paying for” guaranteed lifetime upgrades to a “single purchase cost” product only to find a few years down the line that the provider discontinues support of that product in favour of a more profitable “monthly recurring premium” product of the same genre (e.g. a business email client product/solution). After all, the lifetime upgrade guarantee would be rendered worthless.
5.(a) A mini-social networking site that could employ numerous business marketing & sales features so that income over a period of time could sky-rocket.
5.(b) An all-in-one “feature rich” business solution that would incorporate ALL of IMC’s existing products within a master control panel.
1) A
Hi, I agree with you Taylor,I could use a lot of the same most of you have mentioned in your responses, I have also sent every one of the copy/paste emails and been at this for 10 mos, and nil. The results is not encouraging?I do not know how to change my website ti optimize as all tell us and I need instructions b/4 my eye balls.
Getting Traffic seems to be useless as no matter how much or little the are no takeras, wonder what it is that they are looking for?
Looking forward to see what we get here?
margie
Here’s the five things that most concern me.
1. Do I have to subscribe to other websites ie, wordtracker, submission sites etc. that’s gonna cost extra.
2. Will I see a host of your JV partners getting in on this before myself and others.
3. Is it gonna be one of those businesses like 1st promotion, Dave’s cool site etc?
4. Is it a monthly subscription business or is it a one off payment?
5. How many hours am I going to spend on this business per week?
1.Directory of affiliate programs for actual products(eg ping pong tables) around the world that are physically delivered.
2. Userfriendly site creation systems, with easily modified templates that
a) allow for easy uploads of specific videos
b)automatically put in single key-word videos picked up from YouTube etc.
c) have a forum
d) have a link-sharing directory (like Scuttle), d) automatically update rss
e) to which one can easily add rss feeds of a variety of formats (that is, accepts, is any feed that shows up in an internet search.
f) has an automatically generated and updated product mall (with clickbank, paydotcom, fluxad and all sorts of affiliate systems)
g) a choice of automatically placed keyword-related product banners or manually placed banners.
h) membership section, optional free or paid
i) automatically generated 3-way links to with other sites with related topics to one’s site.
j) Easily place in product ads to which one has PLR or Master Resale rights
h) actually makes money
i) has an equally accessible support system
j) affordable or set up so that you only make money if the person using the system makes money.
h) easily modified
i) easy to add html or java scripts
3) a website feedback forum. That is a place where you put a link to your site and people can tell you what is good about it, what sucks, etc.
Whoops that was more than five things
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I totally agree with Hope (comment posted 2008-01-16 12:20:53).
Just give us those things and we’ll be set.
I too have purchased a great many “packages” with the hopes of getting something started, and even though they all promise to be the answer to all you internet marketing prayers, they ALL end up saying the exact same thing:
“Become an expert at something you love, BUT it has to be in a niche market where there’s little competition and you can solve peoples’ problems and they have wads of money they are dying to part with, then start a blog and blah…blah…blah”. Then they go on and on about testing and split testing and Google adwords and adsense and eBay, and by the time you have recovered from your info-overload-induced stroke, you realize that you’ve been reading in circles for two weeks, but you could SWEAR the ad said you’d be raking in the cash after only a couple of hours. And then after that, the SAME guru who sold you that crap…er…”info” in the first place, sends you ANOTHER e-mail promising that THIS NEW program is the new answer to all your prayers, for only another $97. For those of us having trouble getting started, it feels like we’re getting fleeced sometimes.
Make it a simple step-by-step procedure! Please.
Hi Derek,
1. Brainstorming matching tool (to help identify market based upon my interests. (I’ll have more fun, be more passionate, add more value to my customers, make more money promoting products and services for which solve a problem, etc.)
2. Something that breaks down all the online lingo. It gets confusing many times. I waste time just trying to understand the language sometimes.
3. Business model options for building an online business (i.e., blog models that work, email models that work)explained in lay terms.
4. A checklist to determine what tools or resources I need a each stage in developing my business. How to determine they are legitimate, results proven, not outdated. What can be outsourced so I spend my time doing the most productive work building my online business.
5. Conversion Information that works (I’m tired of folks promoting that u can have these high conversion ratios if you purchase their product. I don’t mind the work to get the conversion, but just don’t know who I can trust to help me get there.
Lyn,
I am there with you, did not spend tons but am spending some each month and still no money, I am getting skepitical at his point after 10 mos, one may do that.lets hope we find the key as I am sure something works,if I had lots of money I would not be spending 10 hrs. a day online working all I was told to do?
margie
1. How to find a niche where there is an existing and real demand
2. How to get quality (targeted) traffic to my site?
3. As funny as it sounds: I know How to make a website but I don’t know WHAT to put on a website. I have a total lack of inspiration and I don’t know where to begin, except for a sales page.
4. Do I hire a copywriter or do I do try it myself?
5. How to build a list? What do I give away on my squeeze page?
That’s all for this moment
Lieven
The problem with all this marketing is that if you can’t come up with a product that is needed and wanted you will never make anything other than scam sales and probably not even them.
Put it this way; Think of yourself as a shopper. Do you buy things that you don’t need or want? Yes, of course you do BUT at the point of purchase you really did think you needed or wanted it or you would never have bought it.
I don’t know how to make it on line either and I too have wasted a lot of money trying but this fundamental truth still holds. All these hot shot marketers that have sucked you and me in only succeeded because they were offering what we needed and wanted even if they never delivered on terms that we could impliment.
And yes, this game is VERY difficult and needs tremendous knowledge of computers and creative thought. That is the huge lie the gurus never mention. If you are missing these two skills forget ever making money on line. That’s how I see it.
Merv.
I need a true workable system that produces fast immediate income, or soon I wll be doomed. I need a coach to take my hand and teach me. I need a coach who is the best at what he/she is teaching me. I need to be able to call my coach via land line anytime it is needed. MOST IMPORTANTLY, Ineed this now.
Hey Derek thanks for the oppurtunity to voice my opinion.
The 5 top things i believe i need to start a business is as followed:
1. A mentor, someone who has started from nothing like most people and have achieved success.
2. How and which entity should i structure my business in, LLC. INC. C Corp S Corp?
3. How to do venture partnerships with other successors like yourself derek.
4. how to just get started like so many other people who have been trying for years but have came up short.
5. step-by step- instructions from starting from scratch to having a successful profitable business.
P.S Thanks again Derek for all that you do. The journey of a 1000 miles starts when you take the first step and with this program i am sure you will have alot of people sprinting!
God Bless
1) completely simple to follow and understand especially for someone who has minimal computer experience.
2) step by step guidance
3) someone to contact with questions
4)& 5) everything listed in previous comments
Hi James,
My sentiments and I am with the PIPS program, is how I got this one, and they do have some good stuff, and a lot to learn, Getting visitors that really want to begin a business is the trick.
HomeBusinessOpportunity
Being hearing impaired, I cannot lip read over the telephone. The same for tele-meetings and tele-seminars! Surely, promotions can be distributed through websites, e-mails and postal mailings. The mere notion of teles-eminars, phone calls forces me to just delete!!!
1) A REAL step by step program that is detailed
2) A program that guides me to finded targeted traffic. Something innovative that the big kids use and not the usual suspects that that are usually provided to unsuspecting newbies
3) How to turn that traffic into sales
4) How do I find a niche and know if there are sufficient buyers within that niche
5) How to get subscribers to my newsletter
I just want to make money to support myself and my dog
Here´s my list:
1. Targeted traffic generation
2. Targeted traffic generation
3. Targeted traffic generation
4. Targeted traffic generation
5. Alternate cheap/free sources other than SEO to generate targeted traffic
Thanks!
Looking forward to see your new project!
Regards,
Julian
Cancun
Mexico
I just want to make enough money to support myself
Hi Gus,
Sorry to hear of all you spent and I am with you, I did get a program that is good [is how I got IMC] but getting traffic and visitors sign-ups is the trick, An affiliate program is what I am doing and it is good just need converts that want to do their own also.Maybe the 24th will bring some new info.
PlugIn
Look forward to what the 24th will bring.
Margie
I have purchased other courses, but they give you too much information to select from in each step??? I am a novice and need just step by step instructions from beginning to end. Thanks for providing this course as it sounds like what I need. Thanks again, Dallas Hemsley
1. GOOD MARKETING FROM PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HELP ME SUCCEED
2. 24/7 SUPPORT TEAM THAT USE EASY TO UNDERSTAND TERMS
3. EASY TO USE SITE- I DON’T HAVE THE BEST COMPUTER SKILLS
4. EXPOSURE–THAT DRIVES BUYERS TO MY SITE
5. VERY LOW FEES FOR WHAT YOU’RE SELLING
1= A great product.
2= Traffic.
3= Website Well design.
4= Search Engine.
5= Blog and Pr News.
That would be my 5 great thing !
Cordially Stephane Dube Inventor.
Window Washing System
I want a business where I am not spamming people to try to lure them to me with fancy print and promises I can’t/won’t deliver on.
When people shop on line they (I know I do) generally know what they want and are looking for the best value for that product – what will lead them to me? I don’t want traffic – I want people who will spend money, refer others to me and come back themselves so it has to be oozing with integrity and value for the customer.
I won’t ever again be buying anything form anyone that assures me that if I just do it their way I’ll make money when really all I’m doing is making them money – no more shame on me!
So, a product that isn’t easily accessible elsewhere or at a better value, a website that doesn’t scream sleezy and responsive (with satisfactory results) customer service, AND you don’t make one red cent unless I make at least nine. I’ll pay 10% of my profits happily as a cost of doing business – even more, but you don’t get paid until I know I have gotten paid. If your product isn’t willing to do that, I’m not willing to invest in it.
Regards,
Cynthia
I just need:
1- products or services to sell
2- electronic payment systems
3- How do I find a niche and know if there are sufficient buyers
4-How to get subscribers to my newsletter
5- make enough money to support myself
I liked the comments by Liz which nailed it for me excepting for the additions.
A] Time and a brain (stroke affected)
1] The way to build a website and tools to make it effective
2] Autoresponder
3] Backup in times of trouble
4] Some good affiliate sites to kick off
5] Recognition on the web
I Did all this myself in 2003 but no success and lost the incentive,so killed my sites when we lost Corey, Sorry Derek.
This has been a real eyeopener, so many peoplemhave been disappointed I didnt realize how difficult it really is to start business. So I am going to op out of this ,Good luck to the rest of you.
Derek,
Ideally, I would like the following in A TURNKEY SOLUTION:
Tools for Product / Market Research
Website Builder
Hosting
Payment Processor
Tools for Traffic Generation
Multiple the Success Again & Again
Step by Step Videos Tutorials explaining all operations in a user friendly manner
Finally, a guarantee and a financial plan for Action Takers.
Wish you the best with the Launch on Jan 24th.
To me the most important is
1. Trustworthy
2. Show step by step how it is done
3. How to get people to your site and buy
4. Affordability
5. A different pay system. Don’t like paypal
Actually what I meant to say was:-
1] My Family
2] My Health
3] My need to advance
4] Ability to communicate
5] People to communicate with
sincerely
Alex
Way to go Joe. You took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn’t have said it any better.
Hi,
I need just one thing to get started for some products. Wish ClickBank could be used and accepted in my country, Malaysia.
Thank you.
Bob
Is it necessary to buy Bob Serling and Mike Long’s program, or are you offering their strategies in your program? Thanks Fred Watters
Hi Derek: Thanks for asking. You are probably the only internet business I trust. I previously bought a course from you and learned a lot but still need to know more.
I have made some money from my website but want to turn it into a fulltime income. So my requests are as follows:
1. Automate – Entrepreneurs want to work on their business, not spend precious time trying to learn all the strategies to drive traffic to the site. I want to work on what I know best, which is researching and writing (I’m a former reporter). What is the best way to automate? Can I buy a sofware program that does everything without having to spend $80 U.S. a month with 1shoppingcart?
2. Sales scripts – what is the best way to get advice for a good sales script?
3. Conversion – I’m getting some traffic to my site and some conversion but want to increase it.
4. Success stories – from real people with real lives and businesses. We don’t always need to hear about people making a million, it seems like a pipe dream to most people. How about people making $1,000 a month, $5,000 a month. That seems more achievable.
5. Connections – how to find the tech people to do stuff like build your website, how to find a good internet marketer, questions to ask. I have had help from several individuals.
Thanks
Marilyn
Hi Derek,
I have recieved mail from many internet online money makers.
I have read UndergroundSecrets, they too promise good results.
Are yours the same? I have been con into paying $$$ and no results, I have lost faith in internet.
Hope you can help.
I’m down, I’m dead broke.
Derek has had some big shoes to fill, and so far has done a good job following the example set by Corey. This next venture could be a giant leap forward…………….OR NOT. We will all soon know.
Probably the biggest value that Derek can offer here is a simplified “translation” of the metrics (numbers/$)generated by a successful business. Everybody really wants to track how they are doing,and understand what the measures being used in the tracking really mean. Each individual will embrace an area/sector where they have affinity and those that are truly dedicated and tenacious simply need a primer ON THE PROCESS. All the support/hand-holding/mentoring Derek may offer needs a frame of reference to simplify understanding. Sort of a universal case study in a box.
Brad
James I think along the same line.
1. I would like instructions to some of the products that are understandable by a 50+ year old as well as a 5th grader. I always just about “get it”.
2.Finding something to sell! I have bruises on my brain trying to figure this one out. Everytime I think I have it I find where someone else has an incredible site selling the same for less than I can find it wholesale.
3. I need sales copy help, period.
4. I have tried and tried to set up a good looking website, but just lack the skills to make it look truly professional and actually have things work.
I have had good luck with most sellers of “how to” product so far. The problem I have is actually putting it to work in the right context and then getting discouraged. Then I look for another easier product to use to make me rich!
I just need something that will be idiot friendly to set up, not frustrating to operate, and not take months to complete, just so I can make a little money just to see something work!
Explain on how to built your list. How to communicate to your
customers and your sellers. If your just learning internet marketing you need to know how to communicate with every one.
I’m not very demanding, since I’m almost a beginner on the net.
All I would like is a legal business and an easy to follow system that works in Slovenia, Europe too! None of those I’ve tried has worked till now…
I like massive actions and then good and fast results.
Best wishes to you and the team and all the people on this blog trying to make sth. out of their lives.
Natasa
helpadisabledveteran.com This is one of my sites. I know that I am getting hits but, no action (the same on my other sites). If you truly want to help as you say in all your emails to me. Then look it over and tell me what you think I should change or add. if you are as you say you are you will do this. If what you tell me to do with this site get some action then I will know that what you offer in all your programs is real and not like all the others that are just re-selling other gurus stuff. As a example Mike T. Glaspie. he tells everybody that he has something free that he want to give them and that he will never ask anybody for money, all he wants is their email address. After he gets the email address he plagues their email inbox with all his recommendations to any and all of the other gurus programs because he get a commission form the sale which means he dose not have to ask for money from them which makes him seem like a saint to them but, he get it from them anyway with out asking for it from them directly.
I own and direct a full service business and recently incorporated. Our ten (10) customized divisions can assist you with all the points you needed addressed.
Please let me know if you require further assistance.
Greg Reimer.
1-Reasonable priced leads,a lot of leads.
2-A good product.
3-A system to split test.
4-A complet system to market with.
5-Easy to understand instructions
I’d like to see two sets of autoresponders
One to sell backend products to new customers and one for prospects
Rick
Connie,
If you know how to pick a scam, then write an E book about them. This will help us all who are lost in this world.
These are the things I would like to know
How can people from non US places like Barbados earn a decent living with these programmes?
How much earning can really be done with out a website?
http://www.helpadisabledveteran.com This is one of my sites. I know that I am getting hits but, no action (the same on my other sites). If you truly want to help as you say in all your emails to me. Then look it over and tell me what you think I should change or add. if you are as you say you are you will do this. If what you tell me to do with this site get some action then I will know that what you offer in all your programs is real and not like all the others that are just re-selling other gurus stuff. As a example Mike T. Glaspie. he tells everybody that he has something free that he want to give them and that he will never ask anybody for money, all he wants is their email address. After he gets the email address he plagues their email inbox with all his recommendations to any and all of the other gurus programs because he get a commission form the sale which means he dose not have to ask for money from them which makes him seem like a saint to them but, he get it from them anyway with out asking for it from them directly.
1. Time: Me, I want to quit me day job and have more flexible time
and money to more personally and financially than just cover
living expenses. How do I work into doing both until this can
be safely do the one,(on-line business)where the income is
consistent. How much time is needed to make this work on a
daily basis to be effective working on a gradual basis so
a transistion can take place, increase on-line, decrease say
a part-time job steadily. What is really needed to make this
work. Ie Hours to spend so this can be scheduled in.
2. Workablility: Too many scams, hype etc out there. Yes, it does
take elbow grease. Step by step, most people don’t know the
details. Can have a section for newbies so people with more
advance skills can skip over or even review. Place for questions
as they come up or FAQ area.
3. Staturation: Surely I wouldn’t be the only one interested in
this. How does this effect the market? Does it? IE: EBay, have
a hot selling item. Word travels fast, market gets flooded,
profit drops significantly.
4. Don’t want to put eggs all in one basket either. Does this have
potential for more than one income stream?
Derek,
The top 5 things in 2 questions:
1. How to run a business that keeps up
with changes in a nichemarket so that
it continues serving my expanding
customer base the way that’s
best for them?
2. How to structure a website, gain
relentless traffic and grow/manage multiple
highly responsive lists that custom-tailor
for this business model?
Hi Derek,
Here are the things 5 newbies definitely need:
1) Shown how to pick a niche
2) How to pick a web host & start a blog/website
3) Setting up an autoresponder
4) Building a squeeze page
5) Driving traffic
And I would add a 6th: Where to find affiliate products.
–Pat
Where would I need help, everywhere I am a complete novice about setting up marketing sites etc so would need plenty of information and help setting it up, wouldnt know where to start so help from yourself would be essential.
The absolute perfect, all-in-one business maker would include (in no particular order)
1. A targeted traffic generator.
2. Website editor that monetizes the website, including a monitor which shows keyword density and suggests areas to add or reduce keywords; an automatic metatag generator; a style generator that adjusts the site’s appearance to different browsers, effective placement of contextual ads and images; error-free scripts; form generator with links to autoresponders or payment processors as needed, and no superfluous html tags.
3. An automatic keyword generator that finds high-volume low-competition keyword phrases in a manner of minutes. (This would relieve the business owner of many hours of searching the engines and tweaking high cost keyword finders to find appropriate keywords.)
4. Access to a committee of site reviewers and pseudo-mentors who give clear cut answers to questions related to website design, copywriting, where to find traffic.
5. A 25 page or less training manual with clear step by step instructions on how to get the business off the ground in 5 days or less.
In addition it would be nice to have effective spam filters.
Also, a regular, weekly update newsletter with articles from successful business professionals, without ads and without trying to sell any more products; just tips on trends to watch for, copywriting, website design and SEO, etc. The newsletter might also contain tips on personal development and mindset as this is crucial to any success oriented business person.
For the past 25 years I have been in the business of helping others start new businesses. I have the largest such practice in Canada. I can tell you with high degree of certainty that there are only five items anyone needs to succeed in business. Here they are.
1) a quality product or service that they can sell.
2) a marketing program (not just a marketing plan) that not only attracts new customers but also builds on existing customers.
3) customers for their products and services.
4) suppliers of their products and services.
I am confident that your new book will touch on some if not all of the above. However, the single most important item any new business needs is;
5) an accounting program that manages both your receivables and payables.
Hi Derek,
We are a Chinese manufacturer of metal ceiling and wall.We hope to open the overseas market,especially US and Canada.We are confident that our products have high quality and competitive price.
However,we don’t know the situation of your metal ceiling market.Please give us some advices such as local price, wholesaler information,B2B website,etc.
Thanks a lot!
Dave,
Dead on…
An opportunity where the economics work. The markup on the product is more than enough to create a profit even with a less than spectacular conversion rate.
Lot’s of good ideas out there, but ones that can cover the costs with some left over are more rare.
My list of whats is the same as most,
1) Find a niche
2) Find customers
3) Build the web site ( I am sure more than 1) but it will be start
4) Find and learn the tricks to trade for the best and fastest way to do all the above ( yesterday would be great but practical)
5) As inexpensive as possible with the most profit
Now that should be a good start don’t you think?
A sellable needed product
A program that tells you any downfalls rather than all wish list
A program that list cost upfront not after 10 pages selling
Instruction on what not to with what to do.
What is normal income not what the best can do
I am interested in a program similar to PIPS. The program gives you all the directions on how to do everything to get set up and promote the website. The only fault is that everything you have to set up costs extra and there are always upgrades. I am not expecting everything for nothing, but I would like to know about all these things up front. If you say I am getting a website with everything I need and it will all be set up and live, then don’t tell me later that I have to do upgrades to be able to change things on the site, to set up autoresponders, etc etc etc.
I don’t believe in get rich quick schemes, everything takes time and effort to build up, but a lot of people don’t have the money to do all the things necessary with these programs.
So I would like the program to:
be honest about what it has and doesn’t have
tell me what it will really take as far as money and
time
what are the real chances are of making money
I put up my above site just to learn how to make one and eventually maybe make some money out of it.
What I have observed is that those sales pages I have seen are telling me almost the same thing. We just have to keep in mind that testimonials, proofs of earnings, all and any photos published can be simulated. I don’t take them seriously anymore. I just hope those knowledgeable and experienced internet marketers will be more honest in all their posts. Not just urge us to sign up FREE but not anymore once you are in.
If you say it’s free, it must be 100% free.
Free to join
and Free to make money
Most of us are tired of ads promoting “guru” secrets and advice that cost to sign-up for. There’s gotta be a better way.
For International market there must be an alternative to Paypal offered. An alternative easy to fund which Paypal is not, matter of fact Paypal is impossible to fund unless one has a bank account in the USA. Guru’s should get a clue, a whole world exists outside of the USA. But then, maybe all suckers for guru advice live in the USA? -grin-
1. Pricing and profitable margins..Pricing to sell and make money!
2. Setting up your business for success..What is the formula?
3. Identifying business opportunities..versus sales pitches?
4. Financing your business at the early stages..Who will take the risk if you can’t afford to?
5. Finding good, reputable, responsible suppliers..what is the criteria?
1. Easy inventory management system (what you have for sale, where did you put that piece of inventory, what you sold, etc.)
2. email marketing – keeping old buyers coming back
3. sources for new items to sell – restock
4. networking sources
5. Time management – how to stay on track and not get side-tracked
I think to have a successful program you
need to have
1.An Automated System
2.Leverage
3.Targeted Traffic
4.Great Product
5.Mentor to Show you the steps
Sincerely,
Kevin
I chuckled when I read this, only because inside, it’s what everyone wants. For me, I’m willing to do the work to set things up and tweak as needed – But I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. I’ve tried a bunch of things for a few months, including spending all my money on PPC, but have not made one red cent. So, here is my modified version of this guys requests:
1. You do enough for me in order to eliminate the dummy newbie factor – I’m able to follow step-by-step instruction if it’s really clear and detailed, from beginning to end (talk to me like I’m 7!) – video instruction works best for me.
2. Since I’ve spent all of my money on PPC, I could use a lot of VERY EFFECTIVE free ways to market, including ad/article copy for those of us that don’t know how to write something that really works.
3. I would like to be able to do this from anywhere and have lots of free time.
4. Amazing customer service, including talking to a real live person – quick, knowledgeable and responsive.
5. An ironclad guarantee that this system will make money or easily get money back.
Dear Derek,
I’m still in the dark. I wonder if there are people in your team will guide me doing this business. I have a few products to market. Can it be done in this programmes. What are the products you are dealing in this programmes. For your info, I am from Malaysia and I am sending this from my workplace.
I’ve loved reading these comments: put them all together and you have the ideal program! My top 5 needs:
1. EZ point-click-and type web-site
2. List of potential subscribers
3. Autoresponder
4. Automatic tester-tracker so I know what works & what doesn’t
5. Organization method: how to do it all without being overwhelmed; and simple method to track income/expenses for IRS
Michele S
Here are my five essentials as of today:
1. Invetment Capital.
2. A product.
3. Market.
4. Refinance.
5. Brand name.
Thanks for all the newsletters.
Ricardo
Hi Derek,
I read all this posts all the way down. But I will tell You what bordering me. For me THE MOST IMPORTANT thing is to find the right niche. Everything else I think I’ll learn in progress day by day. But to establish my goal, my main niche…. tststs …. that’s the question where I am the best?
My sentiments exactly!! If a program is that good, it will be willing to get paid as I make money. This keeps them vested just like me. If they make me money, I will make them money if you have good training, motivation, and product. Then I will pay very willingly, but I’m done with just getting promises, and screwed!
I agree with all the comments. It definitely needs to be easy. But one thing it doesn’t need to be is a scheme. It needs to be real. Something people can relate to.
A back link building system that workes
opt-in email system that works
Content that sells
Traffic program that works
Social media SEO
I don’t believe you can make any software to actually. I do believe that you will make money on it though because you know how to do that. Make something useless and sell it to idiots. Give a sweet guarantee because only a small percent ask for their money back.
This one of the hardest niches to make money in for most of us but you have a huge email list and know as soon as it hits the street you will be making thousands.
Good luck!
Hi Derek,
I have been searching for several months to find something I can do from home. There is so much information it is overwhelming. I absolutely have no experience with online marketing. I am interested in building a business that I can be proud of, that is honest and legitimate and will give me financial freedom and time freedom.
I am a new beginner with no experience nor knowledge so the 5 most important things that your course would need to include would be:
1. A system that I can completely understand and implement. (I am a complete beginner and not a lot of knowledge of computers.)
2. A system where I can see profits right away.
3. Immediate and real support from others that truely want to help me succeed.
4. Something I can be proud of that is honest and legitimate.
5. A system all in one so I don’t need to go anywhere else and is always up to date and will help me to financial freedom.
Thank you, Angie
P.S. I think I haven’t been able to begin with any opportunity because frankly I don’t know where to begin. I need help step by step. I have no product, website, etc. I don’t even know how to develop a website. A lot of the info I read I really do not understand.
I need someone to hold my hand and give me step-by-step training. Also, I need a really great product to sell like a lot of other people.
Just hang in there
Hi Derek,
The top 5 things that I would be looking for are:
1)Quality information products to promote.
2)Advice/Direction on targeting your potential niche market.
3)An automated,honest,fully functional,easy to navigate website that maximizes revenue potential.
4)Coaching to achieve a focused promotion plan to fully optimize your website.
5)Live support in plain english to help with questions, brainstorming and smoothing over the rough spots.
Thanks
Kyle
Saunjean:
There are several sites on line that will give you a free web site all set up and with free hosting with the things that they are selling on line such as payincph.snappyshop.com . This is my free web site that I received from them. If you want you can click on the link and get one too free. It has a lot of links to things from A to Z for sell. Just look it over. When someone buys something you will receive a commission. As to payment they will send you a check that you should be able cash there were you live. The only thing you have to do is advertise the site a lot to get people to go to your site and hope that they buy something. Also you can use the search box on your browser for free web sites and set up your own as per their directions and sell whatever you want You can sign up as a affiliate with just about any web site on line such as Amazon.com for an example goto clickitnow.us . This is my affiliates links site. The site that you sign up as a affiliates will give you the codes to add to your site free which will put a link to their site with your ID# and if someone buy anything you will received a commission. I know this works because I buy with my own aff. link and I receive commission from my own purchases. But, the same applies to advertisement as I said before. Ie: If nobody goes to your sites no sale and no commissions. Living in Barbados as you do. You could sell some of the tourist things online that is sold there and also give free tips as to what to do and where to go and what not to do while visiting Barbados. Note: I just gave you these links to my sites and other suggestions just as an example as to what you could do if you so choose to do so, and there is no guarantee that you will make any money. It all depends on how much that you want to work on it to get people to your sites. No mater what anybody says It will take more than 30mins to one hour a day to get any site doing well at first. Then after awhile it may take less time to keep the flow going.
Philip
Lets be straight here the internet has become a joke! All these
get rich scheme’s promise the sky $5,000.00 a month $10,000.00
a month but in real life this is not true. Like any real job it takes time and effort. They all make you contact them by email
no real phone# or street address, buy know $40.00 here $50.00 there or you’ll loose out. I’ve owned a real internet business
with real client’s that i worked hard to get then on the side i
tried dozens of these so called get rich schemes all the way back
from the early 90’s and never saw any results from any of them!
Bottom line here’s what you need if anything is going to come about
from it.
1)A web site with a back office that has all the training
material step by step, advertising tools step by step,
method of receiving payments, method of track your sales,
in the back office.
2)Software that submits to the internet with legitimate
emails, ffa, classifieds, web directories etc!
3)A real company that backs you all the way!
4)Very low cost to get started shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg!
After all a real job doesn’t cost anything to get it.
5)Real money income, real results.!
In my opinion internet marketing will be a lot harder for the beginner to really get started.Especially since a lot of those peole just starting out do not have a list for starters and some others may not about some of the better free ad sites out there.But also I can not believe how many different types of marketing programs are being promoted.In a way this could be part of the problem where people are being slammed with tons of promotions and they can’t decide which one to really work on promoting.This is why I think it would be best to join something like MyPowerMall which I provided the URL.This is completely free to join and you will be provided with two sites.One is for youe own shopping if you like to shop online and the other is your affiliate site to send people to.I think Derek would agree that one to begin would be to grab a free site to get started and sort of get your feet wet promoting and at the same time keep reading the information Derek provides and then when you are ready go ahead and purchase Derek’s turn key buisness creator program and really dive into the buisness.
Hi Derek,
You had asked for the 5 things:
1. Low cost set up.
2. Easy set up.
3. Worldwide marketing service.
4. 24 hrs Back up service.
5. Results that equate to $$$$$$.
For that, you could be the shareholder of the company as well.
What do you think?
Raj
Honesty seems to be lacking in too many places. Telling you how to do something is always on a short list. I would love for anyone to insert even fine print. Kia seems to be a experts when it comes to giving directions on how to put something together, and when you do get a response from someone, the language is so techinal that I just say the hell with it. Hope you get my point, and I wish you the best.
Very interesting comments and frustrations. I think the group could be helped if they had the following included in the pro:
1)Great resources for unique and in-demand products and services – or how they can find those products themselves.
2)Learning different ways to market and build lists – besides buying leads and driving traffic to sites. Teach them about doing teleseminars, JV’s Strategic partnerships, merging someone they find who has a list and put them together with someone who has a great product, and taking a cut for brining the two together.
3) How to write good ad copy is critical. You can have the prettiest site in the world, have ton’s of visitors and traffic, and even a good product or service – but if the headline does not grab and the content sucks – no sale.
4) Where to find VALUABLE free stuff so they can get clients and customers to cough up a name and an e-mail address, and then teach them to build and cultivate relationships online and quit trying to make the sale so quickly.
5) Include 3 months free in the Internet Entrepreneur Club so they get access to experts to help them with the gazillion questions and problems I see in this blog.
My 2 cents,
Blake Warrington
P.S. Change the name to “Turn-Key Business Generator” not Business creator. Sounds like everyone on this thread has already “created a business,” they just don’t know how to “generate business.”
1. Ideas & strategies that WORK, things that are up-to-date and not yesterday’s played-out ideas.
2. Access to additional information over time that keeps me up-to-date on ideas & strategies, etc.
3. Minimal cost to start with the idea that initially most profits can be re-invested for additional tools, traffic generation, etc.
4. Effective and efficient ways of discovering potentially profitable niches to market to.
5. Initially, at least, some quality product(s) to market to get the cash flowing while developing my own niches.
Thanks!
1. Hot inexpensive product that everyone wants and needs!
2. NO startup fee!
3. Best and least expensive way to drive massive amounts of traffic to our FREE website.
4. Autoresponder to everyone who visits our website with notification to us.
5. A great,exciting,motivating movie on our website doing all the selling/recruiting for us!
Derek,
The most important request, is getting help to find a…Niche
market!!!! writing sales copy, building websites, viral marketing, driving traffic, PPC marketing is pointless without a market with hungry rabid customers desiring to purchase your product.
We have spent thousands and wasted much valuable time trying to learn Internet marketing and made zip. We desperately need to make a profit right away, not way down the road. What was missing from all “opportunities” we tried was the essential step-by-step procedure for a beginner. We need the following for success:
1. Some product that is actually really a good product and in demand.
2. One step at a time instructions for a beginner who may know how to use the Internet a bit but knows absolutely nothing about Internet marketing. Everything looks complcated to a beginner and most of us out there are beginners compared to you.
3. All costs associated with the opportunity right up front on the first page. Actually my ideal would be offer it at no cost except as an option after profit is made and then they can pay what they like and believe is fair from their profit monies. You may actually make more that way than any other. It will prove you are for real and not another money grubber. That is how I would do it.
4. Have some form of follow up to make sure everyone makes it in your group. If you leave them on their own 95% will fail. It is a fact. Let them know you really actually care about them.
5. Make it simple and you will be a blessing to many.
Suck it up my friend – you’ll die a pauper
I would like to see an honest way to start a money making internet busness without the scams and rip offs that i have encountered. Be honest with the prospect costomer and tell me exactly what i am getting before being ripped off.
I agreed with most of you. What we need is a no B.S. step by step system to catapult our internet business to greater heights. I came across one website, nichesinabox.com which seems to be a turnkey system.
I hope Derek and his team would check out the website and use it as a benchmark to improve their new turn-key business creator.
I Need:
1. Marketable Product ideas – money makers
2. Help launching a site
3. operational/Marketing Plan
4. Ideas to generate productive traffic
5. software ideas to manage the site
Doesn’t everyone see through what is going on here. Most of you have been promoting this site for months with nothing to show but it sure seems like someone is cashing in(D.G.). They are also using the oldest marketing tactics around to promote this new “make money fast” thing. They are relying on your desparation and playing the anticipation game. Car companies do the same thing with the anticipation game, that’s why they start showing glimpses of next years car at least a year before they come out, to build anticipation and excitement.
Oh ya, and they’re only doing 250. This is another marketing scheme to get everybody frothing at the mouth to join before they “run out”.
This is all marketing 101 that anybody knows or could easily find out online for free.
The truth is all of these “mentoring” sites on how to make money don’t really want you to get rich because then you will not need them and you won’t have to pay them anymore. They will lead you on endlessly forever hyping the next big thing they have coming out for a limited time to a limited few.
Come on people. Wake up. Anyone can get rich, you just have to do what you love and love what you do.
Want an idea to get rich. Try this:
Take some of the many courses you have all bought and bunch them together and rewrite them in your own words and voila, you have a hot product in one of the hottest markets.
Next take the best sales site from one of the courses you have bought and rewrite it in your own words and voila, instant copy for your hot product.
Then pick the best ads for the courses that got you to their websites and rewrite them in your own words and place ads and voila, instant marketing for your hot product in your hot market.
This process can and has been done with every product out there. Think about it. I have even bought several ebooks on making money that were actually just barely different enough to not be copy infringement.
Stop giving your money away to all of these people who just want your money over and over again and just get to work using the above example for whatever it is that you love and spend your money on marketing.
There really is no “magic formula” as these people would have you believe. People are the same today as they were 100 years ago, the internet has not changed us, it has actually made it easier to do this marketing stuff but the gurus want you to be confused so that they can convince you that you need to give them your money to unconfuse you which they will never do.
As I said we are the same today as we were 100 years ago. If you want to make money then just promise someone one of these things: Health, wealth or happiness. If you have a product which can supply any or all of theses three things to someone, then you are going to be rich if you just get out and do it. Do the marketing an with your own product which you love and belive in, you will be rich.
Just my two cents.
Sorry for the rant but I just wanted to get this off my chest especially after reading that a lot of you have been spending a lot of money only to make someone else rich. Lets stop this right here and right now. Please for the sake of all of you who have such greatness in yourselves but just can’t see it through the smoke of these gurus.
You are not idiots; the gurus want you to think that so you will give them money.
I hope this stays up long enough for some to read so that anyone who reads this can copy and pass it along to everyone they know and paste it on all the guru sites.
(Admin note: we never delete unfavorable comments)
Keep your heads up and your eyes on the ball and never give up by giving in to the “gurus”.
Sincerely,
Jim
Derek,
Once beaten,twice shy.I have seen many people confidence belated on several occassions through lack of Data management/Privacy.
Secondly,consistency is the sole of a business.That’s updating and going-cocern in all area should not undermined.
Thirdly,should be independently catered for in all ramfications.
Infact, many more…………………..If you don’t mind take me your Information and computer technology adviser to address this kind of issues and you will not regret doing so.
I look forward to your reply.
More grease to your elbow.Keep doing a good job for the betterment of masses.We’re proud of you,Derek.
Shadrach.
Alot of good ideas have already been mention. I don’t believe anyone had mentioned this one.
1. I would like to see Instant Messenger available in the back office to communicate and share ideas with other members.
Looking forward to seeing the lauch on 24 January 2008.
Thanks,
Lisa
Right on Jim! I actually found someone who thinks like I do (a very refreshing post, I might add).
After reading most of the comments above, I feel that I am not alone.
I just finished building a web site with a company that supplies the templates, etc. Support was wonderful and believe me, I drove them nuts. Before working on this site, I did not even know what the heck “cut & paste” was. Email was my limit.
I have a larger web site that I had built for me. I do not have any control over it…one of the reasons I branched out and built a site dedicated to one product line. I do sell from the larger site and have a great return business but I need new customers as well. My business is very competitive.
What would I like to learn?
1 – Marketing and getting the sites out there. I have spent too many hours entering my site info in directories. (I am also not a super typist) so it takes forever.
2 – I am not afraid of hard work and will do any work involved in getting my sites visited and turn into a sale. Whatever it takes…I will do. I am not looking to make a “fast buck”, “In and Out” but want something that will last and grow.
3 – All I want is direction & some kind of plan. I feel like I am going in circles, doing a lot of work and not getting anywhere.
4 – As I said above, I know nothing about sites. I would like to know what the heck a “back link’ is. I keep reading about it but do not have a clue so if you have advice, please do not write it in “tech” talk. I will not understand it.
Dear Derek,
First of all, please tell me where is Corey. Please what happen to him? He is my Internet Guru. When he was the President of Internet Marketing Centre, I had learned a lot about online business. I had already acquired the book and all the tools from Internet Marketing Centre to start with but however after more than 10 years after learning all those methods and acquiring all the killer tools I still have not started. The problem is how to create the good website that accept online payment. The next problem is creating the product that I should sell on line. It is some thing that can be delivered through electronic media. The product will be e-book to be delivered using one of Internet Marketing Centre’s killer software – EbookPro. Then you need to submit it to search engine so that people who search for information can find it. Here you need SubmitWolf Pro. Then you need to automatise your business. Here you need Mailoop – another killer product. I had acquired all these already form Internet Marketing Centre. Everything is ready. Only thing is to start and that will be when I retired from my job.
Best regard
Stephen
Hi Jim,
I agree with what you are saying – that someone can sell you something that makes you rich without any work.
What Derek is putting together isn’t promising this if you follow along with his message – he is putting together a system that walks you through all the elements needed to succeed with a web business.
If Insider Secrets is any way to measure his products, I am in. I have yet to find something as fundamentally sound and
put together as well.
Check out the new web 2.0 launches if you want to see how to fool people.. selling the dream of traffic.
I have never realy positioned Derek as one of the Gurus… how many of the gurus have a company with 100 people? Most work at home.
Hi Derek,
Here are the five things.
1) Product generator/Easy way to identify niche markets
2) A quick way to identify the demand for your product/Market Testing
3) Sales copy generator
4) Easy way to built and maintain website
5) Marketing (online and offline)
Thank you
Tushar
5 things I want?
1. That it costs NOTHING until AFTER I’ve earned TEN as much as the cost of your product. (That will prove to me that this time it works and I should be on my way to success!)
2. Instructions not written from the viewpoint of someone who already knows everything and forgets to mention critical details.
3. How to find my OWN customers! I refuse to spam or buy any “lists”… and now that I’VE been blacklisted because spammers somehow used one of my email addresses, what to do to get my business back to normal and picked up by the search engines?
4. The reason/s why other products (and yours) that I’ve promoted for years resulted in NIL SALES?
5. How to avoid failure and actually earn $500/month from something that people NEED and WANT! (More $$$ would be welcome but we all have to start at the beginning)
I’ve had some success with my own very small (seasonal) business, but need something that is year round, automated and suitable for an older “re(ally)-tired” pensioner.
I notice that those who made it “big” seem to belong to the same elite guru’s club and can advertise their latest money-making idea to huge multiple group mailing lists.
From the comments from people on this page, it is clear that virtually no one is making any money from buying all these promises of how to make money online!
So what’s the reason?
Stephen,
Cory passed away a few years ago tragically in a car accident.
Derek has done a wonderful job of filling very large shoes.
I think that Dave’s list of 5 items is right on the money.
I am looking for the same information without the assumption that I already know all of the acronyms like seo, kei etc. I would like to FULLY understand adsense, Pay per click, Affiliate programs, JV’s and how to find them.
This is exactly what I was talking about in my rant above. Stephen has spent a lot of money on things he isn’t even using and that he probably doesn’t even need. Why wait ’till you retire? what’s wrong with right now!!!
As far as all those fancy named products, a lot of website hosting packages come with all those features. places like hostmonster.com and 1and1.com and sitebuildit.
If you don’t have the money right now for an ebook software, which there are several out there priced ubder $50 you can just use a read-only Word document.
Jim
5 Things I want !
-Hot product in great demand with high conversion rate
-customised and well designed website with possibility to collect prospect data
-Free Autoresponder
-Promotions tools and tips
-target lead generation system
Good job and really put something that will really, help us make really money online without the habitual struggle
[1st] An absolute list of all costs on top of the list.
[2nd] Absolutly no B.S. or hype.
[3rd] The knowledge that once in, you are not going to be continually emailed to join this or that other program that you are in, sponsoring,promoting, etc.
[4] Always offered a full money back guarantee.
[5] Step by step [voice+ page illustration] up in the corner so it doesn’ block you page.[ a lot of us dummies out there]
If all the above is known about the promoter then a basis of trust is formed, and the relationship is set for life. There ae too many of the so-called guru’s out there who are in fact just scammers that succer you in. I, for one am sick of them all.
I have 3 websites all with great products but can’t get enough people there to buy. I also have to rely on someone else to make site changes. I am VERY tech illiterate. How do I drive traffic to my sites and make changes when needed to the site?
I have thought about this and I believe the 5 things I need are
1) Quality Traffic
2) A real knowlageable 24/7 support
3) The truth about the Biz
4) No monet invested untill I reach a certain amout of profits..
5) easy to follow and understand how to set up a webpage
These are the 5 things that I have found missing from all the home biz I have tried..
Hi Derek
The only money i made is by turning on my computer and let the advertisements run. i spend real money in it. but i got it back with profit of 30 percent. They mail cash check to me but changed few agents in my area. glad i didnt become their agent because they got into trouble with th law. But i lost it all on other similar sites. LOL.
Hi, Ijust want to you to give me some suggestions about how to do the business with your tips in my country, China.
1. I’ve done my home based business for 1 year and 6 months. In the first year I’ve tried many busuness models but they just didn’t work, I just got little money from them. So in the first month of the second years I turned my way to joined Some Get Rich Quick PTRs and here my life was incredibly changed–I got $29000 in the last month!
2. Some online marketers from International lose their chances to promote some affiliate programs as those affiliate programs pay commission via Paypal but many countries are not allowed to receive payment via Paypal.
Having never had the opportunity for learning computer and internet base business.
I first got involve with Derek by attending the boot camp Sydney, Australia.
Now I look forward to anything I can learn from this organisation. Keeping in mind I have had a webpage, but was taken for a big ride with a big company. At present I have a webpage up and running, still some work before it is completed (modulartraintables.com.au) I have also started another site, which is some way off yet, but is more complex in nature than the one above.
Both sites a material products because E books are beyond my understanding.
My five: 1. Buyers to my web
2. Advertising my web
(with good oranisations)
3. Repeated sales
4. Sales letters
5. General help in building web page
Thank you,
Peter (Australia)
Many of us who sre in developing countries are not really understand how internet marketting and the like work, so many of us just doing trial and error; say let the fortune does. This kind of step is as unkind gambling! Many of the examples published are those with success, without giving examples how to succed. Other the facts are that many of us are money limitted. There are many considerations that can be elaborated more, but the essentials are:
1. Easy step-by-step guidance
2. Free or at low cost; the cost should be taken from the income received later.
3. Given lists of of marketable comodities sought most
4. Operable guidance to find comodities to be sold
5. Easy accounting process of the money (profit) collected.
Thanks.
tauhid@telkom.net
Retired lecturer
Surabaya, Indonesia
A true all-in-one business: Not just another way for you to up sale or back end sale me.
Affordable: A sale price of $600.00 plus a monthly fee is not affordable. Charged a % of the sale or money I earn “only” is affordable.
Real Support and Training: A step by step video to show me how to set it up (integrate the program) and run the program and a (A rate) support center.
I am a Commercial mortgage loan broker; I want to start an affiliate program. That pays $500 to an affiliate and $200 on sub-affiliate on funded loans. I purchase AssocTRAC on Jan 04, 2008 and I still don’t have it integrated with my site or even know if it can be. I have not recieved help form AssocTRAC and I sent in a ticket. I would be glad to pay the $97. for AssocTRAC to integrate it for me.
What I need is help on in get my affiliate program up in running, something that I have all ready paid for. E-Mail a Call or a step by step video to show me how. I am not a computer expert and when you start talking FTP, Perl,”t.cgi” script etc… I am lost.
The 5 essential things I NEED; I will just sum it up,
I need a website that I can promote my business and run an affiliate program, one that I can create ads and track promotions, and one that I just set in my business info. and it’s up and running. ( fill in the blank or a block by block system)
Tony Chorrushi
http://www.tmlg.net
http://www.loan-credit-guide.com
Hi Derek
I would like to see a complex system made simple.
How about testing it on people who don’t know anything of this business with people who come from all walks of life. When enough people with average inteligence can figure it out and you fix there problems on a continual basis we must have a good product.
We need for somebody to hold our hands iniatialy (cosy too)
So a good email answing service that can answer questions quickly.
Lots of well presented and clear videos and script going throgh all the steps right to the last step.
Lay out all the logical steps for whatever the direction we are going. Give clear direction on where to start.
Its so easy with a complex subject to get lost and confused.
Paul K
For everyone who feels they need a list because gurus tell them they need one.
You don’t need a list to get started. You can start with joint venturing, i.e. asking someone with a list to sell your product to their customers for a cut, or start your own affiliate program and let affiliates sell your product to their lists for a cut.
Jim
1. A dynamic spreadsheet budget planner and actual costs/benefits
2. Graduated lists from completely free to less expensive to more expensive for advertising and customer lists
3. Links to web designing/designers and hosting graduated according to costs and value for price
4. Business plan templates, as well as other forms for pricing, making terms of service, sales/service contracts, setting up chat rooms and forums
5. Organizer for time, services and products that is also dynamic, and linked to what is happening in the business, so statistics and analyzers, as well as links for questions arising from analysis and other questions.
As I can’t even get my business plan together yet, maybe it is too impractical what I suggest, but it seems it would be very helpful. It seems the Web design and business plan are intricately entwined, and I’m still out in left field, so not quite sure what would get me to the next step.
My 2 years experience of making money online in Internet marketing tell me that there 5 essential things needed to build a e-business are:
1) A professional design website and blog
2) A Internet marketing plan
3) A product that people need
4) A Opt-in list
5) Patience
These are the things that you need to succeed in my opinion.
What I’d like in a internet marketing system.First I would just like to earn a modest amount each month. From that I can move forward.
1. The big picture. What a successful business looks like and does. A road map or model to imitate.
2.Step by step videos, screencasts walking and talking the basics.By basics I mean modifying a website templates,header and footer graphics, walking me through CPanel and file structure. Setting up autoresponders and intergrating it with website and landing pages and blogs. Don’t assume I know anything.
3.Metrics or numbers. What I’d like is not to have a niche handed to me so much as I’d like to have the knowledge and skills going in to evaluate a market. By that I mean using a process to acquire traffic and having a general idea of how much that traffic will cost and how much revenue it will produce. Some ideal of how much I need to budget for a project and a timeframe.
4. Related to #3. I’d like to know how to identify a quality affilate program and products as well as private label products to market. Again don’t assume I know anything about this area.
To summarize: Simplicity. One website template that you can re-theme. A GUI for the CPanel. Ability to forecast expense and revenue.Judging products.
Hello Derek,
Thing 1. how could i increase the sales of my product?
2. how your system works in harmony with other systems?
3. how is the ultimate goals or vision of your input?
4. how do we doing to form a larger picture of success?
5. does the purpose of the system is only can make more money?
Wellness regards,
Zeno Tsai