Axiom Number Sixty-Four – YOU ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS YOUR WEAKEST LINK

Axiom Number Sixty-Five – UNLESS THERE IS AN URGENT SITUATION REQUIRING YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION, YOUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY WILL ALWAYS BE TO GENERATE PROFITS.

Axiom Number Sixty-Six – TEST ONE VARIABLE EVERY WEEK FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK

Axiom Number Sixty-Seven – IF YOU AREN’T STEERING YOUR SHIP, EVENTUALLY YOUR SHIP WILL CRASH AND BURN.

Axiom Number Sixty-Eight – IF YOU ARE EARNING $200,000 A YEAR FROM YOUR ONE SITE, IS THERE ANY REASON WHY ANOTHER SITE WON’T ALSO MAKE YOU $200,000 A YEAR?

Axiom Number Sixty-Nine – DEFINING YOUR TARGET MARKET AND MAKING SURE THEY ARE REACHABLE IS YOUR FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT DECISION.

Axiom Number Seventy – IF ITS WORTH DOING, ITS WORTH DOING WELL.

Axiom Number Seventy-One – SUCCESS STARTS WITH THE MENTAL COMMITMENT AND THEN FOLLOWS THROUGH IN EVERY ASPECT OF EVERYTHING YOU DO.

Axiom Number Seventy-Two – IT TAKES THE SAME EFFORT TO SELL A HIGHER PRICED ITEM AS IT DOES TO SELL A LOWER PRICED ITEM.

Axiom Number Seventy-Three – YOUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO BEAT YOUR DESIRED PROFIT with FRONT-END SALES ONLY, AND THEN TRY TO BEAT YOUR FRONT-END SALES WITH YOUR BACK-END SALES!

Axiom Number Seventy-Four – UNDER NO CONDITIONS SHOULD YOU GO OVER 50% OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PROFIT THAT YOU ARE GENERATING!

Axiom Number Seventy-Five – The BIGGER YOU BUILD YOUR AFFILIATE BASE, THE MORE SALES YOU WILL HAVE.

Axiom Seventy-Six – BUSINESSES NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS ON WHAT COMES IN, BUT RATHER, ON WHAT GOES OUT.

Axiom Number Seventy-Seven: ONCE YOU KNOW HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS, THERE IS NO LIMIT TO YOUR ABILITIES OR TO YOUR INCOME!

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In PART THREE, we explored an Overview of the Operation of Your Business, including the tasks that are involved and a Schedule for Day-To-Day Operations.

We then proceeded to all of the steps involved in Setting Up Your Business, from Incorporation all the way through Estate Planning.

We devoted a Full Chapter to “THE RIGHT TOOLS” so it is clear as to EXACTLY what is needed to Successfully Build Your Business.

We explored EXACTLY how much it will Cost to Start Up Your Own Business, and we gave several different ways to get started.

After 15 Chapters, we developed the knowledge to put together a COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS PLAN. We identified 10 Variables that will affect Your Bottom Line, and we discussed in detail how each of these variables is affected.

Then to add to Your Knowledge, we covered all of the Advanced Techniques that were purposely not included in the Marketing Plan and Business Plan so that you can develop a Statistical Base Line from which to make Adjustments and interpret the results.

Now, after completing PART ONE, PART TWO, and PART THREE OF THIS COURSE, you are INDEED READY TO BUILD YOUR OWN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.

As shown in the Business Plan, the Amount of Profit that you generate is up to your Execution of each aspect of Your Business. You have been given the KNOWLEDGE necessary to Effectuate Positive changes in every area. The potential for Income is ENORMOUS because once you know how to Build a Web-Based Business, you can easily build as many as you wish to have.

Since it does not require 40 hours a week to Operate a Web-Based Business, if Your Business is generating $100,000 in income for the Year, you can just as easily build four more Web-Based Businesses utilizing the same formula.

You truly are limited ONLY BY YOUR OWN IMAGINATION!

It is my Sincere Hope that you feel that HANDS DOWN, you NOW HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED, in Logical Order, broken down Step-By-Step, and explained CLEARLY, of EXACTLY how to OPEN AND SUCCEED in YOUR VERY OWN WEB-BASED BUSINESS.

As you go forward, if you choose to build Your Own Web Based Business, realize that I am available on a Consulting Basis to help you to Succeed. As long as I have the time, it will my pleasure to assist.

I’d love nothing more than to help thousands of folks just like you to be able to change your lives drastically for the better. With SUCCESS comes freedom, peace of mind, and the time to enjoy everything that you have worked so hard to achieve.

It’s my goal to help as many of you as I can to REACH YOUR OWN DREAMS!

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU!   YOU ARE NOW READY TO BUILD YOUR VERY OWN SUCCESSFUL INTERNET BUSINESS!!!!

Make Sure to Print Your Copy of:

YOUR SUCCESS GUARANTEED!

YOUR PERSONAL GUIDE TO SUCCESS!

 

YOUR SUCCESS IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS!

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OKAY! TO GET STARTED RIGHT NOW, HERE’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

• Create and Post Your Positive Affirmations
• Identify and Post Your Dream
• Define Your Budget and Create and Post Your Goals
• Quantify The Cost of Your Goals
• Review The 10 Principles of All Business that Are the Same
• Build the Foundation of Your Business Plan
• Determine What To Sell and Who Your Market Is
• Review the Fundamentals Of Marketing
• Create an EXACT MARKETING PLAN`
• Review the Fundamental Aspects of All Sales
• Develop Your Sales Verbiage and Closing Techniques
• Create an EXACT SALES SITE
• Evaluate the Business Tasks for Day to Day Business Operation
• Set Up the Business including Incorporation, Insurance, Etc.
• Purchase the TOOLS that are required for Success
• Create YOUR BUSINESS PLAN
• Review the advanced Tips and Techniques
• Execute Your Marketing Plan, Monitor Your Statistics and Make the appropriate adjustments

These 18 Steps are laid out in the Order of the Course. Simply Start at Chapter One and Follow the Course Straight Through.

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In a matter of 18 Chapters, and 450 pages, you are now equipped with EVERYTHING that you need to know in order to be SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR BUSINESS ENDEAVOR.

Following, you will find a COMPREHENSIVE Overview of the MOST CRITICAL ELEMENTS that You will need in order to be able to get started on YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS.

There’s only ONE THING standing between You and Your Dream, and that’s the answer to One Simple Question:

DO YOU WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH?

If the answer is “YES”, you have EVERYTHING YOU NEED RIGHT HERE IN YOUR HAND. If the answer is “NO”, then no further action on Your Part is necessary. I don’t know about you, but at the end of MY life,  I want to be able to say that I gave Life everything I had and then some, and I have no regrets.

This is YOUR TIME to decide if YOU WANT TO TAKE YOUR SHOT AT THE BRASS RING, or PLAY IT SAFE and keep doing what you’re doing now. I suspect if you were Satisfied with the way things are, you would not have read this 450 page Course. But as always, the Decision as to whether or not to go ahead is YOURS TO MAKE.

I hope that whether you Build Your Own Business or not, that I was helpful to you in seeing the Enormous Potential that exists Right Now and Exactly what to do to be a part of it.

Whatever you decide, I wish you and yours the very best life has to offer!

IN PART ONE of this Course, we looked at all of the Traits, Characteristics and Mechanisms that MUST BE PRESENT in order for YOU TO SUCCEED.

We discussed the importance of Self-Image, and we created Positive Affirmations to help to Strengthen them. We Dared to Dream and to create exciting Goals, the achievement of which will give You the Satisfaction of the Feel of Success.

We then developed Your Budget, so we have a starting point, and we quantified Your Goals in terms of Cost so You know what the Desired Amount of Net Profit needs to be in order to achieve Your Goals.

And we laid out the Foundation of a Business Plan, to be developed through the remainder of the Course.

IN PART TWO, we looked at the many, many steps that it takes to build a SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS from the perspective of the detail of everything that goes into Marketing and Sales.

We discussed what to Sell, and the effects of different types of Products on Your Bottom line. We discussed Specific Marketing Techniques, and we developed a PRECISE MARKETING PLAN.

We went on to learn HOW To Sell, and the importance of both Structure AND Verbiage as it relates to Your Site. We then created a mock Site to Sell the Widget X-100 and attachments, and we went on to Design the Perfect Sales Site in Great Detail.

IN PART THREE, we discussed all of the remaining aspects of putting YOUR BUSINESS TOGETHER. First, we created an Operational Overview of All of the Tasks required to Operate Your Business Successfully. We separated them into Daily, Weekly and Monthly tasks.

We then explored Everything that is involved in Setting Up Your Business, from Incorporating, to Licenses, to Insurance, to Financial Considerations.

Then we identified All of the required Tools that you will need in order to Execute Your Marketing and Sales Plan.

You learned how you can get started for anywhere from $588 to $9999, depending on Your Budget and Your Desires.

We went on to create Your Business Plan, including a Working Business Model in Excel Format. We identified 10 Variables that will impact the Amount of Profit that Your Business Generates, and we explored in Detail exactly what affect each Variable has. This is an INVALUABLE TOOL to help you to Monitor how close you are to Generating the Desired Profit.

Finally, we proceeded to Advanced Tips and Techniques, where we explored all of the Additional Information that will help you to make the necessary adjustments to Your Business to Maximize the Amount of Profit it will Generate.

When we set out, we said that when you were done with this Course here’s what you will know:

• Seeing Yourself as a Success,
• Developing your dream,
• Determining your goals,
• Calculating their cost,
• Understanding the concepts of Profitability
• Choosing a Product,
• Marketing,
• Sales,
• Site Structure and Development,
• Analyzing reports,
• Handling the money,
• Duplicating and diversifying, and Exit strategies

MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT WAS MY INTENTION FOR YOU TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD UPON THE COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE.

WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED EXACTLY WHAT WE SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH!

OKAY! TO GET STARTED RIGHT NOW, HERE’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

• Create and Post Your Positive Affirmations
• Identify and Post Your Dream
• Define Your Budget and Create and Post Your Goals
• Quantify The Cost of Your Goals
• Review The 10 Principles of All Business that Are the Same
• Build the Foundation of Your Business Plan
• Determine What To Sell and Who Your Market Is
• Review the Fundamentals Of Marketing
• Create an EXACT MARKETING PLAN`
• Review the Fundamental Aspects of All Sales
• Develop Your Sales Verbiage and Closing Techniques
• Create an EXACT SALES SITE
• Evaluate the Business Tasks for Day to Day Business Operation
• Set Up the Business including Incorporation, Insurance, Etc.
• Purchase the TOOLS that are required for Success
• Create YOUR BUSINESS PLAN
• Review the advanced Tips and Techniques
• Execute Your Marketing Plan, Monitor Your Statistics and Make the appropriate adjustments

These 18 Steps are laid out in the Order of the Course. Simply Start at Chapter One and Follow the Course Straight Through.

SO now, you get to Decide if in Your Heart, You are an:

ENTREPRENEUR

He casts aside his assurance of 40-hour weeks,

Leaves the safe cover of tenure and security,

And charges across the perilous fields

Of change and opportunity.

 

If he succeeds,

His profits will come

Not from what he takes from his fellow citizens,

But from the value they freely place

On the gift of his imagination.

 

What does YOUR IMAGINATION Tell You?

CAN YOU ENVISION YOURSELF AS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNER?

DO YOU HAVE DREAMS THAT YOU’D LIKE TO MAKE COME TRUE?

AND DO YOU WANT THEM BADLY ENOUGH TO WORK FOR THEM?

BECAUSE IF YOU DO, YOU NOW KNOW THE WAY.

YOUR FUTURE IS ENTIRELY UP TO YOU

All you have to do to make YOUR VERY OWN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS HAPPEN is to match a Reachable Market with a Product or Service that they want, and then follow the Course to put Your Business Together.

If you have any doubts as to whether or not you have created a Sound Business Plan, ask me for assistance.

Asked to further Summarize Your Success down to the 3 MOST CRITICAL ELEMENTS, here’s what I’d Say:

(1) A POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE – IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SELF CONFIDENCE AND THE BELIEF IN YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO SUCCESS, YOU WILL SABOTAGE YOUR OWN EFFORTS.

(2) A SOUND BUSINESS PLAN – INCLUDING AN EXCELLENT MATCH OF A REACHABLE MARKET TO AN OFFER THAT THEY WILL WANT, AND A WORKING MODEL THAT GENERATES THE DESIRED AMOUNT OF PROFIT.

(3) RELENTLESS EXECUTION – THERE CAN NEVER EXIST ONE THOUGHT THAT THERE IS ANY FORCE THAT CAN EVER STOP YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL.

We’ve spoken in Great Detail about everything that goes into each of these Three CRITICAL AREAS for Your Success, but as I close this Chapter, I’d like to give you a Gift. For if you TRULY DO FOLLOW YOUR DREAM, and if you DO CHOOSE TO FORGE AHEAD ACROSS THE PERILOUS FIELDS OF CHANGE AND OPPORTUNITY, then there WILL BE TIMES when the POEM on the next page will Help to GUIDE YOU THROUGH the Difficult Times.

                    DON’T QUIT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re travelling seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile but you have to sigh,

When life is getting you down a bit,

Rest if you must – but don’t you quit.

 

Life is erratic with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don’t give up when the pace seems slow-

You might succeed with another blow.

 

Often the goal is nearer than,

It seems to a faint and faltering man.

Often the struggler has given up

When he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

 

Success is failure turned inside out,

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar.

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,

It’s when things seem worse that you mustn’t quit.

 

Unknown

 

I sincerely wish you my very best, no matter what path you choose.

Remember, that regardless of whatever you do, Success is a Journey, not a destination.

It is important to learn from the past, and to look toward the future.

But MOST IMPORTANTLY, always remember is to appreciate the PRESENT.

There’s an old saying that goes:

“Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a Promissory Note. TODAY is cash in the bank.”

In your quest to build a better tomorrow, don’t forget to enjoy each and every TODAY.

I’d love to see you go on to Build A Successful Web Based Business so can have the Satisfaction of knowing what it feels like to Really Make It Happen!

Likewise, You must be motivated to be relentless in the pursuit of Your Goals, and in living Your Dream without allowing anyone or anything to prevent you from achieving Your Success.

I felt an obligation in closing to remind you to remember to enjoy The Journey, to Enjoy each and every TODAY, and to remember that the Most Important thing in each of Our Lives is the Love that we share with those that are Close.

That having been said, GO MAKE YOUR MILLIONS!!

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In this Chapter we learned Three Important Axioms:

Axiom Number Seventy-Five – The BIGGER YOU BUILD YOUR AFFILIATE BASE, THE MORE SALES YOU WILL HAVE.

Rather than spending time in a Chat Room, I’d MUCH RATHER you spend your time utilizing LINK POPULARITY, SUPERSONIC or SPYDER to build a list of Potential Affiliates to contact through the use of MAILLOOP.

Axiom Seventy-Six – BUSINESSES NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS ON WHAT COMES IN, BUT RATHER, ON WHAT GOES OUT.

Remember, you are indeed only as strong as Your Weakest Link. If you are Strong in Marketing, Sales, Controlling Your Expenses, Testing, and Operating Your Business Plan SOUNDLY, THEN YOU WILL SEE THE SUCCESS AND GENERATE THE PROFITS THAT YOU DESIRE!

Axiom Number Seventy-Seven: ONCE YOU KNOW HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS, THERE IS NO LIMIT TO YOUR ABILITIES OR TO YOUR INCOME!

Once you have ONE Web-Based Business up and running, you now KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT!  This means that you can start another Web-Based Business at ANY TIME, following the formula that made you Successful.

In Chapter Seventeen we took our Business Plan, and Step-by-Step, we explored what can be done in EACH area to IMPROVE OVERALL PERFORMANCE.

By starting with a CLEARLY DEFINED PLAN, developing a Statistical Base Line from which to make adjustments, and then following the direction in this Chapter, you will be able to IMPROVE PEFORMANCE by INCREASING THE GENERATION OF PROFIT!

Tips in this Chapter took you from Adding Marketing Techniques, to tracking the Value of Your Business (Es) on an Annual Basis, to making sure you have the funds necessary to pay Taxes on the Profits that you will generate.

Remember, the whole idea of going into Business for Yourself is to be:

• In charge of Your Own Schedule,
• To Operate Your Business with a laptop and an Internet Connection from ANY location, and
• To be able to make MORE MONEY than you can make in a job where you are building someone else’s dream.

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT!

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At this time we want to take Your ENTIRE Business Plan, from creating the number of Visitors, through the paying of the Taxes, and identify at each point, any Tips or Techniques that will help you to MAXIMIZE THE GENERATED PROFITS.

To do this, we need to list the Major Components in Your Business, and then add to each category so you can see what you can do to effectuate a Positive Outcome in each area.

THERE ARE 10 VARIABLES:

VISITORS-Set at 100 for Cold Marketing & 300 for Affiliate Marketing

PROSPECTS -Set at 90% of Visitors

SALES  – Set at 1/45 Prospects

PROFIT – Set at $98 Per Sale

ADVERTISING EXPENSE – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

AFFILIATE COMMISSION – Set at 30% of the Overall Gross Profit

OVERHEAD EXPENSE-Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

FRONT UPSELL – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

BACK-END SALES – Set at 25% of Target Gross Profit

ESTIMATED TAXES – Set at 25% of the Gross Profit

VISITORS:

As you will recall, there are 3 major components of Your Marketing Effort:

• Cold
• Referral or Affiliate
• Repeat

COLD MARKETING:

In the area of COLD Marketing, we started with 5 techniques:

• Pay-Per-Click Search Engines
• Utilize Existing Targeted Lists
• Utilize Services that Guarantee Traffic
• Free Classified Ads
• Search Engine Ranking

There are a number of Additional Marketing Techniques that are used on the Internet to drive Traffic to Your Site. Rather than being overwhelmed with a list of all of them, I chose the best 5 to start with because they are easy to understand, execute, and have Success with.

Here are some Additional Marketing Techniques for you to consider adding to your arsenal after you have established a track record and have gathered some Consistent Statistics utilizing only what is in the Marketing Plan as it now exists. If you add additional Marketing Techniques before you develop a Base Line of Statistics for Your Business, it will be more difficult to track each Technique and determine what Adjustments need to be made to Improve the results.

With this having been said, here is a list and a brief description of some Additional Marketing Techniques:

• BANNER ADVERTISING – I trust that you have seen the Banner ads at the top of the page when you are browsing the Net. This type of ad has a low rate of return, but in large quantity, it can still produce some traffic. They normally charge a nominal fee per 1000 impressions. The numbers sound better than the results, but you may want to add this down the road.

However, a word of caution. There are companies that offer “free” banners. It works like this: They will put your banner on Top of their page, and in return, you put their banner on the Top of Your Page. DO NOT DO THIS!

What you DO NOT WANT TO HAPPEN is to work to get Traffic to Your Site, and have some of those Prospects immediately click on the Banner, and just like that, you lost your Potential Prospect to Another Site!

If you ever participate is a Reciprocal Link or Banner program, place the banner AFTER YOUR OFFER on Your Site, NOT BEFORE IT! The template that was proposed has a Shopping Cart and Affiliate Link Site as the SECOND PART, or Back-end of the Site. This is an EXCELLENT LOCATION to advertise Reciprocal Links. Whether you utilize the Template or not, make sure that you have a way to promote other Sites WITHOUT HURTING YOUR OWN SITE!

• AD OR ARTICLE SWAPPING – Another Ezine Editor will most probably be glad to swap an Article or an Ad with you so long as you both have approximately the same number of Subscribers. Once you have developed Your Opt-In list to a significant number, say 5000, then you can look to swap with others.

REMEMBER, THE OPT-IN LIST IS ULTIMATELY YOUR NUMBER ONE ASSET, BECAUSE YOU CAN CONTINUE TO SELL THESE SAME FOLKS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

• DISCUSSION GROUPS – There are a ton of Discussion Groups these days, on virtually every topic you can think of. You can always join one of these groups and offer your Expert Opinion and a suggestion of where to go to find out more information, which of course would be Your Business. This is a time-consuming but Free method of developing traffic.

One other thing that you can do is to create Your OWN Discussion Group on a particular evening for an hour, and invite Your Opt-In list to participate. This gives you more contact with your group. There are companies on the Net that set up and monitor discussion groups. As always, whenever you are searching for something of this nature on the Net, go to Google and enter the keyword of choice: In this case, “discussion groups.”

• CHAT ROOMS – Like Discussion Groups, this is also a time consuming but Free method to develop Traffic. You are once again not allowed to advertise in Chat Rooms, but you can always give your opinion.
• MESSAGE BOARDS – This is another way to develop conversation about Your Business. Like Discussion Groups and Chat Rooms, Your Market is limited to a small but Targeted group. The one advantage is that all three of these methods are free, so if you have the time in the evening to “talk up” Your Site, it certainly can’t hurt.

These 5 additional Marketing Methods can be effective, but I suggest that you start with the 5 that are detailed in Your Marketing Plan, develop a base set of Statistics for Your Business, and then add One Additional Technique at a time, if you choose to do so.

PREPARE FOR HIGH RANKING WITH SEARCH ENGINES:

Without getting Overly technical, You can HELP your ranking with the Search Engines by following some suggestions. Here are some of the things that you can do:

TITLE PAGE: Each Page should have its own Descriptive Title. Once you are aware of the best Keywords for you to use to promote Your Site, by using SITE PROMOTER or WORDTRACKER, make sure you use the Keywords generously in Your Description of the Title of the Page.

META TAGS: The Meta Tag is the Description of the Page. These Keywords help the Search Engine to determine how to catalogue Your Web Site. Once again, as in the TITLE Description, your use of Keywords is CRITICAL to the Ranking in that Engine in the Category that you want to be found in.

PICTURE DESCRIPTION: Some Visitors to Your Site will have their “images” turned off so they don’t see a picture. Describe the Picture including as many Keywords as is feasible, while maintaining sentence structure, since the Visitor will see the description.

REDIRECT PAGE: This is a technique where you submit a Keyword-Rich Domain Name to the Search Engine to get a High Ranking, and then you redirect that page to Your Site. The Visitor will be unaware of the redirect, but this method can help with Your Ranking.

KEYWORD RICHNESS: This is a CRITICAL ISSUE with regard to Top Ranking. SITE PROMOTER, which is one of the 10 required TOOLS from the TOOLS Section, chooses Your Keywords taking the logic of the Search Engines into Account. This helps you to achieve a Higher Ranking. Then WEB-POSITION GOLD, another of the 10 TOOLS, monitors the position of the ranking based on the Keywords.

For more assistance with Keywords, there is a program called WORDTRACKER. This program will read Your Site and print a list of Keywords including Capitalized Keywords, incorrectly spelled Keywords, and combinations that you may not have thought of. There is a downloadable version of WORDTRACKER that is free, though the paid version is a LOT more powerful.

You don’t want to be Penny wise and Dollar foolish. The difference between Top Ranking and Mediocre Ranking is literally the same as the difference between night and day. If you aren’t in the Top 20, nobody will see you and you will wind up with little or no Search Engine Traffic. Search Engine Traffic from the FREE Engines is FREE to you.

So you want to do EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO to get yourself the BEST POSSIBLE RANKING!

REFERRAL OR AFFILIATE MARKETING:

In the area of REFERRAL or AFFILIATE Marketing, as you can see now that we have finalized the Business Plan, you should expect More Traffic and Sales from Your Affiliates than from Your Cold Marketing campaign. This makes sense, since you are ONE PERSON promoting Your Offer, whereas you may have 100, or 1,000, or 10,000 Affiliates promoting Your Offer as well.

This is why I suggest that you keep your COLD Marketing Campaign to the 5 main types to start with, and spend the rest of your time FINDING AFFILIATES.

Axiom Number Seventy-Five – The BIGGER YOU BUILD YOUR AFFILIATE BASE, THE MORE SALES YOU WILL HAVE.

Rather than spending time in a Chat Room, I’d MUCH RATHER you spend your time utilizing LINK POPULARITY, SUPERSONIC or SPYDER to build a list of Potential Affiliates to contact through the use of MAILLOOP.

Can you see the potential difference to Your Bottom Line by expanding Your Affiliate Base?

REPEAT MARKETING:

There are two elements that will add to Your Repeat Marketing that we need to discuss here.

• VIRAL MARKETING – In Your Newsletter or Ezine, a FREE E-Book or Report, or anything that you send out to either Customers or Prospects, always include at least one link back to Your Site. As the recipient of Your item forwards it to a friend for example, now that person can sign up for Your Newsletter or click on the link to check out Your Site or Promotion.
• SPECIAL PROMOTIONS, DISCOUNTS, AND OFFERS – The program CONTRIBUTE allows you to create “SPECIAL SUB-PAGES.” This means that instead of a Prospect going directly to the First Page of Your Site, you can give Your Subscribers a “SPECIAL OFFER” whenever you want to create Sales because of the URGENCY INVOLVED. This is a GREAT WAY to Make SPECIAL OFFERS to Your OPT-IN LIST!

“John, since you are one of my Special Customers, I’d like to make you aware of a PRIVATE, SPECIAL PROMOTION. This offer is only good for 72 hours. Right now, you can purchase the WIDGET X-200, which is sold on my Site WIDGETS-ARE-US.com for $99, FOR ONLY $49 as my way of saying “Thank you” for being a Loyal Customer. However, you CANNOT GO directly to My Site because there, its FULL PRICE.

“Click Here Now” to go to “SPECIAL PAGE” for this SPECIAL OFFER, just for you. Enjoy Your Widget 200!”   Click Here Now!

The page that they will link to will look something like this:

Widgets-Are-Us.com/special3dayoffer

This is a sub-page of Your Site, only accessible by those who have been informed that it is there. In 3 days, you would just go in and remove the link, until the next time that you want to run that promotion.

PROSPECTS:

The Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio is dependent on two factors: the Targeting of Your Market, and the Impression of Your Site.

The Statistics that you will receive from Your Host will speak VOLUMES about Your Traffic. If a LARGE PERCENTAGE, say over 10% of the Visitors, spends LESS than 1 minute on Your Site, you can interpret this group as being a VISITORS, but not PROSPECTS.

With regard to properly Targeting Your Market, if you send out blind or misleading ads, or you advertise in places where the folks that see your ad are not interested in Your Offer, you will get curiosity seekers. These folks are NOT Interested or Qualified Visitors, so Your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio will be low. At the beginning of Your Marketing Campaign, you will want to concentrate on Targeting Your Best Markets in terms of Interest.

Over time, however, once you have established your Baseline Statistics, you may then want to slowly broaden the Market to which you Advertise, then watch the results Closely.

If the percentage of Prospect-To-Visitors goes DOWN, but the overall number of Visitors goes UP by enough to have a POSITIVE IMPACT, then this is a Positive Adjustment.

For example, let’s say that when you Target Your Best Markets, you have a Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio of 95%. This tells you that you are in the Right Market, and Your Site is working well.

Now, let’s say as you broaden the Market, Your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio goes down from 95% to 80%, but the number of Visitors DOUBLES, from 100 to 200!

In the Best Market ONLY, you had 95 Prospects out of 100 Visitors. When you broaden the Market, you had 160 Prospects out of 200 Visitors. You would take 160 Prospects OVER 95 Prospects ANY DAY IN THE WEEK, wouldn’t you??!!

By carefully tracking Your Initial Results, you will be able to gauge the effectiveness of any changes that you make. By tracking BOTH Your Sale-To-VISITOR Ratio AND Your Sale-To-PROSPECT Ratio, you will be able to see the spread more clearly as you broaden your Marketing base.

In so far as Your Site is concerned, you will want Your Site to turn EVERY Visitor into a Prospect. If the Visitor is unimpressed with Your Site, and exits, not only will you have a low Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, but you will also have a low Sale-To-Prospect Ratio.

Once you have established a Base Line for Your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, and Your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio, Then you have a foundation upon which to make and test your adjustments.

SALES:

We are starting out with the premise that Your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio is 1/45. In fact, the Ratio that you start out with will depend on many factors as we discussed earlier: Your Headline, Your Sub-Headline, Your Information line, the Presentation of Your Site, Your First Paragraph, etc.

Whatever Ratio you start out at, you should Definitely Improve it over time. Sometimes just the changing of any one of the 10 Variables mentioned above can have a DRAMATIC effect on your Sales Ratio.

It doesn’t matter HOW MANY Visitors you drive to Your Site if Your Site doesn’t ever CLOSE THE SALE.!! If you are having trouble with the performance of Your Site, you might want to consider having someone such as me review Your Copy for you. For the money that you will spend to have a Professional Write or Critique Your Sales Copy, Review Your Ads and Autoresponders, and Adjust the Mechanics of the Sales process, you may end up with a SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE in the Sale-To-Prospect Ratio.

Often, this is not only the difference between generating Your Desired Profit as opposed to a WEAK Profit, but a STRONG SALES SITE will develop Affiliates, and a Weak Sales Site will LOSE Affiliates.

The Sales-To-Prospect Ratio is a CRITICAL ELEMENT for BOTH YOUR PROFIT and THE FUTURE OF YOUR BUSINESS as well.

PROFIT:

In our Business Plan, we have an anticipated Profit Margin of $98 per Sale. If you DOUBLE this amount, you only have to make HALF as many Sales to generate the same amount of Profit.

Conversely, if you HALF this amount, you have to DOUBLE your Sales in order to generate the same amount of Profit.

A CRITICAL ELEMENT that we touched on before is MERCHANDISING. Here’s an example of how Merchandising can be the difference between Success and Failure in Business.

There was a Business that sold Toupees. No matter how they Advertised, the Cost Per Sale for the Advertisement was Too High to make a Net Profit after All Expenses. Because of Competition, there was a limit as to how much the Business could charge.

One day the owner came up with a brainstorm. “From today forward,” he said, “Nobody can buy a toupee from us any more. They have to buy a set of two.”

He then launched a campaign Selling the Benefits of having 2 Toupees: How if one is damaged, needs to be cleaned, for that special occasion, etc. etc. you’ll always look and feel your best.

The result? The Advertising Cost, known as the Lead Cost, per Sale was cut in half, Business actually picked up because the “Set of 2” really caught on, and the Business went on to be Very Successful.

So, when you are determining what to Sell, keep in mind that if it is an Item with a $98 or more Profit per Sale, you have to hit the numbers as outlined in the Business Plan. But if you are considering selling an item that is less than $98 in Profit, consider using some MERCHANDISING TECHNIQUES to create a SET, A GROUPING, A COMBINATION, etc. that will give you a $98 or greater Profit per Sale.

On the other hand, depending on the item and the competition, perhaps it is an Offer that with a Lower Price will sell Sizably More Units. This involves knowledge of Your Business and Testing. But you should at least understand how the Concept of MERCHANDISING could be helpful to you.

ADVERTISING EXPENSE:

As we discussed, there are MANY, Pay-Per-Click engines, MANY Lists available for purchase, and MANY services that guarantee to bring Traffic to Your Site.

When you develop your Advertising Budget, as we did in the Business Plan, make SURE to ALWAYS spend the money on Advertising. Remember, as the saying goes: “Running a Business without Advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark – YOU know what you’re doing, but NOBODY ELSE DOES.” As long as the Advertising is bringing you Sales and Building Your Opt-In list, and costing you 10%-20% of the Gross Profit, don’t stop Advertising because Business seems to be good. It is MUCH EASIER to MAINTAIN BUSINESS than it is to restart it if the fire goes out.

While on the subject of Advertising expense, I should add that we have 5 Cold Marketing Methods in the Marketing Plan, and 5 secondary Methods in this Chapter.

However, some of Your Market may not be on-line at ALL! There are numerous ways of Targeting Markets that are NOT on the Internet. Methods include:

• FAX ADVERTISING
• POST CARD ADVERTISING
• MAILER PIECES

If you go once again to Google and enter any of the above phrases as keywords, you will get a list of companies that Market off-line as well as on-line.

Remember, just because you are now in the World of the Internet doesn’t mean that there isn’t a HUGE WORLD around you that is NOT yet on the Internet. And just as there are folks ON the Internet that can use Your Offer, there are also folks that are NOT on the Internet that can also use Your Offer.

AFFILIATE COMMISSION EXPENSE:

Once more, let’s go over the Two-Tier concept and the Commission Structure.

A Two-Tier program means that you pay 30% to Your Affiliate, who is on the FIRST Tier, and Then Your Affiliate gets to promote Your Affiliate Opportunity to Another Affiliate, who is the SECOND Tier.

The First-Tier Affiliate gets 30% on Sales that they generate. They also get 10% on All Sales generated by the Affiliate that they brought in on the Second Tier. The Second Tier Affiliate gets 30% for bringing Traffic to you that resulted in a Sale. The addition of the 30% Plus the 10% when the two Tiers are involved, equals a 40% Total Commission.

Since Affiliate Commission is only paid on AFFILIATE GENERATED SALES, the 40% Commission is only paid on a PORTION of overall Sales.

If the mixture is 3 Affiliate Sales for every 1 Cold Sale, and the Commission is 40% on those 3 Affiliate Sales, then the Commission is 30% overall, including the Cold Sale for which there is NO Commission.

In the event there isn’t a Second-Tier involved in these Sales, then Your Affiliate Commission is only 30% on the 3 Affiliate Sales, which works out to 22% when you add a Sale on which there is No Affiliate Commission paid.

OVERHEAD AND OPERATING EXPENSES:

There are certain expenses, such as Bank Charges, Hosting Fees, Affiliate Program Fees, and the Corporate Share of the payroll taxes, etc. that are carved in Stone. You can’t operate the Business without these. However, there are other expenses that you may be entitled to write off as a Company Expense, that may save you money on your taxes at the end of the Year.

While you need to hold Your Total Expenses to 50% of the Generated Profit, with instruction from your Accountant, you may be entitled to certain “additional” expenses such as Company Health Insurance for example.

Always keep the Advertising Expense, Affiliate Commissions, and Overhead Expenses to 50% or less of the Gross Profit. THEN if you are advised to charge some expenses to the Business that are NOT essential to the Operation of the Business, but advantageous from a tax perspective, keep track of these Expenses SEPARATELY in QUICKBOOKS. This will insure that you can track your ESSENTIAL EXPENSES to keep them UNDER 50% of the generated GROSS PROFIT.

Let’s have a word about Total Expenses. There is an old saying in Business:

Axiom Seventy-Six – BUSINESSES NEVER GO OUT OF BUSINESS ON WHAT COMES IN, BUT RATHER, ON WHAT GOES OUT.

Remember, you are indeed only as strong as Your Weakest Link. If you are Strong in Marketing, Sales, Controlling Your Expenses, Testing, and Operating Your Business Plan SOUNDLY, THEN YOU WILL SEE THE SUCCESS AND GENERATE THE PROFITS THAT YOU DESIRE!

But if you are concentrating on Marketing and Sales, and you are NOT WATCHING your Expenses, OR, if you are watching your Expenses and NOT WATCHING Marketing and Sales, whatever it is that you are NOT WATCHING will be what ends up fouling up Your Business Plan.

FRONT UPSELL:

If you are Selling a Unique Product, and you can offer a Complimentary Unique Product of your own as the Front-End Upsell, that is ABSOLUTELY THE BEST CHOICE.

If you are Selling a Product that is part of a Product Line and you offer a Complimentary Product in that Line as the Upsell, that is ALSO an Excellent Choice.

But there are TWO things that you do NOT want to do: Do not offer a Product that is unrelated to Your Offer, and do not offer a Product that is very cheap or very expensive in comparison with Your Offer. In general, try to find an offer that costs about 25% of your Initial Offer, and definitely do not go over 50% of the cost of Your Initial Order.

BACK-END SALES:

By offering Affiliate Products and Services on the Back-End, you can dramatically Increase Your Site’s Profitability. However, beware of the following:

When you offer an Affiliate Link, you are sending the Prospect or Customer AWAY from Your Site. If the offer you are sending them to is in DIRECT COMPETITION with Your Offer, that’s NOT a good Affiliate Link for you!

There are many products that you can purchase the Resell Rights to. The reason why these products are available is because of all the links in them to offers that make the Author money. Make sure you look CLOSELY at the Products that you carry.

Sometimes, MASTER RIGHTS are available. This gives YOU the right to change the links to Your Link. This is a much safer avenue than having Resell Rights, but the Master Rights are sometimes fairly expensive.

Interestingly, the same applies with Copy for Your Ezine. There are Sites on the Net that are there for the swapping of articles between Ezine Editors. Be careful when doing this because just as Your Link will appear at the bottom of Your Article, the other Ezine Editor’s Link will appear at the bottom of HIS Article. You may not want to promote his Link if he is in Direct Competition with you, because you do not want to direct Traffic AWAY from Your Site.

ESTIMATED TAXES:

Last but certainly not least are the Taxes that you will owe on the Profit that you have generated.

In the U.S.A., there’s Social Security Tax, Unemployment Tax, and Income Tax on a Federal Level, and then there are almost always some kind of State and Local Taxes.

Make sure you check with your local authorities so you are aware of all of the Expenses BEFORE you go into Business, so you don’t Overspend, and find yourself playing catch-up. The whole idea of going into Business for Yourself is to be:

• In charge of Your Own Schedule,
• To Operate Your Business with a laptop and an Internet Connection from ANY location, and
• To be able to make MORE MONEY than you can make in a job where you are building someone else’s dream.

Don’t let Your Dream turn into a Nightmare because you aren’t prepared to pay your Taxes when they come due.

As a part of Your Retirement Plan, you may choose to Sell Your Business at some point. For Business Evaluation, or to Sell Your Business, there are many, many choices. When you are ready, just go to Google and enter the Keyword phrase “Web-Based Business Evaluation” or “Sell my Web-Based Business.”

Whether you are planning on Selling Your Business or not, it is wise to keep track of its worth on an Annual Basis. What if you didn’t know until you were 60 years old that you could have Sold it when you were 50 for $5,000,000?

Successful Businesses often Sell for more than you’d think One Business that I owned generated approximately a $1,000,000 Gross Annual Income. I had an Offer of $7,500,000 for that One Business from a larger company because in that particular field, the multiple to determine the Sales Price was 7.5 times earnings.

Some Businesses are 2 times earnings, while others are 20 times earnings. WELL IN ADVANCE OF SALE, you should be aware of the Valuation of Your Business so you KNOW what it’s worth and you can make decisions as to what to do with Your Business based on FACT!

HOWEVER, NEVER FORGET THIS ONE FACT:

Axiom Number Seventy-Seven: ONCE YOU KNOW HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS, THERE IS NO LIMIT TO YOUR ABILITIES OR TO YOUR INCOME!

Once you have ONE Web Based Business up and running, you now KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT!  This means that you can start another Web-Based Business at ANY TIME, following the formula that made you Successful.

Let’s say you have 3 Web-Based Businesses, and two are each generating a $100,000 ANNUAL NET PROFIT, while the STRONGEST of the Three is Generating a $250,000 Profit. And let’s say you KNOW that you can get a multiple of 6 for the Business that is generating the $250,000 Profit.

Your choice is to continue to run that Business, Collect Your $250,000 per Year, build it up, and try to Sell it for more down the road. Or, you can take 6 times $250,000 = $1,500,000 for it NOW. Depending on Tax planning and other issues, you may not want to Sell it, but at least you have the option!

Selling the $250,0000 Business would leave you with 2 Businesses generating $100,000 each, and $1,000,000 CASH IN YOUR BANK assuming an All-Cash deal with $500,000 for Taxes. You’d also now have the Money and the Knowledge to start up however many more Web-Based Businesses that you want, to replace the $250,000 Income if that’s your plan.

The POINT of this exercise is to KNOW how much Your Business is Worth, and to proceed with the CONFIDENCE that you now have the KNOWLEDGE to DUPLICATE Your Success over, and over, and over again!

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Axiom Number Seventy-Two – IT TAKES THE SAME EFFORT TO SELL A HIGHER PRICED ITEM AS IT DOES TO SELL A LOWER PRICED ITEM.

Very simply put, it takes NO MORE EFFORT to Sell a HIGH PROFIT ITEM than it does to Sell a LOW PROFIT ITEM. The Dynamics are the same: Sell Yourself, Sell Your Company, Create the Need, Offer Your Solution, and Close, Close, Close.

Axiom Number Seventy-Three – YOUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO BEAT YOUR DESIRED PROFIT with FRONT-END SALES ONLY, AND THEN TRY TO BEAT YOUR FRONT-END SALES WITH YOUR BACK-END SALES!

By not including your Back-end Sales in with your Front-end Sales, they will not skew your Front-end Sales numbers. This means that the percentage of your overall expenses will be in Relation to your Front End Sales, where they should be, since the majority of the expenses are for the purpose of generating Front-End Sales.

Axiom Number Seventy-Four – UNDER NO CONDITIONS SHOULD YOU GO OVER 50% OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PROFIT THAT YOU ARE GENERATING!

By setting your Advertising Budget at 10%, the total of all other expenses at 10%, and the Overall Affiliate Commission at 30%, this totals 50% of the Gross Sales Volume.

WORKING BUSINESS MODEL:

A WORKING BUSINESS MODEL IDENTIFIES ALL OF THE VARIABLES OF THE BUSINESS, AND THEN BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS, SHOWS YOU WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT YOUR PROFIT TO BE.

NOBODY SHOULD EVER GO INTO BUSINESS WITHOUT HAVING A WORKING MODEL.

THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES HAVE A DIRECT AFFECT ON THE BOTTOM LINE OF YOUR BUSINESS:

Visitors – Set at 100 for Cold Marketing and 300 for Affiliate Marketing

Prospects -Set at 90% of Visitors

Sales  – Set at 1/45 Prospects

Profit – Set at $98 Per Sale

Advertising Expense – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Affiliate Commission – Set at 30% of the Overall Gross Profit

Overhead and Operating Expense-Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Front Upsells – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Back-End Sales – Set at 25% of Target Gross Profit

Estimated Taxes – Set at 25% of the Gross Profit

Changing ANY of these variables will change the bottom line Profit. At the end of the Chapter, there will be a link to an Excel Spreadsheet that consists of this Actual Business Plan. By changing any of the variables, you will be able to see the effect – positive or negative- on Your Profit.

This is an invaluable TOOL and an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.

As I said, it’s REALLY HARD to believe that I have NEVER ONCE seen this offered before. There’s NO WAY anyone should EVER go into Business without a BUSINESS PLAN that INCLUDES A WORKING MODEL and a method by which they can make adjustments to the variables to see their effect on the Bottom Line of the Business.

You were also shown 3 ways to get started in Your Own Business.

As low as $588 to get started for a POWERFUL 30 PAGE SALES SITE, MAILLOOP, Your Autorespond Program, 6 Months of Hosting Fees and Your Business License using Paypal, or $1588 using E-Merchant and Verisign.

The Next Level is $3938 to get started, giving you most of the Tools to execute Your Business Plan, and $4938 including paying for AssocTrac and Mailloop in Full instead of in payments.

The TURN-KEY LEVEL allows for All of the Tools that are included in Level Two, Plus EVERYTHING ELSE THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY NEED TO HAVE A TOTALLY TURN-KEY BUSINESS for $9999.

The DELUXE Premiere Package includes the following Services:

• Review of Your Business Plan and Make Recommendations to Strengthen it
• Recommend and Oversee Any Structural Changes to Your Site
• WRITE All of Your Ads, Autoresponders, and Affiliate Letters
• WRITE All of Your Sales Copy and Rebuttals for Your Site
• Be available via Email to answer ALL Questions until you go “LIVE”
• Be available for 90 days After you go Live to assist with Adjustments
• DEFINE YOUR MARKET
• DEFINE YOUR PRODUCT
• HAVE $9,999 TO SPEND!

THERE IS NO EASIER WAY THAN THIS TO GO INTO BUSINESS AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN GENERATING MORE PROFITS THAN YOU EVER DREAMED POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well, are YOU EXCITED YET??

If you are not, CALL THE DOCTOR CAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE A PULSE !!!!!!!

Seriously, let’s think about what’s happening for a second. You are being taken by the hand and shown by a Pro EXACTLY what to do STARTING with YOUR DREAM, CONTINUING with PROTECTING YOUR ASSETS, and ENDING with ESTATE PLANNING!

I FIRMLY BELIEVE that you really are only as strong as your weakest link. Therefore, its CRITICAL that you HAVE NO WEAK LINKS. That’s why I have left NO STONE UNTURNED as we explore everything that goes into being SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS. It is of the utmost importance to me that you leave this Course knowing the following:

• EXACTLY WHAT YOUR DREAM AND YOUR GOALS ARE,
• EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO ACHIEVE THEM, and
• HAVING BOTH THE CONFIDENCE AND THE KNOWLEDGE TO GO AHEAD AND DO IT!

Stop and think of some of the people that you know that financially, have achieved significantly more than you. Now ask yourself this question:

ARE THEY SMARTER THAN YOU?

INTELLIGENCE is NOT the Key Factor. All you need is:

• SELF-CONFIDENCE,
• A GOOD IDEA,
• The KNOWLEDGE to execute Your Plan, and
• The KNOWLEDGE to protect Your Assets.

We’ve spent 15 Chapters systematically building the Foundation for you to form Your Business Plan.

In PART ONE of this Course, we started with the Traits that you need to have in order to be able to accept the Success that WILL BE YOURS when you Execute a Sound Business Plan.

We went on to discuss Your Dream and Your Goals.

We then determined the COSTS associated with Your Goals

We then developed an Understanding of Business

And we discussed the Concept of Designing a Business Plan

We then proceeded to PART TWO, where we discussed What to Sell and the importance of identifying a Reachable Market for Your Offer.

Then, we went on to Marketing, where we spent TWO Chapters, one on HOW TO MARKET and one on MARKETING TECHNIQUES.

We then spent TWO Chapters on Sales, one on HOW TO SELL and one on SALES COPY and CLOSING TECHNIQUES.

And then we went on to develop Your Site keeping consistent with the Principles of Sales as we had just learned.

Now, in PART THREE; we discussed an Operational Overview of the nuts and bolts of actually running Your Business.

We went on to discuss how to set up Your Business with Legal, Accounting, Asset Protection, Insurance, Retirement, and Estate Planning.

And then we discussed the EXACT TOOLS that are needed in order to effectively achieve the required tasks required for the Marketing, Sales and Operations aspects of Your Business.

You NOW have ALL of the information that you need to have in order to put together a Sound, Successful, Business Plan!

THIS IS INCREDIBLY EXCITING, BECAUSE HAVING A SOUND PLAN TO FORM THE FOUNDATION OF YOUR BUSINESS IS THE HARDEST PART OF BEING IN BUSINESS!

ONCE YOU FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT, ACTUALLY DOING IT IS THE EASY PART OF THE EQUATION!!!

But first, the HARDEST PART lies straight before us.

There are 20 questions that stand between GOING FORWARD and remaining still.

These 20 questions are CRITICAL TO YOUR SUCCESS. They are not easy. However, first we will list them, and then, one by one, we will answer them. When we are done, YOU WILL HAVE A SOLID BUSINESS PLAN!

HOWEVER, IN ORDER TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, AND IN ORDER TO TRACK THE EFFECTS OF CHANGE IN CRITICAL AREAS OF YOUR BUSINESS, WE NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT I HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN OFFERED IN ANY COURSE ON BUILDING AN INTERNET BUSINESS.

A WORKING BUSINESS MODEL:

A WORKING BUSINESS MODEL IDENTIFIES ALL OF THE VARIABLES OF THE BUSINESS, AND THEN BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS, SHOWS YOU WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT YOUR PROFIT TO BE.

 

NOBODY SHOULD EVER GO INTO BUSINESS WITHOUT HAVING A WORKING MODEL.

Let’s start by Identifying the 10 Variables that ALL have an EFFECT on YOUR PROFIT.

I have also included a snapshot of YOUR WORKING MODEL. As Part of this Course, you will have access to a “LIVE” Working Model, which you will be able to use for Many Years to Come to Effectively Manage Your Business (Es)!

Then we will discuss the Questions that relate to Your Business Model.

THIS IS AN INVALUABLE TOOL FOR THE SUCCESS OF YOUR BUSINESS!

IN FACT, THERE ARE THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES:

Visitors – Set at 100 for Cold Marketing and 300 for Affiliate Marketing

Prospects -Set at 90% of Visitors

Sales  – Set at 1/45 Prospects

Profit – Set at $98 Per Sale

Advertising Expense – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Affiliate Commission – Set at 30% of the Overall Gross Profit

Overhead and Operating Expense-Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Front Upsells – Set at 10% of the Target Gross Profit

Back-End Sales – Set at 25% of Target Gross Profit

Estimated Taxes – Set at 25% of the Gross Profit

Changing ANY of these variables will change the bottom line Profit. At the end of the Chapter, there will be a link to an Excel Spreadsheet that consists of this Actual Business Plan. By changing any of the variables, you will be able to see the effect – positive or negative- on Your Profit. This is an invaluable TOOL and an ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.

As I said, it’s REALLY HARD to believe that I have NEVER ONCE seen this offered before. There’s NO WAY anyone should EVER go into Business without a BUSINESS PLAN that INCLUDES A WORKING MODEL and a method by which they can make adjustments to the variables to see their effect on the Bottom Line of the Business.

SAMPLE WORKING BUSINESS MODEL:

	COLD MARKETING CAMPAIGN			AFFILIATE MARKETING CAMPAIGN
	VISITOR-TO-PROSPECT RATIO			VISITOR TO PROSPECT RATIO
100	Number of Cold Marketing Visitors		300	Number of Affiliate Marketing Visitors
90%	Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio		90%	Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio
90	Number of Cold Marketing Prospects		270	Number of Affiliate Marketing Prospects
	SALES-TO-PROSPECT RATIO			SALES-TO-PROSPECT RATIO
90	Number of Cold Marketing Prospects		270	Number of Affiliate Marketing Prospects
45	Sale-To-Prospect Ratio		45	Sale-To-Prospect Ratio
2	Number of Sales From Cold Marketing		6	Number of Sales From Affiliate Marketing
	COLD GENERATED PROFIT			AFFILIATE GENERATED PROFIT
$98	Profit Per Sale		$98	Profit Per Sale
2	Times 2 Sales from Cold Marketing		6	Times 6 Sales From Affiliates
$196	Total Profit generated from Cold Marketing		$588	Total Profit generated from Affiliate Marketing
	TOTAL DAILY PROFIT-COLD + AFFILIATE			AFFILIATE COMMISSIONS DUE
$196	Total Profit generated from Cold Marketing		$588	Total Profit generated from Affiliate Marketing
$588	Total Profit generated from Affiliate Marketing		40%	Percentage of Two Tier Affiliate Commission
$784	TOTAL Profit generated from Cold plus Affiliate		$235.20	Total Commission to be paid to Affiliates
	ADVERTISING EXPENSE ALLOWANCE			OVERHEAD EXPENSE ALLOWANCE
$784	TOTAL Profit generated from Cold plus Affiliate		$784	TOTAL Profit generated from Cold plus Affiliate
10%	Advertising Expense Percent Allowance		10%	Overhead and Operating Expense % Allowance
$78.40	Advertising Expense Dollar Allowance		$78.40	Overhead and Operating Expense $ Allowance
	TOTAL EXPENSE ALLOWANCE			EXPENSES / GROSS PROFITS
$784	TOTAL Profit generated from Cold plus Affiliate		$392	Total Dollar amount of allowed Expenses
50%	Total Expense Allowance		$235.20	Less Total Commission to be paid to Affiliates
$392	Total Dollar amount of allowed Expenses		$78.40	Less Advertising Expense Dollar Allowance
			$78.40	Less Overhead and Oper Expense $ Allowance
			–	Total of Expenses over/under 50% allowed
	TOTAL MONTHLY GROSS INCOME
$784	TOTAL Profit Daily from Cold plus Affiliate
30	Times Number of Days in the Average Month
$23520	TTL MONTHLY New Sales from Cold + Affiliate
	TOTAL MONTHLY GROSS PROFIT			TOTAL ANNUAL GROSS PROFIT
$23520	TTL MONTHLY New Sales from Cold + Affiliate		$11760	TTL MONTHLY PROFIT -Cold + Affiliate New Sls
50%	Amount of Total Expenses		12	Times the Number of Months in the Year
$11760	TTL MONTHLY PROFIT -Cold + Affiliate New Sls		$141120	TOTAL ANNUAL GROSS GENERATED PROFIT
	ESTIMATED TAX LIABILITY			ESTIMATED NET INCOME AFTER TAXES
141120	TOTAL ANNUAL GROSS GENERATED PROFIT		$141120	TOTAL ANNUAL GROSS GENERATED PROFIT
25%	Estimated Percentage of Tax Liability		$35,280	Estimated Dollar Amount of Tax Liability
$35280	Estimated Dollar Amount of Tax Liability		$105840	YOUR NET INCOME-New Cold + Affiliate Sales
	ESTIMATED UPSELL PROFIT			ESTIMATED BACK-END PROFIT
105840	YOUR NET INCOME-New Cold + Affiliate Sales		$105840	YOUR NET INCOME-New Cold + Affiliate Sales
10%	Estimate for Additional Profit for Front-End Upsell		25%	Estimate for Additional Profit from Back-End Sls
$10584	Dollar Amount of Additional Profit from Front-End		$26,460	Dollar Amount of Additional Profit from Back-End
	TOTAL ESTIMATED NET INCOME
105840	YOUR NET INCOME-New Cold + Affiliate Sales	=	$  142,884	TOTAL ESTIMATED NET INCOME
$10584	Estimated Net Income from Front-End Upsells		$    142,884	BASED ON BASE SET OF VARIABLES
$26460	Estimated Net Income from Back-End Sales		$              –	Difference Based on Change of Variable
NOTE:	VARIABLE SET AS FOLLOWS: 100/300 for Visitors, 90% for Prospects, 1/45 for Sales, $98 for Profit, 10% Advertising, 30% Affiliate Commissions, 10% Overhead Expenses,
	10% Front Upsells, 25% Back-End Sales, and 25% Estimated Taxes.

 

As you can see, what you have here is a WORKING MODEL of a SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.

There are MANY VARIABLES as stated above. If for example, you are Selling an item with only HALF of the $98 Profit, you have to Sell TWICE as many of them in order to achieve the Income stated above.

If on the other hand you are Selling an item with DOUBLE the $98 Profit, you only have to Sell half as many.

Similarly, if you have twice the Sale-To-Prospect Ratio, or half, twice the Visitor-To-Prospect Ratio, or half, more or less Visitors to start with, more or less expenses, or more or less additional income, each of these variables will have an effect on the bottom line Profit of Your Business.

THIS IS WHY IT IS SO CRITICAL TO HAVE A BLUEPRINT TO FOLLOW, AND THEN TEST AND MAKE CONSTANT ADJUSTMENTS SO THAT YOU HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE INCOME THAT YOUR BUSINESS PRODUCES

WORKING MODEL ANALYSIS:

INCOME REQUIREMENTS:

How much Gross Profit do YOU NEED TO GENERATE per month?

How much Net Profit do you need to generate per month?

YOUR OFFER:

WHO is Your Target Market and is it sizeable?

What will YOUR OFFER BE?

YOUR NEW SALE PROFITABILITY:

What is the Projected Gross Sales Price per Item?

What is the Gross Profit Amount per Item?

What is the percentage of Profit verses the Gross Sales Price?

YOUR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS, AND SALES RATE:

How many Sales do you need to have on average per day?

What is your Projected Sale-To-Prospect Ratio?

How many Prospects do you need to average per day?

What is your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio?

How many Visitors do you need to average per day?

YOUR ADDITIONAL SALES PROFITABILITY:

What is the Projected Gross Sales Amount from Your Upsells?

What is the Projected Profit from Your Upsells?

What is the Projected Gross Sales Amount from Your Backend Sales?

What is the Projected Profit from Your Backend Sales?

YOUR PROJECTED EXPENSES:

What are your estimated expenses for Advertising?

What are your estimated expenses for all Miscellaneous?

What is your Projected percentage of Sales are from Affiliates?

What is the Projected commission expense from these Sales?

What is Your Start-Up Cost and monthly payment if applicable?

Let’s take these categories one at a time, and answer them together.

INCOME REQUIREMENTS:

How much Gross Profit do YOU NEED TO GENERATE per month?

How much Net Profit do you need to generate per month?

In Part One, we calculated the cost of Your Goals over the next 1 year period, and in so doing, we determined the NET PROFIT, which is the Profit AFTER PAYING TAXES that you need to generate in order to achieve Your Goals.

We also said that we should add 25% to the Net Amount of Profit that you need to generate in order to have the approximate amount of money available for Tax purposes. In our example, we used a Net Profit amount of $100,000 for Year One. We then multiplied the $100,000 by 25%, or .25, and we calculated that 25% of  $100,000 is $25,000.

We then added the $25,000 that we calculated for estimated Tax considerations to the $100,000 Net Profit that we desired to generate in Year One to reach our goals. We determined that $100,000 plus $25,000 means that the amount Gross Profit that we need to generate is $125,000, or roughly $10,000 per month.

Desired           Times 25%          Gross Profit        Divided by 12

Net Profit        Est. Taxes            to Generate        For Monthly Amt.

 

$100,000         $25,000                $125,000            $10,416

At this time, follow this example to create Your Target Amount that YOUR Site MUST GENERATE MONTHLY in order to reach YOUR GOALS. Note: do not round down. You will need every bit of the 25% cushion to cover Tax liabilities, and the 25% amount will need to be increased as the amount of Profit increases.

For example, on a Net Income before Taxes of $1,000,000, you will need to add 50% instead of 25% to cover the tax liabilities. It is best to consult with Your Accountant to make sure that you have put aside enough money to pay all of your Taxes without incurring any penalties and interest.

If you follow the advice in this Course by putting aside 25% of the Gross Profit for Tax liabilities, and 25% for short and long term savings, and you live on 50% of the Gross Profits, you will always be safe. If on the other hand you spend ALL of it, LOOK OUT!

In the example above, where the calculation comes out to $10,416 per month, I’d round it up to $11,000 per month as the MINIMUM GROSS PROFIT AMOUNT to generate in order to be assured of having a NET, SPENDABLE PROFIT of $100,000.

YOUR OFFER:

WHO is Your Target Market and is it sizeable?

What will YOUR OFFER BE?

As we discussed, the SECRET TO SUCCESS is to find a Market in need, and FILL the need. There is an endless amount of Information that so many Markets are starving for. You can create your own Ebook, you can buy the rights to an Ebook, or you can hire someone to write an Ebook.

You can design and build a Product, contract someone to build a product, or buy the rights to Resell a product.

You can offer a Service. You can contract someone to provide a Service, or you can purchase to rights to offer a Service.

The KEY, VERY SIMPLY, is this:

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A REACHABLE TARGET MARKET IN MIND. ARE YOU CONFIDENT THAT YOU HAVE A SIZEABLE MARKET THAT WOULD WANT YOUR OFFER?

One way of seeing if there is a reachable Market is by going to Google and entering the keyword that best describes the Offer that you are considering. Are there a LOT of Sites catering to what you are considering doing? If so, what will set you apart? What will you do to be able to compete? How and where are your Competitors Advertising and what are they saying?

A MARKET CAN BE COMPRISED OF LESS THAN 1,000,000 PROSPECTS, BUT 1,000,000 PROSPECTS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL RULE.

One Exception is if it’s a Market where there are less than a million prospects, but because of the nature of this particular Market and of Your Offer, a LARGE percentage of the Market would buy Your Offer. A second Exception is if there is a HIGH Profit Margin in Your Offer, so you don’t need to sell a Large Quantity in order to generate the Desired Profit.

Also, make sure to consider the Control that you have over whatever it is that you are offering. If you are offering INFORMATION, an Ebook for example, you are in TOTAL CONTROL OF DELIVERY. If on the other hand, you have arranged with a Supplier to promote his line of Products and have him Drop-ship to Your Customer, you need ASSURANCES that the supplier will ship within a specific time period. Otherwise, you will look bad to Your Customer; you will have complaints, and you will hurt Your Company’s Image.

WITH ALL THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, BE THOROUGH IN FINDING WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU WANT TO MARKET. AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO HAVE A MARKET FOR YOUR OFFER THAT IS REACHABLE!

YOUR NEW SALE PROFITABILITY:

What is the Projected Gross Sales Price per Item?

What is the Gross Profit Amount per Item?

What is the percentage of Profit verses the Gross Sales Price?

Let’s make sure that we ALWAYS REMEMBER TO UNDERSTAND REASON NUMBER ONE FOR THE VERY EXISTENCE OF YOUR BUSINESS:

TO GENERATE PROFIT!

If Your Prospective Offer is a LOW PROFIT ITEM, then you need to be CERTAIN that you are going to Sell a LOT OF THEM!

Or, that you are using a LOW PROFIT ITEM to develop Traffic, and then to Sell a HIGHER PROFIT ITEM.

Axiom Number Seventy-Two – IT TAKES THE SAME EFFORT TO SELL A HIGHER PRICED ITEM AS IT DOES TO SELL A LOWER PRICED ITEM.

Very simply put, it takes NO MORE EFFORT to Sell a HIGH PROFIT ITEM than it does to Sell a LOW PROFIT ITEM. The Dynamics are the same: Sell Yourself, Sell Your Company, Create the Need, Offer Your Solution, and Close, Close, Close.

Whether it is a $1 item, a $10 item, a $100 item, or a $1000 item, your job will be the same. You will still have to generate QUALIFIED TRAFFIC from a TARGET MARKET, KEEP THEM AT YOUR SITE, and SELL THEM YOUR OFFER. You will still have to execute the very same Marketing Plan, doing Cold Marketing, Referral or Affiliate Marketing, and Repeat Marketing and you will still have to build Your Opt-In list.

For all of the EFFORT that you will be putting into Building Your Own Business, DON’T DO IT FOR PENNIES! DON’T SET YOUR SITES LOW. DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING THAT LOW IS EASIER, OR BETTER. IN FACT, LOWER PRICES MIGHT MAKE YOUR PROSPECT SUSPICIOUS.

If you have an item that you want to Sell but its not an overly expensive item, BUNDLE IT with two other items, making it a SET OF THREE. So instead of one item being $34.99, NOW:

“It’s a THREE PIECE SET – INCLUDING A, B, and C – A $199 VALUE – YOURS FOR ONLY $98- A FULL 50% OFF – ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! HURRY – ORDER YOUR SET TODAY!”

Don’t put in all of the Effort, Energy and Commitment for something that isn’t going to generate a decent Profit. If your Goal is not $100,000 per year MINIMUM TO START, you are setting it TOO LOW!

Okay, so now we are up to determining the Gross Sales Price of the item, the Profit, and the percentage of Profit verses Gross Sales Price.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW YOUR NUMBERS BEFORE YOU BEGIN!

A FLAWED PLAN WILL MEAN DISASTER!

If you are buying a product at a Wholesale Cost and reselling the Product, you MUST be able to mark it up 3 times. In other words, if you are buying a widget for $49 YOUR COST, you must be able to Sell it for 3 times your cost. $49 times 3 = $147.

If an Ebook Set Sells for $98, you will need 2714 Sales for the Year to Gross $266,000, and at 50% Total Expenses, have $133,000 Net Profit before Taxes, an Estimated $33,000 in Taxes, and a $100,000 NET PROFIT TO SPEND!

Likewise, if you have a product that Sells for $147, with a $49 cost and a $98 profit, you will need to make exactly the same number of Sales, 2,714, to Gross $398,958. After deducting the Cost of Goods, the numbers work out EXACTLY THE SAME as in the example above because the PROFIT PER ITEM, $98, is the same in both cases.

So, in BOTH CASES, you will have to Market to attract enough Visitors to Your Site, have enough Prospects from Your Visitor Count, and enough Sales per Prospect, to close 7.4 Sales per day for 365 days, which is 2,714 Sales.

THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL. AS LONG AS YOU CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS HERE AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE, YOU WILL SET UP YOUR BUSINESS PROPERLY AND BE ON A SOLID FOUNDATION AS YOU MOVE FORWARD!

OBVIOUSLY, THE MORE MONEY YOU MAKE PER SALE, THE LESS SALES YOU WILL HAVE TO MAKE TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL. CONVERSELY, THE LOWER YOUR PROFIT MARGIN, THE MORE SALES YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOAL.

YOUR TRAFFIC REQUIREMENTS, AND SALES RATE:

How many Sales do you need to have on average per day?

What is your Projected Sale-To-Prospect Ratio?

How many Prospects do you need to average per day?

What is your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio?

How many Visitors do you need to average per day?

In the Prior Section, we calculated that in order to generate GROSS SALES that will result in a NET PROFIT of $100,000 for the Year, based on the following:

• A $98 Profit Per Sale,
• A 50% Total Expenses Allowance, and
• An additional 25% added on for Estimated Taxes,

You need to generate 7.4 Sales per day.

Now we need to figure out how we are going to do this.

Let’s say that through Cold Marketing, you generate 100 Visitors per day, of which 90% are Prospects. This means we have 90 Prospects per day. Now let’s say that we are estimating our starting Close Rate to be 1/45. This means that you will generate 2 Sales per day.

Since you needed 7.4 Sales per day, 90 Prospects is not sufficient at a Sale-To-Prospect Rate of 1/45.

To have 7.4 Sales, you’ll need 334 Prospects. Based on a 90% Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, you’ll need 372 Visitors.

However, what happens if your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio is 80% instead of 90% and your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio is 1/75 instead of 1/45?

If this is the case, you’ll need to compute the following:

7.4 times 75 = 555. This means that at 1 Sale per 75 Prospects, you’ll need 555 Prospects to generate 7.4 Sales.

555 Prospects times 80% = 693. This means that if the Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio is 80%, it will take 693 Visitors to generate 555 Prospects, which at a Sale-To-Prospect Ratio of 1/75, will generate 7.4 Sales.

As you can see, the adjustment in the TWO KEY FORMULAS –

THE PROSPECT-TO-VISITOR RATIO, and

THE SALE-TO-PROSPECT RATIO,

Play a CRITICAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR BUSINESS PLAN.

It is ALWAYS best to be CONSERVATIVE.

If you calculate a WORST CASE SCENARIO of a 75% Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, and a 1/100 Sale-To-Prospect Ratio, and then you design Your Marketing Plan to Achieve the Number of Sales that you need based on these CONSERVATIVE NUMBERS, THEN you are starting out on a SOLID FOUNDATION.

In this case, 7.4 Sales at 1/100 Sales-To-Prospect Ratio means 740 Prospects, and at a 75% Prospect-To Visitor Ratio equals 986 Visitors per day.

As you can see, conservatively you will need 986 Visitors per day, and aggressively you will need 372 Visitors per day, in order to achieve 7.4 Sales per day, which is 2,714 per Year, which generates enough Gross Profit such that the Net Profit is $100,000.

Now, imagine generating 986 Visitors per day, and improving over time on your Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, from 75% to 90%, and on your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio, from 1/100 to 1/45.

Now you are back to the original example ratios, but with 986 Visitors, instead of 7.4 Sales per Day, you are now generating:

986 Visitors times 90% = 888 Prospects

888 Prospects divided by 45 = 19.7 Sales per day

In THIS example, 986 Visitors at a 90% Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio and a 1/45 Sale-To-Prospect Ratio will generate 19.7 Sales per day.

Let’s take a look at the effect on the Profit that generating 19.7 Sales per day will yield:

19.7 Sales per day times 365 days in a Year = 7,202 Sales.

7,202 Sales instead of 2,714 Sales = 2.65 times MORE SALES for the Year.

This means that instead of generating a Net Income of $100,000, you would generate a Net Income of:

$100,000 times 2.65 = $265,000 ANNUAL NET INCOME!!!!!

Actually, your Profit will be Considerably Higher than $265,000 because as Your Sales-To-Prospect Ratio becomes more efficient, the percentage of expenses in Relation to the Gross Sales Volume decreases.

This has the effect of increasing the percentage of Profit. In real numbers, if your expenses for the Year are $133,000, and your Gross Sales are $266,000, then the percentage of Expenses to Sales is 50%.

But if, because your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio is more efficient, you have 2.65 more Sales, so that your Gross Sales are $699,000, AND YOU MAINTAIN $133,000 in Expenses, then the percentage of Expenses is only 19%, instead of 50%. This means that the percentage of Profit is AN INCREDIBLE 81%!!

So, based on a Profit Per Sale of $98, having $133,000 of Total Expenses, and generating $699,000 of Gross Sales Volume, Your Gross Profit would be:

$699,000 Gross Profit Volume minus $133,000 Total Expenses =

$566,000 BEFORE TAX PROFIT!

 ASSUMING A 30% TAX LIABILITY, YOU WILL HAVE A  $400,000 NET INCOME!

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE POTENTIAL FOR A STRONG INCOME IS DEFINITELY HERE IN AN INTERNET BUSINESS. THE KEY IS TO HAVE A SOUND BUSINESS PLAN, AND TO THEN EXECUTE YOUR PLAN, MAKING ADJUSTMENTS AS YOU GO TO GET IT

TO BE THE BEST IT CAN BE.

YOUR ADDITIONAL SALES PROFITABILITY:

What are the Projected Gross Sales from Your Front-end Upsells?

What is the Projected Profit from Your Front-end Upsells?

What are the Projected Gross Sales from Your Backend Sales/Upsell?

What is the Projected Profit from Your Backend Sales/Upsell?

FRONT-END UPSELL:

Up until now, we have not included the PROFIT in the Front-end Upsell into our Projection. When the Prospect decides to accept Your Offer and enters their Credit Card information, Before the Sale is completed, they are presented with a “SPECIAL OFFER” to purchase an Additional Product or Service RIGHT THEN AND THERE while their Credit Card is out. This is the Front-end Upsell. It Increases the Amount of NEW SALES GENERATED and it Increases the Average PROFIT PER SALE.

As you can see from the Prior Section, we ONLY calculated how many NEW SALES we need at a PROJECTED PROFIT of $98 each to Generate a $100,000 NET SPENDABLE INCOME. We did NOT INCLUDE a Projection of any Front-End Upsells into the Calculation!

However, you COULD add a 10% figure to represent the percentage of time that a New Customer will purchase the Front-end Upsell.

This Additional Income can be added to the Projection. So lets say that you are selling a $48 item with a $16 Cost and a $32 Profit.

Let’s say 10% of the time, a New Customer will buy the Upsell. If there are 2,714 Sales for the Year, and 10% of those Customers result in the purchase of the Upsell, then that means that you can also count 271 additional Sales at $48 into the amount of Gross Sales generated.

$48 times 271 Sales = $13,008 in additional income, of which 1/3, or $4,336 is additional cost, and $8,672 is Additional Profit.

Now let’s look at what happens if 20% of the New Customers buy the Upsell.

20% of 2,714 Sales = 542 Sales

$48 times 542 Sales = $26,054 in additional income, of which 1/3, or $8,684 is additional cost, and $17,369 is Additional Profit.

Testing the Upsell is Critical. You may be able to get the Upsell to be purchased as often as 50% of the time, if it is a STRONG, RELATED OFFER and a TRULY GOOD DEAL.

A 50% Sale Rate on the Front Upsell will generate OVER $40,000 IN ADDITIONAL PROFIT!

BACK-END SALES:

After the NEW Purchase is completed, the Site takes the Prospect to the Shopping Cart Section. This is known as part of Your Back-end Sales.

When Your Customer makes a purchase on the Back-end, and they re-enter their Credit Card information, they receive another “SPECIAL OFFER”, which is the Second Upsell. It is the Back-end Upsell.

In addition, the Autoresponders send messages to Your Opt-In List on a Consistent Basis, offering MORE PRODUCTS through Affiliate Programs or Your own Products that they have not yet purchased. The Autoresponders also work on Selling Your Offer to those who gave their First Name and Email Address but who didn’t buy the original offer. This is yet Another facet of your Back-end Sales.

THE PROFITS GENERATED FROM YOUR BACK-END SALES, INCLUDING:

• THE BACK-END SALES ON YOUR SITE, PLUS
• THE BACK-END UPSELL, PLUS
• YOUR REPEAT SALES, WHICH ARE ALSO BACK-END SALES,

CAN AMOUNT TO AS MUCH OR MORE THAN YOUR FRONT-END SALES!

AND YOUR GOAL IS TO GENERATE YOUR DESIRED PROFIT  WITHOUT INCLUDING THE BACK-END SALES OR THE BACK-END UPSELL!

You’re concentrating on building your Front End Sales through a Powerful and Potent Three-Point Marketing Plan:

• COLD MARKETING
• REFERRAL OR AFFIILIATE MARKETING and
• REPEAT MARKETING

You work Avidly and you Succeed in producing the number of Visitors, Prospects and Sales to meet or exceed your Profit Goal.

You are TOTALLY HAPPY WITH YOURSELF!

But there’s this ADDITIONAL REWARD! YOUR BACK-END SALES AND UPSELL MAY HAVE DOUBLED YOUR PROFITS!

NEW BUSINESS is the lifeblood of Your Business. The STRONGER you build your NEW BUSINESS, the more VISITORS you get to Your Site, the more PROSPECTS you have, the more SALES you have, and the STRONGER Your BUSINESS will be.

So you DO NOT WANT to use Your Back-end Sales nor the Back-end Upsell as a crutch to just barely make your Profit Goal.

BUT CAN YOU SEE THE POTENTIAL HERE FOR GENERATING TWICE THE INCOME THAT YOU STARTED OUT PROJECTING?!!

Regarding the Generated Profit on Your Back-end Sales and Back-end Upsell, this varies based on Several Key Factors. Do your Back-end Sales consist of High Profit or High Volume items, or low percentage Affiliates?

It is NOT NECESSARY to carry a TON of AFFILIATE PRODUCTS.

RATHER, CONCENTRATE ON PROFITABLE ONES!

Once the Prospect has purchased from you, you can then feel free to offer related items that may be Higher in Price and that carry a reasonable Commission if Sold through an Affiliate.

Track Your Back-end Sales separately, starting with an estimate of 25% of New Sales. Then make your adjustments in inventory, whether it’s Products, Services or Affiliates, replacing offers that are not generating Profits until you develop a Shopping Cart area filled with HOT SELECTIONS.

Axiom Number Seventy-Three – YOUR GOAL SHOULD BE TO BEAT YOUR DESIRED PROFIT with FRONT-END SALES ONLY, AND THEN TRY TO BEAT YOUR FRONT-END SALES WITH YOUR BACK-END SALES!

By not including your Back-end Sales in with your Front-end Sales, they will not skew your Front-end Sales numbers. This means that the percentage of your overall expenses will be in relation to your Front End Sales, where they should be, since the majority of the expenses are for the purpose of generating Front-End Sales.

In Quickbooks, you will have a place at the bottom of the Financial Statement for “additional Income” and additional Expenses”. This would be the appropriate place to keep track of the Back-end Sales and Expenses.

WHEN YOU PRINT YOUR MONTHLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE EXACTLY HOW BOTH THE FRONT-END AND THE BACK-END ARE PERFORMING IN RELATION TO YOUR GOALS AND MAKE THE APPROPRIATE ADJUSTMENTS.

YOUR PROJECTED EXPENSES:

What are your estimated expenses for Advertising?

What are your estimated expenses for all Miscellaneous?

What is your Projected percentage of Sales are from Affiliates?

What is the Projected commission expense from these Sales?

What is Your Start-Up Cost and monthly payment if applicable?

One of the unknown quantities when you first go into Business is the initial return on the money you spend for Advertising. You can only spend the amount money that you have put aside for this purpose since there is No New Sales Amount from which to calculate a starting Advertising Budget.

You will need to tally how much the Start Up Costs, the Site, the Tools and the Product Costs are, and then calculate how much money you will have left over in order to do your preliminary advertising. DON’T SPEND ALL OF IT RIGHT AWAY!

We will look at the Costs shortly in order to see what it would take at the MINIMUM to get started, and what it would take for a Turn-Key system. You can be Successful both ways. It just depends how much Money you have, how Serious and Committed you are, how much you Believe in Yourself and the Likelihood of Your Success, and how Hard you are willing to Work to get things started.

Let’s estimate the expenses for Advertising at 10% of the gross Sales Volume, 10% for All Other expenses, and 30% for Affiliate Commissions. This means that the percentage of Expenses is 50% of the Gross Sales Volume.

If you are anticipating starting out with 7.4 New Sales per day, based on 100 Visitors, a 90% Prospect-To-Visitor Ratio, and a 1/45 Sale-To-Prospect Ratio, then you are anticipating 222 Sales in Month 1.

If the Profit Per Sale is $98, then 222 Sales time $98 per Sale equals $21,756 in Gross Profit for Month 1.

If 10% is Advertising Cost, then that means that you have a first month Advertising Budget of $21,756 times 10% which equals $2,175.

As Your Affiliate Base increases, Affiliate Sales and the amount of Commissions paid to the Affiliates will also increase. By having a Two-Tier Affiliate Program, where you pay 30% to the First Tier, and 10% to the Second Tier, you are paying a generous 40% in Commissions.

Remember though, that you only pay Affiliate Commissions on Affiliate Sales because there’s NO Affiliate Commissions on your Cold Marketing Sales. If the percentage of Affiliate Sales is 75% of all new Sales, 40% Commission on 75% of the Sales calculates to 30% of the overall TOTAL Gross Sales Amount.

IF THE RATIO OF AFFILIATE TO COLD IS MORE THAN 75% OF THE TOTAL SALES, THEN THE TOTAL PERCENTAGE OF AFFILIATE COMMISSIONS MAY EXCEED 30% OF THE GROSS SALES VOLUME.

IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN THE AMOUNT THAT YOU ARE OVER THE 30% BY, IS THE AMOUNT THAT YOU NEED TO REDUCE THE ADVERTISING BUDGET BY OR CUT OTHER EXPENSES BY.

Axiom Number Seventy-Four – UNDER NO CONDITIONS SHOULD YOU GO OVER 50% OF THE AMOUNT OF THE PROFIT THAT YOU ARE GENERATING!

BY SETTING YOUR ADVERTISING BUDGET AT 10%, THE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER EXPENSES AT 10%, AND THE OVERALL AFFILIATE COMMISSION AT 30%, THIS TOTALS 50% OF THE GROSS SALES VOLUME.

Let’s take a look at what happens when you generate 100 Visitors per day through your Cold Marketing campaign, and Affiliates generate 300 more Visitors per day.

On YOUR 100 Visitors generated through YOUR Cold Marketing Campaigns, you generated 2 Sales based on 90% Prospects of the 100 Visitors, and 1/45 Sales. Based on 300 Visitors generated by Your Affiliates, they generated 6 Sales.

On YOUR 2 Sales, you generated 2 times $98 Profit  = $196.

On the Affiliates 6 Sales, they generated 6 times $98  = $588.

The TOTAL PROFIT GENERATED is $196 plus $588 = $784

The $588 in Affiliate Sales has commissions of 40%, or $235.20 to be paid out.

In order for the TOTAL of EXPENSES to be 50% OR LESS of the GENERATED PROFITS, $784 in Generated Profit times 50% equals $392.

This means that the TOTAL of ALL EXPENSES, INCLUDING ADVERTISING, INCLUDING AFFILIATE COMMISSION, and INCLUDING ALL OTHER EXPENSES, CANNOT EXCEED $392 IN ORDER TO BE WITHIN THE 50% BUDGET LIMITATION.

We know that $235.20 is the amount of the Commission for the Affiliates for the day. We also know that we have $392 Total for Expense allowance to work with to be within 50% of the Generated Gross Profit for the Day.

$392 for Available Total Expenses, less $235.20 for Affiliate Commissions = $156.80.

If your total Advertising Budget for Month 1 is $2,175, then $2,175 divided by 30 days = $72.50 per day.

This means that the $156.80, the Allowance for Expenses after Affiliate Commissions are paid, minus the $72.50 for Advertising and minus another $72.50 for a 10% allowance for All Other Expenses means that for this day, Total LESS than 50% of the gross volume.

It stands to reason that when SALES EXCEED the target figure of 7.4, as in this case, where you had 8 Sales for the day, that you will be UNDER the 10% allowance of the Target Budget.

Conversely, if you have LESS than 7.4 Sales, you will be OVER the 50% allowance for your Total Expenses.

THIS IS WHY IT IS SO CRITICAL TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW HOW MANY SALES YOU NEED AND HOW MUCH PROFIT PER SALE YOU NEED TO MEET OR EXCEED YOUR DESIRED AMOUNT OF GENERATED PROFIT!

Certainly, you should now be able to see the VALUE of having a WORKING BUSINESS MODEL to serve as the Foundation of Establishing the Variables that AFFECT Your Business and of being able to determine by projecting in advance the effect of the change of a Particular Variable.

YOU NOW HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE WITH WHICH TO SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE YOUR BUSINESS THAN 90% OF THE BUSINESSMEN IN THE MARKET PLACE TODAY – HOW’S THAT FOR A BOLD STATEMENT!

STARTUP COSTS:

NOW THAT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR OWNING YOUR OWN INTERNET BUSINESS, LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT THE TOOLS YOU WILL NEED AND THE STARTUP COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM:

One of the most aggravating things that I found on the Internet is that nobody will tell you how much things really cost.

Simply put, going into Business Costs money. Even those who say you can start with NO money know that if you truly start with a Free Site, a Free Host, and only Free Advertising, you have a better chance of being hit by lightning than you do of Building a Successful Business!

One of the things that became apparent to me is that the Principles of Business, and in fact, the Principles of Common Sense, dictate that in order to be Successful, you have to:

• Prepare to be Successful,
• Have a Sound Business Plan, and
• Aggressively Execute that plan.

The fact that this is a Business that is located on the Internet has THREE CRITICAL ADVANTAGES:

• No monthly rent for a separate Office
• No costs for employees and
• You have a WORLD WIDE MARKET to sell Your Offer to!

There’s just no way it is reasonable to think that you can go into Business for nothing and expect incredible results. Keep in mind that there are Over 1 MILLION SITES and almost BILLION WEB PAGES on the Internet today.

And the Internet is in its BABY STAGE!

ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE of the People and Businesses in the World are on the Internet today. In fact, reports show that over 80% of all Businesses are NOT YET ON THE INTERNET!

You are about to get in on the GROUND FLOOR of an INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY. THE INTERNET WILL MAKE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MILLIONAIRES OUT OF FOLKS JUST LIKE YOU!

Once you have the knowledge, and once you have the Confidence, there should only be ONE THING STOPPING YOU:

YOUR DECISION TO TAKE ACTION. PERIOD!

ONCE YOU DECIDE TO TAKE ACTION, FINDING THE MONEY TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE  DESIRED AMOUNT OF PROFITS THAT YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS, SHOULD NOT PREVENT YOU FROM FOLLOWING – AND REACHING – YOUR DREAM!

STARTING YOUR BUSINESS:

This is a Complete List of Everything that you need in order to achieve everything that we have discussed. I have broken this list down into Three Ways to Start out so you can choose the one that fits you the best.

Form Your Corporation  – Per your Team’s advice

Licensing Fees                – To be able to legally Operate Your Business

Office Expenses              – Set up Your Office in an Organized Manner

Site Template                  – Create the Perfect Sales Person for Your Offer

Web Master Services      – To connect AssocTrac, Verisign & E-Merchant

Shopping Cart                 – To be able to Offer Additional Products/Affiliates

Power Submitter             – To Advertise Free in 2000+ Classified Listings

Site Promoter                  – To Submit to all of the Major Search Engines

Web Position Gold          – To Track Your Site’s standing in Search Engines

AssocTrac                       – This is Your Affiliate Program

Link Popularity               – To Build a Contact List for Potential Affiliates

Mailloop                          – The Mail and Autorespond Program

Quickbooks                     – To Create Financials and Cut Affiliate Checks

E-Merchant Solutions     – To Accept Visa, M/C, Discover and Am Ex

Verisign                           – The Secure Gateway to Link E-Merchant To Site

CHOICE ONE: THE LEAST EXPENSIVE FEASIBLE WAY OF GETTING STARTING:

If money is TIGHT, here’s the MINIMUM that you need to get started.

1) You’ve got to have Your Site. You can lease the Site for $299 for the Set-Up fee and $99 per month for as long as you use it, with no increases, upgrades or royalties.

2) Mailloop – You’ve got to have the Autoresponders and follow-up program to assist in the Delivery and follow-up of Your Offer.

3) E-Merchant and Verisign – You’ve got to have these 2 in order to Accept Credit Cards. There is a free service called Paypal but I do not recommend them. However, if you NEED to use them, I’d suggest starting with them, and then UPGRADING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Sometimes Mailloop can be purchased for 4 or 6 payments of around $100 each or so. Since it is not my Product, there’s no way I can guarantee this of Course. I can only hope that it is available for you with these terms when you are ready.

E-Merchant is a $250 fee to Start up and Verisign is about $750 or so for the Secure Gateway.

PayPal is a Service that replaces the need for E-Merchant and Verisign.

It is limited, but it’s FREE. The two drawbacks of Paypal are that a person who is NOT a member of Paypal may have to first sign up with Paypal and then wait a week or more before they can make the purchase, and your money is held by Paypal, so you have to request it. If you use Paypal to get started, transfer your money DAILY.

Otherwise, if Paypal gets a complaint from a Customer, they may FREEZE your funds until they complete their investigation.

So for $299 for Set-up for the Site, Plus your first payment of about $100 for Mailloop, a Business License for maybe $75, and $114 for 6 months for Your Hosting Fees, starting out with Paypal, for about $588 YOU’RE IN BUSINESS!

If you start out with E-Merchant and Verisign instead of Paypal, it’s about $1588 to get started. But you have more control over your funds, you get better reporting, and Your Site will look more substantial.

But you do what you have to do to get started, and then, as you make Money, you can build the rest of Your Business by acquiring the Required Tools.

Keep in mind, that at the beginning, you won’t have the Tools to run the Classified Ads or to Submit to get Top Search Engine Ranking. But you can still generate Traffic to Your Site with Pay-Per-Click Engines, Services that Guarantee Hits for a set price, and Opt-in Lists to send your Offer to.

You’ll have to wait to start Your Affiliate Program until you generate some Profit, but it won’t be long!

You also don’t have a Shopping Cart, but you can still offer a Front-end Upsell and you can offer Affiliate Products and Services through Mailloop on the Back-end.

BUT YOU’RE IN BUSINESS FOR ABOUT $588!!!!

WHERE IN THE WORLD CAN YOU GO INTO BUSINESS WITH THE STRONG POTENTIAL OF MAKING $100,000, $200,000, $300,000, $1,000,0000 OR MORE, FOR $588?

CHOICE TWO: STARTING OUT WITH MORE TOOLS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS:

Let’s add the ADDITIONAL TOOLS that you would NOT BE STARTING OUT WITH in the first START-UP Scenario to help Your Business to get off to a faster and a MORE PROFITABLE start!

Power Submitter allows for the Submission of 2000+ Classified Ads.

Site Promoter and Web Position Gold work together to Submit to the Search Engines and provide feedback to assist you in gaining Top Ranking. If you are not in the Top 20, you’ll get very little Traffic from the Search Engines.

AssocTrac is CRITICAL to Your Business in order to Build Your Affiliate Program. (Note: there’s a monthly Service charge for maintenance and upgrades for this program of about $47 per month. Since this is not my program, I of course cannot guarantee that it will stay at $47. I just hope this program is available for you because it is Excellent.)

And the Shopping Cart and the required Verisign Upgrade to accommodate the Shopping Cart are CRITICAL for you to be able to Sell a VARIETY of ITEMS in Shopping Cart Format.

Power Submitter, Site Promoter, Web Position Gold, AssocTrac, Shopping Cart and the Verisign SSL Certificate will cost about $2500.

So, to Start out, here’s THE ESTIMATE of what it would Cost up to this point:

$   299 – The Site

$   100 – Mailloop per month for 4-6 months or you can buy it outright

$   114 – Six Months Hosting Fees

$     75- Business License

$   250 – E-Merchant Solution Set-up Fee

$   750 – Verisign Gateway Set-up

——

$1,588

$  200 – Power Submitter

$  200 – Site Promoter

$  200 – Web Position Gold

$  100 – AssocTrac per month for 4-6 months or you can buy it outright

$  200 – Link Popularity

$  200 – QuickBooks

$  250 – Shopping Cart

$  750 – Verisign SSL Certificate

$  250 – Web Services to Connect Shopping Cart, AssocTrac and Verisign

——–

$2350

$1588

+2350

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$3938 – Projected Cash Outlay plus balance of payments for AssocTrac and Mailloop.

When you install the Shopping Cart Software, your Hosting fee will go from $19.99 to $49.99 per month in order for you to accommodate that program so expect to pay an additional $30 per month for 6 months.

NOTICE I SAID THIS IS AN ESTIMATE! I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH ALL OF THE NECESSARY LINKS SO YOU CAN DETERMINE CURRENT PRICING, AVAILABILITY, AND TERMS!

If you have Credit Cards, instead of spending all cash, you can use the Credit Cards for a part of it, and then calculate the payment on the Credit Cards into the Monthly Overhead Expense of the Business.

So let’s say that you have $2000 in cash to put into your New Business, and you put $2000 on Credit Cards. Let’s estimate the payment on the $2000 on the Credit Cards is $200 per month. You would set this up as a loan to the Business, and this payment would come out of the Profits to pay off the debt.

The only other Expense from the Tool List left at this point is the Cost of forming Your Corporation. I estimate this Cost at $750, when you are ready.

If you want to have the Web Designer make changes to Your Site Template after it’s up and running, they charge $65 Per Hour.

The Monthly overhead for the Monthly Site Fee, Hosting Fee, and Affiliate Program Fee is $99 + $49 + $47 = $196 per month. Imagine, YOUR ENTIRE MONTHLY OVERHEAD TO OWN YOUR VERY OWN BUSINESS WITH ENORMOUS POTENTIAL FOR $196 A MONTH!

Just two Sales with $98 Profit COVERS YOUR ENTIRE OVERHEAD FOR THE MONTH!

And if You would like for me to Consult on any of the following:

• Your Business Plan and Site Structure,
• Your Ad Program – Ads, Affiliate Recruitment, and AutoResponders,
• Your Sales Copy

To both Review them and make Recommendations, or to write Your Copy so that you have a Turn-Key Site, I will provide you with a link so you can review the Services that are available to You.

CHOICE THREE: THE TURN-KEY OPERATION

Form Your Corporation  – Per your Team’s advice

Licensing Fees                – To be able to legally Operate Your Business

Office Expenses              – Set up Your Office in an Organized Manner

Site Template                  – Create the Perfect Sales Person for Your Offer

Web Master Services      – To connect AssocTrac, Verisign & E-Merchant

Shopping Cart                 – To be able to Offer Additional Products/Affiliates

Power Submitter             – To Advertise Free in 2000+ Classified Listings

Site Promoter                  – To Submit to all of the Major Search Engines

Web Position Gold          – To Track Your Site’s standing in Search Engines

AssocTrac                       – This is Your Affiliate Program

Link Popularity               – To Build a Contact List for Potential Affiliates

Mailloop                          – The Mail and Autorespond Program

Quickbooks                     – To Create Financials and Cut Affiliate Checks

E-Merchant Solutions     – To Accept Visa, M/C, Discover and Am Ex

Verisign                           – The Secure Gateway to Link E-Merchant To Site

In Choice Two, we were at a total of $3938 plus the balance on AssocTrac and Mailoop, which is somewhere around $1000. So we can round off the Costs at this point to $5000.

The we can add $750 for Forming Your Corporation, $240 for the additional $30 per month for 6 months for Hosting Fees, and $510 for 8 hours at $65 for Enhancement to Your Site.

$1,588

+2,350

——-

$3,938 – Projected Cash Outlay

$1,000 – Balance on AssocTrac and Mailloop

——-

$4,938

$5,000 – Rounded $4,938 for Illustrative purposes

$   750 – Cost to Form Your Corporation

$   240 – 6 Months additional Hosting fee of $30 Per Month

$   510 – Custom Web Design for 8 Hours @ $65 Per Hour

——–

$6,500

 

$6,500

$   500 -Miscellaneous Expenses and Supplies

$2,999 – DELUXE Premiere Consulting Package

——–

$9,999 – TOTAL TURN-KEY AMOUNT FOR EVERYTHING!

What I have just shown you are 3 ways to get started in Business.

As low as $588 to get started for a POWERFUL 30 PAGE SALES SITE, MAILLOOP, Your Autorespond Program, 6 Months of Hosting Fees and Your Business License using Paypal, or $1588 using E-Merchant and Verisign.

The Next Level is $3938 to get started, giving you most of the Tools to execute Your Business Plan, and $4938 including paying for AssocTrac and Mailloop in Full instead of in payments.

The TURN-KEY LEVEL allows for All of the Tools that are included in Level Two, Plus EVERYTHING ELSE THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY NEED TO HAVE A TOTALLY TURN-KEY BUSINESS.

It includes: An allowance to Form Your Corporation, To cover the increase in Hosting Fees, To allow for 8 hours of Custom Web Design to Your Site, To allow $500 for miscellaneous supplies, and to INCLUDE The DELUXE Premiere Consulting Package.

The DELUXE Premiere Package includes the following Services:

• Review of Your Business Plan and Make Recommendations to Strengthen it
• Recommend and Oversee Any Structural Changes to Your Site
• WRITE All of Your Ads, Autoresponders, and Affiliate Letters
• WRITE All of Your Sales Copy and Rebuttals for Your Site
• Be available via Email to answer ALL Questions until you go “LIVE”
• Be available for 90 days After you go Live to assist with Adjustments

In short, for $2,999, you are hiring me as Your Consultant to get Your Business up and running for you.

In the case of the TURN-KEY SOLUTION, You need to supply 3 things:

• DEFINE YOUR MARKET
• DEFINE YOUR PRODUCT
• HAVE $9,999 TO SPEND!

THERE IS NO EASIER WAY THAN THIS TO GO INTO BUSINESS AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN GENERATING MORE PROFITS THAN YOU EVER DREAMED POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the event that you do not have all of the money that you need:

FIND IT SOMEWHERE WITHOUT TAKING ON A PARTNER!

THIS IS THE BEST OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE THAT YOU WILL EVER HAVE AT THE RIGHT TIME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.

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We have now reviewed all of the Tools that you need in order to launch Your Own Internet Business!

SALES SITE:

• TEMPLATE FOR THE SITE ITSELF

MARKETING:

• POWER SUBMITTER – For the submission of 2000 classified ads
• SITE PROMOTER – For effective submission to the Search Engines
• WEB POSITION GOLD – To track Search Engine Ranking
• ASSOCTRAC – To create a reliable, respected Affiliate Program
• LINK POPULARITY – To create the listing of prospective Affiliates
• MAILLOOP – Reliable Distribution program for Mailing

OPERATIONS:

• E-MERCHANT SOLUTIONS – A bank to accept credit cards
• VERISIGN – The gateway to provide a secure connection
• QUICKBOOKS – Accounting in conjunction with AssocTrac

These 10 Tools form the Foundation of Your Business.

So, you need to come up with INFORMATION, a PRODUCT, or a SERVICE that you can offer, and a TARGET MARKET who is interested.

From there, you can purchase a Site Template, have it modified and set, write your copy or have it written, follow a step by step process to open Your Business, Market, Sell, Manage and handle the money.

WHAT PART OF WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED SO FAR CAN YOU NOT DO ????!

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FORTUNATELY, those that have truly pioneered the Internet have developed TOOLS so that they can be effective in Marketing their Site.

Remember, we said that NO TRAFFIC = NO SALES.

Getting Traffic to Your Site requires performing certain functions well. Without the right TOOLS, you will not be as effective, or in some cases, totally ineffective, and your results will be disastrous.

Following is a listing of EVERY TOOL THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE. This is not a Sales List or a Wish List. It is THE List of TOOLS that you’ve got to have in order to get the job done.

Imagine a Carpenter NOT having a hammer, a saw, a measuring tape, nails, screws, etc. etc. etc. etc. Yes, he could still be a Carpenter, but I sure wouldn’t want him building MY Custom Cabinets!!! J

It’s the same thing with these TOOLS. YOU NEED THEM.

I will explain what each TOOL does, what part of the Marketing Plan or Business Plan it affects, and why you need to have it.

 

TOOLS OF NECESSITY

 

At the end of this Chapter, there will be a listing of the links to click on to find out more information about All of the Tools required in order for you to be able to MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF PROFIT THAT YOU GENERATE.

These include Tools to assist you in every area, including Your Site, Your Marketing Plan and The Operation of Your Business, so that you can run Your Business most efficiently

YOUR SITE

Part One: THE STRUCTURE OF THE SITE

First, let’s start with Your Site.  Your Site is Your Sales Person. A Weak Sales Site, either in terms of Structure or Verbiage, means a low Sale-To-Prospect Ratio. You now know EXACTLY what the Site needs to do in order to Maximize Your Sale-To-Prospect Ratio.

• You can create your own template if you know how to write code, or if you are willing to learn how to program.
• You can look for a template, which you can then modify for Structure and then write Your Verbiage.
• You can have the EXACT TEMPLATE that is laid out in detail in Chapter Twelve – YOUR SITE.

Since it cost me THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to create the Site, it will undoubtedly cost the same for you to produce a 30, 40 or 50-page Site from Scratch as well. So after the Web Designer created my Site, they then created a TEMPLATE of the Site that could be used as the Foundation for ANY SALES SITE. The advantage, of course, is that it is already set up to be consistent with everything that we discussed. The STRUCTURE will serve as the foundation of Your Site and is available to you for WAY, WAY LESS than it will cost you to reproduce them.

So whether you are going to build Your Own Sales Site, a Shopping Site, or an Entry Site, you should take a look at the Templates that are available to you and then decide if you want to start with them or create or design one on your own.

Part Two: THE VERBIAGE OF YOUR SITE

 

As we discussed, there are TWO CRITICAL ELEMENTS to Your Site:

STRUCTURE, and VERBIAGE.

You now know EXACTLY what you need to do to write the Verbiage for Your Site.

• You can write the copy on your own, and then test your copy one element at a time as we discussed in the TEST Section
• You can write your copy, and then have me review your copy so you have first-hand input from me as to how to make your copy stronger to start with, if you feel you need the assistance
• You can have someone with experience write the copy for you.

I do make myself available for those who need assistance. I am not sure how much longer I will be able to make myself available due to time restraints, because I do not allow anyone but me personally to write the copy for The Sites, the Ads, the Affiliates, and the Autoresponders. If I take on a project to provide you with a Turn-Key Site, then you get a Turn-Key Site where all the copy has been written directly by me.

YOUR MARKETING PLAN:

 

Let’s take the Marketing Plan one step at a time, and be certain that you have the Tools you need in order to accomplish all of the tasks at hand:

COLD MARKETING:

• Utilize Pay-Per-Click Engines via Google search

There are no tools required in order to do a search, locate the pay-per-click engines, and set up your advertising with them

• Utilize Rented Opt-In Lists via Google search

There are no tools required in order to do a search and locate lists that you would like to send a message to. Providing that the company that is offering the list also sends out the message, no program is required for you to be able to do the mailing.

• Utilize Services that guarantee a certain number of hits from a TARGET MARKET LIST via Google search

There are no tools required in order to do a search, locate the companies that offer this type of service, and arrange with them to bring Traffic to Your Site.

• List Your ad in 2000+ Free Classified Ad locations via program in TOOLS Chapter of Part Three

This task requires a program in order to achieve it. There is simply no possible way for you to spend all of your waking hours manually placing 2000 ads, nor would you want to! The Tool that you need to accomplish this task is called POWER SUBMITTER,

POWER SUBMITTER will do the following for you:

      It will place the ads for you in the click of your mouse,

      It will track the productivity of your ads so you know which ones to  

      cancel and which ones work, and

      It will let you know when to re-list the ads so they are always pulling

      Traffic for you.

At the end of the Chapter, all of the Tools will be listed along with the links that you need in order to find them.

• Do everything in Your Power to obtain TOP PLACEMENT in Search Engine Ranking

There’s no feasible way to accomplish this task manually, and it is way too expensive to hire a Consulting firm to do this for you. In addition, you give up all control to the process, leaving it up to someone whose schedule you cannot control.

There are TWO Programs that you need in order to ACCOMPLISH AND MAINTAIN Your Search Engine Rankings. The Tools that you need to accomplish these tasks are SITE PROMOTER and WEB POSITION GOLD.

The combination of these two programs is invaluable. Each Search Engine requires information in its own format. If you just have someone submit to all Search Engines for $9.99, you will regret it!

SITE PROMOTER knows how to submit the information to each Search Engine to gain a Maximum Ranking. It is an invaluable Tool.

Once you have submitted Your Site Information to the Search Engines, you need to track your ranking and occasionally make adjustments to improve upon your ranking.

WEB POSITION GOLD is designed to do exactly that. It will not only track your position in all Search Engines and provide you with a report as to where you stand, it will also tell you where to add keywords to specific web pages in order to improve your position!

Since increased positioning in the Search Engines increases Traffic, and since the Visitors from the free Search Engines are free to you, these two programs are a MUST in order to accomplish and maintain high ranking.

So there you have it.

• POWER SUBMITTER,
• SITE PROMOTER, and
• WEB POSITION GOLD

Are the Three Tools that you need in order to accomplish your COLD MARKETING PLAN. Thank goodness someone came up with these 3 programs because it would be impossible to accomplish these tasks without them!

REFERRAL MARKETING:

In order to build an army of Affiliates, which you MUST HAVE in order to be able to MAXIMIZE YOUR PROFITS, you MUST HAVE YOUR OWN AFFILIATE PROGRAM. There are a lot of them out there, and in fact there are even companies that will run your Affiliate Program for you. Building your Affiliate program this way, however, is VERY, VERY Expensive.

There’s only one way to develop your own Affiliate Program, and that’s with a Tool called ASSOCTRAC. It was designed specifically to track every Affiliate. It has way to many features to list here, but it is ABSOLUTELY the BEST ONE OUT THERE! And not only that, it is WAY LESS EXPENSIVE than some of them out there that are not even in the same league.

In order to build your Affiliate Program, you are going to need to be able to find a listing of all of the Sites that you will want to contact to Sell them on linking to Your Site. There are Two Programs that you need to accomplish this task.

The first one to start with is called LINK POPULARITY, and it works in conjunction with MAILLOOP.

LINK POPULARITY is designed to extract the appropriate information from other Sites that you will want to link with so that a personalized list can be built. LINK POPULARITY also provides good example letters of exactly what to say to your Prospective Affiliates.

MAILLOOP is the program that then takes the list and does the actual mailing to Your Potential Affiliates. This program will be useful in other areas as well, as will be explained shortly.

There are two other programs that may be more aggressive with regards to building even a bigger list of Potential Affiliates. I suggest, however, that you start with LINK POPULARITY AND MAILLOOP because they work together and they will definitely move your effort in the right direction.

Once you do start becoming established, the two other programs for you to consider are SUPERSONIC and SPYDER. Both capture information and both can be Valuable Tools in helping you to expand Your Affiliate base, which will increase your Traffic and your income!

So there you have it.

• ASSOCTRAC,
• LINK POPULARITY, and
• MAILLOOP

Are the Three Tools that you need in order to accomplish your REFERRAL MARKETING PLAN. And once again thanks to those who came up with these 3 programs because it would be impossible to accomplish these tasks without them as well!

REPEAT MARKETING:

GREAT NEWS HERE! In order to utilize Autorespond messaging, which is absolutely essential for the following:

• Automating your business so that you can concentrate on PROMOTING Your Business and ENJOYING Your Life,
• Reselling Your Prospects based on Survey Responses, and
• Selling Your Customer New Products as you join Affiliate Programs,

The ONE program that you MUST HAVE to accomplish this task –

YOU’LL ALREADY OWN!

That’s right. When you purchase MAILLOOP so you can build Your Affiliate base, you Also have MAILLOOP to do ALL of your Repeat Marketing. There are Services available on the Internet that charge a monthly fee to do the Autorespond Service for you. You absolutely don’t need to spend the money for a Service. By having MAILLOOP, you are in complete control, and you have no monthly fee. Just the cost of the program one time, and that’s it. DEFINITELY the way to go!

As a side note, MAILLOOP is also the Tool you need to produce Your Newsletter, Bulletin, Report, etc.

OPERATIONS:

Okay, so you have a template for a Sales Site and the Six programs above to execute Your Marketing Plan.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?

There are 3 more Tools that you MUST HAVE in order to be able to operate Your Business.

E-MERCHANT SOLUTIONS AND VERISIGN

This is the combination that allows you to accept Master Card, Visa, Discover and American Express on Your Site. If you cannot accept Credit Cards, do not go forward with a Site. Providing an easy and Secure way to pay is CRITICAL to the Success of Your Site.

E-MERCHANT SOLUTIONS is the BANKING PORTION. They are the ones that deal with the Approval of the credit cards, and of You as an Approved Vendor.

VERISIGN is what is called the Gateway. The bank is not in the computer Business, so they require a company to provide a SECURE WAY for the Customer to enter Credit Card information with Confidence. VERISIGN is perhaps THE MOST RESPECTED Secure Gateway Company on the Internet today.

QUICKBOOKS is the Accounting Program that you will need in order to write checks, prepare Financial Statements, Budget Reports, etc. The reason why QUICKBOOKS is CRITICAL is because it works in conjunction with your Affiliate Program.

When you have 100 Affiliate checks to write once a month, you will be VERY GLAD that ASSOCTRAC and QUICKBOOKS work TOGETHER!

ASSOCTRAC will compile a list of all of the Affiliates that are due to receive Commission Checks, along with their Name, Address and report information. QUICKBOOKS then takes this list and prints the checks AND the envelope labels too! So while there are a lot of Accounting Programs out there, QUICKBOOKS is inexpensive and ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL!

And that’s IT! A Template and nine Programs, and You’re in Business!

 

ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION:

SUPERSONIC – Similar to LINK POPULARITY, but more potent, SUPERSONIC will open the door to even more potential Affiliates.

SPYDER – Similar to LINK POPULARITY, but more potent, SPYDER will open the door to even more potential Affiliates as well.

Since it is SO CRITICAL to build Your Affiliate Base to be AS BIG AS IT CAN POSSIBLY BE, you should review BOTH of these programs, SUPERSONIC AND SPYDER, down the road to help your Affiliate recruiting effort.

EBOOK EDIT – If you are writing an Ebook of your own, this program will make it look professional and up to date. As with MOST E-Book editors, however, they are NOT MAC Compatible. You’ll either need to use Adobe for the MAC users, or not offer an E-Book to approximately 5% of the Market.

REAL PLAYER – To add audio and/or video to your presentation, this program will assist you with Professional, First Quality results.

HTMLCODEGUARD – This program helps to protect your Site and your E-books from theft.

FREE DOWNLOADS:

WINZIP – This program compresses files so you can receive and send a big file more quickly. This program may make your E-Book easier for Your Customer to download.

EUDORA PRO – This is a highly popular Email program. You will need an Email program to work in conjunction with MAILLOOP, and this is the best one out there for that purpose

INTERNET EXPLORER – This is a very capable program for you to use to browse the web.

TIME & CHAOS – This program is to be used as an organizer.

If you do not have a Word Processor and a Spreadsheet program such as MICROSOFT WORD AND MICROSOFT EXCEL, you will need both of these in order to be able to function as a Business.

And last but not least, DOWNLOAD.com is a Site that has the most downloadable FREE Software on the Internet. So if you are looking for a FREE TOOL, check out DOWNLOAD.com.

DOMAIN NAMES:

In order to get started, you will need to pick a DESCRIPTIVE DOMAIN NAME for Your Site. It is the name of Your Business. You will have the opportunity to for Your Company to be Your-Business.com.

When you have a list of potential names, go to GoDaddy. They specialize in Domain Names and they are reasonably priced. Take a name that ends with .com, as opposed to .net or .org or .us etc. Companies that end with .com are easier for the public to remember, and have been around the longest. I suggest you accept the “unpublished” Option for the few Dollars that they charge for the Year to limit the amount of junk mail that you will otherwise receive. The other choice is to set up an Email Address in Mailloop specifically for junk mail so its manageable. Another feature of Mailloop is that it can handle unlimited Email Addresses.

HOSTING SERVICE:

 

The Host is a CRITICALLY IMPORTANT piece of the puzzle, because it is the HOST that keeps Your Site up and running!

You want to find a HOST that has an excellent track record for no downtime as well as being reputable so they don’t take information that belongs to you. In addition, the HOST needs to report your Statistics to you, and they need to be available 24/7 in case you need assistance with Your Site.

When I went to a Web Design Company to have my Site designed and to subsequently have them create the template for the Sites, I chose an established Web Design Company that was also a HOSTING Service. The reason I did this is because since they programmed the Site, and since they are the HOST, if there is ever a problem with the Site not working properly, I will never have the HOST pointing a finger at the Designer, and vice-versa.

The responsibility for maintaining the Site such that it is up and Operational, and that my reports are available at the click of a button, is met consistently by this company, which I recommend highly.

They are a pleasure to work with. They are available to Customize the template, to link Your Template to Your Affiliate Program, to get Your Autoresponders going, and to connect the Verisign Gateway to the Site.

You will need someone who is qualified to connect the Affiliate Program and to connect the Verisign Gateway and E-Merchant Solutions to Your Site at the very least. Since they designed the Site and are familiar with the process, it would probably be best to have them take care of getting you set up and running.

They have two packages from which to choose to start out with. $19.99 or $49.99 per month, depending on whether or not you have a Shopping Cart as a part of Your Site. If you purchase Resell Rights to multiple Products that you want to display in Shopping Cart format, or if you have a line of Products, you will need SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE, which they have readily available to connect to Your Site as well.

The EASIEST WAY to have a FIRST-CLASS SITE is to purchase the TEMPLATE and have the Design/HOST Company connect the bells and whistles to it and HOST it for you.

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