Issue # 107, 19-Apr-2005
ISSN 1447-4956
Copyright 2005 Jason Anderson. All rights
reserved worldwide
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/
Hello again, and welcome to this weeks
letter. I hope this week has treated you well so
far.
You know, I've never really been one to
wonder about coincidence, but a lot of it seems
to have been going on in my life the last couple
of weeks. Individually the various occurrences
wouldn't amount to much. But together they are
making some interesting changes.
Chance? A higher power? The power of the mind
over reality? Or just the result of taking
action and paying attention? Who knows. The one
thing I do know is that I'm happy with the
result, and I guess that's the main thing!
:-)
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I've added two new products to the subscriber
only discount page.
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/special/
The first product is titled "How To Create
Professional PDF's For Free", and as the name
suggests it looks at how you can create
professional looking PDFs without having to
spend any money buying the software to do it. If
you've never looked before, Adobe Acrobat - the
original program to create PDFs - costs hundreds
of dollars!
The second product is one I mentioned in
passing last week, and is titled "10 Easy Steps
To A Google Friendly Page". The name says it all
really :-)
Both products come with master reprint
rights, so you can sell them to others (and keep
all the proceeds). You can find them both (along
with many other products at a discount)
at...
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/special/
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My success with Google AdSense has continued
this week and as I mentioned in the last
newsletter I really owe it all to Joel Comm,
author of "What Google Never Told You About
Making Money with AdSense!".
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/adsensesecrets
After looking at the numbers, I worked out
the other day that so far the tips I got from
Joel's book have increased my AdSense income by
566%!
No, that wasn't a typo - 566%! Sure, the
starting figure wasn't huge (a few dollars a
day), but as you can imagine with the results
I'm seeing I'm now going to devote a lot more
time to AdSense.
I highly recommend Joel's book to you - it's
added quite a bit to my income already, and
those results are only going to grow!
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/adsensesecrets
As an added bonus, if you order through the
above link and then send me a copy of your
receipt, I'll send you the following two
bonuses...
"7 Fast Ways To Get Great Links To Your
Site"
"10 Easy Steps To A Google Friendly Page"
Both products are a set of videos by Louis
Allport that will *show* you what you need to do
to improve the traffic to your web site. The
total RRP of the bonuses is $49.90, but they are
yours for nothing when you order Joel's
book.
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/adsensesecrets
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This week, instead of an interview snippet I
have a condensed version of an interview I did
with Willie Crawford a while ago. Some of the
material has been deleted, and some of it has
been edited - but there are still a lot of good
tips in there. Willie has been very successful
online, and certainly knows what he is talking
about when it comes to Internet marketing!
Q: When, how and why did you get a start
running a business online?
Willie: I started in late 1996 by
signing up for a few affiliate programs, and
subscribing to lots of ezines. By 1997 I was
making a few dollars on some programs -
mainly telecom and recurring commission
products.
Q: How long did it take for your
online business to start making a profit?
Willie: After I got my own domain
in 1997, I started making bigger money. Each
time I upgraded my site, I notice an
improvement in sales. By 1999 I had times
when I ran a some fairly successful ads and
made I had my first $1000 day.
Q: What sort of things were you
selling back then? (affiliate items, your own
products, products with resell rights,
etc).
Willie: Back then I was selling
strictly affiliate products and multi-level
products like long distance service and
nutritional supplements.
The first day that I made $1000 in a day,
it was on a product that I bought resale
rights to. Now my mix is mostly my own
digitally delivered products.
Q: What has been the biggest mistake
you have made in your online business so far,
and what did you learn from it?
Willie: I waited too late to
develop my own products. I also introduced my
first product without planning out the
backend. That made many of sales one-time
sales when the potential was tremendous for
repeat business. Now I have a full line of
products and my own affiliate program.
Q: You've has some amazing success
with your soul food cookbook, which you sell
in both digital and physical form. What gave
you the idea for the cookbook, and how did
you get started on the project?
Willie: I had lots of visitors to
my website, where I had lots of my recipes
posted, who asked me if I had a cookbook.
They convinced me that I should write one. So
I announced that I was going to write one and
also announced that I was selling pre-release
copies before I had even finished the
outline.
I made sales the first day or two.... I
probably had less than 20 recipes written out
when I made my first sale. That forced me to
finish writing the book, test the recipes,
and take photos of many of the dishes. That
project really took off and gave http://chitterlings.com
a life of it's own. It now produces sales
every day, even when I don't pay any
attention to it since most of my orders are
filled automatically.
Q: How do you go about promoting your
products?
Willie: My mailing lists deliver a
lot of sales. My affiliate program is
probably my second biggest source of sales
for some products. Search engines and
articles in ezines round out the mix.
The system that I use for all of my
products is really an integrated marketing
machine. People request information from any
of my autoresponders or join any of my
mailing lists. This enters them into what is
really 1 centralized database. When they make
a purchase, the system I use automatically
unsubscribes them from one autoresponder and
automatically subscribes them to another. It
automatically offers them upsells at the
orderform and automatically follows up with a
series of messages that I have written for up
to 3 years.
Q: With the benefit of hindsight, if
there was one thing you could go back and
change since you started your business, what
would it be?
Willie: I would have created my own
product sooner, and I would have probably
taken more risks earlier. I also would have
networked and joint ventured with other
online business people a lot sooner. Now I
attend a lot of conferences and workshops
where I meet a lot of the people I
communicate with via email. My biggest deals
are all made in face-to-face interactions. I
get so much out of seminars that I created a
site that tracks them for me at: http://InternetMarketingSeminarSchedule.com
Q: What advice would you have for
someone who was starting out with their own
online business?
Willie: Look for a product that's
really needed and develop or offer it. That
saves you from wasting a lot of time - as
many people do - promoting a product that
nobody wants.
-- Willie Crawford, http://williecrawford.com
Well, that's it for me this week. Make sure
you check out Joel's book - the results I've had
because of his book have been nothing short of
amazing. It's gets my full recommendation.
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/adsensesecrets
(and if you send me your receipt, I'll send
you those two bonuses I mentioned above).
Till next time.
Cheers,
Jason
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary
perseverance, all things are attainable." --
T.F. Buxton
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