5 Bucks a Day

The big IM gurus tend to have big lists, and make their profits from banging out offers right and left to them.  Some do very well at that, but rely on getting more new subscribers than dropoffs.

The marketers to watch are the ones that do well with small lists, because obviously they have built a relationship with the people that are on their email list, and are good at making sure they keep people reading.

One such person is Jason Fladlien.  As I mentioned before I purchased the Daily Seminar from him and Robert Plank, and one of the seminars in the deal was an interview between the two titled “Tiny List, Big Profits”.  I’ll give you a link to watch it in a minute.

But first, the reason for this post is that Jason has launched a much more in depth course than the 25 minute video interview, and it’s certainly worth checking out for the very low price that it’s selling at right now.

You can get it here: ==> Tiny List, Big Profits

or you’ll find a link below the video if you want to watch the interview first:
Tiny List, Big Profits interview

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So many people gravitate to writing articles to make money online, and for good reason. First, it’s generally easy, if you have a good grasp of the language, and don’t mind putting it down into coherent sentences.

Second, there are so many opportunities. You can review products that you get paid to promote. You can submit articles to directories to get traffic to your sites. It’s probably the easiest way to get listed well on the search engines. Even blogging is writing articles, some shorter than others, some longer.

Some people write articles for others that don’t want to, don’t have the skill to, or don’t have the time to. Those people are generally called ghostwriters, and it’s a very common thing to do, which completely surprised me years ago when I found that out.

But how much income can you realistically make writing articles? If you’re writing articles to get traffic, the more you write, the more traffic you’ll get. If you’re writing articles for others, the more you write, the more income you’ll receive. So it comes down to productivity.

Regardless of how well you can write, if you can write one article a day, you won’t get rich, but you’ll do better than someone who doesn’t write at all. If you can do one an hour, you’ll do much better.

Let’s analyze this a bit. Since writing to get traffic to your site, or to an affiliate merchant’s site, contains huge variables as far as how much you’ll earn per article, let’s say that you’re writing for a client. Typically, if you write 400 to 500 word articles, which is average, you can probably earn about $5 each. A little less if you want to be very competitive, a little more once you establish a customer base that loves you and is willing to pay higher rates. But let’s say you can earn $5 per article.

So … if you write 2 articles an hour, including researching a topic that you aren’t an expert in, will earn you $10 an hour. How does that sound? To me, not impressive, to be honest.

To “get a raise” from that rate of pay, your only choice, other than to work more hours every day/week, is to write faster. Be careful, though, that your quality doesn’t go down, otherwise you’ll lose your customer’s loyalty.

How would you like to research and write an article in 7 minutes? At that rate, you’ll be making around $40 an hour (8 articles per hour would be your speed). Much better, right?

Sounds impossible, right? Not so. Jason Fladlien started as a ghostwriter, and developed those skills, which he’s making available to you. Difficult to master? No, not really. The package includes a short report, a series of videos, and some bonuses, I would say within an hour or two after purchasing this package, you’ll be writing faster. That’s a nice quick return on investment, I would say.

7 Minute Articles, get it here: ==> 7 Minute Article Secrets

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I know, I’m among the many (majority?  probably) that hate being marketed to.  Call me on the phone at work or at dinner time, or when I’m trying to relax (I guess that about covers my 24 hours) and try to telemarket to me, and see how annoyed I can get.  Better yet, don’t try it.

Still, marketing has it’s place, and marketers are a necessary industry.

I know, I do one and am the other.

One example brought that to my attention this last week.  I’ve been recommending a package from Chris Endres, called Offline Consultant Toolkit, which is a collection of templates, email messages, videos, and a short eBook which when used properly allows an Internet marketer to show local businesses how to improve their bottom line using email marketing.

For example, a restaurant, when wanting to announce a special deal for St. Patrick’s Day, might send out an email blast to their customers, and offer them a discount.

When I was in retail, which was mostly pre-Internet, when I needed business, I would send out flyers to my customers.  I had a list of about 1000, and preparing, printing, collating, and stamping the darn things would cost me about $1.00 each, so a thousand bucks to announce a sale, and it would take a couple days for the people to start coming in the door, after spending a week or more to get the flyers done.

Today, if I had a retail store, I could type up an email this morning and people would be coming to my store this afternoon.  For virtually no cost at all.

So, that’s a service that many local businesses, many of them unaware of the power of the Internet or email marketing, would pay handsomely for, if only someone would explain and set it up.  Chris’ system does that, and costs peanuts.

So anyway, I recommended this to my own email list, and I got a reply from a guy who should obviously remain nameless, thanking me for pointing him in that direction.  Seems he had recently needed to declare bankruptcy, and down to the bare essentials, he was able to keep his computer, and he figured this was a way to claw his way back.  I think he’s right.

Basically, for the cost of the eBook package, and the determination to walk down his Main Street, or pull phone numbers out of the telephone book, he could help people be more competitive in his home town.  He and I both figured he could easily be making 5K to 10K a month in almost no time.  And the business would build up nicely if he played his cards right.

That’s the way marketers should do their jobs, putting good products and services within reach of their target audience.  My commission on the product referral to this guy was almost nothing, but it has the capability to change his life.

So next time you think you don’t like marketers so you don’t want to be one, give it some extra thought.  Really, we’re here for a reason sometimes, besides wanting to part you from your hard earned dollars.

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I’ve been using the Instant Dime Sale Creator script for quite a while, but it drew my attention recently to the fact that I haven’t been giving it the attention it deserved.

It jogged my memory a couple weeks ago when it stopped working properly. It was making the sales, but I noticed that the prices weren’t incrementing like they should have been. So, I started digging into the code, and doing some testing. It’s always frustrating when things are working all along and suddenly stop when you’ve done nothing.

After several hours, I isolated the time when the script stopped working, and that it had to do with a particular PHP command that was failing. It seemed to coincide with the time that my host upgraded to PHP version 5, so evidently there was some incompatibility.

So it was a quick fix after that. And since it was fresh in my mind, I decided to load a new product into it and see what would happen.

My latest product was Jason Fladlien’s Instant Expert course. It really is a terrific and motivational course that can turn anyone into an expert on whatever they set their mind to, and like most of my dime sales, whenever the license allows, I set the starting price low ($4.95 in this case for a course worth easily $47 to $97).

In less than a week, with very little promotion to a small list, I racked up over 100 sales, starting at $4.95 and increasing by .10 after each sale. Not bad.

Many of the sales were made by affiliates that were promoting the course, and I expect that it will continue for a while, it’s something that would help anyone at all, not just Internet marketers.

That success prompted me to gather all my other dime sale items, and start listing them on one page so that others can find them more easily, that page is here: ==> Dime Sales

Hopefully better organization will help affiliates keep better track of what they can promote, and help customers find the available items more easily. We pay out normally 60% commissions on referrals, but there may be occasion when the payout is less, or more.

If you’d like to see what we have available, or see what we have, there’s a link in the right column to our dime sales under the Our Links heading.

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I just picked up a truly wonderful set of videos yesterday that I can share with you.  The name of them is “High Page Rank”.

There are over 3 hours of videos spread over 12 separate modules, along with a 30+ page report, and Powerpoint slides included.

They include discussions of page rank in general, and ways to both attain high page rank, but more importantly how to get more traffic to your web sites.  Individual videos discuss article marketing, digg, stumbleupon, squidoo, and more.  They’re very well done.

Although each one could probably be sold separately for $7 to $17, you can get them all in a bundle at a very cheap rate if you rush over to my dime sale site, where the price started at $2.95 (ridiculous, I know), Even if the price maxes out at the full $17 that I set it for, it’s a bargain.

Don’t take this lightly because of the price, you’ll get a good education inside of 3 hours, and did I mention that you can resell them, or if you have a membership site, you can add them there (like I did at Earn1KaDay.com).

I mentioned in a prior post that I was going to start offering lots of bargains, and affiliate marketing opportunities, via the dime sale model.  I released Power Effects last week, it was a gigantic hit.  If you missed it, check it out:
http://www.1kad.com/PowerEffects

Anyway, back to the high rank video series, you can check it out here (there’s a full video posted on the page, it will give you an idea as to the quality):
http://www.1kad.com/high-page-rank-videos.php

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As you may have noticed if you’ve been reading a while, sometimes it doesn’t take much to get me excited. Ever since the ah-ha moment when my 5 bucks a day strategy was conceived, each time I find something that can help possibly conceive another success story of that magnitude gets me all worked up.

The latest is the Instant Dime Sale Creator product that I picked up a couple weeks ago. What a dime sale is, in Internet marketing terms, is that the seller of a product determines the absolute lowest rock bottom price he’s willing to sell his product for, and sets up a sales page at that price.

He then increases the price (either manually or using an automated script) at regular intervals, until at some point the price becomes higher than most people are willing to pay. So in the beginning customers are getting an absolutely unbelievable bargain, after a while they’re getting a good deal, then a fair price, and then it’s overpriced.

A good dime sale script will give you the ability to set a maximum price, so that after a certain number of sales, the price stays the same and doesn’t discourage those that are willing to pay a fair price, while still giving bargains to early buyers.

Instant Dime Sale Creator (IDSC) has the typical dime sale features (price increment with each sale, and maximum price), plus much more. The extra features include easy PayPal payment button creation, the ability to have a .00 price increment (more on the beauty of that later), built in one time offer ability, built in affiliate program (you can pay your affiliates anywhere from 1 to 100% of the sales amount), statistics for your products and affiliate performance, and download protection (so that your product is protected from those that want to use your product without paying for it). And more.

OK, this is a dime sale script, so why would you want to not increase the price after every sale? Well, the thing is, IDSC makes it so easy to set up a sales page with a PayPal payment button, you’ll get spoiled, and want to use it on products where you just want to charge a specific price. So you can do that by having the initial price be what you want, and not increase it.

The other really huge thing about this script is that it allows you to set up as many dime sale campaigns as you want. It keeps track of them in a database. Other scripts make you install the software again each time you want to set up a new product. Not IDSC. The admin panel is ridiculously easy to use to add a new campaign.

When it comes down to it, the features of this dime sale script that are the most unique and valuable are that it includes a built in affiliate program, it allows you to set up unlimited campaigns, it makes it easy to have one time offers, and it protects your downloads.

And that’s where my “pretty well baked idea” comes in. I love ideas. I’m always brainstorming. I get tons and tons of half baked ideas, some of which I fall in love with for a couple days and then realize it’s not feasible or too much work. Some I carry through to completion or outsource, and some I just have no time for.

My idea is that I have tons of great products that I’ve purchased in the last year to give to Earn1KaDay.com members. I own resell rights to those products, and can sell them if I want to, but mostly I purchased them so that I could give them to members for free. There are thousands of dollars worth of downloads waiting for new members there and I’m adding to that every week.

Some of those great reports and software products allow my members to resell them on their own, but many of the best of the best don’t. So here’s my plan.

I’m going to set up a special site, or section of a site, for “dime sale bargains”. I’ll load it up with all the stuff that I’ve been accumulating. Now mind you, this isn’t junk that you see on eBay for .99, these are fresh reports and often very valuable products. Each customer will automatically be offered an opportunity to be an affiliate for my site. And each customer will be able to get on an email list for notification every time I add something new.

That way, three things happen. One, customers will get great bargains. Two, prior customers will be first in line to get the next great bargain before the price rises. Three, customers will have the ability to promote anything on the site and get commissions.

Right now, the only thing available is the dime sale script itself, at a great price. It will give you the ability to set up your own dime sales, your own affiliate program, your own one time offers, and do something similar to what I’m doing with your own products. You can learn more about it here: ==> Instant Dime Sale Creator

The price rises with every sale, so if you put it off, you’ll pay more later. This is a great product, you’ll love it and make money with it, I assure you.

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I’ve been quiet on here the last couple weeks.

What excuse can I use? Short winter days? Super Bowl fever? Too much else going on?

Whatever reason it was, I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with wikidot, which I’ve mentioned before, and now I pretty much am happy with what I’ve learned in the last month. In fact, so happy that I took the time (on Super Sunday, no less) to put together a few videos and a report on how to get top search engine rankings with wikis.

What better way to continue this conversation than to point you to my wiki so that you can learn more about what I’ve been doing while I haven’t been blogging? If you want to know more about how I’ve been getting great search engine rankings on some competitive keyword phrases, you need to visit my Wikidot Tutorial page.

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