I showed that to my Earn1KaDay members and one question was how long it took me to become proficient enough to do that. Oh, about 5 or 10 minutes.
Here’s the drill. You decide what you want to talk about. You organize those thoughts into what we call lessons. Then you start typing a lesson. When you get to a point where you want to show an image, you go into screen capture mode. You capture a portion of your screen (you can see all the images I captured in the sample I linked to above). You can highlight things on the screen shots. Then type some more, do another screen shot, until done.
When all the lessons are done, you assemble them into a manual. Then export the manual to either html or PDF (or to a blog post if it’s short enough). In my example, I exported to html, it downloaded to my desktop, I uploaded to my server, and you see it. No fiddling with html or css or anything.
I can see ScreenSteps as being useful in producing eBooks as well, that’s my next plan, to figure out what I want to teach, and use it to do that.
When was the last time you saw me recommending a relatively high priced product? In other words one more than say, $97? Know what? I don’t think I ever have, and there’s a reason.
Reason is, most times those higher priced products are higher priced because the author is giving out huge affiliate commissions, and in order to make something for himself, he has to charge an arm and a leg. And there goes value right out the door.
Today I want to tell you about something that does qualify as relatively high priced, which does have value well above and beyond the sticker price. It’s called “Make 10K In a Weekend“.
Don’t panic, $10K isn’t what it’s going to cost you, it’s what it’s going to help you make any weekend you want to, and it’s only going to cost you less than 5% of that. One time.
If you’ve been following recent IM trends, you know that offline marketing is a hot topic right now. I’m not sure why all the current buzz, because when I wrote “5 Bucks a Day” almost 3 years ago, the first bonus I had was the “Pulling Money Out of Thin Air” reports, which were all about setting up local directories, and/or web pages for local businesses. I thought that was a powerful business model then, and I still do.
So it’s not new news. Recently it’s gotten even easier and much more profitable than that report made it out to be.
Bottom line is, businesses small and medium sized in your home town want to be on the web, they know their business needs online exposure, they know they’ll make more profits, and they’re willing to pay someone to show them how to do it.
That someone can be you. You’ll be doing them a favor, they know it, and they’ll pay you to teach them.
And chances are, if they’ve done it themselves, or hired someone to help them in the past, the site was set up by a programmer (and goodness knows I respect programmers because I used to be one ), but a programmer often doesn’t have a clue about some of the things we Internet marketers take as common sense, so a bad job, actually just an incomplete job, has been done and they still aren’t benefiting. This is where you, with your knowledge of Internet marketing, come in.
The good news is, the big businesses are already online, so you don’t need to deal with their corporate bureaucracy. You can stick with people that are approachable and talk your language. You can tell them that online, their presence has nothing to do with the size of the building they can afford to erect, and they can indeed go toe to toe with the larger companies.
You might not believe it yet, but you as an Internet marketer have skills that offline businesses will pay dearly for. Yes, they’ll pay you well to have you do jobs for them, such as build them a web site, or get their new or existing site to the first page of Google, and that’s all well and good, but that’s trading hours for dollars, you really can’t leverage that endlessly.
What I mean by that is, if it takes you 8 hours to find a client, and 8 hours to build a web site for them, and another 4 hours to explain to your client how to use it, and some more time here and there to support the site, you can only do so many of these a month. The only way to increase your income once you’ve maxed out your hours available is either to raise your rates, or train someone else to work for you to either find customers or build the sites.
And heaven forbid you want to go on a vacation soon after finishing up a few new clients’ sites. Or that your outsourcers split on you in the middle of an important job.
So you’re looking at a nice income, but you’ll soon max out at some number. True, it could be in the low 6 figures, but what if I could show you how to go well beyond that?
“Make $10K In a Weekend” will, in fact, show you how to raise the bar on your maximum income. Instead of working for 1-2 days or a week for a $1000 site development job, you can charge as much as $497 to $997 a day to teach people how to do it for themselves. http://www.5bucksaday.com/10k.php
But you’re not just teaching one person, you can teach as many as a hotel conference room can hold! That’s where the $10K comes in, it refers to the fact that if you charge up to $997 a person, you need to only teach a dozen people to bring in well over $10,000 after expenses.
Jaime Mintun and Rachel Rofe have put together a training course that will give you everything you need to run local seminars to teach local business people how to succeed online. If you were to put this course together, it would take you many months of trial and error, and in the meantime you’d lose out on untold numbers of opportunities.
Instead, for the price of just one seminar attendee (even if you chicken out the first time and charge the lower price!), you can have everything handed to you on a silver platter.
Yes, everything, right down to the PowerPoint slides you can use to give the seminar if you want to run it right out of the box.
I’ve reviewed the materials the girls provide and they’re first rate. I’m not saying that because I’ll be getting a good affiliate commission for saying so, I’m saying that because, and very few of you know this, I used to run local seminars myself, and I know what it takes to run one.
You see, back in the early 1980’s, before the Internet, I was a fairly well paid consultant for a popular software product (one you’ve never heard of, I’m sure, so the name doesn’t matter). One of my most profitable things I did came from teaching people how to use that product, and I used to travel all over the country to run my seminars for large companies.
However, many companies couldn’t afford to pay my fees and expenses to bring me in house if they only needed to train one or two people, so I would run a local seminar in New Jersey every few months, and the companies would send their people to my location.
In the beginning, figuring out how to run those seminars took me a long time. Once I had it down pat, they were the most profitable and enjoyable things I did.
Reading Jaime and Rachel’s report now, it brings back memories, and I realize that I was missing the boat on getting more fannies in the seats. Not knowing how to do it right probably cost me $5000 every seminar, and those dollars were before 20+ years of inflation.
Could you make $10K in a weekend? The short answer: yes … or more.
Do you have the skills to do that? I don’t know, but even if you don’t personally have the skills yet to run a seminar or market a seminar, with this course you can learn, or learn how to outsource virtually everything that needs to be done.
This course tells you virtually everything, right down to setting the agenda for your seminar. It doesn’t tell you what to say exactly, but it tells you what your students will likely want to know, and in the cases where you don’t know that topic already, it gives you either the information inside this course, or where to go to get it. http://www.5bucksaday.com/10k.php
Most likely you already know most of what you need to know to teach the seminar, things like building a site or setting up a blog, basic SEO for organic searches, getting traffic with pay per click, testing and tracking, outsourcing, email capture and autoresponders, using social bookmarking sites, you get the idea, the things we do every day as IM’ers, and if you don’t, well, what can I say, in the course of building your seminar agenda, you’ll get a whack on the side of the head yourself and learn these skills quick enough.
If you already can talk intelligently about most of the topics above, you’re real close to running your first seminar.
Beyond that, this course covers how to find the students, ideas for getting a conference room for nothing, filling the seats, getting referrals for your next one, how to give a no-risk guarantee, and then virtually guarantee there won’t be refund requests, and how to do things like have hot seats, group huddles, upsells, critiques. This course covers it all.
In fact, here’s a recent video from one of the beta testers of the course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeVuEiSlVds
$15,000 in income and he hasn’t even run his first seminar yet!
So even if you’re scared to death of getting in front of 20 strangers, you can sit in the back of the room and let someone else do that, because you’ll have a complete agenda all set up, ready to go.
If you have someone else do the speaking, he or she basically just has to follow the script, and if a student has a technical question, you’ll be there to handle that. How easy is that?
I’m kicking myself now for not putting this course together myself. I probably could have, but there’s no need to now, so the next best thing I can do is recommend that you check this one out.
I don’t blame you if you’re skeptical, I really don’t. When you think about it, the price is fairly expensive if you look at it like you were purchasing an eBook, but it’s certainly not an eBook, and not expensive if you look at it like you’re purchasing a business in a box. That’s exactly what this is.
At $497, for a business in a box that can earn you 20 times that next weekend, I’d say the girls really overdelivered on the value.
Yes, after you buy this course, you’re going to have to work a little, no doubt about it. I hate to say that ugly word, but there are things that have to be done, some of them only have to be done once and you’ll be profiting from them forever.
With this course, you’ll know what those “things” are, and you’ll know how to do them. They really aren’t all that tough, and most of it can be outsourced if you’re willing to give up some of the profits.
Your first local seminar will be frightening, I’m not going to promise you otherwise, but from experience (I do have personal experience at teaching seminars, remember), after that first one, your business will be humming, your first attendees will be referring you to their associates, and there will be people that want to contact you for personal consulting services at high rates, which they’ll be glad to pay.
That’s not hype, that all happened to me when I started running seminars back in the 80’s and it can happen to you in 2008.
Even if you’re not in a position to take those personal consulting contracts, this course will give you advice on outsourcing to others, which I used to call subcontracting back when I was running my consulting business.
One stands out, that came from a beta tester of the program, he tells of how he pulled in $18K from one weekend alone, I think it might have been the first seminar he ran. See, out of the box, this can work.
How often can you run these seminars? It’s totally up to you. If you outsource the marketing (you’ll learn how), and outsource the speakers (again you’ll learn how), you could conceivably do it every weekend if your local area is big enough to support it.
And here’s the cool thing. Once you have the logistics down pat, and trusted people to sell the seats, there’s no reason why you can’t run seminars on other topics. The only thing that will change will be the sales pitch and the agenda on the day of the seminar. Instead of talking about autoresponders and search engines, you could be talking about blogging, building membership sites, and flipping. Or anything else you’re good at, or can become good at.
Guys and girls, I haven’t pitched a high ticket course before, but this one is different. Jaime and Rachel are showing you what you need to do to build a business that can bring in $10K to $50K a month. No lie.
When you see the price on the sales page, you’re not going to be able to say no, especially when you see the guarantee they’re providing, so I’m warning you, if you’re not up to this kind of lifestyle change (you’ll become a highly respected and sought out member of your local community, hob nobbing with high salaried company owners and their employees), then you’d better not click the link below: http://www.5bucksaday.com/10k.php
Picture in your mind the respect you’ll have in your community. You’ll walk into one of your favorite restaurants and the owner will give you personal attention because you helped him get online and pack the place. Local contractors will return your calls (imagine that). Your dentist and chiropractor clients will be sending you fruit baskets for all the new leads that are coming through their sites. The local auto repair shop will take good care of you, and people will be mobbing you at parties because you’re the online go to guy or girl.
And until today, you thought Internet marketing was boring.
If however, you want to grow beyond those 5 Bucks a Day projects, even grow beyond those 1K per day income streams, you really should at least give it a look, don’t you think?
Is the sales page a bit hypey? Sure, it says you can be $10K richer by this weekend, that’s a bit over the top, because I think it will take you at least a couple weeks to a month to get ready for your first seminar, but I do honestly believe that you (yes, you) can earn $10K in a weekend by following this blueprint that the girls are handing to you on, as a said before, a silver platter.
Oh, you read this far, did you? That means you want a bonus. Sigh. OK, this is something I’ve never done before. I feel so strongly about this business in a box opportunity that’s so much more than my normal 5 bucks a day speech, or even well beyond my earn 1K a day goals for you, that I’m going to throw in more bonuses than even I can count. The way I’m going to do that is by giving you a full 60 day trial membership to Earn1KaDay.com for only $1.00. One buck. After the 60 days are up, you can either stay on for the normal $29.95 a month, or you can cancel before the 60 days are up.
Just send me an email to 5buckguy [at] 5bucksaday [dot] com after you make payment, and tell me your name and email address that you purchased with. Simple as that, and I’ll set you up with a secret link.
If you’re already a member of Earn1KaDay.com, I’ll do it one better for you. If you purchase this course, I’ll send a refund of 3 months of your membership fees to your PayPal account, after the guarantee period for “Make $10K in a Weekend” expires, if you haven’t asked for a refund for the course. You’ll just have to send me a PM in the forum to remind me.
So what will happen is, not only will you have Rachel and Jaime’s business in a box and all you need to run it, but 11 other business models inside Earn1KaDay.com, as well as access to well over 600 people there that have collectively succeeded in every one of them. Rachel’s a member there as well, and I’ll work on getting Jaime to join. If that doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what else I can say. I’ll let the girls say the rest: http://www.5bucksaday.com/10k.php
I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that a single idea, combined with action, can change a life. That’s what happened after I had the idea that I should write a short report about how I was able to finally succeed with affiliate marketing (as told in 5 Bucks a Day), it did completely change my life.
And that premise led to my decision to put together Earn1KaDay.com, whose sole purpose is to provide enough ideas (sometimes just half baked ones, in fact), that any member willing to take some action should be able to find something that could change his or her life.
And further, that’s why I purchased Instant Cash Generators, which spits out cash generating or cash saving ideas every two days or more frequently, when I saw that the former owner was running out of gas.
Yes, ideas are the lifeblood of the economy, and have been for a long long time. Ideas like the light bulb, the internal combustion engine, radio, television, the computer, cell phones, you name it, it started as an idea that a lot of people probably scoffed at.
Some will say that ideas are a dime a dozen. Sure, that could be true, if the person who has them doesn’t take action. But in the mind of the right person, ideas are potentially life changing for not just the possessor, but possibly for many others (family, friends, future employees, and certainly the customers).
That’s why when I read this email I received recently from one of the true Internet marketing gurus, I decided that it’s something I’d love to reprint for more people to see. It was written by Marlon Sanders, he has given me the right to reprint it, and I hope you enjoy it:
How To Create Money From Ideas In 7 Days
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By Marlon Sanders
Seven.
It’s a perfect number, the Prime number.
It is said God created the heavens and the earth in 7 days.
The human brain remembers information in 7 digit chunks.
7 is a prime number, mersenne number, octahedral number,
heptagonal number, hexagonal pyramidal number and the
sum of the first 4 finonacci numbers = 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 7
There are 7 colors of the rainbow, 7 chakras and 7 classical
planets.
For other fascinating 7’s, see this site:
http://www.virtuescience.com/7.html
So what if you could create money in 7 days? Seven is obviously
a special number. It could be 7 days, 7 weeks or 7 months. That
choice is up to you.
I suggest you start with 7 days for your idea and set a goal of
7 weeks for the product launch to bring your idea into fruition.
So you are 7 days away from creating the idea for money and 7
weeks from transmuting the idea into reality.
Notice I used the word “create.” The famed copywriter Eugene
Schwartz would banter with me on that word. He preferred the
word “connect,” since connecting is an act of creation.
Create WHAT in 7 days?
An idea, of course.
“But Marlon. I thought you said I was gonna create the money I
need to make my car payment, throw some more money at my kid
in college or fund my dream vacation?”
“What’s this bit about creating IDEAS? I thought ideas were a
dime a dozen.”
If you’ve read my articles here for any length of time at all,
you know I read all the time. Reading is food for the brain and
thinking is exercise.
There is 1 difference between man and ape. The ability to read.
If you don’t use that ability, welcome to the jungle.
The book I’ve drank from recently is called Read, Fire, Aim by
Michael Masterson. Great book.
Michael believes that great products and promotions stem from a
“Big Idea.”
With Michael’s premise in mind, two weeks ago I wrote and promoted
my 21,139 target markets webinar. (It’s sold out but you can see
the sales letter here if you’re clueless what I’m talking about:
http://www.productdashboard.com/ninja/SecretSite.htm
Last weekend at the seminar in Dallas I attended, Keith Baxter
told me he thought it was my best sales letter in a long time.
From the feedback we’ve received on the webinar and videos, the
product hit the sweet spot with you guys and gals also.
So back to you and the act of creating money.
If money is an idea, then you need a Big Idea. Ideas are everywhere.
All you have to do is open up your mind.
What you’re gonna do in the next 7 days is just look for an idea
that:
1. Sparks the imagination.
2. That excites.
3. That is unique.
4. That gets a specific.
Where do you look for ideas? Go to the bookstore and just start
thumbing through ANY magazine that grabs your interest, regardless
of the topic.
Talk to people. Observe. Get out of the house.
It’s true that common ideas are a dime a dozen. But uncommon ideas
that have that bit of uniqueness or excitement to them aren’t common.
You’ll recognize your good idea when you find it because you’ll get
excited about it.
Now, once you get your good idea or ideas, you apply the direct
response marketing training you’re hopefully getting from me.
You target your market using my Push Button Target Market system
from two weeks ago. You create a product using Product Dashboard.
You create your sales letter using Push Button Letters. You design
your web site and name capture using Design Dashboard. You get
traffic using the Affiliate Dashboard.
Are you starting to see a picture and a pattern here?
You need a market. You need a product. You need traffic.
But most of all, you need great IDEAS. Ideas are the FUN part of this
business. All the other things are skills you learn. Ultimately, you’ll
hire out some or all of them.
The fun part of this business is creating ideas. This is the most
fundamental act of creation.
It takes 7 days to get a good idea and 7 weeks to bring it into fruition
once you’ve mastered Product Dashboard, Design Dashboard, Affiliate
Dashboard and Push Button Letters.
Now, you can actually bring the whole idea soup to nuts to life in 7
weeks once you’ve got your affiliate program up and running, know
how to write sales letters and so forth.
Your first few times out of the gate, it’ll take you longer.
The fly in this ointment is the sales letter. You have to SELL your
idea. Most people have no clue HOW to do that. The real secret of
transmuting ideas into money is learning to create great sales letters
that articulate your great idea.
But that’s a topic for another day. You need an affiliate program. You
need traffic. You need to create products. But to get people to buy
‘em, you need the sales letter.
Listen: A lot of you newbies and even experienced people are getting
snowballed and confused by all the marketing models out there. It
ain’t that complicated folks.
1. Get people to you web site
2. Smack ‘em with that KSL (Killer Sales Letter)
3. Follow up with emails
A lot of people are jumping on every bright, shiny course that comes
down the pike. That’s all good. Just keep your FOCUS on the basics.
Before you focus on the triple whammy ding dongle new methods
when you don’t have a target market, don’t have a product and don’t
have a killer sales letter?
Why do people do that? Because they get BORED with the same old
ideas and want new, exciting ideas. Which is what I’m telling YOU to do!
Create hot, fresh, exciting new ideas.
But in terms of your own personal learning, keep it simple. Start with the basics: A target market (there are 23,139 of ‘em). Create your product. Get your web site and sales letter up. Get traffic.
Then, after you’ve done THOSE basics, you can layer on more advanced methods.
I’m NOT saying don’t learn about more advanced stuff. All I’m saying is to keep your focus on doing the basics.
You’ve got 7 days to get out there and hunt down an exciting, specific,
intriguing idea.
If this article intrigued or helped you in some way, report back to me on my blog: http://www.marlonsnews.com
Marlon Sanders
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Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Info Product Dashboard.”
If you want to create your own info products, go to:
Years ago, getting a good return on your savings wasn’t difficult. I remember double digit yields on money market funds that were totally safe.
Now if you keep your money in a passbook savings account, or have a low balance, you’re probably looking at maybe 1%. Ugh.
OK, let’s put this into perspective. 5 bucks a day is $1825 a year. If you want to make 5 bucks a day from simple interest, at 1% return, you need to sock away $182,500. I don’t know about you, but if I had that kind of money to invest, I sure wouldn’t keep it earning 1%.
But anything else is risky, right? The stock market is certainly fluctuating. The real estate market is in shambles. What’s a person to do?
Well, if you’re not afraid of a little risk (very little), there’s Prosper. It’s a person to person lending network. In other words people like you and me can play banker. Well, not totally to the point that we have to be regulated by the feds, but sort of.
For more information, and my personal review, go here: ==> Prosper
You could certainly expect to earn near 10% interest lending to other people instead of 1% lending to your bank. There’s a little more risk, of course, but there’s ways to eliminate most of that, as you’ll see in the review I posted in the link above.
And if you’re not in a position to lend money to others, obviously a lender needs borrowers, so yes, Prosper also allows you to borrow money. For every borrower there are a bunch of lenders, actually, as you’ll see in the review. Since the lenders don’t have those huge buildings with all sorts of employees and big lobbies, it’s cheaper to borrow money, and more attractive to lend money.
One of our Earn1KaDay.com members, John Rogers, has written a really good report called “Middle School Marketing” which he asked me to take a look at, so I did that today.
When I first saw the title, I assumed it would be something about marketing to middle school students, but I quickly figured out that it’s a takeoff on “Bum Marketing” where Travis says he can take a bum off the street, and have them making money in a short amount of time.
John uses the catch that he can teach anyone with an 8th grade education, a C average in English, and a basic set of tools (like a computer and internet access) and they can write reports for quick cash. John gives an example of a quick report he did that took 6 hours and netted the equivalent of $75 an hour in a short period of time.
The report is very good, he goes through a case study about bowling instruction, how he found the niche, how he found the content, how he put it together, how to market it. He introduces the reader to all the tools necessary, like a word processor (free if necessary), an ability to produce a PDF (free if you don’t have something else), an autoresponder, accounts with places like Craigslist and U.S. Free Ads, that kind of thing.
In November, I mentioned that I wanted to start a wiki site, and was looking for help. My problem was that I wanted to be able to set ownership for specific pages, and to make the pages search engine friendly.
I spent quite a bit of time, and tested 2 or 3 different wiki platforms, investigated several others, and wasn’t able to make any of them work. I put the idea aside, frustrated.
Today I found wikidot. And suddenly, like the new year, things are now looking fresh and promising.
I spent just a few hours today, and I think I have the structure that I’ve been looking for. The pages are automatically search engine friendly. I’m able to allow any member to add a page to the wiki. I’m able to lock permissions so that only the person who created the page can edit it. And I’m able to secure the wiki site so that only members who are invited can add pages.
For now, only members of Earn1KaDay.com will be invited to join, through a special password that is known only to them.
However, the site will be open for public viewing, and hopefully very soon will have a lot of useful content, with crosslinking that will enable it to become a true authority site, jointly developed by some of the best Internet marketing minds I know.
If you’re a member of Earn1KaDay.com, look inside the forum for instructions and the special password.
I read an eBook this week that I wish would have been available oh, about 9 years ago. I’d be a millionaire by now many times over if I had it then.
Back when I was heavier into eBay (I still sell every day, but mostly the same things that I’ve been selling for years, which I keep relisting, that I get from trusty suppliers), I used to always look for the magic wholesale list that would enable me to find stuff that could be sold for a profit.
The trouble with the wholesale lists is that they’re available to anyone willing to spend the few dollars. Then you start competing not by who has the best product line, because you all all have the same, but by who’s willing to sell closest to cost.
Whap go the profits. That’s no fun.
Dennis Hester has written a great guide called “The Product Hunter” that should enable you to find merchandise nobody, or very few others are selling, right in your neighborhood. He lists over 20 sources that he’s found over the years to get sellable merchandise for great prices.
