If you lie down with dogs, you come up with fleas...

Have you ever heard that expression before?
Maybe a better way to put it would be:

"If you hang out with millionaires some of that is going to rub off on to you."


OR "If you hang out with Top Internet Superstars you'll be a much better marketer for it, eventually."

OR "Birds of a feather flock together"

The point is, you want to surround yourself with successful people if you want to be successful, too. Now, this isn't some sales pitch about listening to audio recordings of some people's success stories.

--This is about being the MASTER of your destiny.
--This is about being in control your future
--This is about making as much as you want doing what you like

You see, online riches can be obtained via direct marketing by following a simple set of steps.

1- Have your own product and promote it
2- Get others to promote your product for you and you promote theirs
3- As your list gets bigger, Rinse...repeat...

Keep doing this and you'll have an ever-growing list. You will be building a bigger list of JV Partners waiting for your new product to come out so they can promote it.

That's how to succeed in direct marketing...

Now, the secret to succeeding in network marketing is to get into the right program, and put the right people below you in your downline.
In both direct marketing and network marketing, you need to know quality people in order to succeed.
So how can you do this?
Well, I just finished reading an ebook on getting connnected with quality people in your chosen field. It tells you how to get JV partners in your field andhow Getting Connected can make you succeed quickly.

The guy who wrote this even leaves his phone number so you can callhim. The ebook is called Get Connected and I recommend it becauseit's something you need to learn sooner or later.

It's also one of the more unique reports on this subject.

I highly recommend you GET CONNECTED today

It doesn't matter if you're in a downline club, a doubler, tripler,network marketing , M-L-M, or simple direct marketing....

This ebook can help you with all aspects of your business and is only $7.00,{!firstname}!

Remember the product creation video I sent you?

Well, use that as your guide to making your own product

Better yet, BUY products and sell them as your own if you want to be lazy. There are links to places like that in the report... Most importantly though, this ebook shows you how to Get Connected to make big bucks online

I highly recommend you GET CONNECTED today


Thanks,

Dan

Daniel McGonagle's IM Toolkit

After 4 months and many revisions, the IM Toolkit is a finished product (for now)

To create the IM Toolkit I had to

  • learn how to record audios using Audio Acrobat
  • learn how to use Camtasia
  • deal with the pit-falls of creating PDF files
  • find disclaimers for the beggining of the ebook
  • do some price-testing
  • get initial feedback on the paid version
  • improve it based on the feedback
  • and learn how to make it a "7 dollar offer"
  • and make sales and squeeze pages for it

Well, it's over and done with.

4 months to create a product is much too long if you want to be profitable in this business. If I had to do it all over again, the IM Toolkit could have been created in a week.

To completely outsource a 7 dollar offer here's what you would need to do.

  • Buy some PLR materials for the product-to-be
  • Organize the material into some sort of report
  • Outsource the final re-write to a ghostwriter
  • Have a graphic designer make some graphics for the ebook
  • Have a PHP guy create the scripts to turn the product into a "7 dollar offer"

Some things not mentioned yet...

Research- to see if this is a needed product

Marketing- to put it in fornt of as many eyeballs as possible

Social networking- to get the JV partners crucial to the success of a launch

There's a lot to making products and marketing them. Having your own product is THE way to make real money on the Internet. It can be time-consuming all involved a lot of different features, but if you do one thing at a time, you can do it easily enough.

The IM Toolkit has been a HUGE success, 200 copies sold in 4 days, no refund requests and a lot of great feedback.

Since I know I can do one of these a week, or 2 a month, more quality products are not far behind.

Build a list and get FREE Stuff here

I've come across something that can build your
list rapidly AND you can get free products, too!

The site is a giveaway site, where people can get free products or build their lists rapidly by giving away a product they own.

If you have a product of your own, you can build your list very rapidly at this site.

No product of your own?
Then sign up as a FREE member and get your hands on all the free products when the launch date arrives.

Better yet, Sign up for fr-ee here, then get to work making a report or salable item and add it to the giveaway.

When Great Ideas Go Bad

Some things most marketers would die for.

A great product, a
A great offer, and
A great list.

I am lucky enough to have all three,
but what if it isn't enough?

Here's what happens sometimes online and you can't explain
why a situation evlolves the way it does:

The scenario:

  • I got my hands on a fantastic product I knew would really help my list.
  • I created a special offer and offered it at a steep discount
  • I created a trial offer for it so they got an almost free sneak peek at it
  • And I told them about the special offer in previous emails
  • I provide valuable real-life advice for those who are trying to earn an online income, so that information is apppreciated...

My list is great because they listen to what I have to say because I am a trusted source.

They deserve to be treated with respect and that is exactly what I do, by writing my own emails, reports, and providing good customer service.

So why did this Special Offer get a less-than-expected response?

What is stopping them from spending $1.00 for a great resource?

That's what happened with a Special Offer I created for them.

The product was $1.00 to try out for 24 hours.

Then it was only 96 dollars after that...

Even if they paid the $96.00 they could still get a refund afterwards!!

So why didn't 100% of this great list get the sneak peek for $1.00?

That's what I would love to know...

There is a cynical side of me that says they really don't want to succeed. Sometimes I think that they want the Magic Pill solution to making tons of money online.

I will NEVER promote anything like that, and my subscribers know it.

Even people who don't know me personally should have jumped all over this Special Offer.

So I can't help but wonder why it didn't get snapped up by the hundreds of people I expected???

Even for just the trial offer....

I spent a lot of time bringing this extreme value to my list, so I can't help but be a little disappointed for THEM because they are losing out on a great deal.

Is it the time of year? Or did past products I recommended not work for them?

Is it the cost? If so, why not take a look anyway for just a buck?

Is it because a marketing course means some educational materials are in there and that means it's not a Magic Pill? I thought I cured my list of searching for Magic Pills with the IMTOOLKIT and the Top Ten Mistakes Report, both of which clearly state there is no Magic Pill.

I can't explain why a smaller percentage than usual participated in the best value on the Internet today. I reviewed every page of the course, and since it helped me so much I couldn't wait to put it in front of my list.

Some email response I got back were

"It sounds like a lot of hype"

but if that guy took a look at it for just $1.00, he would have found out for himself, and changed his mind right away.

"What I really need is traffic to my site"

was another response I got. Traffic is not the cure-all for your online business, and getting traffic will never be THE solution you're looking for. This course covers that, too.

And I've explained this to my lists, several times.

"I'm doing well with my current business, and don't need to be distracted"

Now the gentleman who wrote this impressed me because he's already got a handle on things. He's focused and what he's doing is working, so he doesn't want to "mess" with that. Now this is a better reason for not buying this Special Offer, but it still would have benefitted him because all businesses can afford to do better, can't they?

What is your reason for not looking closer at the $1.00 offer?

I need to know so I can better serve you..

Please post a reply on this blog by clicking on COMMENTS below

I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Go to the Subscribers-only Special Offer page here, if you haven't already...

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You can "print money" if youhave this skill

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By the way, this is a long post, so make sure you save it, or have a cup of tea or coffe around to sit down and absorb this information. There is an important subscribers-only special at the end of this email.

Let's talk about a skill all the bigshots have at their disposal. Possessing this skill virtually guarantees the owner that they will be making some big bucks on the Internet.

So what is this wonderful skill that allows you to write your own paycheck? Copywriting...

Copywriters sometimes charge $250.00-$25,000.00 to write a sales page. The reason why copywriting is important to EVERY InternetMarketer is that it affects all aspects of their business.

If you don't like to write emails, squeeze pages or sales letters then you're probably not doing very well with your online business. Audios and videos can help get your message across, but a lot of people still learn better by reading the written word.

Imagine if you took a copywriting course and became good at it...

Some of you would be happy to make $250.00 a week online. That's one halfway decent sales page you'd have to produce. If you got really good at this you could charge whatever you wanted, up to $25,000.00 per sales letter.

Most people will never get this good at copywriting, howver, but if you develop and improve in this skill it will affect your businessesin ALL areas.

Here are the areas where copywriting can help you
1-writing good emails, and email ads
2-making good squeeze pages that get you a lot of subscribers
3-writing good sales pages makes your advertising more profitable
4-good article writing gets more clicks, optins, sales
5-writing good press releases gets your site indexed in 2 days
6-good blogging skills get your blog indexed, optins, sales, and is good branding for you.

When an email ad hits your Inbox you decide to open it, or not open it, based on the headline. Therefore, the headline is the most important part of the email ad.

IF you open the email...Is the ad original, or is it an email that you used it without changing?
Possesing some copywriting skills means you can re-write the email you were given to make it original and more effective.

I mentioned this error in the Top 10 Mistakes report.

Let's talk about emails you send to your list. You need to hold their attention, by writing well or by providingvaluable information so your readers will stay tuned throughout all the paragraphs...

I am sincere in my desire to help others, so I spend time writing informative emails and free reports. That keeps people tuned in, so good copywriting isn't super-important here but if you're promoting something then you will need to write well...

You need to write your own emails and email ads, so you should develop copywriting skills.

You also need to write your own squeeze pages, also known as splash or lead capture pages.
The better your squeeze page is, the more subscribers you add to your list and send to your sales page.

SO WHAT THIS MEANS IS....

You need to write original, quality squeeze pages, and this means you must develop some copywriting skills.

When it comes to sales letters, the same principle applies. If you create your own product (it's easier than you think)you're going to be responsible for making the sales page for it.

The following scenario will show you how copywriting can make allthe difference in your online business ventures. Let's say you spent money on a solo ad that gets you subscribers and 3 sales.

You break even on the advertising and you built your list some more. Not bad, but it could be better...

What if you paid someone to improve the sales page's conversion ratio and the next solo ad gets you 10 sales? That would cover the cost of the copywriter's fee and that sales page is now your property.

The next time you run your solo ad, you make 12 sales again. And you now have a money-making product on autopilot!! All because of good copywriting...

If you outsource the copywriting you get 2 slightly different versions of the sales page so you can test them out and see which ones are more effective. Making SMALL changes to improve the conversion rate of the sales pages means you need a small degree of copywriting skill...

NOTE: I recommend against outsourcing copywriting because it'sa skill you will need to develop at some point anyway. It affects all aspects of your online business and you can't hire someone to write everything for you, so you're better off learning copywriting to some extent.

Learning this skill virtually assures you an income.

Article Writing- There is a right way and a wrong way to write articles. There are rules and regulations you have to follow to get your articles published AND to make them effective.

Writing Press Releases-another must-have skill. If you have a new website or product and you want to introduce it tothe world, write a press release. It will get your website indexed quickly and bring QUALITY traffic to your site

Blogging- If you don't have a blog set up, do it right away. They're easy to get indexed and will get you some practical experience in writing. Since your blog will get indexed quickly, there will be people that don't know you reading the blog.

You need to consider how your blog will appear to the first-time visitor. When you start thinking from the perspective of the reader, you're thinking like a true marketer, and like a good copywriter. This is why blogs are so important. Blogging helps you "cut your teeth" on developing copywriting skills.

The emails I send to my list are also posted to my blogs. Copywriting is a skill that affects all aspects of your business. Copywriting is not just writing sales pages. It is also the writing of emails, email ads, blogging, press releases and even personal emails to your respondents.

It is a necessary skill that takes a little practice to develop and pretty much guarantees your success. I will provide a resource for this in the next email.

Thanks,

Dan

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10 Things You Must Do To Succeed In Earning Money Online.

I'm going to start another series of emails to help you.

If you'renot one of my subscribers (yet) please go here to get on the list and to get a free report.

The next series of emails is going to cover 10 things you must do to succeed in earning money online. At the end, there will be another report you can use to help build your lists, but before we get started...

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The next email will cover THE most important thing you need to do so watch for it.

Here we go, we'll start with an easy one.

BLOG Do you have your blog set up yet? I've been busy working on mine, and actually have 5 or 6 of them now. I finally see the importance of having one or more blogs. Google my name Daniel McGonagle and you'll see some blogs that I set up. Some of them have no content and they're already indexed!

Setting up a blog is easy to do.

2 cool things about blogs

--You can tie your blog into your autoreponder, so every post sends an email broadcast automatically.

--All your email broadcasts will get archived, and someday indexed. This can leverage your time and help build your business for the "long haul" The more posts/emails you do the better chance you have of getting noticed, and getting noticed means traffic to your sales page.

Benefits Of Blogging

Blogging, what is it?

You've heard talk about blogging but are one of those people who don't quite understand what it is. That's alright, we'll go over what a blog is, the history of blogs, what they are used for and why they are important to your online business.

What is a blog? A blog is essentially like a journal where people can post their thoughts and have them read and commented on by anyone.

What is a blogger? A blogger is someone who creates a blog and posts on it. Brief history of blogs Weblogs, simply known as blogs now, haven't been around for that long. The roots of the blog can be traced back to 1994 when people kept online journals (diaries) in which they wrote about things in their life.

The popular free blogging site called Blogger was created in 1999 by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. Blogger was later purchased by Google in 2003. Despite the fact that blog sites have been in existence since 1998, they have only been popular for 5 or 6 years. In 2001, how-to-blog manuals were published and the phenomenon has only taken off since that point.

What are blogs used for? In the very beginning, blogs were usually used to talk about a person's life. People would make blog posts about things happening in their life, thus using the blog as a public journal. Over time, the use of the blog evolved.

People began using the blog to post their opinions about everything from politics to religion to sports to music, among other things. Nowadays, blogs are even used to make money--one 20-year-old makes $5,000 from Google per month because he has Google Ads on his blog. Businesses have also begun to effectively use blogs for their own purposes.

Why are blogs important to your online business? Millions of people from all over the world read blogs every day. Those who have a blog are given a lot of exposure--there is the potential for them to have millions of unique readers each day.

Can you imagine having a million people see your business' name each day? That sounds pretty incredible, doesn't it? Yet, that's exactly what could happen if you create and maintain a successful, well-read blog. And that's actually a pretty easy thing to do.

So how exactly can you use the blog to help your online business? Well, you can use it in a variety of ways. You could: Use the blog to discuss things related to your field of business. For instance, if your business provides web hosting services, you could discuss things related to web hosting, thus showing potential customers how much of a guru you are.

You could:

Let your employers have their own blogs to talk about your services/products. The more active blogs that reference your business, the more exposure you'll get.

You could Use your business blog to keep current customers updated on new services/products available.

--Post news about your business, as well as start rumors about potential happenings in your online business.

--Get feedback from current and potential customers on your products/services. For instance, you could make a post on a new product, giving details about it. Then your existing customers or potential customers could give opinions on it.

--Promote your online business on your blog by making blog posts with information on what your business offers.

--Install Adsense on your blog and make extra revenue from ads clicked, thereby helping your business to be more profitable. There are really a lot of possibilities to how you can use a blog to help your business, even more than those listed here.

Blogs that are hosted on your site (by using a program like WordPress) can help your site achieve a higher ranking in search engines. This is because blogs are search engine friendly (Google is known to list them after only a few days, whereas it takes regular web sites weeks to appear on a search engine).

Having a high search engine ranking is crucial to having a successful online business. Blogs help you to increase your ranking, which will increase your business. The great thing about blogs is that they are easy to use and also very effective.

Start a blog today and watch your business' notoriety grow.

Watch for my next email...I'm going to reveal the #1 thing you need to know to really succeed, and not too many people are sharing this knowledge.

Thanks,

Dan

P.S. Blogs offer your business the chance to be known by millions of people. If you're looking for a surefire way to gain customers and increase revenue, try business blogging!

P.P.S. I'm going through and reading a marketing course right now that is so full of information, it will make your head spin. I'm going to update it with my side comments. I've been busy reading this and learning from it and you can pretty much use this course to guide you to whatever level of success you want to achieve. I'm also going to give a SEVERE discount to the first 10 people that get this course. That's no B.S. either. I can only offer specials once in a while for this. Stay tuned...