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Hi Guys,

I’ve been helping more and more people recently that have joined YourNetBiz or Primo Vacations but are just not getting the support they need from their own mentor.  The more people I help in this situation the luckier I feel that I joined through a mentor that is accessible and in to a group like WashyDirect.  I don’t think there is enough emphasis when signing up to YourNetBiz or other systems online on the need for help and support from your mentor and group.

I’ll be honest when you start it’s tough, I personally had a young son and a full time job so trying to find the spare time to work on my new business was extremely difficult but I knew the hard work up front would be worth it, and it is!

People looking to join YourNetBiz and Primo Vacations are wanting as much value as they can get and this comes in the form of the support they receive.  There are others but WashyDirect is quickly establishing itself as arguably the best!  With people moving to our group from some of the other groups that have let them down it means it’s a rapid growing community of people that want to help and want to make sure you are not let down like they have been before.

If you are looking to join YourNetBiz or Primo Vacations I urge you to make sure you are going to get the support you need.  Both YourNetBiz and Primo give you everything you need to succeed but having that guidance from people that are making it work and that will show you step by step how to follow in their footsteps is invaluable.

Have a look at what we do and get in touch if you want to be a part of it.

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to your $uccess

Steve.

WashyDirect YourNetBiz PrimoVacations

Why an Internet Business?

To answer that question I want to share with you where I am as I write this. I’m currently sat on a sun lounger by the pool of our hotel in Egypt. There isn’t a cloud in the sky, a slight breeze, which is nice as the temperature is 46. My little boy Joshua is having a nap so me and his mum are enjoying some quiet sun bathing time. I’m not telling you this to gloat by any means but to get across my point and to answer the question “Why an Internet Business?”

Let me explain…

Take a traditional business like some kind of shop. For the sake of my example let us use a clothes shop. As the shop owner you have to get up on Monday morning and get down and open your shop. You then have to wait in your shop all day in the hope that people will come inside and buy your clothes. This you will repeat probably 6 days a week. This may well suit some people but to me it sounds like some sort of punishment!

Here is why the Internet is a revolution for people like me that don’t want to be sat in one place from 9-5, 6 days a week. I’m on holiday and my business is still running. I didn’t have to open my shop this morning because my shop is always open. It never closes. Whatever I’m doing my websites are running, coming up in front of people that are searching for what I am selling. The automation of my business doesn’t end there. When someone is expressing an interest in what I promote they enter their name and email for more information. Again regardless of what I’m doing my autoresponder is working for me and will email more details about me and how I make money to the person enquiring. It doesn’t even end there. One of the unique points of the systems I promote are that they come with a PBA – Personal Business Assistant. These guys will call back your leads for you and close your sales for you too!

It may seem to good to be true and I try to keep my feet on the ground when I think about all the people in this world who trade their time for money, going out everyday to a 9-5 job to make just enough money to survive. There is a better way and you owe it to yourself to make a better life for you and your family.

Let me show you what I do. Let me show you how I help people just like you to achieve their goals and much much more.

Steve Males on EzineWhen you first start building your list you will be grateful for opt ins from anywhere. There is no better feeling than getting that email that informs you that you have a new lead on your list. Although you might not think it important where that lead came from you need to know, let me explain…

When I started marketing online it was a safe bet all my leads came from Twitter as I spent a lot of time and effort growing my Twitter following and I tweeted links to my website and capture pages. These days I get opt ins from many places and I’m always trying new methods to build my list even bigger, I have pay per click adverts running, people find my websites in the organic search engine results too, people read articles like this and check out my author bio at the bottom and come through to my site from here too plus many other methods. My point is this, if you are not tracking where your leads are coming from then you have no idea of what you are wasting your time with and what is worth investing more time in.

Your Autoresponder gives you lots of tools to help you out. You can create different web forms for different sites and even if you use the same web form, your autoresponder will tell you from which site your opt in came from.

Google Analytics is also easy to set up. Google provides you the HTML to include on your site and then it tracks lots of information about the traffic to your site. In addition to the statistics of number of hits to each page and information on if the person viewing your website was a returning visitor or a new one google will also tell you where your visitor came from, be it from a google search or from a link in Twitter or facebook.

There are lots of URL shortening websites that also provide this sort of information so if you are experimenting with advertising your links in more than one place why not create more than one short URL. http://bit.ly or http://tiny.cc are 2 examples but there are many more. You can refer back later and see which link had the better response.

In summary you need to concentrate on what works. Forget what doesn’t work and continually try new things to find more methods that work. You can’t do this unless you track your results. Take action now and let me know how it goes.

Agree / disagree? Leave your comments and let’s help others

More about Autoresponders and email marketing

YourNetBiz truth about SCAM tactics

Hey guys,

I just want to put you straight and advise you why you see things like

YourNetBiz SCAM

and

Don’t Join YourNetBiz

these are just marketing tactics that people use, let me explain…

YourNetBiz is a home business opportunity with lots of people promoting it.  (or trying to promote it).  So in turn that means that 1000′s of people on a daily basis are trying to research YourNetBiz to see if it is actually a genuine business opportunity.

The number 1 place for this is Google and the other search engines.  People promoting YourNetBiz want to have their websites seen by people that are researching YourNetBiz in the hope that they will partner with them.  If most people are doing their research using the Google search engine then this gives YourNetBiz associates 2 options.

1. SEO and Organic Search Results.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, this is all about knowing how to produce a quality website that has the keywords in it so when people search for these keywords their site is displayed.  The Organic search results appear on the left hand side of the Google results page.

2. Paid Google Adwords.

This is where the YourNetBiz associate will set up an advert that will appear on the right hand side of the Google results page, these links when clicked cost the person that has set-up the advert.   This is the easiest way to appear on the front page of Google if you don’t understand SEO.

People that are now promoting YourNetBiz have at one time been in the position where they were researching it themselves.  So they know if  you are considering anything with a financial commitment you will be drawn to reading anything that suggests it could possibly be a scam.  It can be a very successful way to get your website seen but can sometimes lead to potential YourNetBiz prospects being scared off the business opportunity.

In addition to YourNetBiz Associates using these tactics there will also be people Cross Recruiting.  Cross Recruiting is where someone that promotes a similar business opportunity will try and steal the traffic that is researching YourNetBiz, they will use terms like YourNetBiz is a SCAM etc to get the persons attention and then present them with an alternative business opportunity.

So these are some of the reasons you will see the word SCAM associated with the YourNetBiz business opportunity.  I am an independent associate of YourNetBiz and can advise with confidence that this is not a SCAM but is in fact a genuine business opportunity providing full training to make a successful home business.

To see more about YourNetBiz and to be shown the valuable extras available to you if you join YourNetBiz through myself, enter your name and a valid email below.  I will send you the details of the YourNetBiz tour and the additional training resource, help and support members of my group can benefit from.

Firstly, I don’t normally look like this,  I think I’ve spent a bit too much time in the sun this weekend.

Anyway, on to todays video, I’m speaking more and more to people that start out trying to make money online by following Andrew Reynolds Cash on Demand Course.  I was the same so I’ve recorded this video about the course and my personal views of it.

The drop out rate of people that try Internet Marketing and then give up is in the 90% plus bracket. Not a great statistic but if you are thinking about it then as long as you are well informed and avoid these common mistakes you will be in the 5-10% bracket of people that do make it!

Mistake #1

Fast Cash.

The number one reason for people dropping out is because they expect too much, too soon. When they don’t get it they quit. Starting up online for the first time is learning a brand new industry and there is a lot to take in and learn. When I started I made a loss in my first year, I set my expectations before I started though, I was setting up my own business and had so much to learn. I was still happy after my first year loss because in that 12 month period I had learned what doesn’t work and was starting to see what could and did work. I knew year 2 was going to be different and it would be worth the wait!

Mistake #2

Trying Too Many Different Techniques.

Online marketing has many sub categories, for example Affiliate Marketing, MLM, Adsense etc. Each can take time to master and the more you attempt the less you will achieve. Everyone will tell you that Internet marketing is about multiple streams of income. Yes this is true but the only way to achieve this is to take on one and master it first. Only when you have done this should you take on the next one. This links partially with the next mistake…

Mistake #3

System Hopping

When you pay your money and join one of the many online business systems, after a short space of time of not making any money there will be the temptation to hop to the next system you see being marketed. Save your money as the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. A good, experienced Internet marketer will take any of these systems and make an absolute fortune with them. Equally an inexperienced newbie will make nothing with any of them initially. If you are in a system already and not making money and thinking about investing in another don’t. Your money will be much better invested in some training on generating traffic or something equally relevant to your personal development in this industry.

Mistake #4

No Help Or Support

Many online business systems promote the person you join through being your mentor but unfortunately a lot of the so called “mentors” are so busy making their own fortunes they have little interest in helping you. Please don’t be tempted to go with the mentor with the pictures of the flashest car or home unless you have tested them first. Try and make contact with them before you sign up if they don’t respond in an acceptable time take this as a warning. You want an approachable helpful mentor. With the drop out rate I mentioned at the top of this article the mentors can get very rich and still have time to help dedicated, committed people. Any online business system has many people promoting it so ask what the individual will offer over someone else. Also what incentives they will offer to join them over other individuals. My help came from my mentor but also the other people in my marketing support group. When friends and family don’t understand or support your online venture having friends and support online makes all the difference.

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I’ll let the video do the talking…

Starting up online is a fantastic way to make a living. Patience and determination are key to success but having the right attitude about your online venture is very important. It is a business and should be thought of in that way. It’s not about getting a few websites up and pestering your friends and family to join your downline. It’s a real business and you should have a vision for where it is going, you should have a business plan and if you really want it to take off then a marketing budget is a must!

Yes, all the top online mentors will help and show you the best free methods of marketing, how to use social networks and other similar methods to get leads for your business but do you think they rely on the free methods alone? No they don’t. They will have newspaper adverts in the press, Google Adwords Pay Per Click ads running, they will purchase leads, rent lists and many other paid resources that are available.

I fell for all of the usual mistakes when I started online. I went directly to the newspaper to place my ads, this was before I knew about the brokers that exist that can place ads in these newspapers on your behalf for cheaper than going direct to the newspaper. The brokers buy advertising space from the newspapers in bulk so can offer it you for cheaper. The broker I use in the UK even has a late deal mailing list so I get emails when they are trying to fill a space in one of the papers and you can get it even cheaper than normal.

The money is in the list right? Did you know you can rent a list of about 20,000 people for one email broadcast for about £400-£500.

Structured correctly with a profitable product for sale and you could double your money easily and remember when someone has purchased off you they are your customer and you can contact them again with more offers in the future. People buy again from people they’ve purchased from before and trust.

Pay Per Click! This has grown my business like no other means! However be warned!! The likes of Google make it very easy for you to set-up a campaign and get your advert online in a few minutes but unless you know what you are doing then all this will do is empty your bank account into Google’s and you’ll have nothing to show for it. It’s worth taking the time to master this. I wasted so much money in the early days by trial and error with Pay Per Click. I fronted up $500 for a PPC Mastery Course and that was one of the best $500 I’ve ever spent! The techniques when you know them are very simple but make so much difference. I’ve spent £30-£50 before this and only got 1-2 opt ins to my list. They weren’t very targeted either. These days I’m paying around the £2 mark for a lead and they are highly targeted that often convert.

It is your business, take it seriously and if there are things you don’t know or understand take the time to find someone that has the knowledge and will teach you. Even if it costs you it is an investment in your business that should be well worth the time and money.

People join up to systems online every hour of every day. All promise potential earnings of something or another. Many promise the chance to make life changing sums of money.

Everyone wants to know that all important question, when will I make money and how much?

As someone that markets some of these systems I get this question every day! It is however a very difficult question to answer! It depends on many things. How much you know already about Internet marketing? How much time you will commit to making this work on a daily basis or weekly basis? These are 2 very key components.

Simply put little effort will result in little earnings, maximum effort will result in maximum earnings.

Mindset is very important, you have to believe in yourself and keep positive and not give up.

If it takes 6 months before you make anything isn’t it worth 6 months of your time? In fact if it takes a year of hard work and effort before you make anything wouldn’t it be worth it? I’m talking about once you’ve learnt and applied all the methods you are taught you can be making obscene amounts of money. 5K or more a week is very achievable! Now do you see what “worth waiting for means”?

The problem can be that people can be lazy and want get rich quick schemes. These rarely exist if you want to stay on the right side of the law but if you are a motivated person from any background you have the potential to be a top earner online. There is a lot to learn. You are learning a new industry and this doesn’t always come quickly but when successful can be very rewarding!

My advice to you would be part of a team. Many people turning to the internet in search of riches generally don’t have help and support from the people around them. Friends and family may even think your crazy to want to get involved in one of the perceived online scams. Being part of a team gives you that help and support you might not be getting anywhere else, if you’re friends and family aren’t interested in your personal venture to try and find a better life then get talking to people online that are interested. Share ideas, get that support in the early days when you’re learning by trial and error and most importantly never give up! So many people that give up don’t realise how close they were to success.

As for if any of the systems being sold online are scams? No doubt there will be, be careful and do your due diligence but in the main when you learn the techniques to market successfully online you can take any of these systems and make a fortune with them. Learn and perfect one and then repeat over and over again creating residual incomes for life.

You are no different to top earners online. If you want this you can have it. Many of the worlds richest internet marketers are school drop outs, you don’t need any qualifications just the right mindset and some hard work! Take the bull by the horns today and see where you are this time next year it could be a very different place than today!

Steve Males, building a successful team of internet marketers in a top online business.