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We humans want FAST results.  We are impatient and don’t want to wait too long for whatever we’re trying to achieve. This is why most, if not all, beginners who just got started in the Internet marketing arena want to earn money online today.

This is almost impossible, because these people are still beginners - meaning they do NOT yet possess the necessary skills and expertise to be able to build a sustainable long-term business.

However, if they REALLY REALLY want to earn money online today no matter what, then there is actually one way in which they are be able to do that - and that is to provide their services to other small medium business owners.

Here are 4 services that are in high demand:

1. Writing for other Internet marketers

Almost all Internet marketers (at least those who are serious enough in their business) need content on a regular basis.

No matter what niche they are in - the health niche, beauty niche, weight loss niche, dating niche, golf nice, dog niche, forex niche, etc. - they all need content for their blogs, websites, and to submit to article directories to gain more exposure and backlinks.

Some Internet marketers are even selling PLR (private label rights) article packs in various niches to other marketers.

And you know what? A lot of these PLR articles are written by freelance article writers.

There is clearly a SERIOUS demand for QUALITY article writers. The question is: are your article writing skills GOOD enough so that other Internet marketers want to hire you instead of from your competitors?

2. Doing design work

If you know how to design well, you can also offer web design services to other marketers and business owners.

The Internet has grown to be a place where colorful and fancy websites are showing up all over the place.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Well, the truth is that people DO judge your website by your website design on their FIRST encounter with your website.

Because of this, web designers are also in high demand.

By the way, if you’re looking to get yourself a PROFESSIONAL and EYE CATCHING minisite design done at UNBEATABLE price, then be sure to check out my minisite design service WOW Minisites.

3. Doing programming work

A lot of business owners are not technical persons.

You can provide your programming and computer expertise in helping them set up their blogs, their shopping carts, installing scripts, and possibly even be their part-time webmaster.

4. Doing virtual assistance tasks

When business owners get overwhelmed with the amount of customer service they have to provide, as well as ROUTINE and IMPORTANT yet LOW VALUE tasks that take up a lot of their time, they’ll start to look for solutions to streamline their business.

This is where you can provide them your virtual assistance service like answering their support desk, refunding payments, making payments, bookkeeping, etc.

Internet business owners will gladly pay for the above services if they can lessen their burden of doing the above time-consuming tasks, as well as those tasks that they do NOT know how to do.

This will leave them time for them to do the MOST IMPORTANT things in their business, which is to take their business to a whole new level by thinking about strategies and securing joint-venture deals and networking with other business owners.

So if you’re a beginner looking to earn money online today, be sure to give one of the above 4 methods a try. You can go to freelance websites like http://www.freelancer.com, http://odesk.com, and http://www.elance.com to see which business owners are in need of your services.

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Sometimes when I browse around the net and I come across INTERESTING and USEFUL blogs (not necessarily blogs in the Internet marketing area), I’d like to find out who the creator of the blog is. However, not all blogs have an “About Me” page. Even when they have that page (meaning it’s clickable), some of them are empty. This is a HUGE Internet marketing basics mistake.

Kick Yourself…

If you’re in the Internet business or Internet marketing niche and you have an empty or no “About Me” page on your blog, then you should really kick yourself.

We (as Internet marketers) should know better than everybody else in the world that we ought to have an “About Me” page on our blog so that visitors, prospects, subscribers, and customers can get to know us better.

After all, people buy from those they KNOW and TRUST.

Other people NOT in the Internet marketing niche might not know about this very IMPORTANT principle, but you and I should.

TRUST is the number 1 sales force on the planet!

If you do NOT trust marketer A, you’re NOT going to buy his product even though it’s the greatest product out there in the market.

If you trust marketer B, you might BUY his product even without looking at the sales letter. You just trust him so much that you believe anything he says.

If you don’t have an “About Me” page on your blog, how do you expect your visitors to get to know who you are and what you do?

Sure, you can tell your subscribers and customers later on in your autoresponder emails. But why wait to tell them later when you can do it now?

In addition, what happens to blog visitors who haven’t opted-in to your list? If you tell your story in your autoresponder emails, then they won’t know who you are FOREVER.

Make yourself known in your marketplace.

In fact, I encourage you to be a CELEBRITY in your marketplace.

Whenever anyone thinks about “how to REPLACE THEIR JOB on the Internet“, I want them to think about Welly Mulia.

Whenever anyone thinks about “where can I have a CHEAP yet PROFESSIONAL minisite design done”, I want them to think about WOW Minisites.

Do you get the drift here?

When you become a celebrity in your marketplace, people will regard you as their go-to guy and their trusted advisor. When this happens it’s a lot EASIER to make the sale.

So what should you write in the “About Me” page on your blog?

Be honest and authentic. Don’t try to make up stories that don’t exist just for the sake of looking cool. Your audience will see through that.

You can also share your PERSONAL story that is totally not related to your niche or market. Be personal so that they feel that they know you better than your competitors, who are always ONLY talking about stuff related to your industry.

Make friends with them and ask them to become your subscribers and customers.

Don’t be afraid to tell your EMBARASSING stories too. When you do that, you STAND OUT from the crowd.

How so?

You see, most of the time experts only talk about how great and cool they are TODAY, without telling their other side of the story - which is the PAIN, HARD WORK, and COUNTLESS FAILURES it took them to get to where they are now. They are EMBARASSED by this FACT.

(I say FACT because ALMOST ALL people who succeed at whatever they’re doing encounter and suffer from failures A LOT of times BEFORE they finally learn the correct way to do things and eventually find the success they’ve been looking for…)

Arrogant Creatures

You’ve probably seen a lot of times websites that boast how great and cool they are, complete with pictures showing them driving their Ferrari and enjoying themselves in a Bahamas beach, while all this time money keep pouring into their bank account.

If you can do the EXACT OPPOSITE and instead tell your EMBARASSING and FAILURE story BEFORE you tell your successful story, then there is a higher chance that your audience will relate to you BETTER and like you more.

You become a LIKEABLE person…

I don’t like an arrogant person who always boasts about how much money he’s making and showing off his Ferrari or mansion or whatever. And I believe you don’t like such a person either. This kind of person is NOT likeable.

Be a LIKEABLE person. Get your audience to like, know, and trust you.

Tell them how you first got started in this industry. What was your first attempt trying to make things work like? Tell about your painful experience when you’re just starting out. The shift to how you finally succeed.

Do you have an “About Me” page on your blog? If not, you better starting creating one TODAY so that you can build DEEPER and BETTER relationships with your audience.  Stop making this huge Internet marketing basics mistake.

In the next post, I’m going to cover how you can become a likable person. In the meantime, let me know your thoughts in a comment below…

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A lot of beginner and intermediate marketers make the HUGE mistake of trying to create NEW business ideas or concepts to work from because they think that by creating NEW things, they will attain ADDITIONAL revenue. It’s like “multiple streams of income”, so they say.

(my Internet business school tip though, as you’ll see below, is the TOTAL OPPOSITE…)

For instance, it’s very common to see people jumping from one business opportunity to another, or hopping from one niche to another, BEFORE they actually achieve any kind of decent results in their current business or current niche.

The reasons why people do this are three-fold.

First, like mentioned above, they “think” that by entering multiple businesses and niches, they are going to have multiple streams of income.

Second, they CONCLUDE that the niche or business they are currently in is not profitable since they’ve “tried everything” for 2 WEEKS and they haven’t seen any results yet. They BLAME and find EXCUSES that the problems lie in the business or niche, rather than admitting they themselves are the REAL problems.

Third, they are bombarded with emails and social media messages about the “killer” power of the new info product that’s just been released by some guru. The overly-hyped sales letter motivates and inspires them to believe that by getting this info product, they will ALL OF A SUDDEN discover the “secret magic button”, and all their problems will be solved and they will start making money instantly.

The above reasons are why A LOT of people fail to earn any money online.

As entrepreneurs, we like experimenting with new ideas and concepts.

Doing the same thing over and over again every day is just plain BORING, and we don’t like that at all. We want to get out there and discover NEW ideas to implement. We don’t want to go through the same old, boring cycle. We want NEW concepts to work from. This is our entrepreneurial spirit and it’s hard to change and suppress it.

However, if you take a look around at most of the successful people - since we’re all in the Internet business field, let’s just talk about that for now - most, if not all, are very FOCUSED on what they’re doing.

They do NOT create NEW concepts or ideas to work from. They monitor and tweak EXISITING things that they currently have.

When you create new concepts or ideas to work from, you do NOT have LIVE, REAL data. You start from SCRATCH (a complete standing start). You might have a little direct response marketing skills or copywriting skills or any other business skills, but you still do NOT have live, real data regarding how your new concept or idea is going to perform.

In other words, you are literally BLIND when you start something new.

When you track and tweak EXISTING things or metrics, you have LIVE, REAL data of how you are currently performing.

How many visitors are there per day?

Where do these visitors come from? (so that you can better focus your time and effort on those traffic generation methods that work the best)

What is the squeeze page conversion?

What is the sales conversion?

What is the stick rate of the continuity program? Why are people leaving?

These are questions that can be answered when you monitor and tweak your EXISTING business so that your business INCREMENTALLY improves on a CONSISTENT basis.

(YES! You should not expect your business to become successful overnight…)

Can you start to see why tweaking and improving an EXISTING business that you currently have is MUCH MORE POWERFUL than creating a NEW business from scratch?

The SAD thing is: even after people know about this very important principle, they still try to create NEW things instead of improving EXISTING metrics.

It’s really weird.

They know that action A will produce BETTER results than action B, yet they still CHOOSE to do action B.

And there’s a good reason for that which I’ve mentioned above.

The reason is that tweaking existing metrics in their current business is plain BORING, and creating new things to work from is EXCITING. Entrepreneurs like exciting, new things and hate boring routines!

So how do you solve this problem?

To solve this problem, you must FOCUS on your END GOAL and let is suppress your entrepreneurial spirit!

Think about the wonderful and cool things that are going to happen to you when you have a successful business. Imagine in your head the financial freedom you’ll enjoy, or the thoughts of not having to answer to your boss anymore, or about the red Ferrari you’ve been dreaming of driving, or that posh house that you’ve always wanted to live in, or maybe the feelings of envy and respect from your close friends and family members…

FOCUS on your END GOAL and always let it motivates and inspires you so that you do what you NEED to do instead of what you WANT to do.

Be BORING! This Internet business school tip has saved me from falling deeper into the rat race and helped me quit my day job.

(by the way, if you’re interested in learning more how you too can REPLACE YOUR JOB on the Internet, my Get Profits Fast GOLD Coaching teaches you how in a STEP BY STEP format…)

What do you have to say about my Internet business school tip? Let me know your thoughts below…

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In my last post, I mentioned that I’ve changed the tagline for this blog. Thanks to those who have suggested some great taglines to be used for this blog. I really appreciate your inputs, and have used them to change the sub-tagline of my blog to include my name for branding purposes.

My autoresponder messages are currently also being revamped. It’s 70% done. Still working on the remaining 30%.

It (the new autoresponder email series) is already LIVE though, since the remaining 30% of the emails that are not done yet are those email messages at the END of the series, which will go out to subscribers more than a month after they first subscribe.

Since the new autoresponder series has just gone live, I can take my time to add more messages to complete the remaining 30%.

Why do I need to change and revamp my autoresponder series?

It’s all about CHANGE!

In business, you need to constantly CHANGE and INNOVATE if you want to thrive and prosper. If you don’t then your competitors will EAT YOU UP!

Even though change and innovation is important, some basic concepts remain the SAME. For example, if you take a look at the digital information business model, the business flow is still the same.

You drive visitors to your sales funnel. At the top of the funnel is your squeeze page which you capture visitors’ contact info. Then you sell them your front end product - this is the second phase of your funnel. Most are not going to buy right then and there, which is where your autoresponder messages come in - they’re going to follow up with your subscribers to try to close the sale. The third phase of the funnel is more RELATED products that increase in price and value. At the bottom of the funnel is where you make your profits.

The more visitors you put into the top of the funnel, the more money pops out at the bottom of the funnel.

Here are a few tips about email marketing (that I’ve also applied into my new autoresponder series):

1. Don’t be afraid to email your subscribers

Some marketers I know are too afraid to email their subscribers. They are afraid that they will unsubscribe because they sent them too many emails. As long as you don’t send more than one email every day, there can never be too much emails, provided that your emails are NOT BORING.

The purpose of driving traffic to your squeeze page is to capture visitors’ contact info so that you can follow up with them to demonstrate who you are and build trusting and beneficial relationships with them.

If you’re too afraid to email your subscribers, then you might as well save your time, money, and effort by not creating your squeeze page in the first place.

2. Email more often in the beginning

You should email your subscribers more often in the beginning of your autoresponder series when they have just subscribed to your list.

This is because peoples’ interests change a lot very quickly, and you want to CAPITILIZE on what they are interested in NOW.

They are HOT now!

3. CONSISTENCY in following up is key

It’s very important that you follow up with your subscribers on a CONSISTENT basis. This does not mean that you should email sales pitches all the time - it simply means that you maintain some form of communication ALWAYS. In fact, you should NOT be emailing sales pitches all the time because if you do so, you’re going to lose your subscribers faster than you can get new subscribers into your list.

Maintaining some kind of communication means following up with them and educating them about tips and tricks in your marketplace, entertaining them with your personal stories to let them know you better, and of course, selling them your product.

It’s better to email them twice a month CONSISTENTLY than emailing them once a day for 5 days, and then stop emailing them for the next 30 days, before emailing them again every day for 6 days.

4. Let Subscribers Know YOUR NAME

If you’re doing double opt-in, once people have opted-in, you want to IMMEDIATELY direct them to your sales page where you sell your front end product. At the top of this sales page, you MUST let them know that you’ve emailed them the freebie they requested and they MUST click the confirmation link found within this email before they can get your freebie.

VERY IMPORTANT: When opening emails, people 100% ALWAYS look at WHO the sender is before looking at the subject of the email. Thus, you MUST let them know YOUR NAME so that when the confirmation email arrives in their inbox and they see your name, they want to click on it.

A lot of marketers focus too much on the subject of the email. You should instead focus on letting them know YOUR NAME first.

Failure to do this will result in them not opening your confirmation email and therefore not clicking the confirmation link. This means they are not going to be added to your list and you will lose the opportunity to follow up with them FOREVER!

What do you think? Do you have anything to add or say about email marketing or autoresponder messages? I’ll be glad to hear your thoughts, so leave them in a comment below…

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We Internet marketers buy a lot of products to help us in our business. I’m talking about information products and software.

Let’s say I’m a beginner who wants to learn about building a profitable Internet business. I will go out there and buy an internet marketing product that teaches me how to do what I want to learn - and that is to build an online business.

(Sure I can get free information about building an Internet business by searching on Google, but this will take me A LOT more time and effort as I need to weed through the good and accurate information from the bad ones…)

If I want to do a monotonous task over and over again, I’ll buy software that will help me do this.

So buying information products and/or software that will help us in our business is definitely a good investment.

The point of this article is not to argue about this.

The point is to remind you that before you buy any products, make sure you take the following factors into consideration first:

1. Do You CURRENTLY Need It?

There is no point in buying a product that you CURRENTLY do not have a need for. You might say that you’re going to buy now because of the special one-time-offer discount or early bird discount, but trust me, you’re going to forget that you’ve actually bought the product when the time comes to actually use it.

I’ve been a victim to this a lot in the past and still fall victim up to this date (although the frequency is a lot less now).

Suppose you’re a beginner Internet marketer trying to learn what domain and hosting is, and how to use an FTP program to transfer files from and to your server. It’s useless to buy an information product that teaches you how to JV (joint venture) with other established marketers because these marketers are NOT going to JV with you.

FACE IT. It’s a FACT!

Come on, put yourself in these established marketers’ shoes. If you’re a respected marketer and a newbie comes along and proposes that you promote his new, unproven product, would you do it?

The answer is of course: NO!

Therefore, a beginner should NOT buy the product that teaches how to JV with other marketers because he does not need it NOW. It’s going to be useless for him NOW.

If, however, I’m an established marketer CURRENTLY looking for ways to extend my network and get as many JV partners as I can, then yes I CURRENTLY do need this product and could possibly buy it if other criteria explained below are met.

Always assess your current situation to determine whether you need the product now or not. If you don’t need the product NOW, then do NOT buy it now. Buy it later when you need it later.

2. Are You Buying Based On Your Emotions?

The answer to this is of course “YES”!

As bad as you don’t want to admit it, YOU buy based on your emotions. Me too. So is everyone else.

Remember that sales letters (especially sales letters for information products and Internet business related software) typically contain A LOT of HYPE.

This hype is designed to send your emotions through the roof so that you’ll be “hypnotized” to buy the product in question.

The point here is NOT to ask you to COMPLETELY avoid using your emotions when buying products, since it’s almost impossible to do that (because of the fact that we are humans).

The point is to LESSEN your emotions when you are making a buying decision. Realize and understand that the sales letter for the product you’re eager in buying most likely contains A LOT of HYPE and therefore you should control your excitement.

Face the fact that 99.99% of the time, the product is NOT going to be as good and amazing as the sales letter makes it out to be.

When you can tone down your emotions, your buying judgment becomes a lot better.

3. Who Created The Product?

This is also an important factor to consider.

Do a Google search on the product creator’s name in quotes. For example, if the product creator is Welly Mulia, you go to Google and type in “Welly Mulia” (in quotes).

If no results show up, then DO NOT buy the product because the product creator has no previous track record and do not have a reputation yet. It would be a lot better to buy from someone who has a proven track record, or at the very least has an online presence of some kind.

If Google results show up when you run his name, check out the websites that show up.

Does he have a blog? If yes, spend some time browsing his blog and find out if he really is the real deal. Check out the quality of the blog posts. Observe the comments on his blog posts. See the Alexa rank for the blog to get a general idea of how much traffic the blog is getting.

What are other websites saying about him? Use common sense and your own discretion to judge whether he really is the real deal or just another scammer.

The more results Google return the better, as this will allow you more references to do your research.

If your research indicates that he is an honest product creator who knows what he’s talking about, then his product is probably worth buying.

(…but do NOT buy the product just because he’s an honest product creator; remember to also use the other 2 criteria explained above when making buying decisions)

The Takeaway:

The next time you want to buy an information product or software, make sure that you go over the 3 criteria above first.

If the product passes ALL 3 criteria, then you may go ahead and buy the product in question.

Remember, the internet marketing product must pass ALL 3 criteria; if it fails to pass even one of them, then you should NOT buy it.

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