Outsourcing Building Blocks

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Building your online business must have solid foundations just like a house. Would you build on a swamp? No, but 95% people fail to make money online because they fail to build solid foundations.

Firstly you need to value your time. How much is every hour of your time worth to you? Time is the only resource you will never get back! Secondly you only have 24 hours in a day in which you need to sleep, eat and have a life! If you are working mammoth hours doing all the things you need to do to build and run your business without time with your family / loved ones / friends then you’ll either end up with ill health, stress or worse!

Scaling up your business so that you get automation and recurring income ensures you are building a business that can grow. The great thing about a smaller online world is that you can outsource at a very low cost.

To see why you may need to outsource and scale up your business just take a look at the following elements that make up the cogs in your Internet Business machine:

Site Development * Merchant Accounts * Content Creation * Blog * Articles * Video * List Building * Bonuses * Sales Letters * Affiliate Program * SEO * Joint Venture Recruitment * RSS Feed * Customer Service * Surveys * Keyword Research * Legal Uses * Insurance * Advertising

..the list goes on

Before you choke on your coffee most online entrepreneurs have started somewhere and not had the learning resources or knowledge available at hand to be aware of all these elements and had to make mistakes, waste time and money.

Outsource resources:

http://www.1webpromotion.com
http://www.outsourcesuccess.com/
http://www.agentsofvalue.com/
Recommended reading:
The 4 Hour Work week
Also check out the blog:
4 hour work week blog

Joint Venture Partnerships

Making good JV partnerships is one way you can speed up the success of a product, by having other marketers/businesses promote your product for a commission to their mailing list. This could bring in a vast amount of sales and additions to your list. Setting up JV partners takes work, connections and a willingness to get out there and mix. The worst thing you can do is email the big guns asking them to promote your product. They get countless emails like this everyday and unless you’re extremely exceptional or your product is you’re likely to get a resounding silence in return.

There’s no better way to connect by meeting face to face, and although this is the normal thing to do in the offline business world, online people tend to want to hide behind their machines. Getting yourself to a seminar may not be cheap but will definitely help your JV endeavours and could change your life. The first seminar I attended I met dozens of contacts who I still keep in touch with and do business with on a regular basis.

Anyway, that’s the best way, but failing that try to make yourself known by commenting on their blogs or joining forums. Another great way to get JV’s is to buy their product and relate your feedback to them. You are essentially looking for ways to get to know potential partners and to offer them something – give them value and they’ll look at you differently. Everyone is human.

Marketing Samurai

I mentioned the 30 day challenge in another post a few days ago and we’re on about day 5 now. The ‘killer’ app they are showcasing is marketing samurai, which for 30DC members, has a forty day free trial with the option of getting the full version at a heavily discounted price. This software is going to become the Research King - focusing on keywords, web-site and analysis data, all on a single theme.

The stuff Dan, Ed and Guru Bob are teaching here is unlike anything else on the web. Teaching you a system to make your first $10 online - this may not seem like a lot but the point is 30DC is showing you a system that works and can be used to make money online…and you get your mitts on this fantastic keyword research software that pushes the envelope!

Remember there is no charge for awesomeness (and you’ll hear that a lot

Recurring Membership Site Sale

There are literally thousands of ways to make money online, which is why most people fail to do so, jumping from one model to the next. Taking the methodical approach and sticking to one strategy can reap massive rewards.

Take the subscription based membership model, for example, a solid business model as you can get, where members pay you a monthly fee for access to a private area where they can access you information. This could be in the form of articles, reports, audios, videos, teleseminars, downloads, software and more.

Even a low cost membership at $9.97 a month only needs 300 members to generate $3k a month. At a more average $19.95 a month you’re looking at a monthly income of nearly $6k.

Setting up a membership website has got a lot easier and I touched on recurring income earlier post on affiliate strategies, but once the initial work of setting up your membership site is done it’s just a case of adding and updating the content. Even this, in my book, can be a time resource hog, but more on that in a second.

Let’s look at the steps to put together a successful membership website.

Step 1
Choose a market. This is critical. You should look for a market you’re going to enjoy working in as well as a market people spend money in. People spend money where they are passionate. Markets like sports, pets, business, and hobbies all make hot markets to launch a membership website

Step 2
Test the market. Visit forums and chat rooms and ask people if they know of any good websites that offer up-to-date information.

Step 3
Use your research from Step 2 to develop a rough outline of what your website will offer your members

Step 4
Write a sales letter and have the graphics professionally designed. If you can’t do this yourself, hire a freelancer from elance.com or guru.com

Step 5
Set up the membership software to run the site.

Step 6
Populate the site with your content

Step 7
Market your site and let the cash flow begin.

7 simple steps and you’ve got a membership website that will generate a solid monthly cash flow for you. Each step takes some effort and energy, but you can have your first membership website completely set up and running in less than a month. Then you can repeat the process as many times as you like to increase your membership portfolio and your monthly income.

Back to what I was saying before – what about all that monthly updating? If you have a portfolio of membership sites that could be a lot of work.

Well the solution to that is to have a membership site that is updated for you, every month, so all you have to worry about is promotion and marketing to keep the numbers (and your income) up and growing.

For 7 days, you can bypass the whole membership website creation process. You can get your complete membership website, ready to upload to your server right now. Terry Telford and Edwin Ryan are having a 7 day only sale and you can read all the details over there. Highly recommended!

Visit the 7 day only Membership website sale

Giving Your Affiliates Ammo

It’s no secret that having an army of affiliates promoting your product or service can seriously ramp up the traffic and sales! Hordes of people driving traffic for you via GoogleAds, Articles, Blogs and the rest. So it’s important to keep them sweet with lots of goodies that they can use to promote your stuff.

• Consider Banners of all sizes
• Pre-written Emails
• Articles
• Pre-written Press Releases
• Pre-written Forum Signatures
• Google Ads (with Keywords) - trust me they’ll love you for it
• Their own Landing Pages (so they can build their list)
• Viral Reports
• Videos they can brand
• Give them their own domain

It is a bit of work but the results are going to carry on producing for you long after the work done.

Creating Banners
Ok if you don’t do this kind of stuff, it’s probably something you want to include when you have all your product graphics done. There are plenty of internet graphics services out there here are a few:

http://www.ecovermedia.com
http://www.pulpminisites.com

Pre written emails
Well written, bringing in story elements and call to action. Study the emails you’ve received that made you click through. Remember this is not the sales page..that has its own job..you just need to get your readers to click through to it.

Articles
Laser focused on your niche with a strong call to action for the resource box. Articles are low cost to get written! Check out the warriorforum.com and go to Warrior Special Offers (be warned, you may never leave)

Press Releases
OK these are powerful and you should be doing them for your own products for certain. But how about one or two rewritten for your affiliates to use? - Give them a video explaining the submission process to free PR sites such as:

pr-insider.com
pressreleasemonkey.com

Forum signatures need to be snappy and to the point, you’ve got a sentence or two to play with.
Google Ads - make sure they are the right character account that actually fit into the different fields in Google Adwords and a list of well researched keywords will go a long way to giivng you streams of traffic.

Domain name. Give your best affiliates a domain name to forward to your site with their affiliate link. This motivates a stronger campaign on their behalf.

Landing Pages - Ties in with giving them a domain name, giving affiliates the option to host their list building landing page.

Report - OK may as well give them something they can give away and build their list with - so rebrandable viral report.

Use:
http://www.viraldocumenttoolkit.com

Videos
Create a video for your affiliates to distribute check out
http://www.vivaviralvideo.com/
http://www.webvideozone.com/public/department52.cfm

Good luck with your Affiliate Army!