Finally: First Things - Brainstorming

After more than a year of looking around, yes, it is about time to get focussed. Question is, on what - so I better make a list now, and why not blog it, as blogging was the start of it all for me anyways, and I really must post more often.

So... What do I want to do online?
Hmm - what I really want is of secondary importance unfortunately. Therefore let's say here:
I want to earn a living from what I do online. - Why else did I become an Internet Marketer....

Now I learned so far, that the basis is advertising, in any possible way.
But there are just too many ways to actually work in them all. That does not mean to drop all the others and use just one way, but I must pick one after the other and intensify it.

I know by now, what I must do and have about one million guides by about one million gurus which contain about five million diffent advises. - Impossible to sort out this information overload.

So what I am doing now is, scaning my harddrives with closed eyes and picking up long forgotten useful programs, like the one mentioned below. But I must not forget to keep my eyes open and see what is going on at this moment as well.

First, there is a new PLR-Giveaway opening ... Again without me, again no chance for me to build my own list, but I know too, the next JV is coming soon and it is better to be really prepared - not to find something to give away; that is easy - no, one must be prepared to have and maintain the list.

(mental note: discuss this in my Squidoo Lens, as well as the fact, that I am indeed astonished, how few of the many many newcomers to jvs have indeed not been prepared for that, as I see from just too many newsletters I get the content of which shows me this.)

(mental note 2 absolutely unsubscribe from everything for the time being - how can I read these 36+thousand unread mails? I cannot even delete them sorted in time before my bottomless yahoo box is filled!)

(mental note 3 do make some special notes about what content could be fed into your autoresponder, and ask the support what happens, when the last prewritten message is sent to everyone - But really do that later!)

My next steps now - unordered yet:

• Try to make a business plan
• Blog all about this stuff, and sort WHERE
  when ordered, I should officially open the Internet Marketing Blog at sabinering.de.
• Make a Site, on everything concened with advertising first, like the one about the List Builders. Why concerned with advertising? - I need downlines everywhere of course.
  These sites (accompanied by my lenses will be on:
• - Traffic Exchanges
• - Blogging and marketing with content (perhaps a second lense on that)
• - Communities
• - Safelists (will come first, directly after reading the Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide by my fellow-safelister Soren Jordanson, who knows how to do this more effectively then I so far)
• Set up and maintain all my Adsense Sites - that is, for heaven's sake not all of them!
  Only those to be combined with I what I have up already, Internet Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing (must urgently be updated), and my niches in waiting: Anything concerned with --> Health, Wellness, Beauty, Weight Control, --> Love and Relationships, Dating etc. Online mainly.
• Everything with matching affiliate products
• Write some eBooks - why else do I collect PLR like mad? - almost evry item can be improved, updated.
• Most important and hardest to accomplish: Apply everything to German circumstances and start through selling Herbalife here - with the help of internet marketing...
  I just hope, I do not have to become a 'Guru' here first, cause upto now I can see no practicable schemes here :((
  So for I saw, we 'imported' Empowerism and Yorgoo - and I what think about such programs that are nothing but expensive downline builders, I will state more explicitely in a planned lense on newbie traps ...
  Otherwise we have about two traffic exchanges and some paidmailers - but perhaps I can make my son get a good traffic site going on one of the cool domains he recently registered...
  

Ok, now I'll look this over, find the links I might put here - grin, no post without advertisment - and the next post will follow very soon. After the Real Life Work of accounting -

My daily work organization is now: -->Accounting, Taxes, 5 hours; -->doing the house, 2 hours; -->working up neglected household, 2 hours; --> special housework and other things to prepare a short trip in two weeks, 2 hours; -->writing and mailing out adcopy, 2 or 3 hours; -->cleaning mailboxes, downloading, sorting stuff, 6 hours, +-> chat interruptions, 3 hours more, +->random TE-surfing, 1 hour

Oops, I forgot some breaks for eating and preparing food - well, sometimes my son does that, but we cannot live of pizzas and baguettes, lol. Howmany hours of sleep did I plan in?... Let's sum the above up...

Niche Marketing - Creating Your Own Product - with Private Label Rights

All the big hitters and power players will tell you that you need to be creating your own products and marketing them to make the really big money.

And you know what?

That’s absolutely correct. If you want to explode your business and create cash out of thin air then you need to be marketing your own stuff not only affiliate products.

But...and this is a huge “but”.

Creating products is not at all easy. I mean, think about everything that goes into just a digital ebook...

You have to research and write the ebook. That could be anywhere between 40 and 100+ pages.

Then you have to write the sales copy...and not just any old sales copy...no, you need to write copy that bends wills and makes people buy.

Next, you need to create a Thank You/Download page, upload your products to your server, and link them to those pages...

And, then you need to handle the graphics. I’m leaving out some other minor details but I’m sure you get the gist...there’s a lot to do just to create and sell one ebook.

There is a way out of the largest part of all this work:

Private Label Rights. Buy the PLR products, put your name on the ebook and the Sales Letter and bam...in just minutes you’ll have “created” your own brand new product.

You find Private Label Rights all over the Net at the moment - but this would be too easy money of course. You need quality products you can really be proud to put your name on. You must find a site you can trust to deliver those; so that you indeed need to make minor changes only.

And the PLR would be quite useless still, if everyone can get them. Further: To really stand out from the crowd you need to find cutting edge products like audio and video.

Paul Kleinmeulman is launching Automatic Niche Profits today. You NEED to get over there to register right now because he’s limiting the number of members and his sites usually sell out in a couple of days.

He offers Private Label Rights to High Quality Products, including Audio and Video.
If you’re ready to profit at will, take your life and your business to a whole new level, and create money out of thin air, then you owe it to yourself to at least have a look.

I consider myself lucky a friend of Paul was allowed to share these details before the general public finds out. Now I may pass the advdvantage on to You... take it while you can.

Automatic Niche Profits

An Interesting Research on Bloggers and Bloggig

I found this Pdf in the the traffic exchange for blogs "BlogMad" . The report answers one of my following Questions: Who are those Bloggers, Why and What do they Blog? - in general, not for business.

(Quote) : Bloggers: Summary of Findings at a Glance

• Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world.
• Telephone surveys capture the most accurate snapshot possible of a small and moving target.
• Contrary to the impression created by the press attention on political blogging, just 11% of bloggers say they focus mainly on government or politics.
• The blogging population is young, evenly split between women and men, and racially diverse.
• Relatively small groups of bloggers view blogging as a public endeavor.
• The main reasons for keeping a blog are creative expression and sharing personal experiences.
• Only one-third of bloggers see blogging as a form of journalism. Yet many check facts and cite original sources.
• Bloggers are avid consumers and creators of online content. They are also heavy users of the internet in general.
• Bloggers are major consumers of political news and about half prefer sources without a particular political viewpoint.
• Bloggers often utilize community and readership-enhancing features available on their blogs.

Source: Lenhart, Amanda and Susannah Fox. Bloggers. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project, July 19, 2006.
(end Quote)

The report shows also that, at least until the beginning of the year, few Bloggers look after earning money with it, and the Blog as Business tool is not yet too overrun.