The writer behind the Movie is Ta-Nehisi Coats. He is the comic strip writer for Marvel. He is the mastermind behind what is coming next. To read more see: http://austinsgift.com/black-panther-2-reveal/
Friday, June 14, 2019
What is Next for Black Panther?
The writer behind the Movie is Ta-Nehisi Coats. He is the comic strip writer for Marvel. He is the mastermind behind what is coming next. To read more see: http://austinsgift.com/black-panther-2-reveal/
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Book On Writing
Paula LaRocque Author
The Book on Writing is the definitive guide to writing well, her advice is sound, and writers will find clear and useful advice here. Paula has a way of teaching artful storytelling in a simple, basic, and accurate way. She demonstrates clarity, simplicity, and dignity with every word.
Writing Mechanics
One dozen guidelines to good writing.
Learn to keep sentences short, varied, and focused on one main idea. Paula teaches avoiding pretensions, gobbledygook, and euphemisms. She shows how to change long and difficult words to short and simple phrases that have meaning and accurate power. Avoiding jargon, fads, and cliches is also a point that she clarifies.
Always use the right word, clarity in thought and simplicity in structure. Avoid the long dependent phrase beginning, and prefer active verbs and active nouns to adverbs and adjectives. Cut the wordiness, get to the meaning of what you are saying, avoid vague qualifiers and prune prepositions. Get right to the point and stay there.
Story Telling Devices
A story requires a number of things. Paula explains which ones to pay attention to. Archetype, or the model to follow, character, plot. Analysis of a story and how the parts work together.
Don’t say everything: how to show rather than say, and how to create suspense and fulfillment by withholding information for the right time to reveal it. Involve the readers and make them do some work to draw conclusions and see beneath the covers.
Take a picture of the scene and display a character in a point of time. Use metaphor and symbol to give deeper meaning to the story and situation. Let the sound echo the sense, write fast, but edit slowly. Watch out for the speed-bumps on the way, and review the logic.
The Writers Handbook
The last section of the book is the writers handbook. It includes a short quiz, some myths that need to be dispelled, and a style guide and summary that you will return to again and again.
This really is the best writing guide that you will find.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
APE Author Publisher Entrepreneur
Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch
Three Parts to Play if You Want To Succeed as a Writer
Author
Guy and Shawn explain how to write your book. They go over a lot of information that most people don’t have. From how to finance your book, to how to edit the book.
They go over tools that writers can use and what made the difference while they were putting their book together. Among the important details of creating a book, they discuss how to avoid the dreaded self-published look. Probably the most important part of getting your book off of the ground is to make it look professional.
They also go over how to get a professional looking cover, and how to design it so that it is effective in drawing in the target audience. The book cover and the title are the only thing most people see–and you get two seconds or less to make the impression that you want.
How to Publish Your Book
A basic understanding of book distribution is required. Knowing how to use the available distribution channels is a must. They cover Amazon, Apple, Barns and Noble, Google, and Kobo.
Discussions about converting your file to different formats for each of the distribution channels, how to sell your book directly to customers, how to use author-services companies, print-on-demand, and even how to price your book, are found in this inclusive volume.
Book Marketing is a Big Deal
Issues that involve book marketing are things like how to navigate Amazon, how to guerilla-market your book, how to build your brand, how to create a platform, how to use social media, how to use blog commenting, and how to pitch bloggers and reviewers.
The Case Study
They show how the principles in the book are applied with the case study for their own book. Nothing can be better than to see the principles espoused clearly demonstrated and the results examined.
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Monday, April 14, 2014
Write Faster 2K to 10K
Writing Faster
Every author dreams of writing faster, it is just part of the package. Isaac Asimov explained that if he found out that he had a terminal disease and would die soon, he wouldn’t get depressed, he would just write faster.
Rachel Aaron tells her story, and describes what it takes to write faster. What I found interesting about her book is that it the answer to faster writing is a little bit obvious, but she breaks it down and provides some templates, tools, and resources that really make writing faster a reality.
Creating a Novel
Rachel presents 5 steps (6 really) that will help any author organize their novel, starting from deciding which story to write to actually designing the plot. She helps any author build a firm foundation for their novel.
Creating Characters
Characters who write their own stories are those you can write quickly, and become endearing to readers. Rachel talks about the concept of agency, and helps authors develop a character sheet with details that help drive the character.
The Three-Act Story
Building a story with suspense and anticipation is required for today’s reader. The book explains how the architecture of the book, chapters, and scenes that will keep an audience interested to the very end.
Creating Scenes
A scene must do all of the following things:
Advance the story, reveal new information, pull the reader forward.
If a scene doesn’t do one of the above, it isn’t enough to progress the story and can’t be a scene on its own.
Editing for People Who Hate Editing
Rachel understands writers. Editing is a bother, and most authors try to avoid it. That is the wrong approach and will leave typos that will destroy the author’s credence with his or her audience. She explains how to make editing less painful and more productive. She introduces some tools, and helps authors get a grip on editing.
2K to 10K is a great book, it will help you write faster, and better.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Seven Secret Steps To Best Selling Author
Book By Dennis Eagle and Oliver Villegas
Kindle has created an opportunity that has never been seen in the literary world before. It provides a market place that can cater to every whim and desire, and is large enough for every author. The problem becomes being discovered somewhere in the 2.5 million titles on Kindle.
Getting At The Core Problem–Becoming a Best Seller
Dennis Eagle and Oliver Villegas attack the problems of writing a book, getting it published, getting it discovered, and selling copies. It is full of templates, checklists, and down to earth awesome author advice.
Best Selling Advice
The advice is immediately implementable and can be consumed in little bits and pieces. It is full of good questions and answers, routines for getting your ideas together and making sure that you are addressing the needs of customers.
How to Market Your Book
The book spends a good deal of time on marketing, some good tactics to get a lot of search traffic, and other ways of promoting your book.
Comprehensive Book
Overall this is one of the most comprehensive books on developing a Kindle eBook out there. It is a good place for beginning authors to start, but has enough details and content that I haven’t seen anywhere else that it would be excellent for veterans as well.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Learn to Write for Kindle
A Non-Fiction Book in 72 Hours or Less
Nancy Hendrickson is a full-time author, she has 13 print books and several Kindle books. She really knows her stuff, and she has an excellent conversational style to her writing.
Nancy’s Credentials
She has a five step system to writing and publishing a book that really makes sense. Hendrickson walks you through the process and points out the important things that need to be done. She is also quick to point out just what is most likely to trip you up as a new or first-time author.
Writing Approach
Hendrickson’s approach is high on quality rather than quantity. Her pet peeve appears to be the proliferation of junk eBooks—and she explains how to avoid those very pit falls, to make sure that your book has quality, a professional cover, and over all competence.
What’s Inside
Discussions on outlining, grammar, and marketing are key areas of focus for the book. But, I really liked the discussion on how to write a non-fiction book fast.
If you are thinking of writing a non-fiction book, this book needs to be in your tool kit!
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Monday, March 24, 2014
On Writing By Stephen King
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
If you are going to learn writing, it might as well be from someone who has a lot of successful books out there. Stephen King is a literary genius, for sure. Much of his advice follows other main stream writers and coaches, but some of it seems to fly in the face of conventional wisdom. The magic of this book is Stephen’s way of tying the advice into his history of a writer and what led him to the conclusions he proposes as good writing.
What I loved about his presentation of the book is that his process of creating a book revolves more around creating memorable characters, putting them in specific situations, then letting the characters work their way out of the problems.
Emphasis on Character
I have been taught many times to focus on the plot and the flow of the book. Stephen King looks at it differently with a greater focus on character development and handling the situation that the character finds himself in.
War on Adverbs
I also love the all out war on Adverbs. Apparently Adverbs are superficial and extraneous. They really aren’t needed, and should be avoided, according to King.
Best One-Liners
I love his one-liners: “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
If I have ever read a book that was both informational and entertaining at the same time, this would be the book.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Author Reveals Secrets
New Book Release
Dean Giles an Amazon # 1 bestselling author, recently released his highly anticipated work, “Write a Step-by-Step Book.” The volume is loved for its simplicity and practical nature. It is being acclaimed as The Resource for anyone who is serious about being a non-fiction writer.
Nonfiction writers are unique in the world. They are the unsung heroes that are actually trying to make a difference in the world and the lives of other people. But many nonfiction writers find themselves frustrated by the writing process. Writing can be difficult and knowing how to research ideas, organize the ideas, and put those ideas into something that will really be useful can be an art form.
Most Authors Are Doing it Wrong
“Truthfully, most authors are doing it wrong, and it shows. If the process feels like going to the dentist, then you really are doing it wrong.”
Writing can be a natural and enjoyable thing. It can naturally lead to both self-fulfillment and good profits, but there are some simple steps that, if followed, can lead to a book that is better accepted and much more profitable.
Simple Steps To Success
Those simple steps are outlined in this easy-to-read, and straight-forward manual. “The key is in the discovery process and the focusing of the author’s effort in producing something that is exactly what the customer needs and presented it in a way that anyone can follow the advice.” Says, the author, Dean Giles.
Readers are attracted to books because of the promise of information. Many books are full of fluff and rhetoric. They never really get to the meat of the problem or how to go about implementing a solution. Writers that can truly identify those needs and spell out how to solve those problems one step at a time, will quickly gain a following and true fans of their work.
The book comes with an easy, step-by-step checklist that will guarantee that nothing is missed along the way.
Take Your Writing Up a Level
As an author, you can move your writing to the next level Step-by-Step, and enjoy the benefits of finishing a nonfiction book that really helps other people, is direct-to-the-point, and can be completed in less time than you ever imagined. Learn more at Write a Step-by-Step book by Dean Giles http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I0MKFVY
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Write a Bestseller?
Bestseller Lists
There are a number of bestseller lists, the New York Times bestseller list, the USA Today bestseller list–but today, my favorite bestseller list is the Amazon Category Bestseller list!
I recently ran a promotion for one of my books, a Google Keyword Planner Book.
Get it here. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E45ADKE/
It had a number of sales after the promotion, and ended up as the #1 bestseller in TWO Categories.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,239 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)- #1 in Books > Computers & Technology > Home Computing & How-to > Online Searching
- #1 in Books > Computers & Technology > Internet & Web Culture > Internet & Education
- #2 in Books > Education & Reference > Schools & Teaching > Education Theory > Research
- #1 in Books > Computers & Technology > Home Computing & How-to > Online Searching
How did I get there?
I kind of fell into the niche and topic. When Google announced they were going to do away with the Keyword Tool, I found myself, out of necessity, moving to the Keyword Planner, kicking and screaming the whole way.
I decided that I might be able to alleviate some of the pain that I experienced for someone else, so I wrote the book. I think that it has hit a sympathetic chord with a few other people out there.
I posted the book promotion to 41 Facebook Groups. The groups are listed in my Write a Step-by-Step Book, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I0MKFVY .
I also promoted the book on Fiverr, using a gig and a gig extra by bknight where they submitted my free book promotion to 15 free book sites, posted the free book to their blog, and sent out my promotion in their email. At the end of the promotion, the book was selling at a pretty good rate, that more than paid for the $10 spent on the promotion.
You Could Be a Bestselling Author
The opportunity to write a book and profit from it is better than it ever has been in history. I present a step-by-step method for creating non-fiction books that can sell, and I present it in a straight-forward, actionable manner. Although, my emphasis is around step-by-step books, the advice is effective, timeless, and can be used around any niche or genre. Just see for yourself, you might be surprise that you too can write a bestselling book.
Write a Step-by-Step Book, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I0MKFVY .
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Best Selling Ideas for Writing Nonfiction
Know Your Customer
Nonfiction is all about delivering what the customer wants. That means solving a real problem, or multiple problems. It usually means step-by-step processes that users can implement immediately to find relief from what is bothering them, or paths to obtaining what they need.
Many nonfiction books are “How To” manuals. People purchase these types of books for personal improvement.
How to Get to Know Your Customer
I read it all the time. If you want to know what your customers want, just “ask them.” That seems pretty easy if you have an email list, a tribe, or a following. Most writers start from scratch. We don’t have any of those things, so we don’t have a built in group of people to ask about to discover what they need.
If you do have a following, and you do have an interactive platform, then start now by asking “what are your biggest frustrations?” Or “what is stopping you from taking the next step?” Open ended questions like these will certainly bring the concerns to the forefront. If you have connected with your audience, you can have a discussion on your blog or other web presence that will narrow down what your customers need.
If you don’t have a following yet, then how do you get to know your customer?
You have to discover where they hang out. You have to interact with them, and you have to begin to build a relationship one person or group at a time.
The most successful authors will have books in a series or clustered in specific niches, because once they have a reader that likes their material, they can make that reader a fan. A true fan will purchase the next book that the author comes out with. A true fan will buy everything that author has to offer about information in his niche or topic of interest.
Create a Customer Funnel
Make no mistake, the best way to develop that fan base is to write more books. If there are no more of your books to read, you will lose your fan base. People will go on to other authors and forget about you. You have to supply what they want–more of your books.
It is true, that as a nonfiction writer, you have to select topics of interest. In the following posts, I will discuss how to find the topics that will garner the most interest, and therefore give you the best chances of writing a successful nonfiction book. But, remember that the strategy is always to create a customer funnel that will readers to you and your books, and will move them from one book to the next. These funnels draw a few people at a time, and over time will create the fan base that you need to sell a lot of books. This isn’t ”
get rich quick” mentality. It isn’t even a quick sprint to riches, but a long term strategy that will produce an increasing stream of income over a period of time and concerted effort.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Big Mistakes You Need To Avoid
Big Mistakes You Need To Avoid
Questions and Answers with Marlon Sanders
Presented By Dean Giles
Why do I need to avoid the big mistakes?
What you want to avoid is the big mistakes. It will save you months if not years of wasted time and effort. It means how not to LOSE money, and how to make money while you are doing it.
What are the big mistakes?
#1 Never doing anything.
#2 Try to sell to everyone.
#3 Spending all of your money on one high-end coaching program without investigating it.
#4 Not building a list.
#5 Searching for the one system that sounds the easiest with the least amount of work.
#6 Not really focusing and getting lead generation down pat.
#7 Thinking you have to have the perfect product before you sell it.
#8 Never getting good at selling.
#9 Hopping on the band wagon.
#10 Doing all of the technical stuff yourself.
Here is a break out of the first few mistakes.
#1 Never doing anything.
This sounds obvious. But it’s an EASY trap to fall into because you keep learning, learning and learning. It’s easy to fall prey to the fear of making mistakes and the fear of being criticized. A lot of people never sell big ticket products because they’re afraid of being criticized. You know, if you sell a $27 ebook, no one is going to get too upset if they think it sucks.
But if you sell something for a G, and people think it sucks, yeah, they’ll complain. But you can’t let that fear hold you back. Just try to produce good products. It’s true that if you do something and it doesn’t work you could feel like your “dream” will never happen. But it’s 100% it’ll never happen if you never do anything.
Instead of seeing your results as your own personal ability being judged, see your activities as performing marketing tests. More on this attitude in a second.
Law 1: Do something.
#2 Try to sell to everyone.
It’s like trying to catch bass in the ocean. You’re probably going to have more success catching bass in a lake. Think of it as fishing in ponds or lakes. Over here you have bass. Over here you have something else.
You have to find a LAKE to fish in. Now, I don’t fish. So it’s not a perfect analogy. But you get the idea. You can look at it as shopping malls. A shopping mall in one part of town is going to have different stores than one in another part of town, right?
You don’t put the Neiman’s or Nordstrom’s (high end stores) in the low rent part of town. The point of targeting a specific group of people is it’s easier to know what they want and be specific about how you provide that.
Look at marketing like this. You have a specific group of people and you are performing a marketing experiment to find out IF these people will actually spend money to solve a problem or get a defined result. It’s a test. It’s an experiment. You do your research to find out what they are already spending money on. Then you find the next link in the chain as I’ve taught in other courses. Then you launch your test out there and see the results. The results are NOT a statement about you nor your marketing. They’re the results of a test.
Law 2: Find a pond to fish in.
#3 Spending all of your money on one high-end coaching program without investigating it.
I see people spend all their piggy bank money on one high-end program or coaching program without really investigating the feedback on the Internet about it. Be REALLY cautious about spending all your piggy bank on one program that promises the world — EVEN if your favorite “guru” endorses or promotes it. In marketing, you do reciprocal mailings for friends.
It’s almost impossible to avoid. Or you owe someone a favor. Now, I personally do about 100X less of these than anyone else. It’s cost me a great deal of money to NOT do these. But I’ve always tried to put my concerns for my customers first. But even at that, on occasion I owe a favor to a friend. And I work hard to only promote good products when I do that.
But do your research no matter who endorses it … IF it’s a very significant chunk of your piggy bank. If it’s discretionary money, don’t sweat it so much. For me personally, it was a VERY big breakthrough
in 1992 (or somewhere in there) when I spent $5,000 for Jay Abraham’s Marketing Protégé program.
Nowadays many of the things I learned are common knowledge — USP, lifetime value of a customer, endorsed mailings. But at the time, NO ONE taught these things. And I learned an enormous amount very quickly, even though the program wasn’t structured and was more a hodgepodge.
Then again, that’s a bit how Jay’s mind works. And I’m kinda that way too. So it all worked for me. At the time, $5,000 was a lot of money to me. So I kinda spent my piggy bank. So I’m not against big ticket purchases. But some people just buy junk from a high-powered telephone sales pitch and do almost
no research on it…. All because the person on the phone says they are calling on behalf of XYZ guru.
Fact is, some marketers sell their leads to telephone sales rooms that call and sell very large ticket coaching programs. You should know that. I don’t do it. But some people do. A lot of these phone rooms are in Utah. In the biz, it’s known as selling your leads to Utah and everyone knows what that means.
There may be good programs there also. I don’t know all of them. I know that in SOME of the programs, the “coaches” have a notebook with 50 programs in it. And they do coaching for all kinds of programs from real estate to Internet marketing. So you can imagine how useful the coaching is.
They usually start selling at $10,000 and then just keep going lower till people say yes. By the same token, I know of one company like this where the marketer goes In and personally trains the coaches then does monthly follow up with them. So I’m not saying as a blanket statement they’re all bad.
All I’m saying is be smart. Don’t be stupid. Do your research no matter WHO endorses the product.
At the same time, I see people agonize over a $97 product. You know, come on. Keep this in perspective. No one product is going to change your life in all likelihood. Success is the result of an accumulation of knowhow and skills.
Law 3: Do your research.
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Do yourself a huge favor, find out what mistakes to avoid, then focus and get your business going.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Give Them What They Want
Give Them What They Want
These immortal words were penned by Churchill, sang by popular hit artists, and recently applied to marketing. In the world of authorship and infopreneuring there could not be a better mantra.
Mark Joyner, in the Great Formula, said, “Find a thirsty crowd, and sell them a glass of water.”
The trick to producing a book or product that sells, isn’t in necessarily finding the “silver bullet” of a topic, as it is finding an “audience” and delivering what they want. I love the imagery that Mark Joyner employs, as he talks about finding a thirsty crowd, then selling them a glass of water.
Where is Your Thirsty Crowd?
Where are the rabid fans that want what you have to deliver? That can be a tricky question. You may have to find them a few at a time and create an email list to cater to their needs. This seems to be a very successful model.
However, getting to a point where you have a following seems to be the real catch. Where do you find your potential customers, and how do you discover what it is that they need?
Finding Your Audience
The Internet has natural pockets of people that share common interests. Usually you can find some of the biggest websites catering to specific interests just by doing Google searches. The top pages returned will often be the ones with the most traffic. You can also search for forums on your chosen topic. There are lots of forums out there.
Now that you have found people interested in your topic, how do you find out what they really want or need? That can be a tricky question also. I find that searching for the threads that have the most views and/or responses tend to let you know what is on the minds of those on the forum. My suggestion is to find the biggest ones, become a member of the forum, and join in the discussion. At some point you can ask, “what are your biggest frustrations?” You want to narrow down their biggest pain points, then you can begin researching how best to help relieve that pain.
Now Give Them What They Want
At this point, you should be very empathetic. You should know a little bit about your audience. You should understand the questions that they are asking, and with a little research you should be able to give them the best answers available at this time. Do a good job with the research—make sure what you give them is actionable, and step-by-step if possible. Focus on solving a single problem, one that can make a good book title, or good sound-bite. That will help build your brand and your name recognition.
Your goal as a writer is to connect to your audience, pull them in, and help them out. If you can do that you will have people returning again, and again to get more of what they want from you. Be sure that your answers are as thorough as they need to be. I have heard Barbara Ling say, ”sell them what they want, but deliver what they need.” I think that is an important point. Often customers have an idea of what it is that they want, but they don’t know exactly what it is that they need. You have done the research, you should know what they need as well, and you have to deliver that.
Writing a book or an information product that sells depends on finding your audience, understanding them well enough, to give them what they want and what they need.
That is the formula in a nut shell. Now go out and put it into practice.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
30 Day Productivity Plan: Internet Marketer's Edition
The 30 Day Marketing Plan
I just picked up an amazing product. It is called The 30 Day Marketing Plan. It really is a complete system for creating a long-term passive income. It is understanding yourself, then putting into place the systems that will make you productive in the things that will make you money. It was created by a highly successful Internet Marketer named Dennis Becker. Here is what he has to say about the product.
I know that my original and also the updated versions of 5 Bucks a
Day helped 1000′s of people, and this one sort of goes along with
those, because those assumed that someone was not only capable of
knowing what projects to create, but also quick to finish them.
I’ve been asking some questions in my Facebook group, The IM Inside
Track, and am hearing what challenges are facing people.
Although many aren’t putting these exact words on their challenges,
I know from my own history, and observing and listening to 1000′s of
readers and members of Earn1KaDay that one thing people do is overthink
things.
Internet marketing can be thought of as simply giving value to
someone seeking a solution to a problem, where the buyer spends
money for the solution.
Simple really.
There are billions of people online, most of them have multiple
problems that they’re searching for solutions to.
The odds are that you can help some of those billions of people
in some way, shape, or form.
One symptom of overthinking is that there’s a perception that
something that can be found through Google for free has no value.
That’s hardly the case, and I could make a lengthy argument against
that, but can we just agree that people who create infoproducts
giving information that’s freely available can earn money?
Beyond creating infoproducts, there are many other ways to earn a
living online, such as performing services that you can do better
than some of those billions of people… such as creating software
or apps… such as building niche sites, or membership sites…
the list is virtually endless of things that you can help others do.
Many people have created 100′s of products. I have. A bunch of my
associates have.
If you haven’t, I have no doubt that you could, if you change your
thinking and improve your productivity.
That’s where my new book comes in:
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There’s a perception that getting a product to market takes a lot
of time. That’s so wrong.
There’s a perception that getting a quality product to market is
difficult. That’s so wrong, also.
You may have a perception that you aren’t capable to producing a
product with value that people will pay for.
Also wrong.
Maybe you’ve tried. Maybe you spent long hours and sleepless nights
trying to get everything done and perfect. Maybe you got frustrated
and gave up. Maybe you got it done but it didn’t sell so well, so
you decided not to do it again.
I’ll admit it, those things happen. They’ve happened to me as well.
My first Warrior Special Offer sold 1 copy. I worked for over 6
months to create that product.
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I have a system, I have confidence, and I can teach it to you:
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The 30 Day Marketing Plan, like 5 Bucks a Day, is destined to be a
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Have a spectacular day.
Dennis Becker, the 5 Buck Guy
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P.P.S. I was encouraged by an early reader that the title of this
book isn’t really doing it justice, and that it could be, should
possibly be “The 30 Day Productivity Plan: Internet Marketers Edition”,
and you know what? That could be true.
The whole concept of this book is to get more done in 30 days than
you’ve gotten done all year, and that’s productivity, right? Maybe
I’ll change the title later, but today… this is an important book
that I want you to read now, so that you can finish 2013 strong and
leap into 2014 on fire:
30 Day Productivity Plan: Internet Marketer's Edition
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Online Expert
Get Expert Results By Doing What The Experts Do
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a Model is worth ten-thousand words.
I started taking piano lessons when I was eight or nine years old. My aunt was my piano teacher, and a pretty good one at that. Being a typical boy, I had a hard time taking time out to practice, but my aunt was patient with me, and figured out how to motivate me.
One particular lesson had each hand working a different rhythm. I could see the notes on the paper, my aunt had explained to me what I was supposed to be doing, intellectually it all made sense–but my little hands just wouldn’t cooperate.
Whether it was inspiration or desperation on her part, she sat down on the piano bench next to me and placing her hands in the same position on the piano, only a couple of octaves higher, and played the little excerpt with me. I was able to watch her expert fingers do what I had felt was impossible. It all sort of clicked for me then. I was able to mimic what she was doing and get the piece down perfectly.
I have seen so many struggle dearly online. They are doing what they have been told from countless products and eBooks, but when it comes to making money online–success only happens when they can break down a successful model and duplicate it.
Marlon Sanders has captured the essence of 21 online experts showing you the working of their ultra-successful models. He has a lifetime worth of interviews and commentary where he takes apart the secrets that make the models successful and outline them step-by-step. Marlon Sanders is known as the King of step-by-step marketing, because no one else can break down the complexities of online marketing and deliver them in bite sized morsels that anyone can digest.
This is the culmination of his life’s accumulation of marketing models, and he is sharing them for the first time.
You owe it to yourself to get the models that actually work, with Marlon’s expert dissection and commentary, you will be able to get the results of the experts by following their simple but effective models.
Get the expert models here: http://incomenow.org/book-of-secrets
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
A Simple Secret Delivers Huge Results
Here Are The Secrets
Walter said, “Hey Marlon, what did you think of the swimming pool?”
I spit back, “Walter, WHAT swimming pool?”
He said, “Go through the door at the side of the room.”
See, I was there to write a letter to help him sell his seminar. I’d get roughly $7500 to $10,000 for it, not bad for mucking around at Starbucks. So Walter let me stay in the bedroom of his old house (he’d just built a new one).
I opened the door and sure enough. A freakin’ Olympic-sized swimming pool that originally belonged to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the ex-President. It’s not every day you seem something like that in a bedroom.
Then again, it ain’t every day you talk to someone worth SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, who’s paying you to help THEM sell stuff. But he way he MADE that $600,000,000 million is ever more fascinating — and I’ll tell you about that in a minute…
Walter had a SECRET….
One secret. The first time he used it, he cashed out for $78 million. Then he used the same secret to cash out 3 more times in completely different industries for a grand total of $600 million.
In other words, he took one secret and sucked huge chunks of cash out of 4 entirely different industries using it.
But that’s not the only secret.
Want to know who has been on the Oprah show 120 times, and what his secret is?
How about a young man at age 19 who brings in $50,000 per month. Want to know what his secret is?
Marlon Sanders has collected a huge number of marketing secrets that he is finally willing to share. He spent years gathering and Thousands of dollars. But you can get it for a pittance.
Just see what secrets might help you.
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Facebook for Every Phone What's in it for you?
Why Facebook?
Even my kids all have a Facebook account. They post funny pictures and let me know about upcoming events that I wouldn’t know about if it weren’t for Facebook. I hate that I have become an addict, but frankly I would have a hard time without Facebook.
Well, some very intelligent people have extended my access in so many wonderful ways. Facebook for every phone has made the Facebook app available on as many as 3000 devices.
Facebook Everywhere
I have it available when I’m traveling or just waiting in line. Facebook is easier than email, and with messaging can be just as immediate. I just love the multi-media, where I can create and post video instantaneously. I love that I can catch up with old friends, be reminded of reunions and get-togethers.
But, best of all, now it is available as an app on any of my devices. I can jump on my iPod, when all of the computers in the house are in use, and it is available immediately.
Facebook and Lists
I have also found that Facebook is the new way to create a list. They say that the money is in the list. I have spent a bit of time and money trying to build up an email list. With the new tabs in Gmail, my open rates have fallen below 50%. In one list it was under 10%.
Facebook Fanpages create lists much easier, and it happens to be people who are on Facebook all of the time, and who participate in online discussions.
Facebook People Are Also Buyers
People on facebook buy things. They buy things online, and they use the social media to tell them what it is that they should buy. How many likes do you see run by your feed. That is people socially sharing what they have bought or what they are thinking about buying.
I found an amazing product that can put Amazon Products on my Facebook Fanpage in three easy steps.
Finally, a quick way to fill out a fanpage, and actually get paid for it. This is the monetization method that can use the biggest social network to drive traffic to you, and pay you handsomely for it. And it is so fast and so easy to use. The thing is, you are going to be on Facebook anyway–why not make it profitable to be there?
Just take a peek at how it can work for you.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Learning From Hard Knocks
“How The School of Hard Knocks Taught Me The Importance of ‘The List’ – And How This Factor Will Change All Your Marketing From This Day Forward”
Article by Marlon Sanders
Where have you been going wrong? Where’s your money. Why hasn’t your money been coming to you? How do you loose your money so it flows to you in abundance?
How do you finally get a product or service that people buy? How do you finally have a product or service that people send you money for.
Marlon, how do I make this happen for me? I’ve tried. I’ve read the E-books. I’ve done the stuff. I’ve tried this or that. My money has not come to me. People have not clicked on my order form. People have not bought my product. It hasn’t been working for me. Marlon, how do I make things go right?
I remember back when I was a beginner. The same exact questions haunted me. The key is to understand the big picture. Then you can work down to specifics from there. But without understanding the big picture, you’re punching at a shadow and wasting a lot of energy.
There are four basic reasons your money is not coming to you. In this article, I’m focusing on reason number one – your list.
I can best illustrate what the list means by giving you a personal illustration.
When I first graduated from college, the only job I could get was selling insurance. Well, they told me I was selling “retirement plans.” But actually, it was whole life insurance.
Anyway, here I am sittin’ across the table from a guy tryin’ my best to get him to buy a retirement plan from me. Now, somewhere in our conversation he tells me that for Christmas that year, his church brought him a turkey.
Now, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that if his church brought him a turkey for Christmas the dude didn’t have any money. But I didn’t understand that believe it or not!
The guy I was trying to sell to was my list. In this case, my list universe size was one. I had one dude I was giving my well-rehearsed sales talk to. I could recite every word by memory. The gestures were perfectly synchronized with the pages in my pitch book.
But the dude had no money. My list was broke. I don’t care how great or spectacular my sales presentation was, the guy couldn’t buy a turkey for his family for Christmas. I doubt he’s got money under the mattress so he can eat in his old age. He can’t eat now!
In contrast, at another time I called on a lady who pulled out her address book and referred me to all her friends. That week I was twelfth in the nation in sales because all her friends bought.
The difference?
I had a different list. In this case, the list was basically the address book of personal friends the lady referred me to.
On another occasion a lady referred me to her friends but none of them even kept appointments with me. Why? The quality of the list. In this case, apparently the lady’s friends didn’t think much of the quality of her opinion. Probably because she was broke. And they figured taking financial advice from her wasn’t a good idea.
Are you beginning to see the importance of the list?
Your list is the people you sell to. The people who call or walk in the door of your business. The people who come to your web site. The people who join your opt-in list. The people who click on your ppc words. The people who call you up on the phone. The people you give your sales presentation to.
If you’re not selling as much as you want, or you’re selling almost nothing at all, maybe you’re delivering your message to the wrong audience. If you have a cure for cancer but you’re trying to sell it to people dying of heart disease, you’re speaking to the wrong crowd.
One more example.
I once was a copywriter for a company that had a great method of list-building. The CEO of the company had networked with a number of seminar companies. These companies were always on the road conducting seminars.
The attendees of these seminars paid a lot of money to be there. So they were not broke. And they obviously had a need or interest or they wouldn’t have paid to attend a seminar on the topic.
Through his networking expertise, the CEO got these seminar companies to refer attendees to his company for the service he provided. These referrals cost him nothing. And get this: He got about 60 phone calls a day from these referrals!
At zero cost.
And remember, these referrals had money and a demonstrated interest in his product or service. That’s what you call a high quality list.
The point is, the people you’re selling your product or service to have more to do with your sales ratio or conversion rate than any other factor.
From this day forward, all your marketing efforts should change. Why? Because you’ll start focusing on the number one thing that matters – and that is getting your message to the exact people who have interest and the ability to buy.
And that little change right there can make all the difference in the world.
- Marlon Sanders
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Marlon Sanders is the author of The Amazing Formula That Sells Like Crazy, The Push Button Letters Software, How to Create Your Own Products in a Flash, Gimme My Money Now, The Marlon Sanders’ Marketing Dashboard, The Cash Like Clockwork System, The Action Grid System, The New Wave Direct Mail Success System and many other marketing systems, tools, courses and software programs.
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Learning From Hard Knocks
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