It’s been sooooo long since I posted on my blog.
I am a very lazy blogger. I am changing my whole business provider at the minute and it is turning out great but it won’t be all completed until next week.

What I am doing is putting all my essentials into one easy to use place. I was going to opt for infusionsoft which is probably the best their is but their is an alternative (and not as pricy) it is called eBusiness Automation Center

Let me let you in on some of the outstanding features that come from this system.

Autoresponder and Newsletter manager

Affiliates manager

Products & Customer manager

Customer support manager

Membership websites manager

Ad tracking system

PDF ebook generator & brander

Sub-user manager

Digital download protection system

You can check all the features here eBusiness Automation Center.

I have checked email delivery rates for the system and it is the same if not better than aweber.
This was the most important aspect of my business as my business is based around email marketing.

Pricing is such a big part my eBusiness as is quality. So lets look at what each of these services will and there costs.

Aweber cost me at the minute because of the size of my list $49 per month

Hosting costs $10 per month

Membership site script will cost you around $97

Help Desk Software will cost $29 per month

Affiliate manager software $199

Ad Tracking Software $20 per month

PDf generator and brander $30

Thats an overall cost of $296 one time and $108 per month with eBusiness Automation Center prices start at $29.99 per month.
There is also a 30 day trail so that you can test the system for under $5.

Just before I finish up here I want to let you know about alot of scamming that is going on in the adswap seen at the minute and just to give you some advice and a solution on the subject.

BEWARE of the Warrior Forum when looking for adswap partners. To date I have been plagued by guys setting up adswaps with me and not mailing my offer after I have mailed theirs. Disgusting people I’m sure you will agree. I am even considering putting a page on my blog here naming and shaming.

So what is the solution to this problem?

Safe-Swaps a website that tracks the swaps you do and also lets you rate your swap partners so that if someone doesn’t send for you everyone else sees that they are not sending swipes and you can steer clear of them.
You can also buy solo ads and sell solo ads on the site. I have purchased solo ads of people over there and the traffic is super targeted. This is the only place I will be getting partners from now on.

I will be updating my blog more often from now on with as much helpful tips as possible.

Leave your comments below or experiences you have had with either adswaps, other ways to save money in your business or just to say Hi

Also if you would like me to do a post about a particular marketing strategy that you are trying to implement into your business let me know and I will post here about it.

A Plan

This may seem obvious to some people running any type of offline business, and yet people who decide they want to have an online business to earn some extra money often neglect this extremely important first step!
And can you blame them? Most new would be marketers and online entrepreneurs start out with what seems a simple search of ‘make money online’. They are then presented with 430,000,000 websites!
Can you imagine the confusion that already begins to reign as they click and click on so many sites?
What’s more with so many sites all crying out for attention of the new marketer, they all try to make it sound so easy and simple, at least that’s what I’ve found, and I’m sure
you’ve seen the same if you’ve gone down that route.

It makes the old saying ring true that “It’s a mine field out there!”

I don’t know if this has happened to you yet, but usually at this stage many will fall for the hyped up over priced ‘get rich quick schemes’ designed purely to extract maximum cash for the site owner from your wallet. They buy into the promises of overnight success, the pay us your money and do nothing pitch, and then can’t understand why nothing is coming their way as promised.

If they are lucky they wont fall for it too many more times (but from experience of talking to many newbies – they usually do)…. Until eventually they realise there is no overnight do nothing short cut.

That’s when most will either leave the internet completely, or start to look for serious help.

What stage are you at now?

Where ever people end up looking for help, at some point they begin to discover that there are people on the net earning real incomes, both part time and full time incomes.

The next move is usually to ‘have a dabble’ and try to find their way on their own, without listening to the false promises, but wandering around all over the place without focus.

If they’re lucky, they’ll make a few dollars every once in a while, always swapping and changing direction to what seems the next big thing, in the hope that ‘this will be it for them’!

let me ask you a question….

If you’re driving to your local shops – do you jump in the car and just follow whichever car is in front of you? Even if it’s heading in a different direction?

I know – silly question, of course you don’t.

You know exactly where you want to go and you already have a route planned in your mind before you even jump in the car!

What’s more, I’m sure you also have alternate routes available to you should anything interfere with your normal route?

Why – because you have planned the route, you know where you need to get to, and where you’re starting from, you’ve done the journey before so the ‘plan’ is already in your mind.

Lets look at this in business context.

Do you think any of the worlds successful business men and women just decide to start a new business and then set off? spending money advertising, gearing up to sell one product then thinking they’ll change to another because it looked a better idea one night, 3 weeks later doing something completely different.

Of course you don’t, and hey you’re smart enough to know that they would research and plan everything they do!

Well a business on the internet is no different than any other business. And I can tell you right now that the one of the most important Keys that Every Successful Marketer Follows is to PLAN what they are going to do and how they are going to go about it.

When you plan a journey that is unfamiliar to you, you would be advised to consult a map, or ask directions of someone who’s been there before. That would make sense wouldn’t it?

So if you’d like some help in planning how you’re going to build your internet income wouldn’t it make sense to ask for directions or follow someone who’s been there before. Someone who is already at where you want to arrive?

To sum up.

Make A Plan.

Get a map from someone who knows the route or follow someone who can lead you where you want to be. Decide where you want to go and make your plan with any help you can get.

Do you remember the saying….

If You’re Failing to Plan – Your Planning to Fail

Don’t Fail to Plan.

So whats been on the agenda this week? Well I’m still doing
the word processing course which is taking up alot of
time that I could be spending on my business. But there
is no need for me to make excuses as I am the one
responsible for my own business.

I have, at last, got my squidoo lens up an running. I
took today off so that I could get that finished (soosh).
I have also come up with a plan to help me make the
most out of the few hours that I have each day to get
Productive and just GET THINGS DONE.

I have come up with this plan, some of you are
probably already using this but the penny has dropped on
this with me.

I am going to write one piece of content per day and that’s
it, but what I am going to do is to change this content into
four different advertising stategies.

This is what I come up with:

1 Blog Post
2 Article
3 Video – and yes Nick they are coming.
4 Podcast

So the whole idea is to write my one piece of content each
day starting with a blog post. I then want to turn this
into an article. Blog post and articles are different but
when you have the basic idea covered and what you want to say
it shouldn’t be to hard to turn it into and article.

I have done it with my last blog post already and got my
article on the number one spot on google for the keywords,
awesome.

So the next step now is to get this video marketing thing
going. I have had technical difficulties with my camera it won’t
pick up the audio don’t know what the story is but I made one
on my phone but guess what?

I can’t get it to upload to my PC so drama drama but I will have
some time now over the weekend to get all this sorted out.

So once I make a video with the content that I have written and
use traffic geyser to upload it all over cyber space I can then
convert the audio into a podcast.

From my past experience using traffic geyser i think they actually
do this in the software so this will be kind of an
automated step YEAH automation I love it.

What about blog hopping and forums I hear you ask?

I am hopping 15 blogs a night that takes about and hour and a
half to two hours. The good think about this other course that I’m doing is
we have internet access but alot of the sights are blocked.
The warrior forum and must forums aren’t so I get to comment
in forum during my breaks.

So that’s the big plan now all laid out hope this help anyone that
needs it.

Can you see what my article on this post is going to be about?