The Salesman
The Salesman is #7 out of the Top 10 Home Based Internet Businesses.
The salesman is a step up from both the freelancer and the pre-seller, both of those being examples of making money without capital. The salesman will need at least one hundred dollars available at all times. He will be constantly be registering domains, setting up websites, creating landing pages, capturing emails, managing email lists, buying advertising space, and purchasing some solid training in copy writing and the art of writing sales letters.
- Platform: As an affiliate marketer the salesman uses a number of tricks or negotiations to bypass the official sales pages attached to existing products online, he skillfully creates his own sales pages and websites, still maintaining the link tracking to the products official checkout and credit card processing, and therefore the commission due on each sale. The best tool in his arsenal is list building, auto-responders and email list marketing.
- The Work: The appeal of the internet salesman is that he does not have to work in the tough environments of door to door sales and cold calls, he works from the comfort of his home computer and mostly with the written word. He generally buys his traffic and puts most of his effort converting the maximum amount of traffic into sales and future sales.
- The Income: Unlike the pre-seller the salesman avoids the curse of the double conversion. Eg - out of 10,000 prospects on the pre-sell page, 100 (1%) go the sales page and then only 1 (1%) of those actually buys something. The salesman catches his prospects at the sales page, giving him absolute control over, only one conversion point - 10,000 prospects on the sales page, 200 (2%) actually buys something. So theoretically we are looking at an income increase of between 100% and 500% depending on his degree of expertise at converting prospects.
- The Business: This business model is the most versatile and is centered firmly around the most valuable skill your could attempt to master online.