Apr 8 2010

What Are You Going To ‘DO’ Today

The biggest reason why people fail at anything is simple…

“A Lack Of Real Action.”

While it can seem like your trying to make money with a website, you are probably caught up in a vicious cycle of looking, dreaming, hoping, estimating and buying… Why? Because that’s the easy part, it just involves clicking a mouse and those mouse clicks become addictive because they are triggering off the temporary feel good centers of our brains.

You, as have many of people when they first arrive at my email list, can easily spend thousands of dollars on eBooks, courses, coaching and turn key opportunities in an attempt to make money online and still end up with absolutely nothing to show for it. You can spend a entire year reading email offers, sales letters, free-line videos attached to product launches and blog posts in attempt to learn how to make money with a website and still end up without a single asset to show for it.

So get off your ass and work out what you are going to do today!

Here are 10 things you can do towards making money with a website.

  1. Install a website/wordpress-blog for a friends brick and mortar or service business.
    The word of mouth involved will, over time, lead to many requests for you to do it for others and for a reasonable fee. This also leads to ongoing help tweaking the site, creating content, increasing traffic and helping them to close more sales online.
  2. Write an article
    Articles and words attract search engines and in-turn they bring eyeballs. Get enough eyeballs and there are countless ways to make money from the visitors that are coming to read your content.
  3. Create multi-media content
    Slide-shows, audio, podcasts, interviews, images, photographs, videos and screen-capture tutorials are all very good ways to directly attract a lot more eyeballs.
  4. Distribute Your Stuff
    Once you have an article, an eBook, a video, a product or any digital creation there are numerous ways you can distribute that content online ; deliver you offers online; and rewrite, repackage and redistribute your stuff online.
  5. Create a product
    An eBook (outline or chapter), a report, a class, a course, a how to, a plan, a script, a widget, an app, a toolbar, software or a physical product are all great choices for that fundamental thing that you must have in place if you want to make serious money online - a product.
  6. Make An Offer
    Whether you selling your product or some one else’s, you have to prepare the offer, present the offer and get the offer out there. Even the minimum data like, the product name, description, features, benefits, price, guarantee, testimonials, customer feedback, image and a buy link take time to collect and put together.
  7. Create a Message for your offers
    When a clever salesman meets a prospect face to face he can quickly adapt his message to suit the person in front of him. Categorizing them into one of the limited number of psychological profiles of buyers based on what makes them value and buy something. Online this is extremely difficult to do so your best option is to do some market research and pick the profile you will be targeting, know your specific target audience, get inside their heads and speak to them about the things that that they value and sales become automatic.
  8. Make A connection
    Building on from #7 you are no longer selling to your visitors, your not trying to convince them to buy stuff your just talking to them. Having email conversations with your customers, your niche, your market, your mentors, your teachers, your colleagues is a great way to propel your business forward. Networking can lead to huge breaks, people 10 years ahead of you do have the power to pull you up to their level overnight and readers can be more than willing to create content for you. Competitors can become valuable content in the form of interviews. Don’t be afraid to write about, talk about, promote, help and talk to the other people within your niche.
  9. Re-align your target audience, products and messages
    Talking to your customers is the best way to build a psychological buying profile of your current audience. Once you know who they are and who else is out their in your niche you would be wise to change your message, your product or even your target audience. The important thing is to make sure that they are all aligned.
  10. Measure, Track and Analyze
    While this can be a distraction in itself, when you check your visitor stats, split tests, sales and communications with actual clients. You should go into it with the goal of taking away a quick and usable report that can be referred to when doing any of the things above (1-9). You will also want to refer to these when creating a new product and message to suit a new target audience.

The secondary problem is that while starting these projects is relatively easy, finishing ONE is your true goal.

In the next article I identify ten things that may be preventing you from reaching that goal…

Click here » So why can’t you finish something?

blog comments powered by Disqus