Automatic Income Producer
How To Create An Automated Income Producer
One of my favorite net marketing tasks is creating a FREE report
or e-course and watching it fill with subscribers on an
autoresponder.
You might not realize that this is one of the easiest and best
methods of selling your products or affiliate products because
you develop a rapport or relationship with your subscribers by
giving them quality information. Remember its quality not
necessarily quantity that will endear you or at least brand
yourself as someone they come to know and respect.
So how do you create an e-course that, once its uploaded to your
autoresponder, is a 'forget and walk away' list builder?
Here's the way I do it, at least most of the time :o)
1. Pick a subject you know a little about and research it to see
if there is a demand or need to know. The best way to research
for a subject is to visit the discussion boards or forums. Do a
search on Google for the subject, for instance, if you were
interested in writing about poodles, you might search for "dog
discussion groups". See what people are talking about and what
concerns, problems and issues they have with poodles or maybe
another type of dog.
Next, after determining their is a need for this information,
you can start writing or do a search for other articles, reports
on poodles to get ideas and content. You don't want to just
copy/paste from an article as that is plagiarism or infringement
of copyright's. You can rearrange or change the wording so that
it is distinctly different and use that content. Or you can ask
the author for permission to use his article, with or without
any 'resource box'.
2. Now that you have at least one message or lesson completed,
you need to set up your autoresponder.
If you don't have one, there are a lot of them online, and I've
used many and can tell you that some are good and some are bad
and some so-so. If you would like my honest opinion, ISO
Responder has the best with many great features like unlimited
autoresponders and messages. You can send out in text or html or
both so the recipient email program will display the message by
preference. Plus you can see how many emails were opened and
read. Great benefit to know how effective your list is. For more
information on this autoresponder.
http://www.ad-alyzer.com/727/isoregisterem
Basically, you want an autoresponder that allows unlimited
lists, unlimited imports and double opt in subscription (that
means the subscriber has to confirm their subscription before
they are added. With the CAN-SPAM Act you must be very careful
and protect yourself from being accused of spamming. By double
opt in's you get the IP # and date they subscribe which will be
enough evidence to counter any false accusation.
Because each a/r is set up differently, you will need to read
the instructions on how to set it a new list.
Once you a/r has you first message uploaded, with
personalization so that the subscribers first name is used in
the message, you are ready to begin building your subscriber
base.
3. Building Your List
Depending on your a/r you can build your subscriber base in
three ways.
Create a form that you insert on your web page. Remember to
create the thank you page which the subscriber will be
re-directed to automatically after filling in the form. Make it
simple, "Thank you for your subscription and look for the first
lesson in your email box in the next minute or so" is all you
need. Don't try to sell them or they will probably be turned off
and unsubscribe or just ignore your future ads. If the a/r has
this feature, use the email link in your signature's, on your
web pages, in your ads. The third way is to buy leads and import
them into your a/r. This is a great way of quickly building your
list, but you need to make sure the leads are fresh, come with
an IP # and date of subscription. Besides the bonus of 1,000
leads from subscribing to ISO's autoresponder, you can purchase
leads at only .02 per lead. These are high quality leads, not
old or re-hashed ones. ===> http://www.ad-alyzer.com/727/isoar
I like to create a new lesson or report every day until I have
at least 7. If it's an e-course then you send out your lessons
every day, but if it's a report or other message, then space
them out to every other day...at least. You don't want them to
think you are hammering them with ads.
4. Your Ads in autoresponder messages
I like to call my ad in each lesson, 'This Lesson Is Sponsored
By'. Most readers aren't turned off by this one ad as they are
with the lesson sprinkled with ads and your affiliate links.
Make the sponsor something that is related to your topic. In the
case of the poodle e-course you wouldn't want to sell bird food
:o) Dog biscuits, poodle trimming tools, or flea powder would be
on target. If you don't have a product to sell, go to Commission
Junction, Linkshare or BeFree.com which lists 100's of affiliate
products and its FREE to join. Or do a search on the search
engines.
5. Promote
Besides putting a sign up form on your website (if you have
one), you can advertise your FREE ecourse in the following way:
** post on discussion boards with signature file ** send out an
ad with safelists swap ads with ezine publishers (if you have an
ezine) ** write articles and submit to ezines ** purchase ezine
ads (only solo and top sponsor ads) **advertise on traffic
exchanges (you can download a FREE ebook I wrote on Secrets Of
Email Marketing found at:
http://www.email-it-secure.com/e-book.htm
Keep building your e-courses and reports and watch your sales
and income soar!