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I currently have ,- operating web.based businesses, that is coincidentally very nearly one for every year of my life so far/ 0hey are fully automated, outsourced and managed for me. I do not intervene other than to check my emails for one hour each day and to read newsletters I am subscribed to across many industries to keep up to date on new opportunities. &very week or so I may spend an e!tra hour or two surfing for more information if I feel something needs deeper investigation. 1ith no effort on my part I now generate an income of over 23000 per week. I travel, I rela! and I enjoy the color of life without having to worry about how I am going to pay my ne!t bills. $o why am I sharing my hard work with you when I do not need the money4 1ell that is e!actly the reason/ I have spare time now and like a fresh challenge. &ven though we are in challenging economic times, the astute and entrepreneurial amongst us can succeed. 0hose people are my kind of people and hopefully the information I am giving you will help you to realize your own potential and take control of your own destiny. %ook at the money you bought this ebook for...if I wanted money I would be selling this gold dust for a lot more than I am/ I could put some pictures in this ebook, showing me, or a person I say is me, in front of a big yacht, or car, or house...but would you believe me4 #nyone can do that by taking images from google/ I could also show you some random graphics of my paypal account and claim its mine. 5ou can get fake paypal graphics showing huge balances with a 6uick google search, or doctor them yourself. $o I see no point in subscribing to that ludicrous practice. "y words are my word. 'ead what I say, and use it to help you put your own strategies into action and make them successful. 7nce it is working for you, then you will know that I was telling you the truth. $o what does this internet 8topia look like4 1ell for me it looks like an hour of work a day, if you can call checking a few dozen emails a day work/ I have a strong and regular income from multiple streams which gives me total financial freedom.
I manage my business interests from anywhere in the world via a 9lackberry, so am able to travel e!tensively. I spent )hristmas :00; in 'ome and have now rented an apartment in the center of 9arcelona for a few months. #fter that who knows, the cash is rolling in so I have the lu!ury of making pretty much any choice I like. I am always conscious that you must never rest on your laurels, so I am still investing some time each week on the Internet investigating any potential micro.business ideas. If I spot one I can get on the phone and get a website deployed and tweaked within : days if I need and my nephew back home will do the initial testing work via auction listings if I send him an email and a paypal email with an incentive attached to it/ If it works I can then pass the details on to my virtual assistant in India, who has run several marketing campaigns for me and will get straight onto the boring tasks such as signing up to get free hits on banner e!changes etc. "y life is rela!ed and happy because I have discovered the key to making a success of the Internet as my business. 9y reading this ebook and using the micro business and automation strategy I have developed, you too can e!it the rat race and get your life back. #drian $tefano Barcelona, March 12th 2008.
Without goals, a nd plans to reach them, you a re like a ship th at h as set sail with no destination...
$o you have now have a strong visual idea of what you would like your life to look like in the future. 0he second big thing I need you to consider right now is this@ >ow much money do you need to make each month to make your visualization into a reality4 Is it 2A000 a month, 25000, 2A00004 It is vital that you know right now what your goals will cost to realize. 1hy4 9ecause getting your life back is not just about getting as much money as you possibly can. 0here are people out there earning millions who are still not in control of their lives. If you decide that your ideal lifestyle will cost you 2,000 a month then aim to earn that cash, not to dream of earning millions and then feeling like you have failed when you are only earning 2B000 a month/ 0he key to getting your life back is just that, it is about setting up work systems that allow you to generate enough income to do what you want, when you want. It is not about having a huge bank account stuffed to the rafters, while you still work 50 hours a week running your online empire. Cuality of life and choice are just as important as a huge bank balance, so remember that as it is one of the golden rules in getting your life back.
ANY ROAD WILL DO IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING....
I also have five niche auction sites Elike ebayF. 0hey each reach out to a certain marketDniche and have a few thousand members on each. &ach one generates about 2A50 profit per month, so its small profit for one, but I0 #%% #==$ 8(. #fter costs I net about 2:50 a month on those five sites alone. 9ut auction sites must re6uire a lot of email support4 1ell yes, but I have comprehensive +#CGs and interactive tutorials tailored for each, a programmer who updates the bugs once a month and I pay a friends wife 2:5 a week to spend an hour a day answering emails or forwarding tough ones on to me. #uction sites were tough when I set them up as there were no real ebay alternatives, but ebay is now distancing itself from its founding members and so there is definitely space in that market. Investigate some of the better webscripts out there, or even better visit the auction site directories, find a good looking site that looks like it has had money spent on it but has few members and put in a cheeky offer to buy it/ 0he key point is in the main to look for online options that are not driven by visitor volumes. It is really hard work to get volume visitors to a social networking site for e!ample. $o do you invest your life in trying to market it or do you go for a download site which means the seller is driving people to the site to download and process payments4 "i! and match as the opportunities arise but always remember automation and your eventual e!it strategy. If it is a really complicated site then how can you automate and outsource it4 It is this strategy of minimising risks and ma!imising returns that has made my money for me in a safe manner, and that is what we are going to discuss ne!t.
potential customers that you believe in the 6uality of the productDitem so much that it is all you sell. 0ell them that it is such a fantastic premium item that it the only item you need to sell as it sells itself on its 6uality. 0his is especially true for dropshipping. It is very labor intensive to set up a webstore or auction site listings for a hundred items. 5ou will end up not really selling the 6uality, cutting corners on your service, marketing and sales pitch. $o if dropshipping set up a site for one 6uality item once tested for sales potential and sing its features from every single page of the site/ $o for selling physical items the "'"' strategy is important, but it is more important to remember it within your overall strategy. $pread your risk by branching into different types of market, service and country where possible. If you develop A0 websites, do not develop ten retail sites for product selling. =evelop a few for retailing and also focus on offering sites that provide a service or home to people. =iversify and develop always. 0he "'"' strategy is vital to your success. +acebook has already been invented. 0he great ideas are snapped up and backed by mulinationals nowadays. 5ou cannot enter into a competition with these guys. 5our great idea is the same as a dozen other people are having right at this minute, so don not spend your time chasing the big bucks dream of global success. =o not dream of owning the new #mazon or &bay it simply is not going to happen. "'"' is the new concept of being big by thinking small.
understanding of each product, be safe in the knowledge you are spreading your risk and can also dump the odd micro.business if it is simply dead. It is much easier to road test a single product prior to launch rather than trying to test a hundred items sale potential. If you want to sell thousands of items, how do you know the ranges you want to sell are profit making4 I do not just mean that they will tick over and earn you a little bit each month, I mean make real hard cash4 #nother risk that many people do not consider is the current international e!change rates. $ay for e!ample you have a site that takes moast of its payments via paypal in 8$ =ollars, but you live in <reat 9ritain. 0o e!tract money from a paypal account to your bank account involves converting the currency into your local one ready to transfer. (aypal are very clever because on top of their fees they use their 71* e!change rate/ 0his is lower than that days interbank rate which means they cunningly claw back money from you. 0his means that if your currency is weak against the currency you are converting from then you could lose out. Heep an eye on the markets and only convert and withdraw cash from paypal when you know you can minimize your loss in the conversion process.
"ake sure your +#C te!t is comprehensive . your test auctions should have thrown up any obvious 6uestions from potential buyers. "ake sure you use a professional help te!t with a fair and full returns policy etc. <ive the people looking at your site every reassurance you can about buying the item. If possible make sure there is a real address on the site Ea (7 bo! will doF and a phone number Euse a low cost virtual (.#. $ervice to add this element of professionalismF. (ut a A00J mark.up on the dropship price and sell your item as a 6uality item at a premium price. 8sing original images of the product will ensure that people do not associate it with the other people selling the dropship line elsewhere using the standard image supplied by the dropshipper. 1hen you go on ebay for e!ample and do an item search have you noticed how many identical item images you will find. 0hat is because people are lazy and use the stock image, so set your item apart with original images. <ive your auctions and website an authentic look to reinforce your price and stated belief in the product. *ow promote your item like crazy/
#nother marketing source is facebook and myspace. 0hese sites can be hit with their own ad programs and myspace also allow google ads to be displayed. 0here are millions of people on these sites and you can drive them to your profile or an e!ternal site using tight keyword marketing. ............................................................... LEARN ABOUT THE SHOCKIN NE! LINK BUIL"IN #ETHO" THAT !ILL SEN" $OUR !ESITE INTO SEARCH EN INE ORBIT%
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>ey that is se!ist surely4/ *ot at all and she is not the only cheap option. =o you have a nephew at school or college who would like a great way to earn some cash4 #gain, they can answer simple email 6uestions, forward you the difficult ones and key on dropship orders. I0 $8'& 9�$ 0>'71I*< *&1$(#(&'$ #0 =77'$ &#'%5 I* 0>& "7'*I*</ #nother great trick is to set.up se6uential autoresponders. 1hen a person visits your site, offer them something free for joining a mailing list. 5ou can then hit them with automatic marketing messages set.up in advance, with no effort on your part at all. 0hey really do work and no site should ever not have a newsletter and se6uential autoresponder system set.up, they allow you to keep touching potential customers for literally months without you ever getting involved. "ost people can be reliable if not overloaded. 8se a combination of outsourcing and automation to allow you to relentlessly maintain your e!it strategy. It works.
/%hen a(( is said and done# much more is said than done....0
5ou can read a million books, watch a million tutorials and spend your whole life reading forums. &veryone likes to dream and to talk big and some people fall for their own hype. +or you it is time for action. 0ime to move, time to make decisions. 'esearch your chosen market, find the product you think will fit into that market and jump in. 0ake a deep breath, you are going to need a lot of air/ I H*71 that you are reading this in the hope that I will make your decisions for you, take the risk away for you and basically place the cash in your hands. 0hink again. *obody can do that, no matter what they claim.
Too m a ny people a re thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afr aid of life th an death....
"ake sure you have your e!it strategy in your mind from the beginning and recognize when to implement a piece of that strategy. "ake sure you never lose site of the fact that your goal is lifestyle, not to spend your life working but for more money/ 9y spreading your risks using the "'"' micro.business model you are giving yourself the chance to be big while acting small. 9eing small can make you big, while thinking big and trying to compete with the Internet establishment is always doomed to failure. 0hink of yourself as a parasite on a dog/ 5ou get well fed, carried around and have no hassles while the dog makes all the effort in leading the way to your destination. 5ou are nurturing a large family of virtual tenants, each earning you an income without intervention. 5ou are creating a virtual empire that will eventually eradicate your need to intervene in its e!istence. It really is a simple concept that most web.savvy entrepreneurs forget. +ocusing on one idea that may struggle is not the way forward in these times. #s an e!ample of the behavior you will need to adopt to succeed, I will tell you a story..... # few years ago I was in %ondon and I managed to get a free invitation to see one of the top 8H motivational speakers. >e spent an hour basically telling people that dreaming of success is pointless, you have to actually get off your fat lazy ass and do something if you want to get anywhere. #fter this hour of constantly reinforcing his message he held up a note in his hand, I believe it was a MA0 note. >e simply said to the room Kwho would like this money4L *797=5 "7I&=. &ventually one guy near the back of the room realized the point that was being made and started to walk towards the front. $uddenly several people were up and moving and the pace towards the stage 6uickened.
0hen from nowhere a lady jumped up and sprinted down the aisle and up the steps and grabbed the money from his hand triumphantly. 0he others who had started moving more slowly began to move back towards their seats looking slightly embarrassed. 0he point is obvious. 5ou have to act to get what you want and you have to move more 6uickly than others who also want to get to the same place/ If you have an idea, move right now.
Be *ositive# "egard(ess.
5ou may realize this or you may not. It is essential that you do recognize this fact and act on it. 0his is possibly the most vital piece of information you will need to help you prevail.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty....
In their good intentions they have unwittingly reinforced a negative message that most people take onboard. 0hey then spend the rest of their lives saving for a day that never comes, surrounding themselves with debt and wishing something would make them feel more secure. 5ou will recognize other emotional vampires as you chase your dreams. $tick a stake in their heart immediately/ $urround yourself only with positive, successful people and those who think way above a house and car as success. I hope my words have struck a chord with you and opened your mind to new ideas. I am living the way I want using the methods I have briefly described in this te!t. It can be done and you can get your life back if you adopt the correct mindset.
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