| It's that simply really, you need to know:-Where | | | | duplicate that success. If I could have funneled |
| you are now | | | | that through a large CPM/CPA network it could |
| -Where you want to go | | | | have been multiplied a few hundred thousand |
| -How you are proposing to get there | | | | times over. (what an idiot)Now let's say that $9 |
| -What you think it will cost | | | | profit cost me $100 in advertising or whatever |
| -What tools or skills you will need to have or | | | | promotion I had used. That $9 looks like chump |
| acquire to make it all come together | | | | change I realize, but it could have turned into (if I |
| -and how much time you have to devote to the | | | | was half smart enough to plan properly, if I |
| effort.What you need to DO FIRST is simple. | | | | tracked my responses) an absolute bonanza. Yet, |
| Grab a piece of paper and a trusty pen (or pencil, | | | | I didn't, I lost out. (yes, I was not that smart)This |
| whichever you prefer) and start writing a basic | | | | brings us back to education, probably the most |
| outline of your goals and desires along with a | | | | important part of the puzzle. You will be spending |
| rough sketch or how you might get there.This | | | | money to make it happen for you, don't get me |
| preliminary game plan will be a bit more than just | | | | wrong. More often than not the old saying, "you |
| rough; it will be a big hairy knarled creature | | | | get what you pay for" holds a lot of merit.One |
| dripping with muck and mire. But, if kept on a | | | | important point to remember - one VERY, VERY, |
| tight leash, it will be a great starting point to | | | | VERY, VERY, VERY, HUMONGOUSLY |
| enable your new financial freedom to | | | | IMPORTANT thing to remember is not to pay |
| blossom.What happens next is the testing and | | | | good money for anything you will not LEARN |
| learning phase. You will need to try many things | | | | from.Free trials are fantastic, 30 day, 45 day, 60 |
| to find what works for your campaigns. This is | | | | day money back guarantees are outstanding. Also |
| where we look at "fishing poles and holes" | | | | Pay systems like {email me} and others will even |
| mentioned last time. Will you be exploring a | | | | back you up on products. These trials give you |
| Google PPC campaign, SEO (search engine | | | | the ability to see if it (the product or service, |
| optimization), CPM/CPA networks, Email | | | | whatever) works for your campaign. There is no |
| broadcasting, purchased leads, self generated | | | | need to be left holding something you paid good |
| leads, or ad distribution and site submission | | | | money for that doesn't work for YOU.I personally |
| software? To manage the business of your | | | | swear by back office systems and |
| endevoure, you will also need to explore back | | | | autoresponders through {email me} and lead |
| office systems to execute your campaigns and | | | | capture pages produced through {email me}, |
| manage your work.All these methods and | | | | along with Google AdWords training through |
| systems are valid and can lead to high profits if | | | | {email me}, as well as promotional products |
| done right, but they all can be financially damaging | | | | trough {email me}.(???? with a fantastic support |
| if done wrong.You will need to know where your | | | | page and staff that even transferred my |
| contacts/customers/leads are coming from. And | | | | purchase of one product that didn't seem to be |
| know what it cost you to acquire them. Know | | | | working for me over to another that has had |
| your metrics.Stop and take a close look at an | | | | dramatic results.I hope this is somewhere to start |
| unfortunate experience of mine for a minute. The | | | | you venture. I will follow with instruction on many |
| first $9 commission I ever received just appeared | | | | types of campaigns, systems, and rip off |
| in my account with some ambiguous number | | | | avoidance in the near future.Christopher is an |
| attached to it. (Apparently I was supposed to | | | | independent internet marketer who has |
| know what that meant.) I didn't know where it | | | | admittedly made all the classic and not so classic |
| came from, what campaign generated it, or | | | | mistakes. He has a range of writing credits from |
| whom that actual person was that shelled out the | | | | trade journal articles, to advertisements for major |
| money.I had nothing. I was beating my head | | | | financial institutions, and all the way to fiction and |
| against the wall to figure out how I might | | | | poetry of all things. |