Got your candy already for the ghosts and goblins tonight?

I know we do…..not a whole lot though. Not too many youngens in our neighborhood.

If you are going to be walking through the neighborhood with your kids, don’t forget the flashlights and reflective wear….you wanna be safe, ya know.

On another note:

Did you realize that Christmas is just around the corner? I’d like to take the time today to let you in on a great set of Christmas PLR products from my good friends Teri and Doug Champigny.

Welcome to the second part of my 3 part series on ‘common knowledge’.

For the most part the ability of newbies to grasp the common knowledge and techniques of seasoned marketers is lacking. When you’re new, sometimes it feels like you’ve jumped into the middle of something and you feel stupid if you don’t know what others are talking about.

Like you are drowning in information overload.

In this segment I am going to cover 3 more topics of Information Marketing that are vitally important to your success. All of these topics important pieces to your online success so be sure to read Part 1 and Part 3 as well.

Topic 1. You need to sell something.

That seems like a no-brainer, but you can’t make any money without selling something.

Your own product.

There are definite advantages to creating your own product; you have complete control over the product and you can create lots of value. You stand to make more money from each sale if you’re the only one selling it, and it’s your property to do what you want with. But consider this: letting others promote it as affiliates will allow them to become your traffic-driving sales team. They make their cut of the profits, but you will probably sell a boat load more of your product this way. Need some direction on creating your own product? My friend Paula Brett has some great information, check it out here

Someone else’s product (an affiliate product).

It takes less work to sell a product that you didn’t have to create yourself.  They’ve done all the hard work and they probably even have some affiliate tools, such as emails, forum signature files, and possibly some small 125×125 images for you to use on your own website. You should capture some of the people yourself, too, by offering a freebie to create your own list.

Ads. Some sites don’t sell anything but they have constant fresh content and maybe do some article marketing to bring people to their site. The people read what’s on the site and maybe click on a targeted ad or two. Every time someone clicks on these ads it puts money in your pocket. Usually the more traffic you get, the more ad money you earn.

2. You need to network with others.

Getting to know other information marketers is one key to your online success. You will be amazed at the personal friendships you make and business relationships you forge. You will get satisfaction from helping others out and you can ask them questions when you have problems. If you want, you can form partnerships (joint ventures) that end up making you more money than you would on your own.

3. You need a plan.

Yes, yes, yes. You can waste days and weeks out of your life when you try to read everything on the internet about what you might want to do online. You can fail before you even begin by getting bogged down with information overload. Many new internet marketers don’t make it because they dabble in this and that, always falling for the next big promise of becoming an online success and making oodles of cash.  They don’t have a plan for what they want to do and don’t get very far.

Considering that you are probably drowning due to information overload, get your focus back with a ‘life jacket’ from my friend and accountability partner, Peggy Baron.

Stay tuned for Part 3 and be sure to sign up for the K.A.R. (Knowledge-Application-Results) newsletter to get more ‘inside’ information marketing tips and tricks.

Here’s to YOUR success,

Ron

Are we in that bad of condition economically? The second half of the headline says it all, I think.

From what we read in the media, be it in the newspaper, online, perusing magazine covers going through the checkout line, we are being told that we are in the middle of dire economic times.

When I read the headline about the Minnesota lottery sales, I was dumbfounded. You can read the short article here.

It seems people are still seeking that ‘silver bullet’, that ‘big win’…the prize that will set them up for life so that they won’t have to work anymore.

Are ‘we’ THAT lazy?

Are we THAT dissatisfied with our present work situation that we are seeking a way to get out of it?

Great idea, but where do the funds come from to pay our bills for the next whatever period of time?

Don’t get me wrong…I use the word ‘we’ carefully, because there are people who don’t spend money on lottery tickets weekly, and I am one of those people. There are people who are satisfied with their present working situation and don’t have a problem with not changing anything. I am NOT one of those people, I am not satisfied with status quo and I am working towards being financially independent (I am not there yet, but don’t have too far to go).

What if there were a way that you could work on replacing your full time income, but do it starting in your spare time, with very little monetary output on your part?

Is Internet Marketing, or Information Marketing, as I like to term it, the answer? Doug Champigny has a good take on that…..you can read it here.

I am not saying that this is the ‘silver bullet’ that is going to make you thousands of dollars overnight, but it can put you on that road to making a couple of hundred dollars a month and with more effort, possibly replacing your full time income and allowing you to ‘retire’ from the rat race.

Believe me, there are thousands of people (and probably millions) out there right now that are looking for a way to make money from home. If you get any of what Doug mentions in his post, there are going to be many more thousands, possibly millions more, coming on line in the next year or two who are going to be looking for a way to replace their incomes by working from home doing some sort of Information Marketing.

I want to position myself to help them choose whatever vehicle that they want to use to get them to whever they need to go. My K.A.R. (Knowledge-Application-Results) system will definitely help them, and you. I strongly suggest that you sign up for my newsletter (the form is in the upper right hand side of the page)…..not only will you get some great reports, but you will also get more ‘inside information’ on what I am doing, how I am doing it, and the results that I am getting.

Did you know that the statistics show that fully one third of all lottery winners are broke within 5 years of winning the big money?

So who are you going to listen to? The media that is telling us daily that things are crumbling around us, or to your ‘inside voice’ telling you that there IS a way that you can change things and make yourself a better person?

So hop in to my K.A.R and take a ride. You’ve got nothing to lose, but OH so much to gain!

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR success,

Ron