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		<title>How does Eben Pagan Does it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 days to Online profits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I was minding my business yesterday evening and suddenly I got a call from my friend Neol. He said “Dude, It’s really crazy you know”. I am thinking “what the hell?” He started explaining, “you see, I was watching Eben Pagan’s videos and then suddenly I decided to do some research on it. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, I was minding my business yesterday evening and suddenly I got a call from my friend Neol. He said “Dude, It’s really crazy you know”. I am thinking “what the hell?”</p>
<p>He started explaining, “you see, I was watching Eben Pagan’s videos and then suddenly I decided to do some research on it. Do you know Eben pagan Started with Internet marketing Niche around mid 2007?”</p>
<p>I was like “Yeah, I know but he’s online since 2000 or something”.</p>
<p>“Dude he created almost 8-9 products in about 32 months”.</p>
<p>Whoa, really?</p>
<p>I never noticed… (of I started counting it’s really 9 products and then lots of content to give away as bonuses and free stuff).</p>
<p>Technically he’s creating 1 product every 3 months… Damn that’s efficient.</p>
<p>So the question arises</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>“How does Eben Pagan Does it?”</strong></span></p>
<p>My first response was, “Duh, he’s got his A+ team behind him, it’s easy”. In reality, the thing is completely different. Even if you have a Top class Team behind your marketing process, it takes effort, dedication to create so many high quality products.</p>
<p>So far I’ve known Eben pagan or david deangelo (in dating niche) never created a sucky product.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Here’s a list of the Major products he created.</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Connected</li>
<li>Self Made wealth</li>
<li>Ignition</li>
<li>Internet marketing 101</li>
<li>Modern Guru Series</li>
<li>Guru Home Study (Seminar + Home Study Course)</li>
<li>Get altitude (Seminar + Home Study Course)</li>
<li>Guru mastermind (Seminar + Home Study Course + Monthly Subscription)</li>
<li>Wake up productive</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<p>Almost all of this products are Pricey. He never cut corners on the products or the price. Now wonder his company is making more than 20 million per year just through online marketing.</p>
<p>So what’s his secret?</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>The Secret is _____</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/eben.jpg"><img style="display: inline; border: 0px;" title="eben-pagan" src="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/eben_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="eben-pagan" width="201" height="259" /></a></p>
<p>(The secret is his metro look <img src='http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' />  <img src='http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> )</p>
<p>The secret is “<a title="Creating systems" href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/30-day-internet-marketing-challenge-so-far/">Creating systems</a>”. I’ve few of his products from both markets (dating and internet marketing). I’ve seen a sort of consistency or formula behind his products.</p>
<p>I am sure he has a system to create products at lightening pace.</p>
<p>For example. Most of his products are created from Seminar he does (Double Your dating Advanced seminar in 2000 or Get Altitude in 2007).</p>
<p>The content was the product gets automatically produced by this method (it’s harsh to say that because it takes HECK a lot of effort to present a seminar than a simple ebook).</p>
<p>If you closely look at the content, you’ll start noticing a structure in almost every product he creates.</p>
<p>In fact that is true for almost every good marketer.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>Why Structure Produces High Quality Content?</strong></span></p>
<p>You need a structure, an outline or a plan to push your content and make it high quality. Think of structure as a foundation for the upcoming content. When you put your content in a structure, you start putting elements that are necessary for any high quality product.</p>
<p>For example, if you produce content haphazardly or without any plan, people will feel cheated. There are different personality types of people and you need your content to match their types.</p>
<p>Damn that sounds a little crazy? Isn’t it?</p>
<p>Yes, it is. And that’s why when you create a structure it creates good content.</p>
<p>Did you notice the <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/article-writing-tip/" target="_blank">structures in one of my articles</a> (Introduction, body content and conclusion). With body content, I can divide the content into many parts and sub parts.</p>
<p>The same goes for your ebook (ebook is nothing but many articles put together but the whole ebook needs a structure).</p>
<p>Going back to personality types. You need stats for people who like to think with logic and then you need stories and metaphor for people who are right brained. When you start mixing these together, it attracts both kind of audience.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>What you can do to create a structure?</strong></span></p>
<p>Now take a 2nd look at this article. This article has a noticeable structure behind it. It has a story and it has some facts and figures and more importantly it has something that you can use it right now.</p>
<p>What you need right now is to start creating product outline or structure.</p>
<p>Here’s what you can do.</p>
<p><strong>1. Create the structure yourself – </strong>This is bit hard to do but not impossible at all.</p>
<p><strong>2. Rip apart the index </strong>of your favorite product and see how it is structured and then follow that structure yourself. For example When I started creating products, I was highly influenced by the products that Late Corey Rudl had created (Internet Marketing tips).</p>
<p><strong>3. Get some help –</strong> This is the costliest way to do it. But again, to make things easier and save some time, it’s often better to ask for help.</p>
<p>Do you now understand how eben pagan creates High quality products in 3 months or less (damn that sounds like a cheapo headline, LMAO). My friend doesn’t like to create content he’s more of marketing and sales guy, so he often comes to me with thought provoking questions and ideas. I am glad for his question.</p>
<p>BTW, For those who don’t own Get Altitude, You should get it. Though Eben is often coming out with new products I still think Get Altitude is his Best stuff.</p>
<p>Other Articles that you might like</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/how-to-create-products-in-less-than-60-minutes-for-any-hungry-market/">Creating Product is easy</a> -</p>
<p>2. <a title="Building a new Income stream in less than 3 hours" href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/building-a-new-income-stream-everyday-in-less-than-3-hrs/">Building a new Income stream in less than 3 hours</a>.</p>
<p>3. <a title="How to create products faster than speed of thought" href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/how-to-create-products-in-faster-than-speed-of-thought/">How to create products faster than speed of thought</a>.</p>
<p>4. <a title="Why Affiliate Income is far better than getting cents per click from adsense" href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/why-affiliate-income-is-better-than-adsense-day-9/">Why Affiliate Income is far better than getting cents per click from adsense</a>?</p>
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		<title>Andre Chaperon is pretty right about milestones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just checking my inbox and there is an email from Andre. He is one of the few marketers I care to read emails or promotion offer and give a 2nd thought. Why? Because he sells good products and promote good products. Anyways Andre made a damn good point at http://imade500faster.com/ (his promotion about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was just checking my inbox and there is an email from Andre. He is one of the few marketers I care to read emails or promotion offer and give a 2nd thought.</p>
<p>Why? </p>
<p>Because he sells good products and promote good products.</p>
<p>Anyways Andre made a damn good point at <a title="http://imade500faster.com/" href="http://imade500faster.com/">http://imade500faster.com/</a> (his promotion about Anik singal’s new product, it’s closed now).</p>
<p>People remember milestones.</p>
<p>Though his argument was he didn’t remember his first sale, but I do mine.</p>
<p>I also remember my first $100 a day, then $500 a day too… Heck I know the name of the person who I sold when I reached 500 dollar for the day. Granted I do have sharp memory.</p>
<p><font color="#800000" size="3"><strong>Why these milestones matter?</strong></font></p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4517509636_0426207604.jpg" width="485" height="328" /> </p>
<p><font size="1">Photo by </font><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/parislemon/"><b><font size="1">parislemon</font></b></a></p>
<p>In Neuro Linguistic programming, we learn how our brain focuses on key emotions and anchor the feelings associated with it. It doesn’t matter if the feeling is positive or negative.</p>
<p>The anchor is created and then we chose to live with this anchor (good or bad doesn’t matter at all). It pretty much takes “living in the past” to extreme level.</p>
<p>If you are positive oriented person, you’ll remember most of your successful anchors and emotions. Same for negative oriented people.</p>
<p>These emotions can help you succeed or become a miserable failure, if you don’t have authority over them. </p>
<p>That’s one of major reason for skills like NLP, Sedona and EFT are there to help people succeed.</p>
<p><font color="#800000" size="3"><strong>If you want to succeed, add emotions to your goals.</strong></font></p>
<p>My mentor used to say this a lot about goal setting. When you do that, you are ready to jump into unknown and go that extra mile to achieve your goals. </p>
<p>Ask yourself Why do you want to achieve this goal?</p>
<p>If you want to make money to impress your girl friend or show off your car to your friends then the reason you have isn’t going to make you go that extra mile.</p>
<p>But when you want to make money because you want to make sure your kids get that education that you didn’t, you are highly motivated.</p>
<p>Remember marketing saying, People do things to feel good or to get away from bad.</p>
<p>In this goal setting you are implementing both of them at same time. Giving more power to your decisions.</p>
<p><font color="#800000" size="3"><strong>How to add emotions to your goals?</strong></font></p>
<p>1. Make a goal (duh).   <br />2. Ask yourself, What’s my reason for this goal?    <br />3. How will I feel if I don’t achieve my goal (say in next 6 months or 1 year)?    <br />4. How will I feel If I’ll be able to achieve my goal (time frame)?    <br />5. What actions I can take now to take my step towards success?    <br />6. Do it NOW.    <br />7. Celebrate every single small success or Completion of every single step towards your goal.</p>
<p> Wow, I was talking about Andre’s promotion and ended up talking about goal setting. Remember like I said, These mile stones matter, The more success mile you have, more you’ll succeed and easier it’ll become to succeed next time in next project.</p>
<p>And boys and girls, men and women, that’s how you’ll learn how to be successful person.</p>
<p>PS: Mike Filsaime Just converted his Butterfly marketing script into GNU Licensed<a href="http://butterflyopensourcecode.com/" target="_blank">http://butterflyopensourcecode.com/</a> (means it’s free and you can add your own code to it). It’s good tool for every marketer to have.</p>
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		<title>Are you working more than 90 hours per week on your online business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to tell you my own story. It’s stupidly crazy. You know when I got out of school at the age 17, I wanted nothing to do with 9-5 job with no job security, fixed income and blah blah (typical American dream, though I am an Indian). I decided to start up my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am going to tell you my own story. It’s stupidly crazy. </p>
<p>You know when I got out of school at the age 17, I wanted nothing to do with 9-5 job with no job security, fixed income and blah blah (typical American dream, though I am an Indian).</p>
<p>I decided to start up my own business. For next 12 years (till date), I’ve worked harder than anyone I know. I’ve worked smarter than anyone I know. But It still burned me out regularly.</p>
<p>I started noticing few trends in my life. I was working over 100 hrs per week (that’s around 16 hour per day). Most of my that time I spend in front of my pc.</p>
<p>(<img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/1805146034_72f2b32e4e.jpg" width="240" height="180" /> Kill Me now by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emme-dk/"><b>emme-dk</b></a>)</p>
<p>I ended up getting fat, screwed up my eyes and knees in this process.</p>
<p>This made me take a look at my life seriously. What was I doing it wrong? I am making money but at what cost?</p>
<p>I started journaling everything I was doing (god knows why I stopped journaling when it was one of my main habit) and realized something mind boggling.</p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000" size="3">“I was pretending to be working”</font></strong></p>
<p>This shook me to the core. I was spending 15 hr a day in front of computer but my productive hours were only couple of hours per day (even less sometimes).</p>
<p>Remember Tim Ferries 4 Hour Work Week guy? </p>
<p>I was technically living the 4 hr work week while screwing up my life working for 15 hrs.</p>
<p>Can you believe it?</p>
<p>It was then I made decision to not be the guy who pretended to work for 15 hours a day.</p>
<p>I asked myself…</p>
<p><font color="#800000" size="3">How Can I Avoid pretending?</font></p>
<p> <img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4343605420_0c16876798.jpg" width="384" height="480" />
<p>by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeone/"><b>showmeone</b></a></p>
<p>I made a simple list of things I should be doing and started planning my day in complete detail.</p>
<p>It was at the same time Eben Pagan Launched his product called Wake Up Productive.</p>
<p>One of my major break through idea from that course was </p>
<p><font color="#800000" size="3"><strong>“Multi-tasking kills productivity”.</strong></font></p>
<p>Getting focused on the one task and make sure you see it to be completed gives you better result. The best part is that you get things done faster.</p>
<p>Trust me it does load of good for your confidence, your ego and saves you lot of time.</p>
<p>So when I am working I normally switch off my mobile, phone, lock my doors and try to focus 100% on my work.</p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000" size="3">What changes it made to my life?</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><u>First</u></strong> of all, I am working for less than I am used to.</p>
<p><strong><u>Second</u></strong> I get things done faster.</p>
<p><strong><u>Third</u></strong> because of this obsessively focused routine you add quality to your work.</p>
<p><strong><u>Fourth</u></strong>, GF is happier.</p>
<p><strong><u>Fifth</u></strong> I am healthier and enjoying my time practicing martial arts (one of my love).</p>
<p><strong><u>Sixth</u></strong>, I am planning and expanding to do far more business in this year. For those who don’t know I jumped offline last year and started my business there.</p>
<p><u><strong>Seventh</strong></u>, No More procrastinating and then feel like shit because you haven’t done anything.</p>
<p><strong><font color="#800000" size="3">So How can you start making a massive change like me?</font></strong></p>
<p>By starting small.</p>
<p>It’s counter intuitive but if you try to make a massive change in your life, you brain will go ‘Phlethhhh’ and you lose all the momentum. Your brain resist change because it has become your habit. If you try to do much, you’ll feel little scared and it makes you procrastinate.</p>
<ol>
<li>Start by fixing 30 minutes for today. Make a commitment to write a simple article for your blog or website. That’s it. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.imbasics.com/focus" target="_blank">Get a Timer</a>. </li>
<li>Every day, add 5 minutes to previous time. </li>
<li>Take break after every 1 hour of focused work. </li>
</ol>
<p>Like I said, start today by focusing on small task first. If you want to put a time on your computer then you can use <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/focus" target="_blank">Action machine</a> to help you with.</p>
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		<title>Combine your email marketing with Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to get your website out and target social media, then you should read what Amanda Gagnon (from aweber)&#160; has to say about combining social media with email marketing. It’ll take you only 5 minutes to read that blog post and you can target and use social media without much problem. Go there, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to get your website out and target social media, then you should read what Amanda Gagnon (from aweber)&#160; has to say about combining <a href="http://www.aweber.com/blog/email-marketing/email-social-media.htm" target="_blank">social media with email marketing</a>.</p>
<p>It’ll take you only 5 minutes to read that blog post and you can target and use social media without much problem. Go there, print the blog post, read it and then implement it and watch your traffic grow.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in 2004, when I started, traffic building was easy, YET, I struggled to get 100 unique visitors per day. Today when rules have changed, competition increased and it’s hard to get traffic, I think it’s still pretty easy to get traffic.</p>
<p>It’s silly, isn’t it?</p>
<p>To me, it has all become part of the experience that I’ve gotten in last 6 years of marketing online. You might think it’s super hard to get traffic but for someone who is doing it for couple of years will find it easy.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="successful online biz" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/4512233294_592068758c.jpg" alt="" width="464" height="308" /></p>
<p>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowdykittens/">Rowdykittens</a>.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">So How do you actually build traffic to your website?</span></strong></p>
<p>Simple answer is cumulative effect of your promotion will build traffic.</p>
<p>You know my formula (<a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/traffic-building-website/" target="_blank">content+3X promotion = traffic</a>). The more you promote your website, more traffic you’ll receive, the higher your chances to increase your traffic.</p>
<p>That’s where most people get it wrong. They try a technique few times and then claim it doesn’t work.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Traffic is all about getting back links. As you get more backlinks, you’ll get traffic. Almost all the techniques are based on this idea.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Getting website traffic is all about figuring out where you customer is and then get them to come to your website. Of course, not all of your customers are in forums, blogs and other web 2.0 properties… they are only fraction of the total crowd.</p>
<p>So Again, it all comes down to the idea of getting more <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/how-are-you-building-a-link-profile-to-generate-traffic/" target="_blank">back links to get increased rankings</a> in search engines.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">What are the factors that’ll effect your rankings and traffic?</span></strong></p>
<p>When you are link building here are some basic factors that you have to keep in mind.</p>
<ol>
<li>Link from High quality pages – Links coming from high quality pages will always carry more weight towards your rankings.</li>
<li>Age of your link – How long your link has been online will also effect your rankings.</li>
<li>Quantity – Most marketers often go for the quantity and they are pretty right too. It’s not bad to build as many links as possible.</li>
<li>Anchor text – What your anchor text contains will help you boost your rankings with specific keywords. I personally recommend to focus on few keywords and then build a complete link profile.</li>
<li>Sources – How varied your sources are also going to play an important role in this. that’s why quite a few marketers target lots of web 2.0 forums blog and places to get links from.</li>
<li>How old the website is – This helps somewhat but is not a major factor.</li>
<li>Authority hub – Authority sites link to other authority sites. So if you are getting linked from some of the authority sites, your rankings will dramatically improve.</li>
</ol>
<p>Remember all links are not equal, as all traffic isn’t equal. Some links caries more weight, some less.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>What about no-follow tags?</strong></span></p>
<p>Personally I am not worried about this. I always says to build as many links as possible. No-follow tags might not help you in your rankings but if you get a link on a high traffic web page, and you are getting traffic. Do you really think you should worry about that no-follow tagged link?</p>
<p>The simple answer is NO.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>How to create a <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/how-are-you-building-a-link-profile-to-generate-traffic/" target="_blank">natural link profile</a>?</strong></span></p>
<p>Remember &#8211; If you are trying to manipulate link profiles, then you are not building a natural links at all. This is where I suggest you should go aggressively and market yourself. There are always chances some of your site (and links) get picked up and get blasted by others webmasters and bloggers to get loads of links.</p>
<p>Do Not Worry About Building a Natural Profile.</p>
<p>Promote as much as possible, it’ll build automatically.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;"><strong>What you can do now to increase your rankings?</strong></span></p>
<p>It’s simple. Get more links through -</p>
<ol>
<li>Blog comments</li>
<li>forum posting</li>
<li>creating web 2.0 properties</li>
<li>building relationship with bloggers and web masters</li>
<li>article writing</li>
<li>press releases</li>
<li>Video marketing</li>
<li>podcasting</li>
</ol>
<p>The methods are endless, just get started implementing it.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are tired from get rich quick schemes and spam, then you should take out at least next 60 days to get started and succeed online in your business. It doesn’t take much to start online but it takes a lot of efforts to be successful</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">Why 60 days are important?</span></strong></p>
<p>I am suggesting 60 days, because in that time period, you’ll be able to make your website into a successful traffic getting, profit generating website. The time limit is important to keep you on right track. Of course there are many exception where people succeed in less than 60 days but for majority of the successful entrepreneurs it took effort, planning and time.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Step  1 – Find a market which suits you.</span></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4251408727_2531cd5d50.jpg" alt="" width="473" height="315" /></p>
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<p>Finding a market which suits you, your temperament is important. There are 2 things you need to know about this.</p>
<ol>
<li>Market should already have people who are buying</li>
<li>You have understanding of the market.</li>
</ol>
<p>Most people make this mistake into jumping in markets where they don’t know anything about it. Of course most of the stuff can be ghostwritten but you cannot provide service to the industry. This idea is good for quick buck, but to make a business out of it, you either should get into market where you know your stuff or get educated in that market.</p>
<p>I’ve personally made this mistake jumping into this market and then I spent time and money getting myself educated in that market. I could have avoided wasting that much time just by following this advice.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">Step 2 –Why You should learn how to write?</span></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2077/2229437427_40e2a1bb32.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="135" /> Putting pen to paper (Photo Credit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenorton/"><strong>lowjumpingfrog</strong></a>)</p>
<p>Content is big factor in your plan in getting traffic. You are either going to use articles to get traffic or provide a free report or something of that nature. So you should learn how to write.</p>
<p>Taking from someone whose English is 3rd language, you can trust me, when I say it’s easy to write.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">Step 3 – Spend as much time promoting as you can…</span></strong></p>
<p>You should be spending as much time promoting your website as possible. Without going out and getting attention, your site will never get traffic.</p>
<p>It’s surprising how the most important step is implement the least by most people.</p>
<p>I used to give this formula to anyone who asked me about the secret behind getting traffic.</p>
<p>1 X content + 3 X promotion = Success.</p>
<p>If you write 1 hr of content, you should spend 3 hr promoting that piece of content everywhere you can.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000; font-size: small;">Step 4 – Take a break once a day in a week.</span></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2353/2255494504_c581050dcd.jpg" alt="" width="235" height="176" /></p>
<p>Learn how to relax right from the master Simpon (Photo Credit <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/krasi/"><strong>krasi</strong></a>)</p>
<p>If you spend most of time in front of your computer, you’ll get fat, screw with your eyes, get into fights with your loved ones. Computer is a addictive menace. So take time out once every week.</p>
<p>My Martial art mentor used to say “Always give 120%, even in rest”. So when you are resting, don’t think about that web page or the article. Just take a break.</p>
<p>I am stressing so much because I’ve personally suffered a burn out myself and then stopped working on website for many months (resulting losses in my business).</p>
<p>Of course I had to build it back up but trust me it isn’t pleasant to build your income back up. If your goal is to <a href="http://www.imbasics.com" target="_blank">make money online</a> then you should read this article and keep it in your memory. Remember to treat it as business, to promote 3 times and then take a break once a week.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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<p>In last 6 months, if you haven&rsquo;t </p>
<p><strong>1. Turn your computers off &ndash;</strong> Most of us (so called internet marketers) spend way too much time in front of our computers doing almost nothing. We are always &ldquo;In process&rdquo; or &ldquo;in creation&rdquo; mode which gets done nothing. So switch your computer off for now.</p>
<p><strong>2. Make a list of all things you have done so far and failed &ndash;</strong> Take out your pen and paper and make a list of all things you have done online whether they were successful or failed. It doesn&rsquo;t matter, you need a list of things out there to get a real time understanding of the situation.</p>
<p><strong>3. Reboot Yourself</strong> &ndash; John Reese talked about this few years ago. You write down everything related to you, your goals, your debt, your health, wealth, spiritual and get it out from your head on to the paper. It&rsquo;ll get all the junk out of your mind and make it feel relaxed.</p>
<p><strong>4. Fix and schedule your &ldquo;Internet marketing&rdquo; time</strong> &ndash; Schedule your internet marketing time. I got this idea from my fitness routine. Everyday when clock starts 5:55 pm, I automatically change my clothes and at 6:00 I start working out. This is a habit. Make your internet marketing a habit.</p>
<p><strong>5. Save Your money to put it in business</strong> &ndash; Save your money to put it in the business. Do not think about buying products for now. Just save it, get a few extra jobs to get cash flow in the business. If you don&rsquo;t treat your online business like a business, chances of your succeeding goes way low.</p>
<p><strong>6. Make Your goal &ndash; </strong>how much action you take completely depends on your goal. If you fix your goal, schedule your time and start taking massive action, you&rsquo;ll succeed. It&rsquo;s about either doing it or not doing it at all. There is no middle road, only road kills, remember.</p>
<p><strong>7. Understand which markets you can jump into</strong> &ndash; You cannot jump into every market you think are profitable. Answer completely honestly, Can you really survive in the market you chose? Can you answer to the readers, client&rsquo;s question related to the market? </p>
<p><strong>8. Understand your clientele or readers</strong> &ndash; It comes down to knowing your market profile. Like they say in marketing, &ldquo;get in bed with your client&rdquo;. You have to intimately know your market. You have to know their fears, their hope, their failures, their successes. </p>
<p><strong>9. Develop relationships with everyone</strong> &ndash; It always comes down to who you are connected. Developing relationship with people will go long way. You need that elusive PR 7-8 link or may be get your product promo all over the web? Relationships with your readers, your friends, your business partners is going to help you.</p>
<p><strong>10. Work, focus and then work some more &ndash; </strong>Time and time again, I&rsquo;ve found there&rsquo;s no substitute for hard work and focus. If you focus 100 percent on the task for next 60 minutes, you&rsquo;ll get better results rather than spending 4 hrs with 80% focus. </p>
<p>Heck I personally belong to the list, who is likely to spend 5 hrs with 100% focus. Is it easy? heck no&hellip; Does it product result? Hell yes.</p>
<p><strong>11. Make Your own product &ndash; </strong>Regardless of the monetization methods out there on internet, the fastest and surest way to make money online is to <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/building-a-new-income-stream-everyday-in-less-than-3-hrs/" target="_blank">have a product</a>. I have said it on this blog time and time again about this. If you are worried about your writing skills. Break the project down in small chunks.</p>
<p><strong>12. Write your own blog &ndash; </strong>Starting your own blog is going to get connected with people. This is a platform where you&rsquo;ll build relationships. This is a platform where you&rsquo;ll find joint ventures. So get started.</p>
<p><strong>13. Take a Break 1 day per week.</strong> Following from John reese&rsquo;s reboot yourself theory. One thing I learned was that you need to reboot yourself regularly. Think of it as a computer. If you keep your computer on for 24/7 for next few weeks, how&rsquo;ll it effect its performance? </p>
<p>Chances are it&rsquo;ll slow down, programs may not work properly, even with the latest technology. Taking a break 1 day per week will allow you to gather yourself, gather your thoughts and get focused for the upcoming week.</p>
<p><strong>14. In crunch offer services</strong>.&nbsp; When you are in financial crunch, you should not hesitate to offer your services. It&rsquo;ll get you cash in the hand very quickly. There was time when I designed websites for peanuts. Remember, you are not supposed to supplement income this way for long term.</p>
<p><strong>15. Only 3 things you need to remember in online business</strong>. Online marketing is simple. You only need to work on 3 steps. </p>
<ol>
<li>Find a market </li>
<li>Create a product </li>
<li>Promote he heck out of your product and website. </li>
</ol>
<p><strong>16. When you are overwhelmed, yell out loud, pound the boxing bag, do something physical</strong> &ndash; Your body demands physical attention. If you do not let it out, stress will kill you slowly. I workout and do martial arts. Some people do surfing. Some go out and play for neighborhood teams. Do something physical. Let the stress out.</p>
<p><strong>17. Traffic is quite important, but don&rsquo;t spam 1000 sites for that</strong>. &ndash; This one is simple, stop spamming your website to 1000 website. I know a webmaster (who is great friend) who literally opened account of 50+ forums on his market. Though he is still respectable member of that society, but we still remember it.</p>
<p>People have long term selective memory when they want to remember.</p>
<p><strong>18. Don&rsquo;t try to be everything to everyone.</strong> &ndash; I&rsquo;ve personally tried to do it and failed. Trust me, if you do things certain way, people will talk and you can&rsquo;t please everybody. So stop trying to be everything to everyone.</p>
<p><strong>19. Don&rsquo;t run after every new, shiny and loud objects</strong>. There are tons of marketing launches happening at any current moment. Do not get distracted. Do not run after every new thing.</p>
<p>This is a list of things or suggestions I&rsquo;d give to anyone who haven&rsquo;t achieved the success or the success they wanted. It does come from last 6 years of experience.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways you can get started, you can set up your own website, create a viral e-book&#8230;and those are all pretty easy, but still not the absolute easiest! I would say that the easiest way to get started is Blogging. Running a blog that you can install via fantastico is a new webmasters [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Light_bulbsm.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Light_bulb-sm" border="0" alt="Light_bulb-sm" src="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Light_bulbsm_thumb.jpg" width="85" height="104" /></a> There are many ways you can get started, you can set up your own website, create a viral e-book&#8230;and those are all pretty easy, but still not the absolute easiest! </p>
<p>I would say that the easiest way to get started is Blogging. Running a blog that you can install via fantastico is a new webmasters dream. One click installation, and then all you have to do is add content. </p>
<p>WordPress is a great choice for a new Blogger, but even if you can’t afford to get hosting or domain names yet, you can still get started Blogging.</p>
<p>Do a search for free Blogs, but chances are you will end up wanting to use Blogger.com – they are free and the Blogs are quite nice.</p>
<p>The best part about using Blogs is that they actually “ping” services to tell them that you have added new content. Many of those places then syndicate your content and that brings you back links and plenty of public awareness.</p>
<p>Blogging isn’t for everyone. I know I had my struggle with it in the past, It took some time but I understood what blogging is all about .. </p>
<p>But a Blog is a great way to both accomplish something and DO something all at once. Give it a shot – remember you can start a Blog up for free. You will want to add revenue streams into your blog by customizing. What to base your web sites on?</p>
<p>Many experts on the subject of Niche Sites will tell you that you have to pick high paying keywords only. There are so many searches on so many topics every day that you really can get traffic and interest in just about any “sub” category you want.</p>
<p>What I am saying is &#8211; don’t make your sites about fishing – make them about Walleye fishing instead. A great free way to pick your topics a little easier is: <a href="http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com">http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com</a>&#160; Just enter in a major keyword and it will spit out some other suggestions and help you find your competition.</p>
<p>Your first site should be about something you enjoy. Writing for the Keywords isn’t any fun, so pick a topic you know something about and just do it.</p>
<p><b>How exactly do you pick a topic?</b></p>
<p>There are many places to pick a topic for your site.</p>
<p><strong>1. Your Hobbies </strong>- Most people hobbies are often based on trends, peers and their socio-geo-economic reasons. Chances are they are often based on markets where people are rabid buyers (i.e. Golfers, surfers, stamp collectors are darn good examples).</p>
<p><strong>2. Your Magazines </strong>– Check out few of your local magazines. Notice the topic that interests you. These magazines are often in market where people are buying. If you are interested in topic, then your knowledge is going to be good about this topic.</p>
<p>Notice I&#8217; haven’t talked about stuff like keyword tools to help you or sites like google zeitgeist. Why? Because I want to focus on markets where people are buying. If people are buying then there’ll always be people who are selling and you can always find ways to get&#160; more information about them (sellers/buyers) and find an angle to sell more products.</p>
<p><strong>3. Amazon.com</strong> – Third option is amazon.com, I like amazon because there are tons of options to chose from and do research on the market. But I use this only after I’ve chosen the market, not to chose a market.</p>
<p>Same goes for Ebay.com. You should use both of these sites to do research on the market. You’ll find what products are selling (and auctioning), what kind of thought process buyer is in etc… Lots of info to be gathered in research from these 2 websites.</p>
<p>After you’ve chosen the topic, You need to <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/xsite" target="_blank">build a website</a>. It can be done either by Dreamweaver, or Microsoft Frontpage, NVU (free website editor) or <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/xsite" target="_blank">Xsite Pro</a>. These tools will help you fix a website in matter of minutes.</p>
<p>Now all that left is <a href="http://write-articles.imbasics.com" target="_blank">content generation</a> and traffic building. Which I’ll be discussing in other posts.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If your goal is to build affiliate sites that starts making money to you in next 30 day or less, then you should print out this article and read it few times. Before I go and start explaining, let me give you my affiliate marketing philosophy.</p>
<p>Website + Conversion+Traffic= $$.</p>
<p>Simple enough&#8230; Right?</p>
<p>Yes. You have to worry about 3 things to get income fast in your online business.</p>
<p>1. Your Affiliate website</p>
<p>2. How much conversion you can depend on?</p>
<p>3. Your traffic getting skills?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with basics of basics.</p>
<p><strong>1. Always find markets where people are buying</strong> &#8211; One of my pet peeve about internet marketing guru&#8217;s is that they claim about &#8220;Write something you love&#8221;. This advice in itself is not bad at all but the thing about this is that you spend all your time in a site that you have no idea if it&#8217;ll become a hit or a flop.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I always suggest to go after markets where people already are buying. They can always buy an extra product or two.</p>
<p>The headache in this case is competition. My theory on competition is simple, you spend time and effort to out compete them. Simple as that.</p>
<p><strong>2. NO WordPress</strong> &#8211; Why, oh why, I am suggesting no wordpress, when even I have a blog on wordpress? It&#8217;s simple, it kills conversion. WordPress is overall a good tool for SEO purposes but it kills conversion. Most of the themes for wordpress aren&#8217;t created for keeping conversion in mind.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I recommend you to start with an affiliate site not an affiliate blog. Right? I personally recommend <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/xsite" target="_blank">Xsite pro</a> as a tool to build your sites fast and efficiently. They not only <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/xsite" target="_blank">help you with SEO</a> but also with design and lot of other stuff.</p>
<p><strong>3. Building traffic </strong>-  There&#8217;s only one secret to build traffic and that&#8217;s call <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/seo-tactic-increase-website-traffic/" target="_blank">link building</a>. If you are building <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/seo-tactic-increase-website-traffic/" target="_blank">backlinks</a> to your site, then build lots of them and it&#8217;ll get you listed in serps and get traffic. But that&#8217;s a long term strategy (that doesn&#8217;t mean you should work on it).</p>
<p>Read more on my article about <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/traffic-building-website/" target="_blank">How to get website traffic</a>.</p>
<p>The thing about traffic is all about momentum. You should spend as much time as possible. I am used to this formula</p>
<blockquote><p>Content Creation + 3 X Traffic Generation = Profit</p></blockquote>
<p>The above equation is pretty much my idea of building momentum. You do not spend as much time on creating content as you spend on getting traffic.</p>
<p>You can create your content once a week and then promote the heck out of it for next 7 days&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>4. List building</strong> &#8211; You should at least put some kind of mechanism to build your list. Even if you get 4-5 subscriber a day, you&#8217;ll have 150 subscriber in 30 days. That&#8217;s good enough to start making money.</p>
<p>Think of <a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/internet-marketing-strategy-affiliate-marketing-tips/" target="_blank">How to build relationship with your list</a>?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imbasics.com/talks/how-to-use-most-important-email-of-an-autoresponder-to-build-a-loyal-following/" target="_blank">Improve Conversion with your list</a>.</p>
<p>As you can see, it all comes down to converting your traffic to leads to profit. If you are not focused on converting this traffic into profit, you&#8217;ll not make money.</p>
<p>Technically you can make decent income with 150-200 visitors per day.  Heck I did when I started out with 80-100 visitors per day.</p>
<p>So in the end you need.</p>
<p>1. A website that converts</p>
<p>2. A list mechanism that converts</p>
<p>3. Regular traffic.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s how&#8217;ll profit.</p>
<p>If you want to start and profit in your market then you should check out &#8220;<a href="http://www.imbasics.com/WIN/" target="_blank">Niche Marketing from stephen pierce</a>&#8220;.</p>
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		<title>The singlemost factor that’ll double or tripple your website traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varun Pratap</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are struggling to get traffic to your website or blog, then you should focus on this single factor that can easily double or tripple your website traffic in 30-60 days. Do not dwell in tactics or techniques that promises you the moon. If you look at all the sites that are getting traffic, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are struggling to get traffic to your website or blog, then you should focus on this single factor that can easily double or tripple your website traffic in 30-60 days.</p>
<p>Do not dwell in tactics or techniques that promises you the moon. If you look at all the sites that are getting traffic, this factor is the most important.</p>
<p>Chances are you know about it but never cared enough&#8230;</p>
<p>The factor is &#8220;Incoming Links&#8221;. I know people groan at the thought of link building , but the truth about SEO is that almost all the tactics have foundation in link building.</p>
<p>Article writing? Video submitting? blog comments? forums? bookmarking?</p>
<p>See, how each and every single factor can be broken down into a version of link building?</p>
<p>So if it&#8217;s so darn important, why oh why, people do not spend time building quality links?</p>
<p><strong>How to get Quality Links?</strong></p>
<p>To understand more about quality links, you have to understand the Anchor tag in HTML.</p>
<p>&lt;A HREF=&#8221;"&gt;&lt;/A&gt; This is Anchor tag in HTML.</p>
<p>What you write in between these tags is going to provide the few key points about quality of links.</p>
<p><strong>First is the factor of HREF</strong>= Hyperlink Reference. Which is where you put your URL in this tag. The URL should be to your domain or one of the important page. (Keep this mind in point as I&#8217;ll explain this more later).</p>
<p><strong>Second factor</strong> that is NOFOLLOW tag. If the hyperlink tag is set to &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow">NOFOLLOW</a>&#8220;, then the search engines will not use this link as a way to influence the rankings.</p>
<p><strong>Third Factor </strong>is what you put as Anchor tag. &lt;a &gt;The stuff you put here&lt;/a&gt;. Here you should put your most focused and important keyword. The major mistake people do here is that they vary this too much (too worried about link spamming, I believe).</p>
<p><strong>Fourth factor</strong> is where you link exists. If your link is on a page which has High PR, then you bless yourself. If you can get into pages where there is traffic, High PR, the better it is for your website. This is one thing that is not easy to do. Webmasters jealously guard their website PR as thats the sole reason for use of nofollow tags.</p>
<p><strong>Fifth and not so known factor</strong> is where your link points. Now like I said earlier, you should point your link to either your domain or one of the most important page. This factor is about related content. If your link is about &#8220;Blue widgets&#8221; and you link to internal page which talks about blue widgets, then it&#8217;s good for you.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s not as effective if your blue widget link goes to widgets in general.</p>
<p><strong>Can you believe all these secret behind a puny tiny Anchor tag in HTML?</strong></p>
<p>I sure didn&#8217;t, until I started making changes based on the above factors.</p>
<p>The closer you observe these 5 factors the higher the quality of the link will be.</p>
<p><strong>Now how in the blue hell you are going to use this information?</strong></p>
<p>This is very simple to do. All of your techniques and tactics is based on link building one way or another. Now this how you can apply it?</p>
<p>For example you can add your anchor tag in <a href="http://write-articles.imbasics.com"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title=""  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://www.imbasics.com/talks/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" rel="external">article marketing</a>.</p>
<p>Or you can use these tips to improve the links in forums, blogs and anywhere you post your link.</p>
<p>It all comes down to link building.</p>
<p>Remember &#8211; Focused, Quality and Quantity will help you get better links and improve your rankings.</p>
<p>Best Regards</p>
<p>If your goal is to <a href="http://www.imbasics.com" target="_blank">make money from home</a> with online tactics, then you should subscribe to my 30 day step by step<a href="http://www.imbasics.com" target="_blank"> Internet marketing program</a> for free.</p>
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