I think there’s a compliment in there somewhere.

The things that I do in my business every day fall under four areas…

1. Growing my List and Connecting with my Readers
2. Increasing my Traffic
3. Building Relationships on my Own Blog
4. Developing my Products and my Other Offers (like PLR stuff, and private coaching and consulting)

Anything that doesn’t fall directly under those four areas must be put aside until I’ve tackled those

Now obviously, I could write an entire report about this, so in this post, I’ll focus in on your mailing list.

Your list is your livelihood. At least it can be with some love. However, it takes time to write your newsletters or connect with your list, in general. And, coming up with ideas on a regular basis can be brutal.

Life happens. (Thank goodness!) So, you need some shortcuts for when you just don’t have time or don’t necessarily feel inspired to connect with your lists.

Here’s where the magic happens. I have tons of tricks, but I’ll just start with three ideas to get you off and running.

1. Outsourcing
2. Planning and Batching
3. PLR articles

OUTSOURCING PARTS OF THE PROCESS

First of all, outsourcing. There are several ways you can outsource when it comes to your list.

If you have a virtual assistant (or a teenager in your house), write and send an article to him/her and have that person compile your newsletter for you. A side benefit is that it will require you to plan in advance, which can be a very good thing.

You can also hire a virtual assistant to seek out articles in places like EzineArticles.com or LadyPens.com that you can use in your newsletter, rather than having to do it all yourself. Find a few authors that you like (who are considered experts in their fields) and just have your virtual assistant grab one of their articles whenever you’re behin

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I teach a course on Outsourcing since so many people have asked me how I do it so well.

You can sign up for my free “Outsourcing Mistakes” ecourse here: Outsourcing Mistakes to Avoid

PLANNING AND BATCHING

Second, let’s dig into planning a bit. I find it much easier to plan a month at a time or more than to sit down in front of the computer and try to brainstorm. Can you plan a series of emails to send to your readers?

Perhaps a set like “7 Ways to …” That way you’re set for at least the next seven emails. If you look at my ecourse above “Outsourcing Mistakes to Avoid” – you’ll see how I used a series to create that ecourse. You can model yours after that one.

PLR ARTICLES

PLR articles can be such a huge shortcut. If you’re not using them yet, you are in for a treat!

Here’s a definition of PLR (in case you aren’t familiar with it):

Let’s talk about how useful this is. I mean, honestly. Let’s say your niche is romance. If you purchase a set of ten PLR articles, you have everything you need for 10 newsletters immediately – and, guess what? You can reuse them again the following year or year after.

Not only do you not have to come up with titles, you don’t have to even draft the articles yourself.

Simply copy and paste the  articles into your newsletter, tweak them to have some of YOU in them – either by including examples, personal stories, or some of your own tips and ideas, and you’re set.

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I started one of the most highly regarded PLR sites on the web back in 2006 and made it my personal goal to change the PLR industry for the better. I like to think that I’ve accomplished my goal.

See for yourself here: Quality PLR Articles

Now, the next time you’re thinking “I really need to send something to my lists, but what?” you don’t have to panic now that you have these shortcuts at your disposal.

Thanks so much for reading! Please share your thoughts below.

Warmly,

Nicole Dean

I especially enjoyed the sections on blog comment marketing and forum marketing.  These sections really helped me understand the right way to use those tools and the strength of what they have to offer.  I’d avoided them in the past, feeling as though they were somewhat artificial, but Total Traffic Annihilation showed me they did not have to be.

While I’m not certain all 28 of the strategies presented in the eBook are good fits for my business I was impressed to have so many options to choose from.  Every one of the options was covered in a clear, understandable way that will make them easy for me to implement in the future.

The new software package also offers some exciting applications.  For example, it allows me to specify RSS feeds to pull content from.  It then automatically uses this content to create posts in the categories I specify.  I enjoy having a way to comb through article directories for this freely available content.  It even allows me to create a site that appears to have been around for awhile through the clever use of back-dating.  My site doesn’t look at all automated as a result, which I appreciate given most people’s opinions of automated blogs.

That’s not to say the course is perfect.  I found some of the information duplicated things I have tried and found ineffective in the past, such as submitting to directories like DMOZ.  I would have liked to have seen some more in-depth troubleshooting in this area because I’ve simply never found success there.  It may simply have been that my sites were a poor fit for the directories or because I was impatient.

All in all, however, I would happily recommend this course.  It should be especially helpful to anybody who has struggled with getting enough website traffic.  After all, no traffic means no sales, making this course the potential investment of a lifetime.

Check it out here:

Not only that, he’s managed to generate MULTIPLE subscriber lists of over 1,000,000 people each. All while he “slides in under the radar”. Yes, that’s right… MILLIONS of subscribers!

Why am I telling you this?

Because he’s decided to take his secret software weapon & share it with us! It’s a weapon he’s quietly been using to help some of the biggest names online drive traffic & sales.

After much arm twisting & convincing he’s decided to release it and let us have a crack at using it ourselves! Check out this video where he tells you all about it…

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Now, you may be thinking this is some high-end tool that only a super guru can figure out. Well, that’s totally not the case! Check out the video & you’ll even see Bill’s 11 year old son install, setup & run this software tool to drive traffic to his own website!
Go here & learn all about it:

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To your success!

Tony

PS: Don’t miss out! You have GOT to see this in action:

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Anyway, he was cool enough to let me know how I could get a piece of the cake..

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Do you know what the hardest bit about selling a product online is??…

Most people waste tons of time and money on trying to research profitable niches, creating products, making websites spending a fortune on designs…

Somewhere in the mix, people normally get tired, fed up and worn out by the whole process and end up either with a really crappy product or just give up during the whole process all together.

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Well, Adeel has told me he will be giving each month a full plug and play business on a silver platter for you to connect your bank account to, and earn a recurring passive income.

Now another slap in the face Adeel gave me was he told me he became a Number 1 Clickbank Bestseller along with his partner bobby…. I was in utter shock, he was a first year uni drop out…. and now he was number one bestseller on Clickbank, WHAT THE…!!!

so anyhow,

Adeel and Bobby are giving you the chance to own your very own digitial business – that comes with PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS.

– YOU GET –

* 50+ page eBook/Videos on a hot topic
* Ready made sales page
* Ready made download page
* Ready made affiliate page
* 5 sexy affiliate banners
* 5 unique articles
* Hot graphics and eCovers
* Full document and graphic source files

All this will be available for YOU to TAKE and stick your name on, and then sell – and keep 100% of the money that you make.. yes, it’s all yours

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With PLR Gold Member, you will get custom mini sites, professional sales letters, professionally written ebook, banners, graphics, and all source files every single month.

They go as far as spending over $10,000 each month creating the full product so you don’t have too!!!

.. a quick word of warning… the price doubles on Jan 19th 2010, and yup this is not a scare tactic…

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So long to the headaches and painful boredom of spending hours or days of your valuable time research, writing, designing…

To Your Success,

Tony

P.S. PLR Gold Member is LIMITED to a few number of people before the site is taken down. Adeel & Bobby don’t want to be irresponsible and saturate the market with too many users hence the limited qty.

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It’s your only chance to finally have a business you can call your own.. without all the headaches involved…

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These are just a handful of headlines that started off the first work week of 2010:

- ‘Dustin’ comic, jobless title character hit close to home
- Jobs may rebound in 2010
- How to get a raise or promotion in 2010
- Americans’ job satisfaction falls to record low

To folks who are self-employed, these headlines are just as irrelevant to their personal lives as the weather on the other side of the planet. Yet they make the headlines because the topics of ‘j-o-b’ rule our society.

People scoff at the welfare system that creates lifetime dependencies on the government and society and we are pissed that our taxes go to support many capable folks who don’t pony up to work.

Look at those headlines again. How is this any different? [Read More...]

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Plus, it shows a brand new Adwords campaign that’s making $518.07 per day in revenue …by promoting simple CPA offer.

(The campaign was just set up on the 17th of this month, by the way …so you’re getting FRESH strategies that are working NOW …even during the Holidays!)

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Here’s the best part – even though Google just KILLED thousands of Adwords accounts, they LOVE this campaign and you can create campaigns just like this one …all day long.

So as an “added bonus” in this video, you’ll discover how to still sell stuff on Google without EVER worrying about the dreaded “slap”.

You’ll see the exact ads being used, the offer, the landing pages, and even the keywords.

It’s really, really good:

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Talk soon,
Tony

P.S. Plus, you can use the same strategies for OTHER businesses as well.

So I think that no matter what you’re promoting, this will work:

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Once you understand the concept behind PLR articles, you can see why they are appealing. Most people can envision the value of adding the articles to their websites. But, did you know there are more ways to use PLR articles than that?

1. Add them to your blog.
Similar to adding PLR articles to your website, you can take excerpts and use them on your blog for fresh content. Whether you take a portion and use it as a “tip of the day” or use the entire article, PLR articles can be a huge time saver for you.

2. Send them in your newsletter.
Need content for your newsletter? PLR articles are an option. Of course, if you’re developing a relationship with your readers, you may wish to edit the articles to make them your own voice. However, you can pull a section from a PLR article – use it as inspiration — and whip out a newsletter in minutes.

3. Start an ecourse
If you purchase a package of PLR articles based on a theme, it’s quite easy to turn them into an ecourse simply by adding them to your auto-responder. Something as simple as “Five Ideas for Kids Lunches” can become a 5 day ecourse to grow a big newsletter list.

4. Use them in your podcast
Take a PLR article and use it as inspiration for a podcast. Add the content and you’re done.

5. Send them in a print mailing
Direct mailing is huge. If you have a list of postal mailing addresses, put together a free report from PLR articles and send it out.

6. Create a special report
Simply bulk together some PLR articles that have the same topic, and make them flow into a special report. Turn it into a pdf file and give it away to your website visitors.

See how easy that is? The only hard part is finding a PLR service that is high quality and fits your niche. Look around. Make sure the PLR package or membership you choose provides you with high quality articles so you can create something you’ll be proud of.

Article written by:

Nicole Dean is the owner of  www.EasyPLR.com – where you’ll find high-quality PLR articles sold in very limited quantities.  The PLR articles at EasyPLR are professionally written and professionally edited — top quality at an affordable price.

In other words, you don’t have to do all the work yourself! In fact, if you get a little creative, you won’t have to do any of the work!

You don’t even have to know a thing about the subject that you’d like to create a product on.

The tips and strategies provided below will definitely get your brain firing on overtime.

Interview An Expert

The fastest and easiest way to come up with a high-value product is to interview an expert on the subject which you want to write about.

You would entice the expert by reminding him of the free publicity he/she would get from your promoting the interview.

The more well-known the expert is, the more marketable the finished product will be.

You can also interview several experts and compile all the interviews into one product, in order to cover different angles and strategies on one subject.

Or, you could pick a general subject, break that up into sub-sections and then interview an expert for each sub-section. For example, if you’re creating a product on ‘Internet Business Success,’ you could interview an expert on product creation, another on copywriting, and another on marketing strategies, and so on.

Your interview can include a set of specific questions, or just one question that requires a detailed answer.

You could also ask the expert to offer you a step-by-step plan that readers would be able to follow to get to their goal. (The easier you make it on the reader, the more likely will he be to buy your product.)

There are various formats you could choose to conduct and publish the interviews. You could simply send the questions to them via email and publish the answers into a report or ebook format. You could also choose to meet the expert one-on-one and record the interview, or you could conduct the interview over the phone and record it that way.

If you choose to record the interviews, your product package could then contain the audios as well as the typed up transcripts. Your pricing would also vary depending on which formats of your products you provide.

Heck, you could even video tape the interview and sell copies of the recorded video.

Record Your Own Tips and Advice

If you’re an expert in a subject yourself, you could get a friend or partner to ask you preset questions and record/transcribe those.

You could also do a (free or paid) tele-seminar, record that and turn that into an instant product. Offer it as downloadable audios, an actual CD, or just the typed up transcripts.

A similar strategy can be used on live seminars. You can either video tape the seminar, make a audio recording of it, or both.

You could just as easily invite other experts to join you in the seminar and turn that into an instant product.

Of course, these days, you can also do a webcast i.e. a seminar via the Internet, record that and turn that into a product.

Turn Existing Content Into Products

You can just as easily contact a bunch of experts and ask them to submit their best articles or reports on a particular subject. Then, compile them into a larger report or even an ebook.

Each expert gets to include their web links at the end of their content so they get free publicity from the submission.

You could further get instant exposure for your newly created product by giving all the experts who participated the first chance at selling the product to their own customers. (You can also use this strategy with interviews.)

The same idea can be used to borrow/reprint sections of ebooks, audios, or even existing videos. Contact the author and ask for permission to reprint the content in exchange for free publicity.

If you want to create a product for the ‘copywriting’ crowd, you could contact several copywriting experts and ask them to submit a sales letters that they wrote for one of their products. You could compile all the submitted letters into one mega collection of “proven salesletters.” You got an instant product!

You could take this idea further and ask each expert to break the letter apart and explain the specific techniques they used to create the letter. That added information could easily double or triple the value of your ‘proven salesletters’ package.

Update/Republish Existing Information

Find an ebook/manual that’s at least a year old and ask the author/publisher to update the information. For example, you could approach the author of a “free classifieds” directory and offer to help update the information to include all the new resources that came about since the directory was last published.

You could also approach the author of a printed product and ask to convert his product into an audio CD…or visa versa.

How about taking an ebook on ‘general gardening tips’ and modifying it for the ‘vegetable gardening’ market.

Help Finish Incomplete Projects

Most successful product creators, especially informational product creators, have at least one unfinished product. You can offer to help them finish it. The profits and exposure can be shared between the two of you.

This can be applied to ebooks, reports, manuals, manuscripts, even software/scripts or non-informational products.

Purchase ‘Private Label’ Rights

You could either search for owners who are already offering private label rights to their products, or approach authors and ask for it.

Private label rights offers you the right to insert ‘your name’ as the author of the product. You don’t have to write a single word except type in your name and website info.

You could either pay for these rights with cash, or barter/trade using your own products and/or reprint rights.

Hands-On Video Or Camtasia Presentations

Another super easy way to create a high-value product is to create a “how-to” video or computer presentation simply by recording yourself (or an expert) while working on the project. For example, you could create a “how to” product that teaches others to use/learn the features of Microsoft Word by recording yourself using MS Word and explaining the features.

Most people prefer listening over reading, and watching over listening. They want ‘easy.’

To be honest with you, your product doesn’t even have to be an actual product!

You could just as easily compile a bunch of powerful testimonials about someone else’s hot product, add your affiliate links to it and pass the document around.

Allow others to pass it around freely as well. Pretty soon your little report of testimonials can start earning you commissions.

Yes, it can be that easy, IF you decide to make it that easy. Remember, don’t let how ‘most people’ create products limit your creativity and options.

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Best Wishes to Quick and Easy Profits,

Tony

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