So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this,

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliates conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.

Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.

There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer remembered that there are questions to answer from the visitors. This has to be done quickly. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email.

To prove that the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently, inquiries would have to be paid more attention on. Nobody wants to be ignored and customers are not always the most patient of all people. Quick answer that should appear professional yet friendly too.

In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.

There are things to be learned and it is a continuous process. Sharing tips and advices is a good way of showing support. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. There is no harm in assuming what opportunities ahead.

The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketers publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.

These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.

It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.

Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.

The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.

Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.

Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time.

Ok, so this may not be all done in a day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Is that success looming in the distance or what?

Until next time

Dan Briffa signing out.

And I felt it something a lot of people “think about” and base their whole online journey around.

So it’s today’s “life lesson” for my subscribers. And it does directly relate to everyone who’s reading this because I’ll tell you, until YOU are motivated as person in the RIGHT way, success and a long term business is hard to achieve.

***START CONVERSATION*****

Friend: “Jimmy – How do you do it?”

Me: “Do what?”

Friend: “Motivate yourself? Make lots of money?”

Me: “Friend, that’s your problem right there. You make it about the money and when you make it about ‘the money’ you start to lack motivation quickly when you don’t start earning it quickly. In my niche, we teach those to make money online BUT what many don’t realize is it’s NOT just about the money. You should be looking at the long term picture- your drive and passion of wanting THE big picture.”

Friend: “What do you mean- big picture?”

Me: “When I’m working away online, working MORE hours sometimes than most normal people for my online business, it’s not because I want the money. The money comes with success. My big picture is a comfortable life, feeling proud of my accomplishments, and the fun the challenges & experience I learn from what I do.”

Friend: “So when will you slow down? When will you stop working so hard?”

Me: “The answer is .. NEVER. I can’t. I’m not built that way. I’m always going to push myself to the limits. Why? Because I love the challenge. I love working hard and seeing the results. And with results, the money will flow on it’s own.”

****END CONVERSATION****

See, I want the fun stuff in life. Big vacations, nice cars, big houses, really nice watches (my guilty pleasure), but all this is just reward for all my hard work. And even if I had everything I wanted in life…

I would keep pushing forward.

Think about it- why do millionaires become billionaires and billionaires just keep pushing harder? Why do people like Donald Trump work as hard as he is, even if he’s one of the richest men in the world? Because it’s NOT about the money. It’s about the challenge and the BIG picture.

And one thing I will tell you RIGHT NOW, is if it’s about the money to you, you need to step back and think about it.

Leave a comment below and tell me what DRIVES YOU to push forward?

Guest Content by Jimmy Kim

If you liked this guest post by Jimmy and would like to read more like these head over to his blog at

www.successmarketingsource.com

“The Money is the List.”

It’s a VERY common saying in ANY niche you are. BUT it is up to you to keep your list responsiveness and keeping them happy by giving them material that you provide that list on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. (like I do for you!)

Now before we get into any more of this, lets go back to the basics and we’ll come back to these topics later on in our “list building” sessions.

Here’s the deal, the reason why EVERYONE says the “money is in the list,” is this. It’s more of a scenario. Let’s imagine, whatever your doing on the internet is HIGHLY successful already. Your doing PPC ads, Facebook, or even blogging! Now.. lets say something happens overnight, such as the “Google Panda” comes and slaps your site or your ads are shutdown on Facebook!

Now what do you do? The thing about having a list, you can NEVER ‘be shut down’ as long as your not abusing that list and giving valuable information along with solid recommendations to products you find that will help a person succeed.

So how do you start?

Well.. that’s like the million dollar question. Pay CLOSE attention, book mark this page and take notes!

NOTE: This is not the ONLY way to get to subscribers fast, but it’s one of them and it’s basically full-proof. It WILL work, you just need to make it work.

There’s a Few Things You’ll Need:
(yes it costs you a few bucks to start..)

• A domain name…(Keep it short, memorable and to the point!)
• Aweber or iContact account or any other mailing service
• A simple opt-in page
• Something COOL to give-away for those who opt-in (Free report or video, etc…) – Even if it’s a solid 10 page report with good information, that’s more than enough!
• A “report cover” for your give-away…an image.
• A good affiliate program to promote…
• 30 minutes a day (for marketing)
• Writing some articles (yes, get over it, you’ll have to write a bit)…

Now, for the SIMPLE FORMULA:

Step 1: Grab your Domain Name..

I suggest using NameCheap.com but you can use any one you use. (I do NOT recommend Godaddy though ..)

Step 2: Get your opt-in page done, up and running.

If you need help getting it designed on the cheap, the best place I can recommend for fast, quality and inexpensive work is http://www.Scriptlance.com

Step 3: Your Free Give-Away

Take a few days and put together a FREE report. I can get into strategies on how to make these reports later, but for now, write a quick outline and just WRITE (or outsource it) Or just grab a well written PLR report, you can find those all over the internet for a cheap price!

Step 4: Get The Free Report Cover Designed

Again, the easiest place to get this done “on the cheap” is Scriptlance.com or you can do it yourself (if you know how) – there are even some free software that do this, but they turn out ugly.
I say spend the $20 and get a nice one designed, it’ll help in your conversions.

Step 5: Grab Your Aweber/iContact/Get Response Account or other mailing program

Okay- so this is touchy. You have to be careful that the mailing company ALLOWS affiliate marketing if you plan to promote. That is why i recommended Aweber, iContact, or Get Reponse. There are probably others, but these are the 3 major players.

Step 6: A Good Affiliate Program To Promote

When your creating your auto-responder emails you’ll need to start sprinkling your promotions in. Why? Well, think about it. You need to slowly monetize, you don’t want to hit them every day or all the time, but once or twice in a 7-14 day period is good start.

Step 7: Test Your Opt-In Page

Opt-in yourself and make sure it’s working well!

Step 8: Time To Start Driving Traffic!

I’m really going to keep this SIMPLE for you. Many will argue with me till their blue in the face that there are EASIER ways to get traffic (they may be right). But, for now, this is ONE way and I KNOW (100% guaranteed) that it’ll work…

But, before that, accept the following:
1. It won’t happen over-night, it’ll take some time to build.
2. You’ll need to invest at LEAST 30 minutes a day (if not more).
3. It’ll start slow (is kind of demoralizing initially) and then it’ll build up faster and faster, but you gotta stick to it.

And.. Here’s Your Traffic Plan to Get Subscribers

Just for the first subscribers, you can do it easily (with a bit of time), using just the following techniques (yes, you can do a LOT more too, but for now this will do):

Free Traffic Techniques: (Yes, I said FREE!)

Article Marketing – it’s tedious, BUT it still works.

I want you to submit at LEAST 1 article a day for the next 30 days to the top 10 directories out there (as a minimum).

Forum Marketing

Find the top 5 forums in your market/niche (ACTIVE ones) and start making at least 5-10 posts to each one every day. Also try to start a NEW thread in each one, once a day.

But, DON’T SPAM – actually participate in the group and make valuable contributions. When you start a thread, start a good topic that will get following.

Put a link (with a catchy phrase) to your opt-in page in your SIGNATURE file, this will stick around forever and get a lot of traffic.
** I made my first few hundred dollars online using just Forum Marketing!

Blog Commenting - but only comment on BIG high traffic blogs…

This one can be a bit tricky, not all niches will have blogs that are ACTIVE enough to matter. But, find the TOP blogs in your space that get a LOT of traffic and TONS of comments.

Subscribe to their RSS feed and be sure to be one of the FIRST to comment on their posts every time they make a new post.
TRICK Here: When the comment field asks for your “name” – don’t put in your NAME – put in a catchy phrase that will catch someone’s attention.

Because it’s the “name” field that they link to your URL (which will be your opt-in page)
In some niches, I’ve been able to get 100-200 visitors a DAY just from blog commenting, in others I could barely get 10…

Ok…if you JUST do those 3 free techniques, you’ll be way ahead of the crowd. But, if you insist on speeding things up, you can try “SOLO ADS” – newsletter advertising.

I don’t want to get into crazy details here on how to do a good SOLO AD, I can do that later, but if you want to learn more about this, go to: http://www.ezines-r-us.com/

Paid Traffic Technique:

Solo Ads – these WORK – they just require a few bucks to invest. You can find tons of solo -ad directories out there to help you do so!

Running solo ads may cost you up to $300-$400, but you should be able to build that 1,000 subscriber list FAST (real fast) – maybe in a week or so!

So, there you have it. It’s not rocket science. I JUST gave you a formula to get your list building started…. So what are you waiting for?

Remember, LEAVE A COMMENT and let me know what you think!

Guest Post By Jimmy Kim

http://successmarketingsource.com

In today’s video lesson I share a quick method to start making money online… it’s one of the quickest methods I know.

Sit back relax and enjoy!

Do you sometimes feel like your NOT getting enough work done in your 8 hour work day?

It’s not uncommon for people to get distracted during the day or somehow drift off into a tangent only to find out by the end of the day that you have only managed to get in 3-4 hours of solid work done… but what happened to the rest of the day?

I know this only to well…

So what can be done about it? How can you go back to having a full productive 8 hour work day?

Here’s something that will help with that.

Limit yourself to working just 3 hours per day at first, with that time limit you set yourself you should focus harder on the things you’ll want to get done in that condensed time period. Do that for a few days… and by the end of the third day I can guarantee you’ll start working harder, and being more focused on the tasks you really want to get finished for the day.

Stick to it for a few day’s then give yourself more time as you start becoming more productive in those condensed time periods, move up then to 5 hours per day for a few days, again you work harder and more productively to get those tasks accomplished in that 5 hour time period.

Keep doing this until you get back up to 8 hour’s or however long your working day is and you’ll find that you’ll end up increasing your productivity so all of your working day will be like that first 3 hours of pure productive focused work flow.

Try it and see if it helps!

Until next time

Dan

Here they are,

1) Auto Responder – An A/R could be one of the most important things that you will need in your Internet marketing toolbox. It allows you to store prospect email addresses and deliver email messages to all of your customers and subscribers. You’ll need one to build a list of subscribers in your market. The most common and probably the most relieble A/R service there is Aweber from www.Aweber.com, I use this service myself and find it among the best out there.

2) Shoppingcart – You will need a shoppingcart of some sort if your looking to sell your own products, If your JUST going to do affiliate marketing then you may not need one. But just in case you decide to sell your own products and services then here are a few of the best shopping cart’s i have found.

Infusionsoft – One of the most expensive carts, but very very flexible. It can get a little complicated too, so if your not tech savvy you may want to leave this unless you have a tech guy to do all the setting up for you. This is what i have been using for the best few months and LOVE it so far. I should also mention that it has it’s own built in Auto responder, very handy!

1Shoppingcart – A very good all round shoppingcart with thousands of users worldwide. This is very affordable and also has a built in A/R, however the A/R is not all that great. What alot of people do is use this service along with a dedicated A/R service like Aweber, it all integrates with one another quite easily. www.1shoppingcart.com/

Nanacast – Nanacast looks ugly on the outside, but its pretty powerful on the inside… It can do most things you want however this one does not come with a built in A/R. It’s affiliate tracking is powerful, and also has the ability to host your membership sites. Very good if you don’t fancy setting up a dedicated membership site, you have the ability to run the membership all from Nanacast itself! https://nanacast.com/index.php?

2) Domain Names – If you want a web presence then you’ll need a domain name, I use Namecheap to buy and store all of my domains. It comes with a free whoisguard to help keep your details private, a very good service and I’ll be sticking with this service myself after moving from 1 & 1 (which were pants) www.namecheap.com/

3) Website hosting – You will need a place to put all your websites. That means you’ll need a hosting account, one of the best is Hostgator which has a very handy live support just in case your site goes down you can quickly get in touch LIVE on the internet… wonderful! http://www.hostgator.com/

4) Merchant – if you sell your own products, you’ll need a to take payments. Even if your an affiliate you may need something like PayPal to get paid. PayPal offers a very basic way to receive payments from people, make sure to get an account today! www.PayPal.com

5) Communicate – You will need to communicate with people that are involved with your business one way or another, I recommend using Skype for this. You can voice chat or use the text chat, also has a very cheap monthly plan for calling land lines worldwide, I use this as my main telephone now to ! Love it! (apart from when I’m not in the office – then i use my IPhone)http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/home

6) Email – Your going to need email, you probably already have one if your reading this duh, however if your not using gmail then your missing out, VERY powerful email provider that uses labels and stuff instead of folders. Very good search ability too, as it’s made from Google!

7) Web browser – Ok, i used to use Internet Explorer and was fixed in my ways, and it took a miracle for somebody to convince me otherwise to use anything else but IE. But i heard alot of internet marketers use firefox for its cool addons and stuff (so i checked it out) and wow… I have been using it ever since! It’s awesome sauce! GET IT Install it LOVE IT!

Tracking – Testing and tracking webpage’s are a MUST of any serious internet marketer, grab yourself a Google Analytics account (which si free) and you can install code on your websites that will tell you everything from how many visits you are getting to where your visitors are coming from and even what browser they use! and a TON more stuff… you’ll need this stuff if your a nerd like me.

9) Get social media – Open a facebook account, Twitter and YouTube, all good ways to build relationships with people and gain potential clients and customers… If you not already using it… why not? Get connected!

So here you are, the most used tools in my arsenal, and in many internet marketers toolbox’s…

I’d like to know what you use… leave me a comment below if you use and let me know what cool tools you use!

Speak soon,
Dan

First things first, your going to need to decide which method will be used to make money from, after all in the Internet Marketing jungle there are more ways than one to make money online… but which one will work for you as a complete and utter newbie?

WELL… I won’t keep you thinking on that one… because it would probably put your mind in information overload and cause a headache or something, after all if your new to Internet Marketing then there’s a good chance your already suffering from some kind of information overload… (it’s not uncommon)

Nope… I’ll save you from all the thinking and tell you which route you should take… after all i promised to show you step by step how to make your 10 bucks… right ?

OK… so probably the best way to get started making money online is by becoming an affiliate marketer, and there are numerous reasons why. The obvious fact is that you do NOT have to sell your own product and deal with all the support that comes with selling your own product or service is probably the obvious benefit because your essentially selling somebody Else’s product and taking a cut letting them do all the support work, product delivery etc. You just send the leads and get paid… it’s as easy as that.

Another good reason Is.. It’s faster to get started and if we want to make our first 10 bucks online in thirty days or less then were going to need speed of implementation.

The first step to do when starting an affiliate marketing campaign is to find a profitable market to attack. So a little bit of market research is in order here… A good thing to remember is some of the biggest markets online especially in the ‘info marketing’ world are health & fitness, dating and relationships & self improvement markets. So always bear that in mind when starting to look for a market.

The thing to really do is find niche markets within niche markets and really nail down that sub niche. For instance, the exercise and fitness market are are wide markets with lots of sub niches in them. Products specifically for building a six pack for and other products for bigger more broader and muscular chests for instance.. and it’s the same for the dating market or any other market, they all have sub niches.

Now one quick and easy way to find a market is to search on clickbank.com in the marketplace. There you will see the top selling products for various categories and markets. If you look closely you’ll also see stats for the product, like the price and how much commission the product vendor is giving per sale. Another thing to note is the Gravity score, which is under a stat called Grav… this will tell you how well it’s converting for affiliates. The higher this number is the better!

Once you’ve found the product you’d like to promote, it’s time for a little keyword research. Head over to Google’s free keyword research tool at https://adwords.google.com. Enter some keywords that may be relevant to the product you’d like to promote. The Google tool will bring up lots of results for the products keywords and give you some idea of how popular the market is, and how much paid competition there is. This means the amount of advertisers paying for Google’s adword’s program, the ad’s you see on the right hand side and above in Google’s search results.

Now make a note of some of the most searched for keyword terms in the search you just made using the Google keywords tool. Copy and paste them into a spreadsheet or a word doc.

Now it’s time to get a tiny bit techy… (but don’t let that scare you) it’s not really that hard!

Now we are going to try and get some free traffic from the search engines…

The way we’ll do that is by using a blog, and that’s because blogs have become very search engine friendly and search engines love the content they provide ranking them higher in search results. Now you don’t have to be an Einstein to do some SEO (search engine optimization) even SEO of the most basic kind can work pretty well… and that’s what we’ll use, just some very basic SEO on our blogs to help it get noticed more by the search engines.

Now to begin with your going to have to get a domain which costs a few bucks… and some hosting which is really inexpensive. The best places i have found for that and what i currently use are www.HostGator.com for hosting and www.namecheap.com for domains. Find a domain that is related to your market and product.

Once you’ve got your domain and hosting, then in your control panel for your hosting account you’ll see an icon near the bottom called fantastico, you can use that to quickly install a free wordpress blog on domain. BTW if you don’t even have a few bucks to spare on a domain name and hosting account you can grab a free hosted blog at www.blogger.com.

For a full detailed guide to setting up a wordpress blog visit… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpRsekd5elE

Now once you have your blog up and ready it’s time to make a few articles related to the product your going to promote. Now you have a few choices, either do it yourself or get somebody to write them for you… Either way what you must do is write a few short articles that is related to the product… for instance if your selling a weight loss product write about the benefits of a healthier skinner body… or if it’s fitness product write about a specific tactic for building up a certain muscle or something similar…

Now remember the highly searched for keywords in the search we did previously? Well if you were following through you would of copied those keywords into a spreadsheet or document… what you do now is choose a few of those keywords and make sure you add it into the text your writing up for the articles. This will make the search engines pick up the content if somebody searches for those keyword terms and it will be targeted traffic as somebody would be searching for something related to the product your promoting.

Now the trick is to drop in your affiliate link by adding a link anchored to some text, for instance ”For more information about this product click here.. ” and make the click here part a clickable link to the product that passes through your affiliate link.

After you’ve done that your about done! All there is left to do is wait a while for the search engines to pick up the content and with a bit of luck you’ll start seeing a treacle of traffic appear on the site. It’s best you install Google’s free analytic tool which you can get as a plugin for wordpress to keep an eye on traffic. It will tell you how many visits your site is getting which you’ll need to see whats passing through to the site and where from and by which keywords.

Now sit back and relax and keep an eye on your affiliate account and with a bit of luck you’ll start seeing some commissions appear from nowhere!

I hope you enjoyed today’s post I’d like to hear from you by leaving a comment below on how your going to go and implement this to go and make your first online cash !

Talk soon,
Dan

P.S. If your interested in learning more about this and other quick and easy methods that work with full video and copy and paste REAL life examples and projects then CLICK HERE for some neat affiliate marketing training!

I guess my first kind of experience online was back in the days of around 1996 when the internet was not as widely spread as it is today, and i use to log on via an old dial up connection which was the slowest Internet connection you could possible dream of! Not like today where we are blessed with blazing fast internet speeds… back then it was way way slower than it is now, and often took quite some time for websites to load.

All this was back in the day when Yahoo was the most popular search engine, and Google had not yet been born. The internet for me then was more of a gimmick than anything messing around on chat rooms and chatting on Instant Messengers to friends, i never really thought I’d be making my living with it back then… how times have changed!

From a very early age I’ve always had a very keen interest in computers and PC’s. My dad bought me my very first computer when i was just 7 years old.. it was the old commodore 64 with the old tapes you use to have to load games and applications. Soon after i had a little upgrade to an Amiga which took discs… and i used to have many hours on that thing playing video games.

By the time I’d left secondary school I knew that I wanted to get into the IT industry so i went to college to do a BTEC in IT. I was training to become a computer technician and that’s where i really learn’t all the technical stuff to do with PC’s like how to change hard drives and reformat PC’s (not that i use much of those skills these days though lol) You don’t have to be a techie to make money online!

After i graduated from college i went looking for jobs in the IT industry. Due to a lack of funds for a car and a driving license meant i was restricted to where i could work. This was because i lived out of the city and in the sticks in the rural lands of the midlands UK.

I didn’t have much luck finding the job i wanted, and instead i had no choice but to take a job as a security guard at a nearby factory. I ended up staying there for a good few years before finally it was getting to the point where i realized that this was really a dead end job with no real future.

Eager to find a way out, I guess my mind started looking for opportunities as a result of my awakening and one day while looking through a newspaper i found a tiny classified ad that said something like ‘ Man Makes One Million a Year From Home On the Internet’ and there was a URL to a site right below it for more information.

That really caught my attention, i was very interested in what this was so naturally i checked it out by visiting the website it was directing to for more information.

That’s when i discovered my first ever sales letter!

It was a business opportunity for a product that showed how to make money online from affiliate marketing. I bought the product and waited a few days for the package to arrive in the post. When that had arrived i used to watch the training while still working my day job and learned as much as i could about affiliate marketing.

The first project which i decided to put into action failed. I promoted a diet product from ClickBank.com in a national magazine in the classified ads section thinking millions of people would see it and go through my affiliate link to buy the product where then i would get a nice commission. Well the system did actually work and i made a few sales however my advertising costs were much higher than the money that was coming in… making me lose money instead!

It was a disappointing experience however i did learn a few things from it! These days i realize that failing at something is part of the growing process you need to do in order to become successful, not many people actually succeed first time around!

My next real idea was to develop a software program that would submit an affiliate program to all the affiliate directories. I outsourced myself a programmer in India from eLance.com and had the software made for free as part of a deal with the programmer that he would get a cut off the profits.

That project also failed. I did sell a few but not many! However i was kind of lucky… it was low risk investment and I did not have to pay the programmer for the software due to the deal we had. In fact i would of had to pay him almost $5000 to design the software for me had i not thought of cutting a deal with him.

Ok… so you would think by now I’d be third time lucky right? But my third project failed to! I learn’t a little about Google adwords and tried to do a few campaigns promoting yet another product from ClickBank.com. Now there i ended up losing a few thousand bucks… OUCH! I obviously did not learn enough about PPC and adwords for it to work (whoops)

Nearly ready to throw in the towel until i came across an ebook i bought for about 30 bucks about selling stuff on eBay. That motivated me enough to give this one last go at trying to build an online business. I started looking at what the top sellers on eBay were selling and noticed a few of them selling high quantities of similar product over and over again… this made a little blight bulb go off in my head. It obviously looked like they were doing well and figured they were getting the products wholesale and making a tidy profit.

By using the resources that were available on the site i could tell that there were certain sellers making a KILLING selling some of these products. I decided to do the same.. and basically just copy them. Why not? It was working for them so why not me right?

Well… I did just that. I located a supplier from China and bought a bunch of products in wholesale and had them delivered to my house. I started listing those on eBay, first it went slow but soon things really sped up. Soon enough i was doing close to $1000 a day in sales!

I was over the moon… here was finally something that was working for me and i had my own online business that was becoming a success!

It wasn’t long after that i left my day job and pursued this full time. I was finally living life on MY terms, getting up when i liked doing things when i liked and best of all no boss to answer to! This was the life! The only work i did really do was listing the items which was automated most of them time and the only real downside was going to the post office to send of the items every few days… I got fed up with that!

I really did not want to travel to the post office anymore so i looked into how i could automate that. With a bit of research i found out that i could get that outsourced to a fulfillment company that would hold my stock and send out the orders for me when i sent them the order batch every few days. Now it was nearly fully automated!!

Eventually word got out about my success throughout my social network, then a few people started to approach me asking if i would teach them how to make money online. I took on a few close clients and started to mentor them. That’s how i got started teaching others how to make money online and soon after started developing my own information products like ebooks and videos teaching others what i knew about making money online with eBay.

I started to develop a passion for helping others achieve success on the internet and decided it was time to fully put my energy into this new venture as i could see a greater potential and it’s something i was truly passionate about. I sold my eBay business for a nice sum which gave me some time to develop more products and plan my new online business in info product marketing, thats when DanBriffa.com was born.

By this time i knew I did not really know enough or could do with some more knowledge about info product marketing and decided to find my own mentor that would show me the ropes and also started studying a lot more about internet marketing. I spent thousands of dollars on products and courses and researched everything i could find.

To be honest since the very first day i found my first ever sales letter and bought my first info product i had always had the bug of being a bit of an ‘opportunity junkie’ and loved the feeling i got from buying new products, even though I’d failed a few times in the past. I knew that not every product turned out to be gold but i knew about the law of averages which meant that if i kept buying products I’d eventually find gold in one of them… as i found out with the eBay business.

Anyway, I had developed my first few info products so i needed a way to market them properly, first i decided to head back to eBay and start selling them on there but the market for Info products on eBay was fairly poor… nowhere near as good as selling the physical goods anyway.

So i started learning about list building and and finding targeted prospects for my info products. I got myself an Aweber account a place that stores email addresses and it would allow me to market products and services to them via email… your probably familiar with Aweber already if your in the info marketing biz so i wont go to much into it.

The problem was i still had 0 subscribers on my list and i needed to start finding prospects for my new business. I found a really great way to get started and that was by entering giveaways, sites that you can put your free products on so that people could opt in for the information. Later if they wanted to learn more i could offer my products and services to them.

It seemed to work ok, things went slow at first but i got my my first 100 subscribers by using this method. And also made a few sales which was pretty neat. After that i used the list that i had to start doing adswaps with other marketers online and within one year built my subscriber list up to 10 thousand subscribers. Things started to gain pace and my business was gaining momentum, i could now add 200-300 subscribers a day with no real problem and i also started doing things such as link building and article marketing which boosted things a little more.

Now I’ve been able to add thousands of subscribers to my list and sell thousands of dollars worth of info products as a product developer and as an affiliate and continue to do so.

I’m now branching out into other niches and also taking my business to the next level which i hope to take to at least $100 thousand dollars a month within the next year… I actually set that goal of $100k a month a little while back and really wanted to have been at that level by now however things did not quite turn out that way due to not being properly prepared for it.

However now I’ve got a plan to reach to that level and have been preparing for it for a while now… and I’m pretty excited to say the least.

I’ve just invested in a brand new shoppingcart system called Infusionsoft which will handle all my orders online and also allow me to start my own affiliate program, this alone will be a BIG step toward growing my business and helping me step to the next level.

On top of that i have my very own merchant account and i will not have to use PayPal anymore… which has always been an issue as Paypal take such a large percentage from you. I’ve also been traveling the world over the last two years to so many different internet marketing seminars and have learned a great deal from some of the best minds in the industry and also built some great relationships with them.

I also really want to get into software development again, after my earlier attempts failed… however i am now in much better position to do so as back in the day i really did not know what i was doing!

Looking further ahead I’ve started to research local search marketing and how i can help local businesses get more business online, which i think will be very rewarding!

Thanks to the internet i can live the lifestyle of my dreams, i can take several vacations a year, in fact I’m writing this blog post while on vacation here on the Island of Malta… And I’ve also just setup a small office here as I’m planning to come here a lot more in the future.

Things are looking better than ever and it all started with the motivation to do something more with my life… If your in the position now then I’d urge you to do something right now and start an online business… It will be the best thing you’ll ever do!

Thanks for taking the time to read my story of how I personally got started online. I hope it inspires you to take action… and i mean that. All you need is the dedication and the motivation and to equip yourself with the RIGHT KNOWLEDGE.

Never stop learning and Invest in yourself!

Yours Truly

Dan Briffa

I recorded this video at 11am this morning NOT long after I’d got out of bed… It shows me checking sales from ONE of my income streams. I wanted to give you some inspiration and determination to really succeed online. Enjoy!

Dan here, and today I have something extremely COOL for you!

I’m going to share with you a video from my SOLD OUT eBay Powersellers coaching program. Let me first tell you, the information in this video is pure GOLD and I’m pretty sure you’ll find it extremly valauble.  It’s from my Market Identification Module which contains nearly 3 hours of video training content alone, below is a 20 min video of some of that content.

Call it a gift from me to you!

Now i may be posting more of this content, but ONLY if you want me to? So leave me a comment and SPEAK up if you’d like to see more!!

ENJOY!