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“Create value to create wealth” -Stephen Pierce

When we first posted article about the book, “Make Real Money Online Book” , you probably took it for granted and didn’t order for a copy.  However you still have a chance and if I must tell you, Stephen Pierce is among the world leading internet marketing experts.

Getting home on Tuesday night, I received a package which for me has been long overdue, since I actually placed order for the package on October 24th. However I immediately open the package knowing it was Stephen Pierce “Make Real Money Online Book”.

Though I was very tired, I decided to glance through the book before going to bed since it was already late but before I knew it I was enjoying the book. So I couldn’t drop it until about 3am when I felt I had read the main points of the book. However, I picked it up the next day and finished read it.

The book is a very comprehensive book of just 133 pages on what you need to do and put in place to make real money on the internet. He made it very easy and simple for anyone, even if you are completely new to the internet to understand what is expected of you as he puts the whole concept into seven steps.

Stephen Pierce started the book with his own personally story included in the introduction. He had this to say about his early days.

“…I was kicked out of school. I was homeless for three months. Actually, I lived in an empty office space. I lived, Or rather survived there for three months. A guy just allowed me to sleep there. I did not even know who he was. He just didn’t want me sleeping on the streets, so he let me stay”.

Also in the introduction, was how he started online with nothing and how he made his very first $5000 online. He went on to outline and explain the seven steps you need to follow to start making real money on the internet. The steps which are;

Step 1: Developing Your Profit Instincts

Step 2: You’ve Got Products

Step 3: The Perfect Business

Step 4: Income Forever

Step 5: There’s something about Traffic

Step 6: Please Don’t Touch

Step 7: Cash Injection Accelerator

In Pierce own words, “If you understand the very simple principles behind the internet and the ideas that allow people to create untold wealth, riches, and prosperity from the knowledge and mastery of the internet, you can duplicate it, replicate it, you can model it, and begin to have that same kind of success yourself.”

The book is quite loaded with lessons on how to start and position yourself, how to start selling online even if you’ve never sold anything in your life. How to attract traffic to your website for free, different ways you can reach your audience that let you expand your business and attract more buyers.

If you haven’t placed an order for your own copy you may as well do that now, just CLICK HERE.

And maybe you have actually order for your own copy but haven’t been able to receive it, you should  be able to exercise some patient, it just a delay in our mailing system which is actually improving. And if you have yours, please don’t leave it there on the shelve. Make sure you do justice to it. You won’t regret you did.

Don’t forget the book is free. Just pay shipping and handling and it’s yours!

Francis Alaeto

In less than 32 days, the year 2008 will be over and the star of another brand new year that is full of opportunities and possibilities. This has always been the same in the past, every new year comes with loads of opportunities and possibilities. The question now is will 2009 be different from 2008, 2007 and past years?

A big question only you can answer.

At the beginning of the year, you are full of hope that 2008 will be the year of your financial breakthrough using internet technology to build and grow your business. I don’t know exactly what your goals was at the beginning of the year but if you haven’t achieve your goal for 2008 with your online business, you need to ask yourself why this is so?

Why didn’t you achieve your online goal?

No matter what your response may be, just let me tell you that you are not alone.

I met a lot of business opportunity seekers and internet entrepreneurs this year at internet marketing events that I attended. And from record in my email box I have responded to over 7,000 messages from Nigerians alone. From this entire encounter I can confidently tell you that you are not alone.

Lots of people started like you and got sidetracked and distracted by new opportunities and products. Many get stucked quickly and frustrated and move on to something else without giving what they were doing initially enough time to see results. Some allow family jealousy, rejection and fear of failure and change to affect their goal in 2008.

Calving Coolidge, one time president of America once said that:

”Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

It’s obvious that you can’t achieve your financial goal using internet technology without persistence.

So, I ask you again; will 2009 be different from past years?

Sure it can if you start doing something today.

Here are my suggestions for you today my friend.

Take you pen and a sheet of paper.

Make a list of goals you want to achieve in 2009. List out everything. Forget about how you are going to achieve them now.

Now look at your list, did you think you can give all it takes to achieve your listed goals.

It’s all about CHANGE.

For next 30 days you will be getting daily tips and ideas of how you can make 2009 better than past 10yrs of your life.

But before tomorrow - check out my resources of the day today.

It is a book by Karl Warren that I got right to share with you. The title of the book is Million Dollar Briefcase.

In Million dollar Briefcase you will learn:

How to find opportunities by asking the right questions of yourself and others.
2 most important words that are obvious solution to self limiting beliefs
How to get your doubts into perspective with 4 simple steps.
How to prime your mind to see and recognize opportunities.
Most ridiculous best ways to find solution to any problem you may be facing now.

I can continue listing what you will learn in this book but won’t waste your time. You can download a copy of the book free here now. It’s just 8 pages. You will like it.

http://www.internetmarketingnigeria.com/30dld/Million_dollar_briefcase.pdf

See you tomorrow.

Don’t forget to post your thought, comments and feedback here.

In the next few moments, I’m going to show you that you have a critical advantage over 99.9% of those that join the internet business opportunity wagon few years ago.

Specifically, I’m going to show you 7 ways now is the best time EVER to start internet business or launch process to grow existing one. This is complete unfair advantage.

• Affordable computers – you can easily get affordable, new, branded or fairly used computers, either desktop or laptop now. You can even get one on credit from dealers that runs special offer in partnership with banks. For as little as N30, 000 you can have a complete computer today. A great advantage for you.
• Affordable internet connectivity almost everywhere – the cost of accessing internet is getting cheaper almost every day now. Though the service is not 100 per cent ok yet but it’s still better than none. Presently, I am on 4 different connection; 2 dial ups, 1 broadband and 1 semi-broadband access. I am making this post using my starcomms 1x dial up service. I can’t imagine accessing internet now for 30 days with same amount I use to access internet just for 3 days few years back. It’s getting better my brother.
• Payment processing and card services – though this is not where I really expect it to be now but the joy of been able to walk into the bank and get prepaid credit/debit card at normal exchange rate is a wonderful thing to ever happen. I can remember years back, when I want to buy stuffs online I often pay twice the price of what I want to buy. The service provider milked us very well. But thank God today with my MasterCard and visa card I don’t need their service anymore.
• New improved banking system – I must commend Prof. Charles Soludo and his team here. We now have fewer and stronger banks. The competition is very strong among the banks now. They now offer wide range of services. For example you can walk into some of Nigerian banks today and open domiciliary account in minutes. Who would have tried these years back?
• Registered Regulatory Bodies – efcc and other anti corruption bodies are trying their best at reducing cyber crime in Nigeria. Also, we now have ‘Internet marketing association of Nigeria’. A body we can trust as internet marketing voice. IMAN is registered already. They should commence their operation soon.
• More Nigerian internet success story – gone are the days when you only have few experts sharing their success story. Almost every week now we read about another latest Internet success story in the news. Through there are a lot of masquerades out there but we can’t ignore few REAL success stories.
• Exchange rate is favourable – no matter how weak the financial journalist and broad-street Experts wants us to believe that dollar is weaker against Nigeria, it is still better. Imaging earning $1 online and exchanging it for 118 naira. It’s still a good business. I guess that’s the reason why some Nigerians want to get VISA to US or Uk at all cost. My brother you don’t need it. You can earn cool dollars here in Nigeria.

If you’ve been around for some time you may have some points to add here. Even if it’s just one sentence, tell us here. You contribution is important.

Joy of a good and caring teacher is to see his/her student making progress. Mine is not an exceptional case. I am always happy when I receive success story email or phone text from my subscribers that are doers.

Early today I had a chat with one of them. His name is Isong Dennis - the owner of http://theexperthost.com. Dennis took website hosting services and piggybacking system serious. Today his enjoying the benefit of taking action.

You can read our discussion here:

dennisfreeworld: PLZ SIR IF YOU ARE LESS BUSY ,I WANT TO TELL YOU MY SUCCESS STORY
lateef_olajide: ok dennis
lateef_olajide: tell me now
dennisfreeworld: thanks sir
dennisfreeworld: i have been reading your articles and always attend your seminar
dennisfreeworld: so i decided to face one online biz
dennisfreeworld: which is hosting bizness
lateef_olajide: OK
dennisfreeworld: and i own a web hosting website
dennisfreeworld: www.theexperthost.com
dennisfreeworld: i started last two month
lateef_olajide: GREAT
dennisfreeworld: presently i have 14 customers who uses my webhosting service
lateef_olajide: wonderful
lateef_olajide: that’s a very good beginning my brother
dennisfreeworld: that is for the webhosting only
dennisfreeworld: not to talk abt website design and domain registration
lateef_olajide: good
dennisfreeworld: presently am working as a programmer with sadc and fastecash
lateef_olajide: that’s great
lateef_olajide: so you have programming skill too?
dennisfreeworld: yes web programming
lateef_olajide: great
dennisfreeworld: thanks sir
dennisfreeworld: i really enjoy all your lecture
dennisfreeworld: and articles
lateef_olajide: you are welcome dennis
dennisfreeworld: one of your lecture i enjoy most is piggybacking
dennisfreeworld: i have started applying it and it is working
lateef_olajide: hmm
lateef_olajide: tell me more
dennisfreeworld: Bola Oni is one if the great guy i admire alot
dennisfreeworld: Bola Oni is one of the great guy i admire alot
dennisfreeworld: the last seminar he did on google adsense
dennisfreeworld: he invited me to come over
dennisfreeworld: when i got there he introduce me as his students
lateef_olajide: ok
dennisfreeworld: from that seminar i got two addictive customers
dennisfreeworld: who always ask for my service every time
lateef_olajide: great
dennisfreeworld: of them even introduce me to two of his other friends
lateef_olajide: great
dennisfreeworld: thanks
lateef_olajide: your site http://www.theexperthost.com/
lateef_olajide: looks great
lateef_olajide: did you design it yourself?
dennisfreeworld: yes
dennisfreeworld: from expirence and from what i have read i discovers that piggybacking works
dennisfreeworld: sir i will like to piggyback with you sir
lateef_olajide: no problem
lateef_olajide: can you tell me more
lateef_olajide: how did you get clients
lateef_olajide: is it by piggybacking or?
dennisfreeworld: from sadc seminar,forum,piggybacking and friends
lateef_olajide: great
lateef_olajide: i can see you offer free one month hosting on your website
lateef_olajide: is this part of winning edge
dennisfreeworld: yes
dennisfreeworld: sir i will like to host one of your website sir
lateef_olajide: no problem
dennisfreeworld: sir
dennisfreeworld: thanks
lateef_olajide: dennis
lateef_olajide: it’s nice chating with you
dennisfreeworld: ok sir
dennisfreeworld: thnks
lateef_olajide: before we end this discussion
dennisfreeworld: what is the site sir
lateef_olajide: can you tell me
lateef_olajide: your advice for those that are still trying to start
dennisfreeworld: let them start with what they have learnt so far…. information without application lead to confusion
lateef_olajide: you are right Dennis
lateef_olajide: will be glad to share this chat session on our website
lateef_olajide: hope you don’t mind?
dennisfreeworld: please share sir
dennisfreeworld: thanks alot
dennisfreeworld: i dont mind
dennisfreeworld: i really appreciate ur effort sir
dennisfreeworld: thanks alot
lateef_olajide: You are welcome Dennis
lateef_olajide: chat with you later
lateef_olajide: bye.
dennisfreeworld: thnks
dennisfreeworld: bye sir

Today I bring you a rare SPECIAL REPORT - 4 pages special report with a secret so powerful, it can work a profound change in every area of your life, including internet marketing.

I got it from Jim F. Straw, regarded by many as on of the World’s Top authority on mail order marketing and selling. If you’ve been reading internet marketing nigeria news for couple of months you must have come across that name several time.

In the 4 special report Jim explained simple secret to success of ‘worlds most successful’ marketers, religious leaders, political leaders, teachers etc.

It is the same secret that a Nigerian used to turn himself to overnight success 5 years ago.

Hey the fellow is not me!

The guy’s name is P.G.B. (sorry can’t tell you full name now for security reason).

I bet you will want to know this secret.

Jim did a good job by summarizing it in a easy to digest four pages report.

If you are ready check it our here now!
http://www.businesslyceum.com/warrior.html

Online ads spend growing at “phenomenal rate” - effect for internet affiliate marketer.

According to news from research firm IDC, global online ad spending is expected to reach $62.5 billion this year and $106 billion in 2011.

http://furrier.org/2008/06/25/online-ad-spend-soaring-will-hit-106-billion-in-2011-what-recession/

Most of this money will be spent on keyword-based search engine advertising, website display ads (basically banner ads and classified ad).

It doesn’t stop there. Marketers are expected to will be spending over $2billion on affiliate marketing according to news from Jupiter Research. Affiliate marketing no doubt is a very powerful marketing tool. Marketers (merchants) only pay for result.

There are several affiliate marketing types. But most preferred by many marketers are pay per sale (CPS - cost per sale as in www.clickbank.com) and pay per lead (CPA - cost per acquisition as in cj, linkshare etc)

Now as an internet marketer and affiliate marketer to be specific what does this figures means to you?

If you have a website (preferably blog site) and you are able to get good contents that people in your market loves. The content that makes them come - back often. You can benefit from over 62billion dollars that will be spent by marketers on banner ads and classified as. You can have banner and text ads on your site.

In same way you get fully involved in affiliate marketing and get your share in over 2billion dollars expected to spend by merchants online.

Let’s do little permutation.

What if you are about to get just 0.01% of $2,000,000,000?

How much did you think you will have? $200,000

I am very sure many will be glad with half or quarter of $200,000.

It is possible my brother.

Resources:

Third Party Affiliate Company that represents your interest and that of merchants online are:

Pay On Click - You get paid when people click on your ads
Google adsense - www.google.com/adsense

Pay Per Lead - (PPL/CPA) you get paid when people signup for an offer after clicking on your ads.
www.cj.com, www.linkshare.com, www.adbrite.com, www.affiliatefuel.com

Pay On Sale - you get paid when people buy products after clicking on your ad
www.clickbank.com (digital and membership access), cj, linkshare, adbrite, affiliate fuel (physical products)

Important Note: More Resource link for you.

1. You will need postal code to sign up with google adsense. Postal code is different from zip code. You can get postal code of your area on this website:

2. To sign up with clickbank you may need foreign address from mail forwarding service provider. Presently, we are offering UK address. Unfortunately, we can only offer it for limited people. It will only cost you N2, 500. Pay to account no: 4552010001618, account name: Olajide Lateef Olalekan. Text your info payment to 08063121325

If you missed this year Rich Dad Host Rich Kid’s Event. If you haven’t get somebody to tell you how it went. Here is unsolicited testimony from one of the attendees of the event.

Rich Dad Host Rich Kid’s Event 2008

This world is a very interesting place, no wonder many make out of it whatsoever they desire.

When information flies around, one of the best things I do is to accept it. Mind you I never said believe it. This date with LATEEF OLAJIDE (Nigeria fastest rising internet marketing Rich Kid) was prompted based on three fold point.

Namely:-  Making money without spending money.

Making money marketing information.

Rich Dad hosts Rich Kid.

Garnishing all these three points was a technical jargon coming to me for the first time ever PIGGYBACK.

I was fascinated by point number three. Rich Dad hosts Rich Kid. Though no mention was made of Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad visiting Nigeria on the 19th of June 23, 2008. however, it turned out to be a home grown version made in Lagos Nigeria. Dr. Obazu-Ojuagbase the Rich Dad hosting Lateef Olajide the Rich Kid! Courtesy Success Attitude Development Center SADC.

When information comes to me like this, I don’t naturally keep quiet. I went ahead of time to discuss the issue with my friend who introduced me to SENetworkers. He did a good job in his bid to put me through but I never understood him. I wanted to see it live and do the autopsy myself.

Never was the event a banquet of eulogy nor was it a talk show, it was an entrepreneurial seminar! At the event venue, a unique place, Four Square Gospel Church Esuola Street Okota Lagos Nigeria, I the doubting Thomas meet the risen Christ. Just like any other event around the corner, formalities for registration looked discouraging but I told myself I must see the end of the matter.  An icing on the cake that tantalized me was the event tag inscribed with a Chinese language. I never understood what was written on it but I felt like others, took a seat having begged a few young men to accommodate me in their already filled pew. The journey has begun!

When the young man LATEEF OLAJIDE mounted the podium, I was eager to download him and print him out in my own language. I must be frank with you I was never disappointed. He was a perfect captain fantastique. Though he confirmed of not having attended any higher institution but the society known to him calls him a professor. Now I can understand better, he has all it takes to show for it. Certificates are not all that there is.

As I said earlier that I was impressed, let me flash you a bit of it all in a summary. He started the day with why people fail in most of their chosen field of endeavour.

And what is it? Lack of fundamentals and our inability to think and change when most needed. He talked about money nay millions with much gusto. The thrilling aspect was that he talks in all world major currencies.

Some of his clichés are:-

•         I care about the zeros, the more the better

•         Lastly, always think win/win

If this young man based his personal mantra on those mention points, one must not wonder why he is referred to as the Rich Kid by the Don himself Dr. Obazu-Ojeagbase. Its not amazing to me any longer why he owns a good line products, wonderful matrics and a classic team. And where is his farmland? PIGGYBACK!

And so, what is PIGGYBACK? Its just a careful usage, call it leverage on other peoples work to create your own unique product both online and offline. But for the Rich Kid its an online affair.

Now how did he perfect his own? He wrote a book  and sold it via the internet. Do you understand? About what to be precise? Just DOGS! Yes common dogs,sold it on the world wide web, meet people, made money and become the Rich Kid. Don’t forget he is selling information. Too simple? Good thinking good product.

When he quoted Archimedes principle which says give me a lever strong enough and a place to stand and I will move the world, I knew he is currently standing on giant achievers shoulders. Having robbed minds with the great minds, the rob off is quite visible. He is among the gurus. He did not start from class one, he combined and leveraged on what others have already done and got his products. Such information is free but not 100% cheap, he studied and researched.

Now I can understand why I can make money without money. Writing have never been a problem for me. I will join this club.

Everything around us has the potential of being turned to GOLD only if we can look at it differently from what the normal norm use to be.

Thank you RICH DAD, thank you RICH KID, thank you SADC.

PIGGYBACK here I come. Mr. LATEEF OLAJIDE, I am on your heels.

IGWENAZOR KINGSLEY CHINAEMEREM

A stockbroker wrote from Marina Lagos Nigeria.

Note: You may want to check my response to questions asked by attendees. Check it out here:

http://internetmarketingnigeria.com/general/richdadrichkid/

Few days ago I asked some of my subscribers in a survey how much they will be glad to earn every month on the internet consistently within next 3 to 5 months, starting with only $100 or less, and working for only 2hrs a day. Majority of them says they will be glad ok with $1,000 every month for now.

In this article I will be sharing with you a simple, step-by-step system with which you can make $1,000 or more a month consistently within next 3 months selling information product on internet.

If you are ready let get into action:

Step #1 – Pick a Niche Market

Unlike the traditional way of doing business where average business man often starts with the product to sell, if you are to succeed on internet the first thing you have to do is to identify group of targeted audience that will be paying for your product or service. I will give you two basic ways you can brainstorm good market. However, before I do that let us discuss what makes a good market first.

What make a “good” market?

1.    They are passionate people.
2.    They are desperate about their subject area or interest.
3.    There are lots of advertising sources beyond just PPC like community sites, forums, related email discussion list etc.  (PPC means pay per click. It is a paid advertising method online)
4.    The market lends itself to information product.
5.    They are proven internet buyers. If there are other people selling to this market successfully on internet it is a good indicator.
6.    Build-in need for backend products (i.e. your product doesn’t “fix them” on the first go-round. They have every reason to buy more from you.)

Examples of good markets are:

Diet and fitness
Business opportunities (i.e. how to make money on anything)
Save Money
Anything health related
Pets
Marketing training
Investments/trading
Real estate
Dating (how to attract the opposite sex).

Now that you basic idea of what makes a good market, let us discuss two ways to brainstorm good market.

Two Ways to Brainstorm Possible Markets

1.    Start with what you already know.
2.    Brainstorm using online ‘ideas hangouts’.

Start with what you already know.

Almost every human being on this earth knows something that somebody else did not know. You are probably an expert in something that several thousands of people are searching for every day online.

Get a sheet of paper and answer the following questions?

What are your hobbies and interest?
What would you do every day if you didn’t have to work?
What are some of your life experiences and achievements?
(i.e. raising children, starting a business, staying married for 50 years, planning your wedding, learning a complicated software program etc)
What problems, big or small, have you solved in your life?
(i.e. lost a lot of weight, helped a loved one through an illness, landed a great job, survived bankruptcy or divorce.)
What problems, big or small, have you yet to solve that you would like to have the solution for?

Ask the following questions about any friend, family member or anyone you know, like and trust:

1.    What hobbies and interests does _______ have?
2.    What are some of _________‘s life experiences and achievements?
3.    What problems, big or small, has _________ solved?

You will get a lot of ideas if you are able to answer the questions above about yourself and about somebody you know correctly. For example, one person that I know, like and trust is my Rich Dad Dr. Sunny Obazu Ojeagbase. I can remember he has shared his story on how he survives bankruptcy several times. And recently he celebrated 25th married anniversary. But unfortunately, I don’t think anybody has every care to interview him to get detail information about how he survive bankruptcy or manage to stay married for good 25 years when most couple nowadays often struggle to celebrate 2yrs. I know it will be a good information product to sell.

Don’t be afraid to “borrow” affinity or a story from someone else.

Brainstorm using online ‘ideas hangouts’.

You can also get market ideas by visiting few ‘ideas hangouts’ online. These are websites that share information on several market categories.

Here’s a list of “Idea Hideouts” that you can use to find new markets:

eHow.com – http://www.eHow.com
MyGoals.com – http://www.MyGoals.com
SoYouWanna.com – http://www.SoYouWanna.com
Hints ‘n Tips – http://hints-n-tips.com
How Stuff Works – http://www.HowStuffWorks.com
Universal Class – http://www.universalclass.com
Ebay.com – http://www.Ebay.com (Look through their “Categories” for ideas)
Magazines.com – http://www.Magazines.com
MagsDirect.com – http://www.MagsDirect.com
Mr. Magazine – http://www.MrMagazine.com

If you need more list of “ideas hangouts” online you can visit www.imrolodex.com

Note: Before you decide on market to target make sure it meet the requirements for ‘good market’. You can read list of 6 things that make a good market I mention earlier.

Step #2 – Confirm Related information product.

Visit www.clickbank.com to confirm if there are other people selling digital information products on the topic. Make sure that you are able to find 15 to 20 other people selling digital information in that market already. To do this, click on ‘marketplace’. It will open a page where you can search for your ‘market keyword’ to know if there is information products listed on it already.

Just take note of the number of the listed products for now. You will need it later.

Step #3 – Create a short report to give away.

You have to find a way to attract people in this new market to you, build relationship with then and have opportunity to sell to them. To be able to do that you will have to give them something to attract them to you. What will be the best gift ‘bait’ to attract your market is information product that answers some of their problem.

The question now is how will you know what their problems are? Don’t worry I will lead you to a place where this people are already posting their problems. The place is called ‘online forums’, discussion boards or discussion groups.

Online forums is a place where people of the same interest meets to discuss their needs and share interesting stuffs with other people in their market. There are forums, discussion boards and groups on virtually every topic you can think of. So, you next action step is to search for top forums in your market area.

You can do that by simply using google search engine.

Type ‘your market + forum’ in google search engine. For example if your market is ‘parenting’ you will type “parenting + forum” in google search box.

Alternatively, you can check directories of forums and groups that are available online. Here is list of some directories:

http://www.big-boards.com
http://groups.google.com
http://groups.yahoo.com

Join only active forums (i.e. forums that have a lot of members with several posts), login and spend some time to see what they are discussing. If you follow this strategy it may take you long time before you discover what their urgent problems are.

I will show you my personal strategy to discovering hundreds of what is hot in any online forums. I called this ‘response trigger’ system. All you have to do is to type response triggers like; how do I, what can I, how can I, where is, who is etc in search form of the forum you joined earlier. You will get loads of questions members are asking. You will also see response of other people as well.

To create your short report all you have to do is to list out the questions that got a lot of ‘view’ and ‘reply’ on each forum, and find experts to further answer the question. You can contact the expert that answers the question already to give you more explanation on it. Alternatively, you can get contacts experts that post articles on ezine directories like www.ezinearticles.com on your topic.

When you get response from experts that you contact, compile it together and turn it to pdf report using free online pdf converter like http://www.freepdfconvert.com/.

If your market is ‘parenting’ you will be having something like ‘77 questions on parenting defiant child by 77 top world parenting experts.’

You can also research and create the reports yourself instead of interviewing experts. But if you are not an experts in the industry already it may affect acceptance of your report.

You can as well pay somebody to write the report for you. It will just cost you more money.

Step #4 – Step up a website to give away your report.

As you now know that the main purpose of your give away report is to build list of people in your market. To be able to do that successfully you need the following things:

1.    Register a domain name. My favorite registrar is www.007names.com. The best domain name extension for this purpose is .com
2.    Sign up for website hosting account. I will recommend kiosk.ws to you because you can try their service with only $1 for 30 days. You can use their service to host several sites as well.
3.    Upload your ‘report’ on your new domain.
4.    Sign up for autoresponder account with either www.aweber.com or www.getresponse.com. You will be using this autoresponder to capture the name and address of your website visitor and contact them as well.
5.    Create or have somebody create simple ebook cover for your report.
6.    Create or have somebody create simple graphics header for you.
7.    Put it all together and set up 1 page website or pay somebody to do it for you. If you know how to use frontpage or dreamweaver you can do this easily. You can as well download template online. You will be using this one page website to capture name and email address of those that are interested in your report.
8.    Install wordpress blog site – you will be sharing other free information on your blog site for continuous relationship with your subscriber. You don’t have to register another domain name for your blog site. You can install it on the same domain it will just be on sub url (i.e. www.yourdomain.com/blog)

Note: You can learn how to complete above listed task yourself or pay somebody to do it for you.

Step #5 – Promote your report give away website.

It is time to start promoting your new website to your market audience. Remember, your main goal is to build list of subscribers that you can start building relationship with. There are several ways to get people to visit your website. But we won’t be using any of the common ways to get website visitors because what we need is not just ordinary visitors, we need paid visitors (i.e. people that have proven they have money to spend and they are ready to spend it).

In last edition of SDE I shared piggybacking strategy with you. It is time to use the strategy again. We will be leveraging on success of other information product owners that we discover in step #2 above. You will be giving them the opportunity to give away your new report as bonus to buyers of their product.

If you are able to get 20 people that agree to give your report as added bonus to their paid customers and if in one month each of them gets 50 buyers on average that buy their product and download your report, you will be having 1,000 subscribers (20 X 50). It is obvious that some of them will sell more than 50 while some will not sell up to that. However, it still won’t take you to have list of people that are already spending money in your market.

Step #6 – Start building relationship with them.

Don’t try to sell anything to them in the first 3 to 4 weeks. Concentrate only on building relationship with them. Search internet for free stuffs they may like and share the links on your blog site. You can even write short articles and post it on your site as well.

Step #7 – Ask them what they want next.

Some of them will probably be asking you series of questions or requesting your recommendations by now. However, you still have to ask them so that you can know what they are ready to buy.

Go to www.surveymonkey.com, create a simple 10 questions survey and email it to them. Ask them questions like;

What is your number one problem that you will like to solve now?
What did you want to know that you didn’t get in other product you’ve bought?
What are you is most important to you now?
How much are you ready to pay for such information now?

You only need 100 of your 1,000 subscribers to fill your survey in other to get idea of their needs. You will be amazed with their responses.

Once you have idea of product they want to buy all you have to do is to create it for them. If you can create it pay somebody to create it for you. You can outsource creation of your digital information products to freelancers on any of the following site; elance.com, scriptlance.com, rentacoder.com etc.

Step #8 – Set up your sales page.

You will have to set up another one page website to sell your new digital product. To have a complete salespage you need following:

1.    Sales copy to sell your new digital product. You don’t have to be a professional to write a salescopy. If you can write a good headline and list out the benefits of your new product to your audience, that is all you need. Visit www.copyblogger.com for basic headline tips. If you want a professional job you can outsource it to professional writer for as little as $100.
2.    You need a way to receive credit card payment online. I will advice that you sign up for www.2checkout.com account. It will cost you one time set up fee of $49. If you have 2checkout account you can receive credit card and paypal payment on your website.
How will 2checkout send you your earnings?
As international client you have 3 payment options availble you.
1. 2checkout can air mail your check to you.
2. They can send it to you via international wire transfer.
3. They have a card system now card payoneer. It is 2checkout prepaid debit card that is mastercard. They send you the card. Every week they pay your earning directly into your account with them and you can access it with the card anywhere in the world on ATM machine that is mastercard enabled or any where mastercard is accepted.
You can read more from 2checkout website - http://www.2checkout.com
Step #9 – Sell your new digital information product and smile to bank.

You have 1,000 subscribers you can send your offer to already. So just send them email offer with you autoresponder.

Possible Income:

Let us say the price of your product is $27
You send email offer to 1,000 subscribers.
If only 5% of them respond you will be having 50 sales
50 sales X $27 = $1,350

If 10% of them buy you will be having $2,700.
If 15% of them buy you will be having $4,050.

Step #10 – Recruit affiliates to help you sell more.

The owners of the related information product you find above probably have several people that are helping them to sell their information products already. This people are known as affiliate. You can find this people by directly contacting the owner of the product or searching their product using google search engine.

Recruit several affiliates to help you sell. You can also partner with others selling related products as well.

If you are able to recruit 20 active affiliates that sells 50 copies of your product in one month your total sales for that money will be 1,000 copies.

Let us do the calculation –

1,000copies X $27 = $27,000

If you give each affiliate 50% you will be having $13, 500.

Step #11 – Sell it and Repeat the process.

You can sell your site after some months for X7 to X10 of the monthly earning. For example if your site is already earning $1, 000 (from above example) you can sell it for $7,000 or $10, 000. You can sell your site on http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/.

If you sell your site you can repeat the process. You can now make it better now that you have a lot of money to invest.

You are about to discover step-by-step process to launching a successful internet business that can generate at least $1,000 a month income for you starting with only less than $11 out of pocket expenses. Funny enough, you can set everything up in just few hours.

Let me start with few obvious truth first…

1. You subscribe to internet marketing nigeria newsletter because you want to start an internet business.
2. You are reading this message because you haven’t launch a successful project probably as a result of your not having good products to sell and website to sell it.
3. You don’t have must money to invest to get started.
4. You need simple idea that have nothing to do with paypal,clickbank or other payment solution that hate nigerian’s face.

Am I right?

Ok. If that is the case this step by step guide on how to set up your own internet forum is for you.

Why Internet Forum?

• Forum is easy, simple and fast to set up. You can have one up in next 10 minutes or less.
• It can grow without you. You don’t have to invest thousands of hours to make it a success. Most of your work will be at the beginning.
• You don’t have to worry about content for your site. Most of it will be user generated.
• Lots of opportunity to free traffic. If members find your forum useful they will tell others. Your forum site will benefit from search engine traffic based on the content post by members.

There are lot of ways to make money from your forum.

1. You can sell advert space,
2. Integrate google adsense or any other ppc ads,
3. You can contact every member of your forum with a click of a button from your admin area. You can join affiliate programs or email them your product offer.
4. Your internet forum site is a asset you can sell anytime for good profit.

There are other ways you can profit from your forum. You will get them from internet business club member area if you are already a member.

What is internet forum?

Forum is a place where people of like minds meet to discuss and share ideas. It is also called discussion boards or discussion groups.

There are forum on different area of interest, hobbies, subject or profession. The market is not saturated yet. You can still launch your own forum and be a success in your small niche.

Take this forum for example.

http://hv20.com/

It is a forum for canon Hv20 owners and users.

According to information from www.who.is the site was created last year february (just a litle over 1yr) and the site is already a success. It has 10,291 members of which 2,947 are active members.

Let us start the process. I won’t bore you with story because I know what you want is action step. And that is exactly what I will give to you.

Step #1 - Choose a market, subject, topic, area of interest.

Your discussion forum must be about something. It has to be about topic, subject matter, profession or area of interest. Your forum can be of anything but I will advice that you consider the following facts when choosing topic for your forum.

1. It must be topic people like to talk about.
2. There must be enough people that share same interest.
3. They must be seriously passionate about it.
4. Their must must be buying or selling something on that topic.

It can be anything. It can be on real estate, home improvement, students, fashion, camera, etc. Note: - This first step is the most important of the whole process. If you get it wrong at this point you’ve missed it all. So make sure you choose right topic. We have a detail explanation in internet business club nigeria member area on how to choose a market. If you are already a member click here..http://www.internetbusinessclubng.com/moodle/login/index.php and login with your info. If you are not a member yet you may consider joining here: http://www.internetbusinessclubng.com

Step #2 - Choose a good name for your forum

Once you have a topic you are ok with the next step is to choose a good name for your forum site. There are lot of things to consider when choosing a name.

• Choose a name that is short.
• Make sure it is easy to remember 2 to 3 words.
• Register with a domain registrar that give you opportunity to manage it.
• Choose a name that keyword rich.
• Register domain name with ICANN approved registrar.

I recommend -

http://www.007names.com

Step #3 - Choose a good web hosting service to host your new forum site.

You will need a good web hosting service for your newly registered domain name. Make sure you consider the following points when choosing web hosting service.

• Consider storage capacity 100MB above is ok.
• Hosting service that is on linux is good.
• Make sure they have cpanel with fantastico.
• They should provide 24hrs support services with low down time.

I recommend -

http://www.wwkiosk.com/

Please I am a bit weak. I have to rest. Will update this post tomorrow. I am very sorry.

Step #4 - Set up your money making business by installing your forum.

There are several forum software available online but the most popular of them are :

VBulletin
PhpBB
Invision Power Board
Simple Machines Forum (SMF)

I recommend either phpBB and simple machines forum. However, because of security flaws have noticed some of my forums that is on phpBB applications I now prefer simple machines forum (SMF). So I will advice you consider SMF.

There are two ways to install your SMF forum application.

1. Manual Installation - in this method you will have to download SMF software from http://www.simplemachines.org/ and install it on your domain yourself. This method to me is hard way to install your forum because you need to understand how to set up MySQL database. The manual installation only become a must if your web hosting provider didn’t have cpanel that has fantanstico.

2. Automatic Installation - you can automatically install smf forum application with only a click of a button within minutes. But for this to be successful you need to host your domain with hosting provider that gives you cpanel and the cpanel must have fantastico. Fantastico is third party application with which you can install several software on your domain. The website hosting service that I recommend earlier has both cpanel and fantastico.

Now let us assume that you’ve host your domain with website hosting company I recommend. You must have login info to access your cpanel where you can see fantastico

The link to the cpanel will looks like -

http://www.mydomainname.com/cpanel

username - testing1

password - testing2

When you login to your cpanel here is what you will see….

Can you see ‘fantastico’ in above picture?

Ok Clik on it now.

The above picture is fanstastco home. If you look at the left side of that pics you will see list of applications that you can install from fantastico. The application we are interested in now is ‘Discussion Boards’ and specifically ‘SMF’. So click on it now.

It leads us to SMF page. To start your installation click on ‘New Installation’.

You are to fill this short form to install your forum. Leave the first box empty if you want people to access your forum directly on your main domain url. Next choose your username and password. Next add your full name. I suggest you use nickname instead of full name. Then click on ‘Install SMF’.

On this new page you will see the mysql database that is automatically installed for you. All you have to do on this page is to click on ‘FINISH INSTALLATION’.

That is it. YOu just install your forum.

That is not all. The next page gives you two important information and opportunty to have yuor new forum information to be emailed to you. You will have link to your admin area where you can make changes on your site. Next is the link where you and visitors can access your forum. Last important info on that page is empty box where you can put your email address to have the mail sent to you. Once that is done click on ’send e-mail’.

From the last page you have two links. You can now access your forum to see how it looks like and at the same time access your admin area where you can make changes on your forum.

Here is your new forum

Here is your admin area.

There are several editing options in your admin area but I will concentrate only on two things now; creating and modifying category and boards. To do that you have to click on ‘Boards’ under ‘forum’ in the left side of your admin area. Check the above picture again. When you click on ‘Boards’ it will take you to ….

Here you can create new category, create boards for each category and at the same time modify the boards.

Note: When you are just getting started make sure that you don’t create two many categories and boards. Doing so will make your forum looks not active. The best way is to add new category and boards as your forum grows. Don’t worry I won’t leave you alone.

Visit few forums in your market to get ideas on how to create category and boards. Study the structure of their forum. You will be inspired.

Step #5 - Get unique, hot, seed content for your forum

One important fact that will determine whether lots of people will visit your website and visit often is content you have on your forum site. If you discusses issues that affects or interest them, you’ve won their heart.

You may be wondering if I am not contradicting my previous statement about ‘user generated content’. See I am not. Most of the content on your future will eventually be user generated contents but you have to work at it first. You have to post contents in form of articles, news, and resources that worth discussing in your forum. I call this seed content.

There are several ways to get seed contents for your forum. Let us quickly discuss some of them.

1. You can write everything yourself.

• To get idea of what to write you may consider doing keyword research,
• Listen and read news - you will get a lot of fresh ideas from latest news about your topic. You can get latest news by visiting top news websites like CNN. However, I will share a simple application from google with you. It is google news alert. It will send latest news, resources, blog post on your suggested topic to your email box as you want it. All you have to do is to visit - www.google.com/alerts. When you get the news that is hot you can talk about it in your forum and give other people opportunity to discuss it.

3. You can use plr article contents on your topic.

2. Get ‘forum poster’ to do the work for you.

You can employ freelance forum posters to do the work for you. This is not a bad idea. A lot of people are doing this already. They will charge you on number of post they make on your forum site. You can search internet for website that provides this service or check freelance websites like elance.com.

Note: Our team can help you. Email me jobrequest@internetbusinessclubng.com. They will be glad to post quality seed contents in your forums for you.

These are just two ways to get started. We will be discussing several other ways in internet business club member area. If you are already a member count yourself lucky.

Bonus seed content option

The popular content trend online now is video sharing. It won’t be a bad idea to add few videos to your forum. It is not difficult. SMF has a video sharing module you can install in your forum so that it can make it easy for you to embed videos from YouTube in your forum posts.

Note: Youtube is a popular video sharing website.

You can download the module you need to embed video in your forum post here:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=977

Start posting messages, news articles, related videos from youtube tips to your site.

Step #6 - Launch promotion for your new forum

Before we start adding ways to monetize your forum it is good to get the message out about your forum to the pubic first. I will only give you quick tips on generating traffic to your forum here. We have a complete lesson module in internetbusinessclubng.com on how to attract people to your site. You may want to check it out.

However, here is my quick tips. Do this now.

You can advertise your forum using paid ad system online like google adwords, banner adverts on related sites. But what we will be discussing here will be completely free strategies.

1. If you’ve been around for some time now I am very sure the term web 2.0 marketing won’t be new to you anymore. In case you don’t know what it is all about, it is about using social media websites to promote your websites. Part of web2.0 strategy is called social bookmarking where you your site visitors or readers of your articles tag and bookmark your post on social websites like facebook.

SMF has a mod called social bookmarking mods that you can add to your forum. It will allow you and visitors to submit your forum posts and articles to the social bookmarking sites. You can download the mo here - http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=967

Note: Social Media marketing is a very interesting new way to attract a lot of visitors to your website free of charge. We have over 100 pages contents on this strategy. It will be made available to our Internet Business Club members in next few days. You can download it from the member area.

2. Press release - you can write short news about your forum and post it on free press release websites like prweb.com. We have list of several other pr websites you may want to check out in IBC member area. You can post to the pr website free.

Above two strategies should get you started. I will be updating the free traffic methods later. If you can’t wait for me to update the list you can check out IBC member area under Traffic and lead generation.

Step #7 - Add monetization system to your forum

It is time to add money machine to your forum. Afterall that is the one of the main goal of the whole process.

First sign up for google adsense here - http://www.google.com/adsense

Note: google adsense are blocks of ads that comes along with google search result anytime you search using google search engines. Advertisers pay google through their advertising system called google adwords to advertise on google pages and google partner sites pages. When you sign up for google adsense you will automatically become google partner and you will get codes to place on your forum site to show google adsense adverts. With google adsense to you don’t have to sell anything. Google will pay you whenever any of your visitor click on the advert. Easy money for you!

When you have your adsense account, you can search google for few goode affiliate products in your market.

I know your question now will be how to add the google ads and your affiliate ads to your forum.

SMF forum application that you install has adverts mods called SMFAds mod that you can download and install on your forum. This will make it easy to display ads throughout your discussion forum.

To install SMFAds, download the file form here:
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=255

Installation process.

• Download SMFAds, on your computer.
• Don’t unzip it.
• Login into your SMF forum admin area.
• Select ‘packages’ from under the ‘main’ category.
• Select the ‘download packges’ tab.
• You will see a package upload box. Browse to the SMFAds file you downloaded on your computer.
• Click ‘upload’.
• Then install.
• Refresh you admin area page.
• You will see ‘ad management’ link in your SMF admin panel. Ad your google adsense ads or affiliate ad.
• Click the ‘permissions’ link and select permissions for each visitor group you have set up. Enable ads for each group so that the ad will show for all visitors.

Step #8 - Maintain your forum site allow it to grow.

You have to continue updating your forum with news, articles, tips, resources. Make sure you join in the discussion as well. Join us in internet business club forum to discuss how to grow your forum to brings in $1,000 or more monthly income.

Step 1 to 7 may looks like a lot of work to you. Well it is not. If you are serious about doing something great you can set everything up in one afternoon or night.

When you start making money from adverts, affiliate programs, selling your own products, leveraging your members list, and making thousands of dollars in monthly income, you will appreciate your effort.

See, nothing stops you from making upto $10, 000 a month from your forum in next 8 to 1year. If you need quick cash you can sell your forum for as much as $7,000 in next few months (depending on how successful it eventually becomes). A visit to www.sitepoint.com/marketplace will inspire you.

One obvious fact is whether you do anything now or delay ‘action’ days, weeks and months will pass and you will still be where you are. But if you start now in next few days, weeks and months you will continue to be happy as your forum grows. You will have asset that will one day be more valuable than the house you presently live in. So I will advice that you start today.

You need encouragement and support. I know.

That is the reason why I have been discussing with my Singaporean friend and partner Edmund Ng (Asian’s number 1 Search Engine Optimization ‘TIGER’).

I have this great idea to launch a ‘CONTEST’ to at least get 100 people to take action and get started making money. He has agree to donate gift. I am in discussion with few other top world internet marketers that are my friends as well.

Expect details of the contest in next few hours or days (depending on how my health permit me).

Please I need your help!.

I typed this step by step guide on sick bed. If I can took the pain to do this I expected you to understand how important your success means to me.

I will be happy ‘even in dead’ if at least 10 people take up the challenge and make some bucks for their family using my tips. That way I know 10 family will never every forget make.

Hey!

Don’t worry I won’t die now. Just trying to sell you a VALUE.

Next to come is detail of the contest.

Note: Quick Tip about the contest

We have some gifts donated already for winners of the coming contest. They are:

• Free trip to singapore to participate in my friends ‘business executives breakfast event’.
• A brand new Hp Pavilion Laptop.
• One internet project partnership with Lateef Olajide and Edmund Ng (we will finance the project while the winner profit).

More gifts will still come.

PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SOUL AND DO SOMETHING TODAY IF YOU TRULY LOVE YOUR FAMILY.

I LOVE YOU.

Health our people say is wealth. Most of the time, we don’t appreciate what we have until we lost it. For over a week now I have not be active because of ill health. Things became worst to the extent that I can’t even sit down with my pc for 30mins.

I thank God. I am getting better now.

While on sick bed I have every reason to count my blessings and to stop worrying about what I don’t have now. It was even during this period I got idea for today’s article. I realize that things are getting better almost everyday now.

The best time to start your internet business in Nigeria is ‘NOW’. If you are thinking about launching your business online in Nigeria there is no better period than now. ‘Things are getting better everyday.’

Internet Access

Few years ago, the only way you can access internet is through cybercafe. These cybercafes are limited in numbers and often charge high fee for their service. Today, you can access internet from home. Not only that you can access the internet the whole day with less than what cybercafe’s charge for 1hr internet access few days ago. Internet services may not be best for now but from what people in charge of NIGCOMSAT are doing nowadays, it is obvious that thing will get better. For example, it is news that they are working on deploying 400 community tele-centers nationwide. It only means in less than one month from now a lot of people will be able to access internet without emptying their pocket.

“The CTC is a franchise project being run by NIGCOMSAT Limited to provide Nigerians in remote and un-served urban areas with affordable access to internet, multimedia and voice-over internet protocol. The centers are also designed to provide value-added services such as e-learning centers for distant learning students, e-health care delivery, wireless access to homes, repair centres, space education, etc in the long run. The centres will be distribution points for the company’s e-learning certification suit. The CTCs will be commissioned by the end of this month in the various states.”

You can read the whole story from two websites bellow -

http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article04//indexn2_html?pdate=140508&ptitle=NIGCOMSAT%20pledges%20wider,%20cheaper%20Internet%20services

http://allafrica.com/stories/200805140230.html

Computer And Laptop Acquisition

You can now acquire complete system easily now. You can get new, refurbished or used computer. Imagine getting a complete system for N40, 000 or less. Some commercial Banks, micro finance and computer retailers often arrange deal where you can get complete pc and laptop on loan or installment payment.

Mastercard, Visa credit/debit card and other payment system

Getting card (visa/master card) to make payment online is not possible at all in some year back. I can even remember that I often have to travel to ibadan several times in a month to pay somebody (with a friend in US) to help me make online payments. I lost over hundred thousand naira to companies that sell virtual credit/debit card.

The same way, receiving online earnings has never been easy like today. Some online merchants now provides customized MasterCard and visa card with which their affiliates can receive online payments. You can use your card anywhere online and offline. You can even use it in some local ATM bank that makes provision for cashing visa or MasterCard. If you decide not to cash your earnings you can re-invest it easily since you can make payment online with same card.

Internet Training and business system.

You can get quality internet education easily nowadays. You don’t have to spend huge amount to learn how to make money online. If you don’t want to invest at all in training you can learn free from blogs, forums and article websites. This may not be the best way to learn but of course you can with that. Alternatively, you can sign up for online membership site that provides training system for $37, $67, $97 a month. Why should you pay such amount when you can be part of a community like internet business club Nigeria that provides step by step guide and continuous support?

Let me give you opportunity to comment first. I will add more points later. However, you can add changes you’ve noticed as well.

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