When I was first introduced to Internet Marketing I was amazed that I could write an ebook and then sell it for $25 on my website. It was pretty easy to figure out that I would have to sell 200 ebooks a month to get to my income goal of $5,000.

That didn’t sound too bad at first, but it didn’t take long for me to realize that it took a lot of work promoting the ebook to get anywhere close to that many sales. And, it took even more time to take care of questions and customer service with that many customers.

So for the past few months, I’ve just been plugging away, figuring that this income model was still my best shot at the kind of online income I was working toward. That’s until I came across this report on starting a “highly profitable coaching program”.

http://extremeproductexplosion.com/coaching

The basic idea is that people will gladly pay you for your expertise and personal attention. Given a choice, I’d much rather pay a few hundred dollars to have someone show me how to set up a membership site, start a scrapbooking business, or get my baby to sleep through the night. Being able to get feedback and ask questions obviously would make anything new we are doing faster and a lot easier.

I mentioned that people are willing to pay a premium for this kind of personal attention. Coaching programs sell for anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand per month. Let’s low ball it and say that I start offering a coaching program in addition to my ebook and that clients pay $250 for a month of coaching. Now I only have to make 20 sales a month to get to my income goal.

Take a moment to read this report

http://extremeproductexplosion.com/coaching

and then take a look at EasyCoachPro http://nexurl.com/easycoachpro a unique software program that makes managing your coaching clients fast and simple.

To your success,

Micheal Savoie

P.S. Read the report and you could have your coaching program up and running by the end of the weekend - seriously!

http://extremeproductexplosion.com/coaching

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My latest project has just launched and now I am going to do something exciting! The IMpact Action Team is working on a project with Deremiah *CPE to raise awareness and funding for the prevention of Teen Suicide! So I am having a contest to help raise awareness and drive traffic to the Speak Up Save Lives website!

Knol-edge Is Power
The first thing I want to do is tell you about my newest product, Building A Profitable Knol Video Training. This video training gives you the step by step training to have you up and running with Google Knols. A knol, according to Google, is a unit of Knowledge. And given that Google operates the site, it is safe to assume that any content placed on a knol will be indexed very rapidly!

Since I made this product available, people are rushing to get their own knols created and we will be seeing even more as word gets out. But I am not satisfied with making sales of my products. I want to help make an impact!

Knol - Lens - Hubpage Contest Announced
What I decided to do was find some sponsors to help me reward the efforts of the folks who help us with our cause. So I thought of holding a contest that will go through the next 3 weeks to raise awareness to the Speak Up Save Lives cause and the Impact Action Team Blog. I also would like to raise awareness for my products…lol!

Rules
The first Rule is that you must create one of each… A Squidoo Lens, a Google Knol and a Hubpage! Each must contain a link to each other (your lens should have a link to your hubpage and your knol & vice versa 3 ways) and each must contain the following three links:

http://SpeakUpSaveLives.org
http://ImpactActionTeam.com
http://TheImpactFactor.com

I would also appreciate a link back to one of the products related to the property you are posting… such as:

• On the knol you would have a link (your affiliate link is fine) to the knol video training:

  http://extremeproductexplosion.com/build-a-knol

• On the Hubpage the link (affiliate link works for this, too):

  http://extremeproductexplosion.com/products/hubpages

• And on the Squidoo Lens a link to (your affiliate link so you can make some commissions):

  http://extremeproductexplosion.com/squid-u

So you may wonder how you can get started… well download this PDF which contains the rules and an explanation of the contest. I am still lining up prizes being pledged to me by many of my dear friends online and I will be putting up a page with all of the prizes soon.

But in the mean time, let the contest begin…

Technorati Tags: Speak Up Save Lives, Impact Action Team, contest, squidoo, knol, hubpage

Back in the days of the San Francisco goldrush, many people made off with armloads of cash, but only a few people actually found gold…

If you haven’t had a chance to read my blog, or my new best friend Felicia Slattery’s ezine or blog during the past few weeks, you’ve missed out on the
excitement of everything happening with her business. Many of her long-time subscribers have been sending her well-wishes and are cheering right along with her. It’s been amazing!

It seems when one of us makes it, we all get to share in the joy of success - whether our’s or someone else’s.

So how about you? Are you ready for your chance of a lifetime? Will you be ready when opportunity knocks?

The amazing ride started when Felicia — now a part of Ken McArthur’s
Impact Action Team and a speaker at his Impact Boot Camp in Philly next
weekend — was called up on stage a few weeks ago by Ken, one of the
most successful guys on the Internet; she was ready with her Signature
Speech.

(read more about a Signature Speech http://nexurl.com/signature-speech)

Felicia shares with you below 3 steps so you’ll be sure that when opportunity knocks you can open the door and shine!

Step 1: Prepare*
Be ready at all times because you never can tell when you’ll get your shot at the big time.

Step 2: Be in the Right Place at the Right Time
One thing I’ve learned is you do need to get out of the house sometimes. Find an event close to you and just go. Meet the people who may help you to make a huge impact.

Step 3: Grab Your Chance and Make It Happen
The first two steps are good, but if you don’t take action you’ll miss your chance.

*So let’s go back to that first step:
Are you prepared with your own Signature Speech? When you have a 30-60 minute presentation ready to deliver at a moment’s notice you’ll be on your way to success.

Your Signature Speech is a fabulous door opener. Felicia still delivers her Signature Speech for free. Why? Because she wants to serve audiences of her target market by telling them something that can be helpful to them. It’s a win-win situation because then she gets to use the most powerful form of marketing her business at the same time.

In a few weeks she’ll be teaching the next live telecourse of her popular Signature Speech Work Group. Right now it’s priced at 50% off the full value — and I wanted to make sure you know about it.

So if you want to be prepared when the chance of a lifetime shows up AND put together a complete speech so you can get more prospects and more clients AND learn where to go to deliver the speech… get over to her site now

http://nexurl.com/signature-speech

I know you’ll love it!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - The Wacky Gang are at it again with a crazy ebook that helps everyone with marketing… because when there is a gold rush, are you going to be one of the speculators? One of the millions of people trying to make it big by finding the goldmine (like hitting the lottery)? Or are you going to be the one who makes a killing by selling all of those gold miners shovels?

http://nexurl.com/shovels

Make more money by selling the shovels… http://nexurl.com/shovels

Technorati Tags: signature speech, Felicia Slattery, Communication transformation, communication, speech, goldrush, goldmine, selling shovels

Listening to the news makes my stomach knot up. If you were to believe everything that you hear on there, you would have had the poisoned kool-aid and ended it all years ago.

What is your plan?
In business, you want to plan for slow times and make your own success. Don’t rely on public opinion and consumer confidence to be going your way to make a profit. If you take care of three things early on, you will never have to worry about economic downturns or what the talking heads on TV have to say.

Be buzzworthy!
The first task you must accomplish is to have a high quality product or service that you already provide. If you are the owner of a restaurant, you want to be on top of your customer service. Every customer must be your top priority at all times and treat each one like royalty! This will ensure that when people are talking about you, you are only getting good press!

Go out of your way to serve!
Without being noted for your service to others, you will quickly get lost in the cacophony of other businesses out there trying to be heard above the din! Only when you differentiate yourself as going beyond the “ordinary,” do you begin to be heard (and spoken about).

Make it easy to be loved!
Have places that customers can go to rave about you. My recommendation is to be on twitter.com and Facebook, Myspace and a few other social media sites that can be linked together. That way when you post about something, all of your followers can be kept up to date.

I highly recommend you use a site like ping.fm to post to all of your accounts at once. The beta code this week is “pingitlikeitshot” so you should sign up before they change the code. If you need the new code after they change it, just twitter me.

So start planning a presence on the Internet right away, and even if you don’t have your own website yet, you should have a presence as your business, even if it is Crystal_River_Discount_Tire_Shop or something like that. Once you have your own domain, of course, it is easier to send folks to your social sites to connect with you.

That is all I am going to cover today, because the weather is clearing up and I am taking my daughter to Sam’s Club for school supplies. Remember to keep in touch with me on any of the social media that I am a part of, just look for michealsavoie as a search term and you should find me. Beware, though, there are some Michael Savoie profiles out there that are not me. Make sure you spell micheal like I do and you will find me.

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - If you want to schedule me for a workshop to show your business how to get online in a social way, contact me at my help desk.

PPS - If you want to recession proof your business in a BIG way and want me to help you with it get this course that I was just reviewing before I wrote this.The guys who put is together are living proof that during tough times you can still have an income without additional work. It is all in your planning and implementation - do it once and it keeps paying you. Is that not the way to go in an economy that is dependent on the whims of governments, speculators and third world countries?

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Doesn’t Dave Lakhani exude confidence? Follow him and get his attention!

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Having a website on the Internet is necessary - no, critical - to your online success, but it is not the only thing you need. You should have a multi-tiered approach to getting traffic by using incoming links from highly social websites as you build your brand.

But a lot of people are selling products that threaten Google, the top of the search engine food chain and the source of more traffic than all other search engines. Products like Google Assassin, Google Pain Induction and Take Google Out Back And Beat It Into Submission…

If Google is the source of bread and butter for so many people, it is wise to name your products mean names like that?

Dylan Loh is taking a different tactic (Secret Google Tactics) and I can see it making a difference…

http://productinaweekend.com/secret-google

Since Dylan is interested in helping beginners, he doesn’t go for Google’s jugular but instead he shows newbies how to use some of Google’s secrets to increase cash flow and traffic flow. He wants to create a relationship with Google, not cut its knees out from under it!

I recommend getting Secret Google Tactics so you can start pulling in the commissions you deserve!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

PS - Here is a video about it done by Todd Gross:

Technorati Tags: Google, traffic, secret google tactics

With a noisy marketplace the only way to really be recognized is by seeming to understand your customer by first knowing who they are, figuring out what problem they need you to solve for them and how much they are willing to pay to have that problem solved.

Understand your ideal customer…

• Ask them what they want… use surveys and questionnaires to find out your customers’ deepest desires so that you can fulfill them right now and take away their pain!
• Talk to your customers on the phone. Make it a point to call 30 or more of your customers and find out what you can do to help them with their problems. This builds rapport and let’s you know what your customers really want!
• Gather Feedback using a form or a location on your support desk. Even comments on your blog are a good way to gather the feedback vital to making your business even better.
• Place one of those chat boxes on your sales page to ask your customers why they are leaving your site. This is very important, because it helps you make changes to your sales process that increase your conversion.
• Conversations throughout the web will also help find out what your ideal customer is looking for. Forums and blogs are a great research tool to hear what people want or are struggling with. You can use google alerts to let you know where the conversation is taking place, and then you simply eavesdrop!

Using these methods makes it easy to figure out who your ideal customer is and how you can best serve them by making just the right product that solves their problems and makes their day easier!

By seeming to read your customers’ minds you become the go to person whenever they need something to solve future problems. Just never stop listening!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - I still have a couple days left for you to save $30 on over 1 GB of Master Resale Rights and Private Label Rights products to add to your ecommerce store. These are high quality products that not only will make your life easier, but will help you start or enhance your own business. The next 100 people who purchase the Back to School Profit Pack will also get a coupon link for 50% off my popular video training for Creating An Ecommerce Site Using Wordpress.

Just open up a support ticket and I’ll send you the link to get Creating An Ecommerce Site Using Wordpress for 50% off!

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Having friends who know more than me about a lot of different topics is a love/hate thing…

They always correct you when you are wrong, they never let you finish a sentence before they tell you the faults in your logic…

But the also don’t let you mess up when you are losing money!

Alex Sysoef is an awesome Wordpress Expert that I met first in JV Giveaways. He then launched a product that defined him as an expert called Web 2.0 Wealth that I still use to this day because of all of the plugins that I was able to get from his package.

Alex and I at jvAlert Live!

Now Alex has released a new product called Expert Wordpress that is going to make is much easier for you to make money from your blogging activities!

I even created a video to help you see what Alex has to offer!

If you purchase Expert Wordpress from my link, I will give you a copy of the video training SEO Wordpress that helps me squeeze extra visitors out of every blog post!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - It launches right now!

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Beware you newbie who just found out about the next best thing since sliced bread:
The Giveaway!

As someone who has operated giveaways over the past year, I have greatly benefited, but I also realized how flawed the whole genre is and how a few marketers are making a lot of money at the expense of the masses!

When I wrote my blog post The Problem With Giveaway Websites last year, I had already seen the writing on the wall. Yet for the 16 months following that post, no less than 10 giveaways per month launched during that period. Saying that the giveaway genre was flooded is like saying that Hawaii is close to the Pacific!

Lets examine this with a higher magnification, being careful not to let the suns rays concentrate on the page…

Lets say that 10 per month is an accurate figure and that 16 months have passed, so that we have 160 giveaways during that time. If each giveaway only had 2000 people sign up for them that is still 320,000 people downloading stuff. Roughly half of those probably signed up for more than one of these (in fact they probably were in all of them) so we can reduce the number to around 200,000 people conservatively, that were involved in a giveaway of some sort. Some giveaways had closer to 20,000 people signing up, and some had a few hundred if they weren’t promoted very well, but lets assume that we only had 200,000 people involved.

These 200,000 people:
- Probably saw your gift before if you offered it in more than one giveaway
- Are signed up to about 50 other people’s email list in addition to yours
- Probably used a throwaway email address for all of the giveaways
- Are overwhelmed with too many products, ebooks and software that they don’t know where to start
- Will be looking for a new hard drive very soon

So how do you make an impact with these people so that they will become your customer instead of your subscriber?

I have a few solutions to this:
1. Create something that people can’t find anywhere else
2. Put ways to contact you other than email in your product
a. RSS Feeds are a great way to stay in touch with people without emailing them
b. Software products that check your website before or after they use it are useful to connect the people who are using your gift!
3. Create a product that solves a common problem or makes a common task simpler
4. Use a delivery system that makes them an offer that is way too good to pass up!

As a software producer, I like to listen to what people are saying. Last year, I created a software product that gave people access to 10 different giveaways (using my affiliate links) from one location. This same software product also connected to my blog and updated the user whenever my blog changed (when I posted). I also created a product that I gave away at giveaways that people signed up for through the Rapid Action Profits Script - this script is amazing in that it even allows you to giveaway a front end product and makes a One Time Offer (OTO) after the subscriber clicks the confirmation link. I received a lot of good sales for a $17 product that was related to the giveaway product.

Finally, offering a free trial membership to a continuity program is an inspiring way to bring in the money from a giveaway. My first giveaway was for hosting for 6 months and I still have clients from that giveaway. With those types of gifts, you are opening a special communication line with them, since they need to be hearing from you because you are charging them each month… and you will have their paypal email address at that point. A great product for creating membership websites is Memberfire, and I am giving away a free trial of the software right here.

Create your own software with Best 10 Software Maker.

But now Brad Smith from Easter JV Giveaway is getting ready to release a report on The Death Of Giveaways… right now you can get a free chapter from the report, so I suggest you head over and get it now.

Build it and they will come… stupid!

Don’t ever fall for that line of thinking. You may hear that a few million new surfers go online every day, but I am here to tell you that you still need to funnel them into your website in order to make some money online. By simply placing a website on the Internet, you are not helping anyone.

What you really need are hundreds of connections throughout the web! Funny, isn’t it how aptly they named the Internet the world wide web? Every strand is interconnected in a more and more complex network that grows as time goes on…

So by opening your eyes to the places you can network, you can make a difference.

Beware! The thin line is drawn in the sand at your feet.

The line between a legitimate networking opportunity and spamming. When you first meet someone, don’t immediately start hurling links at them! Nothing I hate worse than introducing myself to someone and their answer is a dozen URLs…

If you are on Facebook, you will see that fairly regularly, where people sign up for the sole purpose of sending messages to their “friends” filled with buy this and join that, while the successful ones are building relationships first. Make friends first, then as the conversation develops over time, you can start to introduce them to what you are doing slowly.

A Lobster In Every Pot - Vote For Me, Please!

Check out the video I did for the Marketing Do Over Contest and please vote me a “10″ so I can help even more people!

The reason I even signed up for the contest is that one lucky winner will be flying to Nitro Marketing Headquarters for a full Marketing Do Over from the ground up! Once I have my business made over it will be much easier to impact even more businesses as I increase the number of coaches that are using my system to blast through offline marketing obstacles to bring people in to the brick and mortar stores by the hundreds!

How much could you help others if I taught you my system and allowed you to develop the businesses in your city? Do you think your status in your home town would increase? Do you think you could have some serious income changes as you charge clients anywhere from $1500 to $75,000 to take them from struggling to exploding?

So click here to vote for my entry in the Marketing Do Over Contest!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

PS - My birthday is over but because of all the challenges I have had this week keeping my site running, I thought I should give you a few more days for my sale… you can benefit by saving $1 per year old that I am at http://wantadealtoday.com/birthday

Let’s see if you can figure out how old I am… the first comment with the right age will win a Best 10 Product Created just for them. This is a $50 value, and the winner will just have to send me a list of the 10 URLs that they want included in their product and I will take it from there.

Can you imagine if the world was just one large sales pitch?

I just watched The Big Idea where Dave Lakhani and Michael Port were guests and they were discussing sales.

It was hilarious when one of the commercial breaks came on and the people who sell stuff on TV came on and did the big sales pitch for some epoxy and another for some “green bags” that are supposed to make your fruit last longer.

Both of those commercials used “but that’s not all!” at the end before they added a bonus to the offer.  I am sure a lot of people ran to the phone!

Educating yourself in the tactics and strategies of selling is a good thing, I know I need to improve my own sales technique, and if you are in business online, you need to become good at selling.

Conversion and traffic are the reasons people make money online.

You take a website, drive traffic to it and people will either buy or not buy.  Simple enough.  But once you have sent over 1000 people to the site, you should know how your site converts.  Your goal is to be consistently testing and tracking your sales page and the methods you get people to visit your site.

Ross Goldberg has long been one of the people I look up to for guidance whenever I need more people to visit my website.  He has written more about traffic than anyone else I know (except maybe John Reese).

But Ross has taken traffic teaching to a new level.  Why?  Because he lives traffic.  It is his ability to drive targeted visitors to his websites that got him to the point where he can host seminars 3 times a year and do workshops.

But he has outdone himself this time, because he was about to add another 60 pages of content to his Traffic Manifesto when he decided that he ought to do them as video, because he can charge even more for his training.

I called him on that and he told me that the price was going to be somewhere around $137 for the Traffic Manifesto 2.0 package.  His course is worth every penny, but he decided that with the price of everything going up, the best thing he could do was to make Traffic Manifesto 2.0 affordable at least for a week or two, since the people who know Ross act quickly when he offers something.

traffic-mastery.com/?e=signup

Check it out, because the traffic generation methods he teaches work!

traffic-mastery.com/?e=signup

But wait!  That’s not all!

Once you have the traffic, you want to convert your visitors into buyers, right?  So what I am going to do is give you access to my Test and Track Video series for $1 if you buy Ross’ Traffic Manifesto 2.0!

Not only that, but I am also adding the Recording and Transcript to a call I did with Rob Toth last September as an additional bonus!  Rob Toth is the man behind the Buy Now Wizard, a software suite that you place on your server and add to your sales pages to help you get people to buy the first time they visit your site…

The recording is really good, it gives you a lot of information on converting prospects into buyers.  So get Traffic Manifesto 2.0 now and email me the receipt info and I will send you the coupon link for getting the test and track video training for $1 and you will have access to the Conversion Magic Audio and Transcript in the member’s area.

traffic-mastery.com/?e=signup

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

PS - If you want to get Buy Now Wizard, you can get it at a massive discount if you get it before July 4th!

productcreationgiveaway.com/convert

If you get both Buy Now Wizard and Traffic Manifesto 2.0, you can choose one more product of mine from the bonus page:

productinaweekend.com/bonus-time/

Just email me or use my help desk:
traf-x.com/helpdesk

Look at the headlines.  The newspapers, magazines and even the local and national television news are happy to tell you what is troubling the world!  While I do not advise you to sit there and take in all of that negativity for any amount of time, you can get a lot of great research for product creation by just looking at the headlines.

“Gas Prices Are At An All Time High” is a great clue into what a new product should address.  In fact I created one and already have adwords ads running for it even as you read this.  The cool part about watching the headlines is that you can then look at Google trends and see if anyone is searching for that topic and you can really be enlightened.  I found out that more people are searching for “gas savings” in Canada, but more people in the US are looking for “Gas Saving Tips.”

Of course, with your trusty Google research tool, you can also get the information for your likely prospects and compile it together into an ebook.  Then all you have to do is get traffic to the sales page and you are making money!  Well, you may have to do a little more than just that, but you get they idea.

If you want to get more into details on product creation, you should read other posts on this blog (I suggest you click on the RSS button so that you get all of my posts in a convenient feed reader).  You can also sign up for my Creating Products With Free Tools download that will show you the software you can get for free that will allow you to create awesome ebooks, graphics and websites!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - Watch the video I made for Hypnotic Marketing 2.0.  Mine is the 3rd one on the page.