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Miraculous Web Business Ideas in Minutes

People always ask me (especially lately since my post here) how I come up with so many ideas. I used to tell them it is keebler elfin magic. But since the Keebler elf magic squirrel incident (he he) I decided not to use that to cover up the truth. The truth is that I create a lot of web business ideas by remixing them. My mother always told me I had a talent for mix and matching things. For instance I used to take previously written reports from school and make new mixed versions citing my older reports (laughing). Now let me clarify I didn’t copy anything from the other reports. I just remixed them.

Here is an example I will use starting with blog headlines. The idea of any blog post is to start with the headline. So this will be a great way to generate content and more.

I picked out 3 blog posts with interesting headlines

ATTENTION: if your like me you will click the links. However don’t forget to come back to find out how to create web business ideas in minutes. I am not kidding this really works.

Anatomy of a Landing Page: Design Elements Exposed by Bryan and Jeffery Eisenberg who are geniuses at online conversion and testing.
14 Funniest Anti Microsoft Picture from dailybloggr
and Three Benefits of Guest Blogging You May Not Have Known from fuelyourblogging

Now lets look at each of these headlines

Bryan and Jeffery are going to “expose” the details of how a landing page works”. Well WOW who wouldn’t want to see that? Especially after you see they know their stuff and good old Darren has recommended them right? (laughing again).
And Dailybloggr (Mani is a good guy) is going to make you laugh. I mean who wouldn’t want to see “Funniest Anti Microsoft Pictures?” We all want to laugh at the so called evil empire right?
Then fuelyourblogging is going to share with us “3 (as in short quick) Benefits of Guest Blogging You May Not Have Known“.

The bold highlights above are actually the key phrases that attract people.

So I remix them into the following headlines

“The Funniest Benefits of Hot Business Ideas Exposed”
“Exposed: The Secret Anatomy of Generating Traffic to your Blog“
“3 Funny Anti Landing Pages that Lack Design Elements”

Now all I have to do is add content

For instance lets take “Exposed: The Secret Anatomy of Generating Traffic to your Blog” for developing web business ideas. I would write content detailing the strategies used in SEO and social media. Then I would explain how to combine and mix them. Just like I did with this story.

I would talk about Keywords in relation to tweets and backlinks in relation to 3rd party twitter sites. Also I would talk about finding guest blogging gigs with social media to generate those important backlinks. Then edit and post.

Next I would watch the traffic flow after promoting the posts for a few days via email, social media, and other methods.

The most popular (visited and commented) posts are developed into a email signup campaigns through aweber.

And thats when I also start searching for products either via an affiliate or make my own. Or (you guessed it) remix the two.

So lets recap:

Generate headlines from several posts
Create original content by mixing strategies and or tactics in relation to that headline.
Monitor to see which one gets the most visits and comments
Develop an email list building strategy with aweber.
Develop a product line to offer your email list subscribers and visitors.

Now you have a realistic strategy for developing headlines, content, analytic, email marketing and products. And that how my web business ideas are developed overall. If you would like to learn this strategy and more in detail please contact me.

04 Mar

150+ Online Business Ideas and Resources to Help You

There is no shortage of online business ideas in the web community. But to see such creative ideologies is great. When I talk about ideas I am referring to the way or thinking or philosophy behind making your business grow.

So I thought it would be really cool to list some amazing sources for online business ideas. But I must warn you, if your looking for a get rich quick scheme this isn’t it (laughing).

This is broken by Seth Godin will teach you how to spot problems that you could possibly solve thus create a business. His video, humor, pictures, and thinking is amazing.

SEO, Popularity And The Way Forward is a forward thinking post about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) from one of THE most authoritative sites on the web.

My FREE Entrepreneurship Online eBook Volume 1 was downloaded over 5,000 times. The ebook though small contains 21 information packed sources to grow your business.

70+ Web Resources for Entrepreneurs Online was downloaded over 10,000 times.

Online Business Ideas FREE 7 Ways Report Series This is a FREE Case study report on very common and some uncommon issues bloggers have. The great thing is that this in itself was an online business idea I created from shring online business ideas (laughing).

9 Great Conference, Slide Presentation, and Meeting Sites Need to put together a presentation online? This may be the best way to do it.

67 Ways to Get Your Content Into the Cloud is a great checklist to use to make sure your blog is getting “out there”. I am sure the most experienced blogger “slips” on a few of them. And they aren’t things you have to do all the time. Just a checklist to cover yourself.

I have no idea what niche your in or what you do and I guarantee I don’t have the answers to everything. But I know that this listing will at least help you with ONE of your main solutions.

26 Feb

Hidden Money Making Ideas In Your Tweets

Do you have ANY idea how many hidden money making ideas are in your twitter Tweets?! I have heard a entire slew of GURU’s or as Ben Settle calls them “GooRoos” talk about not following back on twitter. That without a doubt in my mind has to be one of THE dumbest things I have heard of on twitter.

So wait everyone should follow you and then you follow back your special “chosen ones” ? And the past excuse was “oh I can’t read that many tweets hard to follow” yeah right like they can’t aggregate with Tweetdeck and Hootsuite available to say the least.

And now they really have no excuse. Because with the invention of lists on twitter you can’t complain any longer. The excuses are officially over for those so called leaders of twitter. So here is where the money making ideas part comes in because these same entrepreneurs are always trying to sell you ways to make money while stepping over the most significant online business ideas of the decade!

Twitter allows you to find out what your customers want without directly asking them. No other social media as I write this has that advantage. Just sit there and watch your twitter stream I almost guarantee you you will see some money making ideas just from watching

1. What others are doing in your field and or niche.

2. You find problems to solve for your market.

Remember the best online business ideas and money making ideas involve solving a problem. Solve the problems and you will NEVER be short of business that I guarantee. But if you constantly talk of your concern for cutting yourself off with your followers then your in trouble. Conversation is the brand but who respects someone who only has a speaker part of the phone? Come on Twitter leaders don’t cut off the follow backs and then wonder (and even tweet) why your mentally stuck for ideas for your blog, products, and marketing online.

01 Feb

Death of a Schlotzskys Funny Name Serious Sandwich

schlotskys died In the US there is a sandwich company founded in Austin, Texas (a college town) called Schlotzskys. Recently I was encouraged to sign up to their email list. Several days later I got an email promotion of the Superbowl where for the Superbowl they were offering a “free cup of soup with a purchase of a sandwich”. Free cup of soup? For the Super Bowl?

For my email and thousands of others you offer us in a challenged economy a “Free cup of soup with a purchase”? So I emailed them a very brash email with caps and daring them to reply back with something beyond the average politically correct email. The idea was to let them know that I was concerned. I also offered them the following advise.

Offer a buy one get one free.
Offer a $4 dollar combo for the Superbowl weekend.
Tell us your favorite commercial and you get a coupon for a free sandwich good until Monday after the Super Bowl.

I especially liked the last idea cause it’s a way to find your customers preference and they could have molded that into a campaign of their own online.

Here was the reply from the Schlotzskys customer service rep

“We take all customer comments and concerns very seriously, and hope in the future we can create advertising and promotions that will suit your needs. Again we thank you for reaching out to us with your comments and concerns.”

Schlotzskys just died. They are disconnected from their customers. They are treating them like cattle. In a time when you could step up and offer something different from your competitors they killed their brand. Where you have companies like Tweetmeme responding right away and even unexpectedly. Schlotzskys draws a line in the sand as the video of Gary V discusses.

We live in an age where customers don’t reply to emails in general let alone reply to promotions. And for a company to reply to my email with a general statement and no followup is a sad lost….for them. They didn’t take into factor that if one person emails them back at least several hundred or even thousands are placing their promotion into the spam folder. Plus they didn’t even double opt in subscribe me to their email list. Amazing!

Competitors Subway and Quiznos awaits my business. The lesson here is remember that the customer or potential customer not only has choices but has developed a serious cut throat attitude to opening email. Goodbye Schlotzskys. Hello competitor that responds to their customers.

25 Aug

Tony Robbins Uses AWeber for His Email Marketing in Conjunction with Good Morning America and GM Promotion

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Hey if it is good enough for a man worth over $200 Million Dollars then it should be good enough for you. Tony Robbins a few weeks back was on Good Morning America and told everyone to go to his site and signup for some free info.Who do you think they used to signup the emails? You guessed it (plus reading the title of this article should have told you LOL).

He could BUY Aweber if he wanted to but values their service to promote a email marketing signup across the world!

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I have told you in several articles how cool this is well try for FREE yourself! And if you have questions? Let me know!

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23 Aug

Thousands to your Email List!

But here is the interesting part I am going to share some really cool info with you when you signup! YOU WILL LOVE IT!

Can You Have More Sales, Too?

Helping over 61,000 businesses like yours raise profits and build customer relationships using AWeber’s opt-in email marketing software for over 10 years.

09 Aug

Seth Godin Sunday: 10 Year Reflection of Permission Marketing

Do you know its been 10 years since Seth wrote the hit book Permission Marketing that has laid a foundation to countless companies and practices? Well I think it is still interesting that with a great book there are still people who are confused about what SPAM actually is and is not.

The funniest thing is to get a SPAM comment from someone who signs up to your email list. I mean an actual person who confirmed via their email inbox to receive your emails. But when they decided they don’t want the emails any longer they call you the spammer (laughing).

That’s like inviting someone over to your house and giving them a beer, the remote, and your favorite chair. And suddenly calling the police to report them for breaking and entering.

The reason I brought this up was that the person that accused me of this wa a so called “marketer”. I sent him a copy immediately (laughing).

When tactics drown out strategy

New media creates a blizzard of tactical opportunities for marketers, and many of them cost nothing but time, which means you don’t need as much approval and support to launch them.

As a result, marketers are like kids at Rita’s candy shoppe, gazing at all the pretty opportunities.

Most of us are afraid of strategy, because we don’t feel confident outlining one unless we’re sure it’s going to work. And the ‘work’ part is all tactical, so we focus on that. (Tactics are easy to outline, because we say, “I’m going to post this.” If we post it, we succeed. Strategy is scary to outline, because we describe results, not actions, and that means opportunity for failure.)

“Building a permission asset so we can grow our influence with our best customers over time” is a strategy. Using email, twitter or RSS along with newsletters, contests and a human voice are all tactics. In my experience, people get obsessed about tactical detail before they embrace a strategy… and as a result, when a tactic fails, they begin to question the strategy that they never really embraced in the first place.

The next time you find yourself spending 8 hours on tactics and five minutes refining your strategy, you’ll understand what’s going on.

24 Jul

Email Marketing Services I Can Trust

Who do you trust? Email Marketing Services are a dime a dozen so it comes down to which Email Marketing Services can be trusted and why? I know I was certainly in that situation.

I knew I needed an email marketing service that would:

Report the number of emails delivered to the email addresses
Report my open rate (the number of times your recipients opens an email)
Report my click through rates (the number of times your recipients clicks on a link in the email)
And someone to help me build my list with continuing education

Why a trustworthy Email Marketing Service Matters

Remember you want to build trust in your email marketing campaign as much as you want a email service to build trust with you. Starting on shady footing with a questionable email marketing service is suicide. No one gets wealthy by trusting their money with a fool.

The more an email service can educated you the better you can focus on educating (creating value) your niche. Thus allowing you to create value from the value that your email marketing service has helped you to create.

Lets really go into detail for a moment. In a perfect world email marketing simply works to take the seeds of trust and grow it into a partnership between you and your customers. Right? How much of a partnership can you develop when you are using an inferior service? I am pretty sure that question answers itself.

Who can you trust?

I have used AWeber for years. And here is WHY they should impress you tremendously!

They are educating you about email marketing ASAP. I had Constant Contact for years and they only sent me a bill never emails about becoming a better marketer.

The top email marketers in the world use them. If you are in a major Indy 500 car race do you want the vehicle that your neighbor drives or the car that Mario Andretti uses? The answer is you want the BEST vehicle you can use for the best price.
They have relationships with AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail. I didn’t know that Constant Contact had poor relationships with all of them because Constant Contact makes double opting in an option not a requirement like AWeber does. So who’s email is likely to be in the SPAM folder if you use their service?

Don’t lose the money I did learning this lesson.

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19 Jul

Email Marketing Gets 100's of Visitors Daily

Note: experienced email marketers YES I know this is basic for us but many people have no idea about this. Lets not assume that because we know everyone else does.

email marketing: Do you have a list? And by that question I mean a professional list used by a professional company? I personally recommend Aweber. They are the only service that provides a ton of education about their service.

You can also cross promote such as marketing a specific eBook for FREE and offering a opportunity to learn more. Also you can set links in the book to gain traffic.

Here are 3 things you can do to get more traffic.

Promote your daily blogs.
Promote your giveaways (A free ebook with links back to your site is invaluable).
Promote something that would be viral. A video of instructions that you offered to a specific group with a request to to forward.

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28 Jun

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