Showing posts with label internet income opportunities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet income opportunities. Show all posts

Friday, 21 June 2019

Tim Halloran, Six Figure Mentors Review - What Does It Take To Succeed?

I joined the SFM back in 2014. At the time it had only been running for four years. I didn't know what to expect but I had been burned a few times online with a number of business type courses promising to help me earn money. My lack of experience back then and my desperation was partly responsible for some of my failures. But also, many courses taught tactics which were already becoming out of date. Some of the courses I bought taught how to get your website up in the Google rankings. If you've ever tried this, you'll know it isn't easy. It was far easier 20 years ago admittedly. But now, getting ranked for your website is becoming much more difficult. So back to The SFM. When I joined I decided I needed to start afresh and although I had learned a number of skills, I still hadn't really made any money on the internet. With the exception of buying and selling on eBay, the other strategies I had tried just didn't get any traction. After joining, I was immediately impressed with the information I was getting. The "over-deliver" strategy clearly worked on me! I also benefitted by joining under someone who helped me make my first couple of high ticket sales. This happened within a few months. However, I didn't fully understand the business system or what was involved. Although I'd made a couple of quick sales, for not much work, I hadn't entirely been responsible for those sales. The affiliate who referred me had set up a Facebook advertising "co-op" and helped a number of people get some traction. After my first sales, I stopped advertising and simply took the money! This seemed like a lot of money to me back then. It was a couple of thousand pounds. I now realise that I should have re-invested it back into the advertising, which is what I am doing now, now I understand the business better. Having made an 'early win' gave me confidence in the business system which is one of the main selling points of what The SFM offers. It also offers top-notch training too - more so now than back in 2014 when I joined. Now, I am a member of a number of Facebook private groups which I can sit in on, and watch 'over the shoulder' of those who are succeeding in this business. Don't get me wrong, this isn't an easy business to learn. Some of my main problems have been my 'grab it and run' mindset and scarcity mindset which has stopped me from taking some important action steps. The SFM training program caters very well for this. In fact, one of their main strengths is undoubtably their ability to install an ideology of personal growth. Without this, you really will be fighting some internal battles as I have definitely done. This will hold you back if you don't overcome your mental barriers to success. It's not for everyone either, admittedly. The business system itself is expensive and for some prohibitively so. But for anyone wanting to make full time living from the internet, I'd say The SFM is a good place to go. You'll need to work hard and invest though, and it's no easy ride. But it does offer something which many want - a digital business system which can be run from anywhere. The possibility of financial freedom, however far away you believe it to be. If you only want the training, I'd say that was worth the money at the lower levels too. I had a failing kung fu school running when I joined and now it's doing really well. I attribute that to much of the learning and understanding I have picked up from the SFM training and education platform. You can't really expect to earn a living though if you only join at basic level. Only by at least getting to Elite level will you be able to access the higher ticket product commissions. But if you want to learn some digital marketing and mindset skills, it's worth the training and community even if you don't want to make a full time career out of it. The community on its own is a hugely powerful resource and has benefitted me both personally and professionally. After my first couple of high ticket sales, I decided to focus on blogging and the cheaper strategies of generating traffic. I simply didn't have a budget to risk on advertising. I decided that if I got free traffic, the sales would be worth more in profit, which is true. The problem is, the strategy I used (blogging) isn't the best one, particularly in a very competitive niche like affiliate marketing and "money-making online". I know there are people doing well with social media marketing and other free strategies, but I didn't go down this route. The people who are making the real money with The SFM are those who go all in. They position themselves at the very top tier of the business system and promote the SFM themselves as partner level affiliates. This means they can earn the highest possible commissions from the business. Some products are sold at $35,000. Those at the top level can earn 40% of this in commissions, but they need to purchase the product themselves in order to have it in their 'online store'. There's a lot of learning to be done too. I thought I'd make it work very quickly and be sitting on a beach counting my money. But as I persevered through the difficulties, I have changed and understood that it's a business like anything else. It's no magic bullet to instant riches. Just a business model with products within it that anyone can sell. In order to put the most expensive items in your own personal online 'shop', you need to purchase them yourself. Reading the reviews today that I've found about the SFM I see a lot of scepticism. Many say it's a scam. Well, it's not a scam, it's real. But it's easier to say it's a scam and not have to do all the work involved in making it happen. There's plenty of people who are making it work for them, and creating amazing lifestyle businesses of their choosing. The SFM started in 2010 and have recently partnered with Microsoft Lynda (Under the LInkedIn umbrella of companies). Microsoft Lynda now offer their own 6,500 training courses as part of the SFM curriculum. DigitalMarketer (The world's longest standing and most highly respected B2B and B2C marketing training company) also partnered with SFM and now offer their own training as part of the SFM curriculum. I don't think these companies would partner with any organisation that wasn't providing huge value, was well established, and wasn't 100% above board. Since joining The SFM in 2014, I've seen some huge changes in myself. I've had to face myself and see my own limitations as stopping me move forwards within the business. Your thinking and mindset have a huge amount to do with whether you can make a success out of entrepreneurship. It's much, much easier to discount something as a scam, than it is to look within and grow yourself alongside a business. If I had quit on my journey, I would have missed out on a greater opportunity than I could fathom at the time. I struggled and struggled, but much of my struggle was with my lack of understanding of the business model and of my own limitations. I was programmed with a poverty mindset which viciously fought against spending money. To get into the space of knowing that I need to spend in order to earn was a huge shift in my mindset. I'm far from the best performer in The SFM, at this time, but what I've learned about myself and about my inner limitations is invaluable for the rest of my life. I will continue to learn and never quit, so watch this space, you doubting sceptics out there! For those who are thinking about joining The SFM and to do so would mean severe poverty, I'd suggest to get in a better financial position first. I scraped by and took some chances, but it's not easy. If you are determined in this business though, there's no reason you can't make it happen. But if you can't afford it, I'd suggest another program if it's going to put you in debt. The SFM program is more than just a sales funnel with digital products in it. It's an "all-in-one digital business system and training platform. The goal is to make long term digital entrepreneurs who can sustain an income and thrive from the sale of products over the internet. That means there's a whole lot of work to be done, if you're going to make this a full time living. It's definitely not for the timid. Expect to be pushed, and expect some discomfort if you're going to do what you need to make it work. Remember too that affiliate marketing is performance related. No one owes you a living! You need to take charge of yourself and your business in order to make it work! Good luck! Tim Halloran is a stuntman, martial artist and online entrepreneur. To learn how to build your own online business see his site here: tim-halloran.com Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Tim_Halloran/488644 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10010861

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

7 Easy Ways to Increase Online Sales

How to Improve Your Website's Buying Process From small businesses to huge corporations, increasing profits is the #1 goal. As a business owner, it's your main purpose and what you focus the bulk of your energy on. However, it can be a challenge-especially when you're so close to your brand-to see what's missing and to make the necessary changes. Fortunately, there's no shortage of ways you can improve your buying process and see results in the near future. Whether you run a product- or service-based business, here are 7 ways to increase online sales: 1. Have a user-friendly website that looks good. This might seem obvious, but you'd be surprised how many small business owners neglect their online presence, even if they don't have a brick and mortar store. They get so focused on selling they forget about the user experience. As a result, visitors get frustrated they can't find what they're looking for, wrestle with glitchy pages and outdated content and go elsewhere. Remember, many people are also going to be browsing and/or buying from their phones, so optimize accordingly. 2. Tell nothing but the truth. Don't exaggerate what your product can do or oversell your services. This will only hurt your reputation in the long run and keep you from gaining your customers' and followers' loyalty. You might make initial profits, but people won't return, will leave negative reviews and will tell family and friends. Of course, you want to market effectively, but don't claim your coaching services will absolutely lead to a six-figure income or your skincare products will make anyone look 20 years younger. Be honest and transparent while sharing the benefits of whatever you're selling. 3. Spend time on SEO. You want your business to be found in Google, but that's not going to happen unless you research your competitors, choose the right keywords (including longtail keywords) and properly optimize your website. For example, a wedding planner will face stiff competition when creating campaigns around "wedding planning in Vancouver". He or she could create targeted, longtail content around keywords related to wedding planning, such as fall flower arrangements, unique cupcakes, elegant Bohemian wedding décor, his and her cocktails and so on-anything to drive traffic to the site while standing out from the competition. 4. Create a sense of urgency. If users land on your site only to see an offer from a year ago is still front and centre, it's disappointing and makes people wonder how much energy you put into your business or if you're still in business at all. If you want to improve your buying process, it's essential to help customers understand the value of what you're providing, whether it's a limited-time offer or a seasonal sale. 5. Understand that content is king. We've been hearing this for a long time, and it's still so relevant! Search engines reward fresh and useful content. Here are some characteristics of a user-friendly website: • Detailed, unique product descriptions • Blog articles about interesting topics related to your product or service • A FAQ page where you answer all your customers' questions 6. Monitor and respond to reviews. Nearly 95% of shoppers read online reviews before making a purchase, according to the Spiegel Research Center, 2017. I recently talked about the importance of online reviews in How to Deal with Negative Reviews Without Harming Your Business. From Google My Business to Yelp, you have the opportunity to share your information and get customer feedback, whether it's negative or positive. 7. Be super social. You NEED a social media presence, and the time has come to focus on content marketing storytelling. Not only do users check out online reviews and how responsive you are, they also look to see what you're promoting and how often you're active. You should have strategies the major platforms you know your target market is using including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Don't neglect your audience and they won't neglect you! It's worth it to put the energy into strategizing now for great results. No matter what your brand is, boosting your online sales, brand awareness and loyalty can be a big challenge. Susan Friesen, founder of the award-winning web development and digital marketing firm eVision Media, is a Web Specialist, Business & Marketing Consultant, and Social Media Advisor. She works with entrepreneurs who struggle with having the lack of knowledge, skill and support needed to create their online business presence. As a result of working with Susan and her team, clients feel confident and relieved knowing their online marketing is in trustworthy and caring hands so they can focus on building their business with peace of mind at having a perfect support system in place to guide them every step of the way. Visit http://www.ultimatewebsiteguide.ca and download your FREE "Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Website's Profitability - 10 Critical Questions You Must Ask to Get Maximum Results". Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Susan_Friesen/260293 Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/10106970

Monday, 27 May 2019

The Shortcut To Online Income Opportunity Riches

Do you have an internet income opportunity or program that you currently promote? Are you doing any affiliate program? Are you a shining success in the online income opportunity that you're doing? Are you making enough money and are you financially secured? Read on, to discover how to succeed in any internet income opportunity and create true wealth. Most people are like the hound dog that lies on his back and howls all day because he is in pains and feels lazy to get up and do something about it. They waste their time and lives in dead end jobs that they hate. Some dabble in various internet income opportunities. They seem to think that their lives are like a TV show which will have a happy ending. So they stay in the same job for years, waste their lives and whine. Like a hound dog. Some of them will retire, but will walk around for the rest of their lives wounded and miserable because of the stress they accumulated from their jobs. The others will get downsized, and end up in the skid row, where they will continue howling and whining for the rest of their lives, unable to figure out where their happy ending went. You don't have to be a hound dog because you can do something about your current financial situation. Most people rush into online income opportunity for various reasons. Some people are tired of working hard at their jobs and desire an online income opportunity as away to escape from the 9-5 job rat race. Some other people desire an internet income opportunity so as to earn extra incomes to supplement the money they make at their jobs. Other people desire online income opportunity because of the comfort and freedom of working from their homes and the power it gives them to control their financial destinies. There are some people who have bought an internet income opportunity because they are retired and need something to keep them busy. When the internet gold rush happened about 6 years ago, millions of average people all over the world rushed into different types of internet income opportunities because they bought the internet hype of get rich fast. Millions of companies were born overnight and they began to offer free affiliate programs. Millions of people signed up with the mistaken notion that just by signing up and getting a free website to promote an internet income opportunity will make them rich over night. This gave birth to various internet promotions and marketing. One of the most annoying internet promotions was spa-mm-ing. This in turn gave birth to anti-spam activism which has almost wiped out spamming. After 1 or 2 years, most of these millions of people who rushed into internet income opportunities had to admit failure because they were not making any money. Their dreams of fast internet wealth were shattered. As a way to console themselves, they started labeling every online income opportunity as a scam. Most of these people will buy an online income opportunity and after they download or receive it will claim that the internet income opportunity is a sc-am (even though they have not tried it yet and have no proof) and apply for a chargeback and a refund so as to eat their cake and have it also. By so doing, they ripped off the sellers of these online income opportunities. While some of the companies that promote internet income opportunities may engage in deceptive advertising, it is not true that all internet income opportunities are scams. Most internet income opportunities are valid and can make the buyer a lot of money. The problem is that most people who buy internet income opportunity are not capable of doing them because they are not business oriented. Most of them don't have a clue about marketing and internet promotion. Most of them buy the programs or sign up in free affiliate programs and after they get the websites they don't do any serious marketing. A lot of these people don't even know the difference between selling and marketing. I have known some of these people who don't even know how to write a simple business letter or e-mail. They write an e-mail without beginning it with a salutation and at the end of the e-mail, they don't include their names or phone numbers or physical addresses. When they phone you and leave a message on your answering machine, they don't even know that they have to state their names, the reason why they called and their own phone numbers and the best times you may call them back. Most of them don't even know how to create a folder or save or upload a file or install a software and yet they had signed up in 100 different affiliate programs and internet income opportunities and had dreams of making a million bucks overnight! Is it any surprise that these people fail miserably? The least that any serious business person should know how to do should be how to write a business letter. Most of the people who fail in online income opportunity have no discipline and are disorganized. They have the mistaken notion that working from home and doing an internet income opportunity program means that they can wake up anytime they like and that they can choose whether to work or not and when to work or not. They fail to realize that doing an online income opportunity can be more demanding than doing a regular job. Doing an online income opportunity requires more discipline and competence than a regular job because you may have to do many different chores all by yourself because at the beginning, you probably will be working alone and may not be able to hire helpers. This means that you may have to play many roles and do so many things all at the same time. You may be forced to become a website designer, a copy editor, a sales person, a customer service person, a spokes person, an attorney, a book keeper, an accountant and a publisher all at the same time. This is one of the biggest reasons why most people fail in online income opportunity because they are unable to play all these roles at the same time. Another reason why most people fail in online income opportunity is that they don't spend enough money to promote it. To attain success in any internet income opportunity may require that you spend thousands of dollars. But most people spend $25 a month to place an ad and if they don't make any sale, they conclude that the internet income opportunity doesn't work and give up. To succeed in any online income opportunity may require that you do different types of marketing and internet promotions. Your website must be optimized and competently submitted to both the major directories and the search engines on a regular basis. You must have a link exchange program that is effective. You may have to do both online and offline marketing. You may have to do many press releases in order to get free publicity and generate free traffic to buy your online income opportunity. You may even have to do direct marketing to drive traffic to your websites. This depends on what type of product or service that you promote. You may have to go offline to find the targeted customers who need what you promote. To succeed in doing this, you must know how to locate a targeted mailing list and how to test it. You may have to do magazine and newspapers advertising too. Above all, depending on the type of product or service that you're promoting, it may take time for you to start seeing a return on your investment and to become profitable. Unfortunately, most people that get into online income opportunity lack patience because they are looking for quick ways to make money. For that reason, they don't do enough marketing and internet promotion and don't network and don't spend enough money to generate traffic and so consequently they fail. But when they fail, they are unable to admit that they are at fault. Instead they blame the internet income opportunity and the company who sold it to them and label all internet income opportunities as sc-ams. May these internet income opportunity insights open your eyes to the possibility of infinite wealth and success that can be yours. Please feel free to print or publish this article anywhere and read and also send to your friends and well wishers and please preserve the author's resource box below. Warmly, Ikey Benney I-key is the creator of “Mscsrrr, Millionaire Secret Cash System, The Royal Road To Riches, Generate $1,500 Weekly For Life” ([http://www.mscsrrr.com]) and “TMT: Transcendental Mental Technology, The 10,000 Yr Old “Secret” Of Infinite Wealth, Infinite Success, Infinite Happiness, Revealed. 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