Ethical Internet Marketer – Make More Money Online… Ethically!

To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don’t just jump right in unprepared.

The same applies to the Internet marketing industry even though there are unsavory people out there who’d have you believe it’s a “Walk in the Park” and requires no more than the belief that you can just do it.

And I’ll have to admit, it is a walk in the park compared to what you have to put up with in the working world punching a clock being a subordinate to someone who does not have your interests in mind, but there are still rules you have to follow and pitfalls you must avoid to actually make Internet marketing work for you.

Most people will not make a dime online and yet there are others who will make more in one month than most people make in a whole year. Why is that?

My answer begins with the age-old chicken or egg question, “what comes first the chicken or the egg”? Personally I vote for, well never mind, each argument you or I make comes back to the same old conclusion – I have no clue and I don’t think many of us do either.

But one thing I do have a clue about and know for sure is that to make money online you must first have Passion for the company products and/or service of any Internet business from which you expect to make money.

Passion in this sense simply means that you’ve researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement and work that usually accompany Passion.

I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything. But I’m concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully.

Now, I’m not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords, and etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join – but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.

It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won’t attempt to do the work you are being taught.

Internet marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained effort so that you won’t stumble.

You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet Marketing industry for business opportunities, USE IT!

Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don’t find it move on, you can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.

Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I’ll start that business – does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion. And remember when you hear that an Internet “guru” does that, don’t be tempted, because as I said
earlier they are experienced and can sell just about anything, without being Passionate about the company products and services.

Note: By the way it’s your goal to get to the point where you can sell about anything online. That end skill and goal is a worthy one indeed.

Remember, there are other steps you must make before you step into Internet Marketing but if you don’t first find the right company products and services to be passionate about, all of those other steps may just cause you a lot of frustration instead of bringing you great success.

Not being Passionate about a company and products and services that has market proof that it will sell is a pitfall you simply must avoid.

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Meeting with Craig Beckta, the brain behind The Six Figure Code, at the Big Seminar 12 in Atlanta, GA

What I’m about to share with you, you must promise to not share around, seriously I want you to be able to exploit this as much as possible before every other internet marketer in the world catches on.

What am I going on about?

International Markets! (More specifically selling to languages other than English)

Now hear me out here, you’ve probably thought about this before, just like I had, but thought “Oh no that’s wayyy too much work, I don’t even know where to start!”

If you’ve thought that, this article could very well be the most important article you’ll ever read.

Why?

Because selling to other languages is so incredibly easy I could teach a 10 year old how to do it. Or actually… not me, but my good friend and fellow Australian Internet Marketer Anna Bo can.

Now let me share with you some internet facts that will astound you.

English only makes up 29% of ALL languages used on the internet.

This means that if you are selling only to English speaking countries, you have been missing out on 71% of the potential of buyers!

Not only that, check this out.

There are over 1.6 billion internet users worldwide as of March 2009.

Asia has over 657 Million internet users and Europe has over 393 Million internet users.

This is well over 1Billion people combined in Asia and Europe that could be your customers!

Not only this, all the top Internet marketers are profiting insanely by tapping into the non-English markets!

They are all sneakily keeping it to themselves because they don’t want you to compete with their goldmine!

I’ve only just shared with you a glimpse of what Anna is about to reveal to you.

If you want to learn more on how to boost your profits by 50% to 400% by tapping into hidden profitable regions around the world, then you can download Anna’s free video by clicking here!

In this free video, Anna will tell you exactly how to tap into hidden profitable regions around the world to help you boost your profits EASILY by 50% to 400%.

Click here to watch her free video to learn how you can tap into profitable Asian and European regions!

Just 8 hours from now I have to get up to catch a plane with my wife & son to Singapore. We will only stay one day thereto relax, then continue the flight to Frankfurt, Germany and from there to Hamburg, Germany. From there it’s just a hour with the rental BMW on the Autobahn until we reach the house of my brother. We will stay with my family 3 weeks and then drive to Berlin, fly from there to Munich and from there to northern France where we stay for 5 days before we drive back to Frankfurt.

My wife and son will then return to Sydney, Australia (vs Singapore where they stay another day) and I will fly to Monaco where I will meet for a week with one of my business partner Colin Klinkert until middle of August.

Why am I telling you all this? Not to impress you, but to impress upon you what is possible thanks to having a system in place that allows me to continue to earn and support my customers while I am traveling.

About 16 month ago the world looked differently… I earned already then good thanks to ViralURL, but I was about to go insane with the amount of helpdesk tickets and emails I got bombarded with on a daily base. I noticed that instead of moving my business ahead, I more and more just tried to stay afloat doing support work.

Don’t get me wrong… support is majorly important in your business. Without it you would not be able to build a reputable business where happy customers refer others just because of their level of satisfaction.

But the most important task to move your business ahead is product creation and marketing!

It was then that my good friend and now also business partner, Aurelius Tjin shared with me the secret to his ability to turn out product after product without getting too much into sweat…

Diving with Aurelius in Bali

No, not diving… VA’s & outsourcing!

I have done outtasking before… where I hired somebody to do a task one time for me, but I never had a full-time VA (Virtual Assistant) before early 2008. I always told myself that nobody can do it better then me and that’s why I had to do it all.

Now, what I found out once I finally hired my first VA in April 2008 was that after just a week of training her on those company specific tasks I wanted her to do for me was that my work load dropped dramatically. I was able to concentrate more on improving my existing products and that way was able to generate a lot more profits because our site became more viral and our customer base grew faster.

Three month ago I hired my second VA and both are working in shifts now to cover more of the 24 hours a day.

My only regret is that I waited so long until I hired my first VA. I should have hired her years ago… as soon as my monthly profits exceeded her monthly cost I should have hired her and by now my business would have been light years ahead. Oh, well… afterward we are always smarter.

I would love to hear your feedback & questions in the comments below.

A good friend of mine, Alan Cheng – a professional writer, has just launched a PLR membership.

I know it’s crazy, but you only have to pay $1 and get access to it for 7 days before being billed monthly at Niche-Empire.com.

I’ve met Alan twice so far. Once in Bali last year, and once in Hong Kong last January…

He’s a very good ghostwriter, so I took notice when he told me that he’s just launched a PLR membership.

He has partnered with Dee Ferdinand, another friend I met in Singapore as well as in Bali…

Dee is a whizz-kid with graphics.

Together, they can’t fail to produce quality work.

With this membership site, you get to download 2 full PLR information products to sell as your own.

Each information product includes:

– a 20 page ebook
– a professionally designed mini-site
– a high conversion sales letter
– a video squeeze page
– a set of autoresponders
– keyword research
– and training within the members area.

You can get access to the membership now for $1 and see the quality of the PLR products which you can sell.

But you need to take action now as the membership is limited to only 300 people. After that, the doors are closed at Niche-Empire.com.

Alan has also interviewed internet marketing experts such as Doug Champigny, Bev Clement, Willie Crawford and James Brown on PLR products.

You can listen to the interviews at Niche-Empire.com and learn how the experts make money with PLR products.

And another month went by since the last post… and it’s time to catch up with an unreleased video that I have for you below.

Aurelius Tjin & I recorded it in the hotel while attending the World Internet Summit Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

In this 14:40 min. video Aurelius & I give several tips on how to generate traffic. And generating traffic is on of the cornerstones to making money online.

The cornerstones are:

– Provide a product or service or find somebody elses to provide that is in demand and solves a problem or fulfills a need or want

– Generate traffic to it

– If it’s your own page you send traffic to, improve results over time by doing split tests

But back to traffic generation, that’s what Aurelius & I cover in this video. BTW… it’s the first of a short series of videos we did.

Here it is… enjoy!

Please let me know your thoughts on what Aurelius & I share in this video by leaving your comment below. Also, what kind of videos would you like to see from me in the future? Are there any specific questions you like to see me answer here? Please leave your comment below.

Speaking of getting your questions answered, I would like to invite you to another awesome video of Tahir Shah. It’s 30 minutes long, but well worth every minute watching… keep an eye open for what he shares at the very end as well. A little hint… whenever I am not able to get your question answered, this is the place I recommend, to get them Easily Answered!

A quick final note… I will be flying to Surfers Paradise at the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia next Wednesday, it would be awesome to meet you there in person at the World Internet Summit seminar that will be held there March 12th to 15th.