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OK so here’s the scoop on weeks of intensive testing using a PHENOMINAL Article marketing system…

What’s that I hear you say.. “Article marketing doesn’t work that well any more!”

How does 18,247 views to 3 articles in 26 days sound?

Thought you might say that…. The promotion was simply a couple of Toys off Amazon for Christmas and with 3 articles I got over 18,000 views and a bunch of sales.. No Adwords, No Bookmarking until your fingers bleed!

Easiest way is just WATCH THE VIDEO!

Here’s where you can get UAW for a test drive => Unique Article Wizard

I’ll also be showing you how to combine it with another tool to produce mind numbing results…I’m talking hundreds of unique killer content for all your Blogs, Web2.0 sites etc…..STAY TUNED!

How do You really make a successful transition form Day Job or the typical 9-5 job to working from home and making a REAL living?

There is probably more junk written about this topic than any other, besides maybe weight loss and those related topics. But that certainly doesn’t mean there isn’t better ways to make the transition from working a 9-5 day job to building a successful and real business from home.

What Do You Do First?

Great question! and many people will be at various stages of trying to break free from the rat race and I’m sure the majority who have tried to give up their day job are more than likely struggling to make any sort of decent income online.

Here’s where I believe my approach is a little different than many people who try to teach others to make money online and finally get that lifestyle most of us want.

It’s NOT the tactics and sneaky marketing tricks that will really create success for you, no matter how many e-books, home study courses and webinars you buy, attend or subscribe to, if you don’t get some basic fundamentals right from the ouset, you will struggle for a long time….period!

"The one thing that virtually all Internet marketing teachers leave out or just plain don’t know about is how your personality type affects how you work, what will work for you and what type of online business model has the highest chance of success!"

One of the best pre-headlines I’ve seen is "People Don’t Work, Systems Work"!

That is so true and that brings me to the reason I have written this; over the last 6 weeks I’ve been conducting a number of marketing tests from scratch to see if I can create a simple system that anyone can learn to use quickly to start building some online sales and traffic.

Stick with me here, this is not something I’m selling or any course that is being launched or anything like that.

The reason I have gone back to basics to build some online sales (notice I’m not saying online business- a business is much more than making a few internet sales), is to really explore the challenges of getting online TODAY and creating a Long-Term Successful Business, with 90%+ of people who try to make money online fail and the fact that there are so many ways to make a profit, I am determined to find some of the key fundamentals that stop people from being profitable online.

Part of The Answer Lies in The Enshin Martial Arts Methodology

Having trained in the style of Enshin Karate and being a professional musician; there are some very common traits between the two. For example in Enshin Karate the whole first half of the class is all ways spent on perfecting the basics and fundamentals, even when the top Masters visited from Japan they too spent the majority of practice time on the basics and fundamentals.

This is exactly the same when studying music to a high level, every single day when I was preparing for music exams or major performances a good majority of the practice time was spent on scales and fundamentals exactly like the karate class.

This is one of the major reasons that I see so many people struggling to make any money online, and to build any sort of reasonable business that has the potential to sustain you and the family into the future. The fact that the marketplace is flooded with how-to guides on every conceivable way to make a profit on the Internet, there is no wonder that people are so confused about which way to go and what to do and how to do it, that it is completely polarising.

I’m certainly not saying that I have any type of magic bullet or that you’re going to make some ridiculous amount of money that I know so many people love to hear, like making $2 million in 8.6 seconds(insert cynical snicker) in my opinion does much more harm than good. If you have experience online then you know that making that sort of money takes a lot of time and energy and in reality is most likely the result of years of work, no different to recording a song that only takes a day to record and makes a fortune, but of course the ability to play like that took years of practice, not a day!

Understanding the importance of Personality Types and Marketing Online

If you’ve ever gone through one of the personality type identifiers then you’ll know that there are four main dominant personality types, such as Director, Socializer,  Analyzer and Compliant. This is a pretty basic overview of course but I cannot stress just how important it is for you to understand your personality type and how that applies to the many different methods and strategies of marketing online.

For example;

If you are a director type personality, which means Direct. Decisive. High Ego Strength. Problem Solver. Risk Taker. Self Starter, I can tell you for a fact that you will have a real struggle trying to sit down day in day out and market products and services using the typical Web 2.0 strategies of relentless bookmarking, social commenting and many other tedious time-consuming tasks.

This doesn’t mean that you don’t do it in your business, but what it does mean is that you must outsource this and get someone else to do these tasks or you will not stick at it long enough and solid enough to make it work. What happens in this case( and I can vouch for this from experience), is you go hard at it for a day or two, get sick of it, then jump back to Google Adwords or some other traffic method and so the bouncing around from one strategy to another begins.

I’m going to wrap it up here, but I will put together a video today and go over some of these basics to get the momentum going and show you exactly what I’ve been doing and how I’ve been doing it. Now it’s certainly not for everybody and neither is any other single online marketing method. But without the basics well and truly in place I can guarantee you’ll be building a house on sand.

To your Systematic Online Business Success!

-Andrew

I thought I would come straight out and ask you!

What do you really want to learn about internet marketing?

Let’s face it, many blogs and marketing pieces are good but they are far too often stand alone with one bit size concept all by itself, there is very little flow and momentum created since you don’t get enough information to whatever the tips or strategy is about!

I realize so many of you want different tools and tips for Adwords to Twitter and everything in between…

Problem is if I simply carve out the latest and greatest tips and strategies on every subject I can then some people will get confused and do the classic “Internet Marketing Dance” i.e. hop from one idea to another before the first one has had a chance to work! ….. sound familiar?

Here’s my idea..

I’ll set up a questionnaire or poll and you can tell me what you want to know… simple!

Of course I can’t answer everything individually, but I will focus on the most popular topics, for example if you want lots on How to Sell with Video Marketing then I’ll do a big step-by-step guide that gives a flow and logical progression to follow.

Stay tuned I’ll have more very soon…

-Andrew

So what’s a real internet business?

Well I guess it’s like any business, the definition of which is “A profitable enterprise that works without me”!

real internet business

How many of you really have profitable enterprise that works without you?

I would venture to say not many! Let’s face it… the internet is one place you can start a blog, throw up some Adsense and declare “I have an online business”

What a load of crap that is, that’s like my kids saying they have a real business because they have a paper round!

Sorry for the harsh reality check but let’s face it, a real business is what many people are after but are not willing to set up their internet venture with proper planning.

Imagine walking into the bank and handing them the current details of your internet business as a plan that you wish to loan against for growing the business etc…. huh … they’d laugh.

Now of course this is not everyone at all, but most so called internet business I see are like this.

There is hope and you can apply proper business practice and planning to create a real enterprise, and that doesn’t mean with a real enterprise you have to start hiring real people etc… not at all, all I mean is you conduct your business like a real enterprise.

It all starts with the PLAN… without it you may as well be in a dark room with a blindfold on, stumbling around from one task to the next…. hey I know it sounds familiar and that was me for 2 years online so I know what it’s all about, and how to go about changing it.

First step in any change is awareness, and then we can begin to form new habits… sound good?

Next installment we will begin the turn around process, it works very very well and it’s the exact method I used to transform a opportunity hopper like me into a focused productive business owner and the same things I used to help property investors turn around their investing results.

Bottom line is … this works for anything you will ever do!

Talk soon

Andrew

I hate using the title “work from home business opportunities” because that’s the typical make money online scams that are littered everywhere, but it is the best description and phrase that fits.

Have you noticed how many businesses are laying off workers now?

Just this week there has been several companies announcing 15, 20% reduction in staff and workers.

No doubt it’s scary if you rely on your job to be around for the future because there are no guarantees now days, and if you’re not making yourself more valuable by increasing your skills then you are crazy!

Having run internet businesses now for the last few years I can tell you that it is going to save a lot of peoples bacon! Instead of stressing out trying to find a new job and being at the mercy of the job market, you can create a full time income and lifestyle that so many people dream about.

Many of my friends would say “isn’t that risky starting your own business online”? and it was a few years ago because the education and quality information on how to start a successful internet business just wasn’t there, you literally had to work it out for yourself.

Now the challenge is what to do?

There are literally dozens of ways to make great money online IF you have the right plan along with the right system, AND you follow it working on your plan every day and remove the distractions, (I’ve got some great tips for you on this).

I see so many internet marketers start with total enthusiasm then lose focus, jump around from one internet marketing system to another.

What I will endeavor to do is address the underlying fundamentals that cause people to not achieve the success they wish to. Unfortunately the numbers don’t lie and no matter what life enhancing program people do, 90% will not take any action, 5% will make a start, 3% will give it a good go and only 2% will rip it for all it’s worth.

The question is which one will you be?

Ah Habits! they can be a wonderful thing and at the same time, the biggest destroyer of success! We are all creatures of habit and if those habits are NOT Internet Marketing friendly then you will struggle big time.

The distractions online are unbelievable, trying to focus and get things done takes real discipline and that is what i am going to focus on and help you do.

The great thing is there are ABSOLUTE fundamentals that always remain the same, and if you follow and stick to those every day then you will enjoy amazing success and an incredible lifestyle.

Just think, all you will need is a laptop and you can run your business anywhere in the world!

Make sure you start learning the critical fundamentals NOW and PLAN your online business before jumping in with any old make money online opportunity.

Next time i will go over the critical fundamentals that you must have no matter what internet marketing strategy you choose.

No Matter How Many Keyword Tools you use, the only keywords that matter are the ones that put money in the bank!

If you focus on one thing with your marketing online, then make it your objective to find the absolute converting keywords or money keywords.

One of the biggest reasons people struggle online is throwing good money after bad keywords or discovery keywords I call them, in other words search terms people enter to begin their search for the answer to a problem.

Forget all the BS that is discussed about which keyword tool to use, once you have a decent list of general keywords, you can now start testing them which we will look at how to track each and every keyword to the exact term entered.

Let’s face it, if you have a bunch of keywords that convert, how confident would you be in buying Adwords, getting articles written or spending time creating social media content etc.

So the bottom line is YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE TIME to set this up or risk losing lots of money and wasting time!

First step is always GOOD MARKET RESEARCH, not a quick look at a few keywords and then spend lots of time making your webpages….. Let’s find the likely suspects first, then set up a campaign to test each keyword properly and easily.

I’ll show you the exact steps I use in a video series very soon.

In the mean time choose a couple of markets to test ready for the first video.

-Andrew

Over the next few weeks I am going to expose the seven critical factors you must have in your articles to be effective in 2008 and beyond

For many of us Internet marketers getting traffic from article marketing has been a constant reliable source for years, the article directories are always hungry for good unique content.

This is still the case to some extent but there is no doubt the effectiveness has deceased if you use the same old methods that worked in 2005-6.

With the massive amounts of plain crap content that has been produced with all the junkie article spinners it’s no wonder you have to produce high quality articles in a certain way to get the traffic now!

So how do we attract the attention of Google etc to rank our articles and get traffic like we used to?

1. Keywords

Yes I know there is a huge amount of info about keywords and long tails, but the fact remains that this is the most crucial factor that will determine the success of your article.

I have been extremely fortunate to be part of the most phenomenal keyword and market intelligence tool available to the public anywhere in the world (Themezoom) this tool makes all the others, (and yes I have all of them) look like $5 shareware!

This is not a plug for Themezoom as I am pretty sure the place is closed to new members now, it is giving a basis for the understanding of how to construct an article and website for that matter, that gets eaten up by Google and the others big time, and is considered authority content.

Step 1- Selecting your theme keyword

Selecting your keyword theme is the most critical aspect for your article. Much has been written about keyword density and placement, but if you want your article to rank well you must select the right keyword theme and supporting keywords.

Two factors dictate how we will choose our keyword theme.

They are:

1. Search numbers

2. Competing pages numbers

The trick here is to find the real numbers and not go by the unreliable numbers that most keyword tools return. There are a couple of ways to find a much more accurate measure of the traffic and competing pages which will make a massive difference to the success of your article.

In the next instalment of article marketing in 2008, we will discuss exactly how to find the right numbers and the secret to choosing the numbers that will work.

DON’T take this lightly and don’t skip over any of it, if you follow my seven steps you will be amazed at how quickly and how highly you can rank with your articles.

STOP PRESS:

I am making a series of videos on exactly how to create these types of articles.

It will cover all the critical factors to get massive success with your articles, (works just as well on PLR content too)!

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