The Top 3 Money-Making “To Do” Activities
Today’s guest post is by a guy I really respect and admire, Jimmy D. Brown. He has some awesome advice for anyone working at home and I thought it would be neat to feature him today.
By Jimmy D. Brown
http://www.HomepreneurHabits.com
I’ve always been impressed with those who can take overwhelming
things and handle them with ease and poise. It never seemed
to work that way for me, until I discovered the secret for
tackling those daunting tasks.
The secret is simple: make things simple!
With just about every major undertaking, things can be simplified
into a handful of “core” components. That makes them manageable.
Manageable fosters productivity simply because I can work on
something that seems accomplishable. And when productivity goes
up, desired results come.
I received the following question from one of my clients…
“If you have to pick, what would you say are the top 2 or 3
things we should concentrate on? I’ve heard the
domain/site(blog) are the most important, then others say
writing info products, others say lists. For short term and
long term investment, what is the most important things to
be working on?”
This client wants things simplified. And rightly so. He knows
the secret to success is getting things down into manageable
chunks.
So, what are these core practices for building an internet
business? There are three things – and three things only – that
you need to concentrate on with your business…
1. Offer Development.
You cannot make money online unless you have an OFFER. It’s that
simple. Unless there is some way for income to be generated, you
can’t get paid. End of discussion. Every business is founded
upon a revenue-generating offer. Now, this can either be your
own offer (small reports, ebooks, membership sites, coaching/consulting,
advertising, etc.) or something you promote as an affiliate and
earn revenue for referred sales.
2. List Marketing.
The fortune is in the list. You’ve heard it an untold number of
times in the past, right? Building and profiting from opt-in lists
should be a major priority on your schedule. You need to devote
yourself to attracting new subscribers and then getting all of
your subscribers to spend money with you … by purchasing your
OFFERS (see #1 above).
3. Traffic.
The third and final thing you need to concentrate on is “traffic”.
This includes both traffic GENERATION (getting visitors to a site)
and traffic CONVERSION (getting that traffic to buy). This includes
things like: starting an affiliate program, buying PPC ads,
participating in joint ventures, utilizing viral marketing tools,
raising your visitor value, tweaking your sales pages, etc.
With each of these categories, you have a variety of options to choose
from in directing your attention. It would be foolish for me to say
“grow your affiliate program” as your number # traffic activity since
I don’t know if you even have your own product to sell. That’s why I
don’t recommend specific activities, but rather three key categories
of business-building.
With each of these categories, find 2-3 activities to work on each
week and you should see results in a short amount of time.
I recommend you work on offer development every Monday, list marketing
every Tuesday, and traffic generation every Wednesday. If you just
spend a couple hours each of these days working on these core parts
of your business, sales should come.
In a nutshell -
- Find an offer to promote.
- Setup a list to promote the offer.
- Drive traffic to the list opt-in page.
Keep it simple. Keep it successful.
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Believe it or not, there is a tremendous “operations manual” that you can download to help you create a plan that works for YOU. Check out “Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business” by clicking here. You’ll learn all the tools you need, how to setup your work space and how to create a day-by-day schedule of recommended activities to start and grow your business.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of the 65-page “operations
manual”, Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful
Home Business. Learn The Internet Marketer’s Weekly
R.O.U.T.I.N.E.(TM) at http://www.HomepreneurHabits.com
Thank you for cutting thru the c**p, at last marketing begins to make sense.
You nailed it right on the head. These are the 3 most important components to earn money at home, via the Internet.
For most people, it seems that traffic is the most difficult aspect to master. Would love to see some posts related solely to traffic generation.
Three great tips, thanks. I will be back again to see if there is anything else that I need to be doing.
Some people are reluctant to start their online business until they feel everything is perfect, this is a fundemental mistake, just give it your best shot get it online, find out what is working and what isn’t, improve it and move forward. it will never be perfect, it’s a work in progress. The most important thing is to start something, anything,just start and do it now. I also have a lot of respect for Jimmy D Brown, I have read several of his ebooks/pulications and always find a couple of “gold nuggets” in them
I agree with Nathan, you can do all the preparation you like but unless you actually test it online you won’t know whether it works.
You know what the crazy thing is, as simple as it is to follow these three steps, 99% of the people, completely miss 2 out of three of them. Then they wonder why they’re not seeing any success. but besides, tha, this article was a great read, and strait to the point.
I also am an admirer of Jimmy D. Brown and have utilized his free products and his advice is priceless. I am certainly on his list.
You have listed three very importat ” things to do”. It is very simple, but not necessarily easy . I do think it is very useful to keep them in mind and weigh your time wisely between them and not get caught up in one and neglecting the others as Clickbank BONUS says. So easy to make that mistake and if anyone knows about mistakes, I do.
That was insightful. Sometimes i get bugged down with so many tasks that I find it difficult to begin. Now I know better. Thanks a lot
It’s hard sometimes in this business to just keep it simple! Just work at what has worked for others before you-don’t try to re-invent the wheel-cause you more than likely won’t be able to!
I love Jimmy’s work — he writes in such an easy-to-read manner about some things that nobody else in the industry writes about. He’s truly one of a kind!