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Did you know that… there are 3 essential components you need to begin using right away to become “super” successful online?

The problem I see every day is how people go online, set up a website then fail to earn a dime.

And most of the time it’s because they’re not using these 3 essential components within their online business.

If you’ve read this far after reading the title of this post you’ve probably already guessed what those 3 things are.

But do you know what they mean? or even how to apply them to your online business?

Let me explain in 3 easy steps…

Step 1: Centralize

Here’s where so many people go wrong!

They use the scatter gun approach to running their online business. So usually they’ll have one resource here, another over there, then one more around the back. Each one needs a username and password to access.

Can you see the problem with this approach? Look at how much time is wasted jumping from one website to another just to be able to run your online business.

Centralization of your resources is the solution. There are many ways of doing this. The most obvious is to use an online ecommerce solution which has many of the tools you use already built into one place.

For example with a centralized ecommerce solution your autoresponders, your affiliate programme and your customer management systems are all in one place. There’s just 1 login to access all your “mission critical” data.

Step 2: Systemetize

When you systemetize the way you work online everything gets done quicker and more efficiently. Another way to look at systemetization is by creating set procedures for the tasks you do on a regular basis.

To find out exactly what you need to systemetize just write down everything you do online for at least 3 days.

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If you’ve been marketing anything online for even the shortest period of time I’m sure you’ve heard about the importance of listbuilding.

Listbuilding has been going on for as long as emails could be entered into a website web form, yet so many people just don’t fully appreciate the value of doing this one simple thing.

You see whilst you could spend countless hours and untold dollars generating traffic for your website it’s always going to be a “one hit” affair (or maybe 2 or 3 if some of your visitors come back to your site again).

Now the thing about listbuilding is when someone visits your website for the first time you offer them something of value in exchange for their email address. That’s literally all your website does…

Take a look at these examples of how I build my own lists of subscribers…

www.BigSellingNiches.com
www.BigSellingConversions.com

When you visit those pages above you’ll see that the main focus of the page is to get your name and email address in exchange for something of value.

Now, just in case you’re wondering how well those pages convert visitors into subscribers here are those stats…

www.BigSellingNiches.com
= 47.3% of visitors become subscribers.

www.BigSellingConversions.com
= 58.8% of visitors become subcribers.

Those figures are reached whenever I send targeted joint venture traffic to those pages. They will vary all the time depending on the quality of the traffic they get. But nevertheless they convert traffic into subscribers extremely well.

Here’s where the power of listbuilding comes into it’s own because now you have that persons email (and permission to email them) you can send them to any website you choose.

It can be sending your subscribers to your own website again, it could be your blog or it could even be another website you’re recommending. Of course you still have to use the power of persuasion to get them to those website, that’s a whole different conversation.

But nevertheless once you start listbuilding you can really start to see a difference to your bottom line (whatever that might be for you).

Just recently listbuilding has become a huge phenomenon online with Tellman Knudson and Shawn Casey’s recent launch of their List Pros intensive listbuilding training course.

What’s different about their course is it costs nearly $2,000 to attend and lasts only 6 weeks, it takes your listbuilding skills to a whole new level (as you can imagine for that kind of cost!).

You can see how they’re building their list here.

Anyway… that’s not really the point of what I’m about to share with you, I just wanted to illustrate how important listbuilding is and that people will pay vast sums of cash to learn how to do it properly.

I personally know Tellman having stayed at his “Tellmansion” in Brattleboro last March when both myself and his team worked on developing ListHero.com.

ListHero is something Tellman and I had been working on and developing in the background for several years before this, so it was great to crank things up a notch or 2.

Just recently I created a few more PDF mind maps that I’m going to be offering from the new ListHero blog in a week’s time.

I wanted to let you have first crack at them because of how they explain how listbuilding works and I know this is something that should be close to your heart if you have a website.

So with that said here are the download links…

23 Ways To Build Your List
All it takes is one way but I’ve given you 23, so make sure you take full advantage!

7 Ways To Monetize Your List
Once you’ve started to build your list of subscribers how do you profit from it? This mind map gives you 7 easy ways.

Squeeze Page Profit Secrets
This mind map lays out a simple and proven formula to profiting in the biggest way possible from simple squeeze page websites.

7 Reasons Why You Need A Professional Autoresponder
Only those people smart enough to use a professional autoresponder system to help them manage and build their subscriber list will succeed at this.

ListHero Exposed
Just in case you’re wondering what ListHero is all about and how it can help you build your list of subscribers this mind map explains how everything works.

I hope this helps… if you have any questions about listbuilding just let me know.

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A short time ago word started spreading about a brand new site called Squidoo, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.

It sounded like an interesting concept, a little like a blog and a little like an “About Me” page, they asked you to sign up and create something called a “lens”.

It was certainly a unique idea, and everyone wondered if it would catch on.

Now more than 2 years later the true benefits of building a lens at Squidoo are clear. It is a great place to create a new site about your hobby, passion or business, but even more it is a great place to promote any existing web site you may have.

Not only can you tell Squidoo visitors about your site, but a lens gives the search engines another reason to place your site higher on the results pages. In fact creating and running a Squidoo lens is an excellent way to build “backlinks” to your blog or web site.

That’s just what the search engine spiders love to see.

Here are the 7 crucial reasons why you should be squidooing:

1. You can use a Squidoo lense to help you build your subscriber list by sending people to your squeeze pages
2. Build an authoratitive resource of links to useful websites which makes your lense a resource people want to use and tell others about
   
3. Create lots of deep links to the pages of your other websites (search engines love this)
4. Dominate long tail keyword phrases in the major search engines
5. Build traffic to your other websites blog and online auctions with your external linking
6. Brand you and your websites as an authority figure within your chosen niche market
   
7. Sell more of your products and build multiple streams of internet income

As unusual as “Squidooing” might sound you had better be sure to take a closer look at this incredible way of generating highly targeted, high quality traffic.

Click here to download your “Squidoo Lense Mastery” PDF mind map.
(I’ve never given away so much in a single mind map before so be sure to take a close look if you’re serious about leveraging traffic from Squidoo)

How did I discover the secrets to Squidoo?

I joined this free apprentice program called Squidoo Secrets.

Lastly…

In case you didn’t know this already Squidoo was created by Seth Godin one of the worlds greatest marketing minds.

Before you downlod this next PDF I must warn you that Seth’s ideas can profoundly change the way you look at what you’re doing online, so pay close attention to everything he says…

Click here if you want more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence.

Other useful links to help you create better Squidoo Lenses…

Create a Squidoo Lense
Squidoo Cool
Have a Squidoo lense built for you
Make Your Own TV Channel
Squid Blog

Here are a few of my own Squidoo Lenses…

You want copywriting that sells!
There’s An Idea!

Stay tuned because I’ll be back in a few days time with a special offer on a way for you to flood your website with traffic.

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