Sunday, March 30, 2008

Passport to Wealth--An Objective Review

Summary: After getting burned with Herbalife to the tune of around $5000, I set out to research and investigate the Top-Tier Internet Businesses. Here is my independent review of Passport to Wealth , founded by Darren Gaudry.



Background

Have you ever 'failed' at Network Marketing, or any kind of home business? I admit that I have. I ended up sinking close to $10,000 into Herbalife…about half of that was getting started and buying $4000 worth of products for a 'Supervisor' order…and the rest, my coaches/upline dragooned me into buying into their ridiculously-overpriced advertising coop ($500 buy-in gets you 5 leads, and you were supposed to buy 3 or more of these 'wheel slots'!).

I might have had about $5000 in income come in…but I spent countless hours calling my overpriced leads, calling my downline's overpriced leads, and training my downline, most of whom disappeared because they weren't making any money.

So you need not feel embarrassed in my company, if you have ever been unsuccessful in network marketing.

What Does it Take to Achieve Success With My Internet Business?

The financial fiasco with Herbalife taught me that although there IS a ton of money to be made with internet business, I needed to find the RIGHT business opportunity, and more importantly, the right Mentoring Group within that business to join.

A preliminary Google search revealed the Top-Tier Internet Businesses. Darren Gaudry's Passport to Wealth caught my attention immediately because of the products, which included a comprehensive suite of internet marketing software and resources, and the compensation plan: it is an Australian '2-up' plan, which means each new member you sign up will 'pass up' their first two sales to you, their sponsor. Their third sale, they keep 100% of the $997 profit.

Meanwhile, the two sales they passed up to you? Guess what...they both will pass up their first two sales to you too!! Do you see what I mean, about how you could just make a few sales yourself and still have lots of money flooding in?

Thus I began to do some serious research into Passport to Wealth...I was NOT about to get scammed again. Well, technically I didn't get scammed by Herbalife...it IS an amazing product, but I did feel that my mentors ripped me off by selling me $4500 in 'wheel slots' that cost $500 a piece for a lousy 5 leads, who were little better than flipping through the phone book. Seriously, I had leads who thought they were applying for a job at a doctor's office...

So I searched every work-at-home forum and ranking site that I could find for details about Passport to Wealth . I was looking with a critical eye, for some little piece of negativity that would dissuade me from spending $997 to join.

I didn't find it. Instead, I found some incredible testimonials from real people who had been taught how to Earn Money Online by the Passport Mentors4U team.

I will now share with you the pros and cons of the Passport to Wealth business opportunity. Let's start with the cons.

Passport to Wealth Cons

a) $997 to invest --Although this isn't so much of a barrier now, with the $600-$1200 tax rebates on the way as a result of the Economic Stimulus Plan, in the past this investment requirement could make it difficult for many aspiring entrepreneurs.

b) 2 Sales to Qualify --With Passport to Wealth, you pass-up your first two sales to your sponsor. Although this isn't actually a 'cash' expense, that is still $2000 that you are passing up to get qualified. Of course, if you can get two sales, you can get more…it's not the money itself that has the value, but the skills that you gained in the PROCESS of getting those first two sales.

Passport to Wealth Pros

a) No Phone Calling Required Coming from Herbalife, where the modus operandi is to 'Call your leads 3-4 times per day', it is SUCH a relief that I don't have to talk to people on the phone anymore. You can either have Professional Sales Associates (PSAs) call your prospects for you (for a commission on the sale), or if you join the Passport Mentors4U Team, the leaders call your prospects for you for FREE, as a service to members.

b) You have an automated system which will sort, educate and close your prospects WITHOUT you...you just have to fill your marketing 'funnel' by driving traffic to your website, and the system will have sales dropping out the other end. This works through a Lead Capture page, where prospects leave their details and go on to view the 14-minute Passport to Wealth video presentation , and then receive a series of educational autoresponder emails that also include free gifts and digital products to help your prospect make the decision to start the business.

c) The compensation plan is structured such that once you are qualified, each sale puts $997 in your pocket right away . If your downline is serious and motivated to Earn Money Online, they will succeed and pass up their first two sales to you, for another $2000 of pure profit for you. If your downline are bums and don't do anything or follow the instructions, then you still made $997! This solves the problem of spending countless hours trying to train your downline in the hopes that someday they will make sales and recover your advertising costs that you spent to recruit them!

d) Free Trial You can actually sign up for a free trial with Passport to Wealth and see the back office, access some of the products and software, and kick the tires so you really *know* what you are getting yourself into! Most of the other top-tier Internet Businesses wouldn't even TELL you about the details or the products unless you first paid an application fee!

So, there are the pros and cons of the Passport to Wealth business opportunity itself…and although that might SOUND excellent, I tell you that it is still not enough. I had learned the hard way from Herbalife that even more important than WHAT business opportunity you join is WHO you join with!

It doesn't do you any good to have a powerful automated marketing system that can make sales while you sleep...if you don't know how to get interested prospects to your website!

So after diligently researching the business, I began researching the Passport to Wealth mentoring teams with equal diligence. I continued to dig, Google Search, and investigate. I felt that I had learned very little in terms of network marketing from Herbalife, so this time I was going to choose which team I joined. I interviewed three potential sponsors, from the Passport Mentors4U Team and the Passport Gold Team.

The Passport Gold Team seemed to have LOTS of help for new people...but only until they made their first two sales. After that, you were removed from the rotator and on your own for marketing. This sounded like the exact OPPOSITE of what I wanted…I didn't want anyone making my first two sales for me and then leaving me, because it was the SKILLS to create the first two sales that I needed, not the sales themselves!

The Mentors4U team, lead by Megan Vaillancourt and Stephanie Sammour, built their business around that exact principle. These two stay-at-home moms make incomes that make my own executive salary from my day job seem like chump-change.

The Passport Mentors4U build you a lead capture page free of charge, complete with killer ad copy and integration into an autoresponder that sends out a series of educational emails complete with the occasional free gift to your prospects.

These sales letters do the sorting and educating for you, and when the prospect is ready to hear more, the Mentors call them FOR you and close the sale!

Since I joined Passport to Wealth 2 weeks ago, under the Mentors4U team, I have learned the fine internet marketing arts of Blogging, Article Marketing, Press Releases, Squidoo, Ezines, Craigslist, and more. I don't want to brag or make silly claims of my income, but to give you an idea, go to Google and type in 'MyInternetBusiness', and click on the 'Groundbreaking News…' ad (right now it is number three on page 1). Imagine…two weeks into this business and my site is already on the FIRST PAGE of Google!

I'll leave it to the reader to determine the kind of business that is generating for me now…and the kind of business that could generate for you, too, but only if you join with the RIGHT MENTORING TEAM.

So, in summary, Passport to Wealth , and the Mentors4U Team in particular, is definitely NOT a scam, and is in fact an incredible internet business opportunity where you can make $997 per month, or per week, or even per DAY once you get your search engine rankings high enough! To learn more, you may visit the link in the resource box below.

I hope this review has been helpful and informative, and like yourself I am looking forward to a bright future with My Internet Business!

Cheers,

Rob Hunter

Passport to Wealth Mentors4U Team

Resources for the Savvy Entrepreneur

1) FREE Report Teaches How to Raise the Money to Start My Internet Business!
2) Learn more about My Internet Business on Squidoo!

Friday, March 28, 2008

What is Known About MyInternetBusiness.Com?

The short answer: not very much! Passport to Wealth founder and creator of MyInternetBusiness Darren Gaudry has been playing his cards close to his vest about this long-awaited new internet business...but what IS known, I have gathered and compiled here.

The Passport Mentors Team is leading the way with My Internet Business, just like we have been with its predecessor, Passport to Wealth (which will become even MORE lucrative than ever with the new tools available to us from MyInternetBusiness.com!)

  • We don’t know the investment yet for this revolutionary new business opportunity, but have been instructed by Darren Gaudry that it will be substantial. Still, the cost to Start My Internet Business is predicted to pale compared to the profits!
  • No Qualification Period - You will get paid from your very FIRST sale.
  • Residual Income - Getting continually paid on the efforts of your downline.
  • Exclusive products - We’re not sure exactly what they will be but, having some exclusive products is definitely unique to these businesses.
  • “Name Branding” Ability - We have been told that you will be able to customize a portion of your websites to brand yourself. This is a very powerful feature.
  • Additional Marketing availability - You will be able to market other programs or businesses you may be involved with.
  • Professional Call Center - Your prospects will be able to get questions answered from PBA’s, or Professional Business Associates. This provides a more Hands off approach and saves the MyInternetBusiness.Com owner time! It’s great to make money and have free time.
  • Launch Date: April 1st, 2008.

Like Darren Gaudry says, 'My Internet Business is YOUR Internet Business'. This is an incredible ground-floor opportunity the like of which has not been seen since the launches of Google and Microsoft! Imagine how wealthy you would be if you had bought in to those companies at the ground floor...

...THIS TIME you don't have to miss out...Secure your position with MyInternetBusiness TODAY by joining the Passport to Wealth Mentors Team!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Article Marketing: The Game is Afoot!

If you've watched the Passport to Wealth video, than you probably know that the business comes with about $75,000 worth of software and tutorials. I stumbled upon an EXCELLENT software product called 'Article Submitter' (you can actually get this one if you sign up for a free trial membership at the Passport to Wealth main page .)

Using Article Submitter, it automates the process of submitting your articles to the dozens of directories and Ezines out there. Basically, it is a software that memorizes your login info for each of these article directory sites, as well as your title, summary, about the author, and the article itself, and inputs it automatically as you go down the list of sites.

It's NOT like you just push a button and your article is submitted to hundreds of sites...that's not how it works, and your article would just be rejected anyway. It's more of an assistant who does all the typing for you. So far I have managed to publish several of my articles including my guide to Home-based Business Success , and a detailed financial management article about how anyone can 'Lower my Bills' by $700/month or more!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Jim Rohn's 'Magic of Part Time'

For anyone who has ever listened to one of Jim Rohn's presentations, you have probably heard his story about the 'Magic of Part Time'. Basically, by working part-time on a home business you can make as much money as you do on your full-time job fairly quickly.

I have been thinking about this a lot recently. Mr. Rohn uses the saying, "I'm working full-time on my job to make a living, and part-time on my business to make a fortune." That's basically where I am now. The day-job pays the bills and lets me keep the doors open, and is fun in its own right. But when I get home from working on my living I go to work on my fortune.

It is difficult to go to work right after coming home from work, but you have to look at it in the long term. If I work hard now, and spend my evenings on wealth-building activities, I will be able to retire at an incredibly-accelerated pace...decades before those who probably work just as many hours on their living as I work on my living and my fortune combined.

The difference is that the time I spend working on my fortune will have exponential benefits compared to the time people spend working on their day-jobs...which pays a salary or wage, and no more.

So, I am looking forward to soon being able to say, 'I make as much part-time from my business as I make full-time on my job. Would you like to hear my story?'

I am anticipating the answer to be a generally-positive one :-)

Rob
Passport to Wealth Mentors Team

My Stumble Upon Site
My Wordpress Blog
My Squidoo Passport Lens
My Squidoo Article Lens

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

First Ezine Completed!

Hazzah! I have figured out how to submit my articles to get published in an ezine.
Ezine Articles picked up my report on 'How to Raise the Money to Start Your Internet Business in 5 Easy Steps' and published it at the link below!

Click here to read!

I'm psyched, I am totally starting to get the internet marketing and search engine optimization. My site shows up on google now with lots of links, and once I get my press release out its ranking will just soar!



Thanks for reading,


Rob

Passport Mentors4u Team

Monday, March 24, 2008

Completed my demand generating website with autoresponders, free report and all!

Following Henry Baker's teachings, I created a special website that is educational in nature, and designed to teach people how to manage their finances in such a way that they are able to come up with the $1000 it takes to start their Passport to Wealth business, as well as a respectable marketing budget. Here it is!


Financial Plan to Wealth


Here is how this website works:
  1. Prospect sees the link and ad on Craigslist or PPC
  2. Prospect visits the landing page and reads some simple, compelling copy that motivates them to go on to page 2
  3. Prospect sees testimonials to build credibility, and a time limit to gain some urgency, and leaves their details so that they can have the promised free report.
  4. Prospect's details are loaded into Aweber, which automatically sends them the free report, as well as additional educational sales letters at set intervals thereafter.

It really is a cool automated process. Click the link and try it for yourself!

Rob
Passport Mentors4U Team

Thursday, March 20, 2008

The Birth of the DEMAND GENERATING Website

I have been studying Henry Baker's workbook and video tutorials on 'How to Generate OBSCENE Amounts of Demand'. I am astonished at how simple it really is! The video tutorial showed me click-by-click exactly how you do it...not just what the key elements to include are, but HOW to include them, and the words that you need to include!

The way the marketing system works is this:
  • Prospects find your site on Google Adwords
  • Prospects click on your site and are directed to your 'Landing Page'
  • Landing page has an attention-grabbing title, then shows the direct benefits of your product or opportunity
  • Landing page offers a free gift, and creates Urgency to click to the second page to claim the gift
  • Prospect clicks on the second page, which starts off with testimonials to build credibility
  • Second page creates more demand and urgency, and prospect leaves their details in the capture form
  • Prospects details appear in the autoresponder, which automatically emails them their free gift and begins sending them educational emails that will help them sign up!

So there you have it...simple yet *incredibly* powerful! Take a look at my first demand-generating page for the keyword, 'Home-based business'

Rob's First Demand-Generating Site


Rob Hunter

Passport to Wealth Mentors Team

My Passport to Wealth

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

How to Avoid Getting Your Ads Deleted on Craigslist

How to Avoid Getting Your Ads Deleted on Craigslist



The Immense traffic and loyal following of Craigslist makes it an ideal place to put advertisements for your products or business opportunity. Yet anyone who has ever tried Craigslist has no doubt experienced the dismay of the following situation:

After typing out your carefully-worded ad, you insert your product picture, preview it, hit Submit, and sit back. You wait on the edge of your seat for the confirmation, and five minutes later there rolls in an email saying, 'YOUR POST HAS BEEN FLAGGED AND DELETED.’

GAH!

How and why does this happen?

In this article I am going to teach you two important tips for how to avoid this. To begin with, let's look at the two questions we asked above:

Why does this happen? In the words of the great Jim Rohn, "I wouldn't register for that class." Don't spend your time pondering WHY Craigslist operates this way, "It's just the way it is." Instead, consider,

HOW does this happen? In order to serve its readers Craigslist strives to offer as much content that is
a) UNIQUE, and
b) RELEVANT to its readers' interests.
c) NOT SATURATING the same market

If you can submit your ads in a fashion that fulfills these three criteria, you will be able to successfully post Craigslist ads every day. Let's go through each of the three so that you can learn how.

I. UNIQUE CONTENT
Submitting the exact same ad will get your pitch tossed out faster than a strip-club advertisement on an elementary school bulletin board. In fact, it may be bounced as soon as you hit Submit, if the Craigslist database can match it to an existing ad you already have out there. How to Generate ‘Unique’ Content for Craigslist Purposes Without Having to Write Lots of Ads
1) Start a Word Document
2) Copy and paste in any ads that you already have
3) Go to your back office and copy any and all sample classified ads, AND sales letters, and paste these into the document
4) Have your sponsor email you all of his/her classified ads and sales letters, and paste these into the document too.
5) If anyone else’s names or contact info is on any of these ads, Hit CTRL-H to Find and Replace. Type in their info in Find, and Your Info in Replace. This will automatically take out the other person’s info and populate the document with yours instead. Example: If my website is http://yourwealthbeginshere.com/ and the ad shows http://passportmentors.com/, I would fill in the Passport Mentors site in Find and fill in my Wealth Begins Here site in Replace.
6) Go over all the ads in your document and double-check that each has your name, phone number, website, email, or whatever business contact information you want to provide.
7) Add to this list whenever you feel inspiration to write an ad, or when you see one you like and want to copy!

You now have a veritable DATABASE of ‘Unique’ (and by Unique, I mean
Different) advertisements that you can post to Craigslist! You will want to build up a list of at least 30, all with different catchy titles.

Now you will want to start posting ONE per day. Start at the top, and do a different ad each day. That should take you through the month, and at the end, you can just start over at the top!

That’s right. It varies, but generally 30 days is a safe enough period of time for Craigslist to have ‘forgotten’ your ad. If you want to be extra cautious, you can also make a few minor changes, like adding an extra link, putting in a different picture, etc.

VOILA! You now have a source of endless daily Craigslist ads that you can use over and over again instead of having to sit and wrack your brain for a new ad every time you want to post one!

Question?

BUT BUT ROB…I did what you said, I compiled a whole mess of ads, but Craigslist is still deleting them!!

That’s because you just went and started posting instead of reading about the other reasons that Craigslist deletes your posts! Congratulations for those of you who exerted the patience to keep learning instead of running off like that trigger-happy marketer.


II. Content RELEVANT to Channel Posted

Craigslist has many different channels in which to post your advertisements. If you are posting ads for your business opportunity in Beauty Services or Clothing, then Craigslist will deem them irrelevant to the reader and delete them. So not only must you be posting different advertisements, but you must be posting them in the proper channel.
How do I know what the proper channel is?
Let your common sense guide you. If you are trying to sell a sofa, then post your ad in the furniture channel. If you are trying to sell a business opportunity, then post it in the For Sale: Business of Services: Small Biz Ads channels. I alter back and forth between the two and get good results from both.
If it isn’t clear-cut where your ad should go (and it usually IS), just give it your best estimate of what channel interested readers would most likely be found.

OK, I DID THAT, I’M POSTING IN THE RIGHT CHANNELS, I’M DOING EVERYTHING YOU SAID, BUT CRAIGSLIST IS STILL DELETING MY POSTS, ROB YOU @%@!

Calm down, Beavis. Read on for the final secret to finding love on Craigslist (and by love, I mean tons of sales).

III. Content that is Not Saturating the SAME MARKET
Craigslist gives us the option of posting our ads in every major US city and several other countries as well. But, if you keep posting your advertisements in the same city, they will be deleted. Craigslist does not want their readers to have to see the ‘same thing’, even if it is a different ad. So if posting day after day in the same city is out, how do you decide where to post?
Do a little demographic research. A quick Google search should help you. For example, if you are selling weight-loss products, then Google “America’s Most Obese Cities”. If you are selling a business opportunity, then Google “Top US Cities for Entrepeneurs”, or something similar.
Write yourself a list with the top ten or fifteen cities. This will accomplish two things:
a) You will be getting your advertisement in front of a targeted audience
b) Craigslist won’t be deleting your ads!
Post a different ad in a different city every day. When you reach the end of your targeted cities, restart at the top, rinse and repeat!

So, to recap: the secret to success with Craigslist is as follows:

Post UNIQUE content in the APPROPRIATE CHANNELS and don’t saturate the SAME city.

I wish you much success with the incredible marketing tool that is Craigslist. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and I will do my best to reply.

Kind Regards,


Rob Hunter

Passport to Wealth Director

My Internet Business

Monday, March 17, 2008

My plans for the ULTIMATE Passport to Wealth video


I probably shouldn't blab about this in advance, but this is just too cool to keep quiet about. So, you've seen all the videos for internet home-based businesses? Well how many of them start off with a furious swordfight between knights, where the victor stoops down and retrieves his paycheck from the loser's body?? The victor then goes on to talk to the audience about just how similar it is holding a J.O.B. where you work so hard for so little?


This is where I weave in one of my hobbies with my Passport to Wealth business. I'm going to have a video made of me fighting in full armor, like in the picture above, and after I finally defeat my foe after a grueling battle, I talk about how it is just not worth it to risk so much and work so hard for a meager paycheck that barely pays the bills. I'll have some good lines like,
"Does it feel like a battle just going into work?" or "Are you tired of having to duel your boss to the death just to get your paycheck?"
The idea being that people will be fascinated and interested right away in the violence part of the video, which then leads into the logical sales presentation.
Now THIS is going to be a YouTube video that will catapult my home page up the ranks of the search engines!!
Looking forward to sharing it with you,
Rob

http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Forced to live like the barbarians for 8 hours!

It is amazing how much we rely upon electricity in this day and age. For example, last night the power went out in my entire neighborhood, and much of the city of Savannah, at 10:30 pm.

It didn't come back on until 7 am or so the next morning. So what does one *do* without electricity?

I went outside to see what the devil was going on, and saw then that the lights were out across the entire neighborhood. It wasn't raining, but the winds were gusting fiercely and the sky was alight with pulses of heat-lightning.

It was an eerie tableau to watch; the lightning cast flashes across the night sky, yet there was no thunder to follow. It was like a silent 4th of July fireworks show.

My wife came out and joined me as I stood out on the driveway, and we watched the lightning show for a little while. We assumed that the power would return quickly, but ten minutes turned into twenty, then thirty.

Locking the door behind us, Sarah and I decided to go for a walk around the neighborhood. After all, it was less dark outside with all the lightning then it was inside. So we went for a walk, amusing ourselves by observing how all the neighbors were coping.

Many were sitting in their cars with the lights on, while others had brought out Coleman lanterns. One neighbor even had a fire going in a hastily-erected pit of stones on their driveway!

The winds were beginning to pick up fiercely, and we could see the trees themselves bending. It was becoming harder for Sarah to walk against the wind, since she is so small! So after going around the block one we went back inside.

Sarah decided to take advantage of the fact that our laptop still had some charge left on the battery, so she played some Neverwinter Nights until the battery fizzled out.

Needless to say I did not get any work done yesterday evening on my Passport to Wealth business. I was very glad when the power switched back on this morning.

So, how did people ever get by WITHOUT electricity??


Rob
http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Part III of Top TEN Resources for Home-based Business Success

Ok, thanks for your patience! Here is the next and final installment of the Top Ten Resources that every current or prospective home-based business owner should have.

8) TrafficSwarm!
This is a fascinating FREE system that brings an absurd amount of traffic to your website through 'viral' marketing. In order to have your site marketed you earn credits, which function kind of like 'Jeffrey Bucks' for Trafficswarm. These credits are free, and there are various ways you can earn them, such as setting Trafficswarm as your home page, using it to view other pages, use their search engine, etc.

This is a must-have for any home business owner.

9) Advanced: Pay-per-click Advertising
Search Engine Optimization is the holy grail, but for most new businesses this can take a while. With pay-per-click advertising, you can be on the front page right away. Pay-per-click (PPC) ads are the ones you see on the right of the screen when you do a Google search.

It is easy to drive targeted traffic to your website with PPC. It is even easier to waste a lot of money on it if you don't know exactly what you are doing. Consult your mentor for training on how to effectively do a PPC campaign for your business. I also recommend doing your own research and reading the how-to guides included with most PPC providers. Here are the PPC services that I personally use:
  • Goclick
  • Yahoo Search Marketing
  • Google Adwords

10) Advanced: Veretekk

Veretekk is a powerful lead generation tool. There ares no better prospects than what you get with Veretekk. Inviting these leads to join your business will surely do good things.

Veretekk lets you download free leads, blast your advertisement across multiple search engines, and creates 'Ad Portals', which it would take a looong time for me to explain. You'll have to see it for yourself.

There are educational training classes privileged only to subscribers (by some of the top networkers in this industry). IF your serious about marketing and home business, then this is a tool you should not miss.

And we are done! I hope that this Top Ten listing has been helpful to you. If you have any questions about any of these resources, or home business in general, feel free to shoot me an email. Good luck with your businesses!!

Kind regards,

Rob

Proud Member of The Hottest 2008 Home Business on the Net

Friday, March 14, 2008

The Controversial Tax Rebate

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day...
Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime!



THE BAD NEWS




Let's be honest. You've read about how the government is going to be sending you a tax rebate, somewhere between $300 and $1200. But ask yourself...how much is that going to change your life? Rent for a month, pay down your credit bills, help with groceries?


The government is giving you a fish. It is feeding you for a day, but that won't improve your financial situation for tomorrow.


The reality is, that money will be gone before you know it and you'll be back where you started. What if you put it in the bank? It might earn $10-20 before you have to pull it out again to pay bills? Put the money in the stock market? You might earn or *lose* a few hundred dollars before you have to pull it out again to pay bills.

Maybe with the increase in spending there will be more jobs, and you can get a better-paying one? Maybe the nationwide layoffs in January were just a fluke?

And maybe you'll find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow! It *could* happen, but it probably won't. If you are lucky, your job will not be outsourced or laid-off, and you will be able to keep scraping by.

But is that what you really want? Isn't there more out there? What about those self-made wealthy people you see on the talk shows on TV? At the very least, wouldn't it be nice if you could deal with some of the biggest problems you face as a member of the workforce? Such as...


*Feeling like you're not being paid what you're worth?
*Dreaming of being your own boss?
*Worrying about your family's financial future?
*Needing some extra spending cash?
*Wishing you could get out of debt?

I hate to say it, but it is up to you to change your life for the better. No one will do it for you, definitely not the government.

If you keep doing what you've always done, you keep getting what you've always gotten!

THE GOOD NEWS (finally!)



The goods news is that the government rebate you have coming in CAN change your life.

TEACH YOURSELF TO FISH, AND YOU FEED YOURSELF FOR A LIFETIME!


The way I see it, life is NOT be about living paycheck to paycheck, wondering if you'll ever catch up with your bills. It's NOT about spending most of your days away from your family and children. And it's certainly not about working hard... to make somebody else rich!

INTRODUCING THE FUTURE: The Home-Based Business

Around the world, thousands of people have changed their lives with Home-Based Businesses. From setting our own hours, to achieving financial independence, the lifestyle of our dreams is finally within reach.

There are many companies with home-business micro-franchise opportunities. So how do you tell the good ones from the bad? If you are going to spend 10 hours a week growing your business, how do you choose one that you can be successful with and start making profit from the very beginning?

More to come...




Rob Hunter
My Passport to Wealth Video contains more great info about how to build an entirely automated home business.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Can YOU Attract Serious Prospects...WITHOUT Prospecting?

Can YOU Attract Serious Prospects...WITHOUT Prospecting?:
"I don’t talk to people…I don’t do sales, and I most Definitely don’t try and close people.
If you don’t like selling, but would like Multiple $997 payments coming directly to you on a weekly or even daily basis, you need to check this out now.
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Bob made $4,985 in one day! Gail has earned over $55,700 in first 3 weeks!
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Watch this STUNNING video and start Profiting!



Regards,
Robert
http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com"

Continuation of Top TEN Resources for Home-based Business Success

Ok, now where were we? I think I had just explained #5, how to profit with Craigslist. That brings us to...

6) Lead Capture Page
When prospects visit your website, they generally aren’t going to reach into their back pocket, pull out their credit card and sign up for your products or business.

People need to think things over, and see the offer again several times before they are ready to buy. But if they see your offer, then close their browser and go think things over, you are never going to hear from them again. Your mentor/sponsor should be able to provide you with or at least guide you towards obtaining a lead capture page for your website. Here is what MY lead capture page looks like:

Rob's Lead Capture Page

Having a lead capture page gives the prospect a chance to opt-in to receive more information about the business. They fill out their name, email address, and sometimes telephone number. This way you can follow up with them and teach them more about the business! Or if your system is entirely automated like mine, this entire process will be done for you!

But either way the lead capture page turns a visitor into a long-term prospect. Which leads us to…

7) An Autoresponder!
Prospects generally need to see an offer between 5-7 times before they buy. An autoresponder accomplishes this as well as providing valuable information about the business opportunity through automated emails send on a pre-set schedule.

This is just essential for any business. I personally use Aweber and Constant Contact as my autoresponders, but there are other good ones too. Check with your mentor for his/her recommendation. Your mentor should also set you up with a series of pre-generated emails for your prospects, or at least teach you how to set it up yourself.

Lunch break is over, so stay tuned for Success Tools 8-10 later today!

Rob

Top Five Resources for Home-based Business Success

If you are considering starting a home-based business, or if you already have one and are looking to increase your profits, I would like to share with you what I consider to be the

Top Five Resources for Home-based Business Success.

1) First, having a great home business that is automated, has a spectacular sales presentation, and pays out high commissions. Passport to Wealth is a GREAT example Take a look at their amazing presentation!

2) For any home business you will need leads. At first it is difficult to generate your own, so I recommend partnering with a marketing agency that can get leads FOR you. My personal favorite sources of leads are:

a) MLM Lead Genie High quality leads, best price I've found
b) FIS Marketing They actually run a unique ad campaign tailored for your business, AND teach you how to convert the leads into sales!

3) An upline/mentor team that is going to really teach you how to generate wealth with this business. A good mentor will help you earn massive profits. A bad one will take your money and leave. Make sure you do your research so that you can tell the difference.
I am lucky to be part of the Mentors4u team, under the guidance of Megan Vallaincourt and Stephanie Sammour. These two are great teachers; they are both warm and caring and take the time to walk you through building your business step by step.

4) A Blog! Yes, business-blogging is taking the internet by storm and can get you moved up in the search engine rankings faster than almost any other method. You can get your free blog at http://www.blogger.com/. Your mentor will teach you how to use it to earn money online!

5) Craigslist Craigslist is a great way to get free advertisements out there in every major city. http://www.craigslist.org/ It is free to sign up and you can post many different ads (your mentor will teach you how to do this properly and supply you with some pre-made ads you can use)
Here is an example of a Craigslist ad.

This was going to be a 'Top Ten' List but I ran out of time...I will write later with 5 more resources for the home-based entrepeneur!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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Eureka! I finally found a legitimate home business that actually works for me.

So, I am a busy guy. Probably a lot like you, unless you are female, in which case you are a busy gal. I am working a regular day job right now and don't have time to spend hours and hours calling oversold leads in the hopes that one of them might actually want to buy products or start their own home-based business.

After a few unsuccessful attempts at making money with home-based business, I finally found Passport to Wealth, which is exactly what I am looking for. Take a look at this!
  • I never have to call anyone on the telephone.
  • I don't have to chase friends or family trying to get them to join my business
  • I don't have to spend ridiculous sums of money on 'wheel slots' (with Herbalife it was costing me $500-1500 per month!)
  • I am actually learning real internet marketing techniques instead of just being asked to shell out money and hope that they give me good leads
  • Every time I make a sale, that is a $1000 commission instantly in my pocket!
  • The turnkey system actually does all the sales for me...and best of all, professional marketers contact my prospects to close the deals with them!

That is only the beginning. There is a spectacular 14-minute movie that tells all about the incredible Passport to Wealth automated wealth creation system. http://YourWealthBeginsHere.com

Thanks for reading, and more to come later!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Quest for Health and Wealth: Chapter I, So Many Scams to Choose From...

...And So Few legitimate business opportunities that I think I could actually make money with.

This epic saga that I am now beginning is going to chronicle my foray into the world of network marketing. This is a no-holds-barred narrative of the good, the bad and the ugly of running a home-based business, complete with helpful advice and the occasional freebie.

Network marketing appears to be a truly unique industry. All of my education and experience as an executive in the corporate world gets completely pushed to the side as I explore this daunting, yet exciting, world of ezines, lead generation, webstores, Pay-per-clicks, and yes, blogs.

The business opportunity that I am pursuing is a micro-franchise with Herbalife International, a health and nutrition company that has been around for about twenty-five years. I did a significant amount of research into various home-business, affiliate marketing, MLM, etc. I almost DIDN'T go with Herbalife, mainly because on the recruiting page that I ended up on, it wouldn't even tell me what the business WAS unless I first paid money for some 'information' package.

I soon learned that the online marketing company that recruited me is a separate entity from Herbalife, kind of like a subset. All distributors who were members of this marketing company are with Herbalife, but not all Herbalife distributors are with this online marketing company. Anyway, the information package I bought turned out to be little more than hype and ra-ra, almost entirely testimonials of people making lots of money with the business. It looked suspiciously like a scam.

So why, you might ask, did I go ahead and start the business anyway?

Well, I did a lot of research online, and learned a lot of positive things about Herbalife. For one thing, the products are highly-popular, if a little pricey. I saw this as good in two ways: 1) There would be high demand and 2) The products are priced high enough that the commission on each sale will be substantial.

One great resource that I found was a free ebook by Ann Sieg, which cuts through all the BS of network marketing and gives you a good idea of what to look for. I've included the link here if you want to get a free copy too.



The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing


So, after reading a lot of online reviews and ebooks, I pieced together five KEY success factors for choosing a network marketing business to invest in.

FIVE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
1) A reputable company that has been in business for a long time

2) A great product that will be in high demand despite the recession
3) A high-paying compensation plan with the ability to have a residual income
4) Dedicated support from your sponsor/upline who helped you start the business
5) MOST IMPORTANT, an automated marketing system that will be working for you and bringing interested customers to you, instead of you having to go out and hunt for them

More to come next time…I'll write about why I chose Herbalife based on those factors above. Thanks for reading!

Rob Hunter

http://seekfinancialfreedom.net/ --a unique website that I built myself! I'll tell you all how I did it in a future chapter