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!

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

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

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

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

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

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