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Informative Articles Click Here To View Full Title Page     Article Navigation Back To Main Page   Click Here for more articles How To Actually "Make Money" In Internet Marketing by: Willie Crawford I did a survey this week while applying to a program sponsored by Jay Abraham. The very detailed survey/questionnaire got me to thinking more about my business model. It's changed over the years as on-line and email marketing have changed. Since I test constantly, and adjust to my test results, I thought I'd share parts of my business model... but not my numbers... with you ;-) Maybe it will give you some ideas you can use. Like many "Internet marketers" I believe that the money is in the list. The only problem is that it's getting harder and harder to maintain contact with that list. Still, I publish a number of ezines and courses as a way of building relationships with my lists. When I first started publishing in 1997, it was fairly easy to get new subscribers just by asking them to join your list. There are so many lists today... many of them nothing more than advertising... that you have to really sell people on the "value" of your list. That's the biggest change I've noticed for people just starting to build a list. Over the years, I went from leading with my free ezine, to leading with my free Internet marketing course. This is a 20-lesson course, offered via email from my homepage at http://williecrawford.com/ I lead with the course because it has a higher perceived value and actually sells many people on joining my ezine list later. They're prompted in the lessons to sign up for the ezine :-) I'll let you in on a secret here. About 2 years ago, one of my mentors suggested that not everyone wanted to wait 10 weeks to get all of the lessons in my course. He suggested also offering the course in ebook format, and charging a nominal fee. I implement that... and went one better, offering the deluxe and super-deluxe versions of the course (on CD and in print format). Naturally, I piled on a few bonuses with the upgrades. That worked great creating a revenue stream from something I had previously been GIVING away. I still offer the free, email version of the course, but a major percentage go for the upgrade. That has a secondary benefit of not only providing name and email address but full contact information on those clients since that's required to verify the credit card purchase. You can study how I implemented using a course as a list-building tool, and lead generator, at http://williecrawford.com/ If you're familiar with the funnel system of marketing, you understand that you use lots of different tools to attract new prospects. Then over time, you develop a relationship with them. They gradually go from prospects, to subscribers, to customers/clients. Then, theoretically you just offer your clients the products and services they want and they'll buy from you forever. It's a little more complicated than that but not too much more. Let me share with you several more pieces of my funnel system: Given the challenges of getting email through, I've now gone to offering podcasts. With podcasts, your clients subscribe to an RSS feed, and software such as iPodder downloads your audio message to their computer or listening device. Tools such as iPodder check for updates at a specified interval, download the updates, and your subscribers listen to the recorded broadcasts at their convenience. I started out offering "Premium Podcasts." These are podcasts that contain such useful information that subscribers will actually pay you to listen to them. This takes more work that just putting out a regular podcast since you really do have to work at providing tremendous value, or you lose your subscribers very quickly. I use an old marketing tool (the free sample) to get new subscribers to my paid podcasts. They get the first 2 weeks free. In that time I need to deliver enough value that they'll want to stay subscribed. After the two week period, I charge only $10 per month for the subscription. The price is low enough that I should have a very high retention rate. I've not been doing this long enough to know what that rate will be long-term. If you'd like to check out how I've implemented my premium podcasting model, you can check it out at: http://williecrawford.com/premium-podcast.html This very simple webpage shows you how I've set it up. If you'd like to know more about the premium podcasting service I use to run the whole thing, check out: http://williecrawford.com/profitable-podcasting.html If you aren't listening to podcasts yet, you're missing a lot of good stuff. You can download tons of recorded broadcasts and then listen to the MP3 at your convenience. I mentioned iPodder earlier because it's the free software that I downloaded and installed on my laptop. It works beautifully. You can grab it at: http://ipodder.sourceforge.net A big part of my business model is setting up things that offer recurring income. That way, you do the work once and get paid for a long time. That's the idea behind the premium podcasting service... although I do have to continuously create new recordings. However, I don't need to constantly chase after new customers. The service that I use will actually drive customers to me. Word of mouth also generates a lot of new customers. Other low-cost tools I use to build relationships with my customers include my discussion board, and my blogs. The blogs are an excellent way to get information out without having to contend with email. The blog posts are syndicated as RSS feeds. Lots of visitors have subscribed to my RSS feed. Just as important, lots of websites have subscribed to my RSS feeds and integrated my content right into their websites. This is a great way of getting new customers by having other webmasters indirectly endorse you. If you'd like to see how I've implemented my blogs, you can check out the "Internet marketing" one at http://williecrawford.com/blog/ While we're on getting endorsements from others, writing articles and allowing them to be published on others websites, in their ezines, and in their ebooks works great at attracting customers. Getting your articles on others websites is also a GREAT way to get one-way links pointing to your website. That's why I've written over 350 articles over the years. They can be as simple as this one, which will undoubtedly appear on hundreds of websites eventually. Back to the recurring income... another proven part of my model is a membership site. Membership sites can be low maintenance, and produce tremendous customer loyalty. Mine is fairly simple. It's a collection of software, ebooks, and MP3 recordings relevant to internet marketing. Many of the recordings and ebooks are one of a kind, and that's my edge over other membership sites. That's the secret... the easiest way to distinguish your membership site is to make it unique. The easiest way to do that is to produce, or have produced, your own unique content. So there's a quick "down and dirty" on the revenue model that has proven to work for me. On the backend I do upsell from inexpensive ebooks, to course, to video products, to live seminars, to personal coaching and consulting. It's really fairly simple. I'll end by pointing out that one success factor most struggling Internet marketers seem to miss is that exclusivity or uniqueness is often what makes an item sell. Even if you're marketing something sold by tens of thousands of others, find a way to make it unique and you'll do well. About the author: Willie Crawford is a veteran Internet marketer who's been running successful online businesses since 1996. You can learn from Willie in-person at numerous upcoming seminars in London, New York, Miami, Denver, Orlando, Atlanta, and Phoenix. Much of Willie's schedule is posted at: http://internetmarketingseminarschedule.com/ Circulated by Article Emporium   ©2005 - All Rights Reserved This Static Spot is open for sponsor Read Articles:  How to Use Your Google API Key as Your Secret W...  Make Money Blogging  Tools for Online Tracking  Do Marketers Really Need RSS?  15 Tips to Bring More Traffic to Your Blog  New Google Blog Search is Great Marketing News ...  Blog and Boost Your Search Engine and RSS Traffic  Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search...  RSS Ego Searches  Submit Your Articles: Guidelines for getting t...  Analyzing the New Yahoo! 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Housley Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple concept, is really anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the added caveat of potential syndication, making accurate tracking a challenge to anyone but the extremely tech savvy. It is not unrealistic for marketers to want to know how many subscribers they have, which items in their feeds attract the most interest, or how many click-throughs are generated as a result of an RSS feed. There are a number of 3rd party providers who focus on tracking the consumption of RSS feeds. Some solutions are rudimentary but likely sufficient for a small business testing the waters with RSS. Other RSS tracking solutions are more complex and while they can come close to being accurate, with syndication there is no solution that tracks with 100% accuracy. Techniques Used to track RSS Consumption Small businesses can view web logs to provide information on how many times a specific file (RSS feed) is requested. The logs and information is rudimentary but will give a basic sense of a feeds success. Many 3rd party tracking options have additional tracking information available. Hosting The most common method to track the number of feed accesses or individuals accessing a feed is to use a 3rd party feed host. Companies like FeedBurner essentially track feeds based on accesses. The downside to using a 3rd party like Feedburner, is that the url is a FeedBurner url and any PageRank or popularity associated with the url will benefit the feed host rather than the feed creator. Additionally, no distinction is made between unique views or syndicate feeds. FeedBurner provides a free no frills service to host RSS feeds and they have been proactive in circumventing user concerns. Recently implementing a service that eases users concerns about migrating from FeedBurner. There is a 3 step process for users interested in migrating from FeedBurner's free service, implementing a permanent redirect, and url forwarding. Details can be found at: http://www.burningdoorc.om/feedburner/archives/001251.html Some publishers, who were concerned about lock-in or wanted to retain control of the domain and feed urls often resist a hosting service. The new program FeedBurner Partner Pro is not free, but allows for users to point to their own domain, retaining complete control of their feeds without sacrificing statistical tracking. The downside to using a service like FeedBurner is that some filtering applications used on corporate proxy servers block feeds residing on FeedBurner or other free hosts. Redirects Companies like SyndicateIQ have more complex tracking solutions that generate unique urls for each subscriber. The tracking benefits to such a customized solution is obvious. Individual user habits can be monitored and any users abusing their access and inappropriately syndicating a feeds content can have their feed turned off. The downside of course is that the success of RSS is in a large part due to the anonymity. Users don't want their personal habits tracked. Considering the venture capital interest in these 3rd party hosting services. It is important to note that their value is in the data that they collect. As with any 3rd party service, it goes without saying that publishers should read the privacy policy carefully, be aware of who owns the rights to the collected information, and how that information might be used. It goes without saying that the value in many of the free services currently available lies in their aggregate data. Uniquely Named Transparent Images Uniquely named transparent 1x1 graphics can be added to the description field of an RSS feed. Users can use standard web logs to see the number of times the image is viewed and determine the number of times the feed was accessed. Companies Specializing in Tracking and RSS Metrics Pheedo - Pheedo creates tools that enable individuals, organizations and corporations to promote, analyze, and optimize their weblogs and content. http://www.pheedo.com SyndicateIQ - SyndicateIQ's position in the content distribution chain provides clients a set of analytics. http://www.syndicateiq.com/ FeedBurner - FeedBurner offers a full range of services to help you build awareness, track circulation, and implement revenue-generating programs in your feed(s). http://www.feedburner.com Each individual using RSS needs to make a decision of the extent and importance of the analytics they require. Realizing that any system they employ is not going to be perfect. ©2005 - All Rights Reserved