Today's Adventure in the Biz Opp Jungle:
'In which Charlie struggles to explain YOUR existence to his friends... comes up with a terrible lie instead... and reveals the secret of
getting people to your website.'
Hi,
I've got this friend who works in the City.
He's taken some leave recently to reconsider his position, which means he's sitting around the house all day.
He keeps emailing me and phoning me, always beginning the conversation, 'As a fellow unemployed person'...
Or he complains that I don't come and hang out with him, 'As we both don't have jobs'.
He talks as if I spend my days watching telly and talking to Barbara!...
(Barbara, by the way, is my plant. She's the first living thing I've ever managed to look after and keep alive. Unlike some of my ex-girlfriends.)
'Want to come and watch Deal or No Deal?' he said the other day.
'I'm working,' I said.
'Doing WHAT?'
See, despite him knowing me for ten years, he seems to have a blind spot when it comes to what I do. When I try to explain that I write newsletters and biz opp books, it's like I've talked to him in Japanese.
Have you ever tried to explain biz opps to anyone?
If you haven't, don't bother. Keep it under wraps. Unless you're the kind of person who dreams of having a home business, it doesn't make sense.
We're a few of a kind, my friend.
'Nobody reads that nonsense do they?' my friends say. 'And anyway, who would want to read emails from YOU?'
Nice.
When I recently showed someone my book about how to create your own profitable email newsletter, he turned it over in his hands like it was a rotten orange.
'You're just encouraging people to try for the impossible,' he said.
'Of course email newsletters are possible!' I yelled at him. 'What do you think it is I do every week?'
'I don't know,' he shrugged, lighting a cigarette.
'What is it that you do again?'
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH.
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So here's a tip from a man who knows
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It's got to the point where I feel like a lonely madman.
Apart from my girlfriend and a few friends in the Biz Opp Jungle, nobody understands my dreams, appreciates what I do, or believes that the business actually exists.
They don't even believe YOU exist!
'Nobody reads this stuff,' they say, as if I'm making it up. 'Why would anyone want to learn to make money like this?'
I've noticed that it's always the people with LOADS of money, or amazing, highflying careers who talk like this.
They think life is all about working for the man, getting praised by the boss, paying tax, going on holiday once a year, getting a pension. That's how they like it.
They don't believe in the kinds of ideas, hopes and ambitions that you and I have. They are complacent on their high horses.
They can't put themselves in the position of someone who can't bear their job... or who hasn't enough to retire on... or who just wants a better life for their family.
So fair enough.
I've decided that I will no longer explain ebooks, direct mail, newsletters, biz opps or ANYTHING like that to my friends or family.
When people ask how I make money without needing to go to work every day, I'll tell them that I go out onto the streets of East London and STEAL grannies.
Yes, I force these grannies to work in a sweatshop, making weapons of mass destruction. I sell these instruments of death to evil tyrannies throughout the world for hard cash.
'Oh, right,' they'll say, 'Now I get it.'
Idiots.
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Rant over! Now some useful information
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At the beginning of the year I promised that I'd show you how I develop 'Adventures in The Biz Opp Jungle' so you can do the same.
All the techniques Sarah and I use to market my book and my e-letter are available to you. I'll point you in the right direction in a moment.
First, I want to show you this little 'Sign Up Secret'...
If you look on http://www.bizoppjungle.com you'll see some changes. See my sign-up box at the left hand corner?
I've now added a free bonus gift as an incentive to get people to join.
All I did was take some useful information I've given you in the past, repackage it and put in into PDF form so it can be downloaded as an electronic report.
When new readers sign up, they'll get a gift.
This should increase the amount of sign ups from people who visit my site, and make mine a more useful service right form the off.
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A sure-fire way to grow a good business
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I believe that to be successful you always give away MORE than someone expects.
Always deliver what you promise... and then some.
Don't dupe or disappoint people or your home business will fail in the long run
If you have any kind of website - for whatever kind of product or service - include a 'sign-up to free information' option on the site.
This way you can gather email addresses, keep in touch with your customers, send them recommendations, promotions, special offers and updates.
They are more likely to stick with you and buy through you again, whether it's betting tips, vintage records, health supplements or ebooks.
It's even a good way to boost your multi-level marketing strategy and build a big list of people to get onto your down-line.
Because here's another secret...
Multi-level marketing CAN be hugely lucrative if you have a big list of people. But to get a big list of people, you need to get people's email addresses.
So get a 'sign-up' box on your website NOW!
Offer them something free like a report to sweeten the deal.
If you can't write one, get something off an article directory or try an out-of-copyright book from the public domain. (I have used 'Think and Grow Rich' in the past)
When people sign up, send them a free email each week with some useful information. It doesn't have to be long or complicated. Just stay in touch in a friendly way.
For EVERYTHING you could possibly need to know about using free email newsletters to make money, you must read my book 'The Inbox Tycoon'.
Go here now, take it for the trial period, and send it back for a refund if you're not 100% convinced it can make you money:
http://www.bizoppjungle.com/mybook
It really is worth reading WHATEVER biz opp you're into.
Also, try this...
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How spread the word and get traffic
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Inspired by Avril Harper's 'No Website Required', I've gone ahead and submitted some articles to a bunch of article directories.
Check these out:
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=407428
http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=407420
Now whenever people use these articles, they have to include my web address... so they'll give me free advertising and new visitors to the site... most of whom will sign up to be e-letter...
It's not rocket science.
And even if you don't have a website right now, you can make an entire part-time business out of doing
this: Cut 'n' paste.
Simple.
If you're interested, check this out:
http://www.bizoppjungle.com/review/2006065.html
Right. That's it from me.
I'm off to whip my slave-grannies into shape, as I've got a shipment of uranium to get to a 'Mr Blofeld' by Tuesday.
Later alligator,
Charlie Wright
The Biz Opp Jungle.