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By now, you've figured out that when it comes to Internet marketing, we believe in FREE.
When we were getting started online, we really had our backs to the wall, so we know how it feels.
Like you, we had to figure out how to do a lot with a little.
We'd hear about an online marketing product that sounded right up our alley. But then, we'd
look at the price. And move on.
But as we were clicking around, we began noticing a couple of things. We were picking up a lot of good information just be reading over the text on the sites. Better yet,
most of these sites offered us
free e-courses and
newsletters.
Okay. It's a strategy to get you to sign up so they can build their mailing lists.
BUT SO WHAT?
You're still getting all that
invaluable information, all that marketing education, for
FREE, NOTHING, NADA!
So why not take advantage of it? Here's the strategy:
we've assembled a cornucopia of
online business building and marketing materials on this page. Get comfortable.
Make yourself a cup of coffee. Or a Jack Daniels on the rocks. Leave your plastic in the other room so you won't be tempted: this is the time for research and learning, not buying. Then start clicking on the links
to the various products and resources.
We've got
some top Internet gurus here, and since most of their websites are really just long sales letters, you'll be getting free samples of some of the best.
Also, you'll be able to familiarize yourself with what's available. Do some comparison shopping, as it were.
And when, on most of these sites, that little sign-up screen pops
up and offers you a FREE
e-course or
other FREE site building and marketing information, SIGN UP! When
the courses start appearing in
your e-mail box, READ THEM.
Before long, you'll have gotten an online marketing education worth
a fortune without your having spent a dime.
And here's another good thing: as you click around, you'll get familiar with the style of a
variety of Internet marketing experts. We each learn differently, and you'll be able to see who
speaks to
you in the voice you can best understand before you hand over your hard-earned money to someone
who just doesn't speak your language.
Okay. You get the idea. And you can get started by signing in right here. Yes, it's our
strategy to get you on our mailing list. But that's a good thing. And the good will start right
away when you download that FREE online business manual we've been telling you about. It's
really superb.
So this, dear friends, is where you start. Where you go from here is pretty much up to you.
Go ahead. Sign in.
Okay, then. Here's your very own FREE Internet Business Building Seminar. What are you waiting for?
Start clicking!
| FEATURED TOOLS FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEGINNER |
In a hurry to start making money? No website? No HTML? With a computer, Internet access, and a credit card, you can be in business in a few hours. Probably the quickest quick start on the Internet.
Chris Carpenter's Google Cash. |
In a hurry, no HTML, still want a website? This easy-to-follow CD actually makes it fun to learn how to build your own website and start marketing it even if your computer skills are limited to Microsoft Word.
Jim Daniels'
ezWeb Business Builder. |
Want to make money, but still do what you love? Find your own special niche, then build your online business around it with simple-to-follow, brick-by-brick instructions from concept through marketing. A really solid program that stays with you for the long haul.
Ken Evoy's Site Build It! |
| THE RIGHT STUFF:
ALL YOU NEED TO GET GOING AND GROWING! |
GETTING STARTED |
HOSTING DOMAINS |
MARKETING |
AFFILIATES |
Starting to feel like you need a degree in Advanced Rocket Science to understand all this stuff? Jim Daniels calls his Make a Living Online a "step-by-step process that anyone can take to generate income from the Internet." Unlike many online "gurus" who make you feel dumber by the minute, Jim makes you feel smarter and smarter.
Click on Make a Living Online. |
ThirdSphere Hosting. Our personal host of choice. Site building tools, easy-to-use control panel, 24/7 support, a one-time ten-bucks-apiece fee for unlimited additional domains, and the only host we could find who gives you a FREE autoresponder. Also, rather than start you off with a cheapie package that, as your business grows, you'll probably need to upgrade to a not-so-cheapie package, this host has only one price (24.95/mo) for a really great and all-inclusive deal that you'll be able to live with for the life of your business.
Click on ThirdSphere Hosting. |
Marlon Sanders' The Amazing Formula is a comprehensive guide to making money on the Internet. In fact, Marlon has such confidence in his system, he says he can tell you what to do "tomorrow morning to begin selling your products like crazy." And if that isn't confident enough, he offers you triple-your-money-back if it doesn't work!
Click on The Amazing Formula! |
Rosalind Gardner's The Super Affiliate Handbook.The lady who made over 400K in one year as a Super Affiliate brings you a detailed blueprint for becoming (you guessed it!) a Super Affiliate. The nitty-gritty about getting started, choosing the best programs, and making some money. Hey, Roz should know.
Click on The Super Affiliate Handbook |
33 Days to Online Profits.Jim Edwards and Yanik Silver provide day-by-day instructions that lead you from concept through creation and marketing. Each of your "days" may actually take two or three, depending on your skill level and available time. But this eBook gives you a clear path that you can be confident is taking you in the right direction, plus plenty of resources to make the trip a whole lot easier.
BUT - be forewarned. Jim and Yanik expect you to come to class prepared. This is not a course for the absolute beginner. However, if you're familiar with HTML and FTP, know you're way around the Internet, and are looking to move up to the next level, this
could be for you.
Click on 33 Days to Online Profits
There is also a video version, available as a CD rom. Depends on what learning mode you find most comfortable. If you're more the visual type, this version might be for you.
Click on 33 Days to Online Profits video |
Dotster does have robust hosting starting at 5.25/month. But we really love them for the kick we get from their truly cool search feature, a fabulous FREE tool that can make your quest for that just-right domain name infinitely easier. It lets you simultaneously check the availability of 50 domain names with all 15 possible extensions. You do the math. We ran out of fingers.
Click on Dotster |
Perry Marshall's Definitive Guide to Google AdWords. Adwords is the Gold Standard of online advertising for one reason: it works. And Perry Marshall is the man who, as the saying goes, wrote the book. If you want to know all about AdWords, read it.
Click on The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords. |
Rosalind Gardner and Jim Edwards team up to give us their Affiliate Business BluePrint. According to these two online marketing superstars, "virtually anyone really can succeed selling online as an affiliate - and do it massively . . . It all comes down to a formula." Like to know what it is?
Click on Affiliate Business BluePrint. |
Most of our own domain names are registered with Go Daddy. They're economical and reliable. Their .coms are only 8.95, with various 'deals' that can make the price even cheaper. Hosting plans start at 3.99 a month. Plus they have cute tee shirts.
Click on GoDaddy  |
John Reese's Traffic Secrets. Believe us, "Build it and they will come" works only in the movies. Online, getting traffic to your site is another screenplay entirely. Enter John Reese, the "Mad Scientist of Marketing," who has spent over a decade "in the lab" researching traffic-generating strategies that have yielded him several million dollars in online sales. Now, he shares those strategies with you.
Click on Traffic Secrets |
James Martell's Affiliate Marketers Handbook offers a slightly different slant on affiliate marketing. He offers you "every piece to the puzzle" in his 8-step training course, which, unlike the others, deals more extensively with one of the free methods of traffic generation, i.e., search engine optimization (SEO).
Click on Affiliate Marketers Handbook |
Michel Fortin's Website Wizard. Gives you simple tools to create your Internet business from building the site through hosting, marketing, and even accepting online payments. Turns that dreaded getting-started learning curve into a manageable little straight line.
Click on Website Wizard |
An economical (but powerful) option is ix Web Hosting. They offer a 4.95/month starter package with 3,000 GB of web space, with a rather nifty 12.95/month for unlimited web space. They offer 24/7 support,and were rated #1 Web Host of 2003 & 2004 by the Webmasters of The Hosting Chart.
Click on ix Web Hosting |
And speaking of getting them there, how about Marlon Sanders' How I Got 1 Out of Every 102 English Speaking Internet Users In the World to Visit My Web Sites! And if Marlon says he did, you can take it to the bank. In fact, you can probably take a lot more than that to the bank if you check out what this marketing legend has to say.
Click on How I Got 1 Out of 102 . . .
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They don't call Paul Colligan "The Affiliate Guy" for nothing. Visit Paul's site and see why he's earned his title. Don't forget to sign up for his newsletter so you can keep on getting all those great free tips. Then click on his "products" link, and you'll find yourself in a virtual affiliate-mentoring candystore.
Click on The Affiliate Guy |
The Rich Jerk. Hey, you gotta have some fun with this stuff, right? Especially for the rebels among you -- and, at heart, aren't all Internet marketers rebels? -- the Rich Jerk is worth a look at least for a laugh . . . and maybe a lot more than that . . .
Click on The Rich Jerk |
We're going to end this list right where we started. With ThirdSphere Hosting. Frankly, the many kindnesses and extreme patience of the owner, Miguel Alvarez, who actually took the time to create and e-mail us some tutorials when we were feeling totally lost and just about ready to give up, has made us fans. Big time. Thanks again, Miguel. Click on ThirdSphere Hosting. |
Make Your Words Sell is a Dr. Ken Evoy/Joe Robson collaboration. We don't mean to discourage you, but - getting them to come is not enough. You also have to get them to buy something. Master Marketer Ken Evoy and Master CopywriterJoe Robson tell you how to get it done. By the way, we happen to think that these two guys are especially gifted at making this stuff understandable to those of us who are maybe just a little less gifted and/or new to online business.
Click on MYWS! |
Chris Carpenter's Google Cash, which we already mentioned in the Absolute Beginner's section, is the Granddaddy of Affiliate Marketing, and no list of affiliate marketing resources would be complete without it. Faster than a speeding bullet (well, almost) and requiring neither knowledge of HTML nor a website,this may be the simplest way to get your feet wet in the online business world.
Chris supplies you with an almost paint-by-the-numbers set of instructions that may not make you rich overnight, but that well may cover your next car payment.
Click on Google Cash |
| Marketing is such a big topic, we added this extra mini-section on ezines to accommodate what can be an especially cheap and easy option. |
Turn Words Into Traffic, the creation of the father-and-son team of Dallas and Jim Edwards, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about ezine articles: what to write about, how to write it (content and format), where and how to get it published. Get targeted traffic as good or better than anything you could pay for . . . except you don't have to pay for it!
Click on Turn Words Into Traffic |
Or get really wild and crazy and create your own ezine!! Hey,why not? That's free, targeted traffic with you in the driver's seat. So, with Alexandria K. Brown, The E-Zine Queen to show you exactly how it's done, why not give it a shot?
Click on The E-Zine Queen |
No section about ezines could be complete without Charlie Page's Directory of Ezines , affectionately dubbed "the D.O.E." And there's plenty of reason for the affection. The D.O.E. is a lot more than just a list of places to submit your ezine articles (although it is, of course, that, too). But we strongly suggest, if you're serious about ezine marketing, that you click on over and look at all the goodies Charlie has to offer.
Click on The Directory of Ezines |
| OR . . . HOW ABOUT SOME ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS . . . |
Why not try eBay? A lot of people are making a lot of money. Why not you? Registration is FREE, so go ahead: sign up and take a look around. Don't worry if you're clueless. eBay has plenty of tours and tutorials to get you up to speed. There's even an eBay University!
Click on www.eBay.com |
Like to sell your own products but . . . uh, you don't have any products to sell? Let Marlon Sanders show you how to roll out digital products (no inventory, no shipping) that people really want,and that are YOURS, ALL YOURS (as in YOU get to keep 100% of the profit)!
Click on Create Your Own Products in a Flash! |
How about writing your own eBook? No Ernest Hemingway? Not to worry. One of our favorite gurus, Ken Evoy, has that ever-supportive and gently mentoring approach that will give you the confidence you need to get those creative juices flowing. Find out more by clicking on Make Your Knowledge Sell, written with Monique Harris, who has been there and done that. |
Want to do a little exploring on your own? Check out this Virtual Mall of eBooks. There's info about online advertising, traffic generation, and, well, all kinds of business stuff. Or, hey, take a break and pick up a little light reading. Who knows? It might give you some ideas for your own eBook.
Click on CBMall |
How about selling one of your real-world skills online? Copywriting? Design? Whatever. Take a look at the freelancers' website.
Click on Elance |
| Now. Unless You've Decided To Go with Google Cash &/or ThirdShpere Hosting, You Really Will Need An Autoresponder. Here Are Three of the Top-Rated Choices. |
AWeber. Personalized email, attachments, click thru tracker, split testing, and a 30 day, no-questions-asked money back guarantee. Reliable, versatile -- about all you could ask for in a truly premium autoresponder. Click on over to their site for a free test drive.
Click on AWeber |
GetResponse. Although they stress their high deliverability rate, these guys are willing to throw in a few bribes ($250.00 worth) to get you to sign on. There's a free DVD video on e-mail marketing strategies, plus an "ironclad" 30-day money-back guarantee - and you get to keep the bribes.
Click on Get Response |
MyAutoResponderPro. If you have any techie blood in you at all, you can save yourself a bundle by skipping those monthly autoresponder subscription fees and buying your very own. If you're in the market, this one's both reliable and reasonably priced.
Click on MyAutoResponderPro |
| Accepting Payments Online: for you brave souls who have decided to push out beyond affiliate marketing, here are some quick and easy options to get you started. |
PayPal. Start accepting credit card payments right away. With PayPal, the world's number one online payment service, you'll be opening your cyber-doors to over 40 million member accounts worldwide. Plus - sign up is FREE!
Click on PayPal
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2CheckOut. Another super-quick option that can give you the capability of accepting credit card payments within minutes. There's a one-time fee to get started, but set-up is just about instant.
Click on 2CheckOut
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1 Shopping Cart. Actually, this one does a lot more than just give you the ability to process online credit card payments. You get a complete shopping cart, plus a variety of packages offering a robust and amazingly complete suite of marketing tools, including stats, autoresponders, and ad tracking. You can kick the tires and take it for a test drive with their 30-day trial for only $3.95.
Click on 1 Shopping Cart |
| NEED A LITTLE MORE HELP? CONSIDER MENTORING. |
Yanik Silver's Instant Internet Profits. Another of the handful of Internet mega-successes, Yanik Silver will show you how it's done in his six-week Advanced Instant Internet Profits home study course.
Click on Instant Internet Profits |
Ken Evoy's Site Build It! , featured above, is worth repeating. Actually, the program itself serves as a mentor. If we had, let's say, a young neice nuts about horses, or an elderly aunt who loved to knit, and they wanted to try starting an online business, we'd get them Site Build It! - the kinder, gentler, a-lot-more-fun way to make money on the Web.
Click on Site Build It! |
Anik Singal's The Affiliate Classroom. Their slogan is "Teaching Affiliates How To Build A Business, Not Just Small Checks." And the good news - especially if you're financially challenged at the moment - is that you can get started with this one for only a buck. No kidding.
Click on The Affiliate Classroom. |
| . . . AND SOME FREE STUFF TO MAKE YOUR LIFE A LITTLE EASIER. |
HTML Challenged? This create-a-web-page HTML tutorial was created for kids, but we're not kids, and it sure worked for us!
WebMonkey for Kids |
Web Jargon Making You Crazy? Get yourself a free translator with this nifty web-words (and web letter combos and web phrases!) dictionary.
Webopedia |
Submit your ezine articles. The ultimate Free Advertising! Go ahead. Try writing and submitting some ezine articles all by yourself.
EzineArticles |
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