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My Blackberry rang, it was Todd, a pretty young guy who recently joined our team he worked as a mortgage broker, he’s a really smart guy who understands leverage but he was totally off base when building his marketing plan.

Todd was planning to make a list of his past clients, co-workers, friends, family, and begin writing out letters and sending out emails, and purchasing traffic from some provider who promised some ridiculous number of views.

He needed to be stopped right away.

His friends and family would surely say he was crazy just like uncle Ron who tried something “just like it” 5 years ago and he never made any money so why would Todd.

And buying leads from random providers can be financial suicide.

Note: If the people you take advice from still punch a clock and are broke, STOP LISTENING TO THEM!

After we set his marketing plan in the right direction he thanked me and said, “wow I almost got charged the stupid tax huh”. All kidding aside nobody likes losing money and if you jump in online marketing with both feet without really knowing what you’re doing, the Internet is going to “tax” your wallet big time.

It’s a frustrating experience, and it can put a well-intentioned, yet uneducated business owner on the sidelines pretty quick.

-Your PPC campaigns will be disabled by Google or Yahoo.
-Your ezine ads will get a whopping “0%” response rate.
-You may never get to page one of Google.
-Your blog will be abandoned.
-Your Craigslist ads will be ghosted.
-And in the end, you’ll end up paying $30-$50 per lead instead of $3 to $5.

But there is a simple solution but you must allow me to be blunt…

Unless you have a MARKETING SYSTEM to plug into, you are dead in the water. Your wallet and free time will be taxed.

Internet marketing changes from day to day so it is extremely important that you are plugged into a team of master marketers with their finger on the pulse.

The key to mastering online advertising is (like all things) a little dose of “inside” knowledge.

Usually that would mean you’d need to read 10 different books and courses about online advertising to get your business started but not here, we’ve put step-by-step very specific training modules together for each and every new marketer.

If you are ready to treat this like a business and not a hobby then have you considered the following?

-How do you generate leads?

-Do you use offline or online advertising?

-How to you “effectively” follow-up with your prospects?

-How do you know if there’s actually a market for your product?

-How large should your marketing budget be if you want to make 50,000 per mo or more?

-How do you make ads FTC compliant so that you stay of out hot water with the Gov?

-How do you leverage your time with a personal assistant? Where do you find one?

-What should you do with the money you make so you don’t blow it all like most people do?

-How do you train your team so that it duplicates your success?

-How do you leverage your time and resources so you’re not working 70 hours a week?

There’s a lot to it, but the good news is that my partners and I can help you, and we’re some of the best of the best in the world when it comes to this type of business.

The reason we have SO MANY consultants achieving the “impossible”; they are able to leverage our HUNDREDS of COLLECTIVE years of experience in marketing.

In order to sustain yourself long-term in this business you will need to develop a skill set, the old school method would heavily rely on your immediate network. Not so anymore. Our system allows us to work in an abundance of leads and let the cream rise to the top.

BEWARE of any marketing plan that requires you to heavily rely on your existing network of friends and family. You will eventually run out and become a member of what we call the “NFL”. No Friends Left.

CarbonCopyPRO training will cover much much more but here’s what I can personally help you with;

I like posting at online classified like craigslist.org. Sounds simple right? Yeah it actually is, I discovered one little secret in my first month in the business and it still produces next day results for my new members. There’s plenty of business on that site when you have the right tips. For most people this is no way to sustain your business but is does work as an effective crutch to help you get off the ground while your marketing plan fills out. However spending $200 on the right software and paying someone to run it 3 hours a day for 400 bucks a month to generate 1000-2000 leads isn’t a bad deal. If you do not have up–to-date insider information you will more than likely fail or suffer an extremely long learning curve.

Forum marketing can be affective but time consuming, if you don’t have an interest in forming relationships you can still utilize the bulletin boards.

Submit to all online directories.

E-mail marketing is often overlooked but still very effective. The hardest part with this is finding a quality provider.

Ezines are fantastic for placing ads low cost ads to a highly targeted list. If you do not know what they are start here http://ezinearticles.com/ or Google “directory of ezines.”

Web 2.0 simply explained is user generated content and it is the newest hottest medium for free online advertising today!

Google purchased YouTube for 1.65B so you can bet it is changing search engine technology, Google sure is. BTW YouTube is now the 3rd most visited site in the world! You don’t have to spend a fortune on a professional video or make a ham out of yourself to get traffic although I can tell you it does work. There are other ways I’ll get to in a minute. Tip: Use http://www.tubemogul.com a free service that will download your videos to all the major video sites and at once and even tracks where you are getting the most views, which will sometimes surprise you. Go one step further and use professional video submission software and submit to 50+ sites with all the traffic bells and whistles and get right to the top of a natural search in less than 24hrs. To be honest I’m not exactly sure what makes this stuff so incredible but this has allowed me to OWN full pages on Google including almost the entire first page for particular keywords.

Blogs are extremely powerful for generating qualified leads relatively quick and once your blog is up it is simple to maintain and can be tied into other various marketing methods. Highest-ranking blog sites are www.wordpress.com, www.blogspot, and www.squidoo.com. I recommend a stand-alone blog platform at www.wordpress.org.

Google Tips:

TIP 1: Did you know you can get you local business listed without a website or SEO experts? Try https://www.google.com/local/add/

TIP 2: You have a website and a product to sell but nobody is buying? Try listing your prices here http://www.base.google.com.

Tip 3: Use Google alerts to see what people are searching for and write about that or use it to keep tabs on how Google responds to your favorite keywords. http://www.google.com/alerts

Help with getting your blog, website, or other 2.0 noticed quick and cheap?
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Articles are another great way of getting placement naturally on search engines, if you cannot write your own use a service to do so, I recommend http://www.elance.com, Don’t have time to bid out the work then go straight to www.thephantomwriters.com. Articles are great because you do it once and it lives online forever. For a list of the top 60 websites to submit your article just email me. If you’ve got the money go right to the pros at www.trafficmagicians.com

Press Releases, are announcements and when submitted also create natural ranking on search engine. You can start your research here http://www.prwebdirect.com. Email me for a list of 20 press release sites.

Here’s a thought; have you ever considered that you could write a blog (opinion) and take that content and rework it into an article (news), then reduce it to a press release (announcement)? How about taking it a step further and using that article and putting a voice over it then creating a PowerPoint presentation and posting it to all the video sites, then strip the sound out and release it as a podcast, whalla gobs of traffic! It’s a method called re-purposing I like to think of it as recycling (:

There also a ton of people making money on Social Networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Tagged with the “My Story Marketing” craze. If you haven’t heard of it go over to my friends Dennis and Jimmy over at http://www.MLMgoldmine.com they are the Gurus behind this madness.

If you are working with a limited budget my number one recommendation is to order a copy of Mike Dillards, Building on a Budget. Check it out here www.freestuff.buildingonabudget.com and get a bonus video series right now!
When marketing you are really only limited by your imagination.