5 Things Great Entrepreneurs Don't Do

There's a big difference between being a business owner and being a great entrepreneur.

What's a big picture of a yacht have to do with that?  Not much, I just love boats.

Here's 5 things you'll never see a great entrepreneur do. 

You should think about how you can apply these principles to your business, and how if you did it could make you a better business person.

5. Try To Be What They're Not
Everyone gets started somewhere, we all know that.  The old sales saying is 'Fake it Til You Make It', we all know that too, right?  But take a look at great entrepreneurs and you'll notice they don't get started by pretending to be some big mogul.  They almost always get started at a young age with a simple plan to mow lawns, sell fruit or some non-glamorous way of earning money.

Great entrepreneurs don't fool people into thinking they're something they're not.  They just are who they are, because it's what they know.

4. Focus On Making More Money From Each Sale
I see a lot of new people get hung up here, because they're trying to make the most amount of money they can from every single person they see... that's a backwards way of thinking. 

Great entrepreneurs don't focus on sucking the cash from every new buyer.  Instead, they focus on creating happy, loyal customers who will continue to buy from their brands.  They understand the concept that happy, repeat customers are what build a brand.

3. Complain About The Cost of Doing Business
Do you think you'd hear Richard Branson, Lawrence Ellison or Bill Gates complaining about the cost of advertising?  Absolutely not.  They understand that to make money you almost always have to spend money to make it happen. 

2. Do Everything On Their Own
No way in the world could a great entrepreneur run his or her entire operation on their own.  And they know that.  To build a big business or brand, you need to find the right people to make it happen.  Smart entrepreneurs understand this more than average business people and to me it's one of the biggest differences I see.

1. Fail
Not in the sense they don't trip on the floor when no one's around, we know it happens to everyone from time to time.  Carpet monsters we call em at my house.  But you won't see a great entrepreneur start a project and give up because it wasn't working out.  Almost always you'll see them persevere and continue trying different things to make it work.  Why?  Because they can.

I recently read a great line out on the interwebs that goes like this:  You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

I couldn't agree more. 

If you need help getting started being one of the next great entrepreneurs, take a look at my next article: How to Make Money Online with No Money.

Thanks for reading, if you know anyone who'd enjoy this article, feel free to share it.

How to Make Money Online with No Money

Are you looking for an ethical, easy way to make money online with no money upfront?

I'll show you  a really simple method that anyone can do and quickly earning a profit and start seeing how anyone can make money online with no money needed.

Yes, you read that right.

I'll show you how to turn $0 into an extremely profitable online income, right now.

I personally know several different people, from very different walks of life, that used this method and earn thousands of dollars each month from it.  I'll show how you can realistically make money with this method within just a few short days too. 

What I'm about to show you is a very honest way to earn a living.  So let's get started.

Here's the secret; you become a middleman.  You've surely heard of it before?  Our country and economy is based off middlemen who bring buyers and providers together for a profit.  And it's the easiest way to get started online for free and help people at the same time.

With this method, you get to help two people at the same time.

Have you heard about sites like fivver yet?  I'm sure you have, if not it's a site where you can buy marketing services for just $5. (Good deal, huh?)  It has everything from SEO, Video Creation, Logo Design and just about every marketing service available.

Here's another secret:  Not everyone knows about fiverr!  The large majority of business owners have no idea they could get what they need for $5.  And many of those who do know about fiverr, choose not to use it.

So why do business owners who know about sites like fiverr choose to pay higher prices instead?  In two words: Perceived Value.  Business owners want to feel like they're paying a good price for a high quality service.  They don't always buy the most expensive because of budget, but they don't want the cheapest either, a pure gold mine for you.

Let's assume you paid $3,000 for a website and $40 for another website.  Which site do you think would be a better site? 

Most people would say the $3,000 website, wouldn't they?

Our brains are built to perceive more expensive items as higher quality, even though our sensible brains know better.  Most business owners and marketers prefer to work with a middleman at a higher perceived value. 

Again, a it's pure goldmine for you!

Plus it's even easier than it sounds.

Here's A Simple 5 Step Method to Make It Your Reality.


Step 1
Find a fiverr gig that you know you can resell for a profit. If you need help deciding, here's a list of 5 Super Hot Services You can Sell Today that I created, to help you out.  It has five of the best selling services that business owners are buying right now.  You can easily step in and sell any of those services for nice profits.

Step 2
Find a place to offer the service you found. It could be Forums, Message Boards, Blog Commenting, Free Classified sites like Craiglist, Backpage or Social Media sites like LinkedIn, Google +, Facebook, Twitter or anywhere marketers are. Go and list your service and ask a reasonable price, $12-$39 is acceptable, depending on your service.  Do a little research and see what others are selling these same services for first if you're not sure what to charge.

Step 3
If you list your offer in the right places you get people emailing you asking for more info or wanting to know where they can buy your services. Not everyone will buy, but you should be able to close 2-3 out of every 10 contacts. Always collect the money upfront and then follow step 4.

Step 4
Take the money you received from the buyer and go to fiverr.  Hire the service provider you found earlier and let them complete the work.  For the best results, only use providers with a track record of delivery quality products on time.

Step 5
Now deliver the finished product. You just made money online with no money. And the best part is that anyone can do this.  It's quick, it's super easy, and you can build it into a very large, very profitable business or just use it for short term cash. 

Do you need help choosing a service that's in demand?  Read this article: Easy Middleman Profits: 5 Super Hot Services You Can Sell Today.  In it, I reveal the 5 most in demand services you can use with this simple, free money method.

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Easy Middleman Profits: 5 Super Hot Services You Can Sell TODAY!

I'll assume you've heard of arbitrage?

If not, it's simple. You find a buyer who needs a product or service, and agree to complete the work. After you find the buyer, you pay someone else a lower amount to complete the work.  You keep the profit you didn't spend for managing the deal.

It's an extremely effective, very scalable and surprisingly fun way to earn money online.

Add to that, it's easy enough even a complete newbie can pull it off. If you've ever thought about being a middleman online, here's 5 of the hottest services you can sell today for a quick middleman profit. After you read the list, take a look at my list of my favorite resources below.

5. Articles, Ebooks & Press Releases Who loves to write? Writers do. Who hates to write? Everyone else! There's a huge demand for article writing and content creation services for local businesses owners, online marketers, seo companies and many, many more. Once you find someone who needs content, you can get an article written for dirt cheap on iwriter. Make a few edits, or hire an editor from a site like freelancer or odesk for a set price per article, and you've got a decent little money maker you can scale to a full six figure hands off business.

4. Copy No, not copy & paste. I mean well written, persuasive copy for sales letters, videos, and anywhere a marketer needs a conversion to happen. Whether it's text for a squeeze page or a full blown sales letter, there's a lot of marketers looking for services with quality copywriters who get results for a decent price. Do you know one? You can find a load of copywriters on the Warrior for Hire section of the warriorforum. You can get some good prices, just make sure you use someone who's been around a while and doesn't have any negative reviews.

3. Mobile Websites Want your foot in the door of a local business? A large majority of local businesses still don't have mobile ready websites. It doesn't sound too impressive, until you take a few minutes to research the staggering amount of searches done via mobile phones and how mobile search has and continues to grow. You can sell mobile design for anywhere from $600-$1,000 on LinkedIn or talking to local businesses in your area. I like the warrior forum for outsourcing these. You can get some really high quality work done for $100 or less. That's... $500-$900 in profit per deal. With numbers like that, you might want to hire a sales team.

2. SEO I've personally made a lot of money offering SEO services. But have you personally ever tried ranking a site on your own? It's one of the worst experiences in life! It's boring, time consuming and really a big pain in the neck. After releasing countless SEO reports and running my own SEO service for years, here's a key to SEO you won't find anywhere else; outsource it! Seriously, it's horrible. Thankfully being a middleman, all you have to do is find someone else to do the work for a lower cost & keep a little of the profits off the top. I wouldn't recommend doing the SEO work by yourself. You can find quality providers on sites like fiverr, just do a little research and learn about SEO first so you know what works and what doesn't. That knowledge is why customers will keep coming back every month.

1. Whiteboard Sales Videos These things are white hot! The sheer entertainment value of whiteboard videos makes their conversion rates soar through the roof. Better optins, more sales... it's easy to see why so many people are looking for a quality whiteboard video and how you can easily swoop in and pick up a few profits for bringing together buyers who need a high quality product and the best whiteboard animators you know. Be careful. You can find cheap ($5) videos on sites like fiverr, but they aren't the high quality you really need. You need custom, high converting, highly engaging. The Warrior for Hire section is what I'd recommend here too. I've seen people selling these videos everywhere from $5 to $5,000 per minute, but the going price is generally in the hundreds per minute for a high quality video.

How about you, what would you add to the list? Have you had success in any of these niches?

Let us know in the comments below.

Resources:
iwriter.com (low cost content writers)
fiverr.com (just $5 for almost anything!)
warriorforum.com (popular marketing forum, lots of services for trade in the Warrior for Hire section)
seoclerks.com (Sell or buy seo/writing services here)
searchtempest.com (search craigslist for people who post ads all across the us)

Holiday Free Passive Traffic Training!

Happy Black Friday, Cyber Monday or anywhere in between!

Are you struggling to find a simple, free way to get targeted traffic to your online offers?

This message is for anyone who wants to learn a simple, passive traffic method that will pull in traffic and send it directly to any offer you like.  And yes, it's a free traffic method too.

On Wednesday, December 4th at 2pm EST, I'm having a special holiday webinar for 9 lucky people where I'll reveal the simplest traffic technique ever.

It's as simple as set and forget.

And yes, I'm revealing the entire system.  No sales pitch, no upsells.  You don't even need to sign up to an autoresponder if you want to learn how to suck in traffic on autopilot, all you need is to attend this free google hangout. 

I'm showing every plugin and tool needed to set up this simple traffic system.  You only need a website and the rest is 100% free.  You can easily be sucking in auto-pilot traffic next week.

All I ask for is, a review of this simple traffic technique.

If you're struggling to get traffic and conversions to your pages there's no simpler, easier method than what I'm sharing inside this free webinar, so take advantage while you can.  After this class is filled and the webinar is complete this will be a paid product.  And a few lucky people are getting the chance to review it now for free. 

To secure your spot, just send me a message on Google+.  Currently only 7 spots remain.

PS. Only sign up if you can attend the webinar on Wednesday, December 4th at 2pm EST.  If you can't attend, a paid replay will be available later.  Just keep an eye on this site for that update.

PPS. This is the easiest traffic method I've ever seen.  If you're struggling to get traffic after the recent Google updates, you'll be blown away by how simple and effective this works, I guarantee it.

Get ready for your big Ah Ha moment, message me now to secure your seat while supplies last.

Content Marketing: How Much Content is Enough?

Content marketing is with out a doubt the future of online marketing and building a network of interested, engaged readers, followers, and subscribers.  Content marketing is the combustion of the online marketing engine.  Content always has, and remains king.

But How Much Content Is Enough For a Content Marketing Strategy?

I came across this question earlier today and it got me thinking.  How much is really needed to be successful in a niche?  It's almost a trick question.  You can still completely market a small 5 or 6 page site with content or on the other hand you can post articles to your site every few minutes like many large sites will.

Let's take a look at both of those situations and see how depending on your situation and your goals either way could be a successful content marketing strategy that pays off for you.

A Small Content Site:

Just because you're focusing on content doesn't mean you need hundreds of daily posts.  All it takes to drive traffic and get conversions online is a single page.  It doesn't even have to be on your own site if you're using an affiliate marketing strategy like this one. 

To make a small site or single page be effective you need to continue promoting it using content and backlinks on other sites.  That doesn't mean you have to go and create the content yourself either.  Using fiverr or other low cost seo outsourcing you can easily rank for low and mid level competition keywords in just a few weeks.  As long as you've done good keyword research you can get traffic flowing and offers converting with as little as one page.

It really doesn't get any smaller than one page, does it?  Yet, it's still a profitable method used by many to get traffic and conversions.  The key is, although you only have a small amount of content, it needs to be as high quality as possible. 

A Multiple Publish Per Hour Site:

Almost every site that uses this method uses one of these two techniques.  Either their content is curated from other websites, or they employ multiple bloggers and guest bloggers to continuously promote content on their pages.

Did you know you can get writers to write on your webpage without paying a base or hourly pay? 

After you've established your website for a few months on your own, getting it set up and ready to go you can find writers to split adsense or marketing commissions based on what there content brings in.  If you're interested in this method you can find wordpress plugins for free that split advertising commissions.  Just do a search in the plugin store.

The other method to multiple daily and hourly updates to a website is what popular sites like Huffington Post are known for, curating.  Curating is simply finding useful and up to date content on other websites and writing a description and link to it on your website.  Almost like a social media network on your own domain.  Curating can be a lot of fun, but it can also be just as much work.

One thing big sites and even most successful sites that continuously use content marketing to drive traffic to their sites have in common is almost every one used social media sites like facebook, google +, twitter, and linkedin to drive traffic to their content. 

To answer the question, how much content is enough content you need to find a balance that works well for you and your needs.  If you can post daily or multiple times per day, you're surely on a path to success with content marketing.

If you notice posting daily is too hectic for your schedule you can always scale back to once or twice per week or even month.  Another options I highly recommend is outsourcing your writing to copywriters or article writers, depending on your budget.  Just keep in mind, finding a quality writer for a good price is just like hiring a real employee.  You'll need to invest a little time to find the right one, but eventually you'll find someone who's a great fit.

No matter which option you choose, get started as soon as possible.  Content marketing is a long term process.  Don't expect huge results overnight and don't stop until you've built a long, steady flow of content to your site. 

If you need help getting started, I recommend this evergreen marketing method as a solid, legitimate way to earn money online.

OK Google | Google Brings Speech To Search

Today Google releases OK Google bringing popular speech search to Chrome browsers.  All you need is a microphone and Google's Chrome Browser. 

With Chrome open, just say, "OK Google" and ask your question or give your search term.

The new OK Google is compatible with Google Chrome and you can try it now, for free.

All you need is the Chrome browser, a microphone and the OK Google extension.  Once you're ready to test it out, just open your Google.com webpage and start your search by saying, OK Google.  Then it works just like a normal voice search.

It's great if you need a hands free way to check for quick questions like, how many ounces are in a cup during the holiday season but as of right now it's no where near as useful as the x Moto version which is always available, even when in sleep mode.

For OK Google to work, you need to have the Google.com webpage or search open and waiting, so if it's in the background it might not be as convenient.

Google is sure to improve their new speech to search feature, but for now it seems to be no more than a fun techy toy in the works. 

You can download it here and try it today.

The Deep Secret To Successful Marketing

I see a lot of people come online and try to market products only to fail.  I've had the chance to help several of these marketers turn their websites around from no profit to bringing in affiliates sales. 

Not my longest post ever, I'm really hoping to help open a few eyes who may be struggling online to get started and start bringing in a steady online income. 

The secret no one tells you about marketing is this, if you want to be successful you need to stop looking for someone to answer all your questions and help you get started and become the person answering the questions and helping people solve their problems.

If right now you're thinking, I can't do that.. then you're dead wrong.  Even if you know absolutely nothing about a niche or topic you can easily put in some research time and learn all you need to know about getting started.

Forget the idea that you need to be a multi millionaire to teach people how to do something.  Every big name marketer got started at the bottom and worked their way up.  I'm sure there's a few exceptions to that rule, but the point is don't be afraid to get started and build yourself and your business as you go.

Stop being afraid of success and start embracing the opportunities in front of you.  No matter what niche you want to get started in, just get into it.  Start up social media accounts, and start building a network of people who are all interested in the niche and helping them find the highest quality content they're searching for.

If you're struggling with choosing a niche take a look at my 10 Evergreen Niches post and you'll see exactly where you should get started.

Just remember, whatever you decide to do online the only way to be truly successful is to become the go to website or person for people looking for content, help, answers and information.  Once you master that, you'll be unstoppable.

Are you struggling online?  Are you still struggling to find a niche, struggling to get traffic or convert your traffic into sales?  Let us know in the comments below what's holding you back and how you can overcome your struggles and be the success you deserve.