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How Much Can I Make, And How Long Will It Take?

"How much money can I make, and how long will it take?" That's THE question many of us get asked far too often by those thinking of buying our products or joining our programs. Many of us squirm and struggle with the answer. I answer that I honestly don't know.

The prospect probes a little harder by insisting that you give an "estimate" of how much he can earn. "If I can invest a couple hundred dollars a month in this 'deal', how much can I expect to be making in six months," he asks. "Can I be making $5000 per month in six month," he suggests to help direct your answer.

We struggle answering that question.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Land More Joint Ventures With Super Affiliates

You spend six months or more coming up with a great product that practically every Internet marketers would "love" to have. You develop the product, write and refine a great webpage, send traffic through it and get an incredible conversion rate. With your big product finally ready to "roll out," you start the process of lining up joint venture partners only to "hit a brick wall."

Out of 50 potential joint venture partners that you contact about your product, offering them a generous 50% (or even 60%) commission, none of them can "fit it in!"

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Operate A Profitable Membership Site - Part 2

In part 1 of this article, we looked at how you hold a membership site together by creating a sense of community, and encouraging member-generated content. Now let's look at a few more secrets to operating highly-profitable, low-maintenance membership sites.

1) Keep the membership affordable so that members don't really "feel the bite." If a membership costs only $20, members who don't get the opportunity to visit for months will probably remain. We all get busy at times, and go off into our own little corners of cyberspace. If that same membership was say $47 or $97, then members are much more likely to question the wisdom of those payments each month.

Look at your operating expenses and your income goals, and base your membership fees largely upon that but don't drive members off needlessly.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Make $28,000 Per Day Selling Info Products

During the last two days of February 2006 and the first week of March 2006, I conducted a fire sale. I called it my "Wedding Fire Sale" since it was conducted primarily to pay for my youngest daughter's wedding. That fire sale ended up generating over $80,000 in direct sales and another $25,000 in backend sales...all within a week!

A big part of the success of that fire sale was due to the fact that I offered 2 new ORIGINAL pieces of software during that sale. Now my secret . . .

I located 2 pieces of software that the owners were offering Master Resale Rights to, and also offering the source code.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Operate A Profitable Membership Site - Part 1

I've been operating lucrative membership sites for nearly seven years now. They are a great way to build numerous nice residual income streams. I have friends who operate (co-own) over 20.

A membership site doesn't have to have a huge number of members, or charge an exorbitant membership fee, to be profitable. The key is to also design them to be as low maintenance as practical.

A site with just 200 members pay you $25 per month, gives you a residual income stream of $5000 per month. If you spend no more than one or two hours per week on this site, that's a very respectable hourly income.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Easily Make More Affiliate Sales Using Audio

Making sales of any products is no more difficult than helping people conclude that what you have to offer is the ideal solution to a nagging, painful problem that they have.

One very effective method that I use to do this is to discuss the product with the person who knows it best - the product owners. You can do the same.

You merely need to arrange an interview with the product owner and record it. You can do this using any of dozens of free teleconferencing services, using a recording device hooked up to your phone, or as I often do, using Audio Acrobat at: http://williec.audioacrobat.com

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How to Actually Make Money in Network Marketing

Most people that I know who are, or have been in network marketing, never seem to make a dime! Others (myself included) make a small fortune. If you're not doing VERY well with your business, and you're honestly putting in the effort, let me explain to you how to turn things around!

First of all, you need to make sure that you have the right product. That's the biggest mistake I see those who're failing make. At the same time, I see many marketing the same products that I do, not having the same success. So that's only one piece of the puzzle. Still, it's a very important piece of the puzzle.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Actually Get Paid For Social Networking

It's no secret that the fastest growing web properties are the social networking sites. Sites like Twitter, FaceBook, and Sokule are all the rave.

Part of the reason that these sites are so popular is that the Internet can be such a lonely place. People who run online businesses from home-based offices, as I do, sometimes want to just reach out to others who understand their world. So they drop by social networking sites "just to visit."

Marketers like me look at these sites with millions of users and wonder if they can't be used for something more than just socializing. We wonder if they can't have a business application as well.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How To Market Your Products and Services On Twitter

Twitter is one of well over 1000 social networking sites that I know of. I actually have a list of that many, but have only checked out a handful of the most popular ones.

Actually, my list is about 1800 bookmarking and social networking sites. I may share that list with my inner circle soon... after my assistant go over it with a fine toothed comb :-)

I've already shared my list of the most popular (and productive) bookmarking sites in an ebook called, "How To Bookmark Effectively For Massive Free Website Traffic!" You can actually download that ebook for free, without needing to opt-in or fill out any forms at: http://TheRealSecrets.com/FathersDay/

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert

How to Become A Top Internet Marketer

A recent thread at The Internet Marketing Warriors member-only discussion forum examined what it is that separates the big Internet marketing successes from the "also rans." There was no argument that one key to being an online success is learning to write great copy. Great copy is what gets your site's visitors stirred up enough to actually take action... often a monumental challenge.

The discussion also asked why big online successes would bother with learning to write copy when they could hire someone else. The answer was that it's fun trying to see if you can create, or improve upon, a winning sales letter.

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Willie Crawford, our official Joint Ventures Expert