2010 has arrived and I am super excited about the year ahead. But first, I want to take one final look at 2009.

2009 was an amazing year for me and I’ve learned quite a few golden nuggets that have literally transformed my business. In this article, I would like to share those with you.

The first, and certainly one of the most impactful lessons I’ve learned this year is the power of video sales letters.

Video sales letters have increased my conversion rate from 2% to 10%.

Now, I want you to imagine for a moment what it would mean for your business if you were able to generate double-digit conversions.

Personally, as you probably already know, I don’t believe there is a big red easy button online, but this is literally the fastest shortcut I know to creating a high-converting sales process.

The best part is that you don’t have to be a world-class copywriter to create killer video sales letters. In fact, I pretty much stink at traditional sales letters. But, I have found a very effective formula for creating highly-converting video sales letters. So that means that you can do this too. There are no super human abilities required here.

You simply follow the formula and get results that are USUALLY reserved for highly-paid copywriters.

In fact, I have a free webinar that will teach you my exact formula. You can check it out at:

http://www.superaffiliateclub.com/public/Video_Sales_Formula_Webinar.cfm

If you take the information in the video above and actually start implementing it, you will see a HUGE transformation in your business in 2010.

Speed of Implementation

Speaking of implementation, that’s another key that has transformed
my business in 2010…. speed of implementation. You’ve probably heard
before that money likes speed. And it’s true.

Success comes to those who take action.

In business, speed of implementation is the name of the game.

No one is going to give you a perfect business plan or the exact steps that you need to take. This is not like a job where someone tells you exactly what you need to do each day.

You are in charge of your own success.

And that means doing things before you’re comfortable doing them.

That means implementing even when you’re unsure of what the outcome might be.

You’d be surprised how many people fail online because they simply take too long trying to perfect everything.

To achieve success online, you must fail as fast as humanly possible.

Failure is the key to progress.

The faster you fail, the faster you’re going to succeed. Now, it may sound counter-intuitive but it’s true. Especially when building a business.

Think about anything you’ve done in life. Let’s use sports as an example.

Let’s take baseball. When you first start, you fail… A LOT. But that
failure is simply a result and it leads you closer and closer to success.

Unfortunately, our society does not value the power of failure. In school, we’re taught on a daily basis that failure is bad. But in reality, it’s the ONLY way to get to success.

If you don’t take action, nothing happens. You can learn and learn and learn. You can plan out the best marketing strategies in the world. But if you don’t execute… nothing happens.

The faster you get something out there, the faster you’re going to make money.

At the end of the day, the key is speed of implementation.

High-Leverage Activities

The third key to my growth in 2009 has been focusing on high-leverage
activities.

As you probably know, your list of subscribers is one of the most important assets in your business. It’s also one of the biggest leverage points in your business.

You can leverage your list of subscribers at any time to funnel thousands of visitors to the website of your choice.

Unfortunately, I see way too many people online going for the one-off sale and trying to sell first before they get people on their list. BIG NO NO!!

If you want to create a real business online, then you will focus all of
your attention and marketing efforts on sending people to a squeeze page where you can build a list of subscribers.

If you don’t build a list, you’ll be missing out on 95% of your potential
revenue. It’s that simple.

So in my business, I focus on the high-leverage activities that are going to grow my list the fastest.

The high-leverage activities in my business include things like:

Ad Swaps/Autoresponder Swaps
Integration Marketing
Forum Marketing
High-Profile Content Syndication
Interviews/Webinars/Teleseminars/ & Telesummits
Guest Blogging
Creating Pillar Content
Testing for Maximum Conversion

These are the activities that are going to grow my list the fastest.

These are the activities that every time I do them, they always have a huge impact on growing my business. I actually have a piece of paper taped to my desk with all of my high-leverage activities so I can stay zoned in on the most productive tasks.

It’s the 80/20 rule in action, which says that 20% of your efforts
create 80% of your results.

The key to maximizing your results is to focus on the high-leverage
activities in our business that create 80% of your results.

Unfortunately, it’s easy to get lost in the minutiae of running a business.

But if you want to win in the game of business, you must zone in those
high-leverage activities that are going to produce the greatest result.
Otherwise, you’ll simply be spinning your wheels.

If you do just ONE high-leverage activity per day, you are going to create exponential growth in your business this year.

One of the best ways to identify your high-leverage activities is to ask
yourself the question “If I could only work 2 hours per day in my business, what would I do during those 2 hours to grow my business?”

By doing this you will actually force yourself to identify the money-making activities in your business.

The Power of a Low Front-End Offer

The fourth thing I’ve learned this year is the power of a low-end front offer.

By creating a low barrier front-end offer, you will get exponentially more people into your sales funnel. The whole goal of your front-end offer is to get as many people into your sales funnel as possible. You want to find who the “buyers” are on your list.

So you want to reduce all possible friction and create a low-barrier to
entry.

Once they are in your funnel, it’s much easier to sell them follow-up
products of increasing value and price.

But the hardest sell is that first one. So make sure that you have an
irresistible offer.

In fact, I would even suggest that you create a $1-trial, or even a free + shipping and handling offer just so that you can get as many people into your sales funnel as possible.

I would also strongly suggest that you attach your offer into a continuity program because it’s going to make a dramatic difference to your visitor value.

One of the most powerful things you can do in your business is to create a $1 trial or a free + shipping and handling offer. This is going to funnel a HUGE portion of your subscribers into your membership site (which will then pay you on a monthly basis).

So the idea here is to give them MASSIVE value right up front to get them to try out your membership site. The biggest key here is to really provide incredible value. Your “offer” is the key to making this work and convert like crazy. That’s why people practically give away their home study courses and only require you to pay shipping and handling. Because they want you to get a taste of the kind of value they provide and funnel you into their membership site. And if they’re doing their job right, you’ll want to remain a member.

Continuity allows you to get triple the conversion than if you sold the
product right up front. I get about a 10% sales conversion rate on my
$1 trial offer for the Super Affiliate Club. Now, I haven’t tracked
the retention rate yet, but the average membership site gets a 3-month retention rate. Now, of course, I’ll be doing everything I can to increase that, but let’s just use that as our example figure here.

So the monthly cost for the Super Affiliate Club is $39 x 3 months = $117.

Now, imagine for a moment trying to sell a $117 product right up front at a 10% conversion rate. It would be dead hard and nearly impossible. But by creating a $1 trial attached to continuity you’re able to instantly skyrocket your visitor value and your conversion rate. Very very powerful.

Deepen Your Sales Funnel

You can then instantly increase the visitor value once again by expanding your sales funnel through a series of upsells and backend products.

There’s a certain group of people that will ALWAYS want to go to a higher level with you. They WANT to pay you a premium for a higher level of service.

So you MUST create higher and higher levels of value proposition.

If you don’t, they’ll simply find it somewhere else.

You can find a prime example of this on airplanes. Any time you ride in an airplane, you’ll find that “first class” is always full. ALWAYS. Because
there’s always a group of people who want that extra level of value.

Your goal is to focus on creating ONE well-oiled sales funnel. You send
ALL of your traffic to a squeeze page, which then offers them a $1 Trial with Continuity. You then offer them a series of upsells (which offer related products of increasing value). The upsells should essentially be no-brainers that bolt on extra value to the main product. And there will ALWAYS be people who want the higher level of value. So if you don’t offer it to them, you’re simply leaving money on the table.

You should also develop high-end backend products such as a $497 E-Class and a $997 Boxset.

The higher level products should be offered within the first month that
someone signs onto your subscriber list, because that’s when they’re the hottest and most interested in whatever you have to offer.

Mentors

And finally, one of the biggest impacts on my business in 2009 are mentors.

I make it a rule in my business to have a personal coach at all times. Now, keep in mind that this can be very costly. One-on-one coaching generally cost about $1,000 per month. However, it’s going to save you YEARS of trial and error. With a coach, you will achieve your goals exponentially faster. My business started growing by leaps and bounds once I brought a personal coach on board.

A coach provides you with the accountability needed to get things done 10 times faster and they hold your hand every step of the way so that you ALWAYS know exactly what needs to be done next. There’s no second guessing yourself.

Imagine how powerful that would be in your business… having someone who can answer any of your questions and guide you step-by-step to your goal.

Having a mentor has been one of the biggest keys to my success.
First, because of the incredible amount of accountability it provides. And secondly, because I am able to model after someone who is already doing what I want to achieve. Very very powerful.

I hope you enjoyed getting a bit of insight into what I’ve learned in 2009. But I’d really love to hear what you’ve learned in 2009 and what you’re planning for 2010. So please leave your comments below and here’s to an exciting and successful 2010!

I have put together a list of ALL my favorite Internet Marketing resources. These are the golden nuggets that I have discovered over the past 5 years.  Hope you find it useful!

I have also posted the PDF version below if you’d like to download it and save it to your computer for future reference.

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The Essentials:

http://www.namecheap.com – Cheap domain registration with an excellent control panel for managing all of your domains.

http://www.bluehost.com – Bluehost.com is the finest web hosting company I have come across. And I’ve tried quite a few of them. I’ve
found Bluehost to be the very best in their class. They provide incredible support, unlimited domain names, and an excellent service.

http://www.aweber.com – One of the best services online for managing
your email newsletter.

FileZilla – Free FTP software

Survey Monkey – Create custom surveys in minutes in order to get feedback from your subscribers.

http://www.youconvertit.com/ – A Free online conversion tool that allows you to convert a nearly unlimited type of media file formats, including documents, images, audio, videos, etc… Convert your files to different formats quickly and easily.

http://www.kayako.com/ – Very powerful help-desk software.

http://www.aremysitesup.com/signup – A Free service that notifies you if your sites ever go down.

Google Analytics – If you’re not tracking your visitors, then you’re flying blind. If you want to build a massively successful business, then you need to continually improve your conversion rates. That means testing your subject lines, open rates, squeeze pages, sales letters, calls to action, and everything in between.

Split Test Accelerator – If you want to take your split testing to an entirely new level, then I highly suggest that you check out Split Test Accelerator.

Graphic Design:

99designs.com – 99Designs has created a revolutionary design process where you actually have multiple designers competing to win your bid. So you can have hundreds of different designers creating multiple designs for you and you only have to pay the one you like best.

DesignGuruRyan.com – Top online graphic designer. Used by Mike Filsaime, Chris McNeeny, Ewen Chia, and many others.

Pixelofgenius.com – Another excellent source for professional graphic
design.

http://wowminisites.com/ – WowMiniSites creates GREAT looking graphics at a great price.

http://www.uniqueblogdesigns.com/ – One of the top Wordpress design companies online.

Premium Wordpress Themes:

http://www.studiopress.com/
http://www.woothemes.com/
http://wpremix.com/
http://www.wpzoom.com
http://www.elegantthemes.com/
http://gorillathemes.com/
http://freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/
http://www.boxedart.com/

Video Production:

http://killersalesvideo.com/ – Create killer promo videos for your product launches.

http://www.graphicsgenie.com/video.html – Another top-notch video producer.

http://www.videoproduceronline.com/ – Scott Lundergan is an award-winning Video Producer that can create a wide-variety of videos for your business.

Top Ghostwriters:

http://courtneyramirez.com
http://www.valentinecontentcreation.com
http://www.writesyntax.com
http://www.ghostwritersinternational.com/
http://www.content-kingdom.com/
ChaiWriter
http://movingaheadcommunications.com
Tiffany Dow

Top Copywriters:

http://haddadink.com/ – Chris Haddad
http://www.rogerscopy.com/ – Kevin Rogers
http://www.montellomarketing.com/ – Vin Montello
http://www.mikejezek.com/ – Mike Jezek
CopyDaddy – Brian McElroy
http://www.briankeithvoiles.com

Top Autoresponder Copywriters:

http://anitaashland.com/ – Writes autoresponder emails for Stephen Pierce and many other top marketers.

http://www.emailcopymadeeasy.com/ – Jay White – Has written emails for Mike Filsaime and many other top marketers.

Voice Broadcasting:

http://www.voiceshot.com/ – Web-based voice broadcasting allows you to send voice broadcasts to your subscribers. Extremely powerful!

Competitive Intelligence:

http://www.keywordspy.com/ – Find out which keywords your competitors
are bidding on.

http://ci.trellian.com/ – Find out exactly where your competitors are getting their traffic from. Find out which sites are responsible for sending traffic to their pages. Extremely Powerful!!!

http://t3report.com/ – Find out who your competitor’s top affiliates are.

http://www.whosmailingwhat.com – A vast library of direct mail data, which allows you to learn from their tests and direct mail controls!

Copernic Tracker – Monitor website changes.

http://aignes.com/ – Monitor websites for updates & changes

InfoMinder – An online tool that allows you to track changes to web pages, blogs, RSS feeds and wikis.

WayBack Machine – Find out what a website looked like in the past. An excellent tool for seeing what your competitor’s websites looked like in the past in order to find out how they have changed their website over time. You can then use this data to increase the conversion rate of your own websites.

http://www.domaintools.com/ – Allows you to find out who owns a particular domain along with what other websites they own.

Yahoo Site Explorer – Analyze your backlinks or the backlinks of your competitors

*** http://www.quarkbase.com/ – Find out LOTS of information about any website.

http://www.backlinkwatch.com/ – Analyze your competitors backlinks

Keyword Tools:

Google Keyword Tool – The Google Keyword tool is one of the most accurate keyword tools online because Google own a majority of the search market, and therefore a majority of the data.

Testing & Tracking:

Google Analytics – Tracks exactly where all of your traffic is coming from and allows you to measure your conversion rate.

Google Website Optimizer – The best free website testing and optimization tool available online.

Split Test Accelerator – The most powerful software available online for split-testing, taguchi split testing, conversion tracking, and more…

http://crazyegg.com/ – An online tool that allows you to track user behavior on your website. Create overlays and heat maps to identify where people are clicking on your website.

http://www.clicktale.com/ – Creates a visual demonstration of how people move through your website. Watch movies of visitors browsing your website. Find out exactly how people are interacting with your website. See every mouse movement and every click.

Firefox Plugins:

Search Status – A toolbar extension for Firefox that allows you to view a website’s PageRank, Alexa ranking, Compete.com ranking, incoming links, whois info, and much more… An excellent tool for online marketers.

Deja Click – Firefox plugin that allows you to record and bookmark your browser activities with a single click. You can then press just one button and replay the entire sequence all over again. Very powerful browser automation.

Reminder Fox – Helps you remember important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications.

Productivity:

ActionMachine – Hands-down one of THE best tools online for increasing your productivity.
RescueTime.com
FasterAudio.com
RoboForm.com
FreeMind – One of the best free options for mindmapping.
https://lastpass.com/ – Password manager
http://www.enounce.com/myspeed.php – Speed up online videos
http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ – Download files 5x faster.
BatchBook - The ultimate tool for creating your online rolodex.
DropBox – One of the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online.
EverNote
RememberTheMilk – An online to-do list on steroids.

Outsourcing:

http://www.replacemyself.com – Learn everything there is to know about outsourcing to the Phillipines
http://www.onlinejobs.ph
http://bestjobs.ph
*** http://www.herodesk.com/
http://www.workaholics4hire.com/
*** http://www.rmbizsolutions.com/services.html – One of the very
best companies online for outsourcing your bookkeeping.
*** http://www.ohiohelpgroup.com/virtual_assistants.html
http://guru.com
http://www.elance.com
http://www.odesk.com

Traffic Assistants:

This is a list of top-notch companies who will completely automate
the marketing and traffic side of your business.

http://www.trafficassistant.com
http://www.trafficsage.com/
http://www.agentsofvalue.com

Top Web Programmers:

http://www.interberry.com/ – A Top-notch team of programmers. Read a complete review at:
http://www.tylercruz.com/the-program…sherchallenge/
http://www.expert-web-programmers.com/
http://actionwebapps.com/ – Kent is one of the best programmers online and has worked with a number of top online marketers.

Product Fulfillment:

http://www.disk.com/
http://www.uprinting.com/
http://kunaki.com – print and ship on demand.

Transcription Services:

http://castingwords.com/
http://www.idictate.com/
http://www.verbalink.com/

Webinar Software:

http://www.dimdim.com/
GoToMeeting
WebEx

Video:

http://www.jingproject.com/ – A quick and easy online screen capture tool that allows you to create short 5-minute videos. Made my the same people who created Camtasia. Allows you to create screen capture videos that you can share instantly.

Marketing:

TweetMeme – Include a Retweet Button on Each of your blog posts.

TubeMogul.com – Free online video distribution. Automates your video submission to over 20 of the top video sites online. Also allows you to track your stats so you know exactly how many people are viewing your video.

Free Tell A Friend – Word-of-Mouth marketing on steroids.

http://hellotxt.com/ – Allows you to update all your social networks and microblogs with a single click.

Tweet Adder - The ONLY automated tool I recommend for maximizing your Twitter marketing.

RocketClicks.com – Top PPC management company

http://buysellads.com/ – Purchase ads that go live within 24 hours.

http://contestmachine.com/ – Allows you to easily run a contest or giveaway on your blog or website.

SendOutCards – Send your subscriber’s postcards in the mail with the simplicity of an autoresponder. SendOutCards will print the card, write your personal message to your clients in your own handwriting, upload and print your pictures, address the cards, and even ship it out for you for just $1.00 per card. You can even create a personalized follow up series of postcards for your customers to upsell your backend products. SendOutCards will automate the entire process.

Miscellaneous:

CopyScape.com – Find sites that have copied your content without permission.

http://www.forumbooster.net/ – The best paid forum posting service to give your forum a kick-start.

OfferVault.com – Search over 14,000 affiliate products.

http://www.vletter.com/ – Create your own handwriting font.

Hard To Find Ads – A Huge swipe file of legendary ads

Pickydomains.com – A risk-free service that helps you come up with a memorable domain name.

Skype – Allows you to make calls over the Internet for free.

http://www.pamela.biz/ – Allows you to record your Skype Calls. Excellent for creating products out of your interviews or coaching sessions. (Change the settings to 64 kilobits/sec or higher for top-quality.)

http://www.conduit.com/ – Create a custom toolbar.

http://www.edopter.com – Trendcasting

http://www.ted.com/ – Riveting talks made by remarkable people.

*** http://www.legalzoom.com/ – Online legal document services. Save time and money creating reliable legal documents for your online business, whether you want to incorporate your business, file a trademark, form a limited liability company, etc…

1ShoppingCart – One of the best shopping cart options online for payment processing.

DeskAway – Online project collaboration

http://www.gliffy.com/ – Online service that allows you to easily create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, and more…

Google Alerts – Get automatic email updates on the latest news in your industry. This is an excellent tool for monitoring what’s being said online about your products and services.

http://www.freeconferencecall.com – Free teleconference calls for up to 96 participants.

BackTweets.com – Search for links on Twitter (includes automatic expansion of shortened URLs) so you can find links even if you don’t know how they’ve been shortened.

BrowserShots – View your website in multiple browsers.

http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/ – Convert your documents to PDF.

OnlyWire.com – Automated Content and Bookmark Distribution.

http://www.ping.fm/ – Update all of your social networks at once.

Foxit Reader – A pdf reader that I prefer over Adobe Reader

FireShot – Create Screen Captures in Firefox.

Top Wordpress Plugins:

Action PopUp – The Ultimate Wordpress Pop-Up tool for capturing more subscribers on your blog.

BackUp Wordpress – This plugin is a Backup & Recovery Suite for your Wordpress website. It allows you to easily backup your Wordpress blog and restore previously saved versions.

Contact Form 7 – This plugin will allow you to easily add contact forms to your website.

Feedburner – This plugin redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

Google XML Sitemaps

HeadSpace 2 – An extremely powerful all-in-one SEO plugin.

All in One SEO Pack – The All in One SEO Pack is another top-notch SEO plugin.

MaxBlogPress Favicon – Easily add a favicon to your blog without having to edit any wordpress files.

TweetMeme Button – Allow your visitors to easily retweet your content.

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade – As you may already know, Wordpress upgrades their software quite often. However, it can be quite a job to update your Wordpress version every time they come out with an upgrade. Thankfully, this plugin automates all of that, allowing you to update Wordpress with just a few clicks.

Breadcrumb NavXT – Adds a breadcrumb navigation system to your
Wordpress blog.

WP SuperCache – This plugin is an extremely efficient page caching system that will make your site much faster and responsive. This plugin is very useful for handling sudden bursts of traffic coming from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Twitter, and Delicious. WP-Super Cache basically creates static versions of your pages so that they can be served to your visitors without querying the MySQL database.

Popularity Contest – This plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular.

SexyBookmarks – This plugin allows your readers to quickly and easily share your posts on all of their favorite social media sites.

*** Disqus Comment System – Disqus is truly revolutionizing the blog comment system, allowing you to instantly turn your blog into a social media community. Disqus allows you to create a much more interactive blog community that connects seamlessly with all of the top social media sites online.

Disqus also provides threaded comments, which allows your commenters to engage with other commenters directly, rather than replying in general to all. The threaded replies are indented, making it easy to track sub-discussions. They also allow for video commenting through Seesmic.

DISQUS also encourages the viral promotion of your blog posts. For example, using Facebook Connect, Disqus provides your readers with the option of posting their comment on their wall in Facebook. Readers also have the ability to send their comments to other services (like Friendfeed and Twitter), which again increases the viral promotion of your content.

If you want to build a stronger community on your blog, connects seamlessly with all of the top social media sites online via blog comments, and increase the viral promotion of each of your posts, then Disqus is definitely for you.

MobilePress – With mobile devices becoming more and more popular, you’ll want to make your mobile users as happy as possible. This plugin allows you to do that by turning your Wordpress blog into a mobile friendly blog that’s easy to view on any cell phone, iPhone, or other mobile device.

SEO Slugs – This plugin can help you optimize your blog post URLs for search engines.

Wordpress Duplicate Content Cure – The default Wordpress structure can create lots of duplicate content within your website with the same archives, categories, and built in search pages. Each of these pages feature excerpts of the full posts with the same content repeated over and over again, which dilutes the value of the most important pages on your site, which are the posts and pages. So this plugin allows you to solve that problem by preventing search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content like archives and category pages.

Pretty Link – This plugin allows you to cloak your affiliate links with ease. Using this plugin you no longer have to build redirects by hand or upload a bunch of PHP files to your server. Pretty Link allows you to shrink, track, and share any URL on the internet from your Wordpress site. Pretty Link also allows you to track each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from. This is an excellent plugin for anyone who wants to cloak their affiliate links and track their click stats.

Search Unleashed – Replaces the standard Wordpress Search function
with something that’s much more powerful.

Internal Link Building – Optimize the internal link structure of your Wordpress blog. Very Powerful!!

I often get asked what a typical workday looks like for me.

It always kind of surprises me that someone would want a peak into what my typical day looks like, but since it has become a fairly frequently asked question, I’ve decided to share my response here at BuzzBlogger.com.

For starters, I like to wake up early… like around 6:00AM. I’ve always believed that successful people get into the habit of waking up early. I’ve never heard of a successful person that sleeps in ’till noon.

After I get up I do the normal stuff… brush my teeth, wash my face, throw my hair into a pony tail. But there’s ONE thing that I do every morning without fail. And that’s make my bed.

Now, at first you might wonder why I’m such a stickler for making my bed. But I actually have a very good reason for doing so. You see, I believe that how you do ANYTHING is how you do EVERYTHING. Let that sink in for a bit…

If you start your day off by completing one productive task, then the rest of your day follows in that same momentum. You literally begin a FLOW of productivity.

Now, on the other hand, if you start off you’re day by checking email, checking your stats, and goofing around the Internet, then the rest of your day is very likely to follow in that same pattern. And before you know it the day is over and you have little to show for it.

So I complete my very first productive task of the day as soon as I roll out of bed.

Next, I go to the little store for some coffee. (I think everyone deserves to have a treat in the morning to get them rolling) Plus, since I work at home, it’s good just to get out of the house for a bit :)

Then, once I’m back home, I make my way up the stairs to my office, where I go to work completing my biggest, most productive task of the day… the task that’s going to have the most influence on moving my business forward.

By completing your most important task first thing in the morning, you will have accomplished more in the first few hours of your day then most people do in an entire day!

Now, in regards to the rest of my work day, I really don’t have a typical routine that I follow every day.

However, I can tell you what percentage of my time is spent doing specific activities.

Content Creation: 30-40% of my day. Creating great content is one of the biggest keys to succeeding online. It allows you to establish yourself as the go-to person in your marketplace. And when you create truly great content, your followers will be happy to spread your content around the web (on places like Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious,etc…) spreading your content virally. So go the extra mile to create what I like to call “tipping point content”.

Relationship Building: 30% of my day. The relationships you build are also  critical to your success. No one succeeds alone. We reach our highest goals because of the people we have surrounded ourselves with. So I like to spend at least 30% of my day interacting with other bloggers, building a relationship with my subscribers, helping out other marketers, etc…
The value you put out will come back to you 10 fold!

Marketing: 40% of my day – You’ve probably heard that content is KING, but  marketing is queen and no one will see your content if you don’t get out
there in the trenches and start promoting it.

So there’s a typical day in the life :)

I’d love to hear more about what your day looks like so please feel free to leave me some comments.

Cheers!

Got up before the rooster crowed this morning
because I wanted to get this special note to you.

Workin’ on my first cup-O-Joe as we speak :)

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about the Launch
Tree lately.

Who hasn’t right?

Well, before you buy today you would be Homer
Simpson kind of crazy not to check out my killer bonus.

I’ll let you in on the details in just a bit.

But first…

I want to tell you why I’m going to be the first in line
to buy today.

If you’ve been watching the pre-launch videos for
the Launch Tree, then you’ve seen the kind of
tremendous value they are providing.

Applying just a *few* of the techniques they’ve
been teaching can add thousands of dollars to
your bottom line.

By now you have most likely seen the videos with
Andy Jenkins, Frank Kern, Russel Brunson, Anik Singal
and Mike Filsaime.

Each one of them revealed little tweaks they have
made in their sales process to add massive profits
to the bottom line.

And this was just the free stuff they revealed
during pre-launch.

This product is unlike any I’ve seen before.

This isn’t “the same ol’ stuff repackaged”…

These are golden nuggets that you can take to the bank.

The Launch Tree takes you behind-the-scenes
and gives you the golden nuggets you need to
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And that’s why I’ve decided to put together a *CRAZY*
bonus package for for the first 75 customers who order
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Here’s what I have in store for you…

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My personal Rolodex contains every tool, resource,
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You’ll get a “behind-the-scenes” look at EXACTLY
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You’ll get exclusive access to my favorite ghostwriters,
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Be one of the first 50 people to buy through my link
and you will get 60 days of email coaching with me.
You’ll get exclusive access to my private email so
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Crazy Bonus #3 - Mystery Product
For the past few months I’ve been working on a mystery
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Crazy Bonus #4 – How to Get all the Big Boys to promote
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My top JV’s included guys like…

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John Chow
Jason Gazaway
Chris Freville
Guido Nussbaum
Steven Johnson
Jeff Czyzewski

… and I’ll show you exactly how I did it.

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Once the 75 packages are gone, that’s it! So you’ll
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So make sure you’re on the launch page when it goes live at
12pm noon EST.

I expect these bonuses to sell out in record time.

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Here’s What You Need To Do Next to Claim Your Bonus:
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Step 1. Go to my link and get signed up for the Launch Tree.
Here’s my link…

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Step 2. To get my exclusive bonus, send me a copy of your
receipt to: kim@buzzblogger.com

Step 3. As soon as I see your email, I will send you a
link to the download page. I’ll respond quickly so you can start
enjoying those bonuses in a matter of minutes.

I suspect that this bonus package will be gone within 24
hours, so you need to act fast.

I’ll see you inside Launch Tree!

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To Your Success,

Kim Roach

P.S. If you haven’t heard, Launch Tree is priced ridiculously low… and most people don’t give ANY bonuses for offers in this price range…

But I also know you’re on my list to get the very best. So I’m going to give you the goods on Launch Tree like no one else can.

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I have a secret.

But I’m not sure if I should tell you.

I mean, it pretty much lets me do whatever I want. It has been the key to achieving my biggest goals over the past couple of years.

It’s allowed me to defy the odds, blow past any obstacle, and achieve things I never thought possible.

Ok. So what’s my secret.

…. It’s the power of big, hairy, audacious goals.

2009 is in full swing, and I’ve already been feeling the power of my big, hairy, audacious goals.

… because little puny goals just don’t cut it.

I want goals that cause me to jump out of bed in the morning.

Now, to give you an example, I’m going to share with you, my 3 big, hairy audacious goals for 2009…

1. My first goal is to run 2009 miles in 2009. Now, I’ve been running since high school, so this is entirely within my reach, but it still requires me to stretch. And good golly, it’s just plain exciting. (Or maybe I’m just a running geek that get’s a thrill out of that kind of thing ;)

But it doesn’t stop there. You MUST define what you need to do EACH DAY to reach that goal. One of the biggest keys to achieving your goals is to make very specific goals.

For my running goal, I’ll need to run 5-miles per day (and one of those days will be a 10-miler)

And so far, I’m right on track.

Today I ran 5 miles in the pouring rain. (And it was awesome!)

Everyday I prove to myself that I defy the odds, and this translates into all areas of my life.

2. My second goal is to read one book per week. This week I read “Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncotested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant”.

Next week I will be reading “The Starbucks Experience” by Joseph Michelli.

And although reading a book every week might sound like a lot, it’s really not. I only read about 30 minutes at night before I go to sleep. That short time-period allows me to gain a HUGE amount of knowledge (especially over the course of a year).

I’ve dedicated myself to continuous learning because I know the power of knowledge. We’re living in a world of change and the winners are those who consistently stay ahead of the curve.

3. My final goal this year is to create a monthly membership program that matches my current income. There’s a HUGE DIFFERENCE between monthly recurring income and the traditional income you earn in your business from affiliate promotions, product launches, etc…

You see, if I don’t do any work next month, my income is going to take a big hit. But if you’re running a membership program, you’re going to be generating passive, monthly income, even if you decide to take the month off. Plus, all of the content can be delivered on autopilot.

This is one of the biggest benefits of recurring income. It creates passive income that you literally can NOT turn off unless you shut your site down.

Plus, running a membership site frees up your time to focus on other projects because you no longer have to worry about constantly creating new offers, writing new salesletters, and driving more traffic.

And like all of my goals, I have very SPECIFIC daily tasks to ensure that I reach this goal.

This year, I’m focusing on building leverage into my business.

That means building my list of subscribers (which is hands-down one of THE biggest leverage points in your business.)

I’m also focusing on multiple types of integration marketing, which includes perpetual ad swaps, thank-you page swaps, etc…

Some other big leverage points in your business include your relationship with other marketers, your affiliate program, and continuous testing. Think about it, if you raise the conversion of your sales letter from 1% to 2%, you’ve just doubled your income.

One of the biggest keys in business is to focus on those tasks that produce the greatest results.

It comes down to the 80/20 rule. You must focus on a small set of tasks that produces the greatest results. Dedicate yourself to a concentrated effort on the few elements that matter most.

Focus on your most important tasks.

As soon as you wake up in the morning, write down your 3 most important action steps for the day. These are the actions that are going to bring you closer to your business goals.

This is what I do in the morning…

I write down my 3 most important tasks for the day. (the ones that are going to grow my business.)

Then, first thing in the morning, I complete THE most important task on that list. That way, I have moved myself one step closer to my goal before most people have even got out of bed.

Now, this routine is critical…

By starting off the day by completing your most important task, you’ll find that the rest of your day follows suit, encouraging further productivity. You’ve tapped into a flow of productivity.

The key to success is doing something EVERY DAY that puts you closer and closer to your goal. Bite off one chunk at a time and you will soon find yourself achieving things you never thought possible.

One little action step at a time…

Here’s to a big, hairy, audacious 2009!

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At the end of this article I reveal a very special bonus that I’m offering to anyone who buys through my link. So be sure to read this article all the way to the end…

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By now, you’ve probably heard about Blogging to the Bank 3.0. I think I’ve gotten at least 10 emails about it in my inbox.

Well, I’ve had the opportunity to review the complete course and the first thing I can tell you for sure is that Rob uses blogs in a much different way than most people…

And it’s these subtle differences that have made him a small fortune.

You see, Rob is my go-to guy when it comes to making money with blogs.

Why? You might ask…

Well, quite frankly, it’s because he’s got the results to prove it.

Rob has turned blogging into a money-making science. In fact, he’s made as much as $90,480.34 in a single month from his blogging empire.

Click on the link below for proof…

http://www.buzzblogger.com/special

You’ll see actual screenshots from his various Clickbank accounts, along with photos of his $300k car collection… (The Ferrarri is my favorite ;)

Rob has recently released his million dollar blogging blueprint to the public in his latest course, entitled “Blogging to the Bank 3.0″.

Here’s what you’ll find inside…

First, he shows you how to find buyer keyword phrases that convert quickly and easily into affiliate sales.

- How to uncover the best, most profitable markets.

- How to Optimize Your blog for maximum traffic.

- How to Make money with your blog (even if you only have a few hundred visitors per month…)

- How to outsource all of your content creation on the cheap.

- How to siphon boatloads of traffic from Digg (without ever making it to the front page.) – This killer tactic is revealed on Pg. 43

Plus, Rob also reveals some of his super cool covert link building techniques for grabbing hundreds of high-quality backlinks with ease. (I gotta say… these are pretty juicy.)

Rob also shows you how to flip your blogs for big money. Rob shows you how you can easily flip your blog for thousands of dollars, even if it’s just making a little bit of money. (I’m talking like even if it’s just making a $100 per month.)

Find out for yourself at…

http://www.buzzblogger.com/special

You see, most people don’t hear a whole lot from Rob. You won’t find him on the forums, Twitter, or any of the other social networks online.

Instead, Rob spends his days perfecting a system that is now making him millions, bought him a mansion and multiple Ferarris.

But these kind of results are not out of reach. I mean think about it, what if you could do even a fourth of what Rob’s doing with blogs. You could still clean up quite nicely.

Rob has been tweaking and testing these techniques into perfection since 2005, so you can be guaranteed that you’re getting a proven system. In fact, I went through the entire system in just a couple hours and had my own blog up that same day. (So, yeah, not only are these techniques extremely powerful…They’re also idiot-proof.)

What I really like about this course is that Rob doesn’t include any filler. Instead, he has packed the entire course with a step-by-step, no-nonsense blueprint that will have you up and making money within the next 30 days.

If you want to learn from someone who’s been blogging online since 2005 and has created millions of dollars directly from his blogging empire, then I strongly urge you not to miss this…

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Special Bonus – Watch Me Rank in Google Live!

But Wait! First I want to offer you a special bonus for buying through my link.

I am offering you an exclusive bonus for buying “Blogging to the
Bank 3.0? through my link. And I’m going to show you exactly how
to dominate the front-page of Google and start pulling in cash
with LIVE examples.

Yep, I’m going to create live videos where you can watch me
select buyer keyword phrases, set up a blog, optimize the blog
for maximum search engine traffic, climb to the top of Google
and watch the money roll in.

You’ll get to see the entire process from start to finish. I’m going
to show you every step on video. You get to see the results live…

No theory here…just results. And you get to take part.

If you want to join me, here’s what you need to do…

Go to my link and buy Blogging to the Bank 3.0. Here’s my link…

http://www.buzzblogger.com/special

To get my exclusive bonus, send me a copy of your receipt to
kim@buzzblogger.com

Once I have received your receipt, I will send you all the details
about our live blogging challenge. The challenge will start 2 days
after the product launches so everyone has plenty of time to
review the course.

I hope you’re as excited as I am.

This is going to be fun

Here’s that link again…

http://www.buzzblogger.com/special

- Kim

This post was inspired by a thread at the Warrior Forum.
You Might Be an Internet Marketer If…

1. It takes you twenty mintues to explain to your family what you do for a living and they still don’t quite “get it”.

2. You wake up in the middle of the night and can’t resist checking your email and your stats on the way to the bathroom.

3. When the first thing you do in the morning is check your stats – before you’ve had breakfast or brushed your teeth.

4. You eat all your meals at your computer.

5. You start having withdrawal symptoms when you’re away from the computer for too long.

6. When you can’t sleep because you’re too excited about your next big project.

7. When working online has become more fun than work.

If you have others you would like to share, please include them in the comments…