A Pretty Good Podcast Is All You Need – A Podcast How-to

©2010 Doug Champigny – http://dougchampigny.com

A pretty good podcast, or really a succession of pretty good podcasts, is all you need to attract an online audience. But just what does a ‘pretty good podcast’ entail?

First, let’s look at how to make a podcast. A podcast is just creating MP3 files from your audios – it can be you reading an article, giving advice, teaching how to do something or an audio recording of a teleseminar or webinar you did. If you’ve been creating MP3 audios and putting them on your blog, you’re already a podcaster whether you knew it or not.

So don’t be frightened of becoming a podcaster, especially since you don’t have to get it perfect – a pretty good podcast will see you through. Your best podcasts will be the ones that deliver the most information, information helpful to your target audience, irregardless of the quality of your MP3 audios.

Now that doesn’t mean you should have a lot of background noise or poor recording quality – your best podcasts should be crystal clear and easy to understand. But creating a pretty good podcast can be done with the standard mic and headset combinations for computers, or even with the mic built into most laptops and netbooks these days.

If you need a podcast tutorial there are a lot of Podcasting 101 type of resources online, but really it’s just a matter of recording the material you want and then uploading the audio MP3s to your blog or using an RSS feed to submit your podcast site to a podcast directory like Podcast Alley or iTunes.

But the main point here is it doesn’t have to be perfect – you don’t need fancy intros, background music, audio effects and the like – nor do you need to have that perfect ‘radio voice’. As long as you speak clearly and don’t have a heavy accent you’ll be fine – or, of course, you can always have a friend, colleague or pro voiceover artist do the MP3 recording if you feel your voice isn’t ‘right’ for your podcasts.

In general though, don’t get too wrapped up in the technical side of RSS feeds, creating MP3 audios, building an RSS script, etc – focus on the content you deliver, and on delivering that helpful content on a regular schedule. As any successful podcaster can tell you, consistency is more important than the quality of your MP3 audios, as long as you’re producing a pretty good podcast at the minimum.

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Marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny is the author of ‘It’s You, Live! – Podcasting and Vlogging Your Way To Success’. Creating podcasts and video blogs is just part of the curriculum taught in his PowerStart Marketing coaching classes. Doug is also a regular speaker at many of the live marketing events and conventions around North America – watch for him speaking live onstage in your area soon!

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It’s time for the next event in our free PowerStart Webinars series, this time Video Marketing TODAY! with the ‘King of Camtasia’ Lon Naylor. It’s another live online webcast, this time at 8pm Eastern on Tuesday, June 8th. Attendance is limited to the first 1,000 people though, so be sure to register now…

Just glancing around this blog you’ll see I’m no stranger to creating videos or to using videos for marketing online. But what you may not know is I’m also a professional glamor videographer and the author of such e-books as “It’s You… Live!“, a guide to podcasting and vlogging (video blogging) and “Creating Your Own Videos“, a guide to creating your own video products to market online. I’m also the creator of various video tutorials such as “Converting PLR Videos” and the “PLR Tutorial” training videos. So to say I’m comfortable with my video skills is an understatement…

I don’t say all that to brag, but so that you know I’m a video expert and that when I say Lon Naylor is the ‘King of Camtasia’ I’m definitely qualified to make that evaluation of Lon’s skills. Teri & I met with Lon at JVAlert in Philadelphia last month, and then after my speech there we all went to dinner to further discuss Internet marketing and affiliate marketing in general and using videos in particular. I was sufficiently impressed with Lon’s knowledge on the subject that I instantly asked him to present one of our PowerStart Webinars events on the topics of creating videos and using videos for online marketing and he agreed to creating a video tutorial webcast for you – the webinar tomorrow night is the result of that meeting.

About Lon Naylor…

Amongst his other activities online, Lon is the owner and operator of the Learn Camtasia blog and video training facility. While most marketers haven’t even upgraded to Camtasia 7 yet, Lon already has a coaching program for it! Lon regularly teaches marketers and product creators how to leverage screen capture videos (like those made with Camtasia) for maximum marketing effect.

A 30-year veteran of the computer industry, Lon spent the last 10 years of his professional career during the decade of the 90’s as a senior engineer at Microsoft before ‘retiring’ in 1999 at age 41. There he specialized in high-level multimedia presentations where it was not uncommon for millions of dollars in revenue to be at stake.

His ability to take highly technical concepts and break them down into simple, easy to understand presentations and tutorials is a result of the years of experience gained in his long career working with companies like Honeywell, American Express, and the national labs at Sandia and Los Alamos.

As an extremely early adopter and evangelist of the Internet, he has long recognized and exploited its massive potential for delivering effective sales messages via video to a global audience.

As an authority on the Camtasia suite of video production software, he is a highly sought out resource and the ‘Camtasia go-to guy’ of many of the top internet marketing names such as myself, Willie Crawford, Ken McCarthy, Bob ‘The Teacher’ Jenkins, and many more.

Lon is on a mission to “Rid the world of lousy marketing videos” as he puts it, and carries on this effort from his rural Wisconsin home on the Apple River enjoying trout fishing from his backyard, kayaking, and recording music in his recording studio. But his greatest passion remains in creating effective marketing videos and teaching others to do the same.

About the Webcast…

Video Marketing Today will be an hour or so of solid content – content you can put to use right now in your marketing and/or product creation efforts. Creating videos and using videos effectively will be just a part of the story, as Lon has promised to reveal secrets like the 3 common video marketing myths, the 5 common things you must NOT do with video and the 5 things you should be doing RIGHT NOW when creating videos and using videos in your marketing mix.

While we always hope to make these PowerStart Webinars recordings available to you after the event, we’re all all too familiar with the glitches that can crop up online, so I can’t guarantee the replay will be available – best be online at the webcast to be sure you don’t miss this powerful tutorial broadcast. At the end of the call both Lon & I will be available live to answer any questions you have about creating videos, using video promotions and creating video products, so you’ll want to be there during the live event anyway.

But as I said at the outset, the webinar broadcasting service only makes bandwidth available for the first 1,000 attendees, so be sure to register now and then arrive a few minutes early tomorrow night! Pay attention, take notes, ask your questions and you could be creating videos and using videos online like a true pro in no time – See you on the webcast!

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This week in my role as PowerStart Marketing mentor I had the pleasure of hosting a live webinar for my students where Jeff Dedrick revealed his JV Power Launch Secrets! Jeff has had the longest uninterrupted string of big JV launches in Internet marketing history, with his first launch hitting 6 figures each each success launch being roughly double the previous launch.

Since no other Internet marketer has managed to pull this off, I asked Jeff if he’d share his secrets with us, would reveal his process for setting up these huge joint ventures and ensuring their success. Not only did he agree, but he’s letting me give away copies of the webinar recording too, so even if you missed the event you can still download a copy of JV Power Launch Secrets Revealed for free!

I want to publicly Thank Jeff for his generosity, both because this is invaluable marketing strategy that’s never been revealed to the public before, and because he took the time to do the webcast in the middle of his current prelaunch for Automated Traffic – in fact, to demonstrate some of the techniques he uses, he even gave the viewers a sneak peek at features not even announced for Automated Traffic yet.

So right now, while you can still download it for free, if you’re running an Internet marketing, affiliate marketing or any other online marketing venture, be sure to download Jeff Dedrick’s JV Power Launch Secrets Revealed and watch it – it’s 84 minutes packed with the knowledge this millionaire marketer has learned in the online trenches over the past 5 or 6 years!

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Affiliate Silver Bullet (ASB) launches at noon Eastern on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 – about 14 hours from now as I write this post. And it really couldn’t come at a better time for the affiliate marketing world…

Affiliate marketing, and Internet marketing in general have both changed majorly as a result of the global recession. While there is still plenty of money to be made with online marketing, it definitely takes more time and effort to truly succeed online compared to just a couple of years ago.

In my own case, the month between my last post and this one is by FAR the longest break in my blogging since 2004. But don’t take that as a sign I’ve been idle – after speaking at Mark Hendricks’ Internet Super Stars Conference in Orlando Florida in January we launch our PowerStart Internet Marketing coaching program in February and our Affiliate Marketing PowerStart coaching program at the start of April. So not only am I tied up on coaching calls every Monday & Wednesday night, but the Internet marketing coaching program alone required the time for me to create over 1.5 GIGS of training videos to supplement the webinars!

Then, as you saw in the last post we were heavily involved in pushing the Tweet Traffic Rush launch last month and this month the pre-launch for tomorrow’s Affiliate Silver Bullet opening.

And May looks no less hectic – including a new launch from Jeff Dedrick and a quick trip to Philadelphia where I’ll be speaking at Ken McArthur’s JVAlert Live! seminar, which runs May 14th to 16th.

So why do I say this launch comes when needed most? Because a service like Affiliate Silver Bullet is one more opportunity to add additional income streams where most of the work is already done for you…

Like myself, many of this blog’s community jumped all over ClickBank Pirate when Cindy and Soren launched it last year, and I’m pleased to say it made me money both during the launch and every single month since then. If you missed it, CB Pirate is a service that creates a new site for you to promote each month with a video squeeze page and free report to give away. Once a prospect downloads the report they’re placed in an autoresponder series that promotes one ClickBank product in the same niche as they’re free report. So literally all you do is drive traffic to your squeeze page each month and their pre-made system takes over from there to make the sale for you.

Affiliate Silver Bullet is much the same, but with one major difference. If there was any flaw in the CB Pirate service it was that you don’t own the list it generates – since people opt in to the system’s autoresponder, the list stays there, not under your control. That’s great for selling that product, but you then don’t have access to them to sell additional products, promote your own sites, etc.

Bearing that in mind, Cindy & Soren have addressed that issue in this new launch… With the sites from Affiliate Silver Bullet you have your choice of leaving it all hosted and automated by them, or downloading the materials and putting hem on your own site, thus using YOUR autoresponders and leaving the resulting list in YOUR control!

At least in my humble opinion, I now have the best of both worlds – when I’m really busy elsewhere I can just leave things as they are and simply drive traffic to my CB Pirate and ASB squeeze pages each month, and when I have more time can set up a month’s ASB package on one or more of my 150+ websites and use it as a lead generator as well as a profit center.

If it goes as I expect it will, this will be one more tool in my affiliate marketing arsenal that brings in long-term results – check out www.Affiliate-Silver-Bullets.com yourself right now and see if it can be a big help to your efforts too!

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Tweet Traffic Rush Video Tour and Explanation

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://dougchampigny.com

Tweet Traffic Rush launched yesterday, and from all initial appearances it’s the best new tool for Twitter users to build their Twitter following, get far more exposure for their tweets, and thereby build traffic to their squeeze pages, salespages and affiliate links.

Here’s a quick video about Tweet Traffic Rush:

Tweet Traffic Rush, as you see in the video, is designed to earn you credits from you showing their widget, and also from those who sign up under you, under them and so on for 10 levels deep. The Free version of Twitter Traffic Rush is fully functional and powerful, but the paid version is that much more powerful again.

Head on over now and see how much farther you can extend the reach of your Twitter marketing – failure to use this amazing new service would be a major mistake for marketers, especially when you can start using it today for free! Spread your Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and niche marketing reach that much further with this powerful Twitter application, Tweet Traffic Rush.

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Here’s a quick video I created for you that shows how to use Affiliate Marketing Programs to build traffic and build Opt-In Lists:

As you know, the ability to build traffic and build opt-in lists at will is the secret to successful marketing online, so don’t miss ANY opportunity that’s this powerful – be sure to get your own affiliate marketing program up and running as soon as you put your first product online. If you don’t have a professional affiliate program yet, you can get one cheap – it’s part of the package from Hosting4Marketers.com and I can highly recommend it, since I’ve been using their affiliate marketing program for years now for all of our products!

For more ideas on how to build targeted traffic and opt-in lists you can download my free report, or learn more about it in depth as part of my PowerStart Marketing Internet Marketing Coaching Program.

But no matter what methods you prefer to learn from, be sure to learn everything you can about how to build traffic and how to build opt-in lists as quickly as you can – the success of your Internet marketing, affiliate marketing or any other online work-at-home business depends on it!

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Here’s a great Internet marketing video, for a service I heartily recommend:

Now, you can get into the Plug ‘N Pay site but first I want to talk to you about using video online – you can always join Plug ‘N Pay after you read this, ok?

If you’re one of my more recent converts to this blog, you should know that I had the first actual bundle of Internet Audio & Video Tools online back in 2006 – and you can tell it was that long ago by the fact that I had short hair in those videos – hadn’t been out of the advertising game long back then!

At the time, everyone – well, almost everyone, thought I was crazy to say that video was the future of the Internet. But to their credit, Willie Crawford and Jim Edwards each had ONE video at YouTube at the time – mine was the 3rd-ever Internet marketing video on that site. But for everyone else, online video seemed like a pipe dream…

Fast-forward 4 1/2 years and video is everywhere online – especially in online advertising like the video above. If you’re not using video yet you better hurry and get it together, because otherwise you’ll be scooped on every affiliate marketing or Internet marketing promotion you run.

Already using online video as part of your Internet marketing arsenal? Is the quality up to the one above – or at least close? Because that’s the coming wave of competition, so sharpen your skills as an Internet videographer if you expect to stay in the forefront on the big launches!

If you aren’t using Internet marketing videos or affiliate marketing videos yet it’s almost at the point where you have to play catch-up now – and in a while it may even be too late to make up the ground you’ve lost. After all, online video drives sales, drives opt-ins, drives traffic and drives your marketing promotions up the search engine results pages (SERPs).

But don’t despair – I come not to bury your hopes but to enable them!

Here are two choices to get you up to speed quickly with marketing videos:

1) Creating and distributing videos is part of the curriculum in the 4-week PowerStart Marketing Coaching class. You can start as soon as March 1st and have your first videos online by April 1st – marketing videos you yourself created!

2) If you’re quick, you can get iFlash Video, the company that made the video above, to make a custom Internet marketing video or affiliate marketing video for you every month for just $50 – normally they charge hundreds per video, but right now they’re about to launch a monthly service. But be quick and get on the pre-launch list – the site will only be taking members for four days, max.

So if you’re ready to start making Internet marketing videos or dying to start making affiliate marketing videos then get into the PowerStart course right away. If you think video is still beyond you, get into the monthly service at iFlash video right away.

And if you really want to start rocking and rolling with online video, do both for maximum exposure! But you DO have to hurry – your competition is already starting to leave you behind!

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PowerStart 2010: Little Steps To Big Internet Marketing Profits

©2009 Doug Champigny, DougChampigny.com. All Rights Reserved.

Internet marketing has evolved into quite the beast, hasn’t it? Blogging, salespages, squeeze pages, OTO’s, download pages, contact desks, PLR, web 2.0, social networking, teleseminars, webinars, podcasts, videos, e-courses, e-zines, affiliate programs, interviews, seminars, conferences, masterminds, cruises, bootcamps, joint ventures, membership sites, mentoring, coaching… All a part of Internet marketing as we head into the new decade. And that doesn’t include the higher-end strategies like telemarketing, direct mail & postcard marketing, advertising, infomercials and other offline tie-ins.

As professionals, the small group of us who have been working online full-time since the mid-nineties often marvel at the changes and wonder why we never seem to get everything done that we had planned to… Well no wonder – just go back and re-read that list! Without an ever-expanding staff or team of outsourcers and virtual assistants (and the related overhead), no one can even try to keep up with it all… We have to pick and choose what we think is the best use of our time and money based on our individual Internet marketing business and our overall online presence.

But stop and think for a moment about the poor newbie just starting into the industry… We’ve learned each new technology or strategy one by one as they came along, adding to our empirical knowledge of the beast. And watching our industry grow, nurturing it along from it’s first few wobbly steps and through it’s infancy has been a logical, if somewhat trial-and-error, process for us all, with each new piece either fitting into a slot in our existing operations or replacing a worn-out strategy (remember FFA pages? LOL)

To those first dipping their toes into the murky waters of Internet marketing today, the cacophony of options is deafening – and further amplified by the dozens or even hundreds of e-mails they receive all telling them they have to do this, that and the other thing – most contradicting each other and often even themselves! Worse yet, almost every one of those e-mails extols the ease of getting rich quickly with Internet marketing – a lie that simply sharpens the blade as the fear of failure hangs over them like the sword of Damocles. ‘Analysis paralysis’ sets in as they try to see how it all fits together and judge whom to follow, whom to trust and whom to disregard from the barrage of pitches they face daily.

Between the fear of failure, analysis paralysis and all the technologies and strategies, is it any wonder that 98.5% will never make money online, or that only about .5%, if that, will go on to earn a living from Internet marketing? Yet it certainly doesn’t have to be that way…

While our egos may not like to admit it, those of us at the top of the game know that none of what we do each day is rocket science. While we’re constantly refining our techniques and trying to uncover profitable new strategies, these are just degrees of advancement – the basic steps we take each day are not complex. The trick to helping more neophyte marketers succeed is to guide them as they learn the business the same way we did – one step at a time.

If you’re an internet marketing newbie, don’t try to digest it all at once – and don’t feel any pressure to make money fast online. It’s not the right milieu for you if you’re under the gun to raise your rent money or stave off foreclosure – spend your time finding part-time work and dig yourself out of that hole, then turn to Internet marketing as a way to supplement your income or secure your future long-term instead.

Then as you foray into the fray, trial-and-error will be your steed, focus and action your weapons. Yes, you have a lot to learn, and you’re going to make mistakes both big and small. We all do. Live with it. You can minimize your mistakes, both in number and severity, by hiring a good mentor and following their advice to a ‘T’ until you’ve achieved a modicum of success online. Until then ignore conflicting advice – most pros will never intentionally mislead you but there are many paths to success online and trying to follow a number of different systems will overwhelm and confuse you. Just pick one proven path and walk it til you know the business better and have regular income coming in from it.

Start by setting up a blog, an e-zine and a squeeze page to get people onto your new list. Give yourself a week – two at most – to get that much done. Don’t do anything else til those are prepared – learn how to do them and get them completed. That is all you need to get your toe in the door, and it’ll help train you to take focused, concentrated action on the tasks at hand while blocking out the rest of the noise that’s part and parcel of the Internet marketing arena.

From that point forward learn to use the social media and web 2.0 sites to drive traffic to your blog and your squeeze page and you’ve set the wheels in motion… Whether you choose to start into affiliate marketing, resell rights marketing or creating your own products from that point on is up to you – consult your mentor on the best path based on your talents, goals and aspirations. But those first small steps – setting up your blog and starting your e-mail lists – will provide the solid foundation you need from this day forward – and do wonders for your confidence and pride in a job well done!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet Marketing mentor and speaker and a recognized super-affiliate who has been online full-time since 1996. Be sure to visit his DougChampigny.com Internet Marketing Blog, his Captain-Affiliate.com Affiliate Training Blog and to follow Doug on Twitter!

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Aim For Empirical Success In Your Online Marketing

©2009 Doug Champigny, DougChampigny.com. All Rights Reserved.

Success in online marketing can mean great wealth and a lovely lifestyle your friends and acquaintances will envy, so it’s no wonder so many people are turning to Internet marketing as a path to their success. Unfortunately, most come into the business with misconceptions and improperly planned strategies…

First, understand that making a huge splash with one big JV launch is not success – it’s a one-night stand. If you don’t have your foundation in place, have focused just on the one product and now have to start over from scratch, you’re one more ’shooting star’ we’ve seen come and go so many times in this industry. And if you’re coming into Internet marketing thinking it’s a get-rich-quick scenario, you’d be better off spending your time chasing leprechauns to find their pot of gold – at least you’d get to see Ireland that way!

The truth is, in almost every case success online is the result of a continually-growing body of work – an increasing number of blog posts, web sites, publications, products, articles, podcasts, videos, etc., all adding to your branding, spreading your impact, defining you as an expert and providing links back to your current operations.

And the big joint venture launches I mentioned? It’s by interacting with others, both online and through live internet marketing events that you build your circle of contacts in this industry, and the more helpful, courteous and honest you are, the greater your circle of online friends becomes. With each successive launch you do you can have more friends promoting you and your products or services if along the way you’ve been helping others with their efforts and promoting their launches.

Start by attending live events and introducing yourself to the speakers during the breaks or at night after the day’s seminars. Let them know a bit about you, and ask what you can do to help them – what products could you promote as an affiliate, do they have any launches coming up, etc. Many of my current JV and adswap partners started just that way, approaching me at events I was speaking at or attending. Don’t ask them about promoting YOUR products – leave that til you’ve proven yourself helpful to them.

If you can’t get to the live events, join the affiliate program for some of the bigger names and promote their products heavily til you’re racking up sales for them – not only will you be making your affiliate commissions, but making a splash in their affiliate program is one of the fastest and surest ways of catching a guru’s attention! Use the same tools you’d use to promote your own best product – your e-zine, blog, podcasts, videos, Squidoo, HubPages, Google Knols, Twitter, etc. This certainly isn’t the time to scrimp on effort – when promoting anything for the big names you’re in a league with true pros, so be sure you give it your best shot if you hope to be noticed.

Here’s a simple exercise that will show you the power of building up an empirical body of work… Pick one day a week and make that your ‘new material’ day. Then, each week on that day write one new article relevant to the niche or topic you’re targeting with your main Internet marketing activities. When it’s done, record an audio version of it to use as a podcast, being sure to refer people to your main blog at the end of it. If you know how, create a video version as well, using the main text points from the article with the audio from the podcast. (If you don’t know how, open Windows Movie Maker or get Sony Vegas and start learning it now – it’s the way of the future online!)

Post them to your blog, then finish up the day by submitting the articles to the article directories, the podcasts to sites like iTunes and Podcast Alley, and the video to YouTube, Viddler, etc. Do yourself a favor and pick up a pro program or service to save time with the submissions – like the Easy PushButton Traffic service I mentioned here yesterday. Immediate results from this will be little or none – but over time you’ll see your traffic, and hopefully your sales, start to climb. A year from today you’ll have over 50 articles published across the net, podcasts and videos galore, and all of them branding you and pointing back to your main blog.

And that’s from just one day a week – maybe two days if you’re time or expertise is limited. Either way, that still leaves the other days for new product development, additional blog posts, getting products online, etc, and even on your new material days you’ll still be sending out your e-zine, so there’s no loss of revenue along the way as you build this body of work.

Yes, it takes effort, focus and perseverance to build up a body of work online – and that’s what separates the wheat from the chaff, as they say. In today’s vernacular, ‘you won’t get your bling if you don’t work the thing!’ If you’re serious about making money online with Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, blogging or any other work-at-home activities, roll up your sleeves and put in the effort it takes to succeed – start building your own empirical success online today!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet Marketing mentor & speaker and a recognized super-affiliate who has been online full-time since 1996. Be sure to visit his DougChampigny.com Internet Marketing Blog, his Captain-Affiliate.com Affiliate Training Blog and to follow Doug on Twitter!

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PowerStart 2010: Your Internet Marketing Priorities

©2009 Doug Champigny, DougChampigny.com. All Rights Reserved.

Internet marketing can cure many of your financial woes and put you on the path to successfully running your own home-based business. It can give you the freedom and financial wherewithal to travel, to explore our passions, and to meet hundreds, if not thousands of new & exciting people. In short, it can take you to your own dream lifestyle!

Internet marketing can also drain you financially, waste hundreds or thousands of dollars, and leave you feeling like you’ve been ripped off, lied to and cheated at every turn online.

What’s the difference between these two scenarios? How do you become a victor instead of a victim?

Believe it or not, the answer just may lay in your own priorities – in just HOW you use your money and your time. As an obvious example, it was reported tonight that Hollywood just had it’s best weekend EVER in the theaters – more people paid to see a movie this weekend than at any time in history. Yet everyone is moaning constantly about how tight money is, how rough the economy is right now, and that they can never ‘get a break’. Yeah, right!

A victim spends an hour today telling friends how broke they are, then goes and blows $50 for tickets, drinks & food at the show. A victor would use that same 2 or 3 hours to write 2 or 3 articles, do a couple of podcasts or knock out a new promotional video, add them to their blog and then use a service like Easy Push Button Traffic to distribute them all over the web. And that same $50 would pay for their blog hosting & autoresponders for the whole month at Hosting4Marketers.com AND a whole month of Easy Push Button Traffic services, with a few bucks left over for a soda!

The next day the victim, now broke, stays home to watch TV and has nothing to show for the previous night except maybe a slightly wider butt. The victor, however, now has more content on the blog, hundreds of new backlinks to their site and/or affiliate links, and may even have made a few bucks and/or gotten a few extra signups for last night’s efforts. More importantly there’s still another 30 days or so of Hosting4Marketers.com and Easy PushButton Traffic left in the month, so any downtime can be turned into uptime by doing more articles, podcasts, videos – maybe even press releases. Or, since the hosting includes room for twelve or more sites, maybe adding products for sale, more list-building squeeze pages, etc.

Now, the victor may not be any brighter than the victim – but look at the difference their priorities made! Internet marketing isn’t rocket science, nor do you NEED to be a pioneer… There are many systems going that have worked over and over and should, most likely, continue to work for some time to come.

Nor does it need massive amounts of money to get started. For the most part, successfully launching an Internet marketing business requires you to invest SOME money and SOME time – and usually the more you put in of one, the less you need to put in of the other. While taking that to either extreme will take too much time or be overly expensive for most, a happy medium can easily be found…

Don’t start into Internet marketing if you have no outside form of income – there’s very little likelihood you’ll make enough to support yourself quick enough to stave off the wolves at the door. And even if you did, you’d need the income for that instead of being able to reinvest it in your new company’s growth. As a general rule, don’t even THINK about trading in your offline income to go full-time online until your online earnings have DOUBLED your salary for at least 3 months straight. I say doubled to allow for any sudden drop in earnings, and 3 consecutive months because we all have good and bad months – you want your AVERAGE month to be more than double.

Next, set yourself a monthly budget for your online spending that you can reasonably afford from your current earnings. You should aim for anywhere from $50 a week up, but be sure it’s not so much you’ll have trouble meeting your current commitments. DON’T be tempted to go over that set amount until you have earnings coming in from online to augment that budget unless you have a sudden influx of many from another source – a bonus, sale of stock, whatever. Once you get seriously involved in this business it’s easy to start spending uncontrollably, so having that limit firmly in mind before you start will be a big help to most prospective Internet marketers!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet Marketing mentor & speaker and a recognized super-affiliate who has been online full-time since 1996. Be sure to visit his DougChampigny.com Internet Marketing Blog, his Captain-Affiliate.com Affiliate Training Blog and to follow Doug on Twitter!

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