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By the time you  read this, I will be on a flight from Pittsburgh, to Kansas City to pick up my 5 year old granddaughter and we will be flying back to Pittsburgh together.  She is coming to stay with “Granny and Grandad” for the next 3 weeks.  As you can probably guess I am extremely excited.

I loved being a mom, but nothing compares with being a grandmother.  That is the one thing I love about my Internet Marketing business.  I can pick up and leave to fly to Kansas and not have to ask my boss if it’s okay to take the day off. 

Today we’re going to talk about list building.  I don’t know about you, but this is one of the area’s of my business that I struggled with.  So I have a surprise for you.  I have one of  THE guys who practically invented online list building.    Jimmy D. Brown .  Jimmy has agreed to let me post an excerpt of his  List Profit System to share with you all, while I’m busy flapping my wings. 

In this course Jimmy teaches the difference between having a list and having a profitable list.  This is a fantastic course for beginners, and in my opinion should be recommended reading for anyone starting an online business. 

Ater you read this excerpt, make sure you go grab Jimmy’s FREE report “Six Steps To Six Figures With List Marketing” at this site .

But first here’s a few pages of the actual paid course:

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Excerpt from List PROFIT System
by Jimmy D. Brown

PART 3: Seven Opt-in Triggers That Get Subscribers Like Crazy

You can have all the right “ingredients” to an opt-in page (the things we just talked about in the previous section) and still not get great results. It’s how you put everything together that counts.

So, that’s what I want to share with you now.

You’re about to get the benefit of results from more than five years of tweaking and testing (and tweaking and testing some more!) the opt-in process. I don’t know if there’s anyone who’s been doing THIS longer than I have. I was using a mini-site to get subscribers since back in 1999 – back when list-building pretty much meant having a link on your site that said, “To join my list, click here.”

While there are a gazillion variations and distinctions, there are some basic “triggers” that I’ve found really do dramatically improve your opt-in rate.

There are seven of them…

Note: The first three are very basic, but I’ll be revealing some ideas that you’ve probably not considered before…so read them anyway. The final four are more “advanced” in nature. You’ll find that only those “in the know” are using them. Add your name to the list.

1. Offer Real Perceived Value. Years ago I went to the late Corey Rudl’s web site and he was giving away a free subscription (like everyone else) to his newsletter. What made his different than the rest? It had a simple notice near the subscription form reading, “$197.00 value”.

Instant perceived value at the time. (That’s not the case now with everyone putting inflated “values” on their free offers).

The point is this…you can CREATE perceived value. Here’s how.

- UNIQUENESS. One way to do this is through your own “unique” approach to your free offer. You can say the same thing as someone else in a totally different way and see a marked difference in responses.

For example: “$600 cash back” is NOT the same as “A year’s worth of free gas” to someone about to buy a car. (Especially today with gas prices rocketing skyward in leaps and bounds!) “A year’s worth of free gas” has a much higher “perceived” value even though its monetary value is the same.

What makes your list unique?

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I hope you enjoyed this excerpt of Jimmy’s List Profit System  .  I’ll be back tomarrow, one tired but happy granny, with more insights into Affiliate Marketing. 

Be sure to grab your copy of Jimmy’s Free Report “Six Steps To Six Figures With List Marketing“.  You’ll be very glad you did.

Stay tuned there will be a bunch more freebies coming your way shortly. 

Today I’m sharing a short product review.   In my opinion if you are starting or thinking about starting or have already started an Affiliate Program, you need to consider this product.

 Name of the Product: Sales Army Secrets by Jimmy D. Brown

Where you can Buy it:  Click Here

Product Description: This course illustrates how to increase site traffic and income by creating affiliate programs.

This is a complete course including audio and transcripts as well as a bunch of great bonuses to help you either get an affiliate program up and running or greatly improve your current program. Jimmy shares some of his best ideas and techniques that have helped him attract affiliates and keep them motivated and promoting his products.

In a step-by-step process, Jimmy shares how you can get an affiliate program set up within a matter of hours, what tools you should provide your affiliates, and what you can do on an ongoing basis to support your affiliates and get them selling for you each and every month.

The product also includes a great interview with Jimmy’s own affiliate manager – Nicole Dean – who answers questions on how to find a great affiliate manager, why you need one in the first place and what to look for if you are thinking of hiring someone to take care of your affiliate center.

Who This Product is Intended For: 

Anyone that wants to:
• Start an affiliate program
• Improve an existing affiliate program
• Hire an affiliate manager
• Become an affiliate manager
• Learn more about affiliate marketing

Uses: This course teaches the reader how to build, market and run a profitable affiliate program. 

Pros: Sales Army Secrets gives step-by-step instructions- complete with examples -to creating, implementing and improving an affiliate program.  Additionally, it explains why, as well as how, to hire an affiliate manger.  It also shares ideas to help your affiliates make more money while increasing your income, too.

Cons: I don’t really have any criticism of the product. It’s just too bad Jimmy is not sharing his affiliate manager.

Personal Opinion:

I like how “step-by-step” this product is. While it is great for a beginner who doesn’t have an affiliate program in place yet, it also contains plenty of advanced ideas and strategies that helped improve my current affiliate program. After going through the audio and transcript for the first time, I came up with 2 pages of ideas and changes that I am currently working on implementing.

I also have a better understanding of the role an affiliate manager plays in the process. 

I highly recommend this course to anyone considering an infoproduct business online.

Click Here to see just exactly what I’m talking about!

I want to start out today by telling you about a work from home course that tells you exactly how to get your home office and yourself organized for optimum productivity.  Let me tellyou, you are seriously going to love this.

Did you ever wish that  you could be a fly on the wall of one of the big kahuna gurus’ to see how they have their office set up?  Watch them set up their schedule and then tell you how this whole “Work at Home” thing goes down?

Well Jimmy D. Brown, one of the “Serious Kahunas”, and my favorite mentor, has done just that with his Homepreneur Habits course.  It even has a picture of him working at his desk in his PJ’s.

I learned so much from this course that I asked Jimmy if I could put an excerpt from it on my blog.  He said yes, so check it out :

Hello, this is Jimmy D. Brown, author of the SR Zone™ Reports.

One of the questions that I get a lot from members of List And Traffic (as well as from my other customers and even subscribers) is this -

What does your home office look like?

There is a lot of interest in learning about the equipment I use, the setup of my office, my daily routine, etc. So, I’ve decided to create this report that I’m entitling, “Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business”.

My goal for this series is to teach you some basic setup and operations for establishing and maintaining your own home business office, which, ultimately, will translate into more efficiency, productivity and … profitability!

Whether you are a complete beginner or a seasoned pro, I think some of the insights that I’ll be giving you into how my own office and business is organized and operated will be beneficial to you in your own pursuits.

And, YES, just so you know, I really do work in my pajamas! In fact, as I’m writing this article I’m sitting here in my Ralph Lauren Polo pajamas and a white t-shirt. My wife snapped this picture just a couple of minutes ago…

(Warning: This is Jimmy in the morning in his pajamas … not for the faint at heart

Continue on at your own risk.

No lifeguards on duty.

Turn back, turn back, turn back.

Okay, you were warned…

(picture removed — only for customers)

You really can operate your own business in your pajamas. Or anything else for that matter. But, please, no file-sharing. I’ll take you at your word when you tell me you work in the same pair of holey underwear from college just to remind you of where you came from.

Okay, back to the point. I’ve got this series divided into three parts…

Homepreneur Habits:  How To Run A Successful Home Business

Lesson #1: The PRINCIPLES Of A Successful Homepreneur

Lesson #2: The PARAPHERNALIA Of A Successful Homepreneur

Lesson #3: The PRACTICES Of A Successful Homepreneur

In our first lesson we’ll look at some guidelines or “rules” that I go by in organizing and operating my home office. Lesson two will cover specific equipment that I use in my daily operations. And in lesson three I’ll share how to organize your schedule for increased productivity and results.

I’ll be sharing lots of visuals as you’ll be given an “all access” tour of my own home office.

All of this begins in our next lesson.

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If you’d like to read the whole 64 page report, just go to Homepreneur Habits and get your copy while it’s still such a bargain.

With what I learned from this report, my productivity went up exponencially, and a lot of Jimmy’s other loyal customers say that this couse is their favorite yet.

Go take a look for yourself here

I have been trying to start an online business for about 5 years.  I started out with a MLM company.  This was my first attempt at making money online.  It was a very well known company and the products were good, but a bit pricey.  After 2 years of making calls, buying leads and not even breaking even, I quit that company.

I tried various other online money making “schemes” over the next couple of years, but most just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.   I bought alot of the “Guru’s” products.  You know the ones, just buy their product, do what they tell you and you’ll be rich overnight. 

The problem was I was a 48 year old grandmother who didn’t have a clue what HTML was or how to build a list, what an opt-in page was let alone put one on my page.  All the things they took for granted that you knew how to do, if you wanted to start an online business.

I always felt like I was missing something.  That they were leaving something out.  Or I was just too obtuse to understand.  I actually started to think that I may as well give up, because I was never going to get the hang of this internet marketing thing, no matter how hard I tried.  Not without spending a fortune (that I did not have) on more of the next best thing.

Then I found Jimmy D. Brown.  He was like a breath of fresh air, a life line to a woman drowning in a sea of internet marketing bilge water.

The first product I bought from him was Homepreneur Habits.  From that 65 page report I learned the principles of a successful Homepreneur, the tools I would need to implement to become a successful entrepreneur that would get me out of my day JOB and not become another one of those people that is just another statistic of a wanna be internet marketer.

Homepreneur Habits laid the ground work for healthy home office strategies, but I needed more.  Now Jimmy D. Brown is known for over delivering what he promises.  I signed up for his newsletter, and I found myself receiving a plethora of free reports, articles, and newsletters.  All with information to help me make money online.

Go check out Homepreneur Habits here.  I promise you won’t be sorry.

Well, I got my ticket to NAMS2.  I was able to come up with the $247.00 by today to get my ticket with Lynn Terry’s discount.

I counted up all the change that I tend to save up and what I had in my savings account.  (My savings account is different from my husbands and my account, in that my account is strictly mine to do with whatever I choose, made up solely of that change I save.)     I had a whopping $200.00   not enough.  I told my hubby that I was short $50.00 bucks.  He said that if it was that important to me, he would give me the $50.00.

You see at the moment money is running tight so I really didn’t want to take household money to do this, but I took it as a loan.

Now I just need to come up with my plane ticket money and my room money.  David promises a refund if you can’t make it for any reason, so I really feel like there is no risk.

We shall see if I can save up the rest by August.  Stay tuned.