The Daily Life Of An Online Business Owner

by liztomey
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Okay we are at the fifth and final part of this series, and just as a recap here's what we've covered…

1. How to find a niche that you love and that is PROFITABLE. Both things are vital!

You can see that post at http://liztomey.com/blog/do-you-love-your-niche

2. Setting up your business foundation. Another vital component, and you've GOT to do it right.

You can see that post at http://liztomey.com/blog/the-biz-foundation-method

3. Monetizing the business you've built.

You can see that post at http://liztomey.com/blog/turning-on-the-money-in-your-business

4. Driving the RIGHT traffic into your new business.

You can see that post at http://liztomey.com/blog/the-truth-about-traffic

Today we're going to wrap things up by talking about what you need to be doing each day to keep your business running.

Now there are so many different types of online businesses that you can run, so this is going to be different for everyone, but here's what most people will be doing.

Some of things you will do daily, some weekly, some monthly. Is what I recommend that you do is write down everything you need to do and then input it into a calendar.

I have Google Calendar setup for this, and have it set to email me every morning at 5am with my “to dos” for the day. I get an email every day and know exactly what I'm supposed to be doing, and this keeps me super focused and on track!

Alright so let's take a look at the typical stuff and this is in no particular order.

Customer support – It doesn't matter if you're selling your own products, selling products as an affiliate, or just running a content site you monetize with ads. There are real people coming through your business. If you're not selling your own products you will have less customer support than someone who is, but you still need to make sure that your audience has a way to contact you, and that you are responding back to them.

Learning – You can never stop learning. Either you're learning about new marketing tactics and strategies you can use in your business, how to make more money in your business, other ways to make money, and the list goes on and on, but you need to have dedicated time to learning more about running your business.

Content creation – If you have an online business it's in constant need of content. Your content hub for your business foundation always needs content, if you're using social media to get traffic then your social media sites always need content, if email is part of your online business then you need content for that, and the list goes on and on.

Money makers – Every day my first thought in my business is what is going to make me money today? What can I add to my business to make more money? Finding a product to promote as an affiliate. Working on creating a product to sell. Creating a marketing campaign. There are so many things you can be doing, but every day I'm working on something that makes me money either right this moment or in the future. You need to be working on this daily too.

Traffic – Like we talked yesterday. When you stop working on getting traffic into your business, the traffic stops, and you don't make money. Every single day you need to be working on traffic. I typically split my working time in half. Half of the time I have to work I spend on traffic generation. The other half is devoted to everything else.

Now as I said… Depending on your business will depend on what of these things you'll do and how much you will do of them. There are many many many other things too, but you get the idea here.

So back to my advice above…

Spend a week running your business, as you do things, note them. Then take those notes and input everything into a calendar so you have something to look at each day and KNOW what you're supposed to be doing.

Okay… That wraps up this series!

We've covered a ton of information, and I hope you're putting it to use.

If you'd like to see a complete online business built from scratch, and how all of these things work together, I highly recommend that you grab a seat in the Get An Online Business Workshop.

Everything I've covered in this series is covered in this workshop, but you get to see it ALL put into action, so you can do the same thing.

Right now the price is discounted, so make sure you check it out right now before the price goes up again.

You can grab your seat at https://learningim.com/get-an-online-business-workshop-wp

Talk soon!

Liz

Email Marketing Casestudy – Relationship Building

by liztomey
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So the other day I got an interesting email. I read this person's emails religiously. He sends them, I open immediately, and read…

I've done a video showing you why and how you can get the same results from your readers.

Also I've got an entire resource page that is an ongoing and regularly updated resource for everything you need related to email marketing. You can click here to see it. Save it and refer back to it as you go through the LIFE LONG process of learning email marketing >>> http://liztomey.com/blog/online-business-resources-topic/email-marketing-resources

Watch the video, take notes, and implement what I'm teaching you here…

 

How I Became Liz Tomey

by liztomey
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Today, we’re finally going to start talking about viral marketing… YEAH! 🙂

I want to give you an education in viral marketing, and give you a plan that will allow you to use viral marketing the exact same way that I have to not only brand myself, but make a lot of money too.

Many have asked me what viral marketing is, and there are a ton of terms for it. I define viral marketing in this way…

Viral marketing is any action that you do for your business that will be duplicated by others.

So for example, when I give you a free report. That free report probably has my name and website name in it along with my affiliate links. When I give it to you, I tell you that you can give it away too. So you send it out to your list, and a few people from your list send it out to their list, and on and on.

That’s viral marketing, and there are several techniques that you can use, but there’s one technique that has built my business faster than you would believe.

Resell rights products…

Not buying them, but CREATING them!

So many people think these little jems are dead, but they are sooo wrong. This July (2016) marks my 12th anniversary in Internet marketing. Most people think that I’ve been online for years and years, and that’s why my name is well known, but that’s not entirely true.

There's people who have been doing this longer than me and no one knows who they are and they don't make much money. It's not your time you put in. It's WHAT you put in…

The way that my name got all over the place, the way that my career took off, and the way that I immediately started making $1000’s of dollars a month in affiliate commissions was by creating my own resell rights products, and anyone can do the exact same thing that I have done.

I know that everyone isn’t a writer so I’m going to give a plan for the “do it yourselfer” and a plan for those who could outsource the whole thing.

Okay, for you do it yourself people…

Here is your step-by-step to creating your own resell rights product.

1. Find a topic to write your product on. Internet marketing forums are the best place for this.

Note: If it’s a video or audio product, you’ll still need to pick a topic.

2. Write an outline for your product.

3. Take your outline and fill it in with content. Make sure and put your affiliate links in where you can.

4. Have graphics made for your product.

5. Polish your product up. If it’s an ebook put your ebook graphic in it, and make the formatting look nice. You can even use one of my products as an example if you would like.

6. Create your sales letter for your product, and make it into a web page.

7. Create a resellers package for your product. Again, you could use one of mine as an example. You can get my resell products from http://www.ResellRightsForNewbies.com

8. Upload your product and contact people who you know sell resell rights products, and give them your product to get it out there.

Yes, this sounds like a lot of work and it is, but by doing most of the work yourself, you can save a lot of money. However, this is SO powerful. If you do this at least once a month in no time, you’ll see an increase in money, and in your name recognition.

Now if you don’t know how to do any of the above, you have two choices. Learn to do it or hire someone to do it. So let’s look at this step-by-step and by price if you were to outsource doing this. I totally outsource resell rights product creation now, so it is do-able.

1. Find a topic to write your product on. Internet marketing forums are the best place for this.

2. Write an outline for your product.

Note: You’ll probably want to do this yourself also. All you need to do is find 10-15 points about your topic and put them in an understandable order. If it’s an audio product the person you outsource this to can just write it like an ebook and then read it. If its a video product, you may want to be a bit more specific about what you
want.

3. Take your outline and fill it in with content. Make sure and put your affiliate links in where you can.

Note: Now this you can outsource at places like Guru.com. Tell them what you want, how many pages you need it to be if it’s an
ebook. Audio and video products are going to be different.

Price: $100-$300

You can get ebooks done for about $5 a page on sites like Guru.com.

However… Just because it’s a resell rights product doesn’t mean it can be a crappy product, so make sure you give all the info about the topic that you can. Audio products are going to cost you a bit more, and video products even more.

4. Have graphics made for your product.

Note: In order for your product to compete with all the other resell rights products out there, you’re going to have to have graphics done. These graphics will consist of a header and footer for your sales page, and a graphic image of your product.

Price: $100

You can also find someone at the freelance sites I listed above to do your graphics, or you can just search the search engines.

5. Polish your product up. If it’s an ebook put your ebook graphic in it, and make the formatting look nice. You can even use one of my products as an example if you would like.

Note: Is what you could do here is hire someone to take your product, and polish it up. Send them over one of my resell rights packages and tell them you’re looking for your product to look similar to this. I really recommend you doing this though, so you can put your affiliate links in, and really give it your personal touch.

6. Create your sales letter for your product, and make it into a web page.

Note: I actually should have put this as two steps, because you’ll need to have someone write your copy for you, and then take that copy and make it into a sales page.

Having sales copy written is VERY expensive, so you may want to buy a course on writing copy once you see the prices people charge for copy.

Price for copy: $250-$25,000+ (Yes, I'm serious.)
Price for sales page setup: $50-$100

7. Create a resellers package for your product. Again, you could use one of mine as an example.

Note: You could outsource this too. Just send your product, sales page, and graphics to someone, along with one of my packages and tell them you want it put together like I put mine together.

However, you could easily do this yourself.

Price: $50

8. Upload your product and contact people who you know sell resell rights products, and give them your product to get it out there.

Note: Your same person that did your sales page could create a download page for you, and get everything uploaded to your server for you.

Once you have this done, give your product away to those who can sell it for you, and tell them they can have it under the condition that they will direct people to your download page to download the product.

Why?

Well, if you make your name a squeeze page, and tell them they have to give their email address to get the download link, you could also start building a list. Do this a few times, and you wont have to give your product to people. You’ll have your own list to market them to.

So with this technique, you could…

1. Make money off the affiliate links in your product.
2. Make a name for yourself.
3. Build a list

What more could you possibly ask for?

Resell rights products are the way that I have built my business so quickly and so profitably.

Okay, we’ve had a REALLY long talk about viral marketing and how to use resell rights products that you create to put it to use.

Enjoy!

Liz

The Instant Authority Method

by liztomey
2 min read
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One of the most asked questions I get is…

“Liz, I'm a complete nobody in my niche. How do I get to be known and get people buying from me?”

I've done a workshop that I call, “The Instant Authority Method” that answers this question!

I'll show you how to build your list, get to be well known, create a huge network of JV partners, and become an instant super star in your niche!

 

 

And… If you'd like to have me as your personal coach to help you implement this tactic or anything else in your business then check out my coaching minutes packages at CoachingMinutes.com

I can help you with any aspect of your business including planning out and implementing one from scratch if that's what you need. 🙂

CoachingMinutes.com

To your success!

Liz Tomey

UPDATE: Due to popular demand I have done a follow up presentation for this strategy where I show the techy side of setting all of this up! Watch the video below to see HOW to put this all together!

 

 

ANOTHER UPDATE: Gotta love technology right? Well since I recorded the above video Profits Theme is no longer. 🙁 It totally broke my heart because that theme was so easy to use. Then along came Optimize Press (http://www.IMWithLiz.com/OptimizePress) and I fell in love with it. It's super easy to use and you can use it to do everything I did in the above video. I've been using it for almost 2 years now and I couldn't be happier with it!