Build Your Business By Exchanging Value!

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If you want to build your sustainable internet marketing business you must do it by exchange value! And specifically by giving more than you want to get back. Think,  how will I add value to people. By doing that you will get people to know, like and trust you. You will be their go-to person when they need trusted products and services. It is not as easy as it was to be a successful affiliate marketer. If we take a look at the last ten year period we see that a lot has changed. 10 years ago a front-end products price was typically between 77$-97$ from which you got a 50% commission off. Today a typical front-end product is around 10$ which get you somewhere between 50-100%. Not only is the front-end of a product much lower but also the advertising costs are way up. Average CPC (cost per click) in 2005 was 0.38 cents compared to 2.14 cents  CPC in 2016.

You can still make it as an affiliate marketer today but you have to be smart and try to stack the odds in your favour. Promote high-quality products that have great upsells most preferably products that will give you recurring income. You can find offers on sites like JVzoo, Warriorplus and Clickbank. Promote services that you personally use, one time or recurring. You use them and can, therefore, give them an honest review for your customers. 

As I mentioned in my former post I decided to go back to basics and joined the QSC a live training hosted by my mentor Dean and his partner in the QSC training, Craig. I want you to join me in the Quick Start Challenge, week 2 challenge. I promise it will be fun and it will help you to get more focused on why you want to start an online business. What do you want out of your business? What is your dream life and what is your monthly goal to make it happen?

KNOW YOUR NUMBER.

When asked most people pull a number out of thin air for their desired income. (most say 10.000$ a month) Your business should fuel your life, not the other way around. Why quit your 8-hour job a day if you are going to sit in frustration in front of your computer for 10-12-16 hours pr. day and don´t give your self enough time to really enjoy the internet marketers lifestyle. So what does your dream life look like? It is a MUST to actually sit down and figure this out. (with no limits) Then you can investigate how much you need to actually make to live it.

F.e house, car, vacations, education, fun, charity, investments, etc. It is different based on each and every one of us. You can use a spreadsheet or just do it as I did with a notepad and a pen. O.K my number after I put together my list of things is around 7000$ pr. month. I don´t know on what stage you are in your business. Maybe you are just starting out and think that your number is way out of reach but I encourage you to put your list near your computer and look at it every day so you always remember why:

You want an online business.

You want the different lifestyle. 

And what it will roughly cost per month to live it.

And take steps to achieve it and NEVER stop.

And do whatever it takes.

Let’s just say for the arguments sake that we had the same number 7000$ pr. month. Maybe you think that is a number you could not get each and every month by selling products and services. But what if we would break the number down? first, we divide it on the 4 weeks of the month and then we have 1.750$ pr. week. Do you think that you could sell for 1.750$ pr. week? what if we would break that down to a 30 day period. Do you think that you could sell for a sum of 233$ pr. day? I promise you that with the right help and training you could work towards your number and be there in a few months time. (MANY people I know have begun selling for between 3000$ and 10.000$  after a few months of training and work) But it won´t just come to you. You have to work towards your goal each and every day. But isn´t that worth it? 

You can either promote as an affiliate or create products to get to your goal or you can use the third option that I will introduce to you in my upcoming posts. But this is enough for now. I will be back with my next post in about a week or so.