Successful Joint Ventures

Posted on 22. Sep, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi … its Annette Welsford here … and today we in the Our Internet Secrets teleconference call we had our faculty member, Janet Beckers, join us from www.wonderfulwebwomen.com and she walked us through how to set up successful joint ventures.

She is a real whizz at this. She’s been doing it for quite awhile now and she’s interviewed some of the most amazing, successful and famous people from around the world. When she first started out, she had no product and no list.

On the call she walked through with us – exactly what makes a great joint venture partner. Not everybody’s the ideal partner for you. There is a checklist that you need to go through to find out if they are going to be a good joint venture partner.

How to have power and passion in what you do, particularly if you are going to set up a joint venture arrangement with somebody wealthy and famous. There is obviously a bit of a power imbalance there and Janet shows us how to get through that power imbalance and balance out the scales a bit.

She walked through how to find joint venture partners – some amazing ideas for thinking outside the box, using social media, how to do your research. And finally how to approach joint venture partners so that you build a relationship such that they hear your pitch and they immediately think, yes, this would be a great person to do a joint venture with.

And … make sure that there is a win:win:win:win for everybody involved. So, if you are a member of Our Internet Secrets, login and listen to today’s call. It’s well worth it.

Bye for now … Annette

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7 Steps To A Successful Podcast Interview

Posted on 05. Sep, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi its Andrew here … and welcome to the Our Internet Secrets website.

I’ve just got off the phone from talking with Yaro Starak … Yaro is one of our faculty members in Our Internet Secrets and he is probably most famous for his blog www.entrepreneurs-journey.com.

He has been very successful in that and has taught many people to be successful in blogging all around the world. What Yaro was talking about today was the 7 steps to a successful podcast interview.

Yaro really built his business in the initial stages around doing podcast interviews. He would find successful people on his subject … he would go out and interview them, create an MP3 file and convert that into a podcast that he would publish through iTunes and a number of other different medias that are out there.

Over time he built up hours and hours of content talking to successful people on his subject. He has been quite dramatically successful in that area.

Yaro took us through a number of key steps to be successful with your interview and putting the interview together. Just to touch on a couple of the things that he covered, he went through the hardware and the software that you need and it was quite interesting. You really don’t need that much.

He talked about how he started with literally a basic MP3 player with a built in mike and he would record on that. He built up from there. These days he is a little bit more sophisticated than that and he explained exactly what he did on the call.

He also talked about how to convince famous people to get on your podcast. It was very interesting that Yaro was able to set his sights high on people he wanted to interview in his niche. He was targeting the key people – and he might not know this, but he set a plan together on how to get to know people who refer on.

It was a great strategy he shared with how to get famous people to come on your site.

And … he talked about the types of questions and how you get people to answer the questions that you want and how to structure your interview. The main thing he focused on here is that you need to get them to explain their secrets to success in a step by step fashion about what they did to be successful in the area that people are wanting to know about.

So, there are lots of cool things that Yaro covered in this topic about how to do a successful podcast interview. If you’ve got a moment and you’re a member of Our Internet Secrets take the time to login and have a listen to this call. I don’t think you’ll regret it as Yaro Starak shares some of the key information about successful podcast interviews.

Talk to you soon … bye – Andrew

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What To Do To Get Your Business Set Up For Sale

Posted on 05. Sep, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi … welcome to the Our Internet Secrets blog. Today I had the pleasure of talking to Matt and Liz Raad and we were discussing what you need to do to get your business set up for a sale.

Now, Matt and Liz really like the philosophy of starting with the end in mind. And this is what they called their talk … basically starting with the end in mind and then how to make sure you get the big payday on your website.

What they hold to is that you need to set your business up so that at any stage the business could be sold.

The two main reasons that you want to do that are because it allows for your business to operate in the best possible way in making the most money. If you are getting your business prepared for sale – you will always wanting to show your best sales figures, the environment the system is working in and so on.

Also … you are in a position to take advantage of selling your business, should you choose to.

It is always better to have the choice to sell as opposed to having a business that you can’t sell because you haven’t structured it correctly or haven’t got it set up.

Matt and Liz took us through some real key points – things that you need to put in place from the start to ensure that your website can be sold. There are basically 5 key things that they had a look at there.

They also discussed what makes your website valuable to buy when the buyer comes along so that they will pay more for your business than somebody else.

They shared what websites are selling now and what’s really hot in the market. They went through a bunch of examples from start ups of $0 to tens of millions of $$$ within as short a time as 18 months.

So, there is some really exciting information that they’ve shared with us. If you want to find out some more about what Matt and Liz have to offer, you can go to www.howtobuyandsellabusiness.com or if you are a member of Our Internet Secrets, you could go into the members’ area of Our Internet Secrets and you’ll hear the whole talk there.

Have a great day … Andrew

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How To Find Bonus And White Label Products

Posted on 09. Aug, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi … its Annette Welsford here … and today in our Teleconference for Our Internet Secrets we talked about how to create product and we had our faculty member, Darren Stephens, join us as our special guest today.

He gave us fascinating insight into where to find bonus products – how to create them or how to find existing ones and also create your own products or go and find other people’s products and white label them and get master resale rights.

It was quite interesting … because many of our members want to know how to create their products, particularly if they are not very skilled in writing.  You don’t need to be.

There is a whole bunch of places where you can find existing product, you can find writers, and not only that Darren gave us 35 ideas on how to easily find or create products to add value as bonuses to our existing businesses.  That really helps to set us apart from competitors.  If you are offering a $100 product for $20 benefit you have a lot of little bonuses that go with it.  This creates a lot more value for your buyers.

He also gave us some inside tips into how to get celebrity interviews which was quite illuminating.  I’m going to try that oneself.  He gave us a link to where you can find the latest private label rights products.

If you don’t want to create your own products, you can go and buy something that has been created straight away that has already been developed by other companies and they are offering them for private labelling – this is white labelling – and also the master resale rights.

So if you’re a member, login to http://ourinternetsecrets.com and go to the teleconference area and learn how to create and find a whole range of fabulous products and bonus products.

Bye for now … Annette

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How To Choose Topic For Your Information Product Based On Your Life Experience

Posted on 09. Aug, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi folks … its Daryl here. We’ve just finished this week’s Our Internet Secrets teleconference call which is all about how to choose a great topic for an information product based on your life experience.

Now … if you’re selling a one off info product like an eBook for example, it is certainly not essential that you know anything about the topic. But if you do, there are some distinct advantages and disadvantages to doing that.

What we did in today’s Our Internet Secrets’ teleconference call was run through all of the advantages of doing an eBook topic about something that you know a lot about and also the disadvantages, maybe a couple of things that you hadn’t thought about.

We then ran through the process of how it is that you actually identify what sort of things, based on your life experience other people may well be interested in. We have a series of questions that you can use to identify those things and we also talked about how you can involve others in that process to get a much better quality list of potential topics based on your life experience.

So guys … go listen to the Our Internet Secrets teleconference call … this call is in preparation for our 2 day workshop which is on next week, so if you haven’t booked in for that – remember it’s a Members Only 2 day workshop – so make sure that you book in and come along to that.

Looking forward to seeing you then … Daryl

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Mindset Issues When Choosing A Niche

Posted on 19. Jul, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hey everyone, its Daryl here.  Andrew and I have just finished this week’s Our Internet Secrets teleconference call where we talked about the mindset issues which can cause you problems when you are choosing a niche for an information product.

You see its one thing to have a great system to help you identify a hot selling niche, but having a great system – while that system could be the best system in the world, it’s not the only factor that you need to consider.

Quite often its people’s mindset which actually causes them problems when choosing a great niche for an information product.

Andrew and I went through 8 different subconscious blockages or beliefs or programs that you may have that are causing you problems when you identify a hot selling niche for an information product.

So get along and listen to the call where we go through in detail what those 8 blockages are and we also talk about how to address those blockages and overcome them.

Enjoy the call today.

See ya … Daryl

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How To Build Your Brand With Your Own Book Or Magazine

Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi …. this is Glenn Walford here and I’ve just finished up today on the Our Internet Secrets teleconference call for Our Internet Secrets members.

What I was talking about today was how to build your brand with your own book or magazine?

I have put together a whole book series in my niche on franchising of 5 books and also put together a magazine that has got national distribution.

I talked about some details about how you can do that.  As I did all this as a self-published person and I’ve been able to do that inside 18 months.

Your Own Book Is The “New Black”

What I covered in the teleconference today was why getting your content in print is the “new black”.

When we talk about things being the new black everything seems to be going digital with online content – where I view that there is definitely an opportunity to get a book in print and that can be the thing that people are physically holding.  So when you are using a book to build your brand and you’ve got it in print you can take it:

• to listing presentations
• to appointments to try and close deals
• seal deals for lead generation

And that is going to be the key point of difference that you can hand over.

Imagine handing over something to say “here you go, I wrote the book on it”.  That is going to be the key thing and that is why I see that a book is the “new black” because everyone wants to send you a PDF of content, you’re going to have a book that you can show people and it’s not going to be just a brochure.  It’s going to be a book on your whole business and about you.

Benefits of Being An Author

I talked about the benefits of getting in print as an author.  Most recently at a workshop in front of a couple hundred people – we asked everyone how they viewed an author and we came up with words that were thrown at me from the audience were things like:

• An author is an expert
• An author is credible
• An author has authority

And all that sort of thing kept coming out of the audience.  So regardless of whatever is happening with books and going on online, people still firmly see an author as credible and the expert.  That can be you in your own niche if you get your own book or even your own magazine in print.

Steps To Building Your Own Book

I talked about 4 steps to building your own book.  They are:

1. Decide on your topic and your twist
2. Write your book
3. Get published
4. Make your marketing happen

These are things that are broken down into 4 pretty straight forward steps and I went through all of those today.  It was really good fun going through those.

Your Own Magazine

Finally I talked about getting your own magazine.  Many people would not have dreamed about getting a book let alone getting a magazine happening.  I talked about how you can repurpose content from the book that you have and you can create the content for almost an entire series of magazines out of it.

So you can get a magazine that goes beyond you just having a brochure about you or your business but actually having a magazine where you can put a whole bunch of ways to monetise that magazine at the same time by creating connections and joint ventures with your peers and your suppliers in whatever business you are in.

It’s an amazingly powerful tool and you can have it in print or in the new digital page flip technology and I talked a lot about that.

The other exciting thing is that I have got a workshop coming up on 29-31 July – it’s called “Build Your Brand With A Book” workshop.  It is going to be in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast.  I look forward to seeing you there.  If you are interested in getting along to that workshop, please do make contact at support@ourinternetsecrets.com and we can have a chat then about coming along.

Thanks … Glenn

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How To Make Money Using Webinars

Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hey everybody … its Andrew here – and welcome to the Our Internet Secrets blog.

Today I was on the phone with Steve Essa. Steve is also known as the “Webinar Guy”. He took us through the 7 secrets to making big money with webinars.

What’s Exciting About Webinars?

What was really exciting about that is learning about the platform of webinars and how you can get your sales message across. Or any message in fact, to educate your clients and motivate them to take action, to buy your stuff or go and do something else that you need them to do.

It is a powerful media and technology that allows Steve to be very successful online and be able to live the life that he wants to live by travelling around the world and doing all sorts of things.

So, some of the key points that he took us through were 7 points that he wanted us to learn about making money with webinars.

How To Choose Your Webinar Platform

This is the first point that Steve talked about. He said that choosing your webinar platform is very important, making sure that you are getting the right technology to start with and choosing that technology is key to getting a good quality product out there.

Choosing The Right Webinar Model

The second point he talked about is choosing the right webinar model. You can do your webinars in a number of different ways and choosing the right model for the message that you have is pretty important as well. Steve went through a number of different models that you can use to promote or sell product.

How To Promote The Webinar

There is no point in having the best webinar in the world unless you actually have people there listening to the webinar. So promoting the webinar is very important. He shared with us heaps of ways of driving traffic to your webinar and having people turn up.

Running The Webinar

Steve talked about some of the things that you need to do to run your webinar.

How To Collect The Money At The Webinar

He talked about how to get people who are listening to your message on the webinar to be able to get money into your bank account. He showed us the mechanics of how to do that.

How To Automate Your Webinar

What this basically means is that once you have your webinar recorded – you do your webinar once – you record it and you can then set it up on auto pilot and set it to run automatically when you are not there. He has some very clever ways of doing that as well.

So, what this basically means is that you can have a webinar running when you’re not there. It sounds like you’re talking and delivering your messages that you want, but it means that you don’t have to be there or be involved.

The Importance Of Using Affiliates

He talked about how affiliates can go out and sell your webinar on your behalf as well. These were some more advanced strategies that he covered there, but that really helps you super charge your program you can effectively make lots of cash from other people’s efforts.

If you are a member of Our Internet Secrets, you can go in there now, login and listen to the call. It was a fantastic call with lots of great information.

If you’re not a member, why not? You should be a member of the Our Internet Secrets program.

Either go in and find out more in the site here about how to become a member or you can send us an email at support@ourinternetsecrets.com with your phone number and we’ll give you a call and have a chat about how this program will help you and your business.

Have a great day. See you soon.

Bye … Andrew

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Renovate Or Detonate

Posted on 30. Jun, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi there – its Andrew Grant here and I wanted to tell you about a phone call I’ve had with one of our Faculty members, Janet Beckers.

Now, Janet is the founder and operator of a fantastic site called www.wonderfulwebwomen.com – I suggest you go and check that site out. It’s a fantastic site in which Janet has been able to be totally successful online setting up her business – and she has also talked about how other women from all around the world have been able to do the same.

Janet has made a craft out of being able to interview people and extract some of their success secrets.

How to know if your business is good or bad?

What Janet was talking about today though was when do you know when your online business is a good business or a bad business?

Is it something that you should work on a bit more – and renovate it – or is it something that you should detonate and get rid of it?

The topic of her call today was “Renovate or Detonate?” and she took us through a number of key strategic tools that you can use to assess your business to work out where it is you are at the moment.

Now … it is really key to be able to see whether you are flogging a dead horse sometimes or determine if there is gold in that business. Sometimes you get a little bit close to the business and you don’t quite know whether to take it to the next step. You seem like you’ll have to put a lot of effort and time into it – and do you know whether it is worth taking it to the next step and putting that effort in?

So, Janet took us through 5 major audit tools she uses to help people decide whether or not you should renovate or detonate.

If you are a member of Our Internet Secrets, take a moment, login and listen to that call. It went for about an hour – its packed full of great tips and secrets that you can use to work out whether or not you are on a winner or whether maybe you should cut your losses and get going on a new project.

That call is from Janet Beckers from www.wonderfulwebwomen.com.

Bye … Andrew

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How To Dominate Your Niche Quickly and Easily

Posted on 23. Jun, 2011 by Our Internet Secrets.

Hi and welcome – in today’s Our Internet Secrets teleconference we had guests Matt and Liz Raad, who are faculty members, along talking about the secrets of making money from websites.

They have been doing this for a while quite successfully themselves and not only that – they are professional business brokers … so they know exactly what’s involved with buying and selling off-line and now online businesses.

They’ve seen all the mistakes that people make and they’re here to share with us some of the things that you can do to not make those mistakes.

Today it is a very exciting time for buying and selling websites and it is a really exciting time for just being online … so what we wanted to do was give an overview of how you can go out there and dominate your niche and get some more traffic coming in for your eBooks and membership sites by buying the right kind of website.

What we want to go over is first of all a bit of an update of what is going on out there. There are some big sales happening and there are a lot of bargains still to be found – and we want to give you an overview of what is happening in the buying and selling of websites.

There are two strategies that we use. First of all buying websites to get more traffic – what you should be looking for there, how you value them and how much you should pay for those sites and number #2 strategy is buying up websites to be able to really dominate your niche.

This would be really powerful for a membership site.

We will go through where you find those sites and where you need to start looking to buy them and we will then give you the 5 golden rules to selling businesses and websites. Our 5 golden rules should keep you safe from the beginner mistakes.

You tell us what to look out for when buying a site and also how much to pay.

This is the hottest topic around these days in terms of business so we look forward to hearing all that information.

If you are a member of Our Internet Secrets you can go to the member’s area and download this teleconference call and find out the 5 golden rules to selling websites.

See you next time … Annette

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