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Lonnie MintonGrowth Has A Downside – Will You Be Ready?
By admin | July 12, 2010
The Turtle Dad is back because the turtles are growing too big for their equipment and I wanted to post instead of Gizmo. He did try to bite me when he saw me open up this blog as he has become a bit protective of it of late.
Fortunately I still have control and locked the top of the tank so he is stuck and can respond later this week if he desires when I take a break.
If you look at the picture to the right the ramp they have in the tank is now on the bottom of the tank instead of providing them with a resting place out of the water. When they all get on it they are too heavy for it to support them anymore.
This happens with your business too. As it grows some of the tools that you use may be too light weight to support your current business.
One of the first places you may see this is with web hosting. You start out with a small plan but often if your business is successful (isn’t that what we all want?) you may find your site displaying the bandwidth exceeded sign instead of your blog, sales page or squeeze page.
Making sure that you can expand with your web host easily is an important thing to look at when you are looking at hosting.
Now there are other things to consider with hosting and support is always the top of the list but make sure that you can easily scale up your hosting when you start and this will save you lots of headaches as your business grows.
That is one of the reasons I like HostGator because the support is first rate and they make it easy to scale up as you grow.
So consider that when looking for hosting and whether you choose HostGator or another host make sure you they can handle that easily for you.
After all you do plan to expand to where you will need ore hosting don’t you?
Well off ot the store to find a better solutions for the pigs turtles to take their siestas.
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$24k in a day? You gotta see this video!
By Gizmo | July 9, 2010
Gizmo here and I was actually paying attention while the Dad was watching this video from James Grandstaff. He thought I was just lounging around on the platform but I saw this got his interest.
When he told me it was time to blog for this week I checked his email and found this. Figure if he likes it you might too. Besides copy and paste is easier on the flippers than lots of typing. 
Have you ever dreamed of doing one of the those “Product Launches” that bring in more money in a day than you make all year?
Well, apparently it’s not as difficult as you may think.
Check this out…
My buddy James Grandstaff just released a new video that walks you through the entire *Launch Sequence* he used to make over 5 figures in a single day.
True story.
He generated over $24,000 in one day – which he says was more than he made at his JOB during the ENTIRE previous year.
And you won’t believe what he was selling – (or how simple it was to create!)
Take a look…
You’ll also witness his PayPal account *get money* LIVE around the 5 minute mark.
Thats all from the tank this week.
Gizmo
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How To “Borrow” Other People’s Buzz TODAY (Think Traffic!)
By Gizmo | June 30, 2010
Gizmo here and I like the copy and paste stuff if you haven’t noticed. It saves me crawling around the keyboard . The Turtle Dad should not have shown me how but Jimmy D Brown sent him an email about this great article he could reprint so I decided I would use it here.
How To “Borrow” Other People’s Buzz TODAY (Think Traffic!)
By Jimmy D. BrownDid you know that other people “warm up” your customers for you with their “big product launches”?
And, did you further know, that a huge opportunity for you to create sales for YOUR product or a product you promote as an affiliate can be the result?
If, that is, you “borrow” the buzz that other people are generating.
Imagine this scenario…
Mr. Marketer creates a new $2,000 product. He “launches” it with his friends. Everyone on the forums is talking about it. Every email sent out within the marketplace has something to say about it. Bloggers are raving. The whole industry is buzzing about the new launch.
The average conversion rate is 2%. And that’s not on $2,000 products. But, let’s assume that Mr. Marketer is the best in the biz. And he can generate something obscene like 25% conversion rate on a $2,000 offer (which, by the way, ain’t likely to happen).
IF that were to happen, the flipside is this: 75% DON’T BUY.
In other words, for every 100 visitors to the “launch” site, 75 of them walk away without buying.
Were they uninterested? If that’s the case, they likely wouldn’t have visited the site in the first place.
In the majority of the cases, they $2,000 price tag was out of their reach. Not in the budget. Don’t have the money. Been there, done that … didn’t have the cash to buy the t-shirt!
So, what can we learn from this?
We can learn…
* These 75 out of every 100 who don’t buy are probably interested to some degree.
* These 75 out of every 100 have heard all of the buzz and have been “presold” on the premise of the product.
* These 75 out of every 100 are strong candidates to buy a lower-priced, related alternative.
That’s where YOU come into the picture.
You “borrow” the buzz that’s been generated for the big product being launched by talked about by everyone as you promote a lower-priced, related alternative!
Here’s how you do it…
1. Look for high-dollar launches in your market.
The first step is to keep your eye on the pulse of your market. Whenever a major new product is being launched, get busy. You’ll usually know days, if not weeks, in advance because that’s how launches work: they do a lot of “pre” build-up work to get people salivating for the eventual launch. Keep your eyes out for anything new in the works.
2. Promote a low-cost alternative.
It doesn’t matter if you write a quick 10-15 page report, promote your own existing product that is related or grab an affiliate link to some other existing product or service. It doesn’t really matter WHERE you obtain this lower-priced alternative. The important thing is that you find one. It needs to be related to the topic of the big product being launched. It can be related either (a) by teaching a similar concept, or (b) teaching a portion of the big product’s concept.
3. Write a mailing that explains the two options.
You’ll want to write a mailing to send to your subscribers or to post at your blog. This mailing needs to contain three important elements…
– Content that presells. Share some meaty nuggets related to the offer you are ultimately going to promote to set the table.
– A small blurb about big launch with your link. Mention the “major” launch briefly. Describe it’s benefits and use an affiliate link of yours to point to the offer. Mention that it’s only drawback is “price”. Express that many people can’t afford it.
– A stronger promotion for your option. Then, really hit home with this “lower-priced, related alternative”. Let them know the benefits are similar at a fraction of the cost. Be sure to point out that it’s priced for everyone — especially those who feel “left out” of the big budget launch because they can’t afford it.
Then, it’s just a matter of getting that mailing out to your subscribers.
Let’s look at what you have in place as a result of this strategy…
* You have two promotions: a minor one for the same “major” launch everyone else is promoting, and a “major” one for the lower-priced, related alternative.
* You have “borrowed buzz”. Everyone in the marketplace is warming up prospects with all of their “talk” about the importance of the subject matter of the “big product launch”. They are primed and ready to buy … something!
* You have a spike in sales coming.
This is a wonderful strategy for getting extra sales.
Remember, there are always a whole lot more people who DON’T buy the product being offered in the “launch”, than those who do! You’ve got a huge pool of prospects in the 75-98% of people who don’t buy the $2,000 offer. Many of them WILL buy a lower-priced, related alternative.
So, the only thing left for you to do is get started.
And if you’ve like a shortcut, let me show you a quick way to do it TODAY.
You have almost certainly seen that Product Launch Formula 3.0 (PLF3) has launched this week. Everyone is talking about it. While there are a lot of different strategies and ideas involved in a “launch”, the backbone is the same…
*** Other people send you the majority of your traffic.
It’s obviously a very *HOT* topic right now. People are scrambling to pay BIG BUCKS for the course.
But…
Do you think everyone can afford it?
What about the tens of thousands of internet marketers who can’t afford it, but who ARE INTERESTED in the subject?
What a shame to let them sit by without getting any sales from them!
But, don’t worry — you CAN get sales from them! Here’s how…
You offer them something for PENNIES on the dollar that provides the same end result: other people sending them traffic for their products and services!
A few days ago Jimmy D. Brown announced a resale rights offer for his SalesArmySecrets.com course.
There are still licenses available for YOU to grab in order to sell a low-cost alternative to the high-dollar “launch” product that everyone is jabbering about.
***BUT IT GETS BETTER — FREE PLR to $20 Report! ***
Jimmy wrote a report several months ago which he briefly made available to one of his membership sites. It’s entitled “How To Get R.I.C.H. With Your Own Affiliate Program”.
(It was pulled after a month and is no longer available anywhere.)
The report is 21 meaty pages in itself, but it also strongly promotes the Sales Army Secrets course at the end.
When you order one of the remaining licenses for Sales Army Secrets, Jimmy is going to give you (no cost!) a free PLR license to the special report!
You can sell the report for $20, give it away, do whatever you want with it (as long as you don’t misrepresent it or mention Jimmy in reference to it)…
…while using the endorsement at the close of the report to promote YOUR COPY of Sales Army Secrets!
It’s a ready-made marketing report to get people to buy Sales Army Secrets from you! You can sell Sales Army Secrets for $97 per order and keep 100% of every sale!
Here’s what you need to do…
1. Order the Sales Army Secrets resale rights license
2. Register and open a ticket at Jimmy’s support center at http://www.Infoprofitshare.com and provide his staff with a copy of your receipt.
Within 24 hours someone will send you the download information for this special Free PLR offer.
That’s it!
Get one while it lasts…
Sales Army Secrets resale rights licenseThere’s only ONE catch…
This special offer is for the next 3 days only. On Friday, July 2nd at 10PM CDT, Jimmy is shutting down the license offer and this Free PLR offer. They will no longer be available. Officially “retired” at that point.
Grab yours now: Sales Army Secrets resale rights license
Then you can quickly “borrow the buzz” of those promoting PLF3!
Great way to set up a funnel and The Turtle Dad is always preaching the value of setting up sales funnel so I will echo him. (Besides it strokes his ego and maybe he will feed us more .
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Must see video
By admin | June 25, 2010
Gizmo here and I admit that right now I am fat and happy as we had fish and clean water yesterday. So because I am feeling so lazy I convinced Dad to copy and paste a quick message below from Marlon. After all anyone that would let a mouse get access to his autoresponder is okay with us turtles. Animals of the world unite. Oops better hope the Dad misses that part. Glad he did his part first. Besides the Dad really likes and gets excited about Marlon’s stuff. He made lots of notes while watching this short video.
Marlon Sanders just released a brand new video.
It really opened my eyes.
It is called “The 7 New Rules of Selling In 2010“
On this video he covers these 7 new rules of marketing in 2010.
Rule Number One: The foundation of ALL marketing and selling in 2010 is the “Value Proposition”
Rule Number Two: There’s a proliferation of new products and services at hyperspeed
Rule Number Three: You don’t sell in a vacuum any longer.
Rule Number Four: You no longer sell a product or service. You sell a set of experiences.
Rule Number Five: The strategy is the same but the tactics have changed.
Rule Number Six: The new sales formula is based on creating and implementing a Value Proposition.
Rule Number Seven: Marketers who win in 2010 must sell a superior set of experiences AND do a superior job of COMMUNICATING that set of superior experiences to the TARGET customers.
By the way this changes everything about how you promote on Facebook, Twitter, create products, teleseminars, webinars, sales letters and many other aspects of your business.
I don’t know how long he’ll have this up so I recommend you watch it now:
That is all from the turtle tank this week so I am off to relax after this strenuous work out. Hope Dad gets more fish soon they are much better than the normal food and a lot more fun to chase.
Gizmo
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Market Samurai – What is that keyword stuff anyhow?
By admin | June 16, 2010
Hi hope you are having a good day. Gizmo here and Dad is taking his break so I came out to have my chance running around the keyboard.
At first the idea of doing these upset me but the more I do it the better I like it.
Now there is a lot that I don’t understand but I do watch Dad doing his work here next to the tank. He seems to do a lot of keyword research and other things with a tool called Market Samurai.
It seems to be helping him because we get gold fish regularly and I hear him talking in conferences about the power of getting the right keywords. Any time he gets asked he recommends Market Samurai for doing that keyword thing and I heard him say they had a free trial.
I do know that they have some great tutorial videos and I really like that ninja thing with the swords they use in their beginnings.
I am a turtle and keep hoping to someday hit they gooey stuff and turn into a Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtle and do that neat kung fu stuff.
Well Dad is back from his break time for me to get back in the tank and do my relaxing thing. I am much better at that than I am at writing.
Oh yeah before ya go check out the free trial of Market Samurai.
Later dudes, where’s the green goo.
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Gizmo is back and learning to be an expert
By admin | June 11, 2010
i made a huge mistake last week by sneaking out and posting here. the TURTLE DAD OOPS WHAT DID I DO. Oooo kewl now I can actually capitalize things here when I want to. That caps lock key is kewl.
Oh, if you did not guess this is Gizmo once again and this time I did not have to sneak out. Once the Dad figured out I could post by myself he refuses to post anymore. What’s a turtle to do? He won’t feed me now til I post something.
So I guess I need to have an idea but I did notice what Dad was talking about on his blog. Really wish I could figure that mouse thingy out I would fix him and copy and paste his post.
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Back had to take a break all this stretching is tough on the flippers.
Well this morning the Dad was muttering about becoming an expert and how you could become an expert at any skill in 27 days. Not sure what he meant but check it out. He was excited about it.
Guess I have to work hard now geez no break for a poor turtle.
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profitable blog steps – gizmo speaks out
By admin | June 2, 2010
gizmo here and my apologies for the all lower case as i can’t reach the shift key and a letter at the same time with my flipper. normally we just give the turtle dad suggestions and he does the writing but he quit for a bit and i snuck out of the tank.
the turtle dad just released a new product on affiliate marketing and we turtles know about what dad teaches.
affiliate marketing generates good things like goldfish and the yummy white calcium blocks from what dad makes here spreading our ideas.
so if you are looking for ways to make more with affiliate marketing check out his new release at profitable blog steps.
we benefit from dad’s knowledge you might as well too.
gizmo signing off and heading back for a nap before dad realizes i been out. pleas don’t tell him he does not know we check out the house at night
don’t forget he is having a sale but only for the launch at profitable blog steps so you can save $20 and that is 160 gold fish so it is a nice snack.
gizmo
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3 Easy Ideas To Implement Quickly
By admin | May 24, 2010
The turtles are not really good at finding new ideas. The way they react does give me some ideas on occasion. Their concerns are to have a place to play, a place to relax and to be well fed. They got me and that has made them quite fat and happy.
When you are trying to create a business online you need ideas.
Well I found this series of videos that can give you some ideas. The turtles just wanted me to watch and implement them as they did not fit their needs. (But they are more than happy to accept any extras from cash they may generate ) So I decided I would share them with you and you can see if any of these ideas resonate with you.
Aren’t you always looking for new ways to generate some extra cash? I am.
Create Simple Little One Page Articles to Promote Affiliate Products
Create Adsense Content Pages That Pay You Residual Ad Revenue
Create Niche Market PLR Packages To Sell For A Quick Profit
All 3 of these are easy to implement ways to start generating some extra money sometimes quite quickly.. So unless you are as lazy as the turtles take a few minutes and watch and implement some neat strategies.
Having already adopted the turtles they keep me too busy to do them for you too
The Turtle Dad
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The Power Of A Product
By admin | May 21, 2010
The turtles are basically extremely lazy. As long as they are fed they are much more likely to be laying on the ramp, sleeping on the bottom or just hanging from something. There is no need if their belly is full to do anything else but relax.
Now if they are hungry or even suspect that they can get more food then that changes. The splashing starts and I have seen Gizzard get a 1/3 of her body out of the water and make a huge mess to attract my attention.
One of the good things about lazy people or lazy turtles is that they do tend to be much more efficient. They only do what they need to do to get the result they want. The turtles know that they can make as much of a ruckus as they want to after the morning feed and it will be wasted effort so they use that time to veg out.
They understand how to leverage their efforts to get as much as they can.
This is where the power of having a product comes in with your business. It is something you can leverage. Yes you need to make a splash (put in some effort) to get it started but once you have a product you can sell it over and over and get paid off that effort more than once.
If you add an affiliate program you can even get others to do your promotion and still get paid while vegging out. This is an idea the turtles totally embrace.
Having your own product is one of the keys to growing your business. Yet every time I have done a survey of my readers the vast majority do not have one.
With the amount of quality PLR or private label rights products available this is not something that has to hold you back.
So you understand private label rights is not something new to the internet. It has been done in off line products for years.
When I worked for the liquor distributor many years ago we would deliver liquor of various types to a variety of stores with the store’s name on the label. Now the stores did not distill the item they just bought the item and had their label added to it.
You see this in the grocery stores all the time. You will see the Giant brand green beans right next to the ones with a Green Giant label. You can be sure that Giant is not buying and processing the green beans to cans from the farmers. In a lot of cases they may be processed in the same place and only the label on the can is different.
This week there have been two PLR releases of quality products and if you don’t have a product of your own you definitely should grab one of these.
If your budget is tight check out the latest release from Joel Osborne. It is called Traffic Is King and the price is very affordable.
Easy to get set up and add extra monetization to and you can have a product up today. This is extremely limited so you need to take action today.
The second is the great package of video PLR products from Edmund Loh.
His PLR Gold includes 10 different products at a ridiculously low price that you can use as is or relabel to make them unique to you.
Either package will quickly and easily get you started with your own product online and gain all of the advantages of being a product owner.
You can easily have a product up and for sale before the week end is over.
Now as blog posts last forever and these products are limited you can check out my blog at The PLR Secrets for the latest releases of quality PLR products.
So start using the power of being a product owner and you too can veg out in the manner you would like to just like the turtles. Although sleeping under water does not excite me I do like to travel instead.
What you do to veg out is up to you but being a product owner will help you have the ability to do it more often.
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You Understand Blogging Don’t You?
By admin | May 14, 2010
One thing the turtles have learned is the power of blogging. Even though this blog is not extremely active (the turtles are lazy by nature) they do understand the goodies they can get from the blog.
After all the occasional influx of gold fish for a treat and the ongoing maintenance of their tank and regular feeding are a result of the profits generated by this blog.
The bigger they get the more it costs to maintain them. After all the large container of food costs about $12 and they can finish that off in about 3 weeks.
Six months ago that would have lasted two months. Add in the costs of filter material and their maintenance costs have increased exponentially.
Now the turtles are lucky (I tell them all the time) that they have me to set up their blog and translate their ideas into blog posts. To find promotions to generate the income needed to keep them in the style they are accustomed to.
Now I have told them that they need to start generating more content because they are outgrowing the current tank quickly. I am looking at a new set up 5 times the size but it will require more funding.
Aquariums and the filtering systems are not exactly cheap so they will have to become more prolific in their posting to generate the necessary funds. It will happen because they have me, the Turtle Dad, to help them set up their income streams.
They wanted you to know that you could have me too. I just released my new version of WordPress Made Easy which gives you my knowledge to get your blog set up and traffic flowing to it. It covers the various ways to monetize that traffic.
So I may not be right next to you to help you like I am the turtles but you can get all the step by step videos and audios to help you duplicate what I do for the turtles.
Now to get the turtles thinking again so they can move soon. Easier said than done.
The Turtle Dad
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