3 Step Secret Auto Capture Page is LIVE

The 3 Step Secret capture page is now active on the domain. Please re-download the emails one more time to ensure that you have the correct ones in the 3 Step list. We have made a couple last minor changes to a couple of the messages. :)

http://payitforward4profits.com/members

=> Marketing

=> Response Magic

=> download messages from "3Step" to "3Step"

Be sure you have gone into your "Settings" "Personal Settings" and edited the "website" field to your username only (do not enter your complete URL here)

ie: where your URL is http://username.payitforward4profits.com you will simply enter "username" here.

You will notice a drastic increase in business, and your lists will grow even faster with a capture page and autoresponder attached to 3 STEP.

If you run into any potholes while you are doing this, be sure to let me know.

Ali
http://alib.ws

PIF4P Blogs of Interest

I have compiled a list of blogs you may find of interest. They are either written by successful members of PayItForward4Profits or they are ABOUT PayItForward4Profits and some of the tools you can incorporate into your business.

• http://paulbirdsallathome.blogspot.com
• http://rod-larrivee.blogspot.com
• http://thepayitforward4profitsjournal.blogspot.com
• http://marketingtips4u.blogspot.com
• http://payitforwardnewssource.blogspot.com
• http://joelbroughton.blogspot.com
• http://tycoontraining.blogspot.com
• http://buildwealthnow.blogspot.com
• http://buildwealth-team.blogspot.com
• http://rickjorgenson.blogspot.com

Enjoy

Blogging

Copyright © Ali Brown
http://alib.ws

One of the easiest and most entertaining Internet home business opportunity, that's getting a load of attention lately, is blogging. A blog (weB Log) is easy to set up, easy to run, quite a bit of fun, and a good way to make money selling advertising. Your blog can be a great Internet tool for marketing your own home business opportunity or MLM but, by it's nature, will be far more subtle than a banner ad or advertising on a home business web site.

You will find excellent, detailed instructions for creating your blog in your Internet Marketing Success Guide found in the back office of our training website: http://payitforward4profits.com/members.

If you are concerned about content for your blog, you can simply locate a few free article sites and findrelevantt free-to-publish articles you would like to share. Write an introductory paragraph or two, paste the article (being sure to keep the original links intact), put your links at the beginning or end (or both for that matter) and "bingo" you have content.

However, your blog can also be an Internet home business opportunity in itself. A blog is essentially a journal that is displayed on the Internet. All you need to do to add to the blog is log on and post the day's thoughts, activities or anything your want to share. Then you "ping" the search engines and they pick up your blog and it's out there live. You can use the example from the Success Guide - Ping-O-Matic or, an alternative, is Pingoat. Ping-0-matic will occasionally get hung up so it is always wise to have an alternative. Switching back and forth between the two will also give you the opportunity to ping different search engines. Be sure to "ping" only after you have added fresh content - the search engines LOVE fresh content.

If you are wanting a blog as an Internet home business opportunity obviously you have to make it more revenue-based than that. The best way to do that is by using the blog audience as a market for someone else's business. In other words, selling advertising on the blog.

However, a blog can also be a very powerful marketing tool for your business, and some people actually earn an income just from blogging alone. Blogs are easy to maintain, because they are informal and conversational. Their volume is maintained, sometimes exponentially, by encouraging others to comment or respond to postings. A blog is much more "human" than a Web site, because invites and encourages conversation. You will want to have more than one blog, depending on your intended audience. You should consider a blog devoted entirely to your primary.

Perhaps one of best ways to make money with your blog is through pay per click, contextual advertising. The best known of these products is Google's "Ad Sense". Google actually has the ready made advertisers for you. The advertiser simply indicates the keywords and industry and Google does the rest - finding places for these ads to be hosted. You, as the blogger, place links on your blog site and any time someone goes to the blog and clicks on the ad links the advertiser pays Google and Google pays you - pretty simple. This also works in reverse if you choose to be a Goggle Ad Sense advertise.

Blogging can be a source of traffic to your website, as well as a chance to make a bit of extra income, be sure you don't allow this to pass you by.

Marketing tools

Here are some top of the line marketing tools that will help anyone in any business get off to a good start!

Funnel RELEVANT Traffic to Primary E-commerce/Corporate Site
Already have an online store? A sales site? Most SSBs who do are in supreme pain... no traffic.
http://traffic.sitesell.com/hf.html

Affiliates
Finally, the promise of affiliate marketing is realized. Publish a theme-based information-jammed content site. Monetize with the cream of affiliate programs, blend in additional AdSense and other revenues. Finally... build an affiliate site that WORKS. Diversify as you grow.
http://affiliatemarketing.sitesell.com/hf.html

Make Your Content PREsell!
Everyone should know how to write... to communicate!
http://mycps.sitesell.com/hf.html

Make Your Site SELL! 2002
"The definitive work on making ANY Web site SELL!"
http://myss.sitesell.com/hf.html

Traffic Exchanges

Traffic Exchanges are a wonderful tool for initiation into online marketing. They will give you good short term traffic - ultimately you will find the trade of time for traffic is not what you want to be doing on a long term basis, but it is a good start. You will market your PIF4P and Cashflow123 sites through the exchanges as your audience here is obviously people who already have a business or some experience with online marketing (otherwise they wouldn't know what a traffic exchange was for).

There are detailed instructions in the Success Guide to help you get your first exchange set up - Traffic Swarm. Once you have become comfortable with Traffic Swarm, be sure to find yourself a few more exchanges you can also use. You are looking for ones that will give you as close to a 1:1 ratio as you can find. I personally stay away from "autosurf", my take on it is that if I'm autosurfing, there is a pretty good chance that's what's happening to my site as well - can't expect a whole lot of good traffic that way!!

Not all exchanges require you to write an ad, for many the only requirement is your URL.
You can make better use of your time and dramatically increase your exposure if you are working multiple exchanges, you have to wait for the timers to count down anyway. You can do this by either using a browser that uses multiple "tabs", or by opening multiple windows with a different exchange in each window.

Many of the exchanges will give you bonus credits once you have surfed the required number of sites. Included in the credits you will often receive "banner" credits. We have a banner available for your PIF4P website - you will find it under "Marketing" in the members' area.

Most of the exchanges will have a format similar to the following for your banner entries. (You will not just copy and paste the html code as it is on our site - you would use this code "as is" if you are loading the banner onto a website, creating a landing page or perhaps on a blog.

You want to be sure to keep your credit balances stable, you will definitely find you have more traffic the higher your credits (the magic number with Traffic Swarm appears to be at least 4,000). The exchanges will often have other tools that will help you to increase your traffic - be sure to explore the sites to become familiar with everything they have to offer but don't get all caught up in taking advantage of ALL the extras - you could grow old trying to sort all of these out - your primary purpose here is to get your site shown as quickly as possible.

There are decided advantages to upgrading in SOME of your exchanges -- and I STRESS the word SOME, don't feel you have to upgrade in ALL of them. You'll end up Traffic Exchange Poor. Upgrade in those you find you get good results from (your hit tracker will come in handy here) because you will usually receive some bonus credits each month - saves you some of the surfing you will need to do. They will often also you credit based on the activity of your "downline" if you build one. It makes good sense then to at least upgrade in your Traffic Swarm, we promote it in the Success Guide and it is often the first exposure our new members get to the exchanges, therefore you have the potential to fund your own account.

Again, you will find the exchanges are a very good, short term solution for traffic to your sites. I would not recommend you depend solely on traffic exchanges for your marketing. You want to implement as many of the other activities in the Success Guide as quickly as you can, as quickly as you can to start generating that "organic" traffic we have heard so much about. This will come primarily from your forum postings, blogs and articles. -- More on that on another day

September 11, 2006

Autoresponders

Autoresponders are, without a doubt, your best friend, your secretary if you will. With our PIF4P system we have two, Response Magic and Traffic Oasis.

For those unaware, our autoresponders will automatically start to go to work for you as soon as there has been a new entry to the data base, ie when someone signs up, as you did, to one of your websites or new "leads" have been added to the data base either electronically or manually.

Initially we will discuss abit about Response Magic. First and foremost, I need to register some bias here - I LOVE this program. As you become more familiar with it, I trust it will also become YOUR best friend. It does SO much work for us.

Your home edition of Response Magic will automatically followup with all of the new contacts you receive as a result of the marketing you will be doing for your websites. When you signed up and received your own website, your sponsor's autoresponder (Response Magic) automatically went to work and started sending you messages.

There is a bit of work to be done to ensure all is functioning properly though. You need to visit the Success Guide and go through Day 1 and get your RM autoresponder upgraded and your messages loaded into your PIF4P "list", then you want to do the same for your "CFM Prospecting Newsletter" and your “3 Step Secret” following the same procedure. The 3 Step Secret messages are not available just yet, so you need to remember to go back and do this as soon as they are.

Once you have done this, go to http://responsemagic.com, log in with the username and password you received, and spend a few minutes getting to know the "control panel".

On the home page, on the right hand side, there is an icon (looks like a filmstrip), that links you to the Response Magic tutorials - these are very good, take a few minutes and go through at least the tutorials on "settings". This will definitely be time well spent.

Personal Settings: complete the form as best you can. There are merge fields used in your messages, the information entered here will be inserted in all the places that have these merge codes. The field for “~~ownerswebsite~~” should be completed with your Cashflow123 url. When complete you must “update” your information. You will need to edit the messages in your PIF4P list to substitute your PayItForward4Profits url.

In your "List Settings" you will notice you have multiple lists - there is a specific order to the first three lists that must be maintained
List #1 - CFM Prospecting Newsletter
List #2 - PIF4P
List #3 - reserved for 3 Step Secret.

Be sure you do not mess with the order of these lists - they are, in essence, "hard wired" to each of the corresponding websites, if they are not in this order, your contacts are getting the wrong list of messages.

Ali's Tip - manually add yourself as a contact to each of your lists in both of your autoresponders, it will give you that added reassurance that your messages are in fact being received as you will also get a copy.

Traffic Oasis - you will find an excellent tutorial for preloading your Traffic Oasis autoresponder under the “Training”, “Internet Tools Training” tab in the back office of PIF4P. There are also many notes and references in the members forum, so I won’t keep you tied up here.

I want to leave you with this last bit of advice - preload and test your autoresponder messages BEFORE you start marketing, it will save you a lot of grief.

The "Success Guide"

Well, you've got through the "Crash Course" audio, you've gone through the tutorials, now you are onto the Success Guide. Our job now is to market the three websites we have received in order to build a strong, successful business, and we are going to use the techniques outlined in the Guide to implement our Funded Sponsoring system.

Now, I want to start by clarifying the purpose of our three sites.
http://3stepsecret.com/username is the site we use to target the business opportunity seeker market, the newbies if you will (I say this with all due respect, if you are a "newbie", you won't be one for long.)
http://cashflow123.com/username is the site we use to target the more experienced business person, someone with a bit of experience with a homebased business and perhaps some network marketing background.
http://payitforward4profits.com/username is our primary site to target the experienced online/network marketer that is in need of a "system" to market a primary business they currently have or to join you in the primary you are promoting.

First and foremost, I want to suggest you look at the Success Guide as though you have just enrolled in an extension course at your local community college. This is your text book, these are your assignments. Unlike your community college though, there is no deadline for the completion of you assignments - this is self paced learning. That being said, the sooner you have completed your assignments, the sooner your business will be on a good, solid foundation that will grow at a steady pace.

It is important that you work through each of the assignments thoroughly. Your practical knowledge will grow with each step. As I have said previously, this is a journey, you will travel to a number of different places and you will stay at each them for as long as you need to take in all the sights.

While each activity in the Success Guide is labelled as a "day" - do not take this too literally. There will be some "days" that take a bit more time to complete. We are each individuals, all with different learning styles. There will be some material you will absorb more rapidly than others. Some activities you will implement immediately, while others you will choose to come back and revisit them at a later date. The important thing here is to DO. Your business will not develop if you simply read and reread the Guide. You must ACT. Get busy, plan to put into place any and all the activities you can, as quickly as you can, in order to get the momentum building. The traffic will not magically appear. The old adage "If it's meant to be, it's up to me" hold especially true here.

Now, you want to work through Day 1 of the Success Guide, read everything carefully and get your autoresponder upgraded. You will follow the instructions regarding preloading your messages for both your PayItForward4Profits "list" as well as your Cashflow123 "list" (substituting CFM for PIF4P). You now have two campaigns ready to receive visitors coming to your website.

Let the marketing begin ...... !

September 7, 2006

Welcome!

I would like to welcome you to my team blog.

This space if for me to share some of the tips and tricks I have discovered as I have traveled the path we share. Some of you will undoubtedly pass me along the road, and folks that's more than okay, but while we share the road, I'd like to save you some of the potholes I've inadvertently slipped into.

First and foremost I want you to know, I am willing to help each and everyone of you, the operative word here being "help." If you are new to marketing online this will definitely be a bumpy ride, but I assure you there is pavement ahead and before you know it you will be traveling on at a fair clip. If you are willing to learn (and perhaps even relearn) and willing to be coachable, you will succeed.

So lets start at the beginning, you've just visited one of my sites, signed up and received your own replicated website. It's really exciting you've taken the first step to making major changes in your life and I'd like to help your through the transition as easily as possible.

When your website was created for you, it also comes with two siblings. You therefore have three sites, all created with the username and password you chose when you first signed up.
They have the following format (be sure to substitute your username for mine):

http://payitforward4profits.com/achieveitnow
http://cashflow123.com/achieveitnow
http://3stepsecret.com/achieveitnow

These are the three sites we will use to market your business. They each have a specific purpose (more on that later.) For the time being your concern is getting access to your members' area and the "Success Guide." With this in mind, I want you to go to the website below and log in with your username and password:

http://payitforward4profits.com/members

Now for a bit of homework: today you need to concentrate on getting to know your way around the members' area. You will notice a "button" in the middle of the screen labeled "Getting Started Checklist" - logic tells us this is a good place to start. You will find the "Getting Started Audio" under the "Affiliate" section "Set Up Your Complete Funded Sponsoring System" (you want to read this thoroughly and listen to the audio.)

Your next task is to have a listen to the "Crash Course" under the "Training" tab - it will fully explain Funded Sponsoring, why we use it and why it is successful (budget about an hour for this).

Now, I suggest you again visit the "Training" tab, go to "Internet Training Tools" and work through the four tutorials you will find there. These will give you a good understanding of the website itself and how to navigate through everything as easily as possible.

I know it's taken us a bit of time to get here, but now I want to you go to the "Marketing" tab. There you will find the "Success Guide". This is your bible if you will, for online marketing. As you work through the Guide you are going to learn SO much. Don't let any of this overwhelm you, none of it is HARD, there's just lots.

Remember, this is a journey we take one step at a time, one foot in front of the other. We will travel far on this journey, sometimes staying in one place longer than others, sometimes taking detours to come back to someplace we missed along the way. We will however, stop at every point of interest, enjoy them and above all have fun.

More about this tomorrow .........

AliB
http://alib.ws
http://alis3stepsecret.ws
250-256-4726
SKYPE: AliBrown.pif4p
If you believe it ... you CAN achieve it~JLS