The nice thing about living in Las Vegas is that eventually, everyone you’ve ever known comes through here. The bad thing about living in Las Vegas is that everyone you ever knew . . . ah, but this is a positive story.
The other day an old friend who was visiting asked me about the Internet and my online experiences. He’s a long time marketing pro with a very niche business, now retired.
He’d never done much online, so he asked me how it all worked. Well, sorry, but that would take more than a Starbucks visit to explain.
So I told him a story that got him laughing, which I’ll share with you too. Then we did a little experiment, right from Starbucks, which I think you’ll get a kick out of as well, especially when you can duplicate this yourself one day.
First, the story:
It was a rainy Saturday and my plans for the weekend had been canceled and I was bored. You know how boring Las Vegas can be, right?
I looked at my “To do” list and realized that I’d been procrastinating. So, you might think I’d go to work on that list. Not so fast. I had another idea, which ultimately proved once again, the power of the Internet. But more on that in a minute.
I decided to start an online group for people who’ve been accused of being procrastinators but wanted to prove that they are not procrastinators. Silly, right? yup. Eventually profitable? I’ll show you.
I am no online techie. I learned to create simple web pages and blog pages, which are now easier than ever and with no technical skill. So, I decided to play around with my idea.
I wrote a special report page for “Procrastinators Anonymous.” This was designed as a humorous piece and thankfully, according to most reports, it proved to be just that, from chuckles to LOL.
I wrote a silly piece that since a true procrastinator would never join such an organization, the provisional memberships were always terminated within 24 hours by the Chairman Of The Bored.
This termination letter (suitable for framing next to the certificate) was proof that anyone actually joining couldn’t be a procrastinator, thus proving to all who’ve ever accused them of same that they were wrong, etc.
Well, this is all just goofy right? Right. But, and here’s the lesson and maybe even for you an AHA. I sold this thing. Sure, for only $7.00, but people were not only paying for it, they were buying memberships to send to friends, etc, too. Now I didn’t make any huge money from this, but it was fun.
Then later I realized that I could give these memberships away and ask those who got theirs to let their friends know about it too. This “silly idea” built my online mailing list considerably, added new customers for other products and services who, in turn, told others, and so forth.
Your Profit And Power
That’s the power of digital products and that’s why I encourage anyone with any kind of business to learn and understand the basics of creating your own online promotions to products or market other people’s products as affiliates and earn a commission. A digital product may be nothing more than an email with a commercial purpose, a zero cost special report or a multi-part paid training program.
When I got the rights back to my book, “How To Take No For An Answer And Still Succeed,” I turned it into a digital product and sold more copies at a higher price than the publisher ever did with the printed copy.
But people feel stuck sometimes, and that’s understandable, so did I early on. So I developed a course for you so that you can go from making better emails to writing an ebook.
They hype is that it’s all so “easy.” Well, and let's tell it like it is, it’s not that easy, but it’s a lot less complicated than what I had to learn 6 years ago.
Here’s another quick example of you having the power of digital products.
I was able to demonstrate this for my non-Internet savvy friend at Starbucks. I said I would take him out for a nice dinner but that I would get the money from a quick online promotion. I took three popular products and knocked down the price by $100 for each one of them. So, two of the products were now $47 each and one was $97. A great deal and savings for anyone interested, right?
I sent an email to my list promoting this special for one day only. You may have seen this. By that evening there was enough response to use that money for a very nice dinner for three of us.
That’s the power of digital. While there’s time involved in creating anything, you can promote and market online quickly. Since I have no production costs on my digital products, I can literally give them away, though I don’t recommend that. People frequently don’t respect the F_R_E_E product and I do that solely to build my mailing list.
So, if you’d like to know how to create your own digital products and promotion, I’m going to once again discount this 6-week program by $100. But, you have to pick this up no later than Friday of this week.
So, it’s now only $47, which is literally hundreds of dollars less than our original pricing. You can use the coupon code which will automatically deduct the $100 from the final total. Here’s your order page and the discount code:
Use this code only - 1218END on this order form.
http://budurl.com/u2br
Remember, this deep discount is good only through Friday.
Oh, and the procrastinator program? I'd encourage you to register for that too, especially if you’re taking the digital course, just so you can see how it works. You’ll get those links when you sign up. For the rest of you, I’ll send out the links in the next several days.
If you haven't seen the sales page for the digital product program you can view it by clicking here.
Be sure to use your discount code through Friday only: 1218END
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