Make a sale in 15 days with only $100 budget
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There is a contest going that because it is Sunday and the NFL is still in preseason I figured I would take a few minutes to compete in. My goal is two fold – to win a free copy of this new product and the topic is one that will create quality content here for you my reader.
*Caveat – I will be linking to their promotion blog but have not seen or reviewed this product so I am not making a recommendation or using an affiliate link. I am also not interested in the $5 payment for creating a track back. This is being done because whether I win or not it will add good content to the blog.
If you were to start from scratch with NO list, NO JV partners in your niche, and all you have is $100 capital, what would you do to start making sales for your niche membership site within just 15 days?”
My first step would be to open Free Mind and chart my course by mapping out what I need to accomplish.
The budget
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Autoresponder – Aweber would be my choice and would cost about $20
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Domain – Can be purchased for $10 or less
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Hosting – Zoot Host you can get plenty for less than $10 a month
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Article Writing – 5 articles at $10 each (you can pay more or less but that is what I normally pay except for very specialized topics)
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Article Submission – Isnare will cost you $10 for 5 article submissions
The process
Keyword research – Finding the right keywords is the key to profitability and recommend that you check out the 30 Day Challenge for some of the best free training available.
Give away idea – Would use an e-course only because of the budget and time frame. Normally I would create an e-book, audio or video for this with a quality graphic but not with this time frame and budget.
Order articles – This would be based on the keyword research and the topic that would be used for my giveaway e-course. Will be reusing content extensively on this project (and I usually do reuse the content.)
Set up Hosting and get a domain name – Now that I have the keyword research from which I expect to get my traffic I would use a keyword rich domain name and get it set up.
Create squeeze page and set up may autoresponder – Will use the articles as a base for my autoresponder series. If you are not familiar and comfortable with HTML would go get a free web site editor.
Submit my articles – Use Isnare to submit the 5 articles to the various directories with a signature file leading back to my squeeze page.
Set up a Wordpress blog on the domain – This will be in a folder behind the squeeze page and the folder will be named for my main keyword from my research. Use the content from rewriting the articles in smaller pieces to create 15 blog posts targeting my main keywords with each post. Add a slide in from my autoresponder account that will show on each post to give away my e-course.
Create the traffic net – Use the article content to create 3-5 Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages and Wet Paint Wiki for my top keywords. Add the RSS feed of my main blog to each of these.
Create a WordPress.com and a Blogger blog for a quick back link to the new blog. If you have sufficient time you can rewrite some of the articles to add a couple other posts that will link to your squeeze page.
You can also start a bookmarking campaign to all parts of the traffic net and the article sites that your article shows up on.
This is a real down and dirty routine and you can get a lot more detail if you grab the “Build Your Business Series” by signing up for the updates here.
This blog post is for an entry for the ‘Power Memberships’ Pre-Launch Contest. Check out how you can win for yourself a $11,000/month PLR membership at http://contest.powermemberships.com/pre-launch-contest/
As always your comments and questions are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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Tags: autoresponder, aweber, hosting, hub pages, isnare, squidoo, wet paint, zoot host
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products. However, I will never recommend something that I don’t personally believe in and I welcome your questions and feedback.
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