$25,000 Per Hour Working From Home
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Issue #2154
- WEALTHY: How to make more an hour than elite professional athletes or Fortune 500 CEOs (Alex Mandossian)
- HEALTHY: A "forbidden" food that could be your ticket to beating insomnia (Dr. Ray Sahelian)
- WISE: Roger Ailes on public speaking
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- What you can learn from Jay Leno about success in business (Michael Masterson)
- 3 ways to connect with your e-newsletter subscribers (David Cross)
- It’s Fun to Know… stating the obvious
- Add "exemplar" to your vocabulary
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"The spirit of the speaker will determine the spirit of the audience."
Roger Ailes
$25,000 Per Hour Working From Home
How would you like to make more money in an hour than professional basketball and baseball players, not to mention Fortune 500 CEOs?
It’s possible. I’ve done it. I’ve done it without cold calling or working 18-hour days, seven days a week. And now I’m going to show you how you can do it too.
Last year, I sold $1 million in training in 27 days for my Teleseminar Secrets program. I did it from a home-based office in Northern California with just one part-time employee. After spending a few hours selling "seats," I discovered that I was making $25,000 an hour for about 41 hours of work.
Do the math and you’ll discover that this dollar-per-hour figure outranks that of many elite athletes, not to mention that it puts me on the top-10 list of the highest income CEOs of multi-billion-dollar companies.
So how did I do it?
I chose to do the training via a teleseminar or teleconference – which would allow me to reach many people at once, rather than trying to train them one-on-one. (There aren’t enough hours in a day for me to make big money by training people individually.)
A teleseminar is basically a phone call where hundreds of people can listen to the training and interact with the instructor. With the teleseminar, not only can I reach all of these people at one time, I can still give them a taste of "me" while I’m doing it. They feel like they’re getting a personalized training approach, and it doesn’t take me thousands of hours to accomplish it. That’s the real power of the teleseminar – achieving maximum productivity with minimum effort.
I’ve been doing teleseminars since 1999, which has allowed me to perfect the technique. The "one-on-many" approach is what makes this the fastest, easiest, and most economical of all the communication media on earth. Case closed.
Putting on your own teleseminar is easy. All you need is a bridge line (a telephone system that can connect hundreds of callers at once), a good marketing plan, and something useful and worthwhile to discuss during the call.
1. Setting Up a Bridge Line
One of the bridge lines I use is InstantTeleWebcast.com, which gives you unlimited use for $47 a month. You can also look into Voicetext.com, a service I’ve used on many occasions.
2. Filling Your Tele-Seats
In order to fill the seats for my Teleseminar Secrets program, I used direct-response marketing methods. One direct-response sales letter can sell hundreds or thousands of people at the same time. It doesn’t require a salesperson. The marketing materials do the selling for you. And if you put your promotional material on a website, the marketing materials are doing the selling 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So, again, you are reaching many people as efficiently as possible.
How, exactly, did I fill the seats?
I put together a $20 content-rich preview teleseminar. I paid my affiliates $18 of that $20 for every sale of the preview teleseminar that was made through them, plus a percentage if the buyer purchased the complete program. That way, they were motivated to promote my call.
During the preview teleseminar, I explained the offer, then sent the participants to my website, where they could read my sales letter and make the purchase.
3. Coming Up With Teleseminar-Worthy Topics
You can talk about almost anything in a teleseminar. Just make sure it’s a topic that will be useful for your audience. Here are four ideas to get you started:
- Customer-Appreciation Calls: In this type of teleseminar, you give online tutorials or new information about your products to your existing customers.
Here’s how it works: Contact people who have already purchased a product from you and offer them a free follow-up where they can ask questions for an hour. It’s basically a personal consultation on a one-on-many basis. It doesn’t make you money instantly – but it does create extremely loyal, appreciative customers who will turn around and tell their friends, colleagues, blog readers, etc., all about your products and customer devotion. Plus, customers who are happy with your service are more likely to buy more from you.
- Public Tele-Critiques: In these teleseminars, one or two participants get to carry on a dialog with experts.
Here’s how it works: One of the participants puts her website or marketing plan up on the "chopping block," and the experts explain what she is doing right, what she is doing wrong, and what improvements she can make. The rest of the participants learn through listening to the critique. (You can charge extra for people to get the chance to get advice from you or an expert, or you can offer critiques to valued customers as a gift.)
- Prospecting Calls: These (recorded or live) teleseminars offer useful information meant to inspire prospects to buy your products.
Here’s how it works: Each week or month, you conduct an "ask campaign," where you ask your prospects what they want to learn about a specific topic that is somehow related to your product line. You answer their questions in the teleseminar … and if you do it right, you convert them into customers. At the same time, their questions give you ideas for new products and new marketing approaches.
Another form of the prospecting call is to present an abbreviated form of an expensive program that you’re selling… with the intention of enticing them into buying the full program. That’s what I do with my Teleseminar Secrets program. I invite prospects to a free or low-cost preview. During the preview, I give an hour-long overview of the eight-week program, including plenty of useful, actionable advice that people can put to work without buying anything extra – though it’s also beneficial for people who go on to buy the entire program. Since the people who buy the entire program will have had an overview of what it covers, they are actually learning some of the material twice and, therefore, end up getting more out of it.
- Expert-Interview Calls: In this type of teleseminar, you pay a well-known expert in your field to take part in the call. Then you sell tickets to people who would be interested in hearing what your expert has to say.
Here’s how it works: During the call, you ask the expert questions that will be useful to your callers. And you pocket the difference between what you pay him and what you bring in through ticket sales.
I’ve done money-making interviews with some of today’s most influential entrepreneurs, authors, direct marketers, and professional speakers, including Steven Covey, Mark Victor Hansen, Brian Tracy, Harvey Mackay, Les Brown, Robert Allen, Michael Gerber, James Ray, Jay Conrad Levinson, Joe Sugarman, T. Harv Eker, Joe Polish, Vic Conant, David Bach, Jay Abraham, Jack Canfield, and many others.
People like this usually charge hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars for an hour of their time. Which means that my teleseminar attendees get a huge deal by only paying $47 or so to hear me pick their brains. The expert provides the content for the call – and I look like a hero for giving my attendees the information.
That’s all there is to it.
Set up a bridge line… fill your tele-seats… and come up with an audience-pleasing topic. Put these three steps to work, and you’ll have the beginnings of a successful, profitable teleseminar business. This is the model I’ve used to make $25,000 an hour… and now you can do it too.
[Ed. Note: Alex Mandossian, CEO of Heritage House Publishing Inc., has generated over $233 million in sales and profits for his clients and partners via "electronic marketing" media such as TV infomercials, online catalogs, 24-hour recorded messages, voice/fax broadcasting, teleseminars, webinars, podcasts, and Internet marketing since 1991. You can get Alex's insights into information marketing this fall at ETR's Info Marketing Bootcamp. To get free instant access to Alex Mandossian's blog on Electronic Marketing, please visit AlexMandossian.com.]
Earnings Season Blowout…
Make More Money in Five Weeks Than Most Investors Make All Year
Many investors fear holding a stock that is about to report earnings. But if you’re on the right side of those moves, the volatility of earnings spells profits… and I mean big profits. In fact, the quarterly earnings seasons can be the most lucrative times of the year for your portfolio.
Over the last six months, I have already led readers to gains of 151%… 136%… 149%… 90%… and the list goes on. And all of these gains were achieved in a matter of days or weeks.
Now, on a FREE tele-conference call, I’ll show you exactly how we do it.
So, if you’d like to make more money in five weeks than most investors make all year, click here to learn more!
The Ultimate Business Skill
Ed McMahon has said that Jay Leno won the Tonight Show slot over David Letterman by taking a tour of all the regional network facilities and appearing at their parties. The local bosses were flattered by Jay’s attention and, as a group, put a lot of pressure on the powers-that-were in making the final selection.
The ultimate skill you need to succeed in your business is to be very good at a very important job. But making yourself well known and well liked among the hoi polloi is not a bad secondary strategy. (Don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself good at being well known and well liked. You can learn to be. Start by reading Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.)
Once you have your likeability techniques down pat, make yourself more visible by doing things like volunteering for important jobs and contributing to meetings. But don’t neglect the most important thing: developing a skill that enables you to contribute to the company’s profits in a substantial way.
Becoming well liked won’t get you to the top of a business unless you also have a financially valued skill. But having people like you will make your ride to the top easier, quicker, and a lot more fun.
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A Matter of Tone
By David Cross
You don’t have to be Shakespeare to write a thoughtful, engaging e-mail newsletter. But to make sure that your words are connecting with your subscribers, you do need to keep three things in mind:
1. Apply the "barstool test" to everything you write.
The "barstool test" is one of the copywriting techniques taught by AWAI The idea is that you want to write in an open, conversational style – as if you’re talking to the guy sitting next to you at the bar. If you can pique and keep his interest, your writing has the right tone. (Of course, if your newsletter is on a technical or scientific topic, you’ll want to be less "chatty.")
2. Make sure your words are in your voice.
Your audience doesn’t have to agree with what you say. In fact, some of the most popular newsletter articles are those that stir controversy. But you should state your opinion in your own clear and distinct "voice." Unbiased, "balanced" reporting is a death knell for e-mail newsletters. Speak out! It’s okay to be outspoken, controversial, or pushy, as long as you are writing with honesty and integrity. In other words, if you like something, say so – but don’t feel you have to shock just for the sake of it.
3. Don’t write to impress.
Focus on content that is interesting rather than trying to display grammatical or linguistic prowess. You’re trying to tell a story – preferably one that motivates and inspires your readers to take action – not writing a thesis. So write directly to them.
[Ed. Note: David Cross is Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Publishing in Baltimore.]
The Foods You Eat May Be Affecting Your Sleep
Anyone who’s gotten a little drowsy after a big holiday dinner knows that food can make you sleepy. But aside from overindulging, it’s actually the type of food you eat that can influence how alert or sleepy you are. And one type of food in particular – carbohydrates – can send you off to dreamland, whether it’s bedtime or not.
If you are in your energetic teens and 20s, carbs may not affect you as much. In youth, our brain chemicals are on full speed, and whether we have pasta or protein for lunch may not influence how energetic we are the rest of the afternoon. But as we get older, we are likely to notice the food-mood or food-sleepiness influence. And now, a new study confirms previous research that carbohydrates do induce sleep.
To investigate the role of carbohydrates in sleep induction, researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia compared the effects of high- and low-glycemic index (GI) carbohydrate-based meals. Twelve healthy men ate a carbohydrate-based meal (with 8 percent of energy as protein, 2 percent of energy as fat, and 90 percent of energy as carbohydrate) that included either low-GI or high-GI rice four hours before their usual bedtime. On another occasion, the men ate the high-GI meal one hour before bedtime. The carbohydrate-based high-GI meal resulted in a significant shortening of sleep onset compared with the low-GI meal, and was most effective when consumed four hours before bedtime.
Although we don’t normally advocate consuming carbohydrates, eating a higher proportion of high-GI carbohydrate at your evening meal, while having very little fat and protein, could be a boon if you have difficulty falling asleep at night.
But keep in mind that if you eat a meal like that during the day, you are likely to have difficulty concentrating. So, to stay alert at work, it’s best to eat small, frequent meals throughout the day that have a higher proportion of protein and fat.
[Ed. Note: Ray Sahelian, M.D., the author of Mind Boosters, is internationally recognized as a moderate voice in the evaluation of natural supplements. Visit Dr. Sahelian's website at www.RaySahelian.com, and read more of his articles about the supplements you should and shouldn't be taking at ETR's FREE natural health e-letter.]
It’s Fun to Know: Stating the Obvious
An October 2007 Consumer Reports feature on "Sporty Cars" lists these drawbacks to the Mini-Cooper: "Limited rear seat room and access, small trunk."
Just thought we should pass this along in case you were thinking of picking one up for driving the soccer team around.
What If There Was A Way To Legally Beat A Traffic Ticket?
“When Attorneys Get Speeding Or Traffic Tickets, This Is What They Do… No Points, No Increased Premiums & Definitely No Stupid Driving School. These Tricks Work Like Magic.”
If you’re like me then the simple sight of a police car in your rear-view mirror is enough to send shivers down your spine, but…
When the lights start flashing…
There Goes That Safe Driver Discount…Right? Not anymore…
- Patrick Coffey
Word to the Wise: Exemplar
An "exemplar" (ig-ZEM-plar) – from the Latin for "to take out" – is an ideal model or type.
Example (as used by William Zinsser in The New York Times): "What charmed me was the idea of a boy too young to understand the lecture but not too young to recognize the eminent man on the platform as his model, the exemplar of what would become his own life work."
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Michael Masterson
Copyright ETR, LLC, 2007
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