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Issue #2564
- WEALTHY: A good year ahead? (Rick Pendergraft)
- HEALTHY: Pizza, soda, and couch-potatoism (Craig Ballantyne)
- WISE: Seneca on luck
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- The best Internet money-making model around (Bob Bly)
- Simple ways to make your customers happier (Jason Holland)
- It’s Fun to Know… about mindboggling stats from the funeral industry
- Add “bon vivant” to your vocabulary
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Is the 2009 Market a Market of Stocks or a Stock Market?
I have been beating the bullish drum rather loudly of late, because I think 2009 will be a good year for the stock market. I’m convinced that the bearish sentiment that has been holding the market down is about to end. I have expressed this view several times in the pages of Early to Rise as well as in Investor’s Daily Edge.
I need to make one thing clear, though. While I think the overall market will be higher over the next 12 months, that doesn’t mean I think you can buy any old stock and make money this year. There are still potential landmines out there, and you will want to do your homework.
For instance, I think the homebuilder stocks are ready for an incredible turnaround. But rather than picking one company, I’ve recommended the Spyder Select Homebuilders ETF (XHB). This gives you instant diversification with a number of homebuilders, without company-specific risk.
One sector that’s still filled with problems is the financial sector… so I’m shying away. While the financials are benefiting from injections of capital from the Fed, how many skeletons are still in the closet?
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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
What? No E-Newsletter?
By Bob Bly
There are a number of business models for making money on the Internet. Of these, my favorite – and the one I recommend to those who want to sell information products, dietary supplements, or just about any other product online today – is the “Agora Model.”
In a nutshell, the Agora Model says you should offer a free e-newsletter in order to build up a large subscriber base. Then, you make money by e-mailing promotions to your online subscriber list.
Companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in sales online with the Agora Model. Yet when I recommend it to marketers – both experienced and novice alike – they are immediately and strongly resistant to the idea.
Why?
One reason for their reluctance is that they have read articles by so-called Internet marketing gurus telling them that e-mail marketing is dead, passe, old hat. And that they should be focusing instead on blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, online video, mobile marketing, or whatever the fad flavor of the month is.
Another reason is a fear – reasonable, but not true – that the e-zine “space” is overcrowded.
“There are so many e-zines out there, and everyone I know says they already get too many,” an attendee at ETR’s 2008 Information Marketing Bootcamp told me. “It seems impossible that I could be successful by publishing yet another one.”
If you believe this, slap yourself – and listen to me as I tell you what really works in Internet marketing today…
The Agora Model really works. I use it myself to earn a mid-six-figure income online – “working” on my Internet business only a couple of hours a day.
All the components of the Agora Model – e-newsletters, e-mail marketing, online ads – also still work. Like gangbusters. As an article in a recent issue of DM News reported: “While social media and mobile marketing continue to be hot topics, marketers are still finding e-mail newsletters relevant.”
One of the neatest things about the Agora Model is that e-newsletter subscribers tend to be loyal readers – because they have chosen to opt in to your e-list. And despite the glut of e-mail in your prospects’ inboxes, sending an e-mail is still an effective way to gain their attention:
- A study at Loughborough University found that users take action, on average, in less than two minutes upon being notified that a new e-mail is waiting for them.
- According to a report by Forrester Research, opt-in lists (including e-newsletter subscriber lists) retain 49 percent of their subscribers over time – nearly double the retention rate of compiled e-lists.
- And a study from ClearContext, an e-mail management tools vendor, found that over half of users surveyed spend more than two hours a day in their e-mail inboxes.
Yet another reason why marketers hesitate to launch an e-newsletter is that they have the mistaken belief that it is time- and labor-intensive to produce.
That’s not true either.
In fact, your e-newsletter doesn’t have to be elaborate, lengthy, complex, or fancy. But it does have to deliver useful content to your subscribers – and do so on a consistent basis.
Publishing your own e-newsletter gives you three essential advantages when it comes to making money online…
1. The best way to get people to opt in to your e-list is by offering them free content. When you publish an e-newsletter, you always have new free content (your e-newsletter) to offer.
2. A monthly e-newsletter ensures that your prospects hear from you – on a regular basis – at least 12 times a year. Assuming they find your content valuable, this consistent communication helps build relationships with your online readers.
3. When people subscribe to an online newsletter, they give you permission to e-mail to them. That means you can send them e-mail marketing messages – with product offers – whenever you wish, at minimal cost.
Repeated exposure to your e-newsletter and solo e-mail promotions gets subscribers to trust you enough to start buying the products you sell or recommend. And before you know it, you’re making money selling information and/or merchandise on the Internet!
[Ed. Note: Personal, frequent contact with your customers and prospects is one of the best ways to build solid relationships with them. Starting an e-mail newsletter - filled with relevant, useful advice - is a perfect way to do it. For a step-by-step guide to setting up your own info-publishing business - including starting an e-newsletter, creating a website, and writing copy to drive traffic to it - sign up for ETR's Internet Money Club. See if there are any spots left for the "Class" of 2009 right here.
To learn more marketing secrets from freelance copywriter and marketing expert Bob Bly, sign up for his free e-zine, the Direct Response Letter. Do so today and get $116 in bonuses.]
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Reader Feedback: “I want to thank you for providing the ETR Goals Program.”
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“This year, with everything that I received by entering into the program – the workbook and DVD, the weekly planner, the weekly power surge messages, the twice a month teleconferences, the website forum, and Bob and Karin Cox’s personal phone mentoring – I have been able to:
- “define my goals, keep to task on those goals, and accomplish those goals.
- “improve my attitude toward myself, my life, my career, and those around me.
- “improve my daily routine – make each hour, each minute, count – and use my time efficiently and wisely.
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- “find a supportive school for my 6th grade son who is affected by ADHD and autism.
“This program has made ahuge difference to me in the outcome of 2008, and I look forward to Bob and Karin’s mentoring in 2009 as I successfully launch my home business… despite the doom and gloom we hear on the news!
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What a Theme Park Can Teach You about Business
Say what you will about theme parks. (Too expensive! Too cheesy and artificial!) But at least some of them get one thing right: They bend over backward to make the customer experience as good as it can possibly be. Take, for example, a few conveniences for visitors with young children that I noticed on a recent trip to an unnamed park in Orlando. (Funny … I never even saw these things until I had a little one of my own.)
- Baby care stations with private rooms for nursing mothers, diaper-changing tables, and comfy couches for quick naps for fussy kids.
- Special seating in the back at shows for parents with infants sleeping in strollers.
- A variety of play areas for every age group from infant onward.
Sure, you could make do with changing a diaper in a regular, crowded bathroom. Or have one parent wait outside a ride while the other takes the older kids through. But it wouldn’t be pleasant, and it would probably make parents think twice about a return trip until the kids are much older.
And that’s a lesson you can apply to your own business. Find out your customers’ special needs and figure out if you are addressing them.
Are you making it difficult for them to order? (Maybe some customers don’t feel comfortable giving credit card info over the Internet.) Could your products be tweaked and made easier to use – making them more appealing to a larger portion of your target market? Are your marketing messages filled with too much jargon – so much that your prospects don’t understand?
The questions you pose about your own business might be different. And your list should be much longer. But by taking a critical look at it in this way, you could recapture millions in lost revenue.
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Can You Eat Pizza on a Fat-Loss Program?
One of the questions I frequently get is, “Can I eat pizza (or burgers, or fries, etc.) on a fat-loss program?”
Well … you can eat anything you want. As long as you are willing to accept the consequences and take full responsibility for your actions (or lack of action). So, yes, you can eat pizza while on a fat-loss program, provided you know that it could slow down, stop, or reverse your results.
Can you skip workouts and watch TV instead?
Sure. But if you choose to sit on the couch after a hard day’s work, you need to realize that you will not be getting closer to your goals. And if you choose to eat 1,500 calories worth of pizza and drink 600 calories worth of soda while you sit on the couch, you WILL gain weight.
Weight loss isn’t rocket science. It’s 90 percent common sense. We all know what we should and shouldn’t eat. Even a fifth grader can tell you that too much pizza and soda will make you overweight.
As inspirational writer Og Mandino says, “I shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me. Or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.”
[Ed. Note: Making the right choices can help you lose weight. But it can also help you accomplish anything you set your mind to. Discover dozens of tools that can help you get everything you want out of life right here.
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It’s Fun to Know: Mindboggling Stats From the Funeral Industry
Despite the rise in popularity of cremation, burial in a traditional coffin is still very popular in the United States. What does it take to bury all those people? You might be surprised. Here are some stats for materials used in cemeteries, by morticians, and in coffins for nearly 2 million burials in this country in the past year:
- 30 million board feet of wood
- 90,000 tons of steel (used in the coffins) – enough to build another Golden Gate Bridge
- 1.6 million tons of concrete (for burial vaults)
- 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid – more than enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool (Source: National Geographic)
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Word to the Wise: Bon Vivant
A “bon vivant” (bawn vee-VAHN) – from the French for “good” + “to live” – is a person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink.
Example (as used by Toni Bentley in a New York Times review of Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy by Ian Kelly): “He [Casanova] was a con man, a rogue, a thief, a charlatan, an opportunist, a bon vivant – and a lifelong Roman Catholic.”
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