Marketing System — 6-Step Formula To Build Your Marketing System From Scratch

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Memo From: Marlon Sanders
Re: 6-Steps To Build From Scratch

Today's Marlon's Marketing Minute:

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How To Build Your Marketing System From Scratch —
Beginning With No Traffic, No List And No Graphics
Or Web Page — In Six Steps You CAN Do
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Hey,

Marlon here.

Today's article tells you how to build your marketing
system from scratch.

There are so many offers in the marketplace right now.
So much being said. So much being sold.  That's good on
the one hand.  On the other, it can be confusing or
daunting.

My job one has always been to SIMPLIFY things.  So I'm
gonna break it down for you right now.  This is the
Cliff Notes version of “The Amazing Formula.”

So print it, read it and benefit.

Print it in your blog.  Pass it along. Spread the news.
Internet marketing is simpler than a lot of people make
it out to be.

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Marlon's Marketing Minute
Electronic Newsletter
http://www.promotemarlon.com
Vol. 3, #21, June 14, 2008
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B. Announcements from Marlon (Important)

C. Main Article: 6-Step Formula To Build From Scratch

How To Build Your Marketing System From Scratch —
Beginning With No Traffic, No List And No Graphics
Or Web Page — In Six Steps You CAN Do

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Brought to you by: Marlon Sanders – Publisher

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C. How To Build Your Marketing System From Scratch —
Beginning With No Traffic, No List And No Graphics
Or Web Page — In Six Steps You CAN Do

By Marlon Sanders

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This article tells you how to build your marketing
system from scratch.

There are so many offers in the marketplace right now.
So much being said. So much being sold.  That's good on
the one hand.  On the other, it can be confusing or
daunting.

My job one has always been to SIMPLIFY things.  So I'm
gonna break it down for you right now.  This is the
Cliff Notes version of “The Amazing Formula.”

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Step one: Decide on your target market
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I'm tired of discussing this. If you have problems on
it, see http://www.pushbuttontargetmarket.com

That's the absolute best help I can give you.

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Step two: Decide your source of traffic
— paid, organic or affiliate.
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a.  Paid —

You buy the traffic from pay-per-click ads,
text ads, banner ads or cpm email advertising.

b.  Organic —

You use the Evergreen Traffic System or
variations of it to get organic traffic. That is, listings
on the left or free side of Google, MSN and Yahoo search
results.  I'll include video marketing on the video sites
like Youtube in this.

Article marketing is part of organic marketing because the
idea is that by submitting your article to directories you
get inbound links. And those links boost your rank in the
Google organic search results.

c.  Affiliate —

I'll include the cpa or cost per action
networks like cpaempire.com, Azoogle.com and Hydra in this.
They're basically advanced affiliate programs.

I'll include Clickbank marketing in this, since one of the
main reasons to use Clickbank is accessing their affiliate
network.

The bread-and-butter here is starting your own affiliate
program.

Product launches are simply an advanced version of affiliate
marketing.  You're getting traffic from others in exchange
for paying a split of profits.

http://www.affiliatedashboard.com is my system.  Now, if
you're in Internet marketing as a niche, then good luck.
But in most other target markets, it still works like a
champ.

I could add in here viral marketing through brandable
pdf reports.  This is an affiliate marketing method as is
Mike's Butterfly method.  It's all based on affiliate
marketing.

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Step three: Develop a conversion process
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Somewhere along the way people end up on a page that
gets 'em to buy or to get on a teleconference or live video
streaming session where you get 'em to buy.

The goal is an ACTION or sale.  So it's a conversion
page, call or video session.  See:

http://www.pushbuttonchannel.com for info on how to set up
these new live video sessions.

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Step four: Pick a way to get people on your email list
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This can be a “name squeeze” page where people insert their
name and email to get something free.  Or it can be a
sidebar on your sales page where they do the same. Or a pop
up.

Your goal on a name squeeze page is to get 20% or more to
get on your list.  You MUST track this percentage.  On one
of my pages I found out if was only 5%.  That's 15% below
the goal.

If people are NOT joining, you have a problem with the match
between your message and the folks going to your page, that is,
your market.

Or you're not offering an enticing enough reason to join.

With affiliate program traffic, I've always used a full-blown
sales letter vs. a name squeeze, so my affiliates get a
commission as quickly as possible.

I've relied on fly ins (pop-ups) to collect email addresses.
And also the sidebar.  My join rate isn't nearly as good
as a namesqueeze though.

The BIG idea in Internet marketing right now is to offer
something really BIG free like a boot camp or seminar and
then make money on an immediate offer, also referred to as
an upsell or special offer.

All this is, is upping the ante on the free offer to get
people to join a list.  The reason for this is Internet
marketing is SO competitive, people are immune to the
ordinary offers.

But in regular markets or through other sources of traffic
like banner ads or pay-per-click, your plain ol' vanilla
offers still work gangbusters.

Terry Dean made the free ebook for joining the list offer
famous 3 or 4 years ago.  And believe it or not, it STILL
works like a champ in your ordinary, everyday markets.

In creating the PushButtonChannel.com product on using
live streaming video in your business (for free) Santos
created a little list you could join for his mini-video
course.

We're adding 20 people a day just from his Facebook site
and word of mouth.  It's kind of surprising the way it is
growing.  Maybe we'll convert it into its own little list.

My point is, if you blog, or do video, or podcast, or write
articles in your niche — you may find it's a bit easier
to grow a list than you THOUGHT.

Tinu's Evergreen Traffic System absolutely works. But to
work it, you need to WRITE 300, 500, or 1,000 words a day.
Or do podcasts or videos.

But really, the core is blog posts and article writing.
If you don't have much money to get started, I recommend
it:

http://www.marlonsanders.com/evergreen

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Step five: Your initial offer
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The FIRST sale is the hardest.  We call this the front end
of the business.

The thing in vogue at the moment is the $1 to $7 offer.  I
thought the whole $7 ebook offer was a clever way to build
your list. Some people are offering 100% commissions but
that offer is dicey with Paypal.  You want to AVOID something
where it appears people are buying the rights to sell
the rights.

Still, $1 to $10 for an initial purchase has been popular
since the record club days.

However, if your traffic is coming from affiliate programs,
you better have an immediate upsell (special offer) to snag
money right away, so you have something to pay affiliates
for sending you traffic.

The other thing in vogue at the moment is offering 90% to
100% commissions on the initial sale and presenting a
series of immediate special offers to “monetize the traffic.”

In other words, people join the list to snag some free
bootee but then you present some special offers after they
join the list to try to get immediate money.

You need to keep your prospect list separate from your
customer list and only send non-customer type emails.

In reality, this is a bit harder to do than it sounds.  I've
NOT done this over the years but would have made more sales
if I did.

The BEST conversion emails you'll see are from:

John Alanis — womenapproachme.com
John follows the Matt Furey model.

Matt Furey — mattfurey.com
Amazing emails every day.

Eben Pagan — doubleyourdating.com
Classic emails.

If you're a business-to-business marketer, you need to
find your own model.  The same approach works with tweaking
in b-to-b.

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Step six: Your back end offers
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The back end of the business is the follow up marketing or
sales.

It seems like every since Mike Filsaime came out and said
“membership sites are it” everybody and their dog has
followed up with a membership site.

Why?  They work!  I recommend them.

But you can also simply send out affiliate offers to your
list or your own on a weekly, 2X or 3X weekly basis.

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Web Graphics, HTML, Programming And Whatnot
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Web graphics — I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend our
own DesignDashboard.com.

The only caveat is that Adobe may not be offering free trials
on Elements.  You have to check on that.  The program costs
$100 or less (on Ebay).

You can also create graphics on Power Point if you're a
real newbie. Then just screen capture them using Snagit on
a PC or Skitch on a Mac.

HTML — I recommend Web Expression for beginners, although
Dreamweaver is the standard on Mac and Pc. And you save
time if you just learn it to start.

I muck around on Web Expression and force my designer to
“fix it.”

Well, that's “The Amazing Formula” in a nutshell.

This is a “doable” process.  You don't have to be the rocket
scientist from on high to do it.

I've literally seen this process work in enormously competitive
markets like Internet marketing with people only doing the
basics.

I hope this makes you see things in a SIMPLER, more understandable
and doable light.

Marlon Sanders

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Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Info Product Dashboard.”
If you want to create your own info products, go to:
http://www.productdashboard.com

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