“The beginning is the most important part of the work”
- Plato
It had been four years since I had last had a beer with the Guru and although we had spoken on the phone a few times in recent months, I wasn’t too sure what to expect.
You see, I knew him as a pin-striped corporate Sales Manager, like I still was. He had told me he was making money online and I kind of imagined him living a frugal “hand to mouth” existence and driving an old beat up car. After all, the guy is 37 years old and has four kids aged between 4 and 12. So when I pulled up outside his house at 8.00 pm after working my day job, it was pitch dark. There was a steep driveway leading down to the Gurus house, which I couldn’t really make out. The first car I passed on the steep driveway had baby seats in it and it was a Mercedes-Benz R320, with mag wheels. Parked in front of the R Class was my dream car, another bloody Mercedes-Benz.
Now I was committing one of the deadly sins “envy”. Deep down I think I was hoping that Guru J had two rich friends visiting. Then I felt the squelch of a rather large dog poo under my shoe. Just then the Guru J’s lovely blonde wife greeted me and within minutes my shoes were off and I was catching up with my old friends.
They had no other guests and were living happily in a sprawling comfortable house with a huge home office. Guru J most definitely had my attention for the first lesson, so I hope I’ve got yours.
The Guru assumed I knew nothing and he was fairly right. Guru J told me to write down three facts: -
To make money online:
- I would need to build a basic website
- I would need to spend a little bit of money to get traffic to the web
- When the traffic came, I would need to capture the visitors name and their email address.
If I could do these three things I could make a fortune online. I asked why if it was that simple wasn’t everybody doing it! “Lack of discipline” was all the Guru said.
Let me lay out the full plan. You can get any Auto Responder you like, there are many companies offering this service.
Any good quality company in the autoresponder business will offer the following.
Brilliant tutorials,24 hour online support; Unlimited email addresses; Unlimited Auto Responders; Fantastic personal service.
So, if you are doing any online advertising or promotions of an affiliate product or an e-book why not build your own simple 1 or 2 page website and capture the traffics details yourself. This will then enable you to do the following no matter what you are selling or promoting –
- Get the visitors name;
- Capture the name and an email add, If they leave, you already have the email address for a follow up message
If the start of the process is done correctly the rest is really just a walk in the park.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Ritchie Ingersole is the C.E.O of Paul Ritchie Advertising from Sydney Australia.
Paul specializes in teaching real people how to make a full time income online working partime.
To gain access to the secrets the Guru has shared with Paul visit his website.
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