Anyway at the end of the year and the start of the next it is always a time for reflection on the year past and for making plans for the coming year. So what were the high points of 2011 and what do I have planned for 2012.

My major success in 2011 was my Kindle publishing sales of my books have been growing since April and now have exceeded 500 per month for the past four months.

I started by publishing PLR materials and some Public Domain works, once I had work out how best to do this I now use this strategy for all be Kindle books. I have even published my plan The Kindle Cash Machine and shot 13 over the shoulder videos to help others to copy my system.

Just over a month ago Amazon released the new generation of Kindle tablets in the US, the flagship product the Kindle Fire is not simply an eBook reader but will allow you to view multimedia content. This opens up a massive opportunity in providing content for the Fire.

Amazon have also made it easy to publish your own content through its Create Space program. This allows anyone to publish content in Audio, Video or even your own Publish On Demand Paperback (POD). It is very easy to do as Create Space walk you through the whole procedure step by step and even provide you with a free ISBN number. I have used this to publish an anthology of my partner’s fiction, the finished is very professional. The cost? Just the cost of a proof copy shipped to the UK $10!

I also released my first WSO with one of my flagship products 12 Roads to Success.

I predict that WSO’s will become much more dominant and better known in the coming year as they offer outstanding value but beware they are not all of the same quality, there are some duff WSO’s s well as some truly amazing one’s.

So to 2012, targets for this year:

• To grow my list by over 1000 subscribers

• To update my products, 12 Roads to Success and Plugin Auction Profits (I know I keep promising this but I will do it!)

• To increase my Kindle sales to 1000 a month

• To build WordPress websites to help Local Businesses advertise themselves

• Not to buy any product I will not use

But most importantly to have as much fun with my lovely partner as I can!

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year.  Rob..

Today I passed 500 sales (519 actually) for the month of November selling on Amazon Kindle. Here’s my free report on how I sell on Kindle and other eBook sites if you want to take a look! Just click on the image.

FREE Report

Or, full steam ahead to the Step by Step Blueprint, Click the image:

Or. the whole course on Video Click The Image

Join the Publishing Revolution…

Rob..

The Warrior Forum is a very busy place these days, Warrior Special Offers or WSO’s are all the rage, you see there are some excellent products to be had at rock bottom prices. I know because I have bought a few myself.

I have used John Thornhill’s, WSO Domination as my guide to constructing my WSO, I have listed my best selling product from last year 12 Roads to Success as my first WSO.

This sells on for $27 on Clickbank.

The price on Warrior Forum, $5, and this include free updates for life.  There is a $10 upsell of 10 standalone plans to help you build your business. I have used Warrior Plus which costs $19 for the licence usage plus the $40 listing fee to make this live.

I am offering 50% commission on the product and 50% commission on the upsell which will be paid immediately into your PayPal account, there is also a full set of affiliate tools including graphics, e-mails, review/blog posts and forum signatures  to help promote the offer, you can access them HERE

My First  WSO 12 Roads to Success

Only one question to ask, anyone in?

Rob

Some WSO’s offer outstanding value attracting a high number of visitors and have a huge volume of resulting sales. Some often very worthy WSO’s attract a much smaller visitor volume. I have bought a few WSO’s recently that will help me grow my business.

Clearly some offers are going to convert much better than others and some money making/automation/simple step methods will be more popular than others. But and this is a valid point you see some offers where you feel the seller hasn’t got it right for some reason, maybe the sales copy is not right, or that they don’t come over as being very helpful, or you find out you need to take an upsell to get the product to work (doesn’t that just suck!!).

I have been wanting to run a WSO’s on some of my own products but felt that I needed some advice. So a few weeks ago I contacted my mentor John Thornhill who has recently run some very successful WSO’s. In his reply John told be he was preparing a step by step training course called WSO Domination that would show all you need to do to prepare and launch a WSO.

I decided to hold fire and get this exactly right and I am glad I did. WSO Domination gives you everything that you need to prepare and launch, manage and profit from your own WSO.

This Comprehensive Blueprint Covers:

* Phase One – Theory

9 Part Step by step training

* Phase Two – Listing a WSO

8 Part Detailed Steps

* Phase Three – Making Money

5 Part Step by Step (monkey see monkey do) Training

* Advanced Training

6 Part ‘Must Have’ breakdowns

* Extras

WSO Domination Mind Map

100 Niche List Mind Map

Bonus Software (sells for $97) – EXTREMELY Helpful!

More Useful Software (sells For $27) – Major Time Saver

PLUS Two Extra Bonuses ($47 & $27 Value) – Helpful for beginners!

The training is Seriously Step By Step and comes in the following formats:

Online

MP4

iPad

iPhone

iPod

PDF

Making them easily accessible to Anyone and Everyone regardless of their preferred learning style or method!

Regarding the actual content, it appears that no stone has been left unturned in ensuring this is not a teaser program that leaves people stuck on various aspects, or searching for weeks to learn how to do some of the basic things needed!

There is an upsell, BUT you DON’T need this to make this work!!

Checkout the Video HERE

Overall it would seem that EVERY ASPECT has genuinely been covered in this STEP by STEP course that will guide the buyers/student to FINALLY seeing results that other programs would have you believe possible, but then go on to be yet another too complicated, too time consuming or parts missing type of program.

WSO Domination isn’t a quick read report, and is in fact a full blown training course laid out in a step by step manner for all levels of marketers to be able to take advantage of.

It’s filled with content that genuinely covers every aspect step by step.

The bonuses are actually useful and make a great addition to the main core training.

All in all – this product is Excellent Value for money and I feel confident it will actually help a lot of people get started in finally getting a return on their investment of both time and money they have made in searching for genuine income methods that work in the online marketplace.

My Recommendation:

Check it out, and if you either have the ability yourself to create products, or the knowledge to outsource product creation. Then this will help you make a lot more money a lot faster than many methods that hit our inboxes on a daily basis!

Oh yes I forgot the price! Just $10 until THURSDAY 3^rd November when it will be $29.95.

WSO’s are all the rage, jump onto the bandwagon and get this while it’s too cheap!

Rob

But….. Shiny things can get in the way of making any meaningful progress, you get distracted by the next shiny thing and then the next and you never really finish with one shiny thing before you move onto the next shiny one with all the new shiny stuff and shiny promises.

In the beginning you buy lots of shiny things because they either seem to make things so easy just 8 clicks of the mouse and money flood into your bank account, when it doesn’t work you move onto the next shiny thing there is always plenty of choice.

There are lots of shiny things to buy in my e-mail inbox every day. I don’t buy many shiny things these days; they always end up costing you a lot more money than you think.

Shiny things come in lots of different guises but I am taking about “Make Money Online” Products. I don’t buy many of these but I have bought some, ones that I think will help me grow my business, ones that offer excellent content and excellent value.

I bought John Thornhill’s and Dave Nicholson’s Multi Profit Monthly for $5 and The Ultimate Facebook Challenge by Maria Gudelis for $7.

Both of these were WSO and deliver awesome content and value. I bought a new shiny thing last night Lee McIntyre’s Internet Automation Plan this was selling for $997 but “Bonkers Lee” is now selling for $5! Over 10 hours of quality video training.

I have only just started to go through the modules and have already found some real gems. I like this shiny thing and I also like the price. You will too, because for a limited time only this will be available for just $5.

If you are serious about learning about building an online business then you really need to check this out.

For the price of a McDonalds I got myself a McIntrye instead. More satisfying and better for you in the long run.

Check out this amazing deal HERE.

So here is mine! It’s all about using JV events to build you subscriber list. In this Video we I will show you how to contribute gifts in return for a sign up to one of your lists for FREE.

Don’t forget to visit Barry’s Blog where there will be a full list of contributors and Videos You can find out more about current JV Giveaways Here

Rob…

So what’s the answer? Well it depends on how you work, mine way is simple I head for one of the many offices scatted around the neighbourhood, I think some people can these public houses? I have several local ones that I can visit; it just depends on what I am doing or what the weather is like.

Last Saturday I went to one of my favourite outdoor offices near Silverdale in the southern part of the English Lake District, one of my favourite places on earth. You can get an idea of the solitude by looking at the pictures.

On a Bad Day You Can See Blackpool!!

The Lovely Town of Silverdale

The Pepperpot a Victorian Monument Nothin to Do with Monty Python

My desk and Office: No Computer!!

Here pen in hand I sat and wrote like some poor mans Wordsworth. I planned a huge chunk of my e-course 12 Roads to Success here last year. I was able to plan so much, that the writing came to me very easily. So in this very spot last Saturday I planned some additional content for Internet Coaching Monthly. In just over two hours I wrote over 12 pages of notes. What really helped was that it was a beautiful day and I hardly saw a soul all day.

So can I recommend a change of scenery when you need to get something done?  Rob…

Instead of working at home I have relocated to my local public house pad and pen in one hand and pint of Guinness in the other. That’s where this blog post was written in the sunshine from during a break from working on Internet Coaching Monthly my new venture with Steve King.

Internet Coaching Monthly (ICM) is a membership site its aim is to provide excellent content at an amazingly low price. Steve has been very busy building the site using WordPress whilst I have been creating some of the content for it. If you look at the website you will be seriously under whelmed as nearly of the content is yet to be published.

I am creating 2 modules at the moment one on product creation and marketing and another on eBay trading of course. The product creation will be approx 20 videos some PowerPoint’s and PDF’s. I am hoping to shoot the videos in the next week or so this will take the number of videos on the site to over 100, yes we have been very busy!

I am also working on a little project with my lovely partner building a Kindle empire for her fiction (which is outselling my own stuff at the moment). 2011 is already my most productive year so far I have already completed and have on sale 3 products since January.

Madness or Magic

Your eBay Information Business

eBay Revealed: A Powerseller Interviewed

Steve and I are hoping to launch at the end of May we want this to be really special. Oh my glass appears to be empty, time for another Guinness… This office move really suits me!  Rob

A blog is a very inexpensive way of establishing an online presence, the value of this approach is that you own the blog and the domain name and customise it to be completely individual to your business.

However you can do this even more cheaply by using one of the many available free blogs such as Blogger from Google. The idea is to use the blog to review a product and then drive traffic to the blog to sell the product via your affiliate link.

Blogger is easy to set up and customise and easy to use here is an example of one of my own review blogs.

Decide what type of product you want to promote and look for a suitable product on Clickbank, PayDot Com or a similar site and promote the product via your affiliate link which means that if a visitor to your review blog makes a purchase through your link you get paid.

You will need to write a series of review articles about the product or the problem that you can post on the blog and then write a series of article to post on article sites to drive traffic back to your review blog. The way it works is that you write an article about the problem the product you are promoting solves; look at other articles on the same or similar subjects on the article websites to get an idea of the style of writing and the content.

The traffic is driven by a clickable link in the resource box of the article that links to your review blog or the product via your affiliate link. Here is an example of one of my articles look in particular at the resource box and follow the links to see what I mean.

The more traffic you can generate the more sales you will make. The disadvantage of this system is that results are not instant and it takes a while for the blog to be indexed by the search engine spiders. You will also have to provide new content  on the website on a regular basis about twice a week. This is a lot of writing but if you use PLR (Private Label Rights) articles as the skeleton of your articles or blog posts it will cut down the writing time to a fraction of the time to write from scratch.

You can pick up PLR article very easily; probably the best way to does this is to do an Internet search or sign up to a free giveaway event and look for PLR articles or products. I will post a list of giveaways below here in the meantime have a look and see if you can find some PLR content for a free review blog. More soon Rob….

If you are serious about starting your own business then what I have for you this year will certainly help! Let’s start by what may be holding you back. One of the problems may be not knowing how or where to start. The first thing that most of us would do is to search online for information I have just googled Make Money and there was 424,000,000 results returned, overwhelming to say the least.

Amongst the sort of things you will find will be:

Buy this and retire in 20 Mins. Not fast enough for me!

New loophole in Google make millions!! Really.

15 year old Myra Binglebatt shows you how to buy your own car, house and island working only 3 minutes a day only 14 spots left. I hope I’m not too late.

Ok I exaggerate (only slightly) but not by much but the common thread through all this is you stump up your hard earned cash in the hope of emulating young Myra. Maybe buy a bigger island, a faster car and a more expensive mansion. If you can do all this in just 2 minutes a day all the better.

We have all been stung by this type of hype, even me. I once bought a “Millionaire” system complete with product, website and everything you need to get it up and running online. So easy a child could do it.

Well I couldn’t, the licence gave the minimum price the product could be sold at and I thought it represented very poor value at that price. It came with ad copy intended for direct mailing that did not relate directly to the product it mentioned items that were not part of the product for sale. Some of the bonus disks were unreadable no information on how to upload or edit the website and worst of all no reply to my support e-mails until this guy wanted to sell me something else!!

Oh and by the way this cost me $850 of my hard earned. This is exactly what gets Internet selling a bad name and tars everyone with the same brush.

Believe it or not there are some businesses that you can start on a shoestring and this year I am going to help as many people as possible by providing as many free or inexpensive ways as possible to get you started as soon as possible.

Here are just 3 ideas to get you up and running today, yes today.

Start an eBay business, if you already have an eBay account why not sell the unwanted presents you have received and grab yourself some capital you can reinvest to make more. Want to know more about eBay first then grab my free eBay guide HERE.

Use Amazon to sell, most people will only ever think of eBay but Amazon Market place is a vibrant selling platform and has the advantage that there is no bidding, you set the price and Amazon set the postage costs. You will often find that some items will command a much higher price on Amazon.

Sell you books on Amazon, simply insert the ISBN number to see the possible resale value of your books. Now your Dan Brown will only be worth a few cents each but academic, instructional and technical books have a much higher resale value and will be worth far more. De-clutter your home and see what else you can find to sell. Want more information on how to do this? Then download my Amazon video series for FREE HERE.

Finally something to think about, can you find poorly listed books on eBay that you can resell on Amazon? Bet you can, or grab some new stock for just a few dollars at garage sales or charity shops. None of this will make you a fortune but there are sizable businesses that can be built from these modest beginnings. More soon Rob….