Why Spend $50 On Design When You Can Get It Done For A Fiver? Here’s 5 Ways To Master Fiverr Quickly

December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Let me explain Fiverr.com like this. First, close your eyes. Then reach in to the bucket and grope around for a winning entry ticket. Got it? Great.

Of course Fiverr isn't quite a hit or miss lottery. Alright then, maybe a little. This is why it's always good to roll up prepared before you start throwing fivers every which way.

The concept of Fiverr is ingenious. In a nutshell the Fiverr website offers a whole plethora of projects, tasks, jobs etc that folks will do for you for 5 bucks. (Per project).

Personally, I couldn't handle designing graphics, playing SEO expert, sending postcards, creating videos or penning a simple song for $5 too well. (But for a lot of folks in other countries, earning $5 is party time).

Especially if they're knocking over a whole bunch of projects in one day!

Quick Irreverant tip: You could almost do something similar for $20 players. You might need to think up a better name though. Twenty-er doesn't sound quite right.

So Does Fiverr Deliver The Goods?

I've had mostly brilliant work, and the occasional thrown-together project from fiver folks. 90% of the time my five bucks was money well spent .

Check out the header of this small home business ideas blog as a quick example. I've paid Fiver's to do simple programming tasks, clear away eggs and ham, play graphic designer, get Facebook liked, and (fingers crossed) basic SEO.

It's heaven to have simple tasks outsourced while you kick back with some quality DVD time. Or whatever else you do.

For the header of my blog I handed the designer my own Photoshop PSD file of the original header. (You'll see how to do this on the Fiverr website). Of course, I thought my own design was ship-hot…

Until her design blew me away .

Instinctively she knew how the eye works… how the words should flow, read and look better. OK she was right.

Of course, I'm no graphic designer. That's why I use Fiverr. (And Odesk too, but that's another weird story).

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But anyway, here's…

5 things to keep in mind before you start playing with fire, I mean Fiver:

  1. Look for Fivers that have strong reputations, a high rating and happy customers saying nice things about their work. (A long wait – i.e. 4 days – usually indicates the fiver is in "high demand" – and most likely produces good quality work).
     
  2. In the case of logo or graphic design, gather a few of your favourites (logos and illustrations) beforehand. This helps the fiver designer create something similar. It'll help if you can sketch out your ideas too, (Ie; what colours you want, font style etc). Take screen grabs of other website ideas you like and use them as a starting point for your own design.
     
  3. (If needed) send the Fiver a question before you commit to paying. Mention what sort of project you have in mind, your website URL etc, how the design or project will fit, are they comfortable about doing the job. You get the idea.
     
  4. If the work sucks, pony up to the Fiver and ask 'em for a revision. Be clear exactly what they will do for you and exactly what you want done. Get that all sorted before you commit. (Easier said than done when they're designing a logo or design for you! So be as specific as you can about what you want).
     
  5. Fiverr can be a powerful way to promote your website or product/services. Have a dig through the Fun & Bizarre section for starters. Want something specific done? Add your request in the Request Gigs section on the right hand side.

Re: number 3, I usually send a quick note like this:

Hi, I am keen to design a header (logo, SEO work, CSS modification, WordPress etc) for my site/blog at http://yoursite.com. It needs to look something like (reference site). I prefer a warm and friendly feel, and want to get the Photoshop PSD files too. Think you will be OK with this?

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In a nutshell…

Be careful about overdoing it… Fiverr is a land of easy temptation. Do you think 33,000 back links will really help your site get noticed? Will 55,000 Twitter followers cough up to the link your Fiverr promised? Just be real.

BTW, one thing I like to use Fiverr for is infuriating little coding CSS/HTML jobs that I don't know how to do (most of the time). A knowledgeable coder will figure it out in minutes and you're on your way.

So go forth and empty your wallet of fivers. You'll discover artistic grace out there that'll help you along I'm sure of it. Just remember you're paying $5 for the job and not $50 (or $500), so keep that in mind as you walk the Fiverr path.

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How I (Almost) Made A Fortune With Amazon

November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Way back in May I waxed lyrical about how good I thought Dan Brock's Deadbeat Affiliate product was. I still think it's a ship-hot piece of work. And now it's time to give you an update about how my Amazon electronic product review blog has faired.

But before we do let me tell you that I've barely touched the review blog since May. (Of course, right?) All I did was outsource review articles (odesk), crunch them into my own words, and post the articles up on the blog. Very little other promotion going on. And only about 5 or so reviews on the blog.

So this week after digging into Google Analytics I noticed that Google had discovered my blog and was sending about 10-20 visitors a day. Pretty good for a low-ish demand niche.

Then I checked my Amazon stats and found that people were buying the stuff I was recommending. Man was I head-over-heels about that. Check the list of goodies below… The Amazonian dollars just keep on goin' up too!

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So yes it does work. (At least in my situation) Now I'll be making even more effort to improve that blog… more reviews up, money shot photos, more relevant videos — and a nicer layout and hotshot logo. Fiverr roll it on out. 

Have you got a review blog up? It makes sense to do so, and Dan's guide delivers the goods. Let me know what YOU think…

 

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7 Simple Strategies To AutoSyndicate Your Blog Content Quickly And Easily Without Breaking The Bank (pdf)

June 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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A week back I penned a post called what to do after you've made your first blog post. I took and expanded that blog post into a 15 page down-loadable guide including all the tools and sites I use. Download it free below.

It's called: 7 simple strategies to autosyndicate your blog content quickly and easily without breaking the bank!

Click here to download it as a PDF

Comments are encouraged because it's a bit of an experimental guide at the moment.

Thanks…

 

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What To Do After You’ve Made Your First Blog Post

May 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

You've picked your market, registered your domain, installed WordPress and made a smokin' hot blog post that everyone needs to know about right now. Then what?

Obviously there's a few different paths to go down.

In addition to adding content to your blog, you also need to optimize your blog too. Keywords, meta-tags, blog title and description etc.

But what's next?

Here's a few things I do that you might find useful.

A. Have a play with DirectoryMaximizer.com – that's a low priced directory submission service that manually submits your site to SEO friendly directories. If you are planning to use that service make sure to:

  1. Use 100% unique content on your blog/site for your SEO directory submissions (they frown on linking to sites created with duplicate content).
  2. Try to have less than 100 directory submissions in your first month. (You could easily blast your site out to thousands of directories at once but does that seem natural to you?)
  3. Resubmit to different directories each time you submit.

B. Have a play with Ping.Fm – Ping.Fm is a free service that lets you paste in your blog URL and send it out to a whole bunch of social networks. (You'll need to sign up for those social networks).

Quick tip for using Ping.fm. Promote your individual blog posts by adding a * in front of your URL like this: *http://www.yourblogname.com/your-blog-post That keeps the full URL in the ping.fm window, instead of the shortened ping.fm URL.

Only do that if you don't want to use the shortened URL.

C. Have a play with Jeff Johnson's Traffic Getting SEO Plugin – this WP plugin is a like a funky optimizer that gives you the run down on everything you need to do to optimize your blog. (Search Google for the free version).

For example it will suggest what plugins to use and install, and tell you to add your blog titles, keywords, when to post and that sort of thing.

There's also WPSyndicator, another WordPress plugin that:

  • Instantly build backlinks and HUGE surges of traffic to your blog
  • Automatically builds DEEP one-way links to propel your blog to the top of the search engines
  • Turns 10 auto-blogs into 150+ with the click of a button

Can you tell I stole those bullets right from their sales page?

I'm not really into creating auto-blogs but if that's your thing cool.

You may be wondering if WPSyndicator is just a paid version of Ping.fm on crack? I wondered that too -  that's what inspired this blog post. (Won't know until I've actually tried it — even though I use all the rest).
 
Whatever the case, using a WordPress plugin is faster than popping over to Ping.Fm, typing in your URL and hitting the submit button. (The plugin automates all that, once you've set it up).
 
I think the right recipe is a bit of all of the above. You don't really need the Traffic Getting plugin or DirectoryMaximizer but they all help a little. (Just thinking about doing all those SEO directory submissions by hand tires me out — they'll do it for you for a few cents more).
 
But using Ping.Fm is a good bet. If you use that just bookmark different social sites and change things around so you're not always bookmarking on the same social networks.
 
Keep it natural.
 
Hope that helps…
 
Leave a comment below and let me know what tools you use…
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How Lee McIntyre’s Instant Internet Lifestyle Can Solve All Your Money Problems Forever!

May 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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I sat glued to a Lee McIntyre mp3 interview recently after I realised that boy definitely has something going for him.

Lee pondered over a few things he does to make a massive impact online. Like, to the tune of averaging about $4000 a day, and probably more by the time you read this.

Of course, when I see someone doing that well, the hairs on my back sit up. So I'd be SILLY not to take notice, wouldn't I?

Lee brought up a few coolish things to think about (and ponder over yourself):

  1. How can you create a sales process for a product that converts as high as possible?
  2. Focus on doing more of what works
  3. Price Stretch – offer a super high value product that is low priced.
  4. And what can you do today that will make more money tomorrow?

It pays to write those pointers down because they are definitely worth thinking over…

A perfect example of price stretching is Lee's high converting Instant Internet Lifestyle product. Crack that baby open in a new tab and take a peek. There's some cool things to learn here.

At first impression you immediately think wow, smooth presentation dude. But it's the content that steals the show. Make sure you read them bullets.

What I particularly like about Lee's approach is that he doesn't need to go chasing traffic. After all, affiliates HAPPILY push traffic his way (because they know his product converts!)

That's number 1 on the list – create a sales process for a product that converts as high as possible.

He basically created a product that is GREAT value but very inexpensive (currently $19.97). And affiliates jump on it not just because you pocket 100% commission, but because there are ongoing sales to be made.

(That includes the upsells, downsells, price bump, Business In A Box for $497 etc, that come with Lee's Instant Internet Lifestyle offering).

Lee's sales process includes lifetime affiliate tracking on 12 products (at last count). Which means you get paid if anyone you send buys 6 or 24 months down the track. And there's some high ticket goodies in there too.

This is a tempting morsel for any affiliate ready to dine!

If you create a highly converting product, pile on the value, and keep it low priced, with a good, effective affiliate program to boot, my guess is affiliates are going to LOVE it.

And that means finding traffic becomes a thing of the past!

You just spend YOUR time talking to people who want to promote your stuff (ie, some good old affiliate love). (Or heck, get your out-sourcer/PA to do that part!)

Has this got you thinking different yet? It got me!

Go take a look at Lee's page — and let what he says about continuity roll through your head. Here's a snippet:

"Whether I work this week or decide to travel across the globe…we'll still get about 500 new subscribers and about 22 new people (daily) into our continuity."

Man I LOVE that type of thinking!

And as Lee says…

When you get the chance to get inside the brain of a 7 figure marketer …and he's HOLDING NOTHING back …you DO IT.

At any price!


PS. Only kidding about the title! But anyways… what do you think? Leave a comment below and lettuce know!

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Dan Brock’s Deadbeat Millionaire Quick Review And Great Prize Money For Affiliates

May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Have you ever wanted to create review blogs that promote high ticket Amazon products but didn't know quite where to start?

Me too! Until I discovered (just last month) Dan Brock's Deadbeat Affiliate which showed me the exact steps to creating simple review blogs.

In fact within 5 days of watching Dan's videos I had a rockin' domain registered, my review blog up and hovering in page 2 of Google…

COOL.

And this is coming from a guy who has read and purchased a LOT of products before and failed tried numerous times to put successful review sites up. Nothing came close to what Dan showed me. This is why I love video — with video instructions you SEE exactly HOW to set your review blog up.

I won't reveal my niche but let's just say it's related to electronics – and the Amazon products it promotes sell anywhere from a few hundred dollars up, averaging around the $2000 mark. No need to be skeptical of 4% Amazon commissions when you're selling high ticket items like this!

But anyways… I'll keep you posted how this review blog goes. It's still early days. And I plan to offer a bonus product that complements Dan's Deadbeat Affiliate too. (In my opinion it is excellent yet I think I can offer a few small tweaks that will add value to his product) Stay tuned for that.

Heck — how could YOU not love Amazon?

  1. Amazon is trusted (and known) by nearly everyone
  2. Amazon has brilliant, high converting product pages (they test often!)
  3. Amazon sells physical products (think HIGH price points!)

To sum up Amazon ask yourself this. How many times have you been to the Amazon.com site and been constantly reminded about all the cool things you'd LOVE to have?

I mean, hey, you can see all the reviews of products, you can see what everyone is buying, and what else they bought… and Amazon are thoughtful enough to offer a list of related things you just might want too.

So when YOU send buyers from your review blog to Amazon's magic shopping fairy-land don't you think they just might buy more than one thing?

Sure they just might…

Welcome To the Money Zone!

OK so you know I love Amazon…

Now Dan has released a new product called Deadbeat Millionaire. The sales page will be live today sometime and as far as I know this is a completely done-for-you automation software tool.

Deadbeat Millionaire (great name eh?) not only automates the process of setting up the same kind of high converting websites (review sites/blogs) that make Dan think about opening a private Swiss bank account, it also helps automatically drive buying traffic straight to your affiliate websites.

Actually this is the bombshell because this is what was (sort of) missing from Dan's Deadbeat Affiliate product. (Although videos on using social media, article writing, Ping.fm and foreign language marketing are included in that).

The thing is — you can set up your review blog — that's the easy part — the trick is then to drive traffic to it. So if Deadbeat Millionaire can offer this then I for one will be a happy camper!

Like he did in Deadbeat Affiliate, in Dan's newest product he gives you his own personal websites that earn money for him on a daily basis. You can emulate these sites for yourself to make money, and you can also learn a lot about creating successful affiliate sites by dissecting what he did to create them.

But here's where Deadbeat Millionaire gets really cool:

Dan picks specific niches and shows YOU exactly how he'd go about promoting them…

For example, he'll provide you with in-depth affiliate feedback about each niche so you know exactly how to promote it – not just which keywords to go after, but where to suck up multiple sources of traffic, where to find back links and pre-written articles related to the niche so ALL the work is done for you.

Well, most of the work anyway!

But there's more! icon smile Dan Brocks Deadbeat Millionaire Quick Review And Great Prize Money For Affiliates

Every single month, Dan provides you with more niche training and done for you websites as he discovers new niches to make money in. This is great because after you've created your review blog masterpiece you'd be mad to just let it sit all alone in cyberspace. You want to feed it traffic, get comments and makem' dem sales, right?!

Get a sneak peek into Dan Brock's Deadbeat Millionaire software here.

And affiliates – boogie down with the cash prizes ($10,000 to be given away plus some freshly minted uncirculated 1oz Silver Eagles!) Your friends will wonder where you got them from…

Leave a comment if you think I am a hardcore nutcase or you love Dan's stuff… (Or both!)

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Starting A Business From Home And Other Crazy Ideas That Might Even Work

May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Change is a good thing, most of the time. And who hasn't thought more than once about starting a business from home (an online business that is) but had nagging doubts?

There's reasons those nags exist to befuddle and attempt to sow seeds of doubt in your mind. (Don't let 'em!) It's usually one of these reasons:

  1. You're too busy with your own business to build a web site
  2. You're not really interested in the process – it's just another form of marketing
  3. You're bamboozled and afraid of the web (yes, even now)

It's All Wrong.

Well it could be all wrong, but let's boogie down for a minute.

From my weirdo-Australian perspective there seems to be two different sorts of enthusiasts out there – the 'Do It For Me' folks and the 'Do It Yourself' folks. In case you guessed I signed up happily for the latter. After all, when you 'do it yourself' you feel like you're saving dollars, right? (And sometimes you have to do it yourself anyway).

But the down side to doing everything yourself is you tend not to be as prolific. You only get work done at the pace you create it. And leverage is almost non-existent.

So while you might think doing it all yourself is the fastest method and it allows you to be the dude-in-complete-control of everything your business stands for, lets consider the laws of averages for a minute. Let's say that this law dictates that out of everything you do, you'll inevitably see winners — and likely too, a massive number of losers.

From another point of view, you could say you end up…

Throwing Stuff Against The Wall
Just To See What Sticks

Anyways, although I'm a huge Bob Proctor fan, I'm also a down-to-earth realist. And what I realised after trying to do everything myself for so long was that it's much easier to be part of the 'Do It For Me' generation. MUCH easier.

When you get other people to design websites for you, write your press releases, pen your blog posts, articles and basically promote YOU with all that time-consuming 'starting a business from home' essential stuff it can feel, well, weirdly good.

It's like suddenly you've got all this fabulous new time on your hands and you don't know what to do with it. Sure, stuff like managing your outsourcers, making sure they're doing what you want them to, etc, has to be done. But that's (mostly) an easy afternoon's work, right?

Wouldn't you rather your outsourcers to be sourcing and commenting on backlinks, penning 500 word review articles and creating snazzy Keynote videos (and anything else you need) while you sleep and dream ideas? (And while you live life!) Sounds kind of attractive to me…

In my case, I rarely write a word for my own websites now. (Except of course for a long-stretch blog post like this one!) But yeah, in my humble opinion, the do it for me approach is the easy dude's way to starting a business from home! That's because:

You Don't Need
To Be The Expert!

All you need is an expert specialist to do the stuff you want to get done!

There's no real secrets to working from home and getting your website set up. You CAN simplify all that stuff — and an easy way to get started is by clicking here to fill in the contact form or pick up the phone. A shameless plug I know. But the advisors on that page are COOL dudes who've helped me prosper-evolve with my numerous websites. YOU can 'earn without work' too!

What do you think? Bad hair day or what? Leave your comments below or I'll send in my own SEAL team…

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