Well how nice to see you by my blog again!  This post is something I wrote a few months ago…but there’s an update below.  I urge you to read it all…see you at the end!

Morning!

When you read about making money online, chances are…you’re thinking about affiliate marketing or Adsense or PPC or or getting new clients or some other common, everyday keyword or acronym or what you have.

Right?

I hope you’re sitting down for the following blindling obvious fact that many people choose to ignore:

Big Dogs in making money online take the LONG-TERM view.

What does that mean?

Simple!  It means that the goal doesn’t HAVE to be…money in your paypal account yesterday!

Instead, it means that the goal is making sure that tomorrow brings you MORE people to whom you can market.

Why else do you think some Internet marketers offer you freebies of their products?

It’s to make certain you first get on their list.

Stay with me here, the following is critical!  Let me first repeat this:

It’s to make certain you FIRST get on their list.

Once you’re on their list, they can set up automatic followups that every few days or weeks or what have you…send you updating emails.  These emails might contain a call to action (check out XYZ product!), it might be an affiliate promotion

(speaking of which , get thee hence to

It has to be seen to be believed – Adrian really outdid himself!)

Where was I?  Oh yes!  The followup emails in virtually all cases are what brings in the money to the Big Dogs….

NOT the initial product sale. 

That’s why products are given away for free or membership sites offer free memberships….it paves the way for Long Term Income.

In other words…money doesn’t HAVE to be made today. It can be made tomorrow and next week and next month and….

See what I mean?

Now, let’s tackle just what this means for YOU.

Refer back to

TUTORIAL – 7 Of The most CONVINCING Ways To Boldly Make Money With Your Blog Sidebar Part 2

TUTORIAL – 7 Of The MOST Fascinating Ways To Monetize Your Sidebar Part 1

Notice how I emphasize the positioning of my autoresponder (in this case, it’s my newsletter where I give away a complimentary copy of 13 Ways You Are Leaving Money on the Table). 

In other words….

I do NOT have my affiliate stuff up top nor my advertising nor any PPC….I have my optin form.

That is because I know the power of future marketing to satisfied readers.

So!  Ask yourself….how can you focus on the long-term profit-building on your own blog or website?

Do you offer any of the following in a blindly obvious fashion?

• Newsletter
• Free 7 Day eClass
• Free eBook
• Free White Paper

In other words….

Anything that gives people a reason to get on your list?

If so, ensure it’s, ahem, blindingly obvious to the readers!

But merely having that present isn’t a guarantee your readers will opt in and join….ideally you can also consider using a squeeze page as well.

Here’s mine for my newsletter.

Notice how the only way off that page is to either sign up or press the back button?

That’s called a Squeeze page, and because I’m using the Flexibility Theme, it took only one click to create the template (I HIGHLY recommend this theme if you’re serious about making money online – it simplifies a great number of affiliate/marketing tasks).

See?  I’ll be covering more about squeeze pages in a later post as well.

Thus, in closing, when you want to make money on the Internet, no matter in what fashion (getting more clients, affiliate marketing, niche-building, etc.etc.etc.), do NOT take the short term view!!

Focus on building your list instead to address long-term profitability…your bank account will thank you for it indeed.

Enjoy,

Barbara

Wow, fancy bumping into you here!  Did you find the above article eye-opening at bit?  I would certainly hope so, as lately it seems the

Make Insane Amounts of Money By Giving It All To MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

sites are becoming more prevalent online than a plague of slime-infested mosquitos.

I’m talking, of course, about sites that tell you it’s ONLY $1.98 to access 7 days’ worth of information, and then hit your credit card for the $99/month fees that were revealed ONLY in the Terms of Service page.

I was interviewed about that last week (you can read the article at I’m quoted in the LA Times about Twitter, Scams, Buyer Beware, and Reading the TOS).   And you can see other newsworthy articles about similar scams over at

• Twitter-Based Job Schemes Promise Work-From-Home Cash
• No, You Can’t Get Rich Quick Via Twitter
• BBB Warns Against Twitter Money-Making Schemes
• Twitter becoming a tool for scams, bureau says

Now, here’s where YOU come in.

Because you’ve found your way to this site, chances are….you’re pretty savvy online compared to the majority of your friends.  You’re aware of the scams that abound, you’re diligent about NOT plunking down your money if something sounds too good to be true.

Right?

Well then now, tell me this….are your friends just as knowledgeable?

ps – speaking about building lists, have you seen:

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