Podcast: Robb Sutton – Making Money Review Blogging
September 16, 2009 by Tyrone
Today I’ve got Robb Sutton who has a really cool story that will give you a different perspective on blogging. His an avid cyclist, photographer and owner of the oneninety8 blog network.
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Robb Sutton – Making Money Review Blogging
Within 12 months of starting his blog at mountain biking by 198, he had received over $70,000 worth of products to review and he got to keep most of it. Not only that, he had advertising and affiliate revenue on top of this, which is the so called crème on top of the pie.
Since then, he has started another blog called RobbSutton.com to teach bloggers how to make money using this similar technique and to provide motivation and blogging tips on growing their businesses. His also got an ebook called “Ramped Mindset” which shows you how to change your mindset for success. All of these are great resources and I highly recommend anyone to check them out.
Our Internet Secrets: How To Create Membership Sites
June 16, 2009 by Tyrone
On Friday I attended Andrew and Daryl Grant’s 4 day workshop in Sydney called Our Internet Secrets. I was very fortunate to attend this event and have to thank Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey again for giving me 1 out of the 20 tickets. This course is normally $1,995.00, so I was very grateful to attend as a guest. Over the 4 days there were a lot of excellent speakers on top of having Andrew and Daryl speak. All of the speakers that presented is part of the Our Internet Secrets faculty group and if you are a member of this program you get access to them. Some of the speakers were: Yaro Starak, Bret Thomson, Darren Stephens, Greg Cassar, Paul Blackburn and Janet Beckers.
Each of them brought different their unique expertise and shared with the audience on how they created and achieved great success with their Internet Businesses. I was particularly interested to learn about how Andrew and Daryl Grant set up a very successful multi-million dollar business using their eBook and membership site strategies. These were just a couple of components that were part of their game plan. For example a goal they achieved were:
- Having a membership site with 1,000 members paying $49 a month over 12 months (Income of $588,000 a year)
- Selling 20 Internet Business packs per month at seminars for $3,000 each over 12 months (Income of $600,000 a year)
These were two of the strategies that intrigued me the most and it did make sense that it was possible to make a million dollars a year. You might be wondering how did they do this? Well, I am going to share with you the first goal they accomplished.
Creating A Membership Site
As Andrew and Daryl points out, they have a membership site that could be created and launched within 3 days. For me that is unheard of because I would be thinking where do you get the content so fast? This got me really excited and I wanted to learn how they did it! Before you could start creating a membership site you need to understand what is currently available in the market and how to make yours different, so you will stand out. Well, lets explore what are some of the problems most membership sites have in common:
- Can take 6 months or more to set up before it makes any money.
- Members stay an average of only 2-3 months, so you don’t get a recurring income
- Most membership site software is designed by and for people with a US company and bank account.
- Can be expensive to set up, depending on the software you use.
Preparing Your Website For A Pre-Launch
May 13, 2009 by Tyrone
Have you ever launched your own website before and received no traffic or any visitors to it in the first few weeks? I know I have, and it was disappointing. I want to share with you some simple steps to avoid the same mistakes I made when I first started. Also these steps are not hard to implement and does require a bit of effort on your part. I know once you have tried these proven methods you will never launch a website without this.
What Is A Pre-launch?
A lot of famous marketers like Jeff Walker, Mike Filsaime, Russell Brunson preach what they practice about the pre-launch phase. It is one of the most important phases to launching a website. A lot of people overlook this and don’t focus enough on it, usually skipping straight to launching their website. What the pre-launch does is it creates a buzz and anticipation for your website. You want to get the message out to world that your website is launching soon and what you are offering is going to be fantastic. Mike Filsaime coins the pre-launch as the “yeast” in the recipe.
How To Find A Virtual Assistant That’s Right For Your Internet Business?
March 13, 2009 by Tyrone
In the last 3 weeks I have been trialling a couple of virtual assistants (V.A) to assist me with administrative tasks and I have learnt so many new lessons along the way. The first thing for business owners wanting to outsource their work to a V.A is to interview them first before making any contractual commitment. You can trial their services for a 2-3 week period and it would provide sufficient time to test their abilities and resources available. Also be ready to pay for their services as nothing does come free, though it is definitely money worth spending to save you many precious hours.
How Will A Virtual Assistant Benefit My Internet Business?
Are you getting frustrated and overwhelmed with your work? I have been and that’s why I decided to find a virtual assistant to take over a majority of my administrative tasks. The reason for hiring is to eliminate non-dollar productive tasks that requires someone to complete and can be completed from virtually anywhere in the world. Hiring a virtual assistant can be the most rewarding feeling as well, because it also teaches you to delegate and to become a business owner rather than the person who runs the show all the time. Some of the benefits I’ve seen from my virtual assistants are:
- Gives me more time to focus on business tasks where my strengths lie
- With the right virtual assistants in place it allows you to create a smooth system that runs on automation
- I can spend more time having fun and being outdoors rather than behind the computer
Watch Out If You’re Not Careful…
My very first virtual assistant I hired started with good intentions and showed promising signs. Though when I gave her an editing task to proofread my eBook and convert it to PDF with website links, she ended up spending over 10 hours on it. I was quite specific and laid out in detail what I needed and specified a deadline and time frame to finish the eBook by. Unfortunately I didn’t realise her English was average and she did everything completely wrong. Here is what I emailed to her:
Subject of TASK: Proofread and convert to PDF including links
TASK:
- Please proof read and check for any Grammatical errors. If errors are found, please update. Also please find any words ending with “zing” or “zation” and change to “sing” or “sation”. E.g. customization to customisation.
- Add links to websites mentioned in the document. E.g. if FaceBook, add the link to document of http://www.facebook.com. You will see examples in the document of what I have done in the first few pages.
- Once you have checked through the document, please convert to PDF. Make sure all links are converted to PDF as well and check to see if they work in the document.
Can you do this? If not, please advise. Please reply and confirm what you will plan to do to complete this task.
DEADLINE: Please get started after your next email and stop at 1 hour and email me your work. Please begin this task now if possible. The deadline is Tuesday 5pm AEST.
Thank you for your fastest reply,
She did email me an eBook but it was not the same document I emailed her to convert and it had other people’s advertisements in it. I got quite angry at first and was going to send a really nasty email. But I decided it wasn’t going to be constructive. So I requested for another virtual assistant from that same company specifying for an assistant with excellent English. I received a much better response and managed to get the correct eBook sent back. Though, I did mention to them that the previous assistant needed to receive more English training.
The lesson I learnt here was not to accept what you’re given, but to keep trialling until you find an assistant who meets your standards.
Where Do I Find Virtual Assistants That Are Suitable?
To date I have found my most reliable virtual assistant for $3.50 an hour on eLance and this is the site I continue to use to look for other people to work for me. There are many other websites that I recommend below:
- Hire My Mom – A website to help you find female virtual assistants
- eLance – Type “Virtual Assistant” in the search to find a variety of assistants from around the globe
- Workaholics For Hire – A great virtual assistant service that helps you with urgent tasks for people with adhoc projects
- Able Virtual Assistant Services – Virtual Assistants located in Canada
What To Look For And Test In A Virtual Assistant?
Here are some guidelines I have used to look for a good virtual assistant:
- Give them sample work and see how they perform
- Evaluate their skills
- Ask plenty of questions from the short listed candidates
- Check their previous work and feedback statuses
- Get a few recommendations for the Virtual Assistant you wish to hire from previous clients
- Monitor their day to day progress by asking them to send you updates of their assigned tasks
Good virtual assistants are not expensive to find and there are many who are qualified to fit your budget. I would recommend giving it a go for a couple of weeks and it is the only way to know if a virtual assistant is right for your Internet business.
Tyrone Shum
Virtual Assistant Recruiter
Free Report: Make Money From The New Internet
January 16, 2009 by Tyrone
I’m very excited to let you know that I’ll be giving away this little free report to my RSS subscribers as part of this new website launch.
Why This Report?
I’ve seen so much happening in this changing Internet space that I decided it was time to share my views on the “New Internet”. Since starting my Internet Business back in 2003 as most people know I was involved in Dragonboating, I’ve seen a lot of new technologies help grow my business and I wanted to share it in this report.
Make Money From The New Internet By Tyrone Shum
Over the course of a couple of months I started compiling together my thoughts and put it into this 24 page report detailing some of the key lessons in “money making” from the New Internet. Hence the report was titled “Make Money From The New Internet”.
This report is not about basic tutorials on the practical aspects like setting up social network accounts or how to set up your blog, etc. It talks more about how these types of New Internet tools help you make money.
What You Will Learn From This Report?
- What are the “New Internet” tools that Internet businesses use today
- How blogging can help your Internet Business
- How social media is a powerful networking tool
- Why use video, audio and podcasting within your Internet business
How To Download The E-Book
Make Money From The New Internet is free to everyone who subscribes to this blog via my RSS feed.
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I hope you enjoy reading this report as much as I have enjoyed putting it together for you.
If you have any feedback after reading the book, please feel free to leave comments here.
Tyrone Shum
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