Archive for March, 2016
081: Kindle Publishing with Dave Koziel
Dave Koziel from PublishWithDave.com is going to tell us how he makes $10,000 to $30,000 per month from Amazon Kindle. He's created 60 to 80 Kindle books (6,000 to 12,000 words in length) for $80-$150.
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"Publish with Kindle" FREE Report (Robert Plank & Dave Koziel)
Some books produce hundreds per month while even the "duds" generate $20-$25 per month. He's going to share not only his numbers and "ah-ha" moments, but his secret strategies for making money with Amazon Kindle publishing. (As well as CreateSpace physical books and ACX Audible audiobooks.) Topics covered:
- How to make money with Amazon Kindle without writing any of your own books (Dave only wrote two of his own books, for fun)
- How even an underforming book (6,000 to 12,000 words in length) makes Dave about $25 per month and can make as many as hundreds of dollars per month (so how many books like these would you outsource?)
- The secret to getting Amazon buyers off Amazon and onto your list
- How to get started with that first Kindle book
- Get more reviews from your Amazon books using review swaps
- The next level of Amazon publishing
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080: A Day in the Life of Successful Internet Marketer Robert Plank
Ever wonder what those successful internet marketers do all day? Probably less than you, and that's why they make more money. Let's talk about how to "work" smarter (and not harder) to do more in less time, just like the "big guys" do...
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- Catchphrase of the Week: make your own luck
- Quote of the Week: "Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction." -- Harry S Truman
- Marketer of the Week: Mark Hess (give your buyers exactly what they want, understand what leads them to buy from you, race to the inbox)
How to Be Happier, More Organized, and More Productive
- Thought #1: What's Good About This?
- Thought #2: Be Desperate to Reduce Clutter
- Thought #3: Because I Can (silence the haters)
- Try things out of curiosity to see what response I get.
- If I repeat those things, then they worked! Watch that too.
A Day in the Life of Robert Plank
- morning routine?
- send a quick email every day
- meditation? reading?
- time management: don't check email in the morning, don't multitask, get everything done before the afternoon
- appointment based business
- Four Daily Tasks
- Income Machine
- help desk, checklist, system
- send an email every day or build up your list to the point where sending an email is worthwhile.
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079: The Seven (Kindle and CreateSpace) Books That Should Be Building Your Internet Marketing Business
Let's talk today about "business card" books to build your business. You should get your best ideas down, and re-use (even sometimes repeating yourself) your best content, especially in the form of digital and physical books. Amazon lets you publish an unlimited number books, so you might as well make the most of it.
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- Marketer of the Week: Jeff Mills (be the salesman -- best salesman for an app creator but he didn't even make the product)
- Quote of the Week: "When you focus on problems, you'll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more opportunities." -- Unknown
- Catchphrase of the week: "Don't live life with one foot on the brake." Comfort zone, money zone. Nobody likes a backseat driver.
- Thought of the week: What if you just put 10 minutes a day into that goal? Put aside $10 a day to build your business? Read just 1 page from a book per day?
Is There a Book in You?
Check out Robert's Amazon AuthorCentral page.
- Book of your best blog posts (rate them to narrow down the best ones)
- Interview book (get yourself out there and get a handle on scheduling)
- Big idea book: things that don't fit into a paid course but are also too valuable to just give away
- Get the catchphrase or sound byte out there so you can say you said it first
Here Are My Seven Books That I Use as a Business Card
- List book: 100 Time Savers
- Interview book: Secret Conversations with Internet Millionaires
- Strategy book: Double Agent Marketing
- Concept book: Membership Cube
- Webinar book: Sell with Amazon FBA
- Tutorial book: Setup a Point & Click Website
- Year-end book: Internet Marketing on Crack
You can (and should) join our Make a Product book publishing course to discover how to publish your own book in 58 minutes.
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078: Plug and Play Passive Income Business Models to Build Up That Nest Egg
Catchphrase of the Week: See a movie or go to the park.
Quote of the Week: "The number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten." - Unknown
Marketer of the Week: Gary Ambrose (show someone how to "make a million dollars in five minutes" -- his membership hosting platform includes pre-made membership content, sales letters, emails, just click and it's in)
Seven Passive Income Business Models
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1. Fiverr services (Profit Dashboard)
2. Tiny little $7 reports: it's all about the upsell (Income Machine)
3. Low-ticket webinar: fake out and drop the price down to $7. Anything to get them buying. (Webinar Crusher)
4. Platinum coaching program: seminar, application, recurring GoToWebinar. (Membership Cube)
5. Yearly software: license table, updates, developer license, lifetime access. (This is how we sell and market Backup Creator).
6. Webinar membership sites: 4 or 8 week class, fixed term site, deactivatable software, checklist, pain of disconnect like a directory. (You can use the WP Notepad and WP Kunaki plugins for this, included for free in Membership Cube.)
7. $2400/mo Websites for Offline Businesses (we don't have a training for this but we use Backup Creator to re-use our template.)
8. Kindle books: (Make a Product is our Amazon publishing course.)
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