First, the bad news… I lost my job after working as an engineer for 41 years.
My wife and I saved as much as we could during our working years and was able to provide well for our four children. We helped them with their studies and they could start working without any study debt.
This left us with little money to put away for our golden years and today my wife gets a monthly pension of only R2,180 and mine is R2,840. This is not even enough to pay for electricity, water and tax on our house. Let alone food and clothes! (Combined it is less than $290 per month.)
Fortunately our home is paid for and big enough that our daughter, her husband and their twin daughters of 7 years old, can live with us. They help with the daily expenses.
The Good News
When I lost my job at the age of 68, I knew that nobody would employ me and that I had to find another income or we would not make it.
We sold everything we could like my tools, odd furniture and even our only vehicle. I used this to learn more about online marketing and nearly lost everything of our small nest-egg.
At last my research gave results!
After a two-year struggle of trial and error I discovered the solution:
- Never try to start an online business without building your very own prospect list first.
- Never accept so-called done-for-you systems.
- You can make use of FREE systems and don’t have to invest thousands to build a successful online business.
- Find a reliable mentor to guide you on your way.
- It does take time and effort but is worthwhile in the end.
Let me explain each of these in more detail. The lessons that I learned can just help you to avoid the pitfalls and put you on your way to online success.
1. Build Your Own Email List of Prospects
The reason why this is so important is that you can first build a relationship of trust with your prospective customers.
People will not easily buy directly from somebody that they don’t know from Adam. They know that there are many scams online and are very sceptical about everything and one cannot blame them. The world is full of thieves, liars and conartists.
What caught me off-guard was the blatant untruths that even well-known online marketers use to get people to join them.
“Work just 1 hour per week and pocket $980 a day!”
The old saying of our elders are still true:
“If it sounds too good to be true, it ain’t true”.
May I give you the true story?
It will take some time to build your own prospect list from scratch but it is not difficult if you know exactly how it is done. I have created a simple quick tutorial that shows you step-by-step how you can do it at no cost to you. But more about it later…
2. Never Accept Done-For-You Systems
Most people would always take the way of least resistance and can sound very enticing to let others do the work for you but there is an ulterior motive behind it.
Most of these systems are set up in such a way that these criminals still have access to your subscribers. They might pay you some commission on the first small sale, but behind the scenes they make high ticket sales to your subscribers and rake in big money with their back-end sales.
You will just see sudden unsubscribes from you list of these people being stolen by your benefactor. Fortunately not all people are like this and I’ll show you the honest ones with integrity.
These are people like Joe Polish of What’s in it for Them fame as well as Aurelian Amacker, the creator of Systeme.io.
Aurelian’s system allows you to build your own private list of up to 2,000 subscribers at no cost and you can use it free for as long as you need to.
His system was built for online marketers by a renowned online marketer himself. At first he actually build it only for his own use but soon realized that it can also help other new online marketers. He will never forget how difficult it was for him to make the first breakthrough and that is why he still makes it available at no cost to us.
I also use this system now for more than a year. Before I used Joel Therien’s GVO (Global Virtual Opportunity) system to build my first lists. It is also an excellent system for a beginner and many advanced marketers use it as well.
However, it is not free to use and even as a paid starter member you can only have 300 subscribers before you must upgrade to allow more subscribers.
The one thing that I learned from Joel was to keep it simple and not to try to be smart. Recently I again made this mistake and changed my opt-in page for my list in Systeme.io. I thought that it looked too dull and changed the colour of two words to red as well as the background colour of the subscription button to yellow.
My idea was that it would be more interesting or eye-catching. Normally I would be able to get at least one or two subscribers each day, but suddenly I got no subscribers for four consecutive days. I quickly changed it back to the original and the next day I got a subscriber again.
So, keep it simple and don’t fix what ain’t broken!
Below is the link through which you subscribed to my list if you want to take a look again of just how simple it is:
Get Way More Clicks with Traffic Exchanges
The second lesson is to always check your metrics. For instance my subscription rate to my list is between 20% to 30% and if I did not suddenly saw it drop below 20% I would not have picked up my mistake.
The third lesson is to always make a backup of the original before you make any changes. What I should have done from the start, was to make use of an option in Systeme.io called an A/B test.
The system allows you to create two similar opt-in pages. It then shows the two pages to each alternative visitor. This way you can make changes and immediately see which one works best. This way you can continually improve your landing pages.
Now let’s look at the next key aspect. I have already touched on using free systems with your marketing.
3. You Can Make Use of FREE Systems
Free is not always worse than what you pay for. Systeme.io is a clear example of this statement.
Just look at what you get with this free system:
- A professional Autoresponder complete with Rules and Workflow.
- A complete Blog where you can post your Articles.
- Your own Membership where you can host your Training Courses.
- A Private Community where your members can Communicate with you and each other.
- Video Instructions how to use these Features to the full.
- Easy Page Builder and Funnel Builder with Tags.
- Email Support 24/7 plus access to the Facebook Group.
- Your own Affiliate Program so that your members can help you with your marketing and earn Commission.
- It gives you Leverage to Automate your online marketing.
It’s quite a mouth-full and that is why I am so excited to introduce you to this system.
Another system that you can use at no cost is Kenneth Kow’s LeadsLeap system. This is a system with which you can easily get the interested people to subscribe to your list.
Even as a free member you can plug in two banners to display and get visitors to your landing pages. These are active people looking for business opportunities and I get lots of subscribers to my list in this way. All you have to do is to view a few pages each day of other people’s ads.
4. Find a reliable mentor to guide you on your way
I do not say that I am the best mentor myself, but I have learned from people like Brian Tracy, Joe Polish, Mike Filsaime, Alex Hormozi and several others like Joel Therien, Kenneth Kow and Derrick van Dyke.
What I can promise you is that I will be brutally honest with you and only show you what worked for me and how you can get the same results. You will never hear half-truths from me.
Some of the best free training that you can get online is available on Alex Hormizi’s website at Aquasition.com. Below is the link to it:
https://www.acquisition.com/training
Alex is soon to announce his third book in the $100M series.
The next system that I can suggest to you is from Derrick Van Dyke and is called List Infinity. You can use it as your first money making opportunity online.
You can get full access for a single payment of only $7 and will receive a commission of $7 for each person that you refer to this system. It’s one of the few systems that pays you 100% commission. But, that is not the main reason why I tell you about it…
The training that Derrick gives in this system is some of the best that I have found in all the time that I had access to the internet. It is practical and to the point with no tall stories. His promotional material that you get access to is also some of the best that I have seen.
The email series that you get is worth ten times what you pay and will get your subscribers to take action. You don’t need to use the list building systems mentioned in his program, but you can rather make use of Aurelien’s Systeme.io.
Here is the link to Derrick’s program – take a look:
List Infinity (Sometimes you can even get free access!)
Now we come to the last key to online profit.
5. It Does Take Time and Effort – Persevere
I said that I would be honest with you and will never tell you how easy it is to make money online. Heck, it took me more than a year before I made my first sale.
What I can tell you is the fact that it will not take you that long if you follow my lead. I made all the mistakes for you and lost more money than I would like to think about.
Fortunately I did find the solution and is brave enough to call it your Final Online Solution because I am so certain that it will also work for you.
This is Where You Start
You might ask me why I did not start here with this story.
The reason is that I think that it is necessary to show you some of the research that I did and some of the results that I got first.
The lessons that I learned is worth gold and if you don’t understand the value of it, I can talk (or write) until the cows come home or the horses grow horns. It will all be to no avail!
But, and that’s a big IF…
If you take me up on my word and apply what I am going to show you now, I can tell you with honesty that the sky is the limit. I am still amazed about what happened with me when I was able to earn my first $ online and it was not even a dollar – it was a 98 Satoshi or 0.00000098 Bitcoin.
Now, before you immediately run away and shout SCAM, let me explain. When I first heard about this I was also very sceptical. In fact I ignored the advice of my mentor for months.
At last he convinced me to take a look and boy (or gal) am I glad that I did.
This system is co-founded by Clinton Clark & Frank Bauer and is called Infinity Traffic Boost. Traffic is what all online marketers need and lots of it.
You need at least 10,000 visitors to your website to make a sale. With a subscription rate of 20% you can expect to get 2,000 new subscribers to your list.
With an open rate of 30% you can get about 600 subscribers to look at your offer. Again only 20% will click on the link and you might get 1-2% to buy. That means that from the 120 that might click the link, you might get two sales. If what you sale brings in $50, you will earn $100 and if you can do it daily, your monthly income will be $3,000.
This can show you that this is a numbers game and that is why so few people succeed with their online marketing. Most will give up within less than a month if they don’t see any results.
But There is Still HOPE – Even if You Have Little To Invest
If you have a few bucks to invest in your business it will speed up the process, but let us assume that you have no money to invest.
The way that I am going to explain to you now can still work for you if you are determined to success. This is why your WHY is so important. If you are just in it to make a few dollars on the side, then this is probably not for you.
On the other hand, if you are serious to replace your income within the next few months, then stick with me.
Clinton and Frank has built this system just for us because you need not invest any money to start making money. And relax, it is not about investing in Bitcoin.
Let me spell it out to you in simple terms:
- First you subscribe to their system free of charge. (No card)
- Secondly you follow Frank’s instructions to set up your account.
- Thirdly you start to view other people’s ads.
- While you view these ads you earn Satoshis.
- Use your earnings to purchase TPO’s your way up.
- Now you will earn even more each day and earn 80% when your referrals do the same.
- Promote this system in LeadsLeap to sign up referrals.
This might all sound complicated, but it is quite simple in fact.
Each day you surf up to a maximum of 100 pages and earn parts of a Bitcoin. You don’t cash out but use your earnings to upgrade.
As a free member you earn just 30% on referrals but as soon as you upgrade, you earn a full 80% commission. That is why you should maintain your upgraded status.
To really play this game on the next level, they allow you to offer that you would pay for your referral’s upgrade. This means that you will immediately receive 80% of your investment back. You then encourage your referrals to do the same and soon you will have hundreds of people building their business under you. You can earn up to ten levels below you and even from people that are one level higher than you.
Say that you are on level one and you get a referral that sign up under you and they have funds available to buy in at level two, if you are only a free member, you will receive only 30$ of his payment. If you have also upgraded to level one, then you will receive 80% of his payment. You can then immediately use that money to pay for an upgrade to the next level.
The only thing that you must take into consideration is that the dollar price of Bitcoin does fluctuate. So the money that you can later withdraw in dollar might be more or less, depending on the value of Bitcoin.
There are several ways in which you can withdraw your money to your bank account. If you already have a bitcoin account, it can be transferred directly to it. I use Wise to get my money deposited in my Rand currency bank account in South Africa.
Inside the system just follow the video and written instruction to set up your system properly and start surfing immediately. Try to keep it up first thing each day, even if you have to get up half an hour earlier each day. The more you surf the maximum of 100 pages, the sooner you will be able to upgrade.
The sooner you can upgrade to the next level, the more money you will make, The sooner you can get people to signup and upgrade under you, the sooner you will start to make bigger money.
If you are my subscriber, then you can expect help from me when you get stuck. You will receive an email from me daily to which you can reply at any time when you have a question or you can contact me here.
Now, here is the link where you can get your free account:
