I’ll get to that in a minute. You’ll see, it will make perfect sense.

You see, most people make getting an online business, and especially one that can bring in substantial income – over $100k or more a year, quite difficult.

One of the reasons is that they focus on the ‘make money online’ niche which can be very competitive. Not that you can’t do it, but there are so many niches where being able to provide a great service to others and make over six figures with much, much less effort.

By making it simple, you leave more time for other things in your life, like living! Spending more time with your family, friends, on your personal interests, your church, giving back, traveling… so many things we all want to have time to do.

Now… to what all the folks above and you have in common.

You see, my friend Paul Evans has mastered the art of simplifying online business building. He’s mastered getting things done faster than almost anyone I know. And he’s one of the most ethical people I’ve come across in my 14 years working online.

Paul has built many successful businesses and he’s made a case study about one in particular that I think you’d like to learn about. It’s in a niche you would never think could do six figures a year, but it does. And get this, he spends less than 2 hours a month on it.

You see, by keeping it simple, really simple, he’s built a business that not only is successful, but helps orphans on three different continents. How cool is that?

And both Perry Lawrence (Ask Mr. Video) and Carrie Wilkerson (The Barefoot Executive) are big fans of Paul’s ‘simple’ strategy to building an online business that can generate six figures with only 30 minutes of work weekly. They’ve both benefited from Paul’s training and highly endorse it.

And how do you fit in?

After you watch the case study and see how Paul has set this business up to run on almost auto-pilot, you’ll be ready to do the same thing, in most any niche you want. This could change the way you do business online. Perhaps even change your life, right? All from a six figure business that takes less than a few hours of work a month.

I’ve learned a great deal from Paul and highly recommend anything he does. This case study is no different. After you see how he’s built this six figure business in a niche that most think have no money, you’ll see how you can use this same simple strategy to build yours.

Check out the free case study video here.

To your best success always!

As you may know, the long awaited WordPress Version 3.0 was released a few days ago and is now available to download directly from WordPress.org or upgrade through your control panel.

But should you upgrade now?

Well, yes and no… my answer will depend on a few things.

If you have a simple blog that doesn’t use many plugins, then I may upgrade to 3.0.

But, if you run many plugins that are essential to your blog or run membership sites using plugins like WishList for example, my answer would be no.

Since this is a major WP upgrade with over 1,200 bug fixes, incorporation of MU (multiple blog management from one installation), a new standard theme, new menu system and many more upgrades, my recommendation is to wait until you test or hear from the creators of the plugins that are essential to your blog to confirm they are compatible with 3.0 before upgrading.

For example, since Wishlist is the membership plugin we use to run most of our sites (we now use Wishlist for all our membership sites and most every new site we create is a membership site), they have announced an upgrade that is necessary for it to work with WP 3.0. So until that’s available, we’re waiting and will test other essential plugins to insure they work with 3.0 as well. Sometimes one plugin can break your entire blog, so as standard practice, and especially with major upgrades like WP 3.0, we test everything before upgrading. Often I like to wait a few weeks to see feedback from other users as well as plugin authors to see when upgrading makes sense and the chances of trouble are low.

If you do decide to upgrade, I highly recommend backing up your WP database tables using a plugin like WP DB Backup beforehand.

If you’re installing a new blog using Fantastico in CPanel, you’ll need to wait a bit before 3.0 becomes available through that interface. Currently Fantastico is installing and upgrading to 2.9.2. Of course, you can download 3.0 directly from WordPress.org.

Let me know what you think and your experiences with the new 3.0 version of WordPress.

If you think about it, you don’t need many members paying a monthly fee to earn a good monthly income. I mean, just 100 members paying $20 is $2000 a month. Out of the hundreds of millions of internet users, you can find at least 100 that are interested in a common topic willing to pay $20 a month, right?

And that’s only one method of profiting from membership sites.

You can also sell a small, profitable site for a quick five figure pay day. You can create fixed term membership sites. You can create free sites that sell discounted items. The ideas are limitless.

And although so many make setting up membership sites a daunting task, the resources and technology are now available so you can setup a membership site, using completely free software, in under 6 minutes flat.

How to get content? That’s also simple… and you can often get it all for free.

And although conventional wisdom would tell you ‘selling’ your membership site is the best way to make money with it, actually 6 other methods work much better.

And don’t worry if your membership site flops. Use the content in a special way and make it irresistible for anyone not to buy it.

Find out how to setup a membership site in under 6 minutes, using completely free software.

Enjoy and to your best success!

Mark
Revenue Tools

Let me share what I’ve been working on the last 10 days.

After reading Dennis Becker’s guide (several times btw) that I told you about last week, I’ve been inspired to accomplish the following:

• created a new membership site launching next week
• created a new auto updating affiliate site (Update: 4 days after setting it up – took about 1 hour – it is now #1 on Google for the search keywords I selected and getting almost 100 visits a day)
• added 27 new projects to my master project list
• in process of completing 4 products, all but 1 in non-IM niches I work in
• tweaked 2 projects and doubled revenue on 1 and increased 67% on the other (initial results, most likely will get better over time)
• now regularly adding new projects ideas to my master project list (the more the better)
• overall increased my average daily income by 24% for just the work I did over the last 10 days

And frankly this was easy and exciting. I plan to continue at a similar pace throughout the year. You can too.

One of the vital lessons I’ve applied from Dennis’ guide is speed.

You have the take action quickly. The faster you move, the faster you either succeed or fail. If you fail, no worries, you either tweak and try again or move on. Since you’re moving quickly you wouldn’t have wasted much time, just reached your successes much faster. That means more revenue… more ongoing, passive income.

How about you?

If you’d like to review the simple although brilliant strategy he lays out and make today the beginning of your best year ever, check it out here. For less than the cost of lunch, you can develop and implement your online marketing strategy and get started today.

To your best success,
Mark
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P.S. Will this year be a dud or your best year ever?

And the 3 most crucial components of your site marketing campaigns are the lead capture, upsell or back-end offers and your affiliate program. The more automated and easier you can make these steps for your customers and affiliates, the more successful your site will be.

Until now, there hasn’t been a solution to this problem unless you spent thousands to hire programmers to design a custom solution for you. Most every online application fall short in these areas.

Watch this video below to see how you can automate these critical aspects of your sites and create an unlimited number of profitable mini membership sites that market themselves.

To your best online success!

Mark Idzik