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Are you committed to driving traffic?

Stuart Ross — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:31:49 +0000

There is unlimited amounts of traffic out there.

You don’t have a traffic problem. Frankly, you just aren’t being committed enough with going out there and getting it.

Everyone I know who makes good money online consistently spent at least 6 months being committed to testing and buying traffic until they cracked it.

If you are serious about making serious money, then the best advice I can give you is…

Get committed!

If money is tight… stop eating out, take a pack lunch to work, stay in for 6 months and find the money. If need be, get a second job… Business takes investment in both time and money… SO GET SERIOUS!

In my experience you need at least $100 – $200 per week, EVERY week to start getting good momentum.

Here is a list of places to go and get traffic today.

Please note: This is not an endorsement of any of the networks included.

Also note that many of these networks actually fit in multiple categories.

For Example, Adwords is a pay-per-click search engine, a display network, and does retargeting.

Pay-Per-Click Search Engines
http://www.google.com/adwords
http://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com
http://www.7search.com
http://www.miva.com
http://www.looksmart.com
http://www.advertise.com
http://www.admarketplace.com

Social
https://www.facebook.com/advertising
http://www.linkedin.com/advertising
https://business.twitter.com/products/twitter-ads-self-service
https://ads.pof.com
https://www.stumbleupon.com/pd
http://www.reddit.com/ad_inq
http://izea.com

Display Advertising
http://www.sitescout.com
http://www.adready.com
http://www.tribalfusion.com
http://www.clicksor.com
http://www.adbuyer.com
http://www.valueclickmedia.com
http://www.adpepper.com
http://www.cpxinteractive.com
http://www.cbsinteractive.com/advertise/self-service-campaign
https://www.adversal.com
http://www.adperium.com/advertise
http://www.rightmedia.com

Text Ads
http://www.advertising.com
http://pulse360.com
http://adblade.com
http://yabuka.com
http://www.adperium.com
http://adside.com
http://www.bidvertiser.com
http://www.finditquick.info/myreach.php
http://chitika.com/advertisers
http://www.industrybrains.com
http://www.affinity.com
http://advertising.ezanga.com
http://www.marchex.com/products/pay-per-click

Pay-Per-View
http://www.traffivance.com
http://www.leadimpact.com
http://www.mediatraffic.com
http://www.directcpv.com
http://adonnetwork.com
http://regexnetwork.com

Contextual Links
http://kontera.com
http://www.resultlinks.com
http://www.vibrantmedia.com
http://www.infolinks.com
http://www.inlinks.com
http://www.admanage.com

Sponsors
http://www.sponsoredreviews.com
http://buysellads.com/advertisers
http://web.blogads.com
https://www.buyads.com

Email Marketing
http://www.arcamax.com/mediacenter
http://www.newsmax.com/advertise
http://www.mydailymoment.com
http://www.directoryofezines.com
http://adclickmedia.com
http://ad.net

Video Ads
http://www.youtube.com/yt/advertise
http://aditall.com
http://www.yume.com
http://www.brightroll.com

Mobile
http://www.adoptim.com
http://www.inmobi.com
http://www.buzzcity.com
http://adfonic.com/mobile-advertising-services/advertisers/
http://www.greystripe.com/advertise
http://www.mobclix.com
http://www.jumptap.com/advertisers
http://www.admoda.com
http://mmedia.com

Retargeting
http://www.adroll.com
http://www.google.com/adwords
http://fetchback.com
http://retargeter.com

Cheap Low Quality Traffic
http://www.adhitz.com
http://www.crunktraffic.com
http://www.adoori.com
http://www.clixsense.com
http://www.neobux.com
http://ity.im
http://adf.ly

Offline Advertising
http://www.Mediabids.com
http://www.nextmark.com/media-finder/

YourTubePlayer – easily generate and customize Youtube videos

Stuart Ross — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:03:58 +0000

Digital Experts Academy are proud to be rolling yet another AWESOME FREE tool!

With YourTubePlayer you can easily generate and customize Youtube embed codes from the video ID or URL with options like autoplay, loop and many more.This tool has been updated and generates the latest version of youtube embed codes.

We are not associated with Youtube or any other site in anyway.

TidyURL – The New Link Shortening Service and WordPress Plugin Coming Soon!

Stuart Ross — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:51:46 +0000

TidyURL allows you to easily save and share your favorite links from around the web. We call these shortlinks.

After you sign up for a free account you will be able to manage and organize all your links with custom menus.

Simply paste a link into this area, and it will automatically save as a shortlink. You will have the option to then save the link to a particular custom menu for future reference.

All links you save will be accessible at any time via your menu list located on your dashboard when you’re logged in.

For WordPress users you can also install our free plugin!

So What the heck have I been up to???

Stuart Ross — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:07:40 +0000

It’s a good question… Well I think so anyway

Because to say the past 12 months have been a busy 12 months is somewhat an understatement!

And it’s certainly been a while since I wrote any blogs, shot any videos and shared any real updates or trainings…

So rather than write a blog post that would take me all day, instead, here is a video giving you the lowdown!

Feel free to get in touch with any questions!

- Stuart

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4 Steps to Success Online

Stuart Ross — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:21:28 +0000

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Transitioning to the digital economy

Stuart Ross — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:17:47 +0000

Transitioning to the digital economy for many people is a lifestyle choice. For others it’s been essential or even a case of being the only way to keep their head above water.

For me personally it’s without a doubt the best decision I have ever made in my life. The freedom, leverage and sheer flexibility it has provided me has enabled me to create my lifestle by design…

It’s for these reasons (amongst others), I believe it would be pretty crazy for most people not to make this transition… and in this video I will explain exactly why I think this…

Video marketing equipment (cameras & mics)

Stuart Ross — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:25 +0000

I am always asked about what cameras and mics I use for my videos. So, here is the answer!

I hope you enjoy!

- Stuart

What If money didn’t matter?.. (and small update)

Stuart Ross — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:14:57 +0000

Ok, I am super busy right now so therefore this is going to be a very short post!

I just wanted to do a quick update and share the video above as it’s visions and ideas like this that motivate the hell out of me. I think you will like this too.

So if you haven’t watched it yet… What are you waiting for!

Anyway… here’s my tiny weeny update…

It’s December the 4th and I’m excited…

But it’s not because a big kind fat man with a white beard is soon to be delivering presents to the Ross household.

It’s simply because I am seriously ready and pumped for 2013. I’m more ready for a new year than I ever have been.

You see although 2012 has been a great year for me personally, I have also felt at times that my hands have been tied behind my back when it comes to helping my students get BIG results online fast.

The reason being (very short version) is because I knew what I needed to do to help more people get faster and bigger results, but I didn’t have the business model and program to deliver it.

So I have been working flat out with my business partner Jay and our team – building a new company (Digital Experts Academy) with a brand new program to work in conjunction with The Six Figure Mentors.

This is where I have been spending 90% of my time and effort over the past few months and is also why I have been very quiet.

The good news is that after months of blood sweat and tears, we are now just a few weeks away from being in a position to start impacting thousands of peoples lives all over the word with our program, which frankly is going to help a ton of people start to live their lives, as if money didn’t matter… (Bold statement I know – but just watch this space.

That is all I have for now. Keep reading my emails as I promise you this… What I have coming is going to change the way YOU think about making money and living life!

A highly motivated and very excited…

- Stuart Ross

PS. Here is a picture from this past weekend where we ran a pre-launch event for 70 of our SFM members to test out our new program. Come back in a few days and I will share with you some video testimonials from the 3 days. You’ll then see why I am so excited to roll this program out to the public

Why sell high ticket products to the right people…

Stuart Ross — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:07:00 +0000

An Honest And Straight to The Point (Blunt) Blog Post By Stuart Ross:

Ok, so I will warn you I’m not going to pull any punches here becasue I have seen this way too much over the years. In fact I see it happening all the time. The new online marketer gets excited about the potential of making it big online. They read a few ebooks, pick up a couple of courses, and get started with their first product. They think that they can invest virtually no money and time and make it big!

And for their first product, they create a $6 ebook…or maybe they decide to be an affiliate for some get rich quick scheme that pays out commissions for selling hype and hot air. Their concept is that with such a low price and so much hype, it should be easy to sell.

Sure, you may sell more at this low of a price (or with a boat load of hype and false promises), but what’s your overall strategy?

How do you up-sell them to a higher ticket item? What are the other products you make available to them?

You also have to remember, that the hyped up marketing messages that are full of BS and play on emotions, accompanied by promising the wold with little investment, will just attract a lot of broke people who will be pretty pissed off if you then start to offer other products!

Even if they do buy them, give it a few weeks and they’ll be pretty pissed with you when you can’t deliver on all the hype you promised.

So anyway aside from that, here’s a rule you must always remember…

Good marketing will not overcome bad math!

You have to sell 100 copies of that $6 product to just make $600. If you want to earn at least $5,000 this month, you have to sell 833 copies…and that’s counting you as having zero advertising expenses. That’s a tough road to follow. Averaging 28 sales a day without advertising just to earn an OK income is not an easy to plan. And it’s never one I’d want to follow.

Do the math! Let’s say you plan to earn a million dollars. Sell 100,000 items at $10…or 1,000 items at $1,000. Or even 250 items at $4,000.

What if you sell 10 of your $10 product this month, you make $100. On that $4,000 product, you made $40,000. Can you live on $100? Not likely. Can you live on $40,000 a month? I surely hope so, or we need to take a serious look at your lifestyle

How about taking care of the customers? A surprising fact I’ve found is often the higher ticket customers are less demanding and FAR more realistic. In fact I’d say nearly ALL the time! With a higher ticket item, you obviously need a lot less customers…which means less customer service on it’s own… and less staff. So less expenses in selling those higher ticket items.

As an affiliate of one direct sales company that paid out $2000 per sale, even at my peak with them, I had just one sales assistant working on commssion only for me and made 2.2 million dollars in sales.

The fact is, you do the same marketing work for more profits. You have to lay the foundations, set up autoresponder messages, get your blog online etc. for either product.

The sales process for the higher ticket item might be a little more detailed and there maybe a slightly different approach, but those same details can find their way into your email messages, videos, webinars, etc.

You make more money from the same work when you sell higher ticket products.

This is why being a member/affiliate of SFM and Digital Experts Academy just makes so much sense, because we’ve already done all the hard work and you can start selling today!

So you may be asking what’s the purpose of a low cost product? e.g. our application pack.

It’s a lead generator for your high ticket items. Build a stronger relationship with your customers. If you’re selling another product first, you can also move into additional marketing such as direct mail or phone to sell the higher ticket item. We do that for YOU here already so you can literally focus on your lead generation! We choose to sell an application pack because what that also allows us to do is turn away the wrong type customer for our products and we need not waste theirs or our time..

So the only question left is how do you develop high ticket products?

The key is simply by adding additional value. The real secret is always increase your value until you’re giving way more value than what you’re asking for in price.

Another key is to change who you’re marketing to. Pick markets where your customer have money…seek to sell to the serious buyers instead of those barely getting by.

An example of this in my business, is that I stopped marketing to the usual Internet marketing crowd. You know the ones who all connect on the IM forums bitching and talking about the next IM launch, the new secret MAGIC loophole system or next big clickbank product. And I started focusing on targeting serious entrepreneurs. People who read similar books to me, who followed REAL business leaders like Robert Kiyosaki, Richard Branson Tony Robbins etc. I found targeting people this way made a lot more sense than targeting the ‘Get Rich Quick’ crowd that you typically see in the internet marketing industry.

Another great way to get confident about their being people out there who actually are prepared to spend a bit of money is through picking up a couple of magazines such as MONEY Magazine. For me, this was difficult at first since I came from the place of being pretty broke and in debt all the time. So it was hard to wrap my mind around the fact that there were a lot of niches where people had money…where they bought $5,000 golf clubs and attended $20,000 marketing conferences and workshops.

Yet, that’s one of the biggest changes you can make…a change in your mindset. In most businesses, serious people are willing to spend money to get what they want. And these are some of the best customers you can ever have… if you focus on them and deliver exactly what they’re looking for.

It’s for this very reason we have our SFM Elite Mastermind coaching. We wanted to be able to offer a higher ticket product for a market of people who were willing to invest in their SFM education.

In fact, it was our very own members who kept asking us if we would offer a higher level of coaching!

Oh and by the way, did you know as a Digital Experts Academy Member you get paid $800 – $8000 commissions PER sale!!!!!

How do you like that for an easy quick way to get high ticket income into your business model!!

Are you selling cheap products to broke people?

Stuart Ross — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:22:07 +0000

How’s that working out for you?

I’ve been there, done that, and bought the t-shirt.

It’s a tough business model, but many new entrepreneurs are willingly participating in a race to the bottom.

On its surface, the plan makes sense.

You reach the largest number of customers by offering the lowest price.

You watch the big retail giants like Asda/Tesco/Walmart apply one knock-out blow after another with the bargain basement appeal.

So what’s the problem?

You don’t have their size, buying power, distribution, product selection, or any of their other advantages.

They’re also something that’s almost impossible to do today online. They’re a one stop shop.

Amazon is the closest to this online, but they’re more upscale. They focused heavily on book buyers first, because book buyers are also better customers of other products. It allowed them to use their huge network into products at all price levels.

For a small “internet lifestyle” business on a boot string, you need to flip this model around.

Quit thinking about how to appeal to the broadest portion of your market. That’s what all your competitors are doing…and they’re on a race to the bottom.

Instead, consider what the most profitable portion of the market is.

Who is willing to pay a premium price for the best solution?

Maybe it’s only 5% of the market.

Who are they? What do they want to buy? What is the perfect solution for them?

What do they do differently than the average customer?

How do you reach them?

Those are the questions you need to be asking yourself.

Maybe this is a premium done-for-you service…your white glove service where you handle everything.

Or it could be a top tier direct sales product like I teach in The SFM.

Or it’s the exclusive watch where only 500 copies will ever be made.

It appeals to an audience who has the money to afford the best.

That’s a radical mind change for many of us. When I started online, I was worse than broke. I had over £20,000 in debts and worked a job that took OVER 70 hours of my life – each and every week.

It was tough for me to realise that some people did have money. Just because you only buy £40 jeans doesn’t mean £400 jeans aren’t selling like crazy at Harvey Nichols.

You may struggle with this concept, especially with all the recession news media constantly pumps out.

Premium retail is booming. Neiman Marcus, for example, reported same-store sales increased by 7.9% in the past year.

It all depends on who you’re selling to.

Focus on the best, most qualified customers first.

In other words, don’t think about your mass market product first.

Focus on your “backend” or align yourself as and affiliate with companies that are!.

Create your brand around the premium side.

Then, if it fits your business model, expand out into other solutions from there.

Instead what most people are doing today is selling their “dream solution” for $27. But their backend “funnel” is non existent!

A few customers upgrade to their other higher priced solutions, but the majority don’t.

The majority are still stuck at the price they “anchored” them with originally. They only buy when you offer them other $27 products.

It all depends on who you’re marketing to…the solutions you offer them…and the value you set for your brand.

- Stuart Ross

PS. If you’d like in-depth personal help choosing your customers, finding your brand, and building a long-term profitable internet business, check out The Six Figure Mentors!