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No Opt-ins!As of March 15th, 2009 we have made the decision that we will NEVER ask you for your name and email address!Let us teach you how you can do the same!We know that everyone in marketing says that you can increase your earnings by an average of 40% by using opt-in forms to gather names and email addresses so you can send out emails with other back end offers. Well, we refuse to follow that philosophy! Here's 10 good reasons why!
That is what our business is all about, and therefore we are no longer going to ask you to "opt-in". As an alternative, if you would like to hear more, and keep up with our information and progress on a regular basis.... Here's what you can do:
If you learned something from this last little trick, then hold on, because these are the kinds of "how to" items that we will be bringing you on a regular basis as part of the way WE teach marketing at Azgrand.com! The names we have collected over the past few weeks are now history, as they have been deleted from our computers and will no longer be used.....by us or anyone else! If you are interested in learning how to market your own products on the internet, then please....read on. (This is an excerpt of what you will find on our Azgrand training site). The "what to" instead of "how to" game... Too many so-called "gurus" want to tell you only enough to peak your interest! They will thrill you with all their so-called "know-how" to get you to buy products from them, and you won't realize until after you've spent your money that they always leave out some critical information that you need to know to move ahead. Why? Well, because that information is continued in the next item that they have to sell you! That's how they keep you coming back to buy more products! This is what perpetuates the whole list-building theory, and it's why it exists! They want to tell "what" you should do but don't tell you "how" to do it! That's how they can keep you coming back to sell you the next higher priced product, until they finally have you locked into some very expensive coaching program where you can actually "talk" to someone to get straight answers on a particular topic. By then, they have you working on your own opt-in list, because they know that once you become successful, they have acquired another marketer "buddy" that they can do a joint venture with, who will then promote their product to yet another list! It all boils down to sales volume, but there are no principals involved! It becomes selling your soul for the sake of that extra name that you can market to, whether that name is interested in the product or not! It comes down to greed, and the chase for the almighty dollar! Also, if you have read any of that hype, they all like to brag about what kind of sales they have made, by showing you screen images of their accounts. When was the last time you saw any of them show you their expense records? The sales records become like a badge of honor to them, just so they can say they sold more than the next guy. To me that doesn't matter, as those figures are too easy to manipulate. What any good business person knows, is that it's what you keep after expenses that counts! They can claim that they had a jump in sales volume due to their lists, but let's see the actual expenses involved with building and maintaining those lists! Any economist, financier, or even social studies teachers can tell you that it only takes a certain amount of money to live comfortably. Some can do it for much less than $60,000 a year, but some might argue that it takes much more than that. Really..... Here's what I can do on that kind of money:
Why on earth would I want to tie myself down to a money pit of a home or office, look at the same scenery day after day after day, with employees to hassle with, buildings to take care of, and worst of all....another J-O-B, even if I am the boss? Everyone has a different lifestyle that they strive for....nothing wrong with that. But I can guarantee you, I can do all of what I mentioned above on $60,000 a year (or even less)! And I don't have near the stress that many others put up with every day! I can even show you how to do it! Learn to do what you do because YOU want to....not because you have to out-do the neighbor! So maybe you don't like to travel, and/or know anything about luxury RV's, or the lifestyle that goes with them. There are other ways to enjoy life, and each to his own. Most beginning marketers would be happy with that kind of income, while others may be used to much more than that. And I guess I can understand the "game" they play. Some "enjoy" being in the business game, and just have to keep making it to that next level of play. So what if they are already making a million dollars a year? One of their golf buddies makes more, so they have to "prove" that they can do even better. It's the constant competition that drives them, and they enjoy it immensely! That's OK....for them. But what does it take to get to that next level? It takes time and commitment to what you are doing, to continually build your business, and you had better enjoy every minute of it, or it's not worth it!. Even if you have other people running the daily grind for you, you still have to take part in it, to make sure it stays with what you intend for your business to be. These business owners can tell you they don't have a job....that they work "for themselves"....but the truth is, that most of them have an office, with employees, with commitments to other people, and responsibilities WAY more important than knowing when the next tee-off time is, or when the next high surf is coming in! Very, very few of them can say that they run a multi-million dollar company from only their computer while sitting by the swimming pool all day! Even high paid professionals have commitments and appointments with customers! On the other hand, I very seldom ever speak with a customer, and when I do, I can take care of their needs in a few minutes on the phone from anywhere in the country! Internet Marketing "gurus" all tell you that if you want to be successful, that you HAVE to build a list of people to sell to! Baloney! Oh sure....that tactic makes some additional money from future sales, and I have no argument that a satisfied customer is more likely to buy a second time, and that the advertising costs to generate sales from that existing customer is WAY less than from acquiring new customers. All of that is true. Sometimes contacting those customers can take very little time and generate huge profits. No argument there. But for how long? It's usually a one-shot deal, and then you have to come up with something new to sell them! Developing new products is NOT cheap! But what they don't tell you is that in between all that is a constant barrage of writing newsletters, writing follow up emails, dealing with customer service issues (most of them just answering questions), developing new products to continually sell, paying the cost of the autoresponder service and setting up all the letters it sends out, spending hours on the phone with various vendors to write software for you, and then agonizing over the time it takes to maintain all of this, plus much more. They want to make it sound easy, because the more people they can "make successful" the more people that they can add to their own lists and sell future products to, and that they can partner with later, to sell products to even more people than just those on their own lists! It's all one big, vicious, time-consuming cycle....but where does it end? There are many other ways of getting traffic without going to all that trouble, and if you deliver quality products, do it the right way, and train people how to find you again, those people WILL find you! There is no need to pester them nearly every day with stuff that they are only going to buy less than 10% of the time (actually it's usually less than 2% of the time)! I hate unwanted emails.... ....even if they are from a marketer that I follow, and even if they have a good product to let me know about! Do you know why? It takes away from making the money that I got into this business for! The #1 biggest problem with new marketers getting started in business (and I'm talking ANY business, not just the internet marketing products circle) is TIME. Many people are trying to do this while maintaining a full time job elsewhere. Even the ones who are getting into it full time can tell you that the amount of time they spend learning this business can be overwhelming! A good part of that time is spent going through emails from all kinds of places, trying to keep up with what's going on in the marketplace! I know, because at one time, I was getting email newsletters from nearly a hundred different marketers! (I know....it was really crazy!) And I didn't get anything else "productive" done! I have to admit that not all of that time was wasted, because I DID gain a lot of valuable information from it, but it was at the cost of not making the money I wanted to be making! You can't be focusing on making money when you have your head in emails for most of the day, and then try to follow all the learning curves from the products they are selling you! So how do you get out of that rut? As we progress to build the Azgrand site, we will be showing you how...because we have done it ourselves! Emails don't have to rule your day! We will show you how to decide what kind of business model you need to focus on based on your own wants, needs and lifestyle, not what someone else thinks you ought to be doing! There's no point in subscribing to newsletters put out by someone who doesn't focus on the exact business model you want to develop! If you want to keep up with a web site, then do what we suggested above. Then you can go back to it any time you want without your time being tied up with looking at emails that you don't need! This is just one of the tips that we provide on our training site...WITHOUT you having to opt-in to learn them! How do I know all this? We started off with a product that isn't even on anyone's radar, as far as the number of people looking for it on the web (less than 400 per month). It was not an ideal product, the site isn't the best looking, there has NEVER been an opt-in box (until recently, when we discovered that it wasn't worth the effort and then we removed it), and there is no other monetization on the site....in fact we didn't even do our research on the product! It was just something that we happened to find available, so we used it, and yet it continually makes a profit, each and every month, and the sales are growing! We tried PPC (pay per clicks: Google Adwords) once, and it was a waste of money. However, we hold the #1 position on the first page of Google for our keywords. That's all. And it isn't rocket science or we wouldn't be there! Now if that can be done with a product and a site like that, then why can't a business be built around twenty (or more) such sites, all running by themselves and dumping money into our bank accounts automatically? Only this time, let's do our niche research first to find out what people are actually looking to buy, build a simple site for the product, monetize the site with other products, optimize the site for the search engines, and then let it run on autopilot! Do you think it might do twice as good.....maybe three times....maybe ten times better than the first one? Of course it will! And sure, it may take a couple of days to set up, but once it's done, it will run by itself, continually dumping money into your bank account, while you start building the next one. As the old saying goes, rinse and repeat.....until you have the income you are happy with. There's no "glass ceiling" on this business. You can take it as far as you want, or stop when you want, and the money will keep coming in until you take the site off line. In fact, that's the ONLY way to stop it! This is how web businesses are built....without all the hype of getting into marketing "marketing products" to other marketers! If you have a product (or maybe more than one) that doesn't fall into the "internet marketing" niche, then why listen to all the hype from people who are in that niche, and only trying to help you get into "their" marketing niche in order to perpetuate their own plan! Would you hire an air conditioning man to troubleshoot your computer just because he may also hold an electrical contractor's license? I would hope not! Just as in electrical stuff, there are so many different fields of specialization in marketing! Learn from someone who knows the way YOU want to market and forget all the hype, bad information and useless products from all the rest! We will show you how to find the people you need (and it may not be us)! Do we even need some of their information? Yes, we do. Many of their marketing plans and ideas are based on sound business principles which will work for any product in any market. The problem is that there is an awful lot of re-hashed junk out there. In fact some of them will tell you to take someone else's product, rewrite it in your own words and then turn around and sell it as your own, just to create a product to make more money with! Oh come on, people....! How many times do you have to read the same business plan over and over again? And many of the marketers haven't even used the plan themselves....they're only promoting some other marketers product to make sales from it! They don't even know if it works! What about software? Of course you need software! You also need some fresh ideas, questions answered, and many other things, WITHOUT the constant pressure of someone trying to push some product down your throat every day! You may even need some questions answered on a one on one basis, or help from other people who have been there and can tell you how to proceed. We will have all of that available on Azgrand for you.....AS you are ready for it. First we want to help you get started in marketing, and we're going to guide you step by step, with actual "HOW TO" information, not just "what to" information. What's in it for us? Like anyone else in business, we plan to make a profit from our efforts in helping people, but we're going to do it at YOUR pace....not ours! This isn't the only site we have going, and our profits are scattered among many sites, most operating all by themselves, without our interference. This one has to have our attention because it deals in physical products, rather than digital, but otherwise it is no different. We will be here to answer questions for you, also. We don't intend to charge you any membership fees, nor will we collect your name and address. That is why our contact form can be sent WITHOUT your name or email address having to be entered. If you choose to remain anonymous, we will post the answers to your questions on our FAQ page, where everyone can find the answers. There are NO sign-ups, NO opt-ins, NO memberships here AT ALL! How will we make any money? Our profits will come from the recommendations we make to the literature, programs, videos, audios, and software that we hope you will buy through our links. However, as you now know how we feel about a lot of the re-hashed junk on the market, you have to realize that we won't recommend things that we have not examined thoroughly ourselves, or that we haven't used in our own business. We have been involved with marketing for nine years now, and we have seen what's available. We won't recommend things that are only geared toward marketing other marketing products! If it doesn't make good basic business sense for marketing your own products, then you probably won't see it here! And if it has to do with list building, you probably won't see it at all, because that's not what we teach! It's WAY too much work! In the process of our learning, we have determined a definite path that we want to follow, and most of what we recommend will be geared toward that path for you, also. Occasionally, we may recommend things that are not on that path, but only if we have examined them thoroughly and feel that they will benefit others. Some may want other things, other information, or may be advanced beyond our own capabilities. That's fine. We're not "gurus" nor do we want to be. We're just here to help those lost in the jungle of the internet, and if we can help you find a way out of the jungle, and onto a clear path of success, then we have done our job. Where do we go from here? We will be working on the Azgrand site on a constant basis. It may even change looks completely before it's over. It will have a blog added in the near future, possibly one that is totally off that site. (Contrary to popular belief, most free-ware blog programs have bugs in them that will be detrimental to your business, and we'll explain why later!) Products will be added as we have time to evaluate them before we recommend them. Articles will be added as we have time to write them, and we hope to make these articles a complete teaching platform, so that every person who comes to this site can leave it feeling that they have learned a complete process before they move on to the next step. Having spent much of my life writing training and operating manuals for complex machines, in a step by step process (after all, people can get killed by machines that do the wrong thing at the wrong time!) I am very thorough in creating those same step by step instructions for everything that I do....leaving no step unmentioned! If this is the kind of training that you need, then Azgrand is the place for you. If you don't agree with our policies, then we wish you well in whatever you do....no hard feelings. There's going to be no pressure here, no "limited time only" sales pitches (if any product is not available later, then you won't see it here now!), and NO OPT-INS! |
NEWS FLASH! Also, we are now providing custom packages on eBay, under the azgrand001 username. We also have other things offered there, so please check it out! We will be adding more listings and more products as we have time, so bookmark our page and come back often!
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