By now you probably heard the buzz about the
death of internet marketing.

Everybody is getting scared that their online
business is going to die a painful death.

Let me tell you something…

Internet marketing is alive and well!

However…

Your business may indeed be dying a slow death
like most businesses that are not based on
a strong foundation and a clear vision.

I am sick and tired of all these internet
marketing “gurus” (Yes Mike I totally agree about the quotes here )
that are spawing everywhere around the net
day after day, “teaching” people how to become
successful online.

Truth is, most of these “gurus” dont even
make any money for themselves, how could they
be selling information and teaching others
how to do what they dont know how to do?

Here is how it usually goes:
You read an ebook, or take a course or attend
a seminar and they teach you…

“Pick something that you really love, a passion,
find a problem in that field (niche) and provide
information how to solve the problem”

Over the past few weeks I ‘ve been secretly watching
over Henry Gold’s shoulder while he was preparing
to let out the biggest Secret of online business ever
revealed. (In fact this can be applied in ANY business)

Henry and I spoke over the phone almost daily and when
he told me he was about to reveal one of his best kept
secrets I was Shocked!

Actually he told the secret to a handful of his best
coaching students and the results are at least amazing.
You can see the case studies on his blog here:

http://www.specialurl.com/go.php?c=secret

I know the secret. Part of it I already knew and I can say
it is the major part of my success online, however, Henry
refined it, and completed it, so that it is 100X more effective.

It is the Simplest thing, but if you are missing it,
are are literally missing the boat. I will be working on
Implementing the secret on all my websites and I can only see
my profits skyrocketing.

http://www.specialurl.com/go.php?c=secret

Tomorrow, at 12 EST Henry plans to take the Internet community
by storm when he releases the Copywriting Secret to the Public.
This means that FINALLY YOU will learn the one thing that will
be the most responsible for your online success.

WOW!

I had to share this…
I was going through the server stats of some of my websites and
I found something Really Interesting. Firefox IS becoming much
more popular I anticipated and it is happening fast!

Take a look at this screenshot from Oct 2005: (this site is in the internet
marketing niche but I will not disclose the domain name for obvious reasons)

As you can see from the picture below, 12.7% of the visitors to this
site use Firefox Browser. (Not bad huh?) [pictures are clickable]

Now, moving on to Oct 2006 for the SAME website. Take a look at
the new numbers below. Firefox is up to 22.4% of the website’s traffic.
Quite a gain isnt it?
That means for every 1000 people that go to your site 224 people
use firefox. If your site converts at a moderate 2.5% for a $50 product
that is $280 generated from firefox users.

I have been looking into many internet marketing websites (including
some Very Well Known marketers’ sites (below 10K alexa rank) that
break in firefox, to the point that the site is unusable.Using the same
example above, these sites lose $280 for every 1000 people that go
through that site. (And trust me, these sites generate many thousands
of visitors every single day)

I Hope you had a great Halloween day yesterday!
Time to get back to business

Here is a great article I just finished writing.
Read all of it. It is based on a great concept that
if you grasp it, it can change the way you do
business once and for all…

When you are trying to develop a strong customer base or
launch a business, you often need a hook to grab the
attention of shoppers.  Once you have their attention,
you want to reel prospects into your marketing funnel
and get them to buy as much from you as possible.

Smart vendors use a technique of “prospecting”.
This involves offering items for sale at absolute bargains
and the most incentives, in order to bring customers in,
and then once they are in the door and ready to buy,
offer them your real products of higher value.
The job of convincing them to buy has already been taken
care of and it takes far less work to encourage
them to buy more.

The key to upselling is to offer items that are related
to the item that the consumer has already decided to buy.