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It would be difficult to research a market, create a product, write sales letters, and everything in only 3 steps. BUT there is a perfect Internet-only business that only requires three real steps. I call it the "OPP" method. The OPP stands for other people's products. You could also call it 3 Clicks to Profit. A friend and associate of mine, Frank Garon made over $130,000 last year without having any of his own products. He did exclusively through selling other people's products. Another associate of mine, Bob Gatchel, almost exclusively sold affiliate products for several years...earning quite a nice 6 figure income as well. They are definitely not the only ones doing this. This type of business, although often ignored, is the most popular business of all for beginning Internet marketers and part-time home based businesses. You can do part-time work and earn a full-time income (I'd call earning $100,000+ full-time income personally). Step #1: Find a Product to Sell Doing research, developing a product, writing sales letters, etc. are hard work. They're real hard work...and they often take quite a while to finish. The "OPP" method simply means you find other people's products to sell...instead of your own. This is how I started my first business. I purchased rights to products which were already selling to offer my customers. The key to this method is to find something that is already selling well. It should have a powerful sales letter already written for it. It should even be already setup with online ordering for you. Although you can purchase reprint rights, setup joint ventures, find exclusives, and more...all of these will require more work on your part than what can be done in a 3 step system. The easiest method of "OPP" is to become an affiliate. If you sign up for an affiliate program, they'll already have the product, sales letter, order system, etc. setup. All you do is sign up for free and promote... Step #2: Put Up A Follow-up System Let's assume you choose the first option, joining an affiliate program. This is the easiest option above and one that can be quite profitable if you do it right. The biggest mistake you can make is to simply place ads and drive traffic directly to the affiliate site given to you. On this deal, you'll lose. The key to online business, or any business for that matter, is building a list. He/She who owns the list makes the rules. Ask the affiliate manager if they have any follow-up letters available to sell the product. Do they have an email training course you can use? Do they have free articles you can put together to promote the product? What type of materials do they have that you can use to develop an email follow-up system with? Sign up for one of the follow-up autoresponder services such as: http://www.aweber.com http://www.getresponse.com http://www.netofficetoolbox.com http://www.bamboobizonline.com Put together a 5 to 7 step follow-up system. Then, when you're advertising, place ads for your email follow-up system, not the affiliate program itself. This is the key to success with affiliate programs. Step #3: Place A Test Ad. I usually like to start my advertising by placing ezine ads. They're low cost and highly profitable. Your goal is to at least break even...or earn a small profit. You'll find selling an affiliate program to be a little more difficult to profit immediately on since you're sharing the profit with the product owner. So let's say you place an ad for $50 and generate 50 leads to the autoresponder. Two of them buy and you make $60 commission. You now have $10. The most important asset you have now are the 50 leads. Put another response email later on in the system selling a related affiliate product. You may make another $30 commission for selling one of those. Have another product sent later. This is another $40 in the bank. How much are all of these later ads costing you? Nothing. You already produced the leads. Now profit from them again and again until they remove themselves from your list. You don't have to start your test ad with an ezine. You could post in discussion forums. You could order co-registration leads. You could setup a Pay-Per-Click search engine account. You could even try postcards if you want. If the ad works out, place more similar ads. If it doesn't work, make some changes to your ad and/or your follow-up system. Keep testing and trying until your first few ads are profitable. Then begin to roll out with more advertising. --------------------------------------- Terry Dean, a 5 year veteran of Internet marketing, will Take You By The Hand and Show You Exact Results of All the Internet Marketing Techniques he tests and Uses Every Single Month" Click here to Find Out More: http://hop.clickbank.net/?rwspub/trueprofit ***** Sponsor 2 Looking for a Home Based Business? We got ?em! 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