I’m headed to Baltimore for Dan Kennedy’s Info Summit. And this
time, I’m speaking! This has been a professional goal for a long
time …and win, lose or draw …I plan to have a good time!

In fact, I’m planning a little reward for myself when I get home
if I sell well. I’ll tell you what it is and you’ll laugh. I plan
to get a haircut with shampoo. I haven’t done that in years.
Seriously, I can never bring myself to pay 20 extra bucks for a
shampoo, even though I can easily afford it.

But this time is different. It is a reward for meeting a professional goal. It may sound small …and it may seem kinda “girlie”, but the thought of warm water running through my hair sounds kinda cool!

If you have a goal, building your list may be your ticket to achieving that goal. Go check out my List Building Super Heroes – free list building interviews with 17 of the TOP List Building experts …did I mention it was totally free?

http://www.ListBuildingSuperHeroes.com/interviews

So, if you’re at Dan Kennedy’s Info Summit, come up and say “hi”.
Hopefully, I’ll get that haircut with shampoo after all!

Stephen Beck

On my recent survey, 69.5% of you indicated that you were VERY INTERESTED in “How to build a massive email list and then profit from it.”

In fact, here are the results:

Very Interested | Topic
69.5%             How to build a massive list and profit from it
65.0%             101 ways to increase your email subscriber list
70.0%             Promoting your blog in just 30-minutes per day

Plus, when I asked you to enter in the box which topic you wanted most…an overwhelming majority of you entered “list building”!

With these results in mind, I have created a video on why you need to build a list AND 7 unique tips for building your list.

Here’s that video:
http://budurl.com/7ListBuildingTips
(Because of where I’m hosting the video, you will see a security warning – just click “yes”)

Let me be honest.

These are hard times. Harder than I have ever seen them in my life time (and I survived the oil bust in Houston in the 80′s!) And the temptation is to sit and wait it out. Don’t take on anything new. See what happens in the next few months.

Well here is my prediction. The stock market is fundamentally broke with
all the government bail outs and tampering. It is not a free market anymore. Real Estate will take years to recover. And social security may not be around in 15 years – look at Greece, France and England!

Even pension funds are not safe from bureaucratic meddling!

Building a list is a safety valve for you and your family. It is an escape hatch where you can weather economic storms that blow through and uproot everything in their path.

Building a list gives you the ability to build a brand, attract like-minded people and then find products to meet the needs of your subscribers. AND BUILDING A LIST IS SO INEXPENSIVE!

In a nut shell, building a list is cheap insurance against a terrible economy. An email subscriber list gives you protection against forces beyond your control.

So please watch my video: http://budurl.com/7ListBuildingTips

But, I’m only leaving the video online until this Friday. AFTER FRIDAY, THE VIDEO COMES DOWN!

I also have an incredible offer right below the video which will DISAPPEAR on Friday as well. All I can say is …the price is right for these economic times!

Watch the video RIGHT NOW!

Stephen Beck

PS…Want a hedge fund against these economic times? Build a herd! http://budurl.com/7ListBuildingTips

If I gave you one choice, which would you choose?

1. A great product that everyone wants

2. A big email list

I would choose #2 EVERY TIME!

You see, with a big list, you have people to offer a great product to. I have seen this again and again. People have a really good product, but they have no one to sell it to and they don’t know how to get the word out. And after they have given up, someone else with a big list offers a similar product and really cleans up!

A big list also allows you to offer more than one product. In fact, having a big list allows you to offer as many products as your list wants. And the products can be yours or someone else’s that you get a commission from. Now that’s the ability to generate cash at will!

And finally, a big list gives you LEVERAGE! Other people with big lists want to work with you because you can reciprocate. They know that if THEY promote your product, you are also in the position to promote theirs when the time comes. Very powerful!

In fact, I feel so strongly about building a list that I have created a video, especially for YOU, that has 7 UNIQUE tips for building your list. It’s only about 7 minutes long, but I think you’ll get a lot out of it! Watch the video at the link below:

http://budurl.com/7ListBuildingTips
(Because of where I’m hosting the video, you will see a security warning – just click “yes”)

But, I’m only leaving the video online until this Friday. AFTER FRIDAY, THE VIDEO COMES DOWN!

I also have an incredible offer right below the video which will DISAPPEAR on Friday as well. All I can say is …the price is right for these economic times!

In fact, tomorrow, I’m going to address “doing business online in these troubled times”. Look for my email tomorrow, but until then, check out my video on the 7 UNIQUE tips for  building your list!

Watch the video RIGHT NOW: http://budurl.com/7ListBuildingTips

Talk to you tomorrow,

Stephen Beck

PS… post a comment about the video below!

We only have 86 people registered for my “Ask Me Anything
You Want About Online Business” Webinar tonight.

And to be honest, I’m very surprised.

I know most “gurus” and teachers on the internet won’t tell you
if they have low numbers of people registering for a webinar, but
I thought that you would jump all over this one – the chance to
ask any question about online business. I was wrong.

Somehow I must have communicated poorly.

So let me start over and tell you what this is …and what this
isn’t.

Tonight’s webinar is a chance to ask ANYTHING you want about
online business. Even if you don’t have an online business yet,
it would be good for you to call in and listen – the questions
might just trigger a question in your mind.

I will even answer questions like, given a chance to do it all
again, how would you start an internet business differently.

http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/QA/ (You can register at this link)

Tonight’s webinar is not some hard sell on a workshop or product.
I will give you a link to my “Question A Day” coaching page, but
that’s it. 95% of the webinar will be devoted to you and your
questions.

But maybe there’s something deeper.

I have been evaluating my business a lot lately. I know that
starting an online business is tough. I know that doing it
without help is next to impossible for some people. So I have
created some venues to be more accessible to my students and
subscribers. More on that later.

So, why don’t you join me for the “Ask Me Anything You Want About
Online Business” Webinar. I don’t have all the answers. Not by a
long shot. But hopefully I can answer most of your questions and
point you in the right direction for the answers I don’t know.

http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/QA/

Warmly,

Stephen Beck

PS…Sorry I have miscommunicated so poorly about this webinar. I
know your time is valuable and I want to help you succeed in any
way I can.

http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/QA/

If I hear one more Internet “Guru” say that the economy doesn’t
matter, I’m gonna scream!

They say that the economy doesn’t affect an online business. That
it doesn’t matter if people see their mutual fund tanking …or
their retirement fund taking massive hits …or they’re afraid of
losing their job. That people will go on blindly buying
information products even in the midst of such uncertainty.

But the economy DOES matter. And it DOES affect everyone and
everything. And no, online businesses are NOT IMMUNE from the
negative effects of a slow and sluggish economy.

To paraphrase Clinton campaign strategist James Carville: “It’s
the economy, stupid!”

If the “Gurus” were honest with you, they would tell you that…

- Attendance at live seminars and workshops is WAY down this
year. People are unwilling to spend the money to travel.

- Refunds are WAY up this year. People are rummaging through
their book shelves looking for products they can return. Even
courses they bought 2 years ago!

- Overall sales are down due to people holding on to their money
and adopting a “wait and see” attitude. They are no longer buying
every product that hits their email inbox!

So when “Gurus” tell you that nothing has changed. That it’s
still just as easy to make money on the Internet. Don’t believe
them.

So what’s the good news?

People are more discerning these days. They are no longer
looking for the super-hyped product that promises a fast buck
with no effort whatsoever on the part of the purchaser. They
aren’t buying the “push a button and get rich” software you see
every week.

They are looking for something real. They are looking for
quality.

Yes, it is harder to sell products online right now. But the
economy is forcing the “quick buck” artists out of business. It’s
no longer worth their time to create junk products if people
aren’t snapping them up every week.

So…

If people are buying quality, then those who sell quality
information products have a better chance of being heard because
the rough economy is driving out the scam artists. Like a hard
rain washing all of the trash off the streets and into the
gutter.

Your job as a marketer will get easier because you won’t have
to shout at the top of your lungs just to be heard! Hard
circumstances and rough economic times have a way of weeding out
the weak and the sub-standard.

Just thank God that the American government doesn’t have a
bail-out system for bad information marketers like it did for bad
banks, weak insurance companies and non-competitive airlines!

So a little rough patch is a GOOD thing! Are you ready to
capitalize on it? Are you ready to step up and seize the moment?

If you have ever thought of making money online, now is the time.
BEFORE everyone and his brother has it figured out and saturates
the market. And AFTER the last little shake-up we’ve just had
that weeds out a lot of your competition!

So, yes the economy makes it harder run an online business
…right now! But there will be a day very soon, when those who
persevere and work hard will see unbelievable fruit for their
efforts!

Create quality content, learn your marketing lessons well and
keep contacting potential joint venture partners …that’s the
recipe for success in these hard times.

Blessings,

Stephen Beck

PS… Agree? Disagree? Post a comment below…