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Hey fellow Entrepreneurs,

We wrapped up a pretty lengthy discussion about clarity last week.

So now let’s put all that critical new wisdom to use.

Let’s apply it to an area of your business that, I think for most entrepreneurs, is vastly unclear.

Getting clarity in this area can probably do the more to
boost your business faster than anything else you can do.

I’m talking about getting clarity on your communication.

I’m talking about understanding exactly what you’re trying to accomplish in all your marketing and client communication. About what you’re trying to achieve at every level, with every word you write or record.

You need to know this.

If you don’t you’re wasting precious opportunities to convince and convert prospects in a marketplace where they are literally overwhelmed with marketing messages.

You’re really only making it harder on yourself to succeed.

This is really an important topic and we’ve got a lot of ground to cover. So let’s get started…

To higher profits and beyond,

Rich

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What Are You Talking About?
By Rich Schefren

We spent the last few issues talking about a very important concept to your business – getting clarity. I mention that because it provides a nice segue into what I want to talk about for the next couple issues.

It’s an area you definitely need clarity on in your business. One where you need to be as clear as you possibly can about what your objective is; what you’re trying to do; what success will look like, etc.

The area I’m talking about is getting clear about your communication with your prospects and your customers or clients.

And when I say communication, it could be anything. It could be emails. It could be a report. It could be videos. It could be blog posts. I mean, you name it. It doesn’t matter. I’m talking about communication in any format.

The Most Important Reason For
Being Clear About Your Communication

So first let’s ask, why do you communicate with your prospective market? Well there’s the obvious answer – to make more sales. You want them to buy your stuff.

But that’s not really clarity. There needs to be a deeper reason. And you need clarity on that.

I don’t know how many of you will remember, but in the past I’ve talked about my retail clothing store. And how our goal when a customer came in was not to just sell them clothes, but to sell them on the store as well.

Doing that gave us the opportunity to sell them again and again and again. Had we just focused on selling them the thing they came in for, we would have probably sold it to them anyway, but we wouldn’t have created a new, frequent customer. We would have only created a sale.

So if your answer to why you communicate with your prospects, clients and customers is to make sales, then what you’re doing is narrowing down the potential of what you can get. You’re losing all ability to leverage each and every sale.

What are some of those other clarity goals you might have as you communicate with your prospects, your marketplace, your clients and your customers?

Communication Clarity 101

The first thing I’d say is that you want to give quite a bit of thought to who. Who is it you want to attract with your communication? Who are you trying to appeal to?

You need to think about this because not all prospects in any given marketplace are the same. When you target one prospect, you’re likely going to turn off another. And in fact, the better you target one segment, the more likely it is you’re going to turn off a different group of the same marketplace.

So you must know who it is you’re trying to attract. Who are the prospects that spend the most money? Who would be your best customers? Who are the people in it for the long haul who will give you a higher lifetime value? Who is that?

The next goal of your communication should be connection.

Do they feel like they know you? Do they feel a connection to you? Obviously, that is another goal that you should be striving for in all of your communications. You want to build that connection.

Another goal is you want them to accept your positions, your perspective on things.

You’re not just trying to make a sale. You’re trying to get your prospects to buy in to your philosophy; your position; your perspective about whatever it is that they’re trying to accomplish (or trying to get rid of) which puts them in your marketplace.

You want to establish loyalty.

Not just loyalty in terms of making purchases, but loyalty so that if someone attacks you in a forum or attacks you on a blog, they’ll argue in your defense. That’s loyalty.

Retention is something else you should be looking for in your communication.

If you’re talking to clients you obviously want to keep them. If you have any continuity programs then you want to keep them a month longer, five months longer, a year longer, whatever it is. Retention should always be a goal of your communications.

And if you are using an ascension model – smaller purchases leading to bigger purchases – then ascension would be another goal when you’re writing to clients.

Think About Every Piece Of Communication You Send

Now not every communication has to accomplish all those goals at once. But these are the things you should be thinking about in every communication you send.

For example, if I’m writing an email or creating a video to my Founders Club members, I could just create the video, communicate the thing and be done.

But if I want to try to promote ascension, getting Founder Club members to ascend into the Business Growth System, then I would be smart to think of any stories that I can tell about somebody that was in Founders and made the leap into BGS and the magical things happened. And of course I’d relate that back into what I’m trying to communicate.

Take a look at your communication goals and then think through how those things could that be achieved.

To build connection with your market, you might share certain things about yourself with marketplace, your prospects or clients. What is it and can you tell a story about it?

Ideally, you want people in your marketplace, your prospects, your customers, your clients to feel that you care about them; that they get value from your relationship with you; that they share common values with you; and ideally, and this is a higher level.

It’s not easy to accomplish, but ideally you want them to be fascinated by you. In other words, you want them to always be interested in what you’re doing because that gets you the attention that you need to sell more, grow your business more, etc.

How do you know when you’re doing it right? How do you know if right now you’re not doing it right? Well I’ll give you a few ways that you can tell in your next issue.

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Dear Entrepreneur,

The Internet has made doing business easier in so many markets and niches, including the Carefree Business Marc Charles outlines for you today.

It’s the ideal Carefree Business because:

• You don’t need a huge amount of start-up capital — a few hundred bucks are all you need.
• You don’t need a bricks-and-mortar storefront, employees, or equipment — just your computer.
• You don’t need to quit your job — yet. (You can do it on the side until it replaces your current income.)

All that, and the profit potential for new entrepreneurs is huge.

Cheers,

Jason Holland
Managing Editor
Carefree Entrepreneur

Profiting from Hot Online Trends
By Marc Charles

I’m sure you’ve heard of the $1.2 trillion Chinese export market. It’s where some of the largest companies in the world make their money. They buy products manufactured in China for pennies on the dollar … and sell them for a huge markup.

But you don’t have to be a Walmart to get in on this opportunity.

Thousands of successful individual entrepreneurs use this model to make full-time incomes – and then some – working from home part-time. Because you can also get started with limited or no experience and not much money, it’s perfect for Carefree Entrepreneurs.

How do you do it? You harness the power of the Internet to:

• Find products and manufacturers from a trusted source (you don’t have to store inventory, they ship directly from factory to customer)
• Research the hottest products online right now (a few clicks and you’ll have all you need to know)
• Sell to customers primed to buy (without setting up your own website, if you don’t want to )

A few weeks ago, you learned about the online resource used by insiders to find product manufacturers. Alibaba.com is the leading online marketplace for connecting overseas suppliers and entrepreneurs like you looking to import and sell products online. It’s easy to use. And on this site, which includes only quality goods, you can find pretty much any product you can think of. Everything from yoga mats to bulldozers.

This is great. You know where to find the products. It’s not something you have to worry about.

Now your challenge as a Carefree Entrepreneur is to figure which particular products are “hot” right now.

And the great thing is this is easy to do. With some very simple online research, you’ll soon have a range of products that can be sold quickly and profitably. And by tapping into trends, marketing your products will be easier.

3 Ways to Find Hot Products for Your Business

You’re starting an online business. And that means the best place to do your market research is – you guessed it – online. Here are the top three resources for finding hot products:

1. Start with Google, specifically Google Product Search. (You can find it under the Shopping tab on the Google homepage, or at google.com/prdhp.) Scroll down and you’ll find a listing of current hot products – those that have been searched for and purchased by online customers. Google gets sales information weekly from hundreds of online businesses, so if a new trend pops up, you’ll see it here first.
2. eBay Pulse (pulse.ebay.com) is another great resource. It tracks the top 10 searches – what customers are actively looking for – on its site. ebay started out offering mostly used goods and collectibles. But these days, eBay sellers offer a lot of new products. So it’s very popular with your target market of online shoppers.
3. Lastly, check out the largest online retailer, Amazon. Its bestsellers page (amazon.com/gp/bestsellers) is a great place to identify products you should consider selling yourself. Thousands of people shop on Amazon every hour – it’s the go-to online shopping site. If it’s trending on Amazon, you have a money-maker on your hands.

So what’s hot right now?

I just checked out the three sites above and some of the big sellers of the moment are electronic gadgets (including cell phones, laptops, tablet computers, and mp3 players), women’s shoes, video games, and holiday decor.

Check out these research tools yourself today. Make a list of the top 10 products selling on each site: Google Product Search, eBay, and Amazon. It’s on these lists that you’ll find the in-demand products that you should be selling online with your import-export business. If you find a product on two or three of the lists, the money-making potential is even greater.

In the next essay in this series, we’ll show you how to hook up with suppliers on Alibaba.com and get the best deals so you can start importing the hot products you’ve identified today. You can start with one or two, ramping up to offer more as your business takes off.

Then later we’ll tackle how to start marketing your products once you’ve identified “hot” trends and found a supplier overseas. You’ll learn how to sell online – without having to set up your own website. eBay, Amazon Marketplace, and other online resources set up the virtual storefront you, allowing you to focus on marketing. Plus, each day these sites get thousands of visitors searching for products. That gives your business an automatic leg up.

If you’re eager to get started right away, check out my program, The China Wholesale Trader. In it I give you tips and tactics for finding and negotiating with manufacturers, marketing your business on the Internet, and much more.

Check it out here.

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Maybe you’ve been hearing about all those “overnight” Internet success stories and always wish you could be next. Well, it’s finally time it happened to you …

One online entrepreneur we know, Valerie Johnson made $1.8 million last year selling … pajamas. And then there is the $25-million success story of Kevin and Lisa Hickey.

How’d they do it? They were able to get their products for pennies on the dollar and sell them for huge markups.

We want to show you how to get into the same type of easy-to-operate business. All you have to do is follow a simple and easy plan that walks you – step-by-step – through this online business that takes full advantage of our global economy and the Internet.

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Tip of The Day:
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"I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think." – David Ogilvy

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Hey Fellow Entrepreneur,
We’re still on the topic of clarity today.
Now I may be starting to sound like a broken record on this topic, but I’m only doing it because it’s so important.

o It’s so important to your effectiveness in your business…
o To achieving the goals you set for yourself…
o To being able to focus on ONLY the most critical things to your success.

Without gaining clarity for yourself you lose all that and so much more.
And when you relinquish clarity to others you’re effectively selling yourself out.
That may sound a little harsh, but it’s the truth.
And another truth is, it’s not really your fault. There are reasons, I’ll share with you in today’s issue, that we do tend to hand over our responsibility of getting clarity to others.
But that doesn’t mean it’s O.K.
We all need to remind ourselves of the need to gain our own clarity.
Even me.
There’s a lot to share today, so let’s get busy.
To higher profits and beyond,
Rich

Sacrificing Clarity For The Wrong Reasons

By Rich Schefren

Since we’ve been discussing clarity the past couple issues, here are a couple more questions you can ask to help get it in the things you do…
When you finish whatever it is you’re undertaking, what do you hope will be true for you that hasn’t been true yet? What will be different? How would you know that your time was well spent? What would be different for you at the end? What will be true for you at the end?
Asking questions like these clarifies your goals in your mind. And when you do that, you naturally focus more on the things that are truly important for achieving your goal.
I want to backtrack just a little and re-emphasize the importance of clarity in anything you do.

Why We Sacrifice Clarity

Most people that I coach really lack the clarity they need when they walk into any situation. They rarely know what it is they’re trying to achieve and what they need to achieve it. And in the end, they never get what they want.
The reason for this lack of clarity isn’t because it’s hard to understand what it is you want and what it is you need and how to go get it. It’s because you’ve been trained your whole life to not think this way.
You’ve been taught to let an instructor or a guru give you the answer about what you need. And that’s simply not the best approach. Thinking that somehow an instructor or guru – a teacher in high school – a professor in college – even me, is supposed to take more responsibility for your life, your business, your success than you, simply won’t get you the results you want.
And if you walk into a situation without the clarity on what it is you’re expecting to get or why you’re expecting to get it or why you feel you need it to get what you want, then ultimately what you’re doing is putting responsibility for your success in the hands of someone else. You look to them tell you what it is you need and give you the answer that they think you need in order to progress. And I’m telling you that’s not the way a successful entrepreneur operate.

Let Me Share A Personal Story About This

I recently re-created the introductory webinar for my BGS program. It’s now a one-part webinar as opposed to two-parts. It’s been shortened to 2 1?2 hours as opposed to the 3 1?2 or 4 hours of the combined two part version. And so far so good. It seems to be really well received. Like it’s actually even more effective than our previous ones, so it was time well spent. A greater percentage of viewers are staying on longer and everything is going really well with it.
Now along those lines though, I was working with someone when I re-created this version. This time I was working with a gentleman by the name of Michael Cage whose name you may recognize if you’ve been watching some of my videos. I have a great amount of respect for Michael because I believe he is one of the few people that knows more about how to create high content webinars than I do. So I was very excited to get a chance to get his advice and have him work with me on it.
But during the creation process, I noticed I was even feeling some of these same feelings. I had a real desire for him to tell me what it was I needed re-creating this webinar. I was looking for him to be clear about the outcome that I wanted. I was looking for him to take over more and more of the responsibility for the outcome – even knowing everything I’ve just told you.
That’s because it’s the natural human condition to want others to tell us exactly what to do; to have our best interest at heart; and to just point us in a direction. While we can certainly get help as we go down a direction and even get advice on which direction, ultimately we have to realize that the responsibility of getting to our goals falls to us.
Anytime we hand over any of that responsibility someone else, we’re really giving away some of our power.

Getting Clarity Is Everyone’s Job

Now this isn’t the same as delegating or outsourcing. That’s assigning responsibility for an outcome, not responsibility for getting clarity to achieve your goals.
The point I really want to make here is that this is not just a problem of people who are opportunity seekers. It’s really something that everybody struggles with from time to time.
And you have to be aware of it. Because if you’re not, you tend to fall back on your old patterns, sacrificing clarity because you want the illusion of security. You want the illusion that someone else is working on your behalf. If you can believe that, you don’t have to embrace that reality of uncertainty because you think you’re gaining some degree of certainty by placing responsibility in the hands of the expert or the guru or the teach or the instructor or the professor.
And that’s just not the way you need to operate.
We’ll finish up this discussion in the next issue…

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In today’s Carefree Entrepreneur, Michael Masterson explains a strategy you can use to make every ad, sales letter, and promotional email you put out more effective.

Your customers will "connect" emotionally with your business and products, they’ll buy more and more often, and you’ll succeed much faster.

Michael focuses on applying it to marketing in this essay. But this little-known principle is key to your success in all areas of your Carefree Business, including the niche you choose and the products you create.

Cheers,

Jason Holland
Managing Editor
Carefree Entrepreneur

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The Power of One – One Big Idea
By Michael Masterson

One of the biggest lessons I have ever learned about writing came very late – in fact, more than twenty years after I wrote my first piece of copy.

It happened about a year after I began writing Early To Rise (ETR). I was looking over issues I’d written that year and noting which ones readers rated the highest. Without exception, those achieving the highest scores presented a single idea.

It struck me that readers didn’t want to hear everything I had to say about a topic every time I wrote. They were looking for a single, useful suggestion or idea that could make them more successful.

That was one of those "aha!" experiences for me.

As a reader, I had always most enjoyed stories and essays that tackled one subject effectively and deeply. As a writer, I sensed my readers felt this way too. But it wasn’t until I looked at the ETR results that I recognized the power of a narrow focus in writing.

I checked to see if this same phenomenon applied to advertising copy. I pulled out my box of "best promotions of all time." While not all of them were on a single topic, most of the very best hit just one idea strongly.

It seemed I was on to something. I presented this idea as one "powerful secret to publishing success" when Agora had our first company-wide meeting for publishers in France.

Bill Bonner reminded me he’d learned about the Power of One from the great advertising guru David Ogilvy. Ogilvy’s concept was that every great promotion has, at its core, a single, powerful idea that he called "the Big Idea."

At about that same time, John Forde was rereading the classic 1941 book, "How to Write a Good Advertisement" by Victor Schwab – the man Advertising Age called the "greatest mail-order copywriter of all time."

In that book, Schwab listed his choice for the "Top 100 Headlines." John found that of those 100 top headlines, 90 were driven by single, Big Ideas.

Note how instantly clear and engaging these "Big Ideas" are…

• "The Secret of Making People Like You"
• "Is the Life of a Child Worth $1 to You?"
• "To Men Who Want to Quit Work Someday"
• "Are You Ever Tongue-Tied at a Party?"
• "How a New Discovery Made a Plain Girl Beautiful"
• "Who Else Wants a Screen Star Figure?"
• "You Can Laugh at Money Worries – If You Follow This Simple Plan"
• "When Doctors ‘Feel Rotten’ This is What They Do"
• "How I Improved My Memory in One Evening"
• "Discover the Fortune That Lies Hidden In Your Salary"
• "How I Made a Fortune with a ‘Fool Idea’"
• "Have You a ‘Worry’ Stock?"

At ETR, we made this concept a "rule" for writing. The mandate was clear. Write about one thing at a time. One good idea, clearly and convincingly presented, was better than a dozen so-so ideas strung together.

When we obeyed that rule, our essays were stronger. When we ignored it, they were not as powerful as they could have been.

Here’s an example of the Rule of One as applied to an advertorial taken from ETR:

Subject Line: The Easiest Product to Sell Online

Dear Early to Riser,

Would you be interested in investing $175 to make $20,727?

That’s exactly what Bob Bly just accomplished!

See how he did it below… and how easily you could do the same.

MaryEllen Tribby,
ETR Publisher

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Dear Friend,

There’s no product easier to create or sell online…

… than a simple, straightforward instructional or how-to e-book.

Why are e-books the perfect information product to sell on the Internet?

• 100% profit margin.
• No printing costs.
• No inventory to store.
• Quick and easy to update.
• No shipping costs or delays.
• Higher perceived value than regular books.
• Quick, simple, and inexpensive to produce.

My very first e-book has generated $20,727 in sales (so far).

My total investment in producing it: just $175.

Now, I want to show you how to make huge profits creating and selling simple e-books – in my new e-book "Writing E-Books for Fun & Profit."

Normally my e-books sell for anywhere from $29 to $79, and later this year, "Writing E-Books for Fun & Profit" will sell for $59.

However, to make it affordable for you to get started in e-book publishing, I’m letting you have "Writing E-Books for Fun & Profit" for only $19 today – a savings of $40 off the cover price!

For more information… or to order on a risk-free 90-day trial basis… just click here now.

Sincerely,

Bob Bly

P.S. But, I urge you to hurry. This special $40 discount is for a limited time only. And once it expires, it may never be repeated again.

Let me explain how the Power of One operates here.

In the lift letter (signed by MaryEllen Tribby), Bob asks a question and then tells a single-sentence story. The question is an inverted promise. The story validates the promise.

The sales letter follows. This, too, is a beautifully simple piece of copy. It leads with a statement that expresses one clear idea: "The easiest way to make money on the Internet is to market e-books."

That statement is supported by a number of bulleted "facts." Then Bob validates the statement by mentioning his own experience.

The reader is already sold. Bob makes the sale irresistible with a strong, one-time-only offer.

Short, sweet, and simple.

The Power of One is not only one big, central idea. It’s a fully engaging piece of copy with five necessary elements. Using Bob’s example:

• One good idea: "There’s no product easier to create or sell online than a simple, straightforward instructional or how-to e-book."

• One core emotion: "It is simple! I bet I can do it!"

• One captivating story: Told brilliantly in 11 words: "My very first e-book has generated $20,727 in sales (so far)."

• One single, desirable benefit: "Now, I want to show you how to make huge profits creating and selling simple e-books."

• One inevitable response: The only way to get this book for $19 is to "click here now."

To create blockbuster promotions time after time, you must understand the difference between good copy and great copy. The Power of One is the driving force behind great copy.

Veteran advertising consultant James Loftus, who’s worked with Anheuser-Busch, Holiday Inn, McDonald’s, and many other clients, agrees:

"Also keep in mind that the more points you try to cover, the less effective each point, and therefore your ad, will be. An effective ad will actually have only one central focus, even if you discuss it from two or three perspectives. If your points are too diverse, they compete with each other, and end up pulling the reader’s attention in separate directions."

When challenged with an advertising assignment, most writers conjure lists of features and benefits, then mention as many as possible. Their thinking goes, "I wonder which of these benefits will really push the buttons I want? I’ll throw them all in. That way, if one doesn’t work, another one will."

This is B-level copywriting. It’s not the way to create breakthrough advertising.

The Power of One is commonplace now at Agora… it’s taught by AWAI… and you’ll see that most top copywriters follow it.

You can use the Power of One to create your own blockbuster copy. Ask yourself: "What is the Big Idea here? Is this idea strong enough to capture the hearts of my customers? Or are my ideas all over the place?"

The challenge is to find that one good idea the reader can grasp immediately. And stick to it. So the idea has to be strong, easy to understand… and easy to believe.

Put the Power of One to work for you in all your communications. You’ll be amazed at how much stronger – and successful – your copy will be.

Editor’s Note: Michael Masterson spoke in depth about the Power of One during his presentation at AWAI’s recent Bootcamp conference.

During the event, a dozen master copywriters and expert marketers shared their most powerful secrets for creating powerful advertising copy. Copy is one of the keys to your online business success. You can’t afford to not educate yourself about how to create effective advertising.

If you weren’t at the live event, no worries. American Writers & Artists Inc. recorded the whole thing. The videos of every single presentation, including master copywriter and marketer Dan Kennedy, veteran copywriter and consultant Bob Bly, and copywriter and entrepreneur Joe Sugarman, among many others, are available online.

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