John Thornhill Blog

First of all it’s nice to see so many comments after each post I make. I don’t know about you but I learned from Dan’s post yesterday. Dan! Maybe you should elaborate more on your success

I also want to comment on the AuctionTNT promo yesterday and the reasons behind promoting. Well Mike is holding a JV competition and it started yesterday and runs till the 15th of October. The top 5 referrers get a prize with the top prize being $1000. I am delighted to say I have just received an email telling me I am in the top spot. I don’t know how long this will last but let me explain further.

Promoting products via JV competitions gets you recognized. As your list grows you gain more leverage and in turn you start to appear in the competition rankings.

Let me give you an example…

I ran a JV competition for PlanetSMS Digital Mentorship Monthly when I launched the site. You can get all the details from this link:

http://www.mentorshipmonthly.com/jvupdate/

Now what do you think would happen if your name was on that list?

You would be contacted by other Internet Marketers for JV requests as you are seen as a person who can make sales. In fact it would not surprise me if everyone on that list was not contacted at least once and probably a lot more.

Now let me show you another 2 links:

http://www.bestofebay3.com/blog

http://www.auctionselling101.com/blog

I also managed to win the JV competition for Jim Cockrum’s membership site My Silent Team but the competition page is hidden.

What will that do for my reputation? The answer is I am slowly becoming someone who can deal with the ‘big boys’ as they can see I can generate lots of sales. How I generated so many sales is another story and I may go into in more detail another time but let me tell you if you ever get the chance to take part in JV competitions you should seriously consider it as even if you come last your name is seen by some top marketers.

Anyway, I’ve said too much already so back to what I did today

I added 2 new items to my eBay inventory.

One was an eBook (item 320165772891) and one was the September edition of PlanetSMS Digital Mentorship Monthly (item 320165814230)

As I remove monthly editions from the main site I put them on eBay. I remove each edition after 2 months to protect current members investments. The main reason I add the removed editions to eBay is to promote the main site. If you ever buy a monthly edition there is a good chance you will sign up at the main site and I then have a recurring sale from you.

The eBook I added to my eBay inventory is not mine but it will still make me money as I have the tools in place to generate a backend income from it. I go into more details on video in the September edition of PlanetSMS Digital Mentorship Monthly

Both products will now be sold on 100% autopilot and I never have to touch them again.

I uploaded the first draft for my new eBook.

This is the first time I have mentioned what my new eBook will be about. I am going to put a lot of work into launching this eBook and I you will see how I do it on the blog this month.

The eBook is just about written and I have just received a 1st draft of my sales page from my copywriter. You will see the page change dramatically over the next few weeks as I personalise it and you can track my progress.

The title will be ‘Resale Rights Blueprint’ and the 1st draft of the sales page is at:

http://www.resalerightsblueprint.com/draft1/

I hope todays blog doesn’t look like blatant promoting of my products but that’s what I did today.

I hope you got some value from the JV comp info and I look forward to your comments.

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Well here we are with day two, lets get right into it.

First of all thanks for the comments everyone. Please keep them coming, especially if you can add any more info/tips after anything I write. I don’t know everything and I’m sure some of the topics I discuss can be elaborated on further by some of you so please chip in if you can so we can all benefit.

What I Did Today.

I wrote my 1st ever review for the Blog.

I’m guessing you got the email from me today?

The reason I decided to Promote AuctionTNT via the blog is simply because it will stay there permanently. If I had just done a mailing like I usually do I would have had sales for about 72 hours. Posting a review to the blog means I can still get affiliate sales months or even years down the road. As an example Tim Knox still gets me sales of one of my products about 6 months after he promoted it and I always wondered how he did this. Then I realized it was because he promoted my site on his blog.

So there you go, something I am not ashamed to say I have just started doing myself and while I know it’s not top secret info I bet not all of you are doing this? So when you promote a product to your list consider adding it to your blog.

I submitted an article to multiple article directories.

And this only took me 2 minutes. I don’t care what anyone says, article marketing works and I have been doing this on a constant basis for almost two years now. You can check out all my articles at:

http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=John_Thornhill

I guess you’re thinking how I managed to write and submit an article to multiple directories in two minutes?

Well first of all I now get all my articles ghostwritten. I used to write them myself but I don’t bother now. As the sole purpose of my articles is to drive traffic back to my websites I don’t feel I have to write everything myself. I am not saying you should get your articles written for you. Just do what you feel comfortable doing. I pay $7 per article from a ghostwriter I found from elance.com and as it could sometimes take me an hour to create one article I feel $7 is peanuts for an hour of my life back.

Secondly, I use an article submission service. Once again I used to spend hours submitting to tons of article directories but now I just have to do this once and the site I am a member of does everything for me. This service costs me $37 per month and once again I feel it is money well spent as it’s something I no longer have to do. If you want to check this out visit submityourarticle.com

Now you don’t have to do either of the above. Like I have already said just do what you feel comfortable doing. If you enjoy writing and don’t mind taking the time to submit articles you don’t need to do anything different. However, if you find your business growing this is definitely something you should consider outsourcing.

A word of warning, be weary of using PLR articles as this can get you banned from certain directories for duplicate content. Always use 100% original content.

So there you go, two more business building exercises taken care of. Have you done anything today to build your business? Please add your comments below.

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