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	<title>Michael Rasmussen's Internet Marketing Blog &#187; Beginners Get Started</title>
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		<title>What Online Business Help Do You Need?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rasmussen</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">[Due to the huge response to this post, I have cut off comments at this time. I&#8217;ve approved or responded to everybody&#8217;s questions as best I could over the last two days. Thank you very much for your questions. I hope this was helpful.]</span></strong></p>
<p>I get massive amounts of email, way too much to answer even one percent of it every day.</p>
<p>Most of the people who send me emails need help with their online business in one way or another. They’re confused, or stuck, or don’t even know where to start.</p>
<p>What’s probably surprising to a lot of people, maybe even you, is that I really DO understand where you’re coming from&#8230;because I came from there myself.</p>
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<p>Most of you know that I’ve been running a successful Internet business for six years now, since 2002. But successful today doesn’t mean I started that way. Let me tell you a bit of my story so you’ll understand why it makes sense to listen to the advice I’m going to offer you.</p>
<p>I started from scratch, with <strong>no money, no JV partners, no list, no advantages at all</strong>, really. In that sense, I can relate to anybody out there who’s starting from scratch and feels kind of lost and overwhelmed. I’ve been there!</p>
<p>As I learned what worked and what didn’t, I made a ton of mistakes. I had to spend (and waste) a bunch of money on trial and error. I got frustrated. There were many times I want to dump it all. Sound familiar?</p>
<p>Now I have a business that gives me financial freedom I could only dream of six years ago. Here’s what I mean&#8230;</p>
<p>I’m the top affiliate for most product launches I JV for, and I have raked in big profits from product launches, firesales, giveaways, resale rights, you name it.</p>
<p>My email promos regularly bring in five figures, and I’m earning more in passive income in a month than many people make in a year slaving at a desk.</p>
<p>I have an opt-in list of active readers who buy like crazy when I promote something, which I only do when I’m really behind it. That kind of list performance is probably why I get dozens of JV proposals every week.</p>
<p>And my products get endorsements from respected online experts like Allan Gardyne, Paul Myers, Jimmy D. Brown, Jim Daniels and others.</p>
<p>Absolutely none of that is to boast about how good I am. I told you that story so you’ll know that the advice I give is based on a level of success I bet most of you want. I’m no genius, but I’m not just “lucky” either. I’ve learned how to do this, and I want to teach you. I get all sorts of invitations to speak at big IM events, but I choose to teach only through my products, newsletter and blog. <strong>Today is an example of that.</strong></p>
<p>If I had more time, I could answer emails and blog comments all day, but I&#8217;m one guy with a business to run. That said, I’m going to take a little time to teach this week. So consider this post an open invitation to ask me <span style="text-decoration: underline;">anything</span> you want to.</p>
<p>You can ask about getting your business going, success factors, how to build a list, or anything else you want. I&#8217;ll hang out for the next <strong>two days</strong> to answer questions (not with a response time of seconds, but pretty quick during the day).</p>
<p>I really do care about helping all of you, but I have to manage how I do it. Posts like this are one simple way I can balance helping people and running my own business.</p>
<p>Be sure to bookmark this post and come back regularly to comment and read my answers to other people&#8217;s questions.</p>
<p>Have you always wanted to ask questions about your business, but you didn’t want to pay thousands of dollars for a few hours of a business coach’s time? Here’s your chance.<br />
<strong>Go ahead and ask away!</strong></p>
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		<title>MiniSite Profits Exposed: Are You Using It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rasmussen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you complained about there not being any immediately useful information about how to make money online?
If you haven&#8217;t complained about it, you&#8217;ve probably heard other people complain. And you know what? You&#8217;re right. It IS tough to find good information, especially if you need to know how to start from scratch.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many times have you complained about there not being any immediately useful information about how to make money online?</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t complained about it, you&#8217;ve probably heard other people complain. And you know what? You&#8217;re right. It IS tough to find good information, especially if you need to know how to start from scratch.<span id="more-80"></span></p>
<p>I get a ton of emails from people needing help with this stuff. Literally hundreds. And they usually ask very similar questions, because nobody&#8217;s ever laid out the simple steps you need to take to set up your own mini-sites that actually turn a profit.</p>
<p>The funny thing is, I used to be in the same situation myself. I was frustrated. I couldn&#8217;t find help anywhere. I knew I wasn&#8217;t stupid, but I needed somebody to lay out a blueprint for me to follow to get started&#8230;and not charge me an arm and a leg for it. I definitely can relate to people who are struggling with nowhere to turn.</p>
<p>So I did my part to fix that problem by offering a 100% free video course called MiniSite Profits Exposed. I launched it on Monday (it&#8217;s my first product in two years). You&#8217;ll find it here:</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.minisiteprofitsexposed.com/" target="_blank"> <strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><img src="http://www.minisiteprofitsexposed.com/images/MiniSiteProfitsExposed_Small.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="200" height="228" /><br />
</span> </strong> </a></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.minisiteprofitsexposed.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Click Here To Get <span style="text-decoration: underline;">FREE</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Private Access</span> to<br />
This $197 Value, Life Changing Product!</p>
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<div style="text-align: left;">The course shows you a simple strategy for setting up a profit stream from your own product and website.</div>
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<p>My goal was to give people the nuts and bolts of how to create mini-sites for themselves, without being technical geniuses. I won&#8217;t go over the entire course here, but here are some important items in there:</p>
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<li>The right mindset for building profitable mini-sites</li>
<li>How to write hyper-converting copy for your squeeze page and your sales page (including the “blind bullets” technique that&#8217;s almost sure to get you more conversions)</li>
<li>How to automate your business</li>
<li>Simple strategies for increasing your profits with minimal extra effort</li>
<li>And much more!</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The main point of the course is that creating mini-sites is easy, once you know what you want to sell. In other words, once you have a product, even a very simple one that didn&#8217;t take you long to create, selling it with a mini-site is the easiest, quickest and cheapest way to make money.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Apparently the message is getting out there, because roughly 30,000 people have signed up so far. Here&#8217;s what just a couple of them said about the free course:</p>
<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p>&#8220;Hi Michael,</p>
<p>Your Mini Site Profits Exposed Videos were a real eye opener for me. I want to thank you so much for your time, and effort in producing such top quality information. These videos alone will help people of all walks of life back on the right path to becoming successful online. This is the BEST information I have ever come across online to date: You can be sure I&#8217;ll be sharing this with as many struggling marketers as I can.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>- Gary Neame</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Mike,</p>
<p>I have to first off tell you that I am the most skeptical person on the planet when it comes to buying &#8220;How to make money&#8221; information. I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s online or at a convention/seminar. Well, so far this one is everything that you said it would be and more. In fact I have some programming knowledge and thought I would need it. It turns out, my girlfriend started setting up a site after I fell asleep three days ago and it&#8217;s already bringing in money. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m buying an estate home soon, but it actually is as easy as you said and DOES WORK!! Thanks again for being so persistent with your emails to us.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>- Brad Rello</strong></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: left;">These are real people, probably very similar to you. They picked up the free course and watched the videos. As you can see from Brad&#8217;s comments, he&#8217;s ALREADY making money with this.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So now my question to you is&#8230;are you using this stuff yet?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The course is 100% free. Have you started applying it in your business? If not, why not? If so, what&#8217;s standing in your way so far?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">All the best,</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Michael Rasmussen<br />
CEO, BulletProof Marketing, Inc.</p>
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