Here’s something I learned a few years ago from Dan Kennedy,
The Guru’s Guru, he is the guy that IM guru’s pay to learn from.

He said that “Marketing is behavior psychology and math, and
to ignore one is a mistake”

Now when I first heard this I have to admit that most of my
focus was on the behavioral psychology part.

I was reading books on copy writing and persuasion and although
I knew the the math was important…heck I was a Mechanical
Engineer before I became a freelance copywriter…I never
really spent little time on the math.

Maybe this is you too, because here’s the thing good math
can make up for very bad marketing.

In consulting with other info business’s I’ve noticed that many
do not focus enough on the math.

When I’m hired to do copywriting projects they often want a
higher converting salespage…and yet they don’t even have a
single upsell in place which can change the MATH of the business
resulting in much more profit, rather than a bump in response.

Or they have a serious refund rate which could EASILY be fixed
with a stick letter or serious of stick emails.

Changing the MATH of your business is often the easiest way
to put more green stuff in your pocket.  In the first issue of
my offline print newsletter “The conversion marketing newsletter”
I’ll show you 10 ways you can easily do this

Best,

Mike Marin

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Why I hate internet marketing

by Mike on April 27, 2012

This email might make a bunch of people mad

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the commonalities
of the most successful online business’s (I’ve had a chance
being a freelance copywriter to work in multiple 7 and 8 figure
“online business”.)

And believe it or not the most successful online marketers
don’t really have an “online business”. Most
of them have hard products, use direct mail, sell from the stage
(which is manual labor), do coaching. They merely use the
internet as a tool.

I find it funny that the guys that sell how to make money on the
internet in their pajamas are actually getting on a plan and
flying across the country to teach people how to do that IN

PERSON.

And truth be told after meeting a lot of them this IS their
main source of income.

Here’s the thing, while I stopped drinking the guru kool aid
years ago I still see people buying into the dream of internet
lifestyle.

The internet marketing mindset is detrimental to your success here
is some of the dangerous beliefs

1. That a website is a business.

Wrong, your website is a tool and not a business.  It is one form
of media.  Smart business people try to use ALL forms of media
print, direct mail, radio, etc.

2. Free Traffic

This is a another dangerous.  If you want rookies to flock to
you all you need to do is talk about a technique to get free
traffic. However I can tell you from experience that the experienced
marketers try to spend as much as possible.

Also you don’t have a traffic problem you have a conversion
problem.  If your conversions are good enough you can simply
buy traffic.  There goes your traffic problem.

3. The 100% Digital Business

All the most successful online marketers sell physical
products.  Yes the idea of no inventor sounds appealing, but
people don’t value digital products like they do physical.  In
fact, I know of a info product business who converted all their
products to digital copy and their business went almost bankrupt
and the owner said he lost 2 million dollars because of it.

I could go on and on, the real question is have you fallen for
the internet marketing myth, if so I guarantee you can be making
alot more moolah if you start treating your business like a
REAL business.

Okay that’s it for right now

Best,
Mike Marin

P.S. If you want to start learning how to write sales copy like
the pro’s be sure to grab my marketing telepathy system.

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