Part of the guide: Affiliate Marketing
Most Internet Marketers scatter their focus across several business models, niches and strategies. They write posts on 5 different blogs, create products for all kinds of niches and for some reason they’re not making nearly as much money as they are worth.
It’s a common problem with Internet Marketers, finding laser like focus. I really believe it’s the most fundamental reason why people fail online, or take so long to find success. It’s because they don’t really know what they’re doing, why they’re doing it or how.
You need to find your why, what and how!
Before you can build out your sales funnel and create your master IM plan, you need to figure out what you really want and why you want it. If you struggle with focus or have struggled in the past; know that you’re not alone.
With so many different levels, facets and components to Internet Marketing, it’s easy to get lost or distracted from your vision. The key is to have a vision. To form your vision, you first need to know why.
Why are you doing this? You can’t just want to make a million bucks, to have a nice car, travel; we all want those things. You need to find the underlying reason, your true why. Freedom? Peace? Personal happiness? Want to spend time raising a family?
Next work on your what. What do you really want? Do you want to be in webinars, joint ventures, product launches, SEO, facebook marketing? Or would you like to start a blog, build a list and sell affiliate products?
You need to form a clear vision of the exact income generating business you want to build. Next figure out how it will work. Calculate all the variables and work out all the different components that need to be built for your master plan.
It might be to create a health and fitness brand. To start a website empowering others to lose weight and get in shape. That might be your true passion and purpose in life, helping people with their health. Maybe you lost 200lbs, cured an incurable disease and want to help others do the same.
You could create a product teaching people how you cured yourself and market it via a blog and other traffic campaigns. Figure out how much you want to earn, what it will take to earn it and how you’re going to do it. When you know what niche you want to be in, and who you want to help; it’s time to create your funnel.
1. Breakdown All Your Traffic Driving Activities And Round Up Assets
Traffic driving activities like:
- Blogging
- Guest posting
- Webinars
- Videos
- Social Media
- Hosting Interviews/podcasts
- Joint Ventures
- Paid Advertising
- SEO
Next make a list of all of your traffic driving assets. Things like:
- Free Reports
- Capture Pages
- Websites
- Blogs
- Web2.0′s
- Articles
- Social Media Accounts
- Email Lists
- Customers
You should have a list of every single traffic generating asset you have in your hands. All of these assets you can use to drive traffic. You may be using them to drive traffic to different sources/projects or products.
To really break through and build a real business, you need to concentrate all of these traffic generating assets and activities on one main funnel.
2. Map Out Products
You need to carefully map out your sales funnel, your products. A good sales funnel should have at least 3 different core products, each one more expensive than the other.
First you want to have a cheap low-end offer, a $9-$27 product. This can be a short report or series of videos. Next you should have a mid range product priced anywhere from $47-$97, third you should have a high ticket product of $197-$497.
Low-end/Mid-Range/High-end
Of course, you can later create more products or test different price ranges. But to begin with you should map out 3 different products, a low end product, a mid range product and high end product.
Product creation is way out of the scope of this article. You merely need to create products that people will buy in your chosen market. Look at what your audience are spending money on, create something similar using your own knowledge and information/tools/skillset. Find out what people are really willing to pay for, and why.
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The idea is to get people on your buyers list with a low end $10-$30 offer. You need to really over deliver on this low-end offer, create an offer that cannot be refused. Once subscribers have bought the low end offer, they move onto your customer list where they are soon sold the mid range offer.
Lastly you sell the high ticket product to the customers who bought both the low end and mid range products. Therefore creating a funnel, the further a customer goes down; the more expensive the products get.
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Comments
Sarah Thompson, July 30 2024, 18:00
Thank you for sharing this comprehensive guide, David. The strategies are practical and easy to follow. I’ve been struggling to build a sales funnel, and your detailed breakdown provides a clear roadmap. I especially appreciate the sections on finding focus and mapping out products. They seem like effective ways to streamline efforts and increase profitability. Keep up the great work!
Michael Lee, July 30 2024, 18:05
Great tips, David! I appreciate the detailed breakdown of each strategy. It’s refreshing to see actionable steps that can be implemented immediately. The part about rounding up traffic driving assets is particularly interesting; I hadn’t considered that method before. I’m looking forward to trying these strategies out and seeing how they impact my funnel’s performance. Thanks for the valuable insights!
Emily Richards, July 30 2024, 18:10
Could you provide more examples of successful sales funnels you’ve built? Your insights are always so practical, and seeing specific examples would be incredibly helpful. I’ve tried a few of these strategies before with mixed results, so I’m curious about what has worked best for you. Thanks for another great post!
John Peterson, July 30 2024, 18:15
This post is very informative, David. However, I’d like to hear more about the potential challenges and how to overcome them. For example, what are some common pitfalls with finding focus, and how can they be avoided? Also, how do you ensure the quality of the leads you get from these methods? Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
Daniel Kim, July 30 2024, 18:20
Hey David, great insights as always. Let’s catch up soon and discuss these strategies over coffee. I find the idea of creating a clear vision particularly intriguing. It seems like a smart way to stay focused and build an effective funnel. Looking forward to hearing more about your experiences with this approach. Cheers!
Laura Martinez, July 30 2024, 18:25
I’ve had success with some of these strategies in the past, especially mapping out products. Your tips are spot on and very helpful. One thing I’ve found effective is targeting specific niches for my products. They often have highly engaged audiences. Thanks for sharing these insights; I’m excited to implement more of them!
Mark Johnson, July 30 2024, 18:30
I recently started implementing some of these strategies, and I’ve already seen positive results. The method of using traffic driving assets to focus on a single funnel has been particularly effective for me, bringing in a steady stream of new leads. Your advice on ensuring the quality of the leads and avoiding distractions was very helpful. Thank you for the valuable insights, David!
Rebecca Lee, July 30 2024, 18:35
I’m still skeptical about the effectiveness of some of these strategies, especially the use of multiple traffic driving activities. Do you have any case studies or concrete evidence to back up these claims? It would be helpful to see some real-world examples of these methods in action. Your posts are always thought-provoking, and I appreciate the effort you put into them.
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What’s being named without the label: Sinek’s ‘start with why,’ bolted onto Jay Abraham’s old back-end pricing ladder. Not new. Doesn’t make it wrong.
Ran a diner nineteen years and never once mapped a ‘low-end, mid-range, high-end funnel’ on paper, though looking back that’s exactly what the menu was — the cheap biscuit that got you in the door, the full breakfast, the Sunday plate that fed the whole table. Philip’s right that it’s an old idea. It worked because the biscuit was actually good, not because it was cheap.
I think what’s being missed in some of this is that ‘find your why’ sounds soft right up until you’ve watched a business drift for lack of one. My third employee walked out before I had a straight answer for what we were building beyond revenue, and that gap is exactly what nearly finished us. The three-tier pricing structure the post describes only works once that answer is fixed — a nine dollar report, a mid-range course, a high-ticket offer, all pointed at the same underlying want. Pick the price points before you’ve settled the purpose, and you are not building a funnel, you are just guessing at numbers and hoping the guesses line up with what people are actually willing to pay.
Translate this: work out what you actually want, then charge three different prices for three sizes of the same help. That’s the whole ‘master IM plan.’
Two years into this on top of night shifts, and this piece wants me to run blogging, guest posting, webinars, videos, social, podcasts, joint ventures, paid ads and SEO — ’round up your assets’ — while also building three separate products. I have forty minutes before I have to sleep before my next shift. Pick two.
Declan, I feel this very much. In my market a webinar in the middle of the day means nobody comes, because everyone I sell to is also working another job like you. I wonder if the funnel concept translates when a person, like both of us, only has small pieces of a day rather than one clear afternoon.
Two stages here: (1) inputs — nine traffic activities and nine asset types, unsorted, (2) output — three products at fixed price bands. There’s no stated conversion rate between the stages, and no failure mode if the ‘why’ from step zero turns out wrong six months in. A funnel with no return path is a one-way pipe, not a system.
Meera, twenty-two years in insurance and I promise you every ‘one main funnel’ initiative I sat through had exactly this problem — beautifully diagrammed inputs, someone’s KPI riding on the output, and zero honest conversation about what happens when the assumption in the middle turns out wrong. At least here nobody’s calling it ‘digital transformation.’
Reading the health-and-fitness example — lose 200 pounds, cure an incurable disease, build a brand around it — and my mind wandered to the bike shop. Every regular who’s turned their life around walking distance related has a story better than any funnel copy I could write. Maybe the actual product is just an excuse to let people tell you their story back. The pricing tiers are downstream of that.