Hi guys, today I read this great post by Ann Sieg titles “Straight Talk About Wealth Creation: Something For Nothing“. She explains how she uses her list to create momentum and create a flow of people to her website by giving incentives to people to participate. It is a great way of leveraging other people’s mind and ideas. Keep reading for the article.
Is it really possible to create wealth in today’s economy, starting with nothing?
A couple weeks ago during the re-opening of Renegade Professional I sent a letter to my lists with a story from one of my favorite business mindset books of all time, Think and Grow Rich.
In this letter I asked people to post on my blog and tell me what their favorite business mindset book was.
I told people I wanted to create a massive resource list for others to check out when they want some valuable reading. And I incentivized people to participate by adding in a free surprise bonus (worth $60) to anyone who posted their favorite book…
I got over 340 comments on that post!
If you haven’t seen this incredible list of books yet (many of which I went out and bought right away myself), you can check it out here, just scroll down to the comments:
Top 340 Business Mindset Books
I did something similar a while back when I promoted John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2 course. I told people who two out of three of my biggest mentors where and I asked them to guess who the third was. Again, I incentivized people’s participation by offering to buy a copy of John’s new course for the first person who guessed correctly.
I got 460 responses to that blog post and ended up compiling a sprawling list of incredible teachers and mentors to learn from!
If you’ve never seen this list you can view it here (this is my old blog that I haven’t used in ages but this just makes a great example that’s leading into a powerful lesson):
Do you realize what just happened here with these two examples?
Wealth Was Literally Created Out Of Thin Air
In both cases I created a valuable resource for people that didn’t previously exist.
By simply creating a list of mentors, teachers and books for them to reference, and other techniques like this, I turn my blog into a central resource – a hub of activity where people gather. And in the process they are exposed to all my other stuff. My free content, my products, etc. Many of them end up opting in to my lists to get more free content and many of them end up purchasing products from me, or even turning into business partners eventually.
In the case of the promotion for John Reese, I earned over $14,000 in commissions with three extremely short emails and this very simple contest I literally threw together at the last minute.
And the important point is, I did it using no money of my own and very little work. All I used was the power of my own mind.
I Didn’t Put Together Either Of These Lists Of Books Or Mentors…
The People On My List Did!
And the incentives that I offered people to help encourage their participation required no effort or money of my own either.
In the case of the John Reese promo, I generated over 5 figures in affiliate commissions and so purchasing a copy of the course for the winner of the contest was not an out of pocket expense.
In this recent example during the Renegade Professional re-launch I offered a surprise bonus for those who posted a comment.
I’ll let you in on a little secret here…
I wasn’t planning on sharing what this bonus was with anyone else besides that group of 341 people, but it’s an important lesson in leveraging your efforts and your content that I want to share with you.
The surprise bonus was two of the action guides from two of the recent sessions in our advanced Renegade Breakthrough Mentoring Program.
These action guides are highly valuable content that hundreds of other people have paid more than $2,700 for, but they’re just a fraction of the entire program.
But what’s important is that I had already put these action guides together for this group of students and I was just finding creative ways to repackage them and use them in other areas of my business. So I wasn’t doing any extra work.
And by using them for this recent contest, they did a lot of things to boost sales during the re-launch of Renegade Professional. To name just a few, this contest helped…
- Build a bond and stronger relationship with my audience
- Create more buzz and excitement around the blog
- Create more of a sense of community
- Create large amounts of social proof by showing that there were lots of people paying attention to this event
Money is everywhere for those who know how to create value for others.
Like Dan Kennedy says:
“All The Wealth In The World Is Like The Ocean. The Ocean
Cares Not Whether You Come And Take A Teaspoon
Of Water, Or A Great Big Giant Bucket.”You can create wealth out of thin air too by just understanding the difference between the resources of today vs the resources of a hundred years ago.
In the past, an entrepreneur would create value for others by say, gathering natural resources like wood and metal and creating something that didn’t previously exist, like a chair or a house. If they created something people wanted, they would exchange their money for it.
Today, thanks to the internet, value (wealth) can be created using nothing more than your own thoughts.
The Big Difference Between Resources In The Information Age
And The Physical Resources Of Yesterday Is That When You Give
Them Away, They Don’t Decrease… They Increase!If I have ten crates of metal parts and I give three away, I now have seven crates of metal parts.
But if I have a series of videos that teaches others how to improve their own health, and I give these videos away to 10,000 people, I don’t have any less! I still have the same videos to give away to as many other people as I want!
In fact, I have created more value because those people are going to tell other people.
The more I give my assets away, the more my assets grow!
And I don’t have to keep making more of the same asset in order to keep giving it away, like I would if I was producing chairs or houses. You do the work once and you’re done (like my action guides I repackaged and gave away). Once you sell a chair that’s it. You can’t give it to another customer.
Now one thing you might be thinking is that all this stuff worked for me because I have a big list.
And you’re right.
The bigger your list is the greater your results are going to be.
But this also works if you’re starting out with nothing and are trying to build your first list. (And eventually you will have a huge list of your own by continuing to apply these very techniques. That’s when you start making five figures in one day)
Carolin Hauser is just one Renegade Professional student who has used these wealth creation methods to quit her job and move from Germany to Santa Barbara, California.
When she first joined Renegade Professional she had sponsored a total of 3 people in 5 1/2 years in MLM and had never made money with her business. The only thing she knew how to use her computer for was checking emails.
Today she has grown her downline to over 500 reps and her personal income has increased by ten times.
She’s done this on 1-2 hours/day in Renegade Professional and by teaching her prospects the basics of internet marketing.
That’s how you create value (wealth) out of thin air. And that’s how you attract throngs of prospects, leads, customers, business partners, reps, joint venture partners, affiliates and team members.
To Your Success,
Ann Sieg
P.S. – Building a free list of resources for people is a very simple exercise that takes minutes to implement.
If you’d like some more ways to create simple and valuable resources that attract people to you, Mike Klingler has a course called “Writing With Pull” that reveals dozens of different examples that are easy to do and take minimal time to put together – even if you feel like you may not have anything valuable to share with people (these techniques are all about leverage other people’s knowledge).
The “Writing With Pull” course is one of the main factors that Carolin contributes her astounding success to.
This course has normally sold for $195 but you can get the entire thing for free with a membership to our click-by-click training website, Renegade Professional here:
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