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		<title>Why I Sell Big Ticket Items As My Base Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the internet there are many different ways to make a living&#8230;just do a quick Google search on &#8220;make money from home&#8221; and you will get over 254 million results. I&#8217;ve been making money, in many different ways, since I was young enough to think that thirty was &#8216;old.&#8217;  I&#8217;ve always believed  in multiple streams [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_151" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 160px"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-151" title="Money Sign" src="http://okollie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1193021_21321801-150x150.jpg" alt="Sell Big Ticket Items" width="150" height="150" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sell Big Ticket Items</p></div>
<p>On the internet there are many different ways to make a living&#8230;just do a quick Google search on &#8220;make money from home&#8221; and you will get over 254 million results. I&#8217;ve been making money, in many different ways, since I was young enough to think that thirty was &#8216;old.&#8217;  I&#8217;ve always believed  in multiple streams of income&#8211;in much the same way as many investors believe in diversifying their stock portfolios. My online revenue is certainly based on multiple streams, but I&#8217;ve found that if I don&#8217;t have some sort of base income or what some call &#8220;bread and butter&#8221;, then I end up chasing many income streams at the same time with limited success. Multiple streams of income only seem to work if you add income to your current base of operations.</p>
<p>I have been involved in my share of online businesses and have made a great living. I don&#8217;t have employees but work with many freelancers and other online entrepreneurs. What you will learn over time is the fact that it takes just as much time to work on a small sale as it does on a big one. I don&#8217;t know about you, but working on the internet for yourself is fun and I love spending time making money. If you are going to work hard anyway, why not sell a product that makes your time worthwhile, even if you only make one sale per month? It makes a lot a sense to me, and it also makes sense to a lot of smart internet marketers.</p>
<p>Affiliate programs all have great sales pitches about how much cash you can make each month by selling their products. They may even give you a bonus if you convert 25 or 50 items a month. Great! I&#8217;m marketing &#8216;my&#8217; site and spending my time promoting their products so I can get the crumbs from their table. Thanks, but that is no way to build my internet marketing livelihood. It sounds more like a supplemental approach to income&#8211;not a primary base of income.</p>
<p>One night last year I came across a few of my old online friends that started selling products offered by Abunza. It turned out that not only could I sell retail products with my own online shopping center&#8230;I could sell to both English and Spanish speaking customers! I started using Abunza every month to keep the money coming in and more and more people started joining me in the effort. In a short amount of time it became clear that  Abunza would become my big ticket sales tool for the internet.</p>
<p>Abunza&#8217;s pay plan utilizes a two-tier payment system that sends payments from your new customers straight into your checking account. Your new members will first deliver $1,997.00 directly to you when they decide to invest in their own online business.  Now I know that $2,000 a month isn&#8217;t an amount that would prompt you to write to everyone you know and tell them that you are a big internet guru, but it is an amount that makes your online efforts worth while. With Abunza, you can get everything set up and running in a short time frame and start making money right away. It&#8217;s not hard to make 4 or 5 sales a month once you get on a roll.</p>
<p>My advice&#8230;get your base business going strong then supplement with other income streams if you feel motivated.</p>
<p>I can show anyone how to run the business successfully and with all the features the Abunza business has to offer&#8230;it&#8217;s a lot of fun too.</p>
<p><a href="http://okollie.com/contact/">Contact me</a> if you would like more info.</p>
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		<title>Try An Online Business Without Making A Sales Call</title>
		<link>http://okollie.com/learn-this-online-business-without-making-a-sales-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been in sales all my life and it was always comfortable for me to interact with my clients whether it be in person or over the phone. When I got started selling products and services over the Internet it seemed natural for me to make all the sales myself. That is how I got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been in sales all my life and it was always comfortable for me to interact with my clients whether it be in person or over the phone. When I got started selling products and services over the Internet it seemed natural for me to make all the sales myself. That is how I got started and how I still do it today. However, what I started to notice with others was that not everyone was comfortable or skilled as I was at personal contact with Customers. People who were new to sales or just did not have the experience to rely on had problems when they first got started in the business mainly because I would suggest for people to personally talk to all new prospects.</p>
<p>As my business grew, I realized this phenomenon had a solution. Only work with online companies that offer an automated system or ones that have trained sales people to call your customers.  It was funny, when new folks started using these services from the beginning they became successful much quicker than when they relied on their own abilities alone. Now once a new person gets to know their products/services and they have had success with what they are selling, it is no big deal for most people to promote and interact with all of your new prospects themselves.</p>
<p>Conclusion:  If your new to internet marketing&#8230;have the professionals help you get started and keep you profitable for a long time. Never call a prospect again if you don&#8217;t want to.</p>
<p><a href="http://okollie.com/contact/">Contact me</a> if you have questions.</p>
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		<title>Stand Out From the Crowd</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s internet businesses all have a lot in common with each other. Drive traffic to your site and convert those visitors to customers. Sounds easy on the surface, not so easy in practice. Most companies offer you pre-designed websites to use as your main web site. The problem is that they may look good and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s internet businesses all have a lot in common with each other. Drive traffic to your site and convert those visitors to customers. Sounds easy on the surface, not so easy in practice. Most companies offer you pre-designed websites to use as your main web site. The problem is that they may look good and function well&#8230;they just can&#8217;t be modified in a way that allows you to maximize your traffic and the overall marketing of you and your new business. When you promote your site you spend time making sure the company is well represented. What about you and the way you&#8217;re perceived by the new prospects that you drive to the site? Don&#8217;t fall into the trap of thinking that you can make a substantial living online without making yourself stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>What makes the successful online marketer is a commitment to making yourself the most important reason that someone would want to join your team. The idea that your customer will follow you anywhere should be the new goal of your marketing efforts.  You need to prove to your new prospects that you can make the difference when it comes to their success and that you have all the support systems setup to make their dreams come true. Just follow me and we can make a lot of money together. With this one idea you can move past being only a number in a large pool of numbers and get to the point of helping people help you.</p>
<p>Things you will need:</p>
<p>1. Purchase your own URL. I use <a title="Vodahost.com" href="http://www.vodahost.com/partner/idevaffiliate.php?id=13054" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.vodahost.com/partner/idevaffiliate.php?id=13054&amp;referer=');">Vodahost.com</a> however Godaddy.com is a good option also.</p>
<p>2. You need content that promotes you. If you don&#8217;t believe in yourself who will?</p>
<p>3. You need basic web site design skills. Take a class if need be. Trust me on this one.</p>
<p>4. Document and develop the system that you use to make your company a success. Use it to show how you do it.</p>
<p>5. Lastly, you need a strong persona that refuses to chase customers. In my experience you just chase them off.</p>
<p><a href="http://okollie.com/contact/">Contact me </a> with questions.</p>
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		<title>Simple Internet Marketing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Ball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been marketing on the internet for more than 7 years, and I&#8217;m here to show you how to promote and make money from home using simple techniques. You can find much advice on how to market on the Web written by experts in internet code, HTML and key words.  This &#8220;expert&#8221; advice is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been marketing on the internet for more than 7 years, and I&#8217;m here to show you how to promote and make money from home using simple techniques. You can find much advice on how to market on the Web written by experts in internet code, HTML and key words.  This &#8220;expert&#8221; advice is fine for folks with a degree in Computer Science&#8230;but not so useful for most looking for a way to make enough money on the internet to quit their jobs or support their families.</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to look over this blog and I hope you will participate by posting your questions or making comments to the post that appear here. As you get to know me and my helpful team, you will see a simplified approach to website design and marketing. Some won&#8217;t be impressed, however effectiveness is much more desirable than working on strategies that are too complicated for most of us. In most cases, complicated approaches will discourage you over time and will put pressure on you to abandon your internet marketing aspirations and puts you back at square one.</p>
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