Imagine what you could do in your life if you had financial
freedom. In the first article in this series we looked at taking
control of your current situation. Controlling your spending,
controlling and eliminating your debt, and starting a savings
plan - all so you can have a firm foundation to take the leap to
financial freedom.

In this article we’re going to look at some simple strategies to
go from financial control to financial power.

Step Five - Save and Prosper

We touched on this in the first article, but for different
reasons. Now we’re moving on to building wealth. A major part of
your strategy has to be cash. Cash is the only true financial
wealth, so you need some. You need a lot. Now you have cleared
your debts and you have your spending under limits, you have
some spare cash to save. Find the highest interest account you
can and start depositing regular amounts. Each month put as much
into your account as possible. Set up an automatic payment to go
from your salary account. Set yourself a target, let’s say
$10,000 and go for it with all your effort.

Step Six - Split Hairs

When you’ve reached your savings target you need to start
getting creative with your money. Our example target is $10,000
so the way we’re going to get creative is by splitting it three
ways. First we’re going to find another highest interest
possible account and transfer about $4,000 into it. This is
going to be your emergency account. In reality an emergency
account should have the equivalent of about three months’ salary
in it; and you never touch it, unless it’s a genuine emergency.
Next, put $3000 aside for investing (see step three). And the
remaining $3,000 stays in the savings account, where you keep
adding to it.

Step Seven - Speculate to Accumulate

High interest bank accounts are fine and they’re a fairly safe
place to build your wealth - slowly. But if you want to build
wealth faster, you’re going to have to take some risks. There
are three ways I see of doing this: one is to start a business;
two is to invest in property; three is to invest in stocks and
bonds. In the example we’re working with we’ve set aside $3,000
to do this. On the one hand it’s not a lot of money - it won’t
go far in stocks or in property. On the other hand it’s a third
of our savings and that’s a big risk. But if you worked through
step one in the first of these two articles you’ll have a better
understanding of yourself. You’ll be able to work out for
yourself what kind of risk you are prepared to take. Because
believe me this step is risky. So you might decide to just
continue saving, that’s fine. You are now in control and hey -
that’s a lot of freedom in itself. Or you might decide that you
can stand the risk of losing that $3,000. If you do, then you’ll
probably have a clear idea of how you want to risk it. The only
advice I’m going to give here is to make sure you plan it. Have
a plan for your investment, do your research, don’t get lured by
‘get-rich-quick-for-no-work’ schemes, set a limit to what you
are prepared to lose - and stay disciplined and focused.

Step Eight - Plan to Enjoy

This isn’t so much of a final step, as something you should be
doing all the time in all areas of your life. People who plan
and set goals and have timescales for achieving things have more
failures and more setbacks than those who don’t make plans and
set goals. Yes, you read that right. But the reason they have
more setbacks is because they are doing more, they are always
moving forwards, they are never giving up. And the bottom line
is that they achieve more than those who don’t plan. So set
goals and put plans in place. And make sure you plan to enjoy
your financial freedom - whatever it means to you - because if
you turn the achievement of your dreams into a form of
unremitting slavery you will end up sabotaging yourself

The first step in beginning financial security is creating a personal budget. In order to plan a personal budget you have to know how much you possess and how much you owe. On the asset side of your life how much money do you have in your wallet? How much savings do you have in the bank? Do you own your own home or do you rent or do you have a mortgage on it? Do you own your car or do you have a loan on it?

These are all the initial items for consideration for building a personal budget. On the liability side you need to list the monthly car payment, the monthly rent or mortgage payment, utilities, charge accounts or credit card payments and other maintenance and upkeep expenses. You finished your basic homework now let’s create a monthly personal budget.

A personal monthly budget is used to estimate what you earn and what you pay. It gives you an alert if you can plan in advance what each month you will earn in salary, dividend earnings and it will allow you to determine how much you will owe.

This is how I would set one up.

At the top of the list place the following categories on the left side of the sheet, projected monthly income, actual monthly income and on the right side place the categories, projected balance, actual balance, and difference, these will be handled after you total your debts. Under projected monthly income list the following subcategories, income1, extra income, and total monthly income.

Under the major category of actual monthly income list the following subcategories income1, extra income, and total monthly income. Beneath this header place the following categories, housing, transportation, insurance, food, entertainment, loans, taxes, savings or investments, gifts and donations and legal. Each of these categories will have projected cost, actual cost and difference columns added to each row within these major expense divisions. Each beginning of the month you must predict the next month’s expenses, during the month as you pay those expenses enter that amount into the actual cost column. The end of the month you should enter the difference between the projected and actual cost into the difference column.

You remember those categories on the right side, projected balance, actual monthly income and difference? They are calculated by subtracting the total expenses from each balance. The difference is obtained from subtracting the actual from the projected. At the bottom the totals of the projected costs, actual costs and difference of the two are given. The maintenance of the personal budget as well as the decipherment of the spending trends should provide you with an invaluable tool to speed you towards financial success.

A personal budget set up in this manner can simplify the process of setting a certain amount of ones’ salary or profits into a savings plan which is composed of simple interest savings, mutual fund investments for your retirement and a long range acquisition plan for real estate investment.

If you are an affiliate marketer, you know the feeling. You log in to your Clickbank account expectantly each day and are again disappointed to see that you’ve either made a couple of dollars or worse still, nothing at all. After all, you’ve done the hard yards, built your website or Blog and driven traffic there by different means, PREsold that ebook that you thought was so cool, and yet, nothing. What’s going on?

Imagine this scenario instead. You log in to your affiliate account once a week and see you’ve made just two sales - and the commission you’ve earned on those sales is nearly two thousand dollars. Does that take the pressure off and get you focused on doing even better next week? You bet it does. Welcome to the business of promoting high paying affiliate programs.

The truth is, it’s not that much harder to sell a high priced affiliate product than it is to sell a low priced product like an ebook or audio. You just need the right system in place to do it. Now don’t get me wrong, while it’s not that difficult, it’s no walk in the park either. You have to do everything right or your results still won’t reflect the effort you’re putting in.

So, how do you sell high priced products on the Internet?

The simplest way is to find a merchant who uses their website as a lead capture system for more personal follow up later. Let’s face it; it’s very hard to sell an $8,000 coaching program to a cold list of prospects right off the bat, no matter who wrote the sales letter. From the merchant’s perspective, here’s what’s involved -

First of all you have to attract prospects onto a list with a compelling offer so you can start to build a relationship with them. Then you have to prove to them that you mean what you say. You have to follow up consistently using multiple media (email, audio postcard, letter, telephone) and you have to persevere until they sell themselves on the idea that doing what you would like them to do is actually a no-brainer.

Now when you are promoting low priced products, who’s got the time to do this? Not you, that’s for sure, and neither does the product owner. So what you typically get is one attempt at closing the prospects you send with a sales letter - and then, nothing. There’s no money in the budget for implementing a sequential follow up system to nurture your prospects until they buy. It’s truly a numbers game. And the number of people you need to send to a typical sales letter that doesn’t have any follow up are prohibitively large, as you are probably already aware.

Typical conversions for a sales letter if the prospect only sees it one time are between .5% and 2%. That means you have to send somewhere between 50 to 200 people to that site to make each sale. If you are making say $30 on each Ebook sold, and you send 100 people to the site to sell each one (a 1% conversion), you can see that you need to send a LOT of people to the sales letter to earn a reasonable return.

Contrast this to promoting high paying affiliate products through a program that offers a sequential marketing and follow up system instead. All the website does is act as a lead generator and captures each prospect’s name and contact information. Then over a period of time, every person in the system is encouraged to actually speak with the product owner on the phone instead of relying on a one-time visit to the sales letter or email alone.

How much more likely do you think a sale is when the product owner personally interacts with your prospects on the phone and by email, and encourages them to order the product multiple times (especially if the product owner is an accomplished sales person)?

Your chances have to good, right? Does this make earning 2 grand from just two sales seem more achievable? You bet it does. Remember, the secret to financial freedom from your web business is finding quality high paying affiliate programs that offer a proven marketing system which turns prospects into customers. All you have to do is send prospects into the lead capture system, and sit back as sales are made.

Sure beats making a few dollars a month selling ebooks, doesn’t it?

Simple Steps to Financial Freedom and Wealth Building

STEP 2: Achieve Financial Freedom - Choosing Your Escape
Vehicle

Do you want to achieve financial freedom? For most people,
this is constantly on their mind. If you are reading
CashFlow Avenue’s 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom and
Wealth Building, chances you are looking for ways to get
out of the rat race and to achieve financial freedom.
Unfortunately, it isn’t always as easy as it sounds.

With your Financial Goals firmly defined in Step 1, you
would now have to choose your “escape” investment
vehicle. There are plenty of investment vehicles in the
world. Let’s name a few most common form of investment -
fixed deposits, gold, bonds, real estate, stocks, stock
options, mutual funds, starting a business on your own, etc.

From experience, you might probably be able to tell that
every one of the above contains risk, except for fixed
deposits. Profit, simply defined, is your reward for
placing taking risk on your assets.

On surface, fixed deposits, look the safest form of
investment but are probably the most risky because
inflation rates are consistently higher that what the bank
would pay you - slowly eating away your purchasing power in
years to come. So, in truth, while your bank account is
growing in numbers, you are actually becoming poorer. If
there is no inflation (which will never happen in the long
run), fixed deposits are still not the best escape vehicle
because it takes just too long to appreciate. Who would
want to wait 30 years before they can be rich?

Without getting involved into too much detail, let’s jump
straight into action. When choosing an escape vehicle, you
probably would want to set a few criterions to screen out
what will and will not work for you. The ideal escape
vehicle or business should provide:

Liquidity - allows you to cash out within a few days.

Leverage on Your Capital - using only your capital can be
slow. Select a vehicle that provides leverage that
magnifies only returns but not losses.

Fast Results - should see return on investment within the 1
st month.

Easy to Set Up - should take no longer than 1 month to
start.

Predictable Monthly Return on Investment (ROI) - be able to
forecast accurately your monthly

Low Risk - consistent and provides a high percentage for
success

Profit with Time - with each tick of the clock, you should
be making money.

Utilizes The Power of Compound Interest - snowball your
returns to accelerate your wealth building process.

After running these criterions over the choices of
investment available, most vehicles don’t make the cut. Of
all, only 2 investment vehicles would make the cut. 

Stay tuned for Step 3 for the Best Escape Vehicle.

Imagine what you could do in your life if you had financial
freedom. Perhaps you would never work again. Or you would work,
only it would be what interested you. Perhaps you would get that
house, or car, or boat you dreamed of. And the best part would
be that you wouldn’t have to worry about how you were going to
afford these things.

Financial freedom is a great thing, it really is. But to get
there it takes work, and if you aren’t prepared to put in that
effort, then there’s no point in reading on. But if you do read
on, you’ll learn that although it takes hard work to get
financial freedom, the steps to it aren’t that many.

Step One - “Know thyself”.

That’s it in a nutshell. What it means is, you’ve got to take
some time out to think about what you want out of life. What are
your hopes and dreams? You also need to think about who you are
and what it means to be you. What are your strengths, what are
your limitations? Where do you want to improve, to grow? What
are you interested in, what matters to you? What are you not
interested in? And, of course, what does ‘financial freedom’
mean to you? Take a notepad or a journal and write your answers
to these questions. Just write, without hesitation. Keep
writing. Then take a break, come back to it later and add some
more thoughts. The more you understand yourself, the more solid
your foundation for success.

Step Two - “Show me the money!”

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, if your annual income is $20,000
and you’re spending £20,001, that’s misery; but if your annual
income is $20,000 and you’re spending $19,999, that’s happiness.
So you need to know what you are spending and what you are
earning. Not just in the big picture, but in the detail. You
need to know what you are spending on clothes, treats, meals out
and yes, on debt. Either keep a daily notebook, use a computer
worksheet, or invest in a package like Quicken, and track your
spending and your income in all the gory detail. You’ll probably
surprise yourself at the way money is leaking out in all
different directions. But until you know what’s happening,
you’ll stay powerless to do anything about it.

Step Three - “Eliminate the Negative”

Now you know where your debt is, how much you are spending on
it, and where else the money is leaking away from you it’s time
to start taking control. Take two steps to do this. First,
reduce your spending. Do whatever it takes: cut up your store
cards (and most of your credit cards); set yourself a weekly
cash budget (don’t carry checks and cards around with you) and
when you run out of your weekly allowance that’s it, no more;
identify those things you can cut out (magazine and club
subscriptions; take-outs; whatever, be ruthless). Second, put
all your debts, where possible, into one place. Consolidate
those five or six card debts either with a low interest loan or
with a low or zero interest balance transfer credit card.
Sometimes a balance transfer card can be better than a loan,
provided you have the discipline to pay it off in good time or
you remember to keep switching to new balance transfer deals.

Step Four - “Accentuate the Positive”

So you’ve started to take control. The next thing to do is place
that control on firm foundations with some good planning. First,
set up a spending budget that covers all your outgoings (easy
with a program like Quicken) and stick to it. Second, if you
have any debts to pay off, set up an automatic payment to come
out of your pay check the day it goes into your account - that
way you won’t miss it. Third, set up a savings plan. That’s
right, even though things are tough and you’re still in debt,
set up a savings plan. Find the highest interest account
available and start paying in (again set up an automatic
payment). It doesn’t matter if it’s a dollar a week or $100 a
week, the key is to save something. You might think it’s best to
use any spare cash to pay off your debts, but the point of
saving something is not - at this stage - to build wealth. The
point is to pay off your debts and feel positive about it.
Saving just a dollar a week is a positive thing you can do; it’s
a way of telling yourself that you aren’t a slave to your debts,
that you are actually in control of your finances and you can
stay in control of them.

When you have paid off your debts, that’s when you are in a
position to move on to building up your wealth so that you can
have financial freedom. We’ll explore strategies around that in
the Steps to Financial Freedom Part Two

Those who win consistently can exert their will on their environment. If you pay close attention, you will see winners shaping their destiny every day. For example, winning leaders have the freedom to choose not only their path forward, but the path of the people who follow them as well. They can easily command and commit resources to their efforts. Allegiance to the winning leader is freely pledged by those who follow, as they know this leader is taking them to a better place. Winning leaders need not suffer fools because they are the shot callers â?? setting direction, not taking it. The winning leader is free like few others. The winning builders of wealth use that wealth to determine their own fate. Their wealth allows them to be free of all debt, so they are not tempted to work against their best interest. They work not for need, but for love and passion for the work. They invest only as they wish in businesses, people, causes, or simply their familyâ??s security. The winning wealth builder is free like few others. The most accomplished in every field are able to blaze their own trail. The most accomplished winners in any field are scarce by definition, as only so many people can be great in any one area. They have skills, aptitude, and prowess that others value, if not desperately need. Their ability is always in great demand, affording them the freedom to choose their project and name their price. They are free like few others. Winning begets freedom and freedom has no equal.

Your freedom will come as you commit to winning. Winning is great all the time, its presence always â??moâ?? betterâ? than its absence. Winning can mean more money, or more power, or more fame, or more respect, or more pride of accomplishment, or more of all of the above. These are all good reasons to want to win, but not nearly as good as being free. Those who win consistently have achieved a measure of freedom that many never will. They, first, freed their minds. With their minds free, these great ones do great things.

While the 1031 deferred exchange is a viable means for some real estate owners and investors, many are finding the stringent requirements and the lack of quality properties a barrier to successful completion of a 1031 exchange. With long term tax deferral as a primary objective, many real estate investors are looking for other options to help them eliminate current capital gains taxes.

Though less than 10% of investors are aware of it, the Private Annuity Trust is quickly making its way into the mainstream as a way for investors to not only avoid current capital gains taxes, but also a secure way to protect assets and create a lifetime income.

Affording time to make solid investment choices
Investors don’t want to hand over 30% of their profits to the government when they sell their property. Eager to defer taxation, many investors jump into deals before they’re ready or initiate transactions that don’t provide them with any additional financial benefit simply to avoid capital gains tax. With a 1031 deferred exchange, the property must be identified within 45 days and purchased within 180 days following the sale of the original property.

The Private Annuity Trust puts the power of choice back in the real estate investor’s hands, providing the flexibility to invest in good deals when they arise. With a Private Annuity Trust, capital gains tax isn’t owed until the money is distributed as lifetime income from the Trust. That means that while you’re looking for a profitable real estate development opportunity, the money you would have paid to Uncle Sam is earning interest in the Private Annuity Trust.

Like kind? Affording the freedom to invest in what you choose
One challenge that real estate investors face with the 1031 deferred exchange is “like kind” clause. A 1031 exchange cannot be used for real estate outside of the United States. However, many real estate investors are setting their sites on retirement homes in other countries so a 1031 is not a viable transaction for them to help with tax deferral.

Also, primary residences are not covered by 1031 exchanges, and many homeowners now have significant gain that will be taxable when they sell their home. With a Private Annuity Trust, you have an opportunity to keep all the proceeds from your sale and create a balanced investment portfolio that will fund your lifetime income stream. You have the flexibility to begin taking payments immediately or to defer payments until you need the income.

When are the capital gains property taxes due?
With a Private Annuity Trust, capital gains taxes aren’t due until the money is distributed to the seller. Because the Trust agrees to make lifetime payments, capital gains tax is paid incrementally over the seller’s lifetime as well. For example, if a real estate investor sells a property through a Private Annuity Trust, the entire profit from the sale, including what he would have had to pay for capital gains tax, remains in the Trust.

As long as there are no annuity payments made to the seller, there is no capital gains tax payment due. The proceeds from the sale and the amount owed for capital gains property tax can remain in the Trust collecting interest until the Trust payments begin.

The Private Annuity Trust benefits real estate investors in the prime of their investing careers by giving them the freedom to decide when, where, and in what they will invest their earned money. For many investors, the Private Annuity Trust has been a critical piece to safe, smart, investing.

Imagine what you could do in your life if you had financial
freedom. In the first article in this series we looked at taking
control of your current situation. Controlling your spending,
controlling and eliminating your debt, and starting a savings
plan - all so you can have a firm foundation to take the leap to
financial freedom.

In this article we’re going to look at some simple strategies to
go from financial control to financial power.

Step Five - Save and Prosper

We touched on this in the first article, but for different
reasons. Now we’re moving on to building wealth. A major part of
your strategy has to be cash. Cash is the only true financial
wealth, so you need some. You need a lot. Now you have cleared
your debts and you have your spending under limits, you have
some spare cash to save. Find the highest interest account you
can and start depositing regular amounts. Each month put as much
into your account as possible. Set up an automatic payment to go
from your salary account. Set yourself a target, let’s say
$10,000 and go for it with all your effort.

Step Six - Split Hairs

When you’ve reached your savings target you need to start
getting creative with your money. Our example target is $10,000
so the way we’re going to get creative is by splitting it three
ways. First we’re going to find another highest interest
possible account and transfer about $4,000 into it. This is
going to be your emergency account. In reality an emergency
account should have the equivalent of about three months’ salary
in it; and you never touch it, unless it’s a genuine emergency.
Next, put $3000 aside for investing (see step three). And the
remaining $3,000 stays in the savings account, where you keep
adding to it.

Step Seven - Speculate to Accumulate

High interest bank accounts are fine and they’re a fairly safe
place to build your wealth - slowly. But if you want to build
wealth faster, you’re going to have to take some risks. There
are three ways I see of doing this: one is to start a business;
two is to invest in property; three is to invest in stocks and
bonds. In the example we’re working with we’ve set aside $3,000
to do this. On the one hand it’s not a lot of money - it won’t
go far in stocks or in property. On the other hand it’s a third
of our savings and that’s a big risk. But if you worked through
step one in the first of these two articles you’ll have a better
understanding of yourself. You’ll be able to work out for
yourself what kind of risk you are prepared to take. Because
believe me this step is risky. So you might decide to just
continue saving, that’s fine. You are now in control and hey -
that’s a lot of freedom in itself. Or you might decide that you
can stand the risk of losing that $3,000. If you do, then you’ll
probably have a clear idea of how you want to risk it. The only
advice I’m going to give here is to make sure you plan it. Have
a plan for your investment, do your research, don’t get lured by
‘get-rich-quick-for-no-work’ schemes, set a limit to what you
are prepared to lose - and stay disciplined and focused.

Step Eight - Plan to Enjoy

This isn’t so much of a final step, as something you should be
doing all the time in all areas of your life. People who plan
and set goals and have timescales for achieving things have more
failures and more setbacks than those who don’t make plans and
set goals. Yes, you read that right. But the reason they have
more setbacks is because they are doing more, they are always
moving forwards, they are never giving up. And the bottom line
is that they achieve more than those who don’t plan. So set
goals and put plans in place. And make sure you plan to enjoy
your financial freedom - whatever it means to you - because if
you turn the achievement of your dreams into a form of
unremitting slavery you will end up sabotaging yourself

The first step in beginning financial security is creating a personal budget. In order to plan a personal budget you have to know how much you possess and how much you owe. On the asset side of your life how much money do you have in your wallet? How much savings do you have in the bank? Do you own your own home or do you rent or do you have a mortgage on it? Do you own your car or do you have a loan on it?

These are all the initial items for consideration for building a personal budget. On the liability side you need to list the monthly car payment, the monthly rent or mortgage payment, utilities, charge accounts or credit card payments and other maintenance and upkeep expenses. You finished your basic homework now let’s create a monthly personal budget.

A personal monthly budget is used to estimate what you earn and what you pay. It gives you an alert if you can plan in advance what each month you will earn in salary, dividend earnings and it will allow you to determine how much you will owe.

This is how I would set one up.

At the top of the list place the following categories on the left side of the sheet, projected monthly income, actual monthly income and on the right side place the categories, projected balance, actual balance, and difference, these will be handled after you total your debts. Under projected monthly income list the following subcategories, income1, extra income, and total monthly income.

Under the major category of actual monthly income list the following subcategories income1, extra income, and total monthly income. Beneath this header place the following categories, housing, transportation, insurance, food, entertainment, loans, taxes, savings or investments, gifts and donations and legal. Each of these categories will have projected cost, actual cost and difference columns added to each row within these major expense divisions. Each beginning of the month you must predict the next month’s expenses, during the month as you pay those expenses enter that amount into the actual cost column. The end of the month you should enter the difference between the projected and actual cost into the difference column.

You remember those categories on the right side, projected balance, actual monthly income and difference? They are calculated by subtracting the total expenses from each balance. The difference is obtained from subtracting the actual from the projected. At the bottom the totals of the projected costs, actual costs and difference of the two are given. The maintenance of the personal budget as well as the decipherment of the spending trends should provide you with an invaluable tool to speed you towards financial success.

A personal budget set up in this manner can simplify the process of setting a certain amount of ones’ salary or profits into a savings plan which is composed of simple interest savings, mutual fund investments for your retirement and a long range acquisition plan for real estate investment.

If you are an affiliate marketer, you know the feeling. You log in to your Clickbank account expectantly each day and are again disappointed to see that you’ve either made a couple of dollars or worse still, nothing at all. After all, you’ve done the hard yards, built your website or Blog and driven traffic there by different means, PREsold that ebook that you thought was so cool, and yet, nothing. What’s going on?

Imagine this scenario instead. You log in to your affiliate account once a week and see you’ve made just two sales - and the commission you’ve earned on those sales is nearly two thousand dollars. Does that take the pressure off and get you focused on doing even better next week? You bet it does. Welcome to the business of promoting high paying affiliate programs.

The truth is, it’s not that much harder to sell a high priced affiliate product than it is to sell a low priced product like an ebook or audio. You just need the right system in place to do it. Now don’t get me wrong, while it’s not that difficult, it’s no walk in the park either. You have to do everything right or your results still won’t reflect the effort you’re putting in.

So, how do you sell high priced products on the Internet?

The simplest way is to find a merchant who uses their website as a lead capture system for more personal follow up later. Let’s face it; it’s very hard to sell an $8,000 coaching program to a cold list of prospects right off the bat, no matter who wrote the sales letter. From the merchant’s perspective, here’s what’s involved -

First of all you have to attract prospects onto a list with a compelling offer so you can start to build a relationship with them. Then you have to prove to them that you mean what you say. You have to follow up consistently using multiple media (email, audio postcard, letter, telephone) and you have to persevere until they sell themselves on the idea that doing what you would like them to do is actually a no-brainer.

Now when you are promoting low priced products, who’s got the time to do this? Not you, that’s for sure, and neither does the product owner. So what you typically get is one attempt at closing the prospects you send with a sales letter - and then, nothing. There’s no money in the budget for implementing a sequential follow up system to nurture your prospects until they buy. It’s truly a numbers game. And the number of people you need to send to a typical sales letter that doesn’t have any follow up are prohibitively large, as you are probably already aware.

Typical conversions for a sales letter if the prospect only sees it one time are between .5% and 2%. That means you have to send somewhere between 50 to 200 people to that site to make each sale. If you are making say $30 on each Ebook sold, and you send 100 people to the site to sell each one (a 1% conversion), you can see that you need to send a LOT of people to the sales letter to earn a reasonable return.

Contrast this to promoting high paying affiliate products through a program that offers a sequential marketing and follow up system instead. All the website does is act as a lead generator and captures each prospect’s name and contact information. Then over a period of time, every person in the system is encouraged to actually speak with the product owner on the phone instead of relying on a one-time visit to the sales letter or email alone.

How much more likely do you think a sale is when the product owner personally interacts with your prospects on the phone and by email, and encourages them to order the product multiple times (especially if the product owner is an accomplished sales person)?

Your chances have to good, right? Does this make earning 2 grand from just two sales seem more achievable? You bet it does. Remember, the secret to financial freedom from your web business is finding quality high paying affiliate programs that offer a proven marketing system which turns prospects into customers. All you have to do is send prospects into the lead capture system, and sit back as sales are made.

Sure beats making a few dollars a month selling ebooks, doesn’t it?