Timmo789, Author at Digital Success Mentoring

Best Selling Digital Products

What are the best selling digital products to use to build an online business? When I started out online I bought and sold on eBay. I realised I could do better if I sold digital products because it meant I could automate the sales.

So I wrote a couple of my own ebooks and attempted to sell them from a website. Unfortunately I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. It took years before I figured out how to build a profitable online business. I put myself on a marketing course and quickly realised that affiliate marketing was the way to go!

Best Selling Digital Products – What Products

The products I used were the courses I had bought myself to learn. One of the first courses I promoted no longer exists now but was one by a guy called Peter Lexis. You can see my article on this here: digital profit course review.

These kinds of courses are good items to sell for a beginner. However they don’t offer ongoing value and as I said, Peter’s course evaporated a few years later anyway! Ideally the best digital courses to promote as an affiliate are ones which offer the most value to a customer. Courses which teach and also have software to help people build businesses online are the best. One people are actually earning from a course, they tend to stick to it. If you’re using recurring income affiliate programs, you’ll earn ongoing income for bringing in members.

With just a few members, say 100, you’ll start to see a real recurring income stream. Even if you only make a few dollars every month, (per member) this soon adds up!

Best Selling Digital Products – Advertising

If you’re looking for the best selling digital products to promote as an affiliate, you’ll need to think about your marketing strategy too, to answer this question. Any product which sells could be called the “best selling” product online. An online business isn’t like a large store because people don’t view it in the same way. In a supermarket or a mall, you’ll start to see which products sell well and which don’t. You’ll have the footfall of people coming on a continuous basis in a real physical store.

An online store is different. Any number of steps along the customer journey can affect whether someone buys something or not. Also your marketing is what brings people to a website or landing page. Without marketing, the best product in the world will sit motionless on a digital shelf for all time!

Using paid marketing is the best and fastest way to determine whether a product sells or not. But there’s a number of ways to fail selling even the most attractive and most valuable of products. With paid marketing you’ll need a good product range which offers both recurring income from membership and high ticket products. Without these high value items in your digital store, selling using paid advertising will likely result in a loss.

Best Selling Digital Products – What Could Go Wrong!?

Lots of things can go wrong when selling digital products over the internet. The goal is to have a sales funnel which collects targeted email subscribers and delivers them to the perfect products. You can then relax on your yacht in the Bahamas collecting your commissions on complete autopilot!

In truth you’ll probably come up against some issues when first starting out. You can get your targeting wrong, have a disconnect somewhere in the funnel which loses your customer, or just fail to collect enough subscribers or engage with them in the right way. Most affiliates will give up too soon and before they’ve even collected 1000 subscribers.

Ideally you should use paid marketing and a high ticket sales funnel for the fastest outcome. Using organic traffic strategies is much slower and less predictable.

Best Selling = Highest Value

Some of the best selling digital products are those which offer the highest value to someone. A product which solves someone’s problem is always going to sell well. Bigger problems require bigger solutions and people will pay more for solving large problems for them.

What would you expect someone to pay to solve the following problems?

Relationship is failing
Not enough income
Needing more time with the family
Not being able to pay the bills
Wanting to learn an instrument
Alcoholism
Wanting to quit smoking
etc

The biggest problem for most people is being able to afford to live/wanting more and or working in an unfulfilling job or career. If you could solve that problem for someone they would pay you handsomely! Smaller problems offer less opportunity.

Digital success mentoring is therefore one of the best selling digital products you can offer someone. Learning how to market it is a skill in itself but if you can learn it you can teach it too.

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Digital Lifestyle Business: Benefits Of A Laptop Business

There’s a few obvious benefits of a digital lifestyle business. For starters it can replace your existing income and you can work and live anywhere you choose. But that’s once you start earning from it, which can take some time and investment. You can also choose your working hours and how you want to work. You can pretty much build your business around any given lifestyle.

Yes a digital lifestyle business is awesome; once it’s working and making money. But what does it take to actually build a profitable lifestyle business and can anyone do it?

Digital Lifestyle Business – My Story

I started looking to the internet for a means to making an income back in 2010. For a while I “toyed” around with eBay, buying and selling things for some extra income. It wasn’t until much later that I found a digital lifestyle company who could help me build a real business online.

Check out this video for more on my story.

A digital lifestyle business was what I was looking for ultimately. It just took me a long time to find one which worked for me and was real. I started out after my eBay days by getting involved in affiliate marketing. It seemed to have so much potential to me but I struggled for years before getting regular results. See my article 23 mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid. Yes, I made pretty much all of them.

I didn’t have much money when I started out so the expensive courses were off limits. I bought a few of those “how to make money online” guides. You know the ones. They are around $97 a piece and you get to watch a few videos and there’s no support! I promoted one of them successfully too for a while until I got my Adwords account shut down! Over all I bought many online courses like this. Each time I hoped I would break through and make a heap of cash. Mostly I was disappointed but I learned a few skills on the way. I even landed a job as an SEO specialist and content writer.

Digital Lifestyle Business – Overcoming The Obstacles

There’s many obstacles to finding a good digital lifestyle company in the first place. And that’s before you even begin with building your business. I took many courses over the years but eventually found a community of like minded business people who were led by successful online entrepreneurs Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek.

Stuart and Jay offered a different experience to other courses I had taken. For starters there were people I actually met through their company get togethers. I was massively sceptical before I met the founders and got help in making my first high ticket sales online. These guys weren’t the typical shy “gurus” who hid behind their computers and were nowhere to be seen! This was something different.

After meeting real people and the founders I had much more confidence in what I was doing. It’s hard to reconcile promoting a product as an affiliate marketer if you’re not fully convinced by it yourself. If there’s a splinter in your mind of doubt it can drastically affect your action steps to build your business. Your mindset is something which is either an ally or an obstacle.

Making High Ticket Sales

My first high ticket sale came within about 6 months of starting out. I got help which I now realise is a huge part of having success online. For years I focused on the wrong actions and worked super hard at them. Then I realised that it shouldn’t be so difficult after making a few large value sales. I started believing again in the possibilities of life and of a digital lifestyle business.

I had several set backs but was able to join various online groups for support: with mindset, emotional and technical support.

Breaking My Own Barriers To Success

What I didn’t realise about entrepreneurship is that mindset was such an important aspect of it. I was carrying around victim mindsets and employee mindsets which definitely didn’t help me with an online business. Being very risk averse (and having little money) meant I only focused on free marketing strategies for a long time. I made a few sales using this strategy but the wins were short lived and they were few and far between.

Switching to paid marketing felt like a big step. Many of the people in the community were using paid marketing to promote their business. I was still blogging and looking for free strategies. I realised that this would set my business back years and I took some steps to switch gears.

Benefits Of A Digital Lifestyle Business

There’s many benefits of a lifestyle business; a digital lifestyle business offers something most people will never have: time and financial freedom. Most people don’t have what it takes to actually make a digital lifestyle business a reality. Only something like 3% of those who attempt it actually succeed and become full time entrepreneurs.

There’s risk involved in becoming an entrepreneur and it’s most definitely not for the faint hearted. But if you’re motivated enough there’s the resources and help needed to get started here. I didn’t have a clue what I was doing several years ago. I just persevered a little at a time. That’s how you should do it too. Take small steps over and over until one day you’re sitting on a beach earning money because of all the work you already did!

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Becoming A Digital Nomad

I didn’t realise I was becoming a digital nomad. I was just frustrated by the options presented to me in life. At 19 I dropped out of school and in my 20’s I was living in a dilapidated barn with other “fringe dwellers” who had a similar attitude on society.

At 24 I met a stuntman while working as a lifeguard and I knew this was for me! I joined the stunt register in the UK but found over several years that it wasn’t a fulfilling life. Work was hard to come by and there was huge competition. I was getting drawn into the career but ultimately wanted more freedom and less injuries! Other jobs on offer didn’t give me either so I looked to the internet for answers. I knew I had to find something to “top” being a stuntman – which felt like a difficult challenge! But I knew automation might be the way to go!

Becoming A Digital Nomad – My Story

I imagined travelling the world with my laptop by my side, earning lots of easy money. In truth my journey wasn’t this glamourous. I juggled driving HGV’s and taking stunt contracts for film and television. When the work dried up I lived frugally and used a credit card when times got tough. This pattern perpetuated well into my late 30’s and affected my relationships and eventually mental health too.

I was run down with debt, anxiety and had depression for years. It wasn’t a fun existence. I knew that people were earning from the internet so I started buying and selling online using eBay.

It wasn’t the digital nomad lifestyle I longed for, but it make me some money and I could do it without a boss, or a job. But over time I realised the limitations of buying and selling physical things. I was tied to the laptop and didn’t earn enough to go travelling the world. I had to post out items too so I needed a physical base.

I saw lots of adverts from “guru’s” too about how easily they were making their money. Of course I thought much of it was probably lies, but I got drawn in anyway!

A Different Strategy

I ditched the eBay strategy for a different business model I found by purchasing some of these online courses – affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing taught me that I could sell other people’s products. This meant I wasn’t tied to a physical place; posting items and answering questions. All I had to do was refer a sale, and I could automate this process.

This seemed like the way to go. After all, becoming a digital nomad meant not being tied to a room full of stock. I wanted more freedom than that! So I set about learning new strategies to sell other people’s products online. Since I had virtually no money I started by blogging and using other free strategies.

Having made my first sale online by writing an article, I figured it was going to be easy. Little did I know. I found the opposite and although I made a few sales here and there, it was tough going. I still struggled. After taking various online courses I was near giving up completely. I saw a video of a guy on a pedalo and decided to give it a last try!

Cynicism Nearly Got The Better Of Me

I was pretty cynical and burned out by this time. I’d been pursuing the online business for a while by now, for some years in fact. But I still hadn’t made it happen. I’d built many websites and written thousands of articles but somehow things still weren’t working.

So I joined this guys course and decided to start again from the beginning and “empty my cup”.

I went to my first meeting in the UK and was pleasantly surprised that there were real people behind the screen. The person who referred me to the business was also there and helped me make my first few sales. I still had problems because I didn’t have much money to use for marketing. So I had to rely on building content for my leads and sales.

This is a slow process too and many give up when they don’t see immediate results. But I knew content marketing could work since I’d had some small successes from it in the past.

Becoming A Digital Nomad

I’m still becoming a digital nomad albeit a step at a time! I’m lucky to have had the patience and resilience to keep going through the tough times and also to have found a community of digital entrepreneurs who have helped me overcome the obstacles and given me confidence in what I was doing.

Without the people behind this online community I’m sure I wouldn’t have kept going long enough to break through the doubts and fears which haunted me for years!

I’m now able to see how powerful an online business can be in giving anyone the ability to earn from their laptop and become free of a difficult or restrictive situation from employment.

If you’re interested in taking a step towards entrepreneurial life and becoming a digital nomad yourself, sign up for the free video series on this website and learn more about starting your own online business.

Mentors And Business Coaches: International

If you’re looking for mentors and business coaches: international, look no further! Whether you are looking for digital marketing training, mindset coaching or even wanting to build an international digital business from scratch, this site can help you find them.

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) are a digital marketing training and education program who offer training on all kinds of marketing and online business help. So if you already have a business and need help in your marketing, or if you want to learn how to build an online business from scratch, you can use their program. See Digital Success Mentoring Program.

Mentors And Business Coaches International – What The SFM Offers

The SFM is a training and education resource which offers both digital marketing training and live webinars and seminars. There are also physical seminars held internationally throughout the year.

Starting Your Own Online Business From Scratch

If your considering becoming an online entrepreneur, The SFM’s business system and training program can help you set up a digital sales funnel and website within a few simple steps.

If you’re only interested in learning online marketing, you can also use their membership to access a number of training and education resources which offer live question and answer seminars and webinars to help with a number of issues:

Overcoming mindset issues
Technical issues with setup
Deciding on the right marketing platform for your business
Time management and motivation in your online business
All aspects of marketing strategies

What’s Available Through The SFM? Mentors and Business Coaches International

The SFM offers a basis level of membership which allows access to its online communities and modular business system. To access more personal training and one to one mentorship, you’ll need to access the higher levels of the business. See Six Figure Mentors Cost. At the mastermind level, you can surround yourself with top level mentors and arrange a number of one to one sessions on a on-going basis to help you build your business.

How Can The SFM Help Me?

The SFM can help you if you either want to build a globally scalable digital business, and you haven’t got a business of your own. Or, if you already have a business but don’t have the support to learn digital marketing strategies; they can help you learn and build your business through the digital marketing training and education which their platform offers.

After joining the SFM in 2014 I was attempting to build a martial arts school. I used the marketing education to learn how to market my website and build an email list of subscribers. I was able to generate more leads and students from my online marketing efforts.

Once you learn how to market something successfully online, you can repeat the process for almost anything else too!

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products or business to make money from the internet. You can use other people’s products in order to make sales and generate an income.

The SFM offers a range of digital products which you can promote as an affiliate marketer and make up to 50% commissions on their sale. Having a digital business means you can use global marketing strategies and the automation of digital products to build a business which is completely free of physical location or the need for a business premises; as in the case of a physical business. Access the free workshop videos on this website to learn more. (Click on the image below to access).

Global Business Mentors

Global business mentors Stuart Ross and Jay Kubassek have built an online digital success mentoring community whose aim is to help business owners create more time and financial freedom from building their own online businesses.

Stuart and Jay’s mission is to help people transition into the entrepreneurial world through using digital business systems, strategies and learning new mindsets for online success. Many people are struggling with their lives because they are trapped in a job or career which is unrewarding and unfulfilling. Stuart and Jay’s community of global business mentors help and advise their members with all aspects of building an online business.

An Online Education Platform

There’s many barriers to overcome in order to build a successful online business. The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) online community, digital business platform and training and education community aims to help will all areas of online business building. It offers a complete blueprint and strategy to build a profitable online business without any products to sell or even any experience of running a business.

Barriers to success online include a number of different areas. The SFM offers training and education in all areas of online business building such as:

Learning the technical skills for all aspects of online marketing
Understanding the mindsets needed to stretch beyond your comfort zones and increase your chances of success
Using online tools and strategies to earn by selling digital and physical products which you don’t own personally – affiliate marketing

Global Business Mentors – Transitioning Into The Digital Economy

Transitioning into the digital economy is not an easy move; especially if you’ve come from a employee mindset. As an employee, you get paid for turning up and doing tasks which your employer wants done. As an entrepreneur, your actions are responsible for whether your business works or not! If you spend time on the wrong activities, your business could suffer because of it.

The transition from employee to entrepreneur is not all that straight forward because many old habits won’t serve you in the digital economy. Technical proficiency in a job role, won’t necessarily translate into the ability to drive a business forwards.

That’s why Stuart and Jay built The SFM and an online resource of global business mentors. Anyone can learn the skills needed to build a completely autonomous business from anywhere, using the tools and strategies offered through their digital business system and community.

Already Own Your Own Business?

The SFM also offers online mentorship in various marketing platforms and strategies. So, even if you already have a business, you can still use the basic membership to access a community of online entrepreneurs and learn various digital marketing strategies.

When I joined The SFM back in 2014, I had a failing martial arts business. I used the training and education to learn the skills I needed to build my business more quickly.

Here’s a book I wrote on the topic from my training:

Business Mentorship Entrepreneurship Program

I started out looking for a “business mentorship entrepreneurship program” several years ago. I started initially with eBay and I bought and sold from the site using a strategy I found after purchasing an online ebook on the subject. See my article on the strategy: “how to start a profitable eBay business.”

I didn’t know where I was heading back then. I was just trying lots of online business strategies and jumping from one course to another. The eBay idea worked to an extent, but it was too limited. I was still trading my time for money despite using the internet and I knew there was a better way to leverage the internet and to stop trading time for money by automating online sales. I just didn’t know how to do it..yet!

Business Mentorship Entrepreneurship Program – Automated Online Sales

I had bought the ebook to learn how to use eBay to do some trading. Despite the strategy giving me some results and success, it was the ebook idea which fascinated me! It was a downloadable product which could be sold automatically over the internet. Anyone could purchase it and access it online. I was determined to learn how to do this, and automate my own online sales to generate an income.

After creating a few of my own ebooks I had trouble selling them online. I just didn’t know how to market them online. So, I took several courses which taught this. This led me to affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a business model which uses the sale of other people’s products in order to make a commission on the sale. You don’t need your own products or even need to speak to customers or handle the product yourself. Everything is automated and you’ve got a global audience. I was getting somewhere. To me, this seemed like a no-brainer. It was the future!

An Online Business System & Community

I knew the internet could be used to make an income; and it became my burning desire to achieve this. If I could achieve an income from the internet, I’d be free! I wouldn’t have to do the many jobs I’d been doing, work for a boss, or have a long commute ever again! I’d also be free of the constant debt and money problems which seemed to follow me for years of my life.

Despite trying and failing multiple times with various online strategies over the years, I persevered enough to find an online training and education community. Once there I started seeing the bigger picture. Here was an online business strategy and education community which taught everything I lacked the knowledge of. Mindsets, techniques for online selling, marketing strategies, building motivation and leading others.

I had been stuck for a long time in doing the wrong activities which didn’t seem to work no matter how hard I tried!

Business Mentorship Entrepreneurship Program – What Is The SFM?

The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) is a business mentorship entrepreneurship program which offers a range of tools, trainings and mentors to help anyone build an online business; even without any products themselves or previous experience.

The training and education platform can be used to build any business. Or, you can use The SFM’s own digital product range to place products in your own ‘digital store’ which you can sell and earn up to 50% commission on the sale.

Product Range

As well as the mentorship and education available from this training community, you can also access a digital product “suite” which offers multiple earning strategies:

A digital product sales funnel which offers products you can sell globally
A number of high ticket digital products from which you can earn up to 50% commissions on.
A built in sales team who close sales on your behalf
A number of up-sell products from which you can earn commissions
Subscription affiliate products – earn ongoing commissions from previous sales
Multi-tier sales – earn from sales made by your team of referrals

See more about The SFM – The Entrepreneurial Success Mentors!

Online Marketing Business Coach

Finding an online marketing business coach didn’t come easy for me. I was always looking for online courses to teach me how to build an online business from scratch.

It took me years to actually find an online marketing business coach – a digital marketing mentor who could help me build an online business from scratch, without any products of my own.

By the time I found one, I was busy trying to build a martial arts school. My efforts were split between my school and building an online business. The phrase “chase two rabbits and catch none” springs to mind!

Online Marketing Business Coach – Access An Online Community

Joining an online marketing training and education program was the best thing for my business though. Even though in the early days I was too focused on my martial arts business to concentrate fully on building an online business; I found a number of online mentors who helped me learn the skills I needed to build my school up. (See Digital Marketing Mentor)

Online Business – Marketing Coach

The best thing I ever did for my business was to join an online success mentoring community. The SFM is a training and education community which offers the ability to build an online business from scratch, with no products of your own. Or, you can use the training and education to build your own business too. Accessing a number of entrepreneurs and masterminding with them on a regular basis, can help you overcome any technical or mental problems which stand in the way of your success in business.

Marketing a business is probably the most important part of it. Without marketing, you’re effectively doing nothing to help your business grow.

Webinars, Seminars & Masterminds

It can be lonely as a business owner. That’s why it’s important to mastermind with other business owners to learn the best strategies for your success. It’s easy to fall into patterns of behaviour which don’t support the growth of your business. Getting accountability partners, mentors and coaches can help you overcome any problems and mental reservations which are holding you where you are.

Who Needs An Online Marketing Coach?

If you’re thinking about building an online business, and you haven’t much or any experience, a coach can make all the difference. Without a coach, you can struggle along, spending valuable time on all the wrong activities. Perhaps you already have your own business. When I started building my own martial arts school, I had 20 years of experience as a martial arts student. This worked against me. I had zero experience as an owner. So I worked hard in the ways I always had – training hard. Unfortunately this doesn’t translate to building a business effectively.

You still need to work hard on building a business, but you also need to work hard on the right activities. Just working hard is what a good employee does. It doesn’t help a good entrepreneur though. Entrepreneurs need to see the bigger picture and work at those actions which will make the most difference to their business. If you’ve transitioned from an employee to a business owner, there’s many problems which you might bring to your business, just from your experience of working hard previously.

Working At The Wrong Activities

As an employee, I worked hard trying to impress the boss and get away with as much as possible. I’m a good employee, apart from I wasn’t motivated to work for someone else. As a business owner, if you don’t work at the right actions, your business will fail. You won’t get paid so there’s a lot more at stake!

Owners need to drive their business forwards with marketing. Employees just need to work as technicians in their job roles, to bring home a wage every month.

When you switch from being an employee to a business owner, you can get stuck in the role of employee – working hard at those actions which have the least impact on your business. Because they worked at an employee level, you repeat those same actions as a business owner, but they don’t work! This is what happens when you get stuck in employee mode – working as a technician in the role of an owner.

Get Access To An Online Community

Access an online marketing community, with mentors and coaches to guide you in your business. Whether you have your own business or want to build an entirely online business from scratch, you can use this online resource to help you succeed. Visit Digital Success Mentoring for more information and to sign up.

Online Business Mentoring Programs

One of the best online business mentoring programs I’ve found online is Stuart and Jay’s SFM – Six Figure Mentors. (See Entrepreneurial Success Mentors). Through the program I’ve learned how to set up a fully digital online business system, and learn about the various marketing strategies available to market a ready made sales funnel.

The SFM business is a fully working “business in a box” and can be used by anyone to build an income from anywhere; using either a pre-built business system or any number of other online business strategies you choose.

Online Business Mentoring Programs – The SFM

The SFM offers a range of products for anyone who wants to learn digital marketing and build a business without having any products of their own. You can also use the education, as I did, to build an existing business.

When I joined The SFM back in 2014, I had a failing martial arts school. What I learned from The SFM were a number of marketing strategies which I used to build up my school. I also learned how to make sales online of the SFM’s own product range through various marketing tactics.

I’ve tried many online business mentoring programs, but none of them offered the personal tuition which The SFM does. Even for a basic level of membership, you can access a number of groups which offer personal help and advice on any aspect of your business.

Online Mentoring – One-to-One Support

At the higher levels of membership, you can surround yourself with mastermind groups to keep you motivated, hold you accountable and help you overcome any mindset or technical hurdle towards succeeding in your business.

Previous online business mentoring programs I had taken online did offer help and advice too. However, there was no support on a personal level. You were always on your own when the chips were down! The SFM offers live meetings globally with events being held around the year. Local groups hold events and get togethers too to help and support each other.

There’s also a number of live meetings being held online which you can access on joining as a member of the community. Even at basic membership levels there’s a huge resource of training and support for business owners who want some help and advice in marketing their own business.

Online Business Mentoring Programs – Who’s It For?

So who is The SFM for? The SFM offers a multiple skill training and education platform which is geared around online marketing strategies and building an online business. You can use SFM’s own digital product range, or use the training and support to build an existing business with the various trainings on various online marketing platforms.

Many members have other businesses too, and many build “lifestyle” businesses using only the SFM product range. Often members simply want to escape the 9 to 5 job or a career they feel trapped in.

Online Business Mentorship – The Product Range

SFM’s product range includes a number of high commission affiliate products which offer multiple earning strategies from a built in sales funnel. Many affiliate products you can choose to sell online only pay you once, and pay small levels of commission. With digital products, you can earn up to 50% commission on a single sale. Plus, with SFM’s product range you can also earn from multiple strategies:

High Commission Structure – Having access to larger commissions means you can use paid marketing more easily. Lower levels of the product range membership won’t allow this.
Multi-tier sales – at the top level of the business, you can earn ongoing commissions from sales made by your team of referrals. This means you can benefit from helping your team in terms of commissions.
Up-sells – Having a product range gives you more ways to earn commissions. A built in sales team closes sales on your behalf after your initial referral. You can benefit from a sale even years later if your member upgrades their membership.
Subscription products – Using recurring commission affiliate programs means you benefit from ongoing income from previous sales. Sell a product once and earn potentially a lifetime of commissions.
Digital products – using a digital product range means you can sell globally through an email marketing campaign. Digital products pay 40-50% commissions in some cases because there’s very few other costs involves such as postage or handling etc.

You can access The SFM’s free workshops by signing up on this website with your name and email.

Digital Marketing Mentor

Getting a digital marketing mentor is the best thing I did for my internet business. When I started out looking for an income from the internet, I tried all kinds of things.

I initially started with eBay way back in 1995 when they opened their doors. It wasn’t until a little later that I discovered the huge potential of selling digital information over the internet. This idea lit a light bulb in my head and I knew this was the future!

I had bought an ebook from eBay which taught me a system to make money from the giant auction site. You can read about the content of the book in my article “how to start a profitable ebay business“. Although I did use the method taught in the book to make a bit of extra money, it was the selling of the book itself which made me sit up! Here was a means for anyone to automate an online sale and deliver the product hands free and cost free!

Ebooks!

I made my own ebooks and attempted to sell them on eBay and through my own website. However, I had many problems. It just wasn’t working and the main problem was that I didn’t know how to market online. I took a number of marketing courses and this led me to affiliate marketing.

I jumped from one course to another, but without an actual person to guide me I had many problems. There’s a lot of potential problems affiliate marketers can face. Getting a digital marketing mentor can help you avoid the many pitfalls and shortcut the route to success!

See my article 23 affiliate mistakes newbie affiliates should avoid.

Finding A Digital Marketing Mentor

I had taken multiple courses over a period of 10 years or so when I eventually found a digital marketing mentor program. Finding an actual person to help with an affiliate business was pretty much unheard of 20 years ago. How many affiliate marketers do you know? So, as I rocked up to my first actual ‘in-person’ meeting, I was kind of sceptical!

But there’s a huge power in meeting people face to face. I started thinking that it was a ‘real’ thing after all. Many friends and relatives were dismissive of the internet income idea 10 years ago. Even now many of them still are! But once you start meeting people who have succeeded online, your faith and trust is restored.

Once you get over the fears and insecurities of working alone on something which may be a ‘scam’, you start to take bigger steps and commit to the goal of becoming a full time online entrepreneur!

Stuart & Jay

When I first met Stuart and Jay at a meeting in London, my faith was growing already in the business system I was a part of. I made an online sale that day too, while sitting listening to the meeting! Building an online business isn’t all sunshine and roses, of that you can be assured. But with the right people and mentors behind you, you can accomplish it a lot faster.

one of my personal digital marketing mentors - Jay Kubassek

Stuart Ross and jay Kubassek have created an online mentorship program and online community. Anyone who want to build an online business can do so, if they are committed and serious. Stuart and Jay can help with it through their digital business system and online training and education program.

The biggest piece of this online community for me has been the ability to reach out to others and ask for help.

Digital Marketing Mentor – Online Groups

The online training and mastermind groups have helped me the most. Working online can be a solitary experience. There’s plenty of rabbit holes to fall down, and I’ve fallen down most of them. When you can see those who are successful first hand, and personally ask them questions, it’s a huge help. Without that you’re on your own and this is tough then you don’t know what you’re doing!

Digital Marketing Mentor – Modelling Success Online

The fastest way to generate success online is to model the success of others who are already successful!

This was my problem for years before I found a digital marketing mentor. I tried all sorts of methods of marketing: blogging, video marketing, article submission sites, free blogging platforms, paid strategies, you name it! I jumped around and wasted time because I didn’t have any confidence in my direction or strategies. So I wasn’t consistent in any given direction.

When you can see the path to success clearly and you trust it is right for you, you can make far faster progress in a shorter time, than you can going it alone online. Modelling the success of others is key to success online.

Entrepreneurial Success Mentors

The SFM offers a community of entrepreneurial success mentors who can help and guide anyone wanting to build an online business from scratch. The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) is a digital business education platform which offers its members:

Online training and education in online marketing strategies
A digital business system which can be used to generate leads, sales and commissions
A community of leaders and mentors who offer ongoing training in a number of different marketing strategies.
Software and systems which can be used to build automated business systems on the internet

Entrepreneurial Success Mentors – The SFM

The SFM is a community based business system and training facility who’s purpose is to help online entrepreneurs build successful online businesses. Founders of The SFM are Jay Kubassek and Stuart Ross.

Stuart and Jay have built an online community of people who are on hand to help each other, and beginner entrepreneurs to build online businesses; even without any experience.

Anyone can now use the internet to build a sustainable business using a business model known as affiliate marketing. You don’t need any technical experience in order to do this either. Much of the technical aspects of building an online business have been taken out with new software which lets you short-cut many of the once difficult aspects of building such a business. See digital success mentoring program.

What The SFM Can Do For You

entrepreneurial success mentoring — Stuart Ross Explains The Technology Which Removes Much Of The Technical Aspects Of Building An Online Business.

In addition to the software and technology which The SFM offer, (see video above), you can also use The SFM’s global online community to learn and develop online marketing strategies for scaling global businesses and reaching an ever growing audience.

The SFM offers training in a range of webinars, seminars, live events, Q & A discussions and private groups. You can also connect with people locally to you through their community or speak to people directly for further discussion and help.

There’s also the opportunity to work directly with six figure earners through their partner program and arrange one-to-one discussions with market leaders within the community; according to your membership level. Even at a basic member level, there’s a tonne of training and help available for online entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurial Success Mentors – The SFM Business System

Even without a business of your own, you can benefit from The SFM’s own business system. Using their own digital product range, and affiliate marketing, you can build a sales funnel (see ready made sales funnel) and sell digital products through it using a variety of strategies.

Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets you benefit from sales you make of products and services which you don’t personally own. With digital products in particular, you can earn 40-50% commissions on sales you generate. See more about The SFM’s business model in digital success mentoring program.

The main benefits of using The SFM business system is that you can benefit from multiple earning strategies including:

Subscription based products – earn ongoing commissions from previous sales.
Up-sells – most affiliate programs don’t reward you for sales made by the company after your initial referral – The SFM does, and even closes sales on your behalf with a built-in sales team
Multi-tier sales – at partner level, you can even earn commissions from sales made by your team.
High Commission Affiliate Programs can offer the ability to earn larger than average commissions on high ticket products. You can choose which high ticket products you can earn from according to which products you purchase personally for your ‘digital store’.

Entrepreneurial Success Mentors – Marketing Your Business

Marketing your business, whether you have your own business or you use the SFM’s own business system is where the ‘rubber meets the road’. Without a good marketing strategy, no business is going to take off. Your own choice of marketing strategy will depend on your personal circumstances. The two main strategies include content marketing (like this article and website) and paid marketing (direct response marketing).

Marketing

Whatever marketing strategy you choose, ideally you’ll generate website traffic and build a list of subscribers. Do this by sending targeted visitors to a landing page and collecting email addresses from your visitors. This is email marketing and there’s a few reasons why you should do this.

Email marketing lets you automate sales
You can build a large list of subscribers and communicate with them in bulk
You can build a relationship with your subscribers and extend the time period with which they can make a purchasing decision. This is much less time on a website.

Content Marketing

Content marketing includes things like blogging, video creation and offering podcasts, webinars and any type of free social media marketing. It typically takes much longer to generate enough traffic to start generating leads and sales than paid marketing. It’s an option if you don’t have the budget to run paid campaigns.

Paid Marketing – Direct Response

Paid marketing is the fastest way of generating traffic. It’s like turning on a ‘tap’ for traffic and website visitors. You still need to turn your traffic into subscribers and then customers, so you’ll need to get good at:

Targeting the right people for your particular business
Creating a consistent and congruent customer journey to bring them to your product/s in an appropriate way

The advantages of paid marketing is that it can be scaled up globally very quickly, once you discover a profitable model. Before this is possible, you’ll need to test and measure advertising and learn your craft.

This can take some time but even so, paid marketing is much faster and more efficient than content marketing. With content marketing, it can take months before you see the results of building content and posting it on a website, for example. See Create Free Website And Make Money for an example of content marketing by building a niche website.