In almost any business, trying to do everything yourself is a plan for failure. At IM NewsWatch we learned that early. There are a lot of specialized skills needed to publish this web newspaper and email newsletter. We employ people around the world to do these specialized tasks. If you want your business to grow, outsourcing can move you farther and faster than you can go by yourself. But outsourcing can go wrong if you aren’t careful. You need a clear idea of: ► what you want done ► the skills needed to do the work ► the qualifications of your candidates ► what is actually being... [...]

Last week, Sam Bakker, in conjunction with JVZoo.com, released new online marketing training, JVZoo Academy. This is comprehensive training for internet marketers who want to quickly start earning from online sales. The training is both for people who have a product to sell, and for others who want to earn a commission selling other people’s products. In JVZoo Academy, you get to watch over the shoulder as 7 figure marketer Sam Bakker builds a list of 3000 leads in 30 days and then shows you how to use your email list effectively to make life-changing profits. You’ll also discover how to... [...]

If you want to be effective online as a beginner, you probably don’t want to start off on your own, without any help. Likely, the best way to start your business is to become an affiliate of an established marketer, whether of the giant Amazon.com or of any of thousands of smaller companies. You should be looking for people of integrity who create quality products that you would be proud to be associated with. We have learned from experience that you want to be careful about who creates the products, whether training content, software or anything else, if you want to have your name tied to... [...]

If you are creating (or planning to create) a software package, training manual or training video, that can be a profitable undertaking. But only if you can sell it. Many developers know their technical stuff, but are a little unclear how to bring their product to market profitably. Marketing and sales are the lifeblood of any business. If you don’t sell your products, you go out of business; it’s that simple. Only a few people get this right. So only a few product launches make a profit, after paying all the expenses. Sam Bakker is a serial product launcher, and each time he sells... [...]

You may be acquainted with JVZoo. It’s an online service that assists marketers in selling and delivering their information and software products. It offers a suite of tools for product creators to assist in advertising the product, collecting payment, delivering the product and finding affiliates to assist in promoting the product. At 11 AM ED^T, today, Sam Bakker, himself a successful online vendor who uses JV Zoo’s services, will release his new training called JVZoo Academy, to help you sell more by taking advantage of their services. In this training, Bakker shares the exact systems,... [...]

The key principle of marketing success is showing the right message to the right people at the right time. Once you have your advertisement crafted, you need to find the right people and show them your message right when they are interested in your topic. YouTube can help you do that. It has statistics on what videos (and what channels) get the most views, for example. This is the strategy; it’s just 3 steps to profit: 1. Find the leading YouTube videos and channels in your niche; 2. Advertise on those videos, using an intro video such as you have frequently seen on YouTube videos; 3. You’ll... [...]

Sam Bakker and Brad Stephens announced their new software, VideoSkins, yesterday. Since then over 1000 marketers have seen the value and invested in a copy. These eager marketers know that for their videos to be effective, they must drive conversions, sometimes driving opt-ins and sometime driving sales. Bakker and Stephens say that VideoSkins is the best low-cost video tool ever to drive conversions. Here are three important facts about VideoSkins, described by its creators as “Video Customization on Steroids”. 1. It is not a WordPress Plugin. 2. It can be used on both Mac and PC. 3.... [...]

Sam Bakker is releasing VideoSkins at 11 AM EDT today, July 22, 2015. This new video software will quickly create call to actions inside of your videos. It also lets you easily build, customize and manage your own video players using its impressive web-based drag and drop player builder. VideoSkins includes: • Beautifully designed ready-to-go video “skins” (templates), that you can use as they are or you can edit them however you choose. • The ability to capture more leads from each video you make because the call to action is done right. • The ability to add proven lead generation... [...]

When done right, Facebook advertizing can be quite profitable. But it requires you to promote a good offer and to target the right audience. Unfortunately,many people find that (1) it’s hard to figure out what is going to sell and (2) what the best audience for it is. That’s why Sam Bakker and his partner, Brad Stephens have spent the last few months finding a way to solve these two problems. Their answer is Audience Drill, which lets you not only search for what your competition is posting on Facebook. In addition, it shows you the right audience to target for your offers. Audience... [...]

If you aren’t a technical genius, you may have trouble creating professional-looking call to action buttons and forms. That’s about to end with a new product by Sam Bakker, CTA Bar . Your bar calling people to action is shown on your home page (or any other page) inviting people to opt in. When they click on the bar, they get an opt-in form and after opting in, a thank you page And CTA Bar builds this whole funnel in seconds. Use this new tool to create more responses on a sales page, opt-in page, etc., by offering a giveaway product and, when they opt in, offer another free product, or a... [...]