The Laptop Millionaire

How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online

Mark Anastasi

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781118282458
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

Go from ZERO to $10, 000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online!

Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security—perhaps you are one of them. However, with the right strategies, you can easily achieve financial independence. The Laptop Millionaire provides easy to follow step-by-step strategies you can use to make real money online. Author Mark Anastasi reveals the exact strategies he used to make millions and includes the success stories of other millionaire Internet entrepreneurs. Whether you need an extra hundred dollars a day or want to start an Internet Empire, this book gives you the tools and advice you need.

His no-fluff, no-filler strategies provide a blueprint to online success allowing you to discover the laptop lifestyle for yourself.

• How anyone can make $700-3, 000 a week thanks to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other Social Media sites
• The simple steps to creating an online business—featuring the 3 steps that led Mark to his first $10, 000 a month business!
• How the 21 Millionaire Secrets can transform your life

If you read and apply what Anastasi has laid out in his book, you will be well on your way to becoming a millionaire.

Chapter 1

E-Books

As I sat there listening attentively to the Laptop Millionaire, I was beginning to see the bigger picture. But I still had that burning question in my mind: How could I actually make money on the Internet, like he does? How can I make $2,400 a month from an e-book, like he does?

Finally, I asked him: “What is the first thing I need to do so that I can begin selling on the Internet? What do you recommend I do?”

The Basics of Selling E-books

“The first thing you should do is create your very own e-book. There are many reasons why selling e-books online is a great idea,” he said.

He proceeded to enumerate a whole litany of reasons why selling these e-books was a good idea. (Frankly, I was sold on the idea from the start!) One of the key Millionaire Secrets he taught me that day, and often repeated over the years, was this: “Sell products rather than exchanging your time for money!”

His words of wisdom still resonate today. Think about it this way: Most people sell their time, a finite resource, and then wonder why they are not getting rich. Their time is limited, and, therefore, if all they sell is their time, then of course their earning potential is limited, as well!

But when you are selling products, your earning potential becomes virtually endless. Why? Because there is no limit to how many products you can sell and how many people you can sell them to! Every new product can be a new income stream for you.

14 Reasons Why you Should Create and Sell E-Books

1. Selling products means no more exchanging time for money. Your earning potential becomes unlimited.

2. You can create multiple streams of income; every new product is a new income stream.

3. E-books have 100 percent profit margins; because they are a digital product, whether you sell 1 or 10,000 your costs remain the same: zero.

4. They provide instant gratification.

5. You can access a huge global market.

6. You add more value to people’s lives—give them great solutions and highly valuable information.

7. Massive leverage. You leverage the Internet, affiliates, ads, and so forth. You can enlist an army of affiliates to sell an e-book for you. And you get to leverage your knowledge, and sell it to people all around the world.

8. It costs practically nothing to set up. My business cost me $400 to set up. E-books have very low start-up costs, which means it’s a very low-risk business.

9. You can work from home.

10. You can automate your business.

11. No need for expensive inventory and no packing, shipping, and postage fees.

12. An e-book can establish you as an expert in your niche.

13. It’s fast! You can create and start selling an e-book in less than eight hours.

14. Minimum skill is required. And you can start part-time if you wish.

That was another huge aha moment for me. Why hadn’t I been taught this at school?! The Laptop Millionaire kept talking passionately about this idea.

“Also, when you are selling products you can automate your business, and you can access a global market and scale your business up rapidly!”

“And, of course, selling products is what gives your business the opportunity for leverage. For example you can leverage affiliates, joint venture partners, websites, blogs, advertising, e-mail marketing, autoresponder messages, Google AdWords and so on—all selling your products for you. . .even while you sleep!”

This made sense to me. It made me wonder why millions of people went to work each day, selling their time. From a young age, I’d watched people get up early in the morning and go off to jobs they didn’t like. I always asked myself why on earth do they do that?!

The Laptop Millionaire proceeded to share with me one of his simplest Internet marketing strategies, which has just four simple steps. It was the $2,400-a-month strategy he’d mentioned to me during the seminar: selling e-books.

I couldn’t have even dreamed that 28 days later I would be making $10,000 a month in passive income! But there, sitting on that couch, listening to every word the Laptop Millionaire uttered, I took notes furiously.

The four-step strategy that the Laptop Millionaire taught me was very simple:

1. Find a niche market with a problem that needs solving, research some great solutions, and create a Word document with that information in it. This can be a simple 30-page Word document, with one really good idea in it!

2. Pay $50 to join ClickBank.com as a vendor. You will then be able to sell your digital products (not physical products) through its marketplace.

3. Have someone create a website for you. You will need just two pages: a sales page where people can find out more about the product and buy it, and a thank-you page where your customers download the product.

4. And finally, you need to drive traffic to your sales page.

“Thank you so much! This is great! I can do this!”

The Laptop Millionaire smiled. I guess he found my enthusiasm refreshing. I did have one question though. “What should I write my e-book about? How do I find a good niche market?”

“That is a great question, Mark. Because that, of course, is the starting point. So let me ask you this question: What group of people do you want to serve? If you truly want to become wealthy, you must first decide who you want to serve.”

“If You Truly Want to Become Wealthy, You Must First Decide Who You Want to Serve”

The Laptop Millionaire explained to me that entrepreneurs’ business success is virtually assured if they discover a “pain point” in the market and simply cater to it. Find out what people want; find out what they are interested in buying now, and give it to them!

What most first-time entrepreneurs do, apparently, is come up with a business idea, launch it. . .and only then look to see if there’s a market for it.

“So who do you want to serve? Investors? Traders? Business owners? Reflexologists? Advertising executives? People who want to lose weight? People who suffer from a health problem? Men who need dating advice? People looking to buy cheaper jewelry? People looking to buy plasma screen TVs? There are literally thousands of possible target markets.”

He then told me that once I’d chosen a target market of customers, I needed to decide a specific way that I was going to add value for them—a specific type of solution that I would provide. I could:

• Help them make more money.
• Help them get more clients, improve sales, and grow their businesses.
• Help them learn how to use webinars.
• Help them get better return on investment.
• Help them with dating advice.
• Help them with relationship advice.
• Help them overcome illness and get healthy.
• Help them lose weight.
• Help them get fit.
• Help them look great.
• Help them have more fun.
• Help them relax and en...