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Passive income on the internet is not a myth. But many people are convinced it is...

Why? Because they don't understand the true meaning of passive income.

What is automated, passive income? It's a major benefit that comes from taking the inital action required to set up a truly automated system for passive income.

As you read every word of this article, you will learn how to set up a fully-automated "Passive Income Generator" based on these three elements:

1. An affiliate product to promote
2. Your Passive Income Engine
3. Multiple streams of targeted traffic

Ready? Let's get started...

Step One: Find An Affiliate Product to Promote

Why an affiliate product? Because in order to have a truly automated system for passive income generation, you need to focus on driving traffic, building your list, and increasing your conversion from pre-sales tactics. It can be very difficult to create a passive income generator with your own product, because you still have customer support issues, email issues, refund requests to fulfill, JV requests... the list goes on and on. However...

When you're promoting an affiliate product, you can set up the system once, never touch it again, and profit automatically for years and years to come!

If you already have an affiliate product in mind, great! If not, simply head over to the ClickBank Marketplace (clickbank.com/marketplace) and locate an affiliate product with high conversion, and a high ranking in the Marketplace.

For this exercise, we've chosen to promote Simple-ology 101: Mark Joyner's brand new HUGE online video course and digital learning workshop. (see: http://www.Simple-ology.com or you can send a blank email to: simpleology101@aweber.com for more information and a free video course)

Your affiliate product owner may or may not have existing promotional materials for you to use. If you're lucky enough to get a few sample promo emails, you'll save yourself some time and creative energy. If not, write your own. Remember, once you set this up, it's gonna run on autopilot. So you want to do it right.

Alternatively, we've met quite a few more-than-generous affiliate product owners who are more than happy to write a few promotional emails for you. You're going to be making THEM money, so they shouldn't mind too much. :)

Got your affiliate link & promotional materials? Good. Now, onto the next step...

Step Two: Set Up Your Passive Income Engine

In today's internet world, there's one thing that comes to mind when someone mentions the word "automation"... Autoresponders!

Autoresponders to this day, remain the #1 undisputed champion of all passive income generators. Why? Because they contain the very essence of what it takes to create true passive income. You set it up once, enter your promotional messages to go out sequentially over a period of time, and then forget all about it -- you've got a 'simplified' Passive Income Generator! (send an email to: simpleology101@aweber.com for a perfect example of this)

For this step, (you guessed it) you're going to need a reliable autoresponder.

We highly recommend Aweber (jmskye.com/aweber) because of all the systems we've tried, Aweber's unlimited autoresponder capabilities, pure reliability and increased email message delivery rates prove to be the best.

When you have your autoresponder, insert the promotional emails and reminders you either received or wrote yourself for your chosen affiliate product.

Set them each about 3 or 4 days apart. The more messages you have, the better.

Think about this. What you're doing right now, is creating a system that will automatically follow-up and remind your future prospects again and again about whatever affiliate product you choose to promote. At first, you only want to choose ONE product to promote. Why? Because if 100% of your messages are directed to your affiliate product, you're going to be running at 100% promotional power!

When you're finished setting up your inital autoresponder messages, it's time to create your web form. Aweber (jmskye.com/aweber) does this for you, quite easily with their "web form wizard." Write your call to action, click a button and out pops the code to copy & paste into your web page to create your web form.

Note: Half-way through creating your web form, you'll be asked what page you want to re-direct to after a successful subscription. Aweber has a default thank you page, but you'll want to change that to your affiliate link. Now, whenever a future prospect signs up to your web form, they'll be immediately re-directed to your affiliate product's sales page!

To complete your Passive Income Engine, you'll want to create a new HTML file (we use Dreamweaver) and insert the code for your web form. This will be a *very* simple web page, containing:

1. An attention-grabbing headline
2. A powerful opening statement
3. A short list or description of benefits
4. A compelling call-to-action & web form

These four elements make up what Jonathan Mizel calls a "Name Squeeze."

This specific configuration has accounted for visitor-to-lead conversions of up to 60% in some cases! And if your affiliate product's sales page does it's job of converting well, you just might experience sales conversions up to 10%!

Sound far-fetched? We used the exact steps you're reading to build our first "test" name squeeze at http://www.jmskye.com and we're getting a fairly steady lead-to-sale conversion of as much as 10.2%! (If you're not sure what this means, roughly 10 out of every 100 people who sign up to our name squeeze end up buying our affiliate product within 24-48 hours)

This brings us to the final element of our Passive Income Generator...

Step Three: Create a Perpetual Targeted Traffic Machine

What the heck is a "Perpetual Targeted Traffic Machine?"

Simply put, a PTTM is a viral-based mechanism designed to strategically pull a never-ending supply of laser-targeted web visitors to your name squeeze.

In order to make this work effectively, you'll need to integrate a few Viral Marketing strategies into the mix. We suggest adding a small note at the end of each and every email autoresponder message, allowing and even encouraging the reader to tell others about your web site name squeeze.

Chances are, just because you add the note, people will act on it. But if you want to increase your effectiveness one-hundred fold, include an inscentive for telling others about your web site. There are TONS of ways to do this, but remember - you want to do it right the first time...

Here's a quick suggestion that works like crazy:

1) Go to http://www.GoArticles.com and gather 15-20+ articles relating to whatever subject matter or topic your affiliate product is about. (make sure you have the authors' permission before using any of their content)

2) Compile the articles into a single PDF document (adobe.com) and give your new Special Report a captivating title. Be sure to add your name and the link to your web site name squeeze at the top, bottom and in the middle of the document. Make *sure* it's clickable! (Hint: You may also add a recommendation to your actual affiliate product inside the PDF)

3) Make it VIRAL by using ViralPDF (viralpdf.jmskye.com) to create a "brandable" version of your Special Report, where the reader can enter their name and web site as the "Sponsor" of the Special Report, and give it away to their mailing list and web site visitors.

4) Use a Tell-A-Friend script such as http://tellafriend.jmskye.com to encourage your readers to tell others about your site and in return, they get the Rebranding Rights to your Special Report!

5) Get a free account with TrafficZap (http://trafficzap.jmskye.com) and set up your account to send targeted traffic to your name squeeze. Now, place the code for your TrafficZap button into your web page. This will cause you to effortlessly attract TrafficZap affiliates, which literally puts traffic generation to your name squeeze web page on autopilot.

Highly Recommended: For fast and maximum results, we advise you to invest in a targeted visitor package from TrafficZap. 99% of web sites offering this kind of service are WORTHLESS and a complete waste of your time and money... but our tests have shown that targeted traffic sent through TrafficZap to a name squeeze actually converts into sales!

6) This one's a no-brainer. Get your free account at InstantBuzz and use this massively viral traffic generating toolbar to send even more web visitors to your web site name squeeze. You can also invest in their "1.3 Metric Tons of Advertising" package and give yourself a lucrative sales boost for cheap. (see: http://instantbuzz.jmskye.com)

7) For the truly passionate, we highly recommend you use a new software program called ArticleSubmitterPro (jmskye.com/aspro) --- submit at least one article per week for six weeks, and in the signature box or even in the article itself, create a logical tie-in to your name squeeze web site. (Article writers are reporting major increases in traffic within days of using this software - we fully support the use of, and recommend this software.)

That is it... you are done! (well, almost)...

For your last step, you're going to want to PRINT THIS ARTICLE. Keep it by your computer, and reference it often. We realize many people are willing to pay for this information we're openly giving to you for free...

We encourage you to make the best use of it. You haven't actually followed the steps just yet... many people reading this won't. But if you print it right now, you'll already be miles ahead of the thousands who didn't. Want to get even further ahead of the pack? Follow each step given in this article after you print it.

Best of Success!

By Jason & Skye Mangrum - http://www.JMSkye.com
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