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Below is part of an interview of this guy that went from music to online marketing and made some serious “baller” money in the process.  It happens all of the time.  The only question really is… Is this your time to take your love for money and a lifestyle that gets all the ladies, cars, and notoriety?

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Terry:

Hi, you’re listening to Terry Telford. The first order of business that we’ll take care of is our legal disclaimer.  All of this material is for information purposes only, and your results can differ from the results you’re going to hear today.  We cannot guarantee your results because all results are based on individual performance.

Today we’re lucky to have Hani Banna here, from www.makingclicks.com.  Hani is located inAustralia.  We’d like to welcome you, Hani.

Hani:

Thanks, Terry.  It’s great to be talking to you.

Terry:

Thank you very much and to you as well for taking the time with us to answer all of our hard-hitting questions.

Hani:

My pleasure.

Terry:
Let’s first take a look at your background.  Where do you come from in the offline world?

Hani:

I’m a computer engineer by profession and I’ve done about ten years of work in web technologies.  I started out working for banks and various large corporations working on ecommerce solutions.  Some things that I have worked on include car sales websites, business to consumer finance, as well as business to business ecommerce technologies.  I guess I’ve had a passion for the past ten years in web technologies, including online marketing.  My professional background has always been in software development online, as well as online marketing.

Terry:

So, your Making Clicks website was almost a natural extension for you from what you were doing.  You weren’t even working offline; you were almost one of the pioneers of the online world.

Hani:

Yea, I guess I started first with online marketing with putting my music online.  I had one of the early online CDs and I experimented with various formats and interactive content and then I moved into mp3.  Then, I promoted my own music online, which was quite an interesting experience.  Promoting my own music using online marketing, and getting the results that I did encouraged me in online marketing.  I had my music published onto mp3 and then I used very focused e-mail marketing, and my single got to number one on the particular charts online.

Next thing we knew I had a record company who wanted to put my single on CD.  Then, it was picked up by a national radio station inAustraliaand was played non-stop for about a month.  So, putting my content online, promoting it, seeing people interact with it and seeing results really got me excited and fired up about the potential and the future of the online medium and the human interaction with the online medium.  So, I really think that we’re only just starting and playing with the global transition online, and there’s probably a long, long way to go.

Terry:

That’s super.  So, your Making Clicks is actually your marketing site that’s based on your actual experience of promoting your own music.

Hani:

Pretty much.  It was based on my experience and on my professional career promoting music.

Terry:

Fantastic.  So, when you were setting up… if we focus on the Making Clicks website, as well as the promotion of your music, what kind of difficulties or hurdles did you have to overcome while doing that?  Also, you said you sent out an e-mail to targeted prospects.  Where did those prospects come from?

Hani:

At the time, I used a lot of promotions; I offered free content online.  The content was based on humor and dating and various things that young people would be interested in.  I put together some special reports, I approached forums, I promoted via search engines, as well as putting P.S.s on my e-mails and things like that.  Over the course of a year I’ve compiled a large mailing list, and that was my contact list at the time.  It was a very generic audience, with a young age group.  It wasn’t targeted to a particular category, but it was a young audience so I knew they would be interested in my music.

Whenever I put out a new track, I would contact them and tell them about it.  I’d try to make the e-mail fairly appealing; I used a graphical comical approach, and made the e-mail similar to the track.  I built up a bit of a persona, so I had people listen to my music, and that lead to being number one on the charts, which lead to being picked up by an offline company.

That was the experience with that particular avenue, as far as the music.  As far as Making Clicks, I started to put together tools for online marketers like myself, search engine optimization, search engine submission tools, and other online marketing toys.  I offered them for free and had no real objective of making real money from that medium.  It was more of a side project while I was doing my day job and I really enjoyed putting together those tools.

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Terry:

Fantastic.  Did you have any hurdles that were a bit tricky for you to overcome?

Hani:

I think, at the time, because it was more of an enjoyable project, I didn’t care that much when things came up.  I didn’t take anything as a hurdle, because it was just a fun project.  But, as things progressed, after the past 24… or 12 months in particular, I’ve been experiencing the real hurdles of online marketing and having an online business I guess.  As you know, over the past 24 months, I’ve focused my energy on my online business, instead of using it as an entertainment medium.  Instead of just focusing on my music, I focus on my website, on my mailing list with Making Clicks, with I’ve got 3,000 or 4,000 people… it’s not a huge mailing list, but it’s a start.

When I started working and looking at it as an income generator, I started realizing the trickiness that comes along with it.  I think one aspect that I think about all the time is having multiple income streams.  Many people probably approach it in a different way than I have.  Most people do it one at a time so they don’t spread themselves too thin.  I guess one of the hurdles that we all face is the pull between building multiple income streams but actually doing it in a good way that we’re building one income stream at a time and not spreading ourselves too thin with all of these opportunities and all of these exciting ventures.

Like yourself, I get bombarded with things everyday.  Sometimes they look good and grab my attention, but I have to stop myself and see if it’s going to be worth it, or if it’s going to be a throwaway.

Terry:

Now, you just touched on something that I find very interesting.  I think it’s a very unique approach that you have to your marketing… and that’s where you have your three programs each month and test them to see how they go.  Can you explain how you go about doing that?

Hani:

Yea.  I know that I’m going to get these temptations, and I’m going to get these programs that are in pre-launch, so to speak, I’m going to get these things that are produced by various influential affiliate people online, and I need to be aware of what’s happening and what people are using.  So, I usually take about two or three new opportunities or programs a month, but I treat them as potential programs.

When I join, I think that I have room now to try to build my next income stream, the last income stream is brining me in my planned goal, and now I’m ready to focus on my next product and focus on a single project.  Before I do that, I need to test two or three to see which is going to be the most optimal and is going to give me the most passion to work with.  As we talked about before, we build multiple income streams one at a time, and to pick one income stream out of all the options out there is quite difficult, so I like to take three, potentially, bounce it across my contacts… so you, Terry, get e-mails that say, “What do you think of this?  What do you think of that?”  And I just get a feel if people are interested in this product or not.

Very quickly, within a week or two, you can see if a product is going to be attractive to your contacts and to your wide audience.  Really, I just like to test the waters with the two or three options for that month.  Once I find one that I’m excited about and that my contacts are excited about, then I’m ready to take it to the next level.

Terry:

So you can potentially develop about 12 income streams a year then, realistically.

Hani:

That would be lovely.  I think I’m averaging one in every one and a half months.

Terry:

Right.  But that’s reasonable too because it takes time to look at the program, develop your own marketing, and that type of thing.

Hani:

Yea.  I think so.  I try to stop myself from being pressured, because we get all this excitement online because it’s a very fast-paced medium.  Offline business moves at 1/10 of the speed that online does at the moment.  It’s incredible.  There is a lot of negative as well.  A big negative compared to offline is that people have the opportunity to jump between programs a lot more rapidly.

To give you an example, say I’m setting up an offline business.  I might do my research and look at various things.  When I commit to it and start doing the business, my opportunity to jump ship to another business is very difficult compared to online.  That’s what I’m finding with online businesses – unless you have a solid program that can retain people and you can develop a whole plan for retention, people are going to jump ship again and again and again.

I’ve had one famous network marketer tell me that network is all about jumping on the latest train and making money off of that opportunity and then the next one.  I think that it’s not a sustainable approach for me.

Terry:

I’ve kind of defined affiliates as type one and type two.  Type one is when you purchase the product, use it, then promote it.  That sounds more like what you’re doing.  Type two is when someone goes out there and promotes the latest programs and develops an income stream here, and when that one’s worn out, he/she just jumps to another one.  So, when you go out and find three potential affiliate programs, do you go out and buy the product or try the product or how do you go about it?

Hani:

I would like to say I do that every time, but realistically sometimes I get to excited and get caught up in the hype and I e-mail my whole list about it, just to find out later that it’s not as good of a product as I expected.  Luckily, I’m starting to learn and realizing that waiting and sleeping on it is more beneficial.  For example, I waited a long time before I promoted Madison Dynamics because I wanted to find a great way to promote it.  I looked at what other people were doing and how to leverage what I know to make a better offering to promote this product.

So I used the conference rooms, I built a website with Madison Dynamics tools, and I put together a bundle and introduction to utilize their own tools.  So, my promotion page for Madison Dynamics uses their own products to promote it.  I made it very clear that it was built with Madison Dynamics tools, and told that that it’s what they get when they join this program.  Taking that time and actually looking at how I could approach it, looking to see if there was a leverage there, and seeing if I could do something that other people aren’t doing make a big difference to me.  If you do everything that everyone else is doing is a losing battle in my opinion.

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More for your entertainment as you go after that baller money!

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Lastly, you have to note that, your work as a security sentry is to take decisive and immediate decisions during any crisis. This is useful for an individual who would like to join the police force. For you to succeed in your endeavor, you have to know the requirements to become a uniformed security guard.

Unformed security guards protect people and property, so how could something like this really happen?

It’s ridiculous.  It happened a while ago but still, it’s not like this kind of thing has never happened since then.