Empowerism offers subscribers many benefits, but in this article I want to focus just one, the "Revenue Sharing Value Plan" (RSVP) and discuss how it can best be used to guarantee income over time.

When you purchase RSVP you are actually purchasing a leads package. In other words, the "product" you purchase is a list of leads for your direct marketing campaigns.

The four leads packages:

• 50 leads for $25
  
• 100 leads for $50
  
• 200 leads for $100
  
• 400 leads for $200

But the package is actually more than just a simple leads-purchase deal – and this is where things get interesting! Every time you purchase a leads package you also qualify for "Revenue Sharing" payouts - hence the name of the product, "Revenue Sharing Value Plan".

I must emphasis right away that the "revenue sharing plan" is NOT a get-rich quick scheme. Nevertheless, Empowerism is keen to emphasise that the plan will "eventually" double your initial investment several times over.

I'll come back to that word "eventually" in a minute, but first, let's take a look at how it operates.

What happens is that when you purchase a leads package you are allocated a reference code and placed at the bottom of a "single-line matrix" (i.e. everybody who purchases RSVP is placed in a single line from top to bottom). You then move up through the matrix and are "cycled" through it several times until you have received a total "revenue share" of $2,000 - yes, two THOUSAND dollars, no matter what your initial investment was.

Let me give you a concrete example. Suppose you purchase $50 leads package. You are then placed at the bottom of the matrix on $50. As people reach the top of the matrix they either drop out or drop back down to the bottom to "recycle" As that happens, you move up through the matrix, and new members are placed at the bottom. When you reach the top your $50 will double to "$100" and you will go through the cycle again until you get back to the top and double to $200.

Now, provided that you opted for the "$200 payout" option and not the "$400 payout" option you'll receive your first payout - $200. Congratulations! You've just doubled your initial investment leads package investment. Those 200 leads you bought turn out to have cost you nothing! You doubled your money on them - even if none of them responded to your sizzling sales copy!

Meanwhile, you cycle through the matrix again, and receive another $200 when you reach the top, and so on for a total of ten payouts, totalling $2,000 in all.

However, if you chose to receive your first payout at the $400 level you have to wait for one more cycle to until the doubling gets to $400 and cycles five times at that level (5 x $400) until you get $2,000.

OK, so how long will it take to get through all those cycles? At present the cycle rate is about 1,100 days - as I said earlier, this is NOT a get rich quick scheme! We are looking at just over a 3 year time frame here.

What that means is that you'll need to choose a strategy to ensure that you double your money on the conclusion of the FIRST cycle to ensure that you double your money in the medium rather than the long term. Once that has happened, anything else can be considered as icing on the cake.

Before we get into how best to maximize the potential of RSVP, let me point out a few relatively simple things that you will need to do to qualify for the payouts. You'll need to:

1. retain your status as a paid subscriber of Empowerism,
   
2. send or fax a downloadable disclaimer to Empowerism,
   
3. provide a photocopy of the front of your credit card,
   
4. meet a monthly leads purchase of 1% of your RSVP investment.

The four requirements are basically there to ensure that you are committed and legitimate. If commitment is not your game, you probably shouldn't be thinking about Internet marketing at all - but that is another story!

Turning now to the best way to maximize the potential of RSVP to your advantage, by far the best strategy would be to buy 200 leads for $100 and choose to receive your payouts at the $200. That way, you'll get paid as soon as you complete the FIRST cycle, when your $100 investment doubles to a $200 payout (the first of ten $200 payouts in all).

Next, plan to repeat your investment on a regular basis - once a month for example - to set yourself up for a regular income three years or so down the line.

The easiest way to do that is simply to incorporate the Empowerism RSVP leads program into your monthly advertising budget. Allocate $100 per month (plus the 1% top up requirement - for which you receive extra leads) to leads purchases, plug the leads into your advertising campaign, and - irrespective of whether any of your leads actually buy anything from you or not - in three years' time you will begin to see a regular return on your money.

Once your first payout comes through you can expect to see a regular stream of income and you'll appreciate the value of having made small investments regularly over time.

David Hurley
For more information about Empowerism's RSVP program, click here.

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Most people are aware that a marketing budget is essential to a business; without a budget to guide you it is virtually impossible to do anything well in business. Every basic business course teaches that planning your marketing budget is one of the most crucial things you must do for your business to succeed and that most businesses that fail to make an adequate marketing budget will most likely come to grief; usually before they've even had a chance to get fully established.

So, what exactly makes a good marketing budget? Well, reducing it down to first principles any budget that has inflows to cover the publicity outflows is a good start. The inflows need to be at least equivalent if not in excess of the outflows and the marketing outflows combined have to create something that is competitive to the business itself. In short, your marketing expenses need to perform by bringing in enough extra sales to at least cover the cost of the marketing campaign.


THE COST EFFICIENCY PRINCIPLE

A good rule of thumb when it comes to making a marketing budget is to refer to the cost efficiency principle. According to the cost efficiency principle you should be willing to spend X dollars if you get Y dollars in return with Y being at least equal to X if not greater (X = Y<). However, many people would point out that it is simply not reasonable to expect a new business to see a return of "X = Y<" because a new business needs to spend a lot to get itself off the ground. The objection is superficial at best when applied to traditional business models, and seriously flawed when applied to the most cost-efficient Internet marketing budget models available today, which I will talk about in more detail in a moment. Continuing, for a moment with the traditional analysis, while each item X may not bring in a gross income of Y, you can always combine several X items together in order to receive that result. Thus, if you have X1 + X2 + X3 resulting in A + B + C and both of those equations are equal to Y, then there is really nothing to worry about because overall you have realized the cost efficiency principle in your budget. The trick, of course, is to get sufficient results, and that is where many marketing campaigns are exposed to most risk. Nevertheless, a typical marketing budget planning involves identifying where you need to spend your money and then making sure that you do so in accordance with the cost efficiency principle.

Don't ever spend money in a business unless you expect to get an equivalent return out of it.

CAUSES OF INTERNET MARKETING FAILURE

In the case of a home business internet marketing campaign, the expectation, or hope, is that the extra business brought in by the campaign will cover the costs of the campaign itself and boost profits. Needless to say, it doesn't always work out like that. Advertising is an expensive liability, and unfortunately, for a lot of people who start up an Internet business, marketing is the chief obstacle to success. Internet marketing failure has two chief causes:

• Failure to set a marketing budget and stick to it.
  
• Lack of marketing expertise.
  

Many people fail to set a proper budget and then run up unsustainable debts on failed publicity efforts and quickly go bust. Others, aware of that danger, fall into the opposite trap of being unwilling to commit any money at all on publicity, but don't know how to draw enough traffic to their website to make it viable.

The problems of budgeting and marketing are interrelated because it is difficult to draw up a realistic Internet marketing budget for your business if you lack Internet marketing know-how. On the other hand, a person who is familiar with effective Internet marketing techniques will understand why it is important to set a budget and also how much it is necessary to allocate to achieve a certain level of profit and a high degree of cost-efficiency.

Just now I promised to discuss a technique which is ideal for home business Internet marketing and which, if applied consistently over time will enable even inexperienced Internet marketers to turn their marketing budget into an asset in its own right irrespective of the results of their marketing campaigns.


TWO ESSENTIAL, BREAD-AND-BUTTER MARKETING TECHNIQUES

There are basically two ways of getting people to view your pitch on the Internet. One is to legitimately capture prospective customers' email addresses first and then send them your information. The other is to get your information out in front of people first and then capture their email addresses when they respond to your advertisement. Once you have captured an email address (called a "lead"), plug it into your autoresponder, which is loaded with a series of direct-marketing emails that will be sent out in the hope of turning the lead into a customer.

Ideally you should use a combination of both lead-capture and advertising techniques; they are the bread-and-butter of Internet marketing campaigns. The first is a much more targeted method and the leads your campaign generates are more likely to respond to your copy, but the second technique has the advantage of numbers - a far lower percentage of people will read your copy, but you should get a regular flow of subscribers who sign up to your autoresponder campaign or customers who buy your products. Both marketing techniques cost money, so let's set a basic monthly budget (in addition to your web-hosting expenses and other business expenses).

BASIC MONTHLY MARKETING BUDGET

• Autoresponder: $20
  
• Lead package service: $200 (for 400 leads)
  
• Advertising service: $200 (exposure of your ad to 40,000 readers)
  

The total basic monthly marketing is $420. That gets your sales pitch delivered to 40,400 potential customers, four hundred of whom are highly targeted leads who will receive regular postings direct to their e-mail inbox.

With this model, you have to hope that your advertising and your mailings will be effective in generating the number of sales you need to break even.

What do you do if it doesn't work? (Remember, there are no guarantees in marketing!)

Obviously you will have to test the results against a different set of ads and mailings until you find an advertising formula that sells. Unfortunately, this could take several months of trial-and-error and mounting losses as your marketing program fails to deliver. Let's face it, $420 is a lot of money to tip down the Internet marketing drain every month...


INTERNET MARKETING LEVERAGE

What you need is some Internet marketing leverage; you need to find a way of covering your marketing expenses even if your advertising campaign is a complete failure.

You need to find a way of converting your marketing expenses into a business asset irrespective of the number of sales your marketing campaign generates.

Imagine running an advertising campaign secure in the knowledge that you would still make a profit even if it turned into a real stinker that failed to sell a single product.

Incredible as it sounds, it IS possible.

In fact it is an entirely legitimate and thoroughly tested marketing system that hundreds of experienced Internet marketers are using with great success on the Internet today.

The system is called "Empowerism" and was developed by Janet Wilson, CEO of Life, Education And Prosperity Inc., in 1998. Members pay a monthly fee of $24.95 in exchange for which they gain access to an impressive range of Internet marketing resources and training tools. The most impressive resources are two programs called "REVENUE SHARING VALUE PLAN" (RSVP) and "MARKETING VALUE PLAN" (MVP). With these two plans, even if you do not take advantage of any of the other business building tools or advice available through Empowerism, your subscription and marketing budget will be repaid several times over. Let's look at the plans in more detail.


"REVENUE SHARING VALUE PLAN"

When an Empowerism member buys an RSVP leads package, the funds from that order are paid into the RSVP revenue pool. From there, commissions are paid out to the next qualified RSVP customer in line. Since May, 2004, more than 32,000 RSVP orders have cycled, paying commissions to thousands of customers. They have collectively earned more than TEN MILLION DOLLARS, making Empowerism the most successful business model of its kind, surpassing and outlasting all others and paying out commissions every day.


HOW IT WORKS

Every leads order goes into a revenue sharing pool in the form of a straight-line matrix where EVERY ORDER after yours is placed under your order in the matrix. As more orders are placed under you, the funds from those orders pay commissions to the orders at the top, which then move back down to the bottom so they can cycle again. As the orders from the top pay out and cycle, your order moves up in the matrix until it reaches the top, then pays out, then cycles down to the bottom again to start the process over.

There are four leads packages: 50 leads for $25, 100 leads for $50, 200 leads for $100, and 400 leads for $200. When an order value of less than $200 reaches the top of the matrix and cycles, it doubles in value when it cycles back to the bottom of the matrix, but does not pay commissions on that cycle until it cycles as a $200 or $400 order. In other words, $200 is the lowest payout available.

For example, a $25 order cycles and becomes a $50 order, then cycles again to become a $100 order, then cycles again to become a $200 order. When that $200 order reaches the top cycles, assuming the income option is "Recurring Income = $200", $200 is paid out and the $200 order cycles back to the bottom again. It remains a $200 order for a total of TEN cycles until the total of $2000 is paid (10 x $200). However, if the income option is set at "Recurring Income = $400", when a $200 order reaches the top and cycles, it does not pay out. Instead, it becomes a $400 order, cycles to the bottom on the matrix, then when it reaches the top again, it pays out $400! When it cycles, it remains a $400 for a total of FIVE cycles until the $2000 is paid (5 x $400).

"MARKETING VALUE PLAN"

Turning now to Empowerism's Marketing Value Plan, it is a system that places your advertisement in front of 20,000 to 40,000 people AND puts $200 to $400, (or double your advertising fees), back into your pocket. Since December 4th, 2004 Empowerism has paid out $1,823,750 in MVP commissions.

What happens is that when MVP advertising packages are sold to Empowerism members 75% of the funds are paid into the MVP pool and 25% into the RSVP pool in the form of a straight-line matrix where EVERYONE who buys after you lands UNDER YOU in the MVP matrix. As more orders are placed, your order moves up in the matrix, until it cycles at the top. From there, the commissions are paid out to the participating members. As with RSVP, there can be no guarantee of how long it will take to receive the pay-out, but where else are you going to be able to place your advertising copy in front of 20,000 to 40,000 people for just $100 or $200, and walk away with TWICE as much cash as you spent? With a monthly Internet marketing budget of just $100 you will be able to purchase one MVP order and get your message seen by 20,000 people every month, and you will double your money even if you don't sell a thing. Once your MVP orders begin to cycle you will receive a stream of income every month. This is an impressive Internet marketing leverage technique and a great way to turn what is traditionally a business liability (advertising fees) into a business asset (MVP commissions).

THE POWER OF MONTHLY BUDGETING

The power of the RSVP and MVP systems will be felt if you allocate a portion of your marketing budget to purchasing an RSVP package and an MVP package, month in and month out. Then, even if it took five years for your RSVP and MVP packages to finish cycling you have made between $1,800 and $1,975 on EACH AND EVERY RSVP package and doubled your money on every MVP package you purchased and you would start receiving that profit month in and month out, even if you never got a single sale off one of the hundreds or thousands of leads both systems would have provided you with.

Now that is marketing leverage on a grand scale - and it shows the power of taking consistent action over time. Let's have a look at our new Monthly Internet Marketing Budget when we incorporate a regular purchase of RSVP and MVP into it:

EMPOWERISM MONTHLY MARKETING BUDGET EXAMPLE

• Autoresponder: $20
  
• Lead package service: $200 out, $2,000 in
  
• Advertising service: $200 out, $400 commission in.
  
• Empowerism subscription: $20
  

Total = $2,000 + $400 - $20 - $200 - $200 - $20 = +$1960 profit.

CONCLUSION

I hope I have shown that while it is important to set a monthly Internet marketing budget, your marketing budget does not have to be a liability.

Indeed, rather than crippling your business at the outset with expensive and ineffective advertising costs, your Internet marketing budget can now become a second source of residual income, quite apart from the use to which you put the many hundreds of leads and many thousands of targeted readers of your marketing campaigns.

Empowerism has been tried and tested many times since 1998, and has grown in almost a decade to a major factor in Internet marketing success for many of the Internet's best entrepreneurs such as Stone Evans, Ewen Chia, Michael Glaspie, Shawn Casey, and Bob Wilson. What it requires is consistent budgeted action on your part, month in and month out to guarantee your Internet success.

Find out more about Empowerism here.

David Hurley
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