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VIRTUAL LANDLORDS AMONG FREELANCERS

This books shows anyone how to use this four Step System
to start freelance business at zero cost to generate $1,200
daily.

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 VIRTUAL LANDLORDS AMONG FREELANCERS

Copyright@2020 by Isaac Agbedam.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,

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write to the publisher, at the address below,

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 Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................... 5
Why am I Confident with my Four Step System? .......................................................................... 8
The Four Proven System in Summary ......................................................................................... 10
CHAPTER #1: ........................................................................................................................................... 14
THE DRIFT FROM BRICK AND MORTAR EMPIRE ........................................................................ 14
What is my Case? .......................................................................................................................... 15
CHAPTER #2: ........................................................................................................................................... 18
THE ARENA OF FREELANCERS ......................................................................................................... 18
How Much Is The Freelance Market Worth? .............................................................................. 18
Freelancing Zones ......................................................................................................................... 19
Why freelancing Is Right for Everyone ....................................................................................... 24

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CHAPTER #3: ........................................................................................................................................... 27

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THE BULLS OF THE 21ST CENTURY FREELANCE MARKETPLACE .......................................... 27
#1 Bull: The Upwork Arena ......................................................................................................... 28
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#2 Bull: The Fiverr Arena ............................................................................................................ 29
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The 4 Step Proven System ............................................................................................................ 32

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CHAPTER #4: ........................................................................................................................................... 34

STEP #1: OWN AND OCCUPY .............................................................................................................. 34
Category or Niche Selection.......................................................................................................... 37
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Posting Guide that Can Sell .......................................................................................................... 40

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Creating a Tros/Proposal ............................................................................................................. 41

Creating Your Brand Presence ..................................................................................................... 48
CHAPTER #5: ........................................................................................................................................... 53
STEP #2: “POST PROPOSAL AND THEY WILL BUY” IS FALSE ................................................... 53
Generating Targeted Website Traffic .......................................................................................... 57
(Freelancers and Affiliates)............................................................................................................ 57
Creating My First Ad Campaign .................................................................................................. 61
CHAPTER #6: ........................................................................................................................................... 67
STEP #3: POWER OF CONVERSION ................................................................................................... 67
Stage #1: The One Pages Offer Mail with Craigslist ................................................................... 69
CHAPTER #7: ........................................................................................................................................... 72

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STEP #4: SCALING UP WITH SWEETENER ................................................................................... 72
Coupon Code/Discount ................................................................................................................. 73
Contacts Chatting/Messaging ...................................................................................................... 75
Craigslist Value Page: The Free Training Guide ......................................................................... 76
Final Thoughts .............................................................................................................................. 86

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 INTRODUCTION

This book is a journey of discovery on how to start an online freelance business,

beat the competition and bypass hidden protocols to Scale into a big business for
free - using my 4-Step Proven Systems.

This book is controversial because it has argued the fact that, the current
fundamental principles to successful freelancing does not assure total freedom as
it seems. Courtesy of my 4 step proven system, this book teaches anyone on how
to employ and engage the services of others right from the start of the business
without spending a penny – hence the name: Virtual Landlords among

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Freelancers.

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Is it real? Yes it is. The thing is that, there are people hanging on the internet
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looking for work to do and receive pay later. This time round, they will get paid
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base on their effort so you don‟t lose money. The hidden strategy used in this
book is intended for new startups, new and existing freelancers, small and big
SG

businesses alike.
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With this book in your hand, you are unstoppable. This book gives a new seller,
TR

the chance to bypass premium protocols on freelance marketplaces. You are going
to gain an up-to-date knowledge on how to master the four step concepts
applicable to online businesses -be it Ecommerce, Freelance Marketplace or any
two sided marketplaces. However, this entire concept is universally applicable in
any industry.

Understand that in life certain procedures need to be followed step by step but
this is not the case with internet. This is because internet business loves speed.
For example, real life requires a woman to be pregnant for some number of
months before she gives birth. However, internet business has ability to jump

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procedures. Instead of signing up, completing profile, reading description, going
to checkout before buying, there are sales funnels that enable you to jump
straight to checkout.

This book is for people who want speed in their business, but at the same time
create higher conversion. We will enter into a one (1) hour challenge to becoming
a landlord as seen below.

The 1 hour Challenge to freelancing

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In most cases, you would start making money within the one hour period.

It‟s that simple!

You may appreciate the content of this book if you fall in any situation where;

 You have no money but want to own a business and employ for free.
 You are about to or have started an online business
 You have created a freelance account without getting a single buyer
 People have been visiting other sellers without landing on your page

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  You have spent huge fortune on advertising and chalked no success

I can understand. The fact is that money loves speed, and in this book you would
master the ability to make money with the efforts of others and using that money
to employ other workers at Zero Cost to you. That makes you a virtual landlord
doing business without money of your own.

But! Remember that;

“Despite your wild fire and burning desire to learn

from me, you can only know how to do it best by doing”

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You need to follow me to the end of this book and apply every step on the way.

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Best part is that you can do business from anywhere including the kitchen, the
walkway, the couch, beach, on the bed, in office…literally anywhere and any
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country.

And ooh! Anyone with basic reading and writing skill can do it without the need
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to get marketing agency or copywriter along the way. If you follow me as a

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prospective seller, freelancer, buyer or affiliate, you can be able to implement what
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would have been impossible with online business.

I must guarantee that these steps are very simple to begin and scale to the end
without investing any money. You know what! You don‟t need to pay any money
before you make money yourself. I have used this system to generate over
$25,000 in one month, and I will prove it to you

Yes! You heard it right, zero money. No certificate required, no age limit, and it
takes basic reading and writing scale to do it. The problem I had eight (8) years
ago as a young and business-thirsty entrepreneur was money. The gurus I

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approached were frank with me. They only specialized in one or more business
processes but certainly not all; but halfway success was not what I wanted to do.

I found out that no single book, no single author, no single coach and no single
entrepreneur was able to automate the entire process of starting, marketing,
creating relationship and scaling an entire freelance business empire without
investing money.

You probably might have heard the saying that “you need to invest money to
make money”. But we were lied to. It was a lie, it is a lie and will be a lie. At best,
the “gurus” would refer you to friends who were willing to teach you a bit of the

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process at a price. But with my 4-step system, I am confident that any newbie or

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experienced entrepreneur can use it to make money and grow the business.
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Why am I Confident with my Four Step System?
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My wounds and my experiences are my best teachers. In order not to overwhelm

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you with too many facts I would be straight to the point.

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In the pace of 8 years I worked as a freelancer and an affiliate on several

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marketplaces (7 in all) including Ecommerce. The outcome was astronomical –

thanks to my 4-Step Proven System. I have chalked abnormal success and that
made it suspicious to make such supernormal profits. I went to bed with a smile
one day and about 2:00am, I decided to pick my laptop and go online. I was
confident that my fastest growing account (averaged $1,000 a day) would have
new requests.

I tried to log in three times and in all cases I received the message;

“Sorry, your account has been blocked because we believe your business
presents a level of risk that we will be unable to support with our platform”

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My dream seems shuttered! Over one million thoughts run through my skull. To
those of you who have been working as freelancers for a while may relate to the
above message. And I believe some of you would be familiar with the freelance
marketplace that sends this message. In simple language, my account was
arbitrarily shut down, my earnings misappropriated and I don‟t have access to
their contact support. They simply don‟t know how I am getting such strange
orders.

Talking about affiliate programs, I made a fortune as an affiliate without risking a

minute of my time. The thing is; I wanted to do what I love most – to travel

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round the world. That caused me to start my journey eight years ago. You no

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longer need to go through the eight years to do it. However, as time pass by, I
realized that tracking my affiliate rests with platform admin and their monitoring
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became weak. Accountability was poor because I was paid without the knowledge
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of how much I really sold with my links

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Most platforms claim they would not pay me because my referrals were not
traceable - even when the buyer made a purchase decision. To worse it all,
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freelancers do not have control over affiliate link that led to the purchase of their
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services. I simply had a hard time with many low quality freelancers.

I did not get any answers and sellers from freelance marketplaces are hiding
behind invisible veils and of shady companies and separate legal personalities of
offshore companies to operate. Meanwhile;

 Seller/freelancers don‟t have system to create relationship with their

buyers on the platform
 Freelancers do not have available tool within the platforms to promote
their proposals or gigs. In this case, freelancers have no choice than to copy

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 their proposal link, write contents around traffic they know nothing about,
or go to marketing agencies with huge charge or spend money in creating
tedious quality videos.
 Freelancers don‟t have what it takes to refer their services easily. And they
cannot track affiliates associated with their proposals.
 No better incentives or opportunities to make extra money for newbies

Too bad!!! And I can understand if you are facing same issue right now.

After much frustration, I decided to look around for a freelance marketplace that
would do things differently and provide answers to problems of freelancers,

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buyers and affiliates within and outside the same platform.

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After many months of caffeinne powered nights, myself and my team have built
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up a four System from ground up that requires no money. In fact, if you follow me
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and apply these processes along with me, you would discover how you could
make money and use part of your income to engage the services of others to work
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for you.
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The Four Proven System in Summary

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Remember that I had made several mistakes because I had no money and cannot
afford exorbitant coaching, and it took me years to figure it out completely. I later
spend thousands, if not millions of dollars to discover this system. You have me
by your side now to walk you through the entire process of automating the
business processes in a freelance marketplace and elsewhere:

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 The Four Step proven System in Summary

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1) Own and Occupy: This is the first step that allows you to create your
presence as a seller or business. I would be recommending a company with
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cutting edge technology to save you the stress of any scam or hacking.
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2) Targeted Visitors: the saying that “build it and they will buy is is a
blatant lie”. Remember that you are competing with millions of other
sellers and businesses offering what you are also offering. But don‟t worry!
I did all the research for you already. This system allows you to wade any
amount of traffic to your website using the $1,020,000 website tool created
for freeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3) Power of Conversion: I wonder why people still recommend neck stiffing
procedures for creating conversion. The term conversion simply means the
ability to turn your website or business visitors into repeat buyers. It can

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 be done through relationship building or instant curiosity. We will deal
with both of them.
4) Sweetener: A sweetener is something that makes buyers run to you
jealously and this is one area that most businesses and sellers fail to win. I
will practically present you with sample sweeteners for you to copy and
paste in your business – all for free.

Are you ready to be a virtual landlord and take control of your future? This is
how it all started………..!

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 CHAPTER #1:

THE DRIFT FROM BRICK AND MORTAR EMPIRE

Before we dive into this four step system, I want to share some information with
you about the retail world and how victims found their new path with freelancing.
Even though your business will be freelancing, it is still important for you to
understand the retail industry and our economy so you can spark an actual

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opportunity. Day in and day out, organizations are drifting their local presence to

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an online presence and from ecommerce to freelancing.
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falling down year by year and I have some news that will shock you. According to
a March 2016 article in Investor‟s Business Daily, Walmart, one of the retail
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giants with offices around the globe generated over $482 billion in business in
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2015 alone. Yet it announced in January 2016 that they would be closing down
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269 stores across the globe. Hear more!

In US alone by early part of 2019, Walmart has 4,700 stores including 3,570
Supercenters and almost 700 Neighborhood Market stores. However, Walmart
quietly closed at least 15 stores located in the U.S. and Canada. The stores
include both Walmart Supercenters and Walmart Neighborhood Market stores.
The majority of the store closures reportedly occurred on April 19.

Even though the company said in February 2019 that it plans to open fewer than
10 new stores over the course of 2020, such dream may sink into the ground.
Why? Walmart is cutting hours again due to global coronavirus crisis. And

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grocery and discount stores continue to shorten hours with several chains now
dedicating time in the morning for seniors, pregnant women and high-risk groups
to shop.

Target was not an exception to the closure rule. Following the outbreak of the
COVID-19 crisis, Target announced that, starting from 20th march, 2020, its
more than 1,800 stores will close no later than 9 p.m. Sears, Gap, and many large
retail outlets have announced the closure of hundreds of stores globally.

Like the fall of the Roman Empire, the brick-and-mortar retailer industry is
currently crashing down around us.

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Office Depot closed 181 stores; Walgreens Boots Alliance lost 57 stores; Coach
lost 45; and BB, a well-known clothing brand, shut down 60 stores.
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Most astonishing of all: Amazon is closing all its U.S. pop-up stores, with the
retailing giant confirming plans to close 87 kiosks in malls and Whole Food and
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Kohl's stores around the country in March 2019. Amazon has now surpassed
Walmart in total revenue per year and yet, closed down many stores. That means
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all workers within those stores would be laid off.

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So what is really causing these big companies who can afford cost of employment
to close more and more stores every year?

What is my Case?

Just remember that any staff of Amazon, Walmart or Target who gets a grip of
the layoff news may panic.

Fear is fine, trembling is allowed and Panicking is okay… but being

prepared in advance is better option.

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You may be thinking it's too late to be prepared, but the world has changed. Bad
news, crisis and chaos are now a part of our lives. The better prepared we are, the
more at peace we can be…

...and the better prepared, the better we can take advantage of future events.

The giants have switched to the internet to find agencies, freelancers and virtual
assistants. Reality is that 59% of businesses use outsourcing to reduce their
expenses. The cost of staffing, real estate, and inventory are increasing year after
year. These increasing overhead costs are sabotaging brick-and-mortar
businesses.

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You may ask that “is Walmart or Amazon no longer going to employ?

Well, in August 2019 smallbizgenius posted that 65% of businesses say they
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would increase their outsourcing efforts in the future. 78% of respondents in
Deloitte‟s survey say they feel positive about their outsourcing relationship with
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other companies. My answer is that; they would employ but from a different
angle.
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Here in the 21st century, we are surrounded by knowledge and opportunity.

Much knowledge such that, all we need to do is turn left or right, pick and log on
to a computer, jump on the worldwide web, type in www.google.com, and learn.

“Indeed, you might have been locked outside the gates of employment, but you
have opportunity stirring at you within the falling empire of education and
block and mortar employment”

The wealth of information on the internet is enormous, and you can use it to
apply new knowledge, learn a new skill set, and take one step closer to becoming
a successful entrepreneur. Without the internet, you would either:
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  Have to visit library or school to flip dozens of pages with the hope of
finding information, or
 Pay a mentor to show you exactly what you need to do to become
successful.

If you don‟t have money, you don‟t have the “big” skill, and you are trapped in the
rat race, what can you learn different during these times that will help you in
your future?

There are winners and there are learners. If you are neither, THEN you are
a loser………..[Robert Kiyosaki]

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One good thing that internet has brought to us is change. As days roll to weeks,
weeks to months and months to year, more and more people – formal staff and
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non-formal staff alike are willing to learn new things, earn side income and
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increase their profit.

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If workers and skillful people are tired with their 9-5 grind, then their next
turnaround place is what I call……. the Arena of Freelancers.
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 CHAPTER #2:

THE ARENA OF FREELANCERS

I know the question you might be asking yourself after imagining the fate of
millions of employees who are being laid off tear after year. And if you are new to
the term freelancing, then it would not be strange now for you to ask the worth of
freelance marketplaces.

How Much Is The Freelance Market Worth?

The growth of freelancing worldwide is overwhelming. In the US alone,

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freelancers make up 35% or 55 million workers who collectively earned $1 trillion

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in 2016. That number is predicted to reach 43% by end of 2020 with some
analysts citing that figure at 80% of the global workforce by 2030.
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As a fact, traditional 9-to-5 grind jobs are clearly incompatible in the globally
connected information era, with figures ranging from 50% to 80% of workers not
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engaged in their jobs. This suggests the majority of us hate what we do for 40-80
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hours per week and feel trapped in the rat race of servitude for survival, feeding,
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clothing and shelter ourselves and families.

Clearly, the exponential pace of technological automation also threatens to

destroy jobs in the economy faster than new ones can replace them, with at least
47% of all jobs on Earth predicted to be automated within the next decade.

It‟s no wonder that the allure of freelancing is growing: the beauty of it is that,
you decide when to wake up from bed to work and when not to. This is where you
choose your own hours, be your own boss, work on projects of your choice that
align to your passions and interests, flexibility and diversity of work, resilience to
automation, and better pay that scales with your output.

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STEP #4: SCALING UP WITH SWEETENER ................................................................................... 72
Coupon Code/Discount ................................................................................................................. 73
Contacts Chatting/Messaging ...................................................................................................... 75
Craigslist Value Page: The Free Training Guide ......................................................................... 76
Final Thoughts .............................................................................................................................. 86

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  Just to make you realize the good choice you are making towards freelance,
twice as many freelancers have seen an increase in demand in the past year
as have seen a decrease – 32% experienced an increase versus 15% who
have seen a decrease

 80% of non-freelancers say they would be willing to do work outside their

primary job to make more money. Are you not going to join?

 The top drivers of freelancing are the extra money and flexibility to create
schedule.

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 Finding work and, correspondingly, income stability are the top barriers to

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doing more freelancing work

 69% of freelancers said technology has made it easier to find freelance work
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 To prove how new strategies are emerging, 77% of freelancers say the best
days are yet ahead for freelancing
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 65% said freelancing as a career path is more respected today than it was
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three years ago

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 36% of people who have a primary job have thought about quitting to work
completely independently. Me too….

(b) UK Freelance Statistics

In the UK, the information overload from Professional Contractors Group

estimates that:

 There are 1.4 million amazing British freelancers working across all sectors

 This number keeps increasing. In the past decade, it has grown 14%

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  The flexibility offered by Britain‟s freelancers is worth £21 billion to the
UK economy in added value

 78% of the UK public think that freelancing and flexible working help
promote a good work/life balance

 72% think freelancing has a positive effect on family life

What about sites for businesses? According to a report by freelance job site,
Elance (now Upwork):

 In 2013 alone, the number of businesses hiring freelancers online increased

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by 46%

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 Payments to freelancers increased 37% year by year, this is amazing.
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 There is a great shift to freelance because the average hourly rate for UK
freelancers increased 6.7% in 2013. Since then, it has been increasing.
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 IT & Programming (at 41% of all hires); Design & Multimedia (24%) and
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Writing & Translation (18%) make up the majority of freelance jobs online
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A February 2014 report on Gen Y and Freelancing looked at “the transformation

of UK graduate career aspirations and what this means for businesses”. Here are
the key stats from the report:

 Freelancing is now seen as a highly attractive and lucrative career option

by 87% of students with first or second class degrees

 The report compared students with first or second class upper degrees to
77% of those with lower class degrees.

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  21% of graduates with first class honours say they have already chosen to
work as a freelancer, suggesting that the freelance economy has open its
arms to welcome those graduates with the strongest degree results as well.

 29% of all graduates said with confidence that freelancing is part of their
career strategy for the next five years, a fact that suggests the
freelance economy will continue to gather pace in the UK

 The flexibility offered by freelancing is cited as the biggest career draw;

with 69% of all graduates saying they feel independent with freelance. That
means over two third are positive about it

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 The opportunity to work on a variety of different projects and across
sectors is also appealing, that is why over a third (38%) are saying this is a
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significant pull
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 Respondents are also attracted to the earning potential of freelance work

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with 38% saying they feel they can earn as much, if not more than they
could in a traditional job
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The Labour Force Survey, conducted by the Office of National Statistics, showed
a breakdown of the self-employed by sector:

 Senior Managers – 15% self-employed

 IT Professionals – 13% self-employed

 Engineering Professionals – 12 % self-employed

 „Associate Professionals‟ in Design and Media – 40% self-employed

 „Skilled trades people‟ in construction – 56% self-employed

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 INTRODUCTION

This book is a journey of discovery on how to start an online freelance business,

beat the competition and bypass hidden protocols to Scale into a big business for
free - using my 4-Step Proven Systems.

This book is controversial because it has argued the fact that, the current
fundamental principles to successful freelancing does not assure total freedom as
it seems. Courtesy of my 4 step proven system, this book teaches anyone on how
to employ and engage the services of others right from the start of the business
without spending a penny – hence the name: Virtual Landlords among

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Freelancers.

LL
Is it real? Yes it is. The thing is that, there are people hanging on the internet
E
looking for work to do and receive pay later. This time round, they will get paid
AT

base on their effort so you don‟t lose money. The hidden strategy used in this
book is intended for new startups, new and existing freelancers, small and big
SG

businesses alike.
O

With this book in your hand, you are unstoppable. This book gives a new seller,
TR

the chance to bypass premium protocols on freelance marketplaces. You are going
to gain an up-to-date knowledge on how to master the four step concepts
applicable to online businesses -be it Ecommerce, Freelance Marketplace or any
two sided marketplaces. However, this entire concept is universally applicable in
any industry.

Understand that in life certain procedures need to be followed step by step but
this is not the case with internet. This is because internet business loves speed.
For example, real life requires a woman to be pregnant for some number of
months before she gives birth. However, internet business has ability to jump

5
procedures. Instead of signing up, completing profile, reading description, going
to checkout before buying, there are sales funnels that enable you to jump
straight to checkout.

This book is for people who want speed in their business, but at the same time
create higher conversion. We will enter into a one (1) hour challenge to becoming
a landlord as seen below.

The 1 hour Challenge to freelancing

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E
AT
SG
O
TR

In most cases, you would start making money within the one hour period.

It‟s that simple!

You may appreciate the content of this book if you fall in any situation where;

 You have no money but want to own a business and employ for free.
 You are about to or have started an online business
 You have created a freelance account without getting a single buyer
 People have been visiting other sellers without landing on your page

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  You have spent huge fortune on advertising and chalked no success

I can understand. The fact is that money loves speed, and in this book you would
master the ability to make money with the efforts of others and using that money
to employ other workers at Zero Cost to you. That makes you a virtual landlord
doing business without money of your own.

But! Remember that;

“Despite your wild fire and burning desire to learn

from me, you can only know how to do it best by doing”

C
You need to follow me to the end of this book and apply every step on the way.

LL
Best part is that you can do business from anywhere including the kitchen, the
walkway, the couch, beach, on the bed, in office…literally anywhere and any
E
AT
country.

And ooh! Anyone with basic reading and writing skill can do it without the need
SG

to get marketing agency or copywriter along the way. If you follow me as a

O

prospective seller, freelancer, buyer or affiliate, you can be able to implement what
TR

would have been impossible with online business.

I must guarantee that these steps are very simple to begin and scale to the end
without investing any money. You know what! You don‟t need to pay any money
before you make money yourself. I have used this system to generate over
$25,000 in one month, and I will prove it to you

Yes! You heard it right, zero money. No certificate required, no age limit, and it
takes basic reading and writing scale to do it. The problem I had eight (8) years
ago as a young and business-thirsty entrepreneur was money. The gurus I

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approached were frank with me. They only specialized in one or more business
processes but certainly not all; but halfway success was not what I wanted to do.

I found out that no single book, no single author, no single coach and no single
entrepreneur was able to automate the entire process of starting, marketing,
creating relationship and scaling an entire freelance business empire without
investing money.

You probably might have heard the saying that “you need to invest money to
make money”. But we were lied to. It was a lie, it is a lie and will be a lie. At best,
the “gurus” would refer you to friends who were willing to teach you a bit of the

C
process at a price. But with my 4-step system, I am confident that any newbie or

LL
experienced entrepreneur can use it to make money and grow the business.
E
Why am I Confident with my Four Step System?
AT

My wounds and my experiences are my best teachers. In order not to overwhelm

SG

you with too many facts I would be straight to the point.

O

In the pace of 8 years I worked as a freelancer and an affiliate on several

TR

marketplaces (7 in all) including Ecommerce. The outcome was astronomical –

thanks to my 4-Step Proven System. I have chalked abnormal success and that
made it suspicious to make such supernormal profits. I went to bed with a smile
one day and about 2:00am, I decided to pick my laptop and go online. I was
confident that my fastest growing account (averaged $1,000 a day) would have
new requests.

I tried to log in three times and in all cases I received the message;

“Sorry, your account has been blocked because we believe your business
presents a level of risk that we will be unable to support with our platform”

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My dream seems shuttered! Over one million thoughts run through my skull. To
those of you who have been working as freelancers for a while may relate to the
above message. And I believe some of you would be familiar with the freelance
marketplace that sends this message. In simple language, my account was
arbitrarily shut down, my earnings misappropriated and I don‟t have access to
their contact support. They simply don‟t know how I am getting such strange
orders.

Talking about affiliate programs, I made a fortune as an affiliate without risking a

minute of my time. The thing is; I wanted to do what I love most – to travel

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longer need to go through the eight years to do it. However, as time pass by, I
realized that tracking my affiliate rests with platform admin and their monitoring
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Most platforms claim they would not pay me because my referrals were not
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services. I simply had a hard time with many low quality freelancers.

I did not get any answers and sellers from freelance marketplaces are hiding
behind invisible veils and of shady companies and separate legal personalities of
offshore companies to operate. Meanwhile;

 Seller/freelancers don‟t have system to create relationship with their

buyers on the platform
 Freelancers do not have available tool within the platforms to promote
their proposals or gigs. In this case, freelancers have no choice than to copy

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 their proposal link, write contents around traffic they know nothing about,
or go to marketing agencies with huge charge or spend money in creating
tedious quality videos.
 Freelancers don‟t have what it takes to refer their services easily. And they
cannot track affiliates associated with their proposals.
 No better incentives or opportunities to make extra money for newbies

Too bad!!! And I can understand if you are facing same issue right now.

After much frustration, I decided to look around for a freelance marketplace that
would do things differently and provide answers to problems of freelancers,

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The Four Proven System in Summary

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Remember that I had made several mistakes because I had no money and cannot
afford exorbitant coaching, and it took me years to figure it out completely. I later
spend thousands, if not millions of dollars to discover this system. You have me
by your side now to walk you through the entire process of automating the
business processes in a freelance marketplace and elsewhere:

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1) Own and Occupy: This is the first step that allows you to create your
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cutting edge technology to save you the stress of any scam or hacking.
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2) Targeted Visitors: the saying that “build it and they will buy is is a
blatant lie”. Remember that you are competing with millions of other
sellers and businesses offering what you are also offering. But don‟t worry!
I did all the research for you already. This system allows you to wade any
amount of traffic to your website using the $1,020,000 website tool created
for freeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3) Power of Conversion: I wonder why people still recommend neck stiffing
procedures for creating conversion. The term conversion simply means the
ability to turn your website or business visitors into repeat buyers. It can

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with both of them.
4) Sweetener: A sweetener is something that makes buyers run to you
jealously and this is one area that most businesses and sellers fail to win. I
will practically present you with sample sweeteners for you to copy and
paste in your business – all for free.

Are you ready to be a virtual landlord and take control of your future? This is
how it all started………..!

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THE DRIFT FROM BRICK AND MORTAR EMPIRE

Before we dive into this four step system, I want to share some information with
you about the retail world and how victims found their new path with freelancing.
Even though your business will be freelancing, it is still important for you to
understand the retail industry and our economy so you can spark an actual

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an online presence and from ecommerce to freelancing.
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falling down year by year and I have some news that will shock you. According to
a March 2016 article in Investor‟s Business Daily, Walmart, one of the retail
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giants with offices around the globe generated over $482 billion in business in
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2015 alone. Yet it announced in January 2016 that they would be closing down
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269 stores across the globe. Hear more!

In US alone by early part of 2019, Walmart has 4,700 stores including 3,570
Supercenters and almost 700 Neighborhood Market stores. However, Walmart
quietly closed at least 15 stores located in the U.S. and Canada. The stores
include both Walmart Supercenters and Walmart Neighborhood Market stores.
The majority of the store closures reportedly occurred on April 19.

Even though the company said in February 2019 that it plans to open fewer than
10 new stores over the course of 2020, such dream may sink into the ground.
Why? Walmart is cutting hours again due to global coronavirus crisis. And

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grocery and discount stores continue to shorten hours with several chains now
dedicating time in the morning for seniors, pregnant women and high-risk groups
to shop.

Target was not an exception to the closure rule. Following the outbreak of the
COVID-19 crisis, Target announced that, starting from 20th march, 2020, its
more than 1,800 stores will close no later than 9 p.m. Sears, Gap, and many large
retail outlets have announced the closure of hundreds of stores globally.

Like the fall of the Roman Empire, the brick-and-mortar retailer industry is
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Office Depot closed 181 stores; Walgreens Boots Alliance lost 57 stores; Coach
lost 45; and BB, a well-known clothing brand, shut down 60 stores.
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retailing giant confirming plans to close 87 kiosks in malls and Whole Food and
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Kohl's stores around the country in March 2019. Amazon has now surpassed
Walmart in total revenue per year and yet, closed down many stores. That means
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all workers within those stores would be laid off.

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So what is really causing these big companies who can afford cost of employment
to close more and more stores every year?

What is my Case?

Just remember that any staff of Amazon, Walmart or Target who gets a grip of
the layoff news may panic.

Fear is fine, trembling is allowed and Panicking is okay… but being

prepared in advance is better option.

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You may be thinking it's too late to be prepared, but the world has changed. Bad
news, crisis and chaos are now a part of our lives. The better prepared we are, the
more at peace we can be…

...and the better prepared, the better we can take advantage of future events.

The giants have switched to the internet to find agencies, freelancers and virtual
assistants. Reality is that 59% of businesses use outsourcing to reduce their
expenses. The cost of staffing, real estate, and inventory are increasing year after
year. These increasing overhead costs are sabotaging brick-and-mortar
businesses.

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other companies. My answer is that; they would employ but from a different
angle.
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Here in the 21st century, we are surrounded by knowledge and opportunity.

Much knowledge such that, all we need to do is turn left or right, pick and log on
to a computer, jump on the worldwide web, type in www.google.com, and learn.

“Indeed, you might have been locked outside the gates of employment, but you
have opportunity stirring at you within the falling empire of education and
block and mortar employment”

The wealth of information on the internet is enormous, and you can use it to
apply new knowledge, learn a new skill set, and take one step closer to becoming
a successful entrepreneur. Without the internet, you would either:
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Trosgate.com is the only platform that will make it possible in less than one (1)
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make mistakes, because the system has many features that can be overwhelming
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to a newbie.

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recommended marketplace is no exception.

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There is one disadvantage of Trosgate as compared to Fiverr and Upwork:

popularity and large in size. However, being popular also comes with a lot of risk
exposure such as frequent server downtime and high competition over fewer jobs.

Now! Let‟s start by signing up for free.

A buyer and a freelance seller have same procedure to signup first. To sell as a
freelancer on Trosgate, you will need to create and confirm your account on
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1) Go to www.trosgate.com on your computer or smart phone

2) Click "Join Now" on the top right hand-side corner to create an account. This
will bring a popup form as seen below

3) You will need to provide your email address, create a password and choose a
username that will be displayed to the public. Please make sure your email is an
active one, and do not include any personal information in the username.

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website space in less than two

minutes.

Right about now, you would be

taken to your dashboard (personal
website) housing all your details and
information privately. From here,
you can decide the level of
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The next thing is to personalise your account. Keep in mind that a buyer would
like to see and verify the one he/she is hiring. You can personalise your account
by uploading a custom image about you, a cover photo and entering a profile
description. Please ensure that you upload a picture of yourself to build trust with
the sellers.

In the profile description box talk about your skills, experience and how you can
feed information about you to buyers for them to understand you. Please be
concise and complete.

Category or Niche Selection

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Currently, Trosgate operates six main categories with more than seventy (70)
subcategories. If your skill does not fit into one kind of category, don‟t worry.
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What if I am not sure? Before you make a decision to go with any category,
consider the following list and mark your area of interest. At the early stage of
your journey I would advise that you pick one category and one subcategory;

a) Digital Marketing Category: Here, freelancers provide digital services that

will allow buyers to unlock the digital marketing strength for their business
and make sales. It has subcategories below to pick from;
1) SEO 4) Video Marketing
2) Web Traffic 5) Email Marketing
3) Content Marketing 6) Search & Display Marketing
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8) Social Media Marketing 12) Domain Research
9) Web Analytics 13) E-Commerce Marketing
10) Influencer Marketing 14) Mobile Advertising
b) Writing & Translation Category: It is just okay to be different. If you are
intelligent, it is okay for others to be dullards. This is where buyer is able to
tap into the intelligence of others and see their dream come true. It has
subcategories below to pick from;

1. Resumes & Cover Letters 7. Research & Summaries

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5. Creative Writing 11. Transcription

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c) Video, Animation & Music Category: It is a long established fact that a

reader will be positively distracted by eye-catchy content. Here, freelancers are
betting their skill on video and music related services. It has the following
subcategories
1. Whiteboard & Explainer 5. Lyric & Music Videos
Videos 6. Spokespersons & Testimonials
2. Intros & Animated Logos 7. Other
3. Promotional & Brand Videos 8. Videos
4. Editing & Post Production 9. Music

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and programmers in the tech world. These freelancers claim that it is not
enough for buyer to accept his/her work in a way that is not pleasing. They
can program it how you wanted it to be. Yes they can, and if you have interest
here, then you can do it also under any of the following subcategories.
1. WordPress 8. Chatbots
2. Web Programming 9. Data Analysis & Reports
3. Website Builders & CMS 10. Convert Files
4. Ecommerce 11. Databases
5. Mobile Apps & Web 12. User Testing

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are as good as your imagination. Whether you want to be an administrator

from home or a researcher or a consultant, this is right for you;
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1. Virtual Assistant 7. Business Tips

2. Market Research 8. Presentations
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4. Branding Services 10. Flyer Distribution

5. Legal Consulting 11. Protocol/Document
6. Financial Consulting Processing
f) Graphic and Design Category: Here, freelancers are able to dive into the
atmosphere of themes and graphics. They can design and add beauty to
anything. You are qualified to be there:
1. Logo Design 4. Flyer and Brochure
2. Book Design 5. T-Shirt Design
3. Illustration 6. Game Design

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After you have created an account, personalize your website and identified (marked)
your niche, let‟s move to next stage –posting and selling.

Posting Guide that Can Sell

Remember! Trosgate is young but would not be same size forever. Many sellers are
selling what you also offered for sale and that means you must be exceptional.

To do that, I have simplified the process into six (6) simple guides as follows;

STEP 1: Create A Proposal

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STEP 2: Submit the Proposal

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After you've created your amazing proposal/service, submit it so the admin can make
sure everything looks good. Admins rarely decline proposals, however, make sure
everything looks good before submitting.

STEP 3: Get Orders Worldwide

Yay! so your proposal/service was approved by the admin. Here is the good part, start
receiving a ton of orders from customer from all over the world. Just perform your very
best on every single order.

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STEP 4: Deliver Masterpieces

Once you've received orders, prove that you‟re very best to satisfy your customers. This
is very important for return customers and amazing reviews. Communication is key;
make sure you are in touch with your customer.

STEP 5: Rate Your Customers

A lot of customers do check their own ratings. It is important to rate customers based
on their behaviour during the order process. This is important for other sellers, and for
the admins. Most sellers give 5 stars.

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Get paid on time, every time. After the clearance period, payment is transferred to you.
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service/proposal, you will need to click on the top right hand side corner where your
profile picture is located to expand the menu. Inside the menu, select Selling -> My
Proposals. On the proposals/services page, you will see a button titled “Add New
Proposal”. Click on it.

Page 1 - Overview

You will need to complete the following fields:

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Proposal Title - Here you will need to briefly and succinctly describe what you are
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create an explainer video for you". If you are a writer you may say “I will write sales
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content for you”, and if you are a developer “I will develop a website like trosgate.com
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Category - Please select a category and a sub-category that best matches your proposal.
Don‟t forget to select a category that matches your skill.

Delivery Time – Select how soon you will be able to deliver the work. Is it1 day, 2day
or 4day etc?

Proposal Referral - When a seller is creating a service post, he/she has ability to
configure an affiliate related to that service and to sublet promotional advertising work
to others on referral basis. When seller toggles affiliate button to activate, then the
seller can decide how much will be rewarded to the affiliate.

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came before you. Right about now, you would understand that Upwork is best at
what they do. The problem is that‟

 Upwork is for long term projects. If you are interested in making quick
short term earning, then Upwork is not for you.
 From my experience, it is hard to get jobs without feedback so top
freelancers are respected than new freelancers. Notice that millions of
freelancers and people with different skills have already registered on
Upwork and have their profile to win the jobs and projects.
 Bidding on a project takes huge chunk of your time

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to be charged for 5% additional fees. Considering the fact that you must
pay lots of your earnings to the platform as service fees, Upwork is
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 The prices they charge are averagely high for most buyers. At that higher
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price, a buyer would only go for a seller who already made the tract record.
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available to speak on freelancer‟s behalf.

It is already clear that a beginner or a freelance starter may only be gasping for
time in order to succeed on fiverr. But we need a better option for starters to also
win so I will talk about Fiverr.

#2 Bull: The Fiverr Arena

Fiverr enables you to browse the selection of freelancers offering services, and to
place orders in just one click. A service offered on Fiverr is trademarked as
Gig. You can find the services you need by browsing the Fiverr catalog in

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may put keyword like; guest post, email, WORDPRESS, BLOGGING etc. Notice that
each keyword is separated by a comma. In key wording, follow the same upper or lower
case pattern. Eg, if you are using lower case, all words must be lower case and vise
versa. HERO, POWER or hero, power. Not Hero, Power.

Page 2 - Pricing

Here you will need to either add a "fixed price" or you can use a three tier package
pricing structure. Since our ultimate aim is to clarify our service prices, I will
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250 words), and Premium Price is (up to 500 words). These titles will give buyers a
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quick idea on how the packages look.

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STEP #1: OWN AND OCCUPY

After many months of caffeinne powered nights, I found the 3rd Bull called
Trosgate. Trosgate.com is still very new in comparison to other freelance
marketplaces, but the company is already punching above its weight.

One month into the launch of the company, they have managed to attract a good
number of quality freelancers and an exceptionally high number of repeat buyers.
I believe this serves as a testament to their early success. The company

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In addition to their package and level systems aimed at bringing the best out of
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free of charge for subscribers to upgrade their experience.

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technologies to give maximum protection, but they also accept cryptocurrency
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and Mobile Money as one of their payment methods. The ultimate aim of
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Trosgate is to provide freelancers with continuous and quality work, offer a

chance to beginners and to let buyers hire freelancers whom they can trust
jealously.

Do you still remember the four step system below?

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asked questions and answers about your proposal. This will provide prospective buyers
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answer buyer questions in the personal messaging section. Remember that you now
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own and occupy your website space so adding a Q&A will increase your SEO.

Please only use unique content and do not copy and paste content from elsewhere. This
is because your post automatically has a copyright so you are advised to stick to your
own words in other not to infringe on others.

Page 4 - Requirements

Here you will need to enter what you need from the buyer in order to complete the
work. For example, if you are creating backlinks, you may request that the seller sends
you their website url, anchor texts/keywords, article, images, videos, etc.

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Take the hustle to remind them on what to do here. Meanwhile, most sellers do not
activate this page because they routinely get that information during their
communication with buyer.

Note: if you activate this requirement button, then it is compulsory for the buyer to fill
that form else, you cannot be able to start work.

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This means we are left with eight (8) minutes to roundup our five pages proposal post.

But something is missing here. How would buyers identify you from others? It is
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Creating Your Brand Presence

We need an image – something that will represent your website, your service, and your
brand as a whole.

Photography has always been an integral part of brand presence. Unfortunately, we‟ve
grown accustomed to seeing stock images of people in suits and tie holding a briefcase.
Not only are a lot of these stock photos tacky, but they cost a lot of money.

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photography popping up all over the web. Best of all, they‟re free!

Now, I want to be clear on this from the start: You do not need the perfect be-all and
end-all cover photo right now. In fact, do not get lost in the process of creating your
cover photo. Do you need something nice looking and eye-catching? The answer is
always yes, but you don‟t need to perfect it. Not yet.

Many of these photographs are free from copyright restrictions or licensed

under creative commons public domain dedication. This means you can copy, modify,
distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking

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This website can be accessed by typing www.pixabay.com in your browser. On pixabay,
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images. You can simply type in keywords of the images you want in the search, and get
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result. Take for example, I typed freelance in the search and I got several images to
download from. You can use these images for your brand as seen below. Click image to
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Click your preferred resolution and download onto your computer. This will appear
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There is another website from which you can get royalty-free images - and you don‟t
even need to include an attribution credit to the creator of that image called canva.com.
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Canva.com has high resolution images for your work to be successful. Open a new page
in your browser and type canva.com. First of all, you need to sign up and confirm in
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your mail for free. Now visit the website again to sign in with your credentials used for
the sign up.
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Whiles on the page, look left and you will see series of buttons. Scroll down to where
you will see photos. Click there and a search button will appear at the middle.

It is time to search for what we want. Let us reflect our mind back a bit to our proposal.
What were we posting? Is it about Wordpress, developer, blogging, email, digital
marketing, social media? Etc. The bottom line is that you must pick your sub category
as your search keyword. For instance; if your main category is digital marketing and
subcategory is mobile marketing, then enter mobile marketing into the Canva search
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content for you”, and if you are a developer “I will develop a website like trosgate.com
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Category - Please select a category and a sub-category that best matches your proposal.
Don‟t forget to select a category that matches your skill.

Delivery Time – Select how soon you will be able to deliver the work. Is it1 day, 2day
or 4day etc?

Proposal Referral - When a seller is creating a service post, he/she has ability to
configure an affiliate related to that service and to sublet promotional advertising work
to others on referral basis. When seller toggles affiliate button to activate, then the
seller can decide how much will be rewarded to the affiliate.

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In this example, Trosgate is entitled to 10% commission on sales, Tim is a freelancer
and Max is an affiliate (means the one to promote Tim‟s proposal). Tim is a busy
freelancer who works 9-5hr job and still wants to earn side income on Trosgate, he then
set referral link to reward anyone (i.e. Max) who will go through the marketing hustle
to bring a buyer to buy. So let‟s say you set referral commission as 10%, then a buyer
clicks the unique referral link shared by Max through social media or blog or email or
messaging etc to buy your service worth $100, Tim will pay Max a commission of $9
(i.e. $90*10%). This calculation means that Trosgate took $10 or 10% first and Tim had
$90 out of which he paid Max 10%. All thanks to Trosgate that created this wonderful
tool for freelancers to benefit at ease.

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All these statistics would be done automatically and will appear to Tim in his dashboard
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STEP #2: “POST PROPOSAL AND THEY WILL BUY” IS FALSE

This section goes deeper so it is quite lengthier. The solid rock foundation is laid! You
have posted your first proposal and I would recommend that you post two more unique
proposals. The next task is for freelancers and affiliates

Most of my students at this stage keep asking me one question “after posting my
service, will buyers see and buy?” I need to clear the biggest misconception about online
and internet marketing. Most people think that once their product or service is listed

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Image 1.7: Top featured proposal/service

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What can you see?

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Your guess is as good as mine “Top featured proposals/services”. Below the title, you
will see an assembly of promising services just like yours and I will tell you why; It is
about SEO.

SEO is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the process of
positioning yourself in a pedestal where people can see your service first. It is a powerful
marketing tool for the long term and works for your website to get visitors fast.

Imagine when we make a search on Google by typing the keywords “Affordable

Freelance Marketplace”. The image below shows that there were About 3,150,000
results for that search. However, the first company to appear at the top of the list was

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Trosgate..

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Google search result
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Yes! I guess what you are thinking “……but we didn‟t search for Trosgate…..?. What
happens is that, as soon as words are searched on Google; the search engines will scan

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In the Frequently Asked Questions section, you are encouraged to add some frequently
asked questions and answers about your proposal. This will provide prospective buyers
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with enough information about your services and will save you the time from having to
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answer buyer questions in the personal messaging section. Remember that you now
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own and occupy your website space so adding a Q&A will increase your SEO.

Please only use unique content and do not copy and paste content from elsewhere. This
is because your post automatically has a copyright so you are advised to stick to your
own words in other not to infringe on others.

Page 4 - Requirements

Here you will need to enter what you need from the buyer in order to complete the
work. For example, if you are creating backlinks, you may request that the seller sends
you their website url, anchor texts/keywords, article, images, videos, etc.

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Image 1.8b: 2nd Page if featured proposal is ticked

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 The One Hour Challenge

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Honestly, this is less than 10minutes. But I understand that doing it for the first time
may take your time so we budget for 20 minutes (2 minutes for joining and 10 minutes
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for creating a seller post).
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This means we are left with eight (8) minutes to roundup our five pages proposal post.

But something is missing here. How would buyers identify you from others? It is
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through an identity creation

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Creating Your Brand Presence

We need an image – something that will represent your website, your service, and your
brand as a whole.

Photography has always been an integral part of brand presence. Unfortunately, we‟ve
grown accustomed to seeing stock images of people in suits and tie holding a briefcase.
Not only are a lot of these stock photos tacky, but they cost a lot of money.

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In the image above, there are three things essential to us; fish, sea or river, and Bait.

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Consider the fish to be hanging around in its environment – the sea or river. The third
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thing around there is the bait for getting the fish of your dream,
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Let me break it down further. The entire process starts with finding out;
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1. Who your dream customers are?

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2. Where they are?

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3. How to attract them?

Question #1: Who your dream customers are?

For this 4 step proven system, the first question you have to ask yourself is, who do I
actually want to work with? One of the mistakes freelancers and Affiliates make is that
they do not take the time to dig into who they want to sell their service to. You cannot
sell if you don‟t ask yourself this important question. Like the image above, the
fisherman‟s aim was to catch that fish.

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 Pixabay screenshot on keyword search

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There is another website from which you can get royalty-free images - and you don‟t
even need to include an attribution credit to the creator of that image called canva.com.
E
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Canva.com has high resolution images for your work to be successful. Open a new page
in your browser and type canva.com. First of all, you need to sign up and confirm in
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your mail for free. Now visit the website again to sign in with your credentials used for
the sign up.
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Whiles on the page, look left and you will see series of buttons. Scroll down to where
you will see photos. Click there and a search button will appear at the middle.

It is time to search for what we want. Let us reflect our mind back a bit to our proposal.
What were we posting? Is it about Wordpress, developer, blogging, email, digital
marketing, social media? Etc. The bottom line is that you must pick your sub category
as your search keyword. For instance; if your main category is digital marketing and
subcategory is mobile marketing, then enter mobile marketing into the Canva search
and click the search button.

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example, each week, the Muslims all congregate together based on their similar beliefs
and values. The churches also congregate together and so do website visitors,.

How is congregation very important?

When I was in tertiary, Business Finance was one of the courses I love most. In fact, it
was the only course I received awards for. I was very attached to Business Finance that
I visit Yahoo Finance website each day to update myself with current happening. At the
same time, there are millions of students, teachers, practitioners or lecturers hanging
out on Yahoo finance for knowledge. In other words, I was congregating with the
population out there. I could sacrifice my breakfast for internet bundle - just to be there.

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The congregation is just similar to where the fish hangs around with other fishes - river

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or sea or pond or dam? E
Question #3: How to attract them?
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Taking my story above as a scenario, what can you do to interrupt my precious

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attention from Yahoo finance website, and finally land me on your proposal page? That
brings us to the third secret question How to attract them? We will do that using the
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bait
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The bait is a trap for catching fish. However, for the bait to attract and catch fish there
must be a food at its edge. The food does two things. First, it adds value to the piercing
edge of the bait. That way, the fish does not realize that the food is only wrapped
around a hook.

The second function is to offer an alternative best solution. Remember that the fish has
its regular diet, it feeds even without your food. The only reason it is coming to your
hook is that, your hook offers something better than what they have.

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In practice, you can win your targeted customers with bait in many ways. One of such
means is true SEO (discussed earlier in this book). Some of the other methods include
blog writing and webinars and ads. One of the best ways to gain huge traffic within a
twinkle of an eye is through ads.

Creating My First Ad Campaign

Image 1.10 from Dotcom Secrets - Enquirer interrupts

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I challenge you to log into Facebook or Craigslist or even Instagram right now and
successfully run an advertising campaign without spending money. Chances are, you
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will be confused and not fully understand what needs to be done.

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As a matter of fact, if you don‟t have any guidance, I can practically guarantee you are
TR

going to lose money and huge chunks of your time. My goal in this chapter is to make
sure that doesn‟t happen. I will turn you into a virtual landlord where you will divert
the risk.

The issue with freelance Marketplaces is that, not all kinds of ads work for it. Facebook
ad may work for ecommerce because there is a product available for sale without the
buyer asking questions. In the case of Freelance Marketplaces, the buyer needs to ask
more questions, specify the scope of work and many more. This is why I will be sharing
Craigslist.org with you

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Craigslist.org has been in existence since 1995, courtesy of the Craig Newmark, the
founder of craigslist. With 25 years of existence, and vast network spanning to almost
all countries in the world, I can assure you that there is a lot of money making
opportunities out there.

In fact I have used it for the past five years and it has remained the brain behind my
super-normal daily traffic that always create suspicion on various big marketplaces like
Fiverr and Upwork who got most of my accounts closed. I will be sharing two ways to
create Traffic.

Method #1: Email Outreach with Craigslist

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Look! Do not try to reinvent the wheel.
E
Trust me; I have spent thousands of dollars on Google ad and Facebook ads. I also
AT

worked with most affiliate networks. I have great advertising experience and though I
said this, it is worth repeating…. I know what works - and what doesn‟t…. I have
SG

created a system that is super simple for anyone to copy.

O

Maybe, you will understand me better after you listen to my story. I was running a
TR

blog and managed to get huge traffic to my website with Facebook ad. The clicks were
huge and in about four months later, a company in Ghana submitted a project for me to
handle with website content. The website combined both freelance and retail services.

All these while, I knew I was doing great until one afternoon at 2:15pm, the marketing
manager and the COO knocked at the door of my office. The strange thing was that, my
ad strategy got 920 people to buy. Assessing from the Google analytics displayed to me,
917 people (representing 52% increase) bought retail products whiles only 3 people
(representing approximately 1% increase) bought from the freelance service.

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That was when I realized that no one strategy fits all. Facebook was good for one
category but failed in another category. I was paid to handle two tasks, I invested
money into ads and it all crushed. That was when I sought for Craigslist and the result
was astronomical.

Under the Email Outreach method, we are going to contact and employ as many
people as possible

What! ......“did you say employ?” Yes I did. The secret is that we created a proposal and
activated an affiliate button. On Craigslist, there are 60 million visitors, most of which
are from America. Guess what! The average number of page views is 50 billion per

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month and supports 13 languages.

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There are a lot of people who created their profile that they want to make money online.
E
Others said they need to make extra cash. All we are going to do is to email those
AT

people with our job offer. It implies that, others will work hard to bring buyers and you
SG

will pay them on trosgate

Now, before we go to craigslist, can we still remember our secret questions?

O
TR

1. Who your dream customers are?

2. Where they are?
3. How to attract them?

Let‟s think about countries that have a lot of labour force to promote our product.
Below is the list of countries actively selling through affiliate marketing. The work has
been done for you so we will utilize these countries on Craigslist. They are: China,
India, United States, Brazil, Japan and UK.

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 Top freelance countries by ranking

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STEPS on Craigslist:
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1. Now let‟s open our browser and head over to www.craigslist.org.
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2. Now, go to the bottom right of the page and select resume. Clicking resume
would open a list of job seekers as seen below.
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Steps on Craigslist
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 3. Now you have access to the entire list down there. Ideally, you have access to all
of them. However, to yield result, my advice is to contact people who posted their
resume that the want job online, sales, marketing and digital
4. With your hand on Ctr button of your keyboard, hover the curser of the mouse
and click as many links that relates to online and marketing jobs as possible. If
you click those you want in first page, you can remove your hand on Ctr button
and scroll down to repeat the process for more contacts. You would notice that
there are many pages opened in your browser.
5. You will send mail to each of the list. Don‟t worry, I have done the copywriting
for you to copy and send for free. When you click on reply button at top left, you

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will get a generated email receiver code for you to copy and paste in your Gmail

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or any email list available in the popup form.
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Craigslist Landing page
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Note: Copy the generated email receiver code into a safe place because we will use it
next.

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At this point, we need to make at least, 70% of the contacts convert into money making
vessels. It means that 3 out of 4 people contacted must be convinced enough to sell our
service on trosgate.

How do we do that? We are going to apply the magic of conversion in our emails.

Menwhile, can we still keep a record of the time spent here? We spent roughly 7
minutes for starters.

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 CHAPTER #6:

STEP #3: POWER OF CONVERSION

Conversion is a subject that everyone must master. The main idea behind conversion is
that, every successful business person must be able to sell through the art of writing and
silence. This is because, it is not enough to get buyer. After you introduce your service
to a buyer, what next?

It starts by understanding the art of copywriting. Copywriting is an inevitable topic

that most people actively try not to talk about. They say selling makes them

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uncomfortable or that they are not salesmen or they don't want to be saleswomen. The

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truth is, whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you're an employee, whether you're
unemployed, whether you're a student, whether you're a student, it doesn't matter. You
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are in the business of entrepreneurship and sales are the hallmark.
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The heart and soul of a copyright master is simply the power of psychology. Step
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number one is emails. Yes, nothing more complicated than sending out emails. I can tell
you with 100% honesty that by simply applying emails to my business, I created an
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additional stream of income and boosted my business by 25%.

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Consider the following question;

1. What makes a human mind tick?

2. How do words create and make emotion to blaze like wild fire?

How can I sell without talking? I have a friend called Willy from Canada, Willy is such
an introvert when it comes to women. He loves to hang around with woman but lacked
the confidence to do that. Knowing how he admires Christine, I decided to help him.

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I informed Christine about a plan I had in mind – to make Willy Jealous. I always allow
Willy to get closer to the Woman of his dream but it takes 10 minutes for Willy to say a
word. And guess what! It was all over the bar. It was all about how are you……., how
was class……, without touching on the issue of love.

On one faithful day, Christine deliberately informed Willy about a date she would be
having with me. At that moment, Willy remained stunned and speechless on the phone
until the lady said bye. But! 30 minutes after that call, something incredible happened.
Willy sent a mail in 3 lines to Christie. That mail changed Christie into loving him.
That is the kind of mail you need to write to your employees.

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With various scripts I would be giving you for free to copy and paste, making sales is

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possible in the same day. You need an E
1. The offer mail – the mail for the Craigslist
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2. A 4 or 8 Page Sales Copywriting for Email Conversion (in Google docs or email
services like Sendlane, Mailchaimp, etc). For start, go simple with Google docs
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(https://docs.google.com/) and later deal with the email service providers.

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3.
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4. A shortened Google Docs link. It can be shortened using link shortener such as
bitly.com.
5. A coaching page (preferably Google docs page) with your instructions

NB: you cannot employ someone when you don‟t have training manual. as such, we will
prepare our back page in Google docs first.

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 Stage #1: The One Pages Offer Mail with Craigslist

Message Sample 1: Email Outreach

Open your mail in, eg. Gmail.

TO: (…..Paste generated email receiver code here…..)

RE (Title): Craigslist Resume

BODY;

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After checking your resume, you look like a potential candidate for me to

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work with. Be rest assured that I won‟t waste both of our precious times
doing this. However, before we can be on the same page to make this
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money, there are four commitments that must be agreeable to you.
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1. You must have a minimum time commitment of 1hrs per day. Can you do
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that?
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2. I need people who are willing to learn and follow the advice of our
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experts. Can you do that?

3. I‟m looking for people who can start as soon as possible. We want quick
decision makers. When do you think is the best time to start making
money?

4. I want to teach you the little known strategy in affiliate marketing that
will make you money from home or anywhere you are. Are you familiar
with this idea? Would you like to learn how to use the secret in the
freelance world?

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However, I know you might be asking the question “but you promised to make us do
everything for free?” that is why you need to read this book further. The next step will
reveal the secret I have used for 8years to bypass SEO protocol. Yes you heard me
right…You will bypass the protocol and get all the traffic you needed, and I mean huge
traffic.

“Did you just say TRAFFIC? You might be wondering.

Let me explain……….

Generating Targeted Website Traffic

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(Freelancers and Affiliates)

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You now have a marketable proposal, so it‟s time to master the second step of my 4
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proven Systems: website: traffic!
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This is where we are going to bypass protocol and I need you to get the best of all the
SG

explanation and experiences I would be sharing with you.

O

When I mention traffic, I‟m not talking about the traffic on the street during election.
TR

I‟m talking about finding your dream customers and drive them to see your service on
Trosgate platform.

When you create the website, you, along with billions of other website owners - present
and future sellers own a tiny piece of real estate on the internet. To generate revenue,
you need to interrupt people from their comfortable zone to your website. The more
traffic you have, the more sales you make, and the bigger your identity.

Let me use the image below to explain better

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 Image 1.9: Setting a bait for your customers

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In the image above, there are three things essential to us; fish, sea or river, and Bait.

LL
Consider the fish to be hanging around in its environment – the sea or river. The third
E
thing around there is the bait for getting the fish of your dream,
AT

Let me break it down further. The entire process starts with finding out;
SG

1. Who your dream customers are?

O

2. Where they are?

TR

3. How to attract them?

Question #1: Who your dream customers are?

For this 4 step proven system, the first question you have to ask yourself is, who do I
actually want to work with? One of the mistakes freelancers and Affiliates make is that
they do not take the time to dig into who they want to sell their service to. You cannot
sell if you don‟t ask yourself this important question. Like the image above, the
fisherman‟s aim was to catch that fish.

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 CHAPTER #7:

STEP #4: SCALING UP WITH SWEETENER

As we are about to wrap up the chapters, one thing that I don‟t want to hold back from
my promise is scaling your business.

Just as two lovers who are getting along would sometimes face challenge; it gets to a
point in all our lives that we hit roadblocks in business. I have been there severally with
my Salt Company.

Let me tell you how it happened.

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My local business was into production and sale of salt to neighboring towns and cities.
These customers always travel to my factory to buy this product and sometimes make
E
advance payment because my salt is natural and extremely white for the fact that, I
AT

don‟t use chemicals to produce it, and the soil is good.

SG

Two years after our establishment, a new salt business emerged at a closer distance to
my customers and was selling their salt to my customers too. One month, two month,
O

three month passed and in all cases, my sales figures keep reducing. It became clear to
TR

me that I underestimated my small competitor.

I had to put up a new strategy to get my customers back – which I did. This time, I
presented an offer to convey the salt to them. In this offer, I will take care of the
offloading cost and any sales tax if they are willing to buy 100 extra quantity of salt.
This offer would reduce their cost and give me the opportunity to sell more. This offer
helped me to get my customers and new ones.

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The same thing applies to internet business. If you have created a proposal on trosgate
in a category called “writing and translation” with a sub category “thesis and
dissertation” , your customers are probably students. They can range from diploma,
higher national diploma, degree, masters, professional programs and PhD.

This applies to all other categories. If you are a programmer or your service is to write
codes and fix bugs, then your target is not students. Rather, your target is small
business owners who are now starting or at the early stage of their business growth.

Why not big businesses? Of course you can get some of them but it is not ideal for you.
Right about this time of their business life, they are well established enough to have

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permanent staff for those programming works. Now that we know the fish, where can

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we get them –river, sea, pond or dam? E
Question #2: Where they are?
AT

The next question in the proven system is WHERE can you find this ideal buyer?
SG

Where do they hang out online? Are they on Facebook , twitter, pinterest or
Instagram? What online groups are they part of – is it whatsapp or Instagram or
O

Facebook? What email newsletters do they subscribe to –is it Altucher newsletter or

TR

Millionaire mentor ? What blogs do they read? Are they reading the New York Times
or The Huffington Post or the BBC or GBC? What other interests do they have? Do
they like music or movie or sports or the arts? How about fishing or race cars? If you
don‟t know the who, it will be hard to find out where your perfect client can be found.

With all the stress in arriving at a successful conclusion, one of the coolest things, as far
as traffic is concerned is the power of congregations. When I say the word
congregation, what‟s the first thing that pops into your head? For most people, the
word congregation brings to mind a church. A church is best defined as a group of
people who gather together based on one accord or similar beliefs, values, and ideas. For
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example, each week, the Muslims all congregate together based on their similar beliefs
and values. The churches also congregate together and so do website visitors,.

How is congregation very important?

When I was in tertiary, Business Finance was one of the courses I love most. In fact, it
was the only course I received awards for. I was very attached to Business Finance that
I visit Yahoo Finance website each day to update myself with current happening. At the
same time, there are millions of students, teachers, practitioners or lecturers hanging
out on Yahoo finance for knowledge. In other words, I was congregating with the
population out there. I could sacrifice my breakfast for internet bundle - just to be there.

C
The congregation is just similar to where the fish hangs around with other fishes - river

LL
or sea or pond or dam? E
Question #3: How to attract them?
AT

Taking my story above as a scenario, what can you do to interrupt my precious

SG

attention from Yahoo finance website, and finally land me on your proposal page? That
brings us to the third secret question How to attract them? We will do that using the
O

bait
TR

The bait is a trap for catching fish. However, for the bait to attract and catch fish there
must be a food at its edge. The food does two things. First, it adds value to the piercing
edge of the bait. That way, the fish does not realize that the food is only wrapped
around a hook.

The second function is to offer an alternative best solution. Remember that the fish has
its regular diet, it feeds even without your food. The only reason it is coming to your
hook is that, your hook offers something better than what they have.

60
Craigslist.org has been in existence since 1995, courtesy of the Craig Newmark, the
founder of craigslist. With 25 years of existence, and vast network spanning to almost
all countries in the world, I can assure you that there is a lot of money making
opportunities out there.

In fact I have used it for the past five years and it has remained the brain behind my
super-normal daily traffic that always create suspicion on various big marketplaces like
Fiverr and Upwork who got most of my accounts closed. I will be sharing two ways to
create Traffic.

Method #1: Email Outreach with Craigslist

C
LL
Look! Do not try to reinvent the wheel.
E
Trust me; I have spent thousands of dollars on Google ad and Facebook ads. I also
AT

worked with most affiliate networks. I have great advertising experience and though I
said this, it is worth repeating…. I know what works - and what doesn‟t…. I have
SG

created a system that is super simple for anyone to copy.

O

Maybe, you will understand me better after you listen to my story. I was running a
TR

blog and managed to get huge traffic to my website with Facebook ad. The clicks were
huge and in about four months later, a company in Ghana submitted a project for me to
handle with website content. The website combined both freelance and retail services.

All these while, I knew I was doing great until one afternoon at 2:15pm, the marketing
manager and the COO knocked at the door of my office. The strange thing was that, my
ad strategy got 920 people to buy. Assessing from the Google analytics displayed to me,
917 people (representing 52% increase) bought retail products whiles only 3 people
(representing approximately 1% increase) bought from the freelance service.

62
That was when I realized that no one strategy fits all. Facebook was good for one
category but failed in another category. I was paid to handle two tasks, I invested
money into ads and it all crushed. That was when I sought for Craigslist and the result
was astronomical.

Under the Email Outreach method, we are going to contact and employ as many
people as possible

What! ......“did you say employ?” Yes I did. The secret is that we created a proposal and
activated an affiliate button. On Craigslist, there are 60 million visitors, most of which
are from America. Guess what! The average number of page views is 50 billion per

C
month and supports 13 languages.

LL
There are a lot of people who created their profile that they want to make money online.
E
Others said they need to make extra cash. All we are going to do is to email those
AT

people with our job offer. It implies that, others will work hard to bring buyers and you
SG

will pay them on trosgate

Now, before we go to craigslist, can we still remember our secret questions?

O
TR

1. Who your dream customers are?

2. Where they are?
3. How to attract them?

Let‟s think about countries that have a lot of labour force to promote our product.
Below is the list of countries actively selling through affiliate marketing. The work has
been done for you so we will utilize these countries on Craigslist. They are: China,
India, United States, Brazil, Japan and UK.

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redirect them to our free training page so that the will study the training guide
and gain knowledge.

Reading the offer sounds great but the employee must not be thrown into the
state of confusion. Just imagine your first visit to https://www.trosgate.com,
many questions were on your mind. Your employees you would be targeting with
your email would also have many questions. It is at this value point that the
buyers/employees could make the hard decision

Here, we must focus on adding more value for free with educative information.
Being prepared gives you an advantage, so the more knowledgeable your

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employees are, the better your options at making sales.

LL
Videos are usually a common way to make expressions but they are expensive to
E
create. However, just as most companies serve documents and employment letters
AT

to their employees, written information can serve the same purpose.

SG

Best part is that, I have put all my resources I have been using down for you, for
free. You just need to create this value page along with me. I have done the script
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for you so you will need to copy, paste and edit.

TR

1. Visit (https://docs.google.com/) and click on blank or new page.

2. Paste below script and make some petty changes to suite your category of
service.

3. Click on the top right button which says “share”

4. Click “copy link” button and close the popup form.

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5. In a new browser tab, shorten the long Google doc link you copied. There are
many websites for doing that but I prefer www.bitly.com. Paste the long Google
doc link in the link section and click shorten.

6. Copy and paste link from bitly.com into the link section of Craigslist email we
have composed.

Free Training Script

Work From Home As An Affiliate

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Hey, this is Isaac, and I want to “officially” welcome you to my world.

You‟ve made a smart choice, and here‟s why...

This offer is NOT for everyone. We‟re only making it available to you
because you proved you‟re an action taker when you took advantage of our
offer on Craigslist.

Just as I promised not to waste both our times, I would go straight to the
training guide here. About eight years ago, I had everything I wanted. I
was on top of the world. Life was good and I could afford anything. Then
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the unexpected happened. Guess what! I was laid off together with some of
the fine talents due to technology adoption in the company I worked with.
It felt like a great mountain I couldn‟t climb had finally crushed on me. I
had to figure my way out of my fears…because if it happens, poverty would
be my middle name.

But my dismissal turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I went

through internet marketing “with my eyes red”. I fell the biggest fall and
lost huge money in my learning curve. I went from ecommerce to freelance
and finally an affiliate. After several days of caffeine powered nights, I

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plucked a secret that made me grow my first online business worth sold for

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$25,000 after three months of establishment.

Good news is that, “I‟ve got the same secret business opportunity within
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the freelance and affiliate industry...I am afraid to say that only a few people
know about it because this information has not yet gotten to the
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mainstream media.
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THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

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It is about a hidden strategy to Affiliate Marketing. This secret is hidden

within the wings of a new freelance Marketplace called Trosgate.com.
Trosgate is very new in comparison to other freelance marketplaces but
this Multi-million Dollar Company is already punching above their weight.
They have something special that the other big platforms like Fiverr,
Upwork and Freelancer don‟t have. Check the screenshot below and you
would understand that I am not blabbing.

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Over 2,200 click within the one month at a commission of $12 per
purchase on three separate proposal accounts.

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Now! Don‟t bend the wheel because I dare you to visit Trosgate and start
doing affiliate Marketing. Chances are that you would be overwhelmed and
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Here is the deal!..... I created a great profile on Trosgate to sell services as a

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freelancer. Behind this freelance account, I have four of my top students

plus me, working. I also created an affiliate program for all my services that
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you would be promoting. [You need to read every information here and
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agree before we start making money.. It will take about 10 - 15 Minutes

long].

HERE IS THE FULL DEAL

My Team is working as freelancers and you are an affiliate (means the one
to promote my proposals/services to others).

We are a busy freelance team on six different platforms so we have little

time to promote all our services on Trosgate (by the way, they are the only
platform with this easy money). We have arranged with management of

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I informed Christine about a plan I had in mind – to make Willy Jealous. I always allow
Willy to get closer to the Woman of his dream but it takes 10 minutes for Willy to say a
word. And guess what! It was all over the bar. It was all about how are you……., how
was class……, without touching on the issue of love.

On one faithful day, Christine deliberately informed Willy about a date she would be
having with me. At that moment, Willy remained stunned and speechless on the phone
until the lady said bye. But! 30 minutes after that call, something incredible happened.
Willy sent a mail in 3 lines to Christie. That mail changed Christie into loving him.
That is the kind of mail you need to write to your employees.

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1. The offer mail – the mail for the Craigslist
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2. A 4 or 8 Page Sales Copywriting for Email Conversion (in Google docs or email
services like Sendlane, Mailchaimp, etc). For start, go simple with Google docs
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(https://docs.google.com/) and later deal with the email service providers.

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3.
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4. A shortened Google Docs link. It can be shortened using link shortener such as
bitly.com.
5. A coaching page (preferably Google docs page) with your instructions

NB: you cannot employ someone when you don‟t have training manual. as such, we will
prepare our back page in Google docs first.

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 BACK TO YOU……….

So let‟s say we set referral commission as 10% from image above, then a
buyer clicks the unique referral link shared by you through social media or
blog or email or messaging etc to buy our service worth $100, we will pay
you a commission of $9 (i.e. $90*10%). This calculation means that
Trosgate will take $10 or 10% first (to enable us do our business) and I
would be left with $90 out of which I would pay you 10%.

All thanks to Trosgate that created this wonderful tool to save our pockets
from running dry.

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WHY AM I CONFIDENT THAT IT WORKS?
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1. I am confident because no other freelance marketplace has this feature yet.
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2. It does not require special skills or qualification to do.

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3. Unlike major affiliate platforms with fix amount without the chance for
buyer to bargain, we will offer three different price packages for byers to
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decide. Check the image and you would notice there are three packages and
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their prices with associated services; basic ($65), Standard (495) and
Advance ($800). Besides, there are advance packages the buyer can select in
addition to the main prices.

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4. Only available on Trosgate; freelancers can further give discounts to

buyers to convince them to buy. We will do that to most of our buyers to
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increase sales.
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5. Other sellers of affiliate platforms will give you average amount you can
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earn which is a cheat. Our services on trosgate gives you a fixed percentage
on whatever service bought

6. Other affiliate programs don‟t disclose the exact earning sources. Here, I
will give you a link that you can track the kind of service bought, the price
the time, your earning etc, accountability is assured. Below is how your
affiliate account will look like.

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The same competition happens on the internet, and it is faster because your competitor
can quickly see what you are doing to make progress. That means you must be able to
put up a strategy that will outsmart your competitor – I call them Sweeteners.

Sweeteners are strategies a business undertake to multiply their profit and at the same
time, give value to customers. This profit multiplier comes in various forms but I will
talk about three of them.

Coupon Code/Discount

The strategy I put up in my salt business is an example of a discount

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applied on special occasions like valentine, Christmas, New Year, birthday and many
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his/her customers measured by a proportion of seller earning on that amount.

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Trosgate is a market of possibilities and it is mind blowing to announce that they have a
good sweetener that even the big freelance platforms don‟t have at the time of writing
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this book.
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What is required for seller to activate a token?

First requirement is to create a proposal. Remember that without a proposal, there is

nowhere to apply the discount/coupon code. Once this is done, it's a matter of seller
decision but nothing else is required.

Steps to Activate a Coupon on Trosgate are summarized below

(1) Go to Dashboard

(2) Hover mouse over the selling item to drop down other features
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 Step #1: you will need to create a free account with trosgate.com :
https://www.trosgate.com. This signup will give you access to your
dashboard to monitor your link and specify how you would be paid.
Remember to confirm signup in your mail.

Step #2: Next, log into your account and complete the required
information about you. It is advisable to put a professional picture about
yourself to attract people.

Step #2: Just for the benefit of doubt,

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b) Confirm your affiliate account by going to: Dashboard => My referrals =>
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Proposal referral. At this point, you should see the image below.
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Step #4: Take your affiliate link and start promoting with it. You can use
blog, email, all social media platforms, communities, messaging and many
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 Final Thoughts

CONGRATULATIONS!

You made it this far and if you have applied everything I have taught you in this book
from owning and occupying a website, to creating your brand, employing without
money and adding value into your ladder, you will start generating profits in a very
short amount of time. This was how Nelly, a work from home mum makes 1650 in 23
days as a starter. As for those of you who are reading this book and did not do a single
thing I told you, tell me one thing:

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What could be holding you back?

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I beseech you to go back to the beginning of this book right now. Re-read the entire
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thing, applying all my steps in one hour or less and expect results.
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I have shared with you an eight years‟ worth of my discoveries, tests, trials, and the
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millions of dollars I have spent to discover this proven 4-Step System. I have given it to
you for free. If you are not hustling... if you are still not taking action, then I must wake
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you up with the bad dream. This blueprint is for free and you need to take action if you
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must succeed in this Covid-19 era and beyond.

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 The 4-Proven System

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I have just handed you an opportunity. I just gave you the full 4-Step System without
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anything in return!
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If this doesn‟t excite you, I don‟t know what else possibly can. I don‟t know what else I
could give you that would prompt you to start building your first business online.
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Do it! Give up your TV time! Create an obsession to work on your new business. By
allocating just one hour, you can have your Freelance business up and running within
24hrs - and start generating profit. That‟s all you need.

Please don‟t let this book just sit on your couch, bookshelf or coffee table collecting
dust. I want to empower you! I want to change your life! In fact, I want to change the
life of every single person who is reading this book.

I wrote this book only to give you this opportunity. There are certainly other things I
did not include in this book so that your journey can be smooth. I firmly believe that
every single person should be given this opportunity. But you need to take action!

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Now, I want to hear from you. I want to hear your success stories.

Email me directly, any time, at isaacagbedam@gmail.com and tell me that you are
already becoming a successful entrepreneur, that you are already making money online,
and that you left your job to create the financial reality of which you have always
dreamt.

Thank You

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