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Richard Osterude
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Oh well, since my original plan didn't work out, I'll try to shortly describe what I tried to do, what went wrong and what I'll do to fix it. I hope this will help someone else to avoid these mistakes.
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What I wanted to do: I started out trying to create a JV-script that would be a combination of Nickelmania with the Butterfly Marketing engine. The whole idea was to create big list through an enticing JV offer (100% commission paid immediatelly to your account and 40% on the One Time Offer, paid later). And an enticing product starting at $1. If someone wants more details I'll gladly explain, simply PM me.
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What went wrong: Since I knew how both scripts work I created a general requirement (mistake #1 too general) and posted it to Rentacoder.com After a couple of weeks and $$ I got my script, with a few bugs, but in general it worked how I wanted. So I set it up, tested it and since it worked how I wanted (mistake #2, it's not about you, but the customer) I decided to launch the site. To my surprize, even though purchases started immediately after I announced it in a couple of places, I had NO Affilate Signups. I started contacting the buyers and discovered that the flow I had laid out wasn't that straight forward and they didn't understand how to download the product or how to become an affiliate. So I decided to shut the place down, before I couldn't handle the support tickets. The good thing is that I had planned for an emergency and I had created a "Broken" page to pull out quickly (http://www.7dayspecial.com/indexbroken.php)
3.How I Plan to fix it? Well I decided on buying a tested Affiliate script (which to my suprize cheaper that what I paid at RAC). I will still use the "Price starts at $1 and going up" concept. But because of limitations of the script I can't pay the 100% commission upfront.
So I have decided in the following structure: Affiliates will be paid both for the main product and the one time offer: 40% commissions of all sales they generate. If they make more than 20 sales their commission goes up to 50% If they make 20 more their commission goes up to 60%
PLUS there is an incentive, if his/her customers enroll as an affiliates he will make 20% commission of ALL sales generated by these new affilates also.
Clients will receive their download link in the mail and also they will be told to make money and sign up as an affilate. (since I am using paypal, I had to be a bit creative with Aweber to be able to send out the download)
Does this make sense?
By the way, commissions on how much? Well the main product price will start at $1 and will go up by the hour up to $48 on day seven. The One time Offer will be $47 the whole time.
I hope this works out better this time and if yuo are interested in signing up as an affiliate, please feel free to do so at: http://www.7dayspecial.com/idevaffiliate/ I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
Cheers,
Richard
Well, here is the project I've been working on for the last few weeks. I was having my big launch on September 27, but as you might have noticed I had to delay it.
Just so you can get up to date I am posting the message I sent out on Sep. 27 I will give you the details of what happened in my next post.
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Hi FIRSTNAME,
I will be launching my www.7DaySpecial.com site
today at noon (EST) and since you are one of my
exclusive list members I wanted to let you know
in advance so you can get the product and earn
100% commissions paid instantly to your Paypal account.
The product is "Internet Marketing Video Tutorial Madness"
over 250 video tutorials and the starting price is $1.
The price will increments each time someone purchases
and the whole promotion will last 7 days. You can also
make 40% commission on upsell product, but that will
be paid until the end of October.
I'm not doing a pre-launch FIRSTNAME, nor have I
contacted any of the big names as affiliates. This means
you can be the first to sign up and start promoting ASAP.
This product is great for people who are starting out in
Internet Marketing, so you will want to promote in IM
newbies forums, your blog, list, etc.
I'll send you another message as soon as I open the site
tomorrow, so look out for it around 12:00 pm EST.
I appreciate your help FIRSTNAME and I hope we can make
a lot of money in this promotion.
To your success!
Richard.
P.S. don't forget watch out for my message later on today.
P.S.S. The URL of the promotion is www.7DaySpecial.com
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Did you see the 500words.com site that Joel Comm setup? Did you notice that he was selling his script to do this keyword cloud page from $499 to $899 and he completely sold out?
I just found a software that is as good if not better for only $67
http://tinyurl.com/m3vsf
I was very tempted to get Joel's Script when it was $499, but eventually he increased the price and I seth the idea of having my money making keyword cloud page aside.
But as I mentioned above I found this new software that is honestly excellent. I appreciate that it is template driven so I can translate into other languages (hint, hint) PLUS you get resale rights with it.
These guys released just this month, but haven't done any prelaunch or anything so it is still time to get it before it leaks out into the general public.
Since I won't be using it for the Internet Marketing niche I decided to share the information with my subscribers.
Yes, this is my affiliate link but I truly think this is a great product with enormous value.
http://tinyurl.com/m3vsf
I hope you can take advantage of this product and I wish you are doing well
Cheers,
Richard
I had to write you this message right away. Here's a
great package I found to start a business in 30
minutes flat. (I made 94 bucks in just under an hour).
Here's a summary of what you'd get in this
offer:
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50 Brand New and Hi-valued, Hi-demand Products With
Master Resale Rights -just one of these products
alone is currently being sold at $97! -
An OTO Page containing all the products
above - also with Master Resale Rights - This is
a super business! -
The right to sell or pass the rights of
ALL OF THE ABOVE to your customers! -
You can set up this business in less than 30
minutes (will be explained to you later) -Wow!
If you are in a hurry click on the link to
see (but do come back very soon because you'd
miss very important details):
http://www.411-how.com/oto
Particulars:
I'm sure you know marketers are making tons of money
in a few hours with OTO (One-time-offer) sales pages.
But creating an OTO page is very time consuming.
Just selecting and obtaining resale rights of
products can take days if not weeks.
But what if you can have your own proven to sell
OTO package ready to go in 30 minutes flat?
You now can because I have already done the hard work
for you. We spent days compiling the best products
and creating a site for your own OTO.
And to top it off, you are even allowed to pass
the rights to your customers to use the same OTO page
and all the products and rights in it!
Click below to see what I am
talking about:
http://www.411-how.com/oto
I don't want these prodcuts to get outdated, so I'm
only selling 100 copies. So hurry before this offer
is pulled out in no time. Only $47 - because you
are a subscriber!
http://www.411-how.com/oto
No kidding about the potential of this business. Go,
go, go!
www.411-how.com/oto
To your success,
Richard
P.S. Do you want this business but you do not have
website building skills?
You can hire a freelancer at
www.Rentacoder.com
How was you Labor day weekend? I hope you took of some time to relax and think on your next great idea, it truly is only a matter of relaxing and letting things flow, let me tell you my experience this weekend.
Personally I went to the beach (I live in El Salvador) with my wife and some friends. The day was gorgeous, not a cloud in the sky the sea was nice and fresh and overall the day wasn’t that hot. At 5 pm we took a boat ride to see the sunset while we drank champagne and enjoyed the view. No Internet, no computers (even though I did try to check my email through my phone but with no luck. We really had a very nice and relaxing time.
On the way back home out of nowhere I had this GREAT six figure idea, I actually stopped to write it down, but since I barely started working on it yesterday I can’t tell you what it is about… yet.
So I hope you open your mind and let that idea flow.
Now on the Internet Marketing side, I heard that Rick Raddatz is holding a virtual seminar in November. Finally you won’t have to pay 500+ to attend a quality seminar, actually it will be around 90 bucks, AND I was able to get a coupon discount code for 50 USD. So if you are interested in seeing what it will be about and getting a discount coupon, just visit this link.
http://VirtualSeminarWeekPreLaunch.com/?x=754371
See you at the seminar (virtually).
Cheers,
Richard
Affiliate Marketing has become very popular, largely because you have little or no direct expenditure, you don’t have to create a product, stock inventory or handle refunds, but this doesn’t mean you are guaranteed to succeed or that you won’t have to work to ultimately achieve success.
Each different model has its up side and down side and it is up to you to choose which thrills you most.
1) The Google Cash Method
This model is quite straightforward and the way it works is for you to buy advertising space or PPC advertising on a Search engine and send the traffic directly to the merchant with your affiliate ID. If the person buys, you will receive a commission. There are several downsides for this model; the biggest is that once you stop advertising your sales end too. Other downsides of this model are: That you have no control over the merchant’s sales page, campaign effectiveness is pretty difficult to track and you are passing on a buying customer which you can never sell to again. Please note that this is a very easy model which has worked for many people. My problem with this model is that you are leaving money on the table because you are missing on either the back end sales or the future products you could have sold to this person.
2) The Landing Page Method
This model requires a bit more work and investment, but it also has long term benefits. For this Model you will build a landing page or review page where you write a quick review for 3 to 5 products and each of them will have a link to the product page. The advantage: The user has several products from where to choose, when your site gets picked up by the search engines you’ll have free traffic and because it is a comparative review the product will be more credible by the time the user lands on the purchase page. Downside, you still have to pass through the merchant’s sales page, you have little effectiveness tracking at the keyword level. You pass the customer on to the merchant.
3) Squeeze page method.
Here you create a squeeze page for a niche and either offer a free report or e-mail course where you can recommend your affiliate products. Advantage, great for list building, you can separate lookers from prospects, you can successfully continue selling them if they don’t purchase your first offer.
4) All In One Automated Method.
To me this is the best model to follow because you have all the advantages of the previous methods. You have great tracking, a constant monthly recurring income, landing page flexibility, list building, and more. If you are very Internet Savvy and know some php you can do this yourself, except for the recurring monthly income, for that I strongly believe you would have to hire a programmer which would increase your investment quite a bit.
To learn more about the All In One Automated Method I personally use, check out my site at http://www.411-how.com/automatic. Please feel free to reprint this report as long as you don’t modify the resources box
I just found aout abouts a new and unique traffic exchange that is currently in Pre Launch.
Michael Gartner and Austin Hallock of Traffic Surfer have put together a brand new advertising network called LinkCrews. This is a great chance to generate traffic to your site for FREE!
It's a traffic exchange that promisses to be like no other around. Think TrafficSwarm meets TS25 meets steroids. I don't have many details about it right now but the doors are opening on August 1st (TOMORROW!).
Get a Head Start: LinkCrews
Sign up now for a free membership and you won't have to kick yourself for not getting in early, well, I'm giving you the chance to get in early and take part in the official launch.
The site is in pre-launch until tomorrow August 1, then Michael and Austin will be promoting it like crazy and everyone will be joining and sending out emails.
Some of the unique features I have heard of:
- A Unique and Exciting hand coded script
- 2 responsive admins - Mike and Austin Brand
- A new idea! Different from all other traffic exchanges
- 100% New PM system for communicating
Do not miss this one: LinkCrews.
This is your chance to join in the pre launch activities of a super advertising network.
I just aquired master resale rights to a new ebook by Derrick VanDyke and I wanted all my Blog readers to have a free copy.
You can download it here:
http://acsclick.com/?2285/1642
Affiliate Cash Secrets Reveals the Quickest and Easiest Way (to my best knowledge)
on how to Make Money Online...The whole concept.
The whole idea is to create a system that will generate both a linear income based on Clickbank sales (but with a twist) and also a residual income (recurring) through membership sales.
The key to do this is through the system which helps you build YOUR list and closly track your results.
But I think it would be best that you download the report here:
http://acsclick.com/?2285/1642
If you are interested in learning more about Kelvin Hui's World SEO Championship where the mission is to get ranked as #1 in Goolge with the keyword ambatchdotcom seocontest , the please visit:
http://www.ambatchdotcom-seocontest.biz
or
http://failfastandsucceed.com/blog/2006/07/14/ambatchdotcom-seocontest/
and there you will find all the information about this great contest, and how you to can participate and win the $4,000 prize.
Remember you have to rank #1 in Google for ambatchdotcom seocontest
Richard
There is a very thin line between paying for an information product and getting paid for the exact same product.
If you are an active Internet Marketer or receive any IM newsletters I am sure you received today’s invitation to buy the “Uncut Internet Marketing” Videos. Personally I received at least 5 recommendations and decided to check them out.
This ISN’T a pitch for the product, I am trying to help you get it for free and if possible even make a profit.
So back to the “Uncut Internet Marketing” Videos, I ordered the product and viewed several of the videos. Some are great, some are “so so”, but I can honestly say that you get your money’s worth and more.
What interested me most was their affiliate program, which you can’t join unless your purchase the product OR if you get invited. The program pays out 80% commission, 60% on each sale you generate PLUS 20% on what your referrers generate
So here is how you make money: Sign up for their affiliate program here, promote the product and make 1 sale, have that person make 2 sales and you are set; you now have the money to pay for the product. Or if you generate 2 sales you already are making a profit!
PLEASE: Don’t use your own affiliate link to purchase the product, it goes against their affiliate terms and conditions.
I would highly recommend you purchase the “Uncut Internet Marketing” Videos first, so you can make a personal recommendation based on your experience. Also because there is great information and the memberships are limited to 1,000 subscribers, half of wich have already been sold.
Don't be surprized by your Adwords performance, maybe you aren't doing anything wrong and it is simply a trend in the keyword search.
Discover historic keyword search trends with http://www.google.com/trends
Also I found a great directory of High quality tools that are available for free. Arranged in a very nice directory. http://www.411-how.com/freetools
Have a great week
Maybe you don't remember, but some time ago I decided to do my first Video Blog post (VLOG) I had heard video was growing online, and you should cover your bases early.
The only thing I got from it was a comment that said My Face was perfect for Radio. Since then I haven't done another video post.
Actually I didn't get that comment, I didn't post again, because I thought it was a bit difficult and I didn't want to use up all my bandwidth in video streams. Well video IS growing and there are several options to get video on your site. Personally I have tried googol Video, but according to Marketing Vox, You Tube is the Market Leader (read article here).
So now what? Well I have to take out my tools and start working on some videos, I recommend you do the same, it has now become really cheap and easy to have videos on your site and it is a shame if you don't take advantage of this technology while it is still young.
I'll be sharing some great free tools and excellent resources in my next post. (hopefully it will be a video post)
Isn't this cool? Now you can have an audio post or podcast on your blog just by calling in a number and recording your post. Really neat if you are traveling and don't have an internet connection, or maybe to do an interview and post directly to the blog.
I am sure you can come up with a couple of ideas also.
I'd love to hear them.
This is my third posting today, you might want to check out the first to before reading this one.
I almost forgot thta another great way to get your site spidered by Google is with their Site maps. You can sign up here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/
There you can add a sitemap of your whole site to Google, the only small problem is that you have to create a sitemap file in XML... But do not fear, I have a solution!!!
If you haven't read the previous posts, and uploaded your articles yet, go do that NOW and come back and read this when you have finished...
Done? OK now what you have to do is visit http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp
After a couple of seconds you'll see a big G to your right, click that and it will launch the Sitemap Generator aplication. When your are done, save the file on your serveer and go to the Google Sitemap site I mentioned above, sign up and submit your site.
In a day or two you should see Goolgebot crawling your site.
Let me know if you need help.
Richard
P.S. The Site map generator is a cool trick not many people know about, so shhhhhh, let's keep it a secret to our advantage.
Here is the Audio for these links
The audio above has some ideas of what you can do with the articles to use them NOW!
As I work with the content I'll be posting what I do and sometimes a video tutorial.
Here are the links of the services mentioned above
Content Goldmie click here
CG Afiliate login click here
Join Google Adsense
Free Blogger Blog here
Ping your postings Pingomatic *
Create your Blogs RSS Feeds Feedburner
MyYahoo to have the links of your Blog
My Google to have the links of your Blog
Earn Affiliate commissions with Clickbank join here
*Bookmark the results page and then to submit your ping again you only have to go to this bookmark, instead of entering all the information again.
I almost forgot, before even setting up the pages for Search Engines, and before entering the adsense code, there is something 1000% easier to make money fast.
Promote your affiliate link!
If you have a list, send it to them ASAP.
If you don't have a list, find some information marketing forums (The Lost Files, Nicheology, Your own articles, etc.) and post your affiliate link. Try to be a bit subtle so they don't ban you.
Are you into Chatting? Go ahead and tell your friends about this tonight.
I have set up an Adwords campaign. It hasn't been great, but it has been dirt cheap.
Get creative and start making some $$ tonight.
I'm off to a Saturday night BBQ, but I had tell you this before I left.
Have a great Saturday night!
Hello All,
Since many of you ordered the Content Goldmine I mentioned this week ( http://www.successtoolsonline.com/go/content.html ) and several people have asked what the next step is, I want to show you what I am doing so you can get some ideas.
First and most important USE IT!
I will be posting all what I do and some video demos to my blog; so if you need help, I recommend you check it at least once a week so you can make some money with this content you aquired.
I won't be sending email each time I do something because there is another group who isn't interested in this and I don't want to fill up your Inbox.
There are several things to do with the content, and I'll be working from the easiest to the more complicated.
First I wanted to use it as FRESH content on my site so the spiders pick it up.
I've done that bare bones basic here (click any link):
http://www.successtoolsonline.com/Articles/boost_memory_tips.php
Then if you look at my previous postings on my blog I mentioned I had done, posted a link, and I "pinged" my post so the search engines pick up the link. (which they have by now)
The next easiest thing to do is to generate Adsense Revenue. To do that I have obtained my Adsense code (by the way you can join adsense by clicking on white button down to the right in the post) I created a simple template and I "copy pasted" the information in the template and saved the docs. You can see how that looks here:
http://www.successtoolsonline.com/Articles/baby_sleep/article7.htm
If you notice at the end I also have some Clickbank RSS links. I'll show you how I applied the template and how I did the RSS in a video I will make tomorrow.
If you have any questions, leave them as comments and I'll answer them here.
Success Tools Online - Free tools and resources for your Success
I did this really quick, so the pages aren't formated yet. As you can see there are 10 articles for 10 niches, that's 100 articles to generate content for your site instantly. I also haven't put up the free courses (5 articles per niche) so actually you will be adding 150 pages a month to your site.
The Content Goldmine Site is at http://www.successtoolsonline.com/go/niche-content.html
The opportunities here are:
Adsense Income
Building a list with the mini courses and promoting products
Click Bank Product Recomendation in the Articles
You could create a stand alone product from the information
Search engine traffic from content.
I'll let you know if Blog, Ping and Sitemaps Still work later on today.
This is the main page from where to access the articles:
Success Tools Online - Free tools and resources for your Success
Jimmy D. Brown just released his "Content Goldmine" Site.
There is information on 10 niches every month. You get a report, ecourse, keywords and affiliate opportunities to do whatever you want with them.
http://www.successtoolsonline.com/go/niche-content.html
He also has a very nice 2 Tier Affiliate program, $10 per tier monthly.
That can turn into a lot of money if it is well marketed.
Check it out at:
http://www.successtoolsonline.com/go/niche-content.html
Listen here 2min
There is still time to get your own Amazon Shop for the Holidays.
Download the script at:
http://www.mrrat.com/aws/
Really easy to setup, very customizable, great Job MrRat!
If you want to be notified of new posts sign up at http://www.SuccessToolsOnline.com
Check out the shop I'm woriking on, click here.
Click here for the Audio
You can listen to my $100, 60second tip above
Guess what? Blogger won't let me add the button in the post, so you can see it on the side bar. to your right and at the bottom. or you can check out my Blog in Spanish at. Vendereninternet.org
You can subscribe to my Odeo channel here:
I'm Claiming my feed at Odeo, so it is easyer to manage my Podcasts, which by the way will be more frequent, but will last only 60 sec.
My Odeo Channel (odeo/5f87f5efa415e73d)
I know I disappeared for a few days, but I am preparing for the Christmas Season.
The other day I was writing on my other Blog a Spanish Internet Marketing one, and I was telling everyone how sales will increase this year and how they should prepare, and suddenly I noticed I hadn't done a thing my self!!!!
So off I went and started researching what I could do that would be ready in time for this years shoppers.
To tell you the truth I am kind of tired, but I was able to launch a product in Clickbank in less than 5 days and I am almost done with another project that could create a good Christmas Bonus.
As soon as I'm done I'll tell you what I did and what you can do to make some extra cash this season.
Got to catch some sleep, so I'll continue tomorrow.
Cheers,
Finaly I was able to get my webcam to record correctly. It's just a test but it works.
The links to the free stuff are at the end.
Click Play to Stream
Microsoft Movie Maker 2 : Do you need to edit your videos? here is a good free solution: www.microsoft.com/moviemaker
Be in Sync: Have your home computer, your laptop and your office computer with their files in sync. This is a free sync application that works like peer to peer to keep all your information updated on all your computers: http://www.beinsync.com/
Thunderbird: Most of you have already heard or use Firefox, well the good news is that they have a very good mail client also, called Thunderbird. If you have been using outlook because you use Plaxo, Thunderbird now has a Plaxo plug-in.
http://www.mozila.org/
Do you love to be organized and keep records of what you are doing? Yahoo! My Web Beta saves your search results and annotates web pages
If you were using your Lost Files Books to create Adsense revenue, you know how s-l-o-w that can be.
I just found out about this site that will give 250 FRESH Articles, 5 Private Label Reports and a list with thousands of Topic Specific Keywords. Every month.
The site opens on October 30th but there already is a waiting list since spaces are limited and there will be a Special introductory price the first couple of days.
If this is something that would interest you I STRONGLY RECOMMEND you check it out at:
YOUR OWN ARTICLES. Sign up to be notified of the launch.