Posted on March 26 2018
I met a guy who is running a little club online, teaching people how to buy and sell websites.
He has a product, a continuity program and a newsletter.
But here’s the surprising bit: The product is inside his continuity program, and he seldom has to update it or add to it.
So how does he continue to charge monthly fees for a program the members receive in its entirety from day 1?
By giving them a monthly member’s bulletin that just about writes itself.
To do this, you need to know how to make a profit buying and selling something.
It could be...
• Websites
• Domain names
• Real estate
• Cars, boats, trucks, planes
• Farm equipment
• Artwork
• Or anything that can be ... read more
Posted on March 23 2018
There might be a dozen or more reasons why you’re having troubles in your online business, but for my coaching clients, I’ve noticed these three problems coming up time and time again.
The good news is, once you know what they are, they’re easy to remedy.
1: Not knowing the right things
You don’t have to know everything to succeed online. In fact, you never will know everything, so don’t try.
But you do need to know the stuff you need to know.
Let me illustrate: Marketer Joe is building a sales funnel. In fact, he’s been building this funnel for months now, because Joe is stuck on ... read more
Posted on March 20 2018
Can you earn $5,000 to $10,00 a month giving away what other marketers sell? Actually, yes!
I love this because it’s simple and will work in a variety of niches.
There’s this gal in the investment market who gives away her course. Mind you, it’s a great course, complete with videos, pdf’s, and a ton of actionable information.
People would pay good money for the course, but she advertises it everywhere for free.
She uses very professional looking ads, banners and landing pages to give away this free system.
All people need to do is hand over their name, email address and physical mailing address.
I suspect she sells her customers’ info to mail order businesses as well, but ... read more
Posted on March 17 2018
I’ve noticed marketers who are moving the free line all the way to, ‘never.’
They no longer give away anything for free and might even go so far as to actively discourage freebie seekers.
While I understand the sentiment behind this, I’m not sure I agree. True, it can get discouraging if it seems like your lists are only interested in what they can get for free.
You work hard to create your products – why in the world would you give away your best stuff?
The answer is, you wouldn’t, of course. Not unless it leads to a bigger upsell of some kind.
But removing all the freebies from your funnels is, ... read more
Posted on March 14 2018
I’ve seen this time and again.
Someone builds a nice little site, or product, or some sort of residual income stream.
Then they spend their time tweaking it and trying to increase the income from it. They’re good at SEO and so they tweak and tweak and tweak to make the most money possible from that asset.
Good so far, right?
But there comes a point of diminishing returns. The site or product or whatever is making $1,000 a month.
And after hours and days and weeks of tweaking, the site is now making $1,100.
But here come the monthly bills (mortgage, car, insurance, etc.) and the bills are far more than ... read more
Posted on March 11 2018
When you’re struggling to write your latest blogpost, you probably don’t want to have to worry about SEO, too.
There is one theory that says you shouldn’t. After all, if you start focusing on SEO, then you won’t be writing the best content possible for your audience.
But is it really and either/or type of situation? It would be nice to get free Google traffic from your articles and blogposts without going crazy about how to structure your writing, what to add and what
to leave out.
With that in mind, here are a few tips from the pros on how to do exactly that:
1: Your Writing Needs to Be Excellent
The ... read more
Posted on March 8 2018
• fixed typo on error page editor
• fixed affiliate program registration page
• re-installed themes to fix recaptcha issue on checkout page
• implemented product search feature for stores
Posted on March 8 2018
You can, but there’s something you’ve got to do first – you’ve got to build trust, likeability, credibility and loyalty with your prospects.
People buy on emotion. In fact, if you ask someone a day after they read your sales letter what it said, they might have trouble telling you. But if you ask them how it made them FEEL, they’ll have
no problem remembering.
When you build a personal connection with your prospects, you’re simultaneously building trust and likeability with them, too.
Imagine someone is standing next to two people; a stranger and a friend. Who are they going to listen to? The friend, of course, because they don’t ... read more
Posted on March 6 2018
• implemented user account module
• fixed cart thank you page not being saved issue
• removed affiliate agreement page from affiliate section as it can be created using the custom page feature,
• reordered javascript loading order to increase website loading performance.
• implemented store folder selection option in settings section. You can now specify the name of the store, blog and user account folders
• implemented system error messages based on store template
• re-arranged affiliate system and implemented affiliate grouping feature.
• implemented store theme upgrade/re-installation feature. you can use it to either upgrade the theme to a new version or restore the theme ... read more
Posted on March 5 2018
This may or may not work for your list, but...It can be effective for most marketers.
If you’re not getting the open rates you seek, try using a negative headline.
For example, instead of...
You’re going to love this product
This works amazing and even does the dishes
Having an awesome day, here’s why
Try something more like these:
You’re going to hate this product, here why...
This SEO product sucks (it won’t even do the dishes)
She was having a REALLY bad day (and then it got
worse)
Of course, they’re going to ‘hate the product’ because it does a lot of the work for them, and now they have nothing to do
The ... read more
Posted on March 2 2018
How do you make more sales from your email list? The answer is so diabolically simple, most marketers poo-poo it and look for a harder answer.
If you want to connect more with your list, get them to open more of your emails and click more of your links...
...and if you want them to BUY your stuff, here’s what you do:
Email them once a day, every day.
That’s it.
They need to hear from you once a day or they’re going to forget who you are. True, they won’t open every email, but that’s okay. As long as they’re opening some of them, then you’re doing your job.
Did you know that emailers who ... read more
Posted on February 28 2018
There is a thought in online marketing that if you just get the mechanics right, then everything will fall into place and you’ll get rich.
I’m not here to dispute that.
Rather, I’d like to suggest thatmindset plays a bigger role than most people think.
After all, if thoughts are things – and quantum physics tells us this is true – then what you think can have a huge impact on the success of your business.
Don’t believe me?
Take two people – one has a track record of building million-dollar businesses. The other has a track record of never having had a major success in his life.
Who would you bet on to build ... read more
Posted on February 27 2018
So many products are simply a rehash of other products, and the same goes for books, too.
Someone wants to write a book on persuasion, so they buy five books on persuasion, read them and then take all the best ideas from the books and write a new course or book or whatever.
But what if you want truly unique, stand-alone info that no one else has?
Then you’ve got to go to the sources.
Let’s say your niche is cat care, and you’re in a forum where people are discussing how they helped their cat get over a certain illness. In that forum you meet Jessie, who found a way to ... read more
Posted on February 24 2018
I’ve got a friend who has used this business model for years as a ‘side’ business.
Funny thing is, his side business earns more than many full time businesses – about $10,000 per piece of software per year.
And yes, he doesn’t own any of this software himself, which means he never has to deal with programmers or customer complaints that the software isn’t doing whatever it should be doing.
Here’s how it works:
Find free software that people use – for example, cloud storage, help desk software, popular WordPress plugins, membership software and so forth. You might want to concentrate just on software that is used in the online marketing world, or you could ... read more
Posted on February 21 2018
You work hard to write the perfect email – and then nobody even opens the darn thing.
Sigh.
What’s a marketer to do?
Try a new subject line using one of the following tactics:
Insert your personality and get personal.
Let’s face it – no one gets excited by dry toast, which is precisely why you need to let your own personality shine in your subject line.
True, some people won’t like your personality. So what? Others will love your personality because they see themselves in you, and they’ll become rabid fans.
Examples: “Three experts in our niche that are flat out WRONG,” “Why I loathe beets and want them exterminated from the planet,” “Why ... read more
Posted on February 18 2018
The ‘secret’ isn’t all that secret, and yet most marketers get this wrong.
You simply have to give a much higher value than the price that subscribers pay, and two things will happen:
They will join in droves, and they will STAY and continue to pay.
It doesn’t matter if you’re charging $10 a month or $1,000 a month. Just make sure that your members are getting far more than the price they are paying.
For example, let’s say you want to build a membership on how to start an online business.
If you give your subscribers an eight week guarantee (think Clickbank) and a promise that they can start earning by ... read more
Posted on February 16 2018
• fixed issue that was not differentiating between stores.
• fixed issue with product not being added to shopping cart
• fixed issue where out of stock message was not being saved properly.
• implemented paypal sandbox for testing order process.
Posted on February 15 2018
You’re just starting out and your list only has 500 or 1,000 people.
While it’s true you would gladly trade your small list for one that’s 100 times bigger, it’s also true that if you treat your little list right, you can still make really good money.
How does that work?
By getting personal.
First, answer emails that you get from your list. When someone reads your latest email and takes the time to write to you – answer them. You’ve only got 1,000 people on your list, so odds are only 5 to 10 will ever write to you at a time. Yes, you can do ... read more
Posted on February 12 2018
• implemented custom pages for the online stores. you can use that functionality to create any page on your stores.
• implemented custom domain for your stores. This feature will allow you to set a seperate domain for each of your store.
• implemented ssl activation for store domains.
• fixed issue with site not loading the correct theme and settings
• implemented checks to prevent same name product, custom page or category in any store.
• implemented reserved words to avoid conflict with system file names and folders
Posted on February 12 2018
Here’s an interesting case study from a guy in the US. It seems he’s something of a big name in his day job, so he wanted a way to make extra money online without ever revealing his real name.
He’s found a twist on the marketing method we all know and love – list building – that gives him multiple streams of income in several different markets without ever creating a product of his own,
blogging, dealing with affiliates or creating a big name in any of his niches.
Here’s how it works: ‘Mark’ targets all of the usual niches – make money online, dating and romance, embarrassing problems, losing weight, golfing, ... read more
Posted on February 9 2018
Yes, you made sales this month. But will you make sales NEXT month? And how will you pay the bills if you don’t make sales?
It can be scary going from a job where you know exactly how much you’ll get paid and when you’ll get paid to working your own business online.
In your business you might have a banner month and then two months of starving followed by a mediocre month followed by (hopefully) another banner month.
Thus, the question becomes, “How do you get stability in your business – and your income -as quickly as possible?”
Or... how do you KNOW for a FACT that next month ... read more
Posted on February 7 2018
• added the online store module - as it is a major module, it has been released as a beta version. Please report any bug you find for a prompt fix. Additional feature requests/improvements are also welcome.
• implemented tag check when modifying can spam footers
• fixed script path to resolve the import processing status issue.
• fixed media library display where result went outside of the browser frame.
• fixed test followup message where a campaign containing more than 20 messages were not being fully processed due to a hard coded limitation.
• fixed password reset feature which was sending blank emails
• fixed ... read more
Posted on February 6 2018
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are quite a few launches that offer second tier affiliate commissions.
This means that when someone signs up to be an affiliate through your second-tier link, you’ll receive a small portion of their sales.
The trick, obviously, is getting affiliates to sign up from your links. Here’s how you do it:
Set up a site that you update weekly or more often. It’s going to be a roundup of all the upcoming launches (that happen to have a second-tier program in place.) Watch Clickbank, Warrior, JVZoo and other sites to find these second-tier launches.
Make your site look good, and give it an ... read more
Posted on February 3 2018
In a word – yes. And they have been for years.
Here’s how it works:
A marketer gets to be well known by customers on Warrior or JVZoo. Those customers buy all of his products, but after awhile they start to realize a lot of it is the same information, only repackaged. And then they stop buying new stuff put out by this marketer. The marketer, wanting to make more sales, gets a front person to sell his latest product for him.
This way the big name marketer can throw his full weight behind the launch of this “newly discovered” marketer and his product.
Yes, it’s still basically the same information repackaged yet again, but ... read more
Posted on January 31 2018
You purchase a product for $9 and you can’t wait to download it and see what’s inside. But instead of a download link on the next page, what do you get?
A @#$%& upsell!
Okay, admittedly the upsell looks pretty darn good. And it will make your life easier, too. So you spend the $29 and get the upsell.
Now to go to the download page...
What the ___?! It’s ANOTHER upsell!
This one is $200. Which is a shame, because it looks so enticing. If only it were cheaper... you click on the ‘no thanks’ link.
And on the next page you see the same upsell minus the live coaching for only $49, ... read more