Free Landing Page Templates

November 15th, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing, Making Money. 4 Comments

A buddy of mine sent over a few landing page templates last week and I wanted to make them free to everyone here to help you with you Adwords campaigns.

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$100 A Day With Yahoo! Answers

November 15th, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing, Informational Products. 1 Comment

Thank you to everyone who has subscribed today. Here is the book with a guide, if followed, will make you $100 a day with Yahoo! Answers.

Please make sure if you’re sending traffic to the offer that you’re blocking your referrer as some affiliate programs don’t like to see you sending incentive traffic to their offers. It’s not my responsibility to make sure you’re following your company’s TOS– so please use this book as an educational guide only. Actually don’t read it at all!

Extract all files and run index.html in your favorite web browser.
I have been told this doesn’t like to play nice with Internet Explorer, so please open with Firefox, Opera, Chrome, whatever. Without further ado, here you are.

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$100 A Day With Yahoo! Answers

November 14th, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing, Informational Products. 32 Comments

I previously wrote about my success with writing an e-book “$100 A Day With Yahoo Answers”(to the tune of nearly $1,000 in 3 days). I wanted to share with you the book that sold nearly 30 copies at $41.00 each this last month.

A lot of people wonder what it takes to put together a book and market it– and truth be told it can be done by anyone with just about anything. So long as you have a great idea, a program equivalent to Notepad, and some time to market and sell your idea you can be successful. This is your chance to not only see what blew up my Paypal account, but also use the idea to market your own products via Yahoo! Answers.

$100 A Day With Yahoo Answers

Marketing with Yahoo! Answers is a delicate subject that often brings with it controversy. There are hundreds if not thousands spamming Yahoo! Answers every day– but none of them are doing it the way I have and do. This book will show you how to truly drive traffic from Yahoo! Answers and convert traffic to leads.

The very first person to read the book made $41.00 their first day of attempting the technique. Since then others have made hundreds.

Not only will you receive the e-book explaining exactly how to implement the concept, but I’ll also be including the landing page I’ve personally optimized and used for this project to make hundreds. All included in the package you receive.

To get your copy please subscribe to my RSS feed via e-mail. Once the subscription is activated I will send you a copy of the book with an idea that not only made me some big bucks a few months back (and will make you some as well), but was also received with high praise from those who purchased the book.

Get your copy sent directly to your inbox now. If you don’t like reading my other updates you can unsubscribe as soon as your copy arrives (but with the information I give out for free, who would do that?!)

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My E-Book Experience

November 13th, 2008 in Informational Products, Making Money. 7 Comments

Last month I experimented for the first time with a way to make money online that I had never really experimented with before: selling information.

My plan was fairly simple in that I was just going to wrap up a technique I had already proven to work, and find others who would pay for that information. I never originally imagined the kind of response I would eventually receive.

Knowing that marketing is everything, I put the book together pretty quickly and spent more time on writing the sales letter and contacting people than actually creating the book itself. I had already been using the technique so the book was written without any immediate research (all had been done previously) and didn’t take me but a few hours.

My First Experience With Acrobat
I launched Adobe Acrobat only to be disappointed with the steep learning curve. It wasn’t difficult to create a basic layout but when I wanted to manipulate text and images it really started giving me a headache. I closed everything down and opened up my favorite HTML editor to finish the book. After all, who said an e-book has to be in .PDF format? Acrobat isn’t by any means undefeatable, and if I really wanted to I could’ve taken a few tutorials on Acrobat and pushed through… but I was in a hurry.

I put the book together with easy to read text on a nice design with a few screenshots spread throughout. I quickly Proof-read it for any errors and touched up a few areas before zipping it up and uploading it to my server.

Marketing Your E-Book
There are several active forums with audiences just waiting to be sold to. I chose DigitalPoint to start with and started typing out my sales letter in their Buy, Sell, & Trade section. The forum is free to post in and other than it being fairly strict with regulations (bumping, etc) it’s actually a very active community with nice people overall.

I chose a price that seemed fair and held a bit of significance with the sales letter itself. My first buyer made $41.00 their very first day of applying the knowledge so I made the the cost of the book $41.00. Anything lower and you’re making your book seem unworthy, and anything more might make a high percentage of your viewers look at other threads before purchasing.

The trick is really selling your product with the sales letter. Unfortunately copywriting isn’t something that can be taught in the scope of one blog post so maybe I can save that subject for a later time, but so long as you’re always selling throughout your sales letter and lead the buyer with a call-to-action, they will purchase the book without asking many questions.

You Need Testimonials
The fact is that you need a few decent testimonials from users who are already trusted within the clique of the forum you’re posting. Reach out to a few members with a discounted or free copy so they can write a quick review on the thread to persuade others. This is probably the most important thing to do during the entire process. If someone PM’s you for a discount consider it but make sure they write a review for you.

Some that may be less scrupulous than I might ask someone to post a review before sending them their copy. This isn’t the right thing to do but a lot of people do it. At least it insures you aren’t giving away your product for nothing.

You Need Screenshots
You need to prove the method you’re selling is actually worth by posting a few screenshots of your own earnings. Have other users post screenshots of their earnings as well.

So, all-in-all I sold about $1,000 worth of e-books in 3 days total. And even though answering 30-40 PM’s per day is a full time job in itself, it’s absolutely worth it if you have the time.

And Here Comes Trouble:

• Support Out The Yin-Yan
• Not Understanding Your Book
• Buyers Brokering Discounted Copies

Unfortunately not everyone on the forum is a genius. They assume they can purchase the book from you and you will then do all the work for them because you’ve been paid. They want you to do everything from setting up their affiliate account to setting up hosting to… you name it.

Including 24/7 support on instant messenger. All of this hassle is not worth $41. Consider this when constructing your landing page. Make sure you include that you will support as much as possible but won’t be able to do the work for the purchaser. I had a few Paypal chargebacks because of this reason alone. It’s a headache dealing with everyone’s problems whatever they may be. Make sure your book is descriptive as possible.

People will PM anyone who has posted on your public thread asking to buy a discounted copy of your book directly through them. This is especially frustrating and very annoying. Buyers may also buy a copy and file a chargeback once they’ve read it. It’s just a pain to have to dispute these chargebacks.

Is it worth the hassle? If you do it right I think it is. This is definitely BUM marketing and there are other ways to market more lengthy books (Clickbank advertiser account), but the nice thing with our industry is that it’s so flexible. If you really wanted to make $1,000 in 3 days you actually could with enough effort. Get rich overnight? I don’t know, but I’m sure some people would feel rich with $1,000.

Would I do it again? Maybe. Probably not. It was too much work for $1,000. And I didn’t enjoy the customer service aspect of the process.

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Make Money With Bravisa

October 29th, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing, Making Money. 3 Comments

Have you ever wanted to add merchandise to your blog but don’t really want to worry about keeping stock, fulfilling orders, shipping, and customer service? Yeah– you and everyone else in the world.

There are a few ways to open a store to sell merchandise. You can take advantage of the eBay affiliate network, Amazon affiliate network, and there are several others.

Doing this requires you to go through the hassle of account creation, dealing with your affiliate information, etc. And while I have my share of BANS stores out there this is an interesting (FREE) alternative to BANS(eBay).

Bravisa is a marketplace you can add to your blog that allows you to sell merchandise for a given niche or subject. Bravisa stocks the items through Amazon, Buy.com, etc. and will automatically fill your merchandise for you based on a set of keywords you give it during sign-up.

Bravisa allows you to set your own mark-up during registration but by default pays a 20-40% commission on whatever sale you make through your blog. They host your store and you can implement the widget through your blog. Your visitors see items targeted to them and they can make the purchase directly from your blog.

Once your registration is complete, Bravisa will automatically generate a list of products based on your keywords which you can manually edit to your liking. While I would personally probably set up products directly through my affiliate network, Bravisa may be a good alternative for those of you just getting started or who are looking for a convenience factor in setting up shops on the fly.

They seem to have a lot of good eco-friendly products, so if you’re promoting those now you may be interested.

Just to clarify, this is not a paid or requested review, I simply think it’s an interesting concept to make you a few extra bucks.

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It’s Been A While

October 29th, 2008 in Personal. Add Comment

Well what can I say, I have been extremely busy with projects online and offline. Sorry for the lack of posts lately :P.

My cousin was married this last week, so we were traveling, relaxing (and drinking!). Had my first experience visiting downtown Charleston, SC. Got to spend some time on the beach at the Isle of Palms (live reggae music and fresh Caribbean cuisine) and even took a bicycle-taxi (these guys work hard make sure you tip well) down to the old haunted prison.

All-in-all it was a great time. If you’re ever in the area, Charleston is a great mix of old history and new economy. Definitely worth the visit.

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Referral Bombing

October 10th, 2008 in Making Money, Revvenue Toolbox. 3 Comments

For the Webmaster
Nothing catches a webmaster’s attention more quickly than a referral domain sending traffic to their website. If you’re like me, I like to check my referring stats at least once a day to see who is sending traffic my way.

For Free Links
Have you ever seen a website that tracks and ranks the number of referrals to that particular page or domain? Lots of sites (image and video hosts mainly) have this to give some love back to who sends them the most traffic.

There are thousands of pages out there with free link-love just waiting for you to take advantage of the opportunity to inject your URL! Many of them are do-follow links with high PageRank.

Handing Them Out
If you’d rather assign a casual referral to every page you visit, there is an extension for Firefox called RefControl that allows you to enter whatever domain you like and will automatically drop it as a referral on any page you’re viewing online.

Lets get a bit sneaky with this trick and let our browser do the work while we’re away!
Autoit is a program (free!) that lets you create a “video” of sorts or macro, (with a few lines of code) and it will automatically replay that action over and over again for you automatically while your browser is open and running (while you’re sleeping). Combined with Stumbleupon, you can easily target any niche you like (using Stumbleupon as your pilot) and let Autoit drop your referral information throughout repeatedly. (You can find tutorials out there for programming Autoit and when I have some more time I’ll personally take a look into it but it seems a bit more advanced than what I had originally thought when I looked at it for the first time).

Referrals en masse
Just dropping one referral won’t get you on any of those “Top Referring Sites” lists. So, we need to do something a little more drastic to reverse-engineer these little boogers. In comes MagicTraffic Robot.

MagicTraffic Robot simply allows you to enter any domain for a target and any domain for the referral, and once you click submit you can spam to your little heart’s content. Pretty handy!

Wait for Revvenue Tools to be released, I have a copy of MagicTraffic Robot that will be included in membership. If you haven’t signed up already to be notified when it goes live, do so now! If you’re already a member of Revvenue Tools Beta, this program is available for download now.

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A+ For LiquidWeb

October 5th, 2008 in Revvenue Toolbox. 1 Comment

Still working on the Revvenue Toolbox, I installed a script to automatically crop thumbnails with PHP’s GD Library.

I’ve had a VPS Server with LiquidWeb for a while now after my shared hosting at MediaTemple just got over-crowded. Since then I’ve only really ran Wordpress installations so there wasn’t much need to contact support for any reason.

My first real contact with support was early this morning at 2:00am, and I must say I’m pleasantly surprised. I sent an e-mail and asked to install GD lib for me and got an e-mail from Daniel Wells who said he would have GD installed within 30 minutes.

Less than 30 minutes later I got an e-mail from Daniel and GD was up an running.

If you’re looking for a VPS at a reasonable rate, I have to recommend LiquidWeb… I’m very pleasantly surprised with the level of customer support– and the up-time/speed is great too.

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Highest Paying Keywords List

September 27th, 2008 in Making Money, Revvenue Toolbox. 2 Comments

This week has kept me busy with the soon-to-be launch of Revvenue Toolbox. I’m very excited to be offering this product!

To give you a sneak peak of the kind of thing you will soon have access to, I wanted to share with you one of the informational products that will be available:

Google’s Top Paying Keyword List

If you’re doing Adsense or SEM in general this is definitely going to help you pick some of the highest paying niches. Enjoy!

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MySpace Music

September 25th, 2008 in Making Money, MySpace. Add Comment

Today MySpace has changed the way they display music on profiles. This creates a unique money-making opportunity for you if you can do any kind of basic CSS web design.

Most of the artists have had their MySpace profiles custom designed with the old MySpace music player set to float over a certain position on their layout. Now with the new code the music player is either in a weird place or not showing at all.

This could impact an artist quite a bit considering their music cannot be played. If you can do it in a hurry, shoot off some e-mails to these people offering to fix the problem for $100 and with a couple lines of code they’re back in business. I would imagine they’d be quick to have it fixed without having to get back in touch with their designer, etc.

And by the way, the new MySpace Music is pretty cool.

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