Earning through google adsense

Lesson Objective:

To survey your existing customers and opt-in subscribers about products and services
they’d be interested in buying in the near future.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Email
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Well here we are…Day 33! We’ve come a long way together!

First off, please congratulate yourself! You deserve a big hand for doing what most
people don’t do…and that is, sticking with a plan.

I hope by now you’ve already started to experience the joy of waking up to find money
waiting for you in your inbox. Nice feeling, right?

Of course, it might not be a fortune waiting for you – but it’s a start…and more
importantly, you know how to do it for yourself.

Our last course of action is going to be looking for additional products or services you
can provide to your customers.

Did you know that it is 5x easier to sell to an existing customer than a new one? It’s true.
So that’s why, I want to show you how you exploit this for your profit.

There’s really no rocket science to getting very rich selling a product or service. Simply
put, if you have what people WANT they’ll be jumping over themselves to give you their
money.

So then the $64,000 question is “what do they want?”

Well, how about we ask them?

I don’t think you need to guess what your customers want – let them tell you and then
you can create it and sell it to them.

Pretty easy, right? You bet!

All you need to do is send out a simple questionnaire asking your customers to rank
several potential projects and which ones they’d like to see.

Here’s an example from a questionnaire I sent out:

* * *

Which of the following possible new products/services would
interest you most. Please rank in order from 1 to 5 (1 being most
useful and 5 being least useful to you):

__ Sales letter critique with a professional direct response
copywriter.

__ Membership site where you can ask top $250.00+/hour experts
in personal development and wealth creation any question you like
every month. Plus interact with other success-minded individuals.

__ 30 day, step-by-step blueprint to creating online profits for
any business or service.

__ Monthly copywriting analysis and break down of successful web
sites with the brains behind the sites.

__ Conversations with millionaires. Interviews of exactly how
real people are really accomplishing what they want in life.

__ Other

* * *

As you see, it’s really quite simple. I just add up all the answers and then I can decide
which project I want to pursue next.

People are pretty anxious to give you their help…if you ask – so go ahead and let them
help you by telling you what they want to buy.

Now, to get people to answer your questionnaire I suggest giving them an incentive. An
ebook or special report works great for this.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Come up with several new project ideas and let your customers decide what they
want to buy next from you.

2. Email it out to your customers asking for their help and offer them some kind of
incentive to answer.

Today’s Resources:

One Minute Poll – an incredibly easy and effective way to conduct polls online for ANY
size business… super easy to use and very affordable.

Zoomerang – create surveys and access results in real time.

E-Form - Email and web forms for surveys, collecting and updating databases and cool
survey reports. Ask anybody, any question, by email or web and place answers in your
database. Automatically produces and publishes html reports too.

Day 32 (Thursday) - Submit Ezine Article #2

2009-05-27T02:49:00.001-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To submit the second article you have written for your ezine list.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Email
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Welcome to Day 32, our second to last day together.

Today, we’re going to submit another article to our same list of ezine editors.

The article that you created yesterday will go out and start generating free publicity for
you (like the first one).

There’s really not much to it! You should have the system down by now.

If you need a refresher check back to Day 17.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Send out article #2 to your list of ezine editors.

Today’s Resources:

“Turn Words Into Traffic” – Jim Edwards’ guide to creating an avalanche of free
traffic to your website using the power of ezine articles. Recognized as the web’s leading
course on how to use articles for massive publicity and profits… all free!

Day 31 (Wednesday) - Prepare Article #2 for submission to your ezine list

2009-05-27T02:48:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

Today you will write your second article to submit to your list of ezines that accept
articles.

Skills Needed:
· Basic email
· Word processing
· Basic surfing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – What should you write about?

If you need help with the actual writing process please refer back to Day 16.

After all we’ve been through together, the question on your mind should not be “how” to
write the article – it should be “what” to write about.

What does your audience need to know?

Based on your idea surfing sessions, what could you teach people that would make them
want to buy your product?

Example:

I just wrote an article about Adobe Acrobat 5.0 and a problem it has with converting
ebooks as a way to promote the ebook I co-authored with Joe Vitale, “How to Write and
Publish your own eBook in as little as 7 Days.”

I don’t give away anything from the book, I just tell them about a problem with a
software package a lot of people own or might upgrade to. Writing this type of article
enhances my status as an expert and promotes the book at the same time.

What problem could you solve for your target audience?

What bit of news could you comment on right now and really help make a difference in
their lives?

Today’s Assignment:

1. Write and edit your second article using the steps laid out in Day 16.

Today’s Resources:

“Turn Words Into Traffic” – Jim Edwards’ guide to creating an avalanche of free
traffic to your website using the power of ezine articles. Recognized as the web’s leading
course on how to use articles for massive publicity and profits… all free!

Day 30 (Tuesday) - Send out your endorsement email

2009-05-27T02:46:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To send out your endorsement email letter to the house list you have built up over the last
month.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Email

Today’s Lesson:

Congratulate yourself – we’re already on Day 30…sending out your endorsed email!

Today’s lesson will be very profitable.

Today, we’re simply going to get your endorsed email from yesterday and send it out the
door to bring in some dough.

Believe it or not – email marketing is pretty simple when you do it right.

Before we go any further, I want to give you some information on opt-in email marketing
so you get this straight.

The Truth About “Opt-in” and “Permission” Email Marketing

If you’ve been on the Net for anytime, I’m sure you’ve heard of “spam”.

That’s the name for unsolicited commercial email… mostly the kind of “get rich quick”
and “send me a dollar” pyramid schemes that find their way into your inbox.

Many short-term minded marketers feel that since email is practically free they can send
out thousands and thousands of emails hoping for a handful of sales while dealing with
the risks involved.

We don’t think that’s a good idea.

You see, there is a big difference between permission email marketing and spamming.
I’m not talking about using software that can harvest emails addresses from the Web or
even those CD-roms with “30 million email addresses” floating around. The fact is,
without getting permission, you are just sending out spam and that will land you in some
big trouble.

I’ve seen sites shutdown, ISP’s cancelled and people basically being “blackballed” from
the Internet community.

Trust me, it’s not pretty.

In fact, there is legislation pending that makes spamming illegal. So not only will you
have all kinds of angry prospects – but you could also end up with severe legal penalties
against you.

Why would you want to put yourself through any of that?

There’s no point because getting permission is easy once you start using the strategies
we’re revealing here, plus it produces far better results.

Okay, with that said, let’s get to work finishing your endorsement email.

We’ve already discussed editing on Day 11 for your sales letter (and it’s really the same
process – just a little easier).

Your endorsement email’s only job is to get your recipient over to your affiliate link with
a predisposed idea to buy the product.

I’ve seen some endorsement email work with just a few paragraphs while others are 15-
20 paragraphs. You don’t want to really sell in the email – just “pre-sell” and lay the
groundwork for the sales process on the referring site to do the work for you.

If you’ve done a good job with this pre-sell you can easily see 5%, 10% even as high
20% conversion rates once they get to the website.

Before your email goes out – here are a couple simple points that are often overlooked:

· Make sure the link in your email is “clickable”. That means links should start
with http://www.yoursite.com and an email link should start with:
mailto:email@isp.com

· Make sure your “from” field is something people on your list will recognize,
such as your name or your business name.

· Did you include a way to people to remove themselves and unsubscribe from
your list?

· Do all the links work? Did you double-check?

· Is there a “spam” disclaimer? This basically comes at the end and says…

“This email is never sent unsolicited. You or someone claiming to be you
subscribed to this list using this email address [email]. If you wish to
unsubscribe please see below.”

Today’s Assignment:

1. Edit your email at least twice and read it aloud to yourself. Be sure it is formatted
correctly. Hard return before 65 characters so it wraps correctly.

2. Send out your endorsed email to your opt-in and customer list (you can slightly
change the opening for each group). Best days to mail seem to be Tue, Wed and
Thursday for sending out emails.

By the way - if you started this program on Monday (Day 1) – today would
be a Tuesday... a perfect day to mail!

Day 29 (Monday) - Write “endorsed mailing” to your own list

2009-05-27T02:45:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To write a letter to your own “house list” to endorse another product and make money!

Skills Needed:
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Okay today – I’m going to show you the secret to where the really “big money” comes
into play!

If you’ve read any marketing manuals you’ve probably heard about your “backend”
being the source of all your major profits in the business. Well, it’s true! Your most
expensive cost ever is going to be getting that initial customer to buy from your web site.

Stop and think about what I just said there!

Whenever you make an initial transaction with someone new there is always that fear of
being ripped off, or not getting exactly what was promised, or being dissatisfied -
whatever the case may be.

The easiest way to increase your revenues each and every month is simply going back to
your same customers and offering new products and services.

Most people completely neglect their current customers and only focus on driving more
and more new customers into the door. (Wrong!)

Each and every month (at least) my customers will get a pitch from me for something
else and it doesn’t have to be a product that I create, even though I’m pretty prolific at
creating products.

It can be a joint venture deal or affiliate program I endorse.

And that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about today… creating an endorsement
email.

This is the opposite side of the coin of looking for joint ventures (now you’re the one
endorsing the other person).

In your research I’m sure you’ve uncovered some products/services that would be a good
fit for your new customers – well here’s your chance to profit from that research.

If the product you’re interested in endorsing has an affiliate program – it’s a total no-
brainer to get going. Just sign up for their affiliate program and then start crafting a
simple email that explains how you found the product and why they should get it.

Here’s a sample endorsement email I’ve sent that should give you some ideas:

*******

[[firstname]] - 3 minutes to greater joy, wealth and
happiness?

Hi [[firstname]]

I stumbled across something unusual recently....

And as a valued Instant Sales Letter member I wanted to let
you know about it.

A few months ago I met a man named John Harricharan at a
seminar, who graciously offered me his material to review.

I smiled and politely thanked him but I knew that I probably
wouldn't get around to reading it anytime soon. (You should
see my stack of reading material to get to and I'm actually
a quick reader.)

But as luck would have it, I was going away on my honeymoon
one week after this seminar and I decided to bring some
'lighter' reading along.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I read a book that
didn't deal with the subject of marketing or advertising,
but once I started reading John's material on the airplane
and I couldn't put it down.

It was simply incredible!

His manuscript combined every success principle I've ever
been taught and wraps it all up into one succinct exercise
called a "Power Pause". And the best part is it only takes
just 3 minutes and 3 steps to achieve.

Yep! Only 3 minutes!

The truth is, I constantly find myself applying John's
simple (yet extremely powerful) "Power Pause" principles in
my life now and I feel like there is no problem or situation
I can't conquer. (Frankly - I'm not one of those spiritual
'walk on hot coals' type of guys - but this stuff really has
had a profound effect on my life.)

What's more, other top marketers like Declan Dunn, Jonathan
Mizel, Monique Harris, Joe Vitale and Marlon Sanders all
vouch for John's material (he even has an endorsement from
famed Deepak Chopra, MD).

It's amazing to think there are only 3 steps to solving
almost any problem you'll ever deal with (money, happiness,
relationship, you name it). And John assures me that it
works for anyone willing to give it a try.

The only thing you need to give this information a shot, is
an open mind. Open enough to take a chance on yourself and
the material contained in the "PowerPause". (Actually, you
don't even need to take a chance because his proven material
is backed by a 100% unconditional, guarantee -- so you
really can't lose!)

Do yourself a favor and check out this valuable information
by clicking the link below:

Power Pause

You'll be glad you did!

Yanik Silver

P.S. Could there really be 3 steps to happiness, joy, wealth
and getting almost anything you really want in your life? I
couldn't believe it either until I applied the "Power Pause"
material myself here: Power Pause

* * *

Now, let me point something out to here.

As you see I don’t tell the whole story in the email. I tell just enough to get people
excited and wanted to find out more about this resource.

Also, this is an affiliate link so I do get paid when people buy however I will never, ever
recommend a product unless I’ve purchased it and used myself.

You should make that a principal in your endorsements also because that way people
know that you don’t simply endorse everything.

Trust me, I’ve purchased tons of Internet marketing information and there hasn’t been
anything that has impressed me more than Jonathan’s stuff.

So this email I send out is totally true and sincere.

Also, it’s important when sending out emails to restate your relationship and tell them
how they got on your list.

Be sure there is some anti-spam disclaimer and also a simple way to unsubscribe.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Craft an endorsed email. Write from the heart and tell a story (see the article
below). This is just your rough draft.

Today’s Resources:

Million Dollar Emails - Collection of winning emails from the top Internet marketers
and eCommerce leaders. Just $19. An incredible value! In fact, there’s a whole section on
endorsement emails, customer emails, new customer emails, etc. etc.

WebAdMagic - Complete and comprehensive resource about autoresponders that make
money! You get an entire swipe file filled with tons of winning examples (and more)

Feature Article

=============================================================
The Art of Creating Hypnotic Emails: How To Get Your Emails Opened, Read, and
Responded To

By Yanik Silver, instantsalesletters.com
==============================================================
The power of email marketing is truly the "killer app" of the Internet. Personally, I’ve
witnessed some incredible results from my own email marketing campaigns:

$ $9,188.00 in profits in 72 hours
$ $15,558.81 in less than 3 weeks
$ $15,400.00 in 14 days

And if you read on, I’ll share with you 2 little-known factors to achieving results like this
in your own email marketing campaigns. I call it my “one-two knockout punch”!

The first thing you have to realize is what I’m about to share has been around *way*
before the Internet. The simple truth is that people don’t change and if you understand
human psychology you can make lots and lots of money online.

Your first job is get your email opened. Now, I’m going to make an assumption here;
That you are only using your own opt-in list, I don’t have enough room here to tell why
you should – so please just trust me.

Now, according to eMarketer.com, Americans get an average of 15.2 email messages a
day and that number continues to rise. That means unless your email’s subject line is
compelling – your message will wind up in the trash faster than you can blink!

One of the best ways to create a persuasive subject line is to incorporate curiosity.

Here are a few examples of powerful subject lines:

Hi ! … just checking in …

- I'm finally spilling my guts...

- I goofed...

, what do you think?

, Oh no, you didn't

Open this before 7:15 p.m

When you receive something like this in your email box, it’s very hard not to take a peek
and open it up. Remember this is very important, your subject line is like a kamikaze
bomber, and its only job is to get your email opened.

----------------
Side note: Every part of your email has to have a job to do and the body of your email is
no different. I’ve had the most success sending out a small ‘teaser’ in the email and then
directed them to a web site for full details and to close the sale.
---------------
Okay, so now what?

Once you got your prospect to open the email, you had better grab their attention and
keep them reading. Frankly, the absolute best way in the world I know is to use a story.

From the ancient times to current day - stories continue to hold readers and listeners
spellbound. There is nothing better than a good story. It works almost like magic. You
can give people information and motivate using stories without having the barriers that
come up normally. This is a seldom used copywriting technique that work wonders
in email.

Here are a few examples I’ve successfully used:

* * *

Hi ,

I stumbled across something unusual recently....

And as a valued subscriber I wanted to let you know about it.

A few months ago I met a man named John Harricharan at a seminar,
who graciously offered me his material to review.

I smiled and politely thanked him but I knew that I probably
wouldn't get around to reading it anytime soon. (You should see
my stack of reading material to get to and I'm actually a quick
reader.)

But as luck would have it, I was going away on my honeymoon one
week after this seminar and I decided to bring some 'lighter'
reading along.

Honestly, I can't remember the last time I read a book that
didn't deal with the subject of marketing or advertising, but
once I started reading John's material on the airplane
and I couldn't put it down.

It was simply incredible!

(copy continues)…

* * *

* * *
Dear [[firstname]],

Will you help me settle an argument (and win a bet)?

It's between my friend Markus Allen and me.

Here's the deal - I've been bugging Mark to update his
Postcard marketing book for almost a year now. (Mark wrote
"How to Market with Postcards" a couple years ago and it
was the bible for postcard marketing - but now it's out of
print and needed revising). I kept telling him that my
customers would love to find out all his little-known
secrets to low cost postcard marketing.

He would shake his head no and reply that people are only
interested in Web marketing or email marketing today.

I didn't think so. So we made a small wager.

(copy continues)…

* * *
I guarantee by simply using this proven “one-two knockout punch”, I just illustrated,
you'll see your next email campaign produce incredible results. Get ready to
click…send…and make money!

(c) 2001 Surefire Marketing, Inc. All rights reserved.

* * * * *

Day 28 (Sunday) - Catch Up / Surf for Ideas day

2009-05-27T02:43:00.001-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To catch up on any incomplete assignments and “Surf for ideas” for at least an hour to
find 2 things you can implement to improve your online efforts

Skills Needed:
· Basic email
· Word processing
· Basic surfing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – Make a list of tasks you still must complete…

Have you signed up with Overture.com?

Do you need to research more keywords?

Have you signed up with at least 2 more pay-per-click search engines?

Have you submitted your ezine article?

Do you need to follow up with potential JV partners?

Do you need to follow up with people who have purchased from you?

Do you need to look at your numbers?

Do you need to “tweak” your headlines or modify your copy on the site?

Do you need to run another round of ezine ads?

… What haven’t you done?

Make a list of unfinished tasks and get them done today!

Part 2 – “Surf for Ideas”

Go out on the web and look at what other people are doing.

How do they process their credit card orders?

How do they deliver their products?

What kinds of headlines do they use?

Who do they link to?

Who links to them?

How could you get links from the same places?

How could you improve upon what you see?

How could you use what you see to enhance what you are doing?

Surf for at least an hour, find 2 things you can use and implement them today!

Summary of today’s assignments:

1. Make a list of unfinished tasks and get them done today!

2. Surf for at least an hour to find 2 things you can use and implement today!

Day 27 (Saturday) - Set the stage for More Traffic!

2009-05-27T02:41:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

· Today you will brainstorm more keywords, submit your new keywords to
Overture and sign up with at least 2 more pay-per-click search engines.

Skills Needed:
· Basic email
· Word processing
· Basic surfing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – Log on to Overture.com and brainstorm 100 more keywords

The more hooks you have in the water the better your chance of catching a fish!

Log on to Overture.com and research more keywords that would bring targeted visitors to
your site.

If you have trouble thinking of additional keywords to search, try this little trick.

Log on to your nearest competitor’s site and look at their keywords tag.

Step 1 – Log on to their site,

Step 2 – In the Internet Explorer web browser go to your
menu bar and click “View” then click “Source”. (In
Netscape you click “View” then click “Page Source”.)

Step 3 – This will open up your text editor and you can
look at what your competitors think are important
keywords by looking in the keywords meta-tag.

content='Sequential Autoresponder
System'>

Look for any words you may not have thought about -- but which make perfect sense
once you see them.

Use these new words to start your new research using the keyword tool on Overture.

Part 2 – Submit your new keywords to Overture

Submit your new keywords to Overture using your best tested titles and descriptions.

Part 3 – Add those same keywords to your Google Ad Words campaign

Just take the same keywords you just found and add those to your Google Ad Words
account. Also, by this time you should have some clear ideas about which of your ads is
the winner in our split test.

Do you see it?

Yes. Okay good. Create one more ad and start split-testing that also.

Part 4 – Sign up with at least 2 more pay-per-click search engines.

FACT! Traffic is going to make or break you online.

By now you should have:

· A sales letter that works…

· A product worth buying…

· Proven ad copy for your pay-per-click links and ezine ads!

Now it’s time to start pouring on the traffic and working the “numbers”.

Don’t spend more that you can afford to lose – but chances are, if you know your
numbers, you won’t “lose” anything!

If you’ve done everything you were supposed to do up to this point all you’re doing now
is “rolling out” your business.

Go get some more traffic and make money!

Summary of today’s assignments:

1. Research 100 new keyword combinations with Overture.

2. Submit your new keywords to Overture using your best titles and descriptions.

3. Use those same 100 new keywords and add them to your Google campaign.
Check to see which ad is the winner in your split test.

4. Sign up with at least 2 more pay-per-click search engines and submit your
keywords.

Today’s Resources:

Instant Traffic Stampede – Stop settling for tiny traffic spurts when you can unleash a
thundering herd of new traffic to your site. (Brand new resource!)

www.payperclicksearchengines.com - go here, find at least two more pay-per-click
search engines, sign up and get going!

Instant Web Traffic! – Learn the in’s and out’s of pay-per-click search engines from
one of the world’s experts!

Google Ad Words Manual - This is the most comprehensive course on Google Ad
Words created by a direct response testing and tracking expert. This is brand new
information that you need to get your hands on if you want to use Google Ad Words to
make serious money.

Day 26 (Friday) - “Announce” your affiliate program

2009-05-27T02:40:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To let the world know your affiliate program is open for business by listing it in various
places online.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email

Today’s Lesson:

TGIF! We’re still working on your affiliate promotion strategy.

Now, with your tool box in place and a couple successful joint ventures going – it’s time
to let the whole world in on your good thing.

Announcing Your Affiliate Program

You should start is with your existing customer base.

Simply send out an email announcing your program and providing the link where they
can sign up.

Next, you should announce your affiliate program to the different directories of affiliate
programs on the Web.

I announced my new affiliate program to about 20-30 affiliate program directories.

Below is a list of the major Affiliate Program directories you should submit your
information to:

Associate Programs

2-Tier Affiliate Programs

Affiliates Directory

ATL Network

The top directory is Associate Programs, which is run by Allan Gardyne.

He’s somewhere in the sticks of Australia and he has the most comprehensive directory
of affiliate programs.

So when you have your new affiliate program all set up, you go there and announce it and
you should get affiliates.

Your announcement’s listing needs to stress the benefits to affiliates for signing up. Once
again, good copy is important.

The description I used tells affiliates why business owners will be interested in our
product and then I give the specifics on commission structures.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Create several program descriptions for your affiliate program. Each one of the
directories has their own requirements. Just have a ‘long’ and ‘short’ listing ready
to copy and paste.

2. Email your existing customers and let them know about your affiliate program. If
your offer is directly to consumers – let them know they can earn money by
referring their friends.

3. Submit your program to each of the major affiliate directories.

Today’s Resources:

If you don’t want to manually go through the trouble of submitting your program to all
the directories - there is a service at Affiliate Announce that will submit to 40 top
directories (by hand) and save you lots of time.

“Budget Cruncher”!

Submit to the affiliate directories yourself – by cutting and pasting
Program descriptions, sign-up pages, etc.

Day 25 (Thursday) - Launching your affiliate program

2009-05-27T02:38:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To set up your “affiliate toolbox” so your affiliates have the tools they need to make you
money!

Skills Needed:
· Basic Word Processing
· Basic HTML
· Basic FTP

Today’s Lesson:

Hey, we’re really motoring along – welcome to Day 25!

Today we’re going to focus on creating tools for your affiliates. This is critical!

Most people want everything handed to them and affiliates are no different. The easier
you can make it for them to promote you – the bigger your bank account will get.

Affiliate programs (also known as reseller programs, associate programs, etc.) are an
opportunity for you to get hundreds, even thousands of web sites all driving traffic to
your site and making sales for you…

And the best part is you don’t pay until they make the sale!

That’s the opportunity (and it really is a great one) but I’m going to give you my realistic
assessment from actually doing it. My affiliate program accounts for 50% of my traffic
and 40% of my sales so obviously I’m very happy with the results!

It’s been a tremendous success starting with the first month. It brought in approximately
$2900 in sales and I paid out $1400 in commissions.

From my initial investment of $650 ($450 for software and $200 for additional design
work) this came out to a $900 profit, or a 138% return on investment (ROI) in the first
month.

Six months later, it has provided me a 1900% ROI and I know it will continue to pay off
for many years to come. In the next few days we’re going to cover affiliate programs so
let’s get started with the first step…

(I’m already assuming you have a tested sales process, a good program and a good
payout to affiliates.)

The Affiliate Tool Box

I try to provide my affiliates all the tools and assistance they need to sell successfully.

Most affiliate programs simply give a couple banners when they sign up a new affiliate.

That’s why I created something called my “Affiliate Tool Box” to provide my affiliates
with all the tools they needed to promote the program and do really well.

Here’s what they get:

· They get a whole list of text links. These are headlines that they can use on their
site.

· I give them endorsement letters/emails they can send to their lists

· I give them “proven” ads that they can run in Ezines.

· I give them graphics… I give them pretty much anything and everything they
need!

· I give them viral ebooks and additional content they can use as their own with
their affiliate links.

I give them free reign of my material. They can take my content, like articles or ebooks
I’ve written, and insert their affiliate link in the resource box.

They can’t claim themselves as the author, but they can stick their affiliate link in the
resource box.

In fact, I try to give them everything I possibly can to help them succeed.

Actually, we give so much stuff that I have one of my top affiliates running a free web
site (like a Geocities type site) and he makes $500-$700.00 in affiliate commissions every
month… just using material from our toolbox!

So that’s exactly what you need to create for people!

Try to provide as many tools as you possibly can. Take you newly tested ezine ads and
put them in there. Take your new article and put it there. How about using your top
headlines as text links for them? Etc.

And once you post the new material, make sure you alert your affiliates you’ve placed
additional tools on the web for them to use.

Check out www.getfitwhileyousit.com/affiliate.html for an example of an affiliate tool
box we created for a brand new product.

Or sign up for my main affiliate program so you can see how I train affiliates and also
what tools I provide.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Create your own affiliate “tool box” which includes any and all the promotional
material you can provide so far.

2. If you have any existing affiliates let them know about the new “tool box”.

3. Sign up for a few of the major affiliate/associate programs. That’s how I learned
what I liked and what I didn’t like in an affiliate program. See what kind of
promotional material they give you.

Today’s Resources:

www.ViralEbookCreator.com – This is a new project the two of us will be launching so
publishers can let their affiliates ‘brand’ ebooks-on-the-fly. Check out this cool
technology.

Associate Programs - Sign up for a few of the major affiliate programs so you can see
how they are administered.

Day 24 (Wednesday) - Time to “Up-sell”

2009-05-27T02:37:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To create an up-sell for your site so you can potentially make more money from each
buyer.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Word Processing
· Basic HTML
· Basic FTP

Today’s Lesson:

Today I’m going to show you a little “magic trick” that can instantly increase your profits
20-60% even without getting any additional business or website visitors.

It’s a simple concept called an “upsell” or a “bump”.

Let me give you a couple examples from a recent ski trip and I think you’ll immediately
see what this is all about.

Last February, after an Internet marketing seminar – I decided to go skiing in Colorado.

My friend Bart and I headed to Keystone resort to go skiing for 2 days. He needed to rent
skis and when he was paying for his ski rental the guy behind the counter says, “Would
you like damage protection – it’s only a dollar more?”

So of course Bart takes the insurance (boy did he need it considering we were going off
10 or 15 foot jumps that day! ?).

And during this same seminar in Colorado - I met a man who was responsible for
millions and millions of dollars in sales via infomercials who gave me some incredible
upsell examples.

His name is Alex Mandossian and I had the opportunity to sit down and pick his brain. It
was amazing all the simple tweaks he added that significantly increased his company’s
revenue.

The first example was an infomercial for a 35-mm Nippon camera for $19.95 with 100
free rolls of film. A good deal and lots of people called in.

Now, here’s the “juicy” part. Every time an order was placed the operator read this script:

Operator: “Are you going to be using your camera to take pictures inside?”

Caller: “Yes.”

Operator: “Well, as a preferred Nippon customer you can get the flash attachment today
only for just $10.00 with no additional shipping or handling. That’s a savings of $9.00.
May I add that to your order?”

That’s it – that’s the simple script. Would you believe 60% - 80% of the people said
“yes”?

It’s true. The bottom line increase was incredible because there was no additional cost of
sale to reach this customer. They sold hundreds of thousands of units.

Here’s another example from Alex….

As the marketing director for one of the biggest tooth whitening toothpastes around he
found a simple, yet ingenious way to increase the sale. When callers called in to order
one tube for $19.95 here’s the script:

Operator: “How many members are in your family?”

Caller: “2”

Operator: “Well, as a preferred customer you can get 2 tubes for only $29.95 today only.
For just $10.00 more with no additional shipping or handling. That’s a savings of $9.95.
May I add that to your order?”

Wow! Do you see the incredible leverage here?

There is no additional cost per sale each time a person calls in. The upsell or cross-sell is
nearly all “extra” profit!

Here’s an interesting fact – did you know nearly all of the infomercials you see on TV
today wouldn’t make a profit unless they continued using their upsell? It’s true. And I
hope that gives you a small inkling of the power this concept could hold for your web
site.

You’ve got to understand the psychology behind it.

Once a customer makes a buying decision by calling to order the product they’ve already
decided to buy. They have a credit card in hand and they’ve mentally gone from prospect
to customer.

At this point it’s not difficult to increase their order by simply offering them some ‘deal’.

And an upsell can work everywhere!

On my web site (instantsalesletters.com) I introduce an upsell that 44% - 66% of buyers
take. That’s all extra profit for me with no additional cost. So cool!

It works like this: Once somebody clicks on the order button on my page they are taken
to another page (not the order page). On this new page I let them know that today only
they can become a special “Gold” member for only $15 more and they’ll get 2 additional
bonuses not available in the regular package.

This is so important. If you give people a preferential deal, some percentage will take you
up on it.

The upsell is one of the easiest (and most profitable) techniques you can start
implementing tomorrow. This is like the “would you like fries” strategy. Unless you’re
offering “fries” you’re missing out on tons and tons of profit.

You simply need to come up with a couple more compelling bonuses, packages or up-
sells that people will get for the upgrade.

A couple options are:

· More of your product or service at a special price (i.e. 2 tubes of goop).
· Special membership into a continuity program (keep billing them until they say
‘stop’).
· Additional bonuses they can’t get without the upsell (the better you make these
bonuses the more people will say ‘yes’).
· Etc., etc. etc.

I’ve even used something as simple as putting a check box on my order form on Instant
Internet Profits. It could be that simple. On this we get a 25% upsell rate. Take a look at
what appears at the bottom after the customer has already filled out their info to buy the
course:

Or, if you order from Amazon you’ll notice they also say something like “here are other
books that people who have ordered your book have also ordered”. I love Amazon and I
buy lots of things from them – here’s what shows up on the screen before you make your
purchase:

One of my marketing friends did a double upsell on his site. He would offer an audio
program for $29 and then he’d also let people choose from 2 additional packages when
they got to the order page. He told me 2/3 of the people took some kind of upsell.
(Incredible!)

Trust me, an upsell can be a huge moneymaker for you and if you’re already selling
anything – you’re losing money by not offering it.

Today’s Assignment:

1. You guessed it! Create an upsell for your product or service.

If you are a catalog site – it can be a recommended product/service that goes with
what people bought (start with your top 10 items first).

If you sell an information product – think of a complimentary product or service
you can offer as an upsell.

2. Get it up on your site.

Today’s Resources:

Public Domain Riches – how would you like a 100% legal way to get free content to
turn into upsells, bonuses or even entirely new products? The public domain is a vast
repository of millions and millions of works just sitting under your nose if you know how
to find them.

eBook Wholesaler - sells you the rights to different ebooks you can sell or give away as
your upsell. Excellent source for a fast upsell!

Day 23 (Tuesday) - Follow Up on JV Approach Letter

2009-05-27T02:36:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

Today you will follow up your initial contact with these potential Joint Venture Partners.

Skills Needed:
· Basic email
· Dialing and talking on the phone

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – Follow up with Joint Venture Partners

Today’s assignment is quite simple and I don’t want you spending a lot of time here
looking at this book!

You need to follow up with the Joint Venture letters you sent out yesterday with a phone
call.

“A phone call?!” you ask?

That’s right… a phone call!

The vast majority of people worth doing a joint venture with are very busy. They get
bombarded with email all day from people offering them get-rich-quick schemes and new
products they claim will “make us all rich”.

Your potential joint venture partners may very well have thrown your letter in the trash…
along with a dozen or more others that came in yesterday.

The best way to follow up on a Joint Venture proposal is to get on the phone, call them
up, and make your offer “live and in-person”.

This allows them to ask you questions and also shows you are a real person, not just
somebody out there trying to scam them and their customers.

Just because it is the Internet doesn’t mean the “old rules” of human interaction don’t
apply.

FACT! People do business with people they feel like they know and trust.

The fastest way to get your JV partners to trust you is to call them up, introduce yourself
and your proposal. Keep it brief, get to the point and ask them if they are interested.

Here is a script I have used with great success – you should modify it to fit your
personality and your offer.

Get their phone number from their website or do a “whois” lookup at
www.betterwhois.com or http://www-whois.internic.net/cgi/whois and get the registrant
or administrative contact phone number from the record.

Dial the phone!

If someone answers say this…

(Note: it helps if you write out your script on a piece of paper ahead of time and practice
it. You don’t want to sound like a telemarketer… but you also don’t want to trip over
your tongue because you’re nervous.)

You: Hello may I please speak to ___________?

Them: May I ask who’s calling? -- or -- What is this in reference to?

You: Yes this is your name with “your site”. I was calling about a possible joint
venture.

Them: How can I help you? -- or -- What do you have in mind?

You: Their name I was calling because I have a product / service called “name of
product/service” that I’ve written / created / discovered that state your
unique selling proposition.

(Your unique selling proposition (USP) is what sets you totally apart from the
competition. What makes you special and why should people buy your product as
opposed to anyone else’s?)

Example: The ebook I co-authored with Joe Vitale, entitled “How to Write and Publish
your own eBook in as little as 7 Days”, has a really cool USP…

USP - “How to write and publish your own ebook in as little as 7 days… even if you
can’t write, can’t type, and failed high school English class!”

You: I thought my product / service would create an excellent additional source
of revenue for you while providing a valuable service to your customers
because give reason why it makes sense for them to offer it to their people.

What do you think?

Them: “Well …”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

At this point you will either engage them in conversation or they will get off the phone.

- If your sales conversion numbers are really good tell them.

- If you have endorsements from famous people tell them.

Your objective is to engage them in a “normal” conversation, get them to take a look at
your product or agree to do a joint venture right there on the spot!

NOTE: Be persistent – but don’t get rude or pushy.

Once a JV partner agrees to work with you, get them to commit to a date for sending the
mailing!

Also, be fast to respond to their requests and get them any additional information they ask
for!

Always send a follow up email, whether they agree to work with you or not, thanking
them for their time and wishing them great success.

If they do agree to work with you, make sure your email includes a summary of what you
talked about and agreed so nobody gets confused later.

Part 2A
What if they don’t answer the phone or you can’t get them on the phone?

If it’s an answering machine or voice mail leave this message:

Hi ________ This is your name with your domain name. I was calling to follow up
on the letter/email/fax I sent you yesterday about a potential joint venture. I believe
My product / service would create an excellent additional source of revenue for you
while providing a valuable service to your customers because give reason why it
makes sense for them to offer.

I’d like to speak to you at your earliest convenience about how we could help each
other.

Please call me back at your earliest convenience at your phone number.

Part 2B
Also send a follow up email to go with your phone message.

Just like you followed up your conversation with people you actually spoke with, you
also want to follow up your phone message with an email that says something like:

Subject: Follow up phone call

Hi ________

I just left a message on your machine / with your secretary to follow up on my
letter/fax/email yesterday about a possible joint venture.

You probably get emails all the time with offers and “opportunities” so I wanted to
follow up to let you know I’m a real person! ;-)

The reason for my call is that I really believe my product / service would create an
excellent additional source of revenue for you while providing a valuable service to your
customers because give reason why it makes sense for them to offer.

Is there a time I could call you back to speak to you for a few minutes about how we
could help each other?

You may also call me back if that is more convenient. My phone number is your phone
number.

Thanks for your time… I look forward to speaking with you.

Your name

Part 3 – Don’t Stop…Don’t Surrender!

If you’re truly committed to making this process work – do not stop until you have found
2 people to do a JV with you to their list!

If you call everyone you sent emails to yesterday and you don’t have 2 JV partners lined
up, then start the process of mailing and calling all over again.

· Find 20 more potential JV partners.

· Send out 20 more letters.

· Follow up with 20 more phone calls.

NOTE: You can even make the phone calls without sending the letter first!

Call these prospects on the phone and just talk to them like a normal person.

Remember – they are people just like you and they want to make money too!

Summary of today’s assignments:

1. Follow up your letters to potential JV’s with a phone call.

2. Follow up all conversations with an email thank you – whether they agree to work
with you or not.

3. Follow up all phone messages with an email letting them know you called.

4. Repeat the process until you have 2 people solidly committed to doing a mailing
with you.

Day 22 (Monday) - Send your JV Approach letter, check ezine performance, run a “stand alone” ezine ad

2009-05-27T02:35:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To send out your JV approach letter using your mail or fax automation program and take
the top 2 performing ezine ads you ran and run a “stand alone” ad in at least one of them.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – Send out your JV approach letters

My calendar says Day 22 – if you’re on the right page then today we’re going to focus on
contacting joint venture partners and reinvesting our profits (hopefully) from our first
round of ezine ads.

Okay, first things first, you should take your joint venture approach letter and send it out
to all the potential joint venture partners you found.

The same way we did an email merge to ezine editors is the same way you can use your
email program Group-Mail) or you can just individually send out emails (the free way).

If you choose to go the fax or snail mail approach then you would send your letters out
that way.

STOP! Before you send out the letter – check and double-check it one last time for typos
or anything strange.

Part 2 – Run a “stand alone” ezine ad

Next, we’re going to evaluate how our ezine ads did from last week (Day 15).

By now, those ezine ads should have run and you should have some conversion numbers.

It’s important to track these ads all the way through to the sale if you can.

So let’s do some quick calculations on the ads.

· Which ezines made money?
· Which ezines got the most response – the least?

For the 2 ezines that made the most money we’re going to expand our advertising effort
and reinvest our profits (don’t go spending your money on pizzas just yet) ;-)

That means if you ran a classified ad before – move up to a sponsorship ad or even a
stand alone “solo ad” if they offer it. A “solo” ad means you are the only advertiser in the
entire ezine!

Also, you should be looking for 3-4 more ezines you can advertise in.

Just reinvest your profits into more and bigger advertising. Simple enough?

Once again you should turn to your ezine advertising resources we discussed last week.
The best ones in my book are Top Ezine Ads and Directory of Ezines.

Also, be sure to use new tracking codes on each of the new ads because you will notice
responses still trickling in on the others. Don’t mix your results… always use a fresh
tracking code for each ad.

It’s important to note here that if your ads didn’t end up making you a profit, you should
try another variation and start small with a classified ezine ad again.

Then you start the process all over again of:

1. Run a small ad
2. Find an ad that produces
3. Find an ezine with a responsive audience
4. Reinvest your profits in buying bigger and better ezine advertising based on the
positive results you’ve produced so far!

Today’s Assignment:

1. Send out your joint venture proposal letter to your list of potential JV prospects.

2. Take the 2 top performing ezines you’ve found and invest in a bigger ad.

3. Take your profits from your ezine ads on Day 15 and look for 2-3 additional
places to advertise, starting small again.

Note: if you didn’t make a profit from any ezine ad – you should change your ad
and start from the beginning with small ads again.

Day 21 (Sunday) - Surf to find more potential JV partners

2009-05-27T02:33:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To look around and find at least 20 more potential sources to do a JV with you.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing

Today’s Lesson:

Welcome to week 4 – the home stretch!!

Today is a fairly light day – I simply want you to do your best to locate at least 20
potential JV partners for your list.

Once you have 20 then you can take the rest of the day off (or if you’re an over achiever
go for 30 total).

Remember, what we talked about for searching out potential JV partners:

· Start checking out the different search engines. See who is ranked highest for your
best keywords. (I bet they get lots of targeted traffic!)

· Ezine editors make excellent JV partners -- and they come with a ready-made list!

· See who is buying (and paying lots of money) for those keywords on
Overture.com or on Google.com

· Use Alexa.com to search out related sites more easily.

· A good spot to find people interested in working with others is at ClickBank -
just look in their “marketplace” section and you find potential joint venture
partners who are selling information products.

Also, another little-known way is to ask a question on one or several of the discussion
boards you’ve located.

Ask about the best resources, people, sites, etc. dealing with your topic. This will show
you who has the most pull and, of course, you want them to endorse your offering.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Get your potential Joint Venture list up to 20-30 prospects. Be sure you have their
full contact name, address, fax, phone, email, site name etc.

Today’s Resources:

ClickBank’s Marketplace – contains a whole group of people who are looking for other
people to work with selling each other’s products.

Day 20 (Saturday) - Write your JV approach letter

2009-05-27T02:31:00.001-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To write up your approach letter to potential Joint Venture (JV) partners and have at least
2 friends or colleagues take a look at it.

Skills Needed:
· Imagination
· Basic Email
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 - Let’s get ready to work some “win-win” JV deals!

In addition to finding top positioned sites you should contact lucrative Joint Venture
partners in your market (your affiliate software makes setting up these Joint Ventures a
piece of cake).

If you’re familiar with your market – you’ll typically know who the top players are.

Before you approach them make sure your numbers look good.

Also, instead of just contacting them via email, you might want to contact them by fax,
mail or phone.

Typically, the more a person is involved with the Internet the less likely they may be to
answer your email… or they’ll have their emails filtered and never see your email.

There are lots of ‘nuts’ who contact these top marketers every week for “deals”, so you
want to make sure you stand out as a legitimate business owner.

Regardless of whether you send out your letter via snail-mail / fax / email, be sure to
focus on them, their needs and their goals.

Here are some tips:
· Let the potential JV partner know how you found them (Are you a customer? Did
you read an article by them? Surfed to their site?).

· Let them know who you are and a little bit on your background / business etc.

· Is your product/service a proven winner? If so, you should tell them and give
specific figures to back you up (if it’s not proven, why are you contacting them?).

· What % can you offer them – extrapolate that into exact dollar figures.

Example: For each ebook they sell they make $15.00. With the size of their list
they ought to be able to sell 500 and that means $7,500 in their pocket.

· Who else is endorsing your product? Mention them by name, especially if it is
someone famous or known in their circles.

· How will the sales be monitored (3rd party affiliate software, in-house, real-time
access for them)?

· Can you give them a free trial, preview, password of what you are selling?
It is *highly recommended* that you give them a sample of what you sell. It
makes them much more likely to work with you.

· How can they contact you to discuss further?

Write your letter in a short concise way that will get attention without appearing too
pushy.

Part 2 – Find 2 or 3 more discussion forums

Find at least two more discussion forums where you can post responses to people’s
questions.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Write the first draft of your joint venture introduction letter. Have 2 colleagues
look over it and get their reaction and feedback.

2. Check-up on your web site’s “critical numbers” again. How do they look? Is your
conversion rate weak or good?

3. Try to find 2-3 more forums that you can bookmark. If you have time, answer 1 or
2 questions inside the forums you’ve already located.

Today’s Resources:

Instant Sales Letters - sample joint venture letters inside this package that will
absolutely knock your socks off!

Instant JV Letters – here’s a resource filled with nothing but JV letters. Nice help when
you can’t come up with the right approach.

Day 19 (Friday) - Start looking for potential JV partners

2009-05-27T02:29:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objectives:

To identify and lay the foundation for contacting potential Joint Venture (JV) partners to
sell your product.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Email
· Basic Surfing

Today’s Lesson:

Alright! We’re speeding along now to Day 19!

Today, we’re going to start doing a little more with those potential JV partners you
should have started “book marking” on Day 7.

Joint Ventures are an incredible marketing strategy and if I only had a couple hundred
dollars to market with, no customers and a new product – I’d immediately think about
doing JV deals.

Heck, the Internet makes it so much easier thanks to affiliate software. It’s awesome!

In fact, you should read the free report we’ve provided for you at the end of this section
to help widen your perspective on joint venture marketing.

Okay, but before we start I must give you a word of warning…

DO NOT START CONTACTING JOINT VENTURE
PARTNERS UNTIL YOUR SITE SELLS!!

Whoa…sorry for the shouting there.

I just wanted to make sure it was perfectly clear. Unless you have a good product and a
site that sells (and you know your “critical numbers”) – you won’t find many receptive
joint venture partners.

Well, on Day 7 we identified your competitors and put them into a folder named
“Potential JV Partners” – that’s a good start – but we want more…

1. Start checking out the different search engines. See who is ranked highest for your
best keywords. I bet they have good traffic!

2. See who is buying (and paying lots of money) for those keywords on
Overture.com

If a site looked like a good match as a JV partner, I would then open up a new window
and go to:

Betterwhois is a directory of domain owners.

This way I could gather the correct email address for the site owner. Often an email
address isn’t prominently listed on the web pages I have visited and I don’t want to spend
hours trying to track one down.

You want to look for the “Administrative Contact” – that is usually the owner of the web
site.

Also, think about why a potential JV partner would want to endorse your product or
service – and not just for the money either!

· Are you providing a service that would make them look really good to their
customers?

· Will your product or service make their product or service work better and get
even greater results for their existing customers?

· Will your product help their existing customers:

o Make money?
o Save money?
o Save time?
o Avoid effort?
o Get more comfort?

Sure, JV partners want to make money – but they also want to enhance their relationships
with their customers. How will your product or service help them do that too?

Today’s Assignment:

1. Locate at least 10 more potential JV partners on top of the competitors you’ve
already found.

2. Look up the administrative contact for each of these web sites and put the
information into a spreadsheet.

Today’s Resources:

Affiliate “Success” Spider Software
This is an interesting piece of software that will help you find “SUPER” affiliates. I’ve
used it and I think it gives you some good information.

Alexa
It’s a free download that helps give you approximate traffic with a 5-star system. So
anyone high traffic sites that are related to your product/service are worth approaching.
And also the software will provide related Links to the best sites on the web.

Day 18 (Thursday) - Forum Posting to Discussion Boards, “Run your Numbers”, Catch Up

2009-05-27T02:27:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

Today you will:

· Make at least 3 forum / discussion board postings in response to other people’s
questions

· “Run your numbers” so far

· Catch up on any items you’ve overlooked or put off until now

Skills Needed:
· Basic Word Processing
· Basic Surfing

Part 1 – Make at least 3 forum / discussion board postings

Yesterday you picked out 10 to 30 active discussion boards or forums and today you are
going to post answers to people’s questions.

Today you will post at least three responses to demonstrate your knowledge as “the
expert” and you will do it in such a way that it will entice other people to come to your
site as a result.

Whenever you're answering a question you should use a compelling title for your post to
pull readers into your posting.

Most other posters will simply reply to the post so the original post's title appears as "Re:
Original Title" – not very exciting :-(

Take a look at a few examples and see which one of the posts you would read if you were
in a hurry:

· Ad Tracking Software
Mike xxxx - Saturday, 14 October 2003, at 5:41 p.m.

o Here's A Great Way...
Yanik Silver - Tuesday, 17 October 2003, at 9:14 p.m.
· What ONE book would you recommend
Donna - Friday, 20 October 2003, at 3:06 p.m.
o I've Read This One 7 Times...
Yanik Silver - Saturday, 21 October 2003, at 8:35 p.m.
$ Re: I've Read This One 7 Times...
Don - Sunday, 22 October 2003, at 4:56 p.m.

o Re: What ONE book would you recommend
Willie xxxx - Saturday, 21 October 2003, at 6:52 a.m.
o Re: What ONE book would you recommend
Tom xxxx - Friday, 20 October 2003, at 11:45 p.m.

Important Dos and Don’ts To Posting

I believe there are a few points you should keep in mind:

1. Obviously you shouldn’t ‘spam’ a board with your blatant advertisement. You
can’t just post to the board announcing your new product (unless you have
explicit permission from the board owner).

2. Don’t put your URL unless you’ve got something to contribute. I always like to
contribute something before I list my link. I won’t simply say something like “I
agree” and then give people my link. I don’t think that makes you look very good
to visitors of the board.

3. Also, whenever I post a question I will not put my link because that really isn’t a
contribution I’m making.

Using Your ‘Sig’ File

On some boards they don’t have an automatic way to add your URL or text link – in that
case you simply add your ‘sig’ file (or signature) at the bottom.

This is a simple way of promoting yourself ethically on the web. A sig file is just 4 or 5
lines that appears after your name on every email message you send out. This is VERY
similar to your resource box at the end of your ezine article.

Part 2 – Understanding and Analyzing your “critical numbers”

Your website stats are also referred to as your “critical numbers”.

Here’s why your stats are so important:

The Hidden Fortune in Your Website “Stats”

Most people never bother to look at the statistics program that comes with virtually every
website because few realize the gold mine of information it contains.

Your website statistics hold a key for understanding your traffic, improving sales and
increasing the overall effectiveness of your online selling.

Whether you realize it or not, your website has “critical numbers” that enable you to
measure the overall success of your Internet presence.

Any serious website operator should understand the four most important numbers:

· Hits

· Unique, Targeted Visitors

· Leads

· Sales

Hits - Hits are typically page views, whether by the same or different visitors, and they
indicate overall activity on the site.

A lot of hits shows activity (usually a good thing), but doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve
had a high number of actual visitors.

Search engine “spiders” snooping your pages and website surfers hitting their back
buttons also increase the hit count.

Research has shown that, depending on the size of your site, the ratio of hits to visitors
will range anywhere from 2 to 1 all the way up to 12 to 1.

Unique, Targeted Visitors - people surfing to your site who have not been there before
within a certain period of time.

Depending on the statistics program you use, a unique visitor may be someone who
hasn’t been to your site in a day or a week, while in other programs a visitor remains
unique until you reset the stats.

You must understand how your stats program classifies unique visitors so you don’t
mistakenly believe your site is getting 30 unique visitors a day only to find out it is the
same 30 people coming back day after day!

A “targeted” visitor means that the visitor has an interest in what you are selling or
promoting. This interest is usually demonstrated by keyword searches at a search engine
or by clicking targeted advertisements in ezines.

It does you no good to attract general traffic to your site – you want unique, targeted
visitors with a high level of interest your product or service.

Leads - a valid email address usually makes the best “lead” since people can and do give
fake names and phone numbers online.

If someone won’t give you a valid email address, chances are they won’t give you their
credit card to make a purchase either.

Email leads enable you to measure interest and to follow up with prospects.

Once you know the number of unique visitors to your site, you can calculate the
percentage of leads you develop and concentrate on ways to improve your sales
conversion by testing different offers and headlines.

Sales - the number of sales as compared to unique visitors represents your most critical
statistic because it tells you whether or not you’ve made a profit.

For every hundred visitors to your site, how many sales do you make and how much
money do you net?

Most failed dot-com’s in the late 1990’s never bothered to answer this simple question.

Selling on the web is a “numbers game” – learn how to make the numbers work for you!

Any potential JV partner who knows what they’re doing is going to want to know your
“numbers” so they can reasonably figure out how much money they’ll make if they work
with you.

Knowing your numbers ahead of time will make you look much more professional!

I keep track of my critical numbers every single day in a basic spreadsheet… that way I
can see how I’m doing day to day at a glance.

So right now go to your stats and figure out the following:

(If you need to, consult the help file for your stats or email your ISP if you have any
trouble reading your stats and understanding exactly what they mean.)

How many “hits” have you had in the last week?

Look in your stats program to see exactly what are “hits”. Are they individual
page views or something else?

This total number of “hits” helps you gauge overall activity on your site.

How many leads have you developed with your autoresponder in the last week?

Besides sales, adding targeted people to build your mailing list is the best thing
you can do online!

How many unique visitors have you had in the last week?

Let’s say for example you had 100 unique visitors in the last week.

How many sales did you make in the last week?

Let’s say for example you made 3 sales and you net $23 on each sale after hard
costs of producing and delivering the product.

Divide your number of sales by your number of unique visitors and this will give
your “sales conversion rate”.

3 sales / 100 unique visitors = 3% conversion rate

What this means is that for every 100 targeted visitors showing up to your site,
you sell 3 of them. A JV partner would be very interested in those types of
numbers!

Divide your net profits by the total number of unique visitors you’ve had in the
last week and this will give your “Visitor value”.

Let’s say your net profit on those three sales is $69 (3 sales x $23).

$69 net profit / 100 visitors = 69 cent visitor value.

What this means is that you can spend up to 69 cents to bring a targeted visitor to
your site and still make money.

Part 3 – Here’s what to do if your numbers are low

Since we’ve only been at this for a little over 2 weeks now and your Yahoo, Dmoz and
search engine listings haven’t even kicked in yet, your numbers probably aren’t very
high. However you could get numbers from your pay-per-click campaigns and some of
the others action items you’ve been doing.

Don’t get discouraged!

Our purpose today is more to get you used to looking at your “critical numbers” as it is to
actually start tracking results!

If your total number of visitors is low, here’s what you can do at this point:

· Increase your bid amounts at Overture.com and the other pay-per-click search
engines.

· Increase the total number of terms you’re bidding on with pay-per-click search
engines.

· Run another round of ezine ads (if the ones you placed on Day 15 have already
run)

If your total visitors seem fine, but your sales or your opt-in subscriber numbers are
low, here’s what you can do at this point:

Note: It’s best to run each of these changes in front of the same number of unique
visitors. Doing so allows you to compare your results and see what effect a specific
change has on your results.

Do NOT try all of these at the same time! Only make one change at a time to your sales
letter or you’ll never know what does and doesn’t work!

1. Test a different headline on your sales letter – you came up with 50 or more…
maybe it is time to try a different one.

2. Adjust your offer to include more benefits for the consumer. Do you focus on
their needs or is your sales letter all about you?

3. Add more bonuses. Sweeten the pot even further until no sane person could say
no.

4. Change your price up or down. Sometimes a different price point can get people
off the mark and make a purchase decision.

Summary of today’s assignments:

1. Post at least three responses to messages on active discussion boards.

2. Thoroughly analyze your “critical numbers” so you start getting in the habit of
looking at them daily.

3. Make adjustments to improve your “numbers” and your sales results.

Today’s Resources:

Forum Profits – This step-by-step guide will teach exactly how to bring in more traffic
and more subscribers using free forums (without getting flamed).

Day 17 (Wednesday) - Submit your article and start researching forums

2009-05-27T02:25:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To submit your ezine article to at least 50 ezine editors and start researching forums /
discussion boards.

Skills needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email

Welcome to Day 17 – today we’re going to work on getting some free publicity and free
traffic for your site.

To start with, we’re going to use the list of ezine editors you started working on and the
ezine article you should have finished yesterday.

Back on Day 14, I asked you make a note if the ezine editors accepted articles by creating
a field in your spreadsheet and indicating Yes or No for each one.

Take your list of editors that do accept articles and put them into a new spreadsheet. (One
simple way to do this is to do a ‘sort’ on the field that contains this information and then
cut and paste into a new spreadsheet.)

If you purchased Mail King or Group-Mail – both of these programs should easily
convert your spreadsheet into their database ready for emailing.

If you didn’t want to spend the money, you’ll have to manually send out emails to each of
these ezine editors (you should *not* use bcc or cc function for this).

When submitting, you need a good opening email that introduces your article and
yourself, give some personal contact details, and then I also like to give the number of
words in the article.

You then copy and paste your 65-character formatted article underneath inside the email.

*Do not send it as an email attachment.

People don’t like to open attachments because of possible viruses so they’ll just trash
your article.

Sample Opening to email:

Subject: <> — New Article For Your Consideration

Dear <>,

Here is a new article for your consideration. I’m sure
readers of <> will find the unique information
from “Sales Letter Secrets From The Man Who Sold Coal
By The Train Carload” extremely beneficial to them.

* * *

You’ll now want to send out your new article to every ezine editor you’ve identified as
accepting articles.

Also, you can post your new article on several web sites like:

Idea Marketers

Ezine Articles

Marketing Seek

Discussion Boards

Our next stop on the publicity bandwagon is to start using discussion boards and forums.

They’re a great way to get your name out there and develop good name recognition.

There are lots of discussion groups out there and you can search for some discussion
boards for your topic here Forum Directory

You can also find a number of forums by searching Yahoo or Google for your keywords
+ “forums” and / or “discussion boards”. You’ll actually get the best results doing it this
way.

Examples:

· Car forum
· Sportscar discussion forum
· Antique car discussion board

3 Types of Discussion Board Visitors

There are three types of people that go to discussion groups:

1. People who post questions

2. People who answer questions

3. People who lurk, or just read everyone else’s questions and answers.

You want to be the one that answers the questions because that establishes you as the
expert.

Keep in mind that you can’t just post to the board announcing your new product (unless
you have explicit permission from the board owner). And don’t put your URL unless
you’ve got something to contribute.

I always like to contribute something before I list my link. I won’t simply say something
like “I agree” and then give people my link.

I don’t think that makes you look very good to visitors of the board.

As you’re surfing around researching and keeping up with your topic – you’ll certainly
stumble onto different discussion boards and forums – be sure to bookmark these.

Also, to help get you started in the right direction you’ll get a free ebook with a listing of
500+ forums to visit.
Today’s Assignment:

1. Submit your ezine article to all the ezine editors you located.

2. Find 10-30 active forums and discussion boards related to your topic.

Today’s Resources:

One of the bonuses you received for purchasing this ebook is an ebook on “forums”.
Now would be an excellent time to review that.

If you misplaced it, here is a link to re-download the file.
www.33daystoonlineprofits.com/forumbook.shtml.

“Turn Words Into Traffic” – Jim Edwards’ guide to creating an avalanche of free
traffic to your website using the power of ezine articles. Recognized as the web’s leading
course on how to use articles for massive publicity and profits… all free!

Day 16 (Tuesday) - Write your ezine Article and have it edited

2009-05-27T02:22:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

Today you will continue writing your ezine article for submission to the ezines you chose
day before yesterday.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – What type of ezine article should you write?

What’s the best type of article to write for the ezines?

Articles that either solve problems or explain critical “news” (and the impact of that news
on the audience) represent the two best types of articles to write for virtually any ezine.

Either help people relieve some pain they may or may not even realize they have… or
explain to them how some current event impacts their lives positively or negatively.

These two types of articles accomplish two critical things for you:

1. These articles give you the highest likelihood of getting published, since ezine
publishers always want to educate and inform their audience – and –

2. The ezine audience will view you as “the expert” since you solved their problem
or you explained how the news impacts them.

I know yesterday we told you to come up with 5 ideas for ezine articles… but sit down
right now and brainstorm 10 more ideas for articles you could write.

If you have trouble thinking of something, ask yourself these questions:

1. What problems do my audience members have that I can explain how to solve?

2. What is going on right now in the news that will impact them and how should
they react to it?

3. If I were to advise someone just getting started in my area of expertise, what 10
things would I tell them they really needed to know?

Once you’ve decided on the subject of your article move on to Part 2 of today’s lesson.

Part 2 – The proven ezine article “formula”

I have been writing professionally for over 10 years and have developed this strategy for
turning out 500 to 1000 word articles in nothing flat!

Quite frankly… you are about to make back the entire price you paid for this ebook in the
next couple of pages.

I am now revealing…

The ezine article formula

First I’ll outline the formula and then walk you through a real example using an actual
article I just wrote.

Step 1 – Write out a focusing statement. Why are you writing the article and what do
you hope to accomplish.

Step 2 – Write a “hook” for the story that either arouses curiosity or some other
powerful emotion.

Step 3 – Write out the main thought, subject or news item you will lay out in the
story.

Step 4 – Write out 3 or 4 main points you want to make about your subject.

Step 5 – Write out one to three sentences that support each point you are making.

Step 6 – Throw in a quote, a website to visit, or a brief story or anecdote that
illustrates the overall theme of the article and place it where it makes the most sense.

Step 7 – Finally, tell people what conclusions they should draw or actions they
should take as a result of reading your story.

Step 8 – If you haven’t already, create a compelling headline that captures reader
attention and arouses interest.

Step 9 – Read the story aloud and smooth out any spots that don’t “sound” right.

Let’s dissect the following article to see how I constructed it.

Step 1 – Write out a focusing statement.

The focusing “intention” statement goes something like this:

“I want to write a 500 word article giving favorable exposure to my friend, Joe Vitale’s
new book while using the latest developments in ‘print-on-demand” publishing as the
‘news’ angle for the story.”

Title - Internet Changes the Face of Book Publishing

(I actually wrote the title last once I saw the best news angle.)

The fact that a friend of mine recently published a new
book came as no surprise since he has already published
about ten others.

This is the “hook” in the first paragraph that arouses curiosity.

However, as I dug deeper into the story I realized he was
using the Internet exclusively to publish, print and sell
his book. A growing trend among authors, even established
writers with dozens of books to their credit, involves
using “print-on-demand” publishers, email and websites to
sell just as many if not more books faster than by
traditional publishing and marketing methods.

This section arouses curiosity even more and then ties in with a trend that is going on
right now – that’s the “news”!

The story about the how the book has been published and
marketed rates as impressive and innovative as the actual
subject of the book. The writer, Joe Vitale, has written
books for such organizations as the American Marketing

Association and the American Management Association. His
latest book “Spiritual Marketing” takes a spiritual, almost
metaphysical, approach to accomplishing your business and
personal objectives. Since the book approaches operating
your life and business in more direct fashion, it seems
natural that the production and marketing of the book
should also stray from the beaten path.

Point 1 – How the book is published is newsworthy, but to explain the point I use Joe’s
book as the example.

Joe decided to use a “print-on-demand” publisher, 1st Books
Library (www.1stbooks.com). Most people expect that
authors cash in on lucrative book deals and fat royalty
checks. The realities of traditional publishing come as a
shock when they discover it takes years to get a book
published and the giant publishing houses do little to
market a book. If the author wants book sales then it is up
to them to hit the trail marketing the book. Publishers
print books – authors sell books!

Point 2 – Why Joe and other authors choose to use print on demand publishers and how
traditional publishers fall short in marketing books.

Advancements in computer and printing technology have made
the miracle of “print-on-demand” publishing possible. With
print-on-demand a book doesn’t get printed until a customer
places an order, thus eliminating the risk most publishers
take by printing thousands of books that may or may not
sell. Also, print-on-demand publishers enable authors to
distribute their work in electronic form as “eBooks”
customers download and print right from their computer
screen.

Point 3 – The “what” and “how” of print on demand publishing.

As proven by the Harry Potter phenomenon, “word of mouth”
advertising represents the best way to sell books.
Traditional book marketing involves the hit-and-miss book
signing circuit. Joe took a different approach. He emailed
everyone he knew or did business with, told them briefly
about his book, and then told them they could go to

Amazon.com or 1stBooks.com to order a copy. Just that one
email has sparked book sales all over the world as people
read the book and tell their friends.

Illustration or brief story.

Even though the book has only been available commercially
for a couple of months, Joe has sold hundreds and this
initial success has even led to discussions with a famous
offline publisher.

If you could use a lift in your personal or business life,
Joe Vitale’s innovative book, “Spiritual Marketing” is well
worth picking up. Plus, when you think about the exciting
and ground-breaking process that brings the book to your
computer screen or front door it makes the whole purchase
that much more exciting.

Conclusion and action – in this case subtly telling them why they should pick up Joe’s
book!

The Result?

In the process of giving people a news story about the latest trend in printing technology I
gave Joe’s book some excellent exposure.

Tips on writing your article:

· Don’t worry nearly as much about style as about providing valuable content
and giving people information they can use.

· Explain in your writing the same way you would as if you were one-on-one
with someone over a cup of coffee or a beer.

· Lead people logically to your conclusions – imagine that you knew nothing
about the subject (or very little) and needed someone to give you a step-by-
step explanation.

Part 3 – Editing your article

Here are the basic steps for editing your article.

1. Run a spell check. I know this sounds elementary but you’d be shocked at how
many people don’t do it.

2. Read the article aloud slowly – try to do it at ½ your normal reading pace. Force
yourself to slow down.

3. Make any adjustments so it reads smoothly and naturally.

4. Add your “killer” resource box. (See more about this in Part 4 of Today’s
lesson.)

5. Email the article to at least 3 friends and ask them to read it. Ask them to give you
whatever feedback they want.

6. Take their feedback and use what makes sense. If one person tells you something
you can take it or leave it. If all three point out a problem area then you’d better
pay attention.

7. Make changes based on the input of your volunteer editors.

You’re done now right? Not quite yet…

Part 4 – Add your resource box to the end of the article.

Your resource box is your author bio and “killer ad” all wrapped into one. This is where
you entice people to come to your site or take some sort of action.

Unless you are getting paid up front for writing the article – this step is where you make
or break the payday!

Usually, you can get away with 5-6 lines of promotional material here.

When your article gets published, your resource box is what people read to find out more
about you.

You need a compelling one that makes them want to click over to visit your web site! (Or
whatever action you want them to take.)

Typically you should use some character formatting to separate the end of your article
from your resource box. Anything like this works fine:

=========

* * * * * * *

+++++++++++

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

>>>>>>>>>>>>

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Resource Box Samples:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yanik Silver has developed a whole series of sales letter
templates available at ==>http://www.instantsalesletters.com
In less than 3 minutes you can create a winning letter
guaranteed to sell your product or service...WITHOUT WRITING!
Subscribe to his free ezine: *Surefire Marketing Secrets*
Send a blank email to: mailto:instantletters@getresponse.com
*Plus get his 3 day mini-course on direct mail secrets*
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*********************************************************
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fill-in-the-blank sales letter writing resource. In less than
3 minutes you can create a winning letter guaranteed to sell
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In the next example Yanik’s resource box relates back to an article he wrote about
creating powerful offers.

The tie-in makes the resource box that much more powerful!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
See how Yanik Silver creates an irresistible offer for his
new Instant Sales Letters
==>http://www.instantsalesletters.com
In less than 3 minutes you can create a winning letter
guaranteed to sell your product or service...WITHOUT WRITING!
Or you can get more surefire marketing secrets by
subscribing to Yanik's free Ezine - just send a blank email
=======> mailto:instantletters@getresponse.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Notice that Yanik gives the full web address including the http:// and uses the mailto: in
front of his email address.

This makes it so practically everyone can just click on those links from their email
program or web browser and either go straight to your site or send you an email.

Here are some others I’ve used with great success:

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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that will teach you how to use free articles to quickly
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Click Here => Turn Words Into Traffic
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Do up your own “killer” resource box now and insert it at the end of your
article!

Part 5 – Sleep on it!

Before you send your article off to the ezine editors you should sleep on it!

Put the article away and pick it up in the morning for a final read-through and edit.

You’ll probably see at least one thing you can improve when you take a fresh look
tomorrow.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Decide on the subject and type of article you will write.

2. Write out your focusing statement.

3. Write your initial draft.

4. Edit the draft yourself.

5. Add your “killer” resource box.

6. Send the draft off to at least 3 friends.

7. Make their suggested changes.

8. Sleep on it.

9. Make your final edit in the morning.

Today’s Resources:

“Turn Words Into Traffic” – Jim Edwards’ guide to creating an avalanche of free
traffic to your website using the power of ezine articles. Recognized as the web’s leading
course on how to use articles for massive publicity and profits… all free!

Ezine Directories and marketing information

Top Ezine Ads

Directory of Ezines

Bonus Article you’ll enjoy very much on this topic of getting traffic and visitors
from publishing articles.

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Increase Sales By Flying Under
Your Prospects' "Radar Defenses"

- by Jim Edwards

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
=====================================

How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to do?

A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do
that every minute of the day. Do you even notice it anymore
or, like your prospects, have you subconsciously set up a
system of "radar defenses" against the daily bombardment of
marketing messages?

Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which
fight for your attention (and money) every day. Just the
basic list includes:

· Yellow page ads

· Newspaper and magazine ads

· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your

"snail mail" box

· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite songs

· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now

· Hundreds of storefronts, "mega" malls, and strip malls

· Highway billboards by the thousands

· Circulars hung on your doorknob

· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles

· Legitimate email messages

· Spam email or UCE (unsolicited commercial email)

Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with
marketing messages. Like trapped rats, people develop
defenses against this never-ending onslaught. They throw up
a wall or a "radar defense" that goes into action the minute
they smell a "pitch" or a sales job. Don't blame them. We
all do it!

So how can you get around this psychological wall against
the constant sales and marketing messages? Well, the answer
does NOT lie in hitting people with more frequent and
obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky tactics. You might get
them to trust you for a minute, but it will backfire in the
long run.

You must do two things instead:

1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself and
your business as an expert.

2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing business
with you.

Doing these two things will get you past their defenses and
allow you the opportunity to persuade them to buy your
product.

So how do you accomplish these two "simple" things? What
will win someone's attention, raise your credibility, and
lower their fear factor all at the same time? The one-word
answer really applies to most everyone.

Trust!

If a seller can get behind your defenses with information
which makes you trust them, then that credibility will carry
over into a sale much of the time.

How can you get this credibility?

Well, take this next fact as online marketing "gospel," for
many people have proven its effectiveness.

Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives you
one of the most powerful opportunities available to tip the
buyer's credibility scale in your favor.

How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take a
break from reading this and go check out a newspaper or
magazine for a minute.

Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most
people will choose the articles hands down. Why? Because
the articles don't try to "sell" you anything. Instead, they
hand out useful information for educational or other
practical purposes.

Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can believe
and "trust" what appears in the standard "news" or
"information" format. In other words, if it appears in
print, then we can believe and trust the author.

So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your
advantage in selling your products and services!

Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and
confidence in people as reading one of your articles on a
subject that greatly interests them. It shows you know your
business. It also demonstrates you will do more than just
try to sell them something.

Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their
advertising "radar defenses."
So remember these points when deciding whether or not to use
articles to promote your business:

1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the
minds of potential customers as reading an article you wrote
on a subject which specifically and intensely interests
them.

2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right or
wrong, we've all been trained to trust the "news."

3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate you
from the competition, who bombard people with nothing but
sales messages.

4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles will
also help build and solidify your relationship with existing
customers so they give you repeat business.

----

Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-
author of an amazing new ebook, "Turn Words Into Traffic,"
that will teach you how to use free articles to quickly
drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or
affiliate link!
Click Here ==> “Turn Words Into Traffic”

Day 15 (Monday) - Begin marketing to ezines

2009-05-27T02:20:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To create and place your ad in 5 ezines and start writing your own article to submit to the
50 ezines by outlining your topic.

Skills Needed:
· Basic email
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Today is a big day – I hope you’re excited – we’re going to start doing some more
promotion!

Part 1 - Advertising in Ezines

An inexpensive way to reach a lot of people is to place ads in ezines. You can advertise
in ezines with huge circulations more and pay as little as a few bucks. It’s a really great
deal for the circulation you get.

And another great thing about advertising is ezines is that you can submit an ad today and
have it run in just a day or two and start making money.

2 days ago (on Day 13) you should have selected 5 potential ezines to run ads in. If you
didn’t contact those ezine editors about advertising guidelines, please do that now before
continuing with this section.

You’ll start off running classified ads in the ezines. If you can afford a top sponsorship –
that’ll usually give you better results. But go with what you can afford.

Most ezines will tell you what their requirements are for advertising. Usually you’ll get
5-6 lines, 60-65 characters per line and some other instructions (most times your link
does not count as a line).

Take out your Overture titles and descriptions and use those to help you create a few
classified ezine ads. They’ll be pretty close. Here’s a sample ad I’ve used with success…

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Notice the “/ezine” after my URL – this is done for tracking purposes. You need to
realize that every ad you run should be tracked for performance and results or you’ll have
no idea what’s working and what’s not.

Let’s talk about tracking briefly…

If you sprung for your own affiliate program/software you’re in luck – because this
makes tracking incredibly easy. You’ll just set-up a new affiliate id# for every advertising
campaign you run. This should keep track of clicks and more importantly, sales.

Okay, but maybe you didn’t invest in a full affiliate system – don’t worry – I have
options for you too.

You should use some kind of ad tracking system to see how effective your ads
actually are and so you can compare one against another to find the “best” ad.

Here are a few of the better ones:

1. NitroStats – Nitro Stats gives a whole host of useful tools for webmasters
including tracking systems. Instead of advertising your URL you will be posting a
link that looks similar to this: http://www.roibot.com/r.cgi?R49498_campaign.
Then when people click on this link your tracker will count their clicks and then
direct them to your desired site.

This tool is used by many of today’s top marketers because of the power and
flexibility it offers!

2. Marketer’s Choice – integrates an ad tracking software system with shopping
cart and autoresponders. Will let you trace individual sales and total sales
volume to a specific ad – very powerful!

3. Click Tracker – a FREE script that runs in your cgi bin. Will require knowledge
of installing scripts in order to use it.

The one big downfall with just using free or stand-alone click tracking programs is that
you don’t have the sales data to go along with it.

You can track this data, however, if you use one of NitroStat’s ad trackers that comes
with your monthly fee, or if you use Marketer’s Choice, which integrates the shopping
cart data with the ad tracker.

Regardless of which way you choose to go, once you have written your ads and gotten
your click tracking software in place, go ahead and submit your ads to the 5 ezines.

Part 2 - Starting your Ezine Article

Okay, now that you’ve got your Ezine advertising squared away – I also want to think
about another aspect of Ezine marketing…and that is getting free publicity by submitting
articles.

This is how I generate thousands of dollars in free advertising every month (and you can
too!).

Not only will you get great results, but you’ll start getting known as the expert and
authority on your subject.

Using this exact information I’m going to share with you I’ve been published in Ezines
like DEMC, Eboz, SalesDoctors, WebPro News etc. and millions of people have read my
articles.

Sounds pretty good, right?

There’s tons of Ezines out there and they all need content… and you can be one of the
people that gives them content.

By giving them the content, you’ll find there is a kind of a quid pro quo relationship
where you get to stick this little box (called a “resource box”) at the end of your article in
exchange for your content – and this is how you get “paid”!

People who click on the link in your resource box will visit your site!

Your article doesn’t have to be a literary masterpiece – I’ve seen tons of articles that were
simple “10 secrets to….”. And for each of the 10 points there were 2-4 sentences.

Ideally, your article should be 500-1000 thousand words. That’s nothing. In fact, you
should easily use any of your existing information and use that as an article.

Right now… start brainstorming 5 ideas and start outlining your ezine article.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Submit 3-5 ezine ads (depending on your budget). Be sure each one of them has a
separate tracking code.

2. Come up with 5 potential ideas for ezine articles and start to outline them.

Today’s Resources:

Click Tracking / Ad Tracking Programs

NitroStats – Roibot.com gives a whole host of useful tools for webmasters including
tracking systems.

Marketer’s Choice – integrates an ad tracking software system with shopping cart and
autoresponders. Will let you trace individual sales and sales volume to a specific ad!

Publicity through Ezine Articles

“Turn Words Into Traffic” – Jim Edward’s world-famous system for generating a ton
of traffic through ezine articles and more!

See “Budget Cruncher” on the next page

“Budget Cruncher”!

Click Tracking Programs

Click Tracker – a FREE script that runs in your cgi-bin. Will require
knowledge of installing scripts in order to use it.

Day 14 (Sunday) - Ezine Marketing

2009-05-27T02:18:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To start researching ezines targeting your niche market, identify 50 you can submit
articles to and 5 ezines where you can run an advertisement.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

NOTE: To save as much time as possible you should buy an email merge product
such as Group Mail.

Today’s Lesson:

Today, we’re going to start researching ezines for free publicity (you’ll be submitting
articles to them in a few days) and for buying advertising.

Ezines are those email newsletters you get in your inbox. At last count, I heard there were
something like 100,000 of them on all different topics.

As you are beginning your research, I suggest starting a simple spreadsheet with fields
like this:

Ezine name, editor’s name, editor’s email, circulations, advertising cost, accept articles
(Yes or No), comments

Now, here are some places you start your search for ezines – you’ll find most of these
directories are grouped by categories. (Though the paid ones are more extensive and
would be my recommendation if you can afford it):

Ezine Directory List:

John Labovitz's Ezine List (this one is good but it has not been updated past March 2000)

Top Ezine Ads (this one is really good but it costs a few bucks)
Top Ezine Ads

Directory of Ezines (this one is also really good but it costs a few bucks)
Directory of Ezines

Ezine-Universe

eZINESearch

Best Ezines

Today’s Assignment:

1. Find 20 – 50 Ezines that accept articles. You may need to email some of the ezine
editors asking if they accept articles. The paid directories will give you this
invaluable information.

2. Find 5 potential ezines you’d like to advertise in. Contact the editors for their
requirements. (Once again the paid ezine directories usually give you this
information.)

Today’s Resources:

Ezine Directories

Top Ezine Ads

Directory of Ezines

These are 2 important ezine directories that I use whenever I am looking for editors that
accept ezine articles or places to advertise in.

Email Merge Programs:
You’ll need to get some kind of email merge software so you can submit articles to ezine
editors or you can do it all yourself manually (if you have more time than money).

Group Mail - Group-mail is a mail merge software that works very well. I use it
personally and I’ve heard good things about it. It has both a free and paid version.

“Budget Cruncher”!

Email merge programs

Go to www.Downloads.com and look for free versions or free trials
of email merge software. Try searching for “email merge” first.
One that I found (which may or may not still be there as you check
this) is called G-Lock Easy Mail 4.0 – it is free to try and lets you do email merge. Plus
other nice features.

Submitting to Ezines
Your option here is simply to submit to each ezine by hand – there’s no way around it.

Almost “Halfway Point”
Summary

Lesson Objective:

As we head into what is approximately the second “half” of the “33 Days” program, lets
catch up on any assignments that have been overlooked or not quite finished.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email
· Basic HTML
· Basic FTP
· Basic Word Processing

Part 1 – Review

Before we move into the area of “surfing for ideas” and catching up on any unfinished
tasks, let’s review what we’ve done so far and put it all into perspective.

I think you’ll agree that we’ve covered a lot of ground quickly and you should feel proud
of yourself for making it this far! Give yourself a pat on the back!

Days 1 - 3

· You came up with your initial list of keywords, picked our Yahoo and Dmoz
categories and chose a domain name.

· You physically “set up shop” and obtained the tools for conducting business
online.

· You started the process of building our site by deciding on the “look and feel”
and designing a template page.

Day 4 - 6

· You began to write your sales letter and brainstormed headlines.

· You wrote out sales copy.
· You pulled the whole sales letter together into a powerful sales tool.

Day 7

· You added “meta-tags” and posted our site to our web hosting account.

· You created a folder in your web browser called “Possible JV Partners”.

· You found a number of sites to potentially partner with later.

Day 8-9

· You created your autoresponder sequence and installed it on our website.

Day 10

· You started laying the groundwork for getting traffic to your site with pay-
per-click search engines.

· You also focused and refined your list of keywords.

Day 11

· You finalized your sales letter and wrote better titles and descriptions for your
pay-per-click search engine links.

Day 12

· You submitted your site to Yahoo, Dmoz and the major search engines.

Day 13

· You identified 50 ezines to submit articles and 5 ezines to buy advertising.
You also obtained an email merge product such as Mail King.

And here we are on Day 14… see how much you have accomplished!

You should feel really good right now that you have come so far so fast.

Let’s keep the momentum going!

Part 2 – Surf for Ideas

“Surfing for ideas” is a technique I got from Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla
Marketing series of books.

A simple yet powerful technique, surfing for ideas means you start out in the search
engines, ezines, links pages, classified ads or anywhere else searching for your most
popular keyword phrases and click on other people’s sites.

Your purpose is to stay on top of what other people are doing online so you don’t miss
any trends on generating traffic, converting site visitors to leads, sales and more.

When you surf for ideas you should:

· Look for new and exciting ways other site owners are using technology –
especially readily available technology such as auto-responders, popup
windows and simple java scripts.

· Look for offers that get you excited and could get your customers excited too
– then sign up for their affiliate program. These items usually make for
excellent endorsed mailings to your list.

· Watch for offers you could use to “up-sell” to your customers right at the
point of purchase.

· See who your competitors link to – and who links to them! This can open a
whole new world for you in terms of finding potential joint venture partners
and uncovering new sources of targeted traffic to your site.

· Anywhere you see a competitor with a productive link, you should try to get a
link too – especially if you can get the link for free or on a per-sale basis.

· Open your mind to how other people are doing things and ask yourself how
what you see could help you improve your site and business.

Immediately implement any worthwhile ideas you pick up.

DO NOT WAIT! ACT on what you see immediately!

Part 3 – Catch Up

The last assignment for today is to look back over the last couple of weeks and fill in any
gaps in your activities.

Do you need to write something?

Do you need to tweak something?

Do you need to totally re-do something?

Today is the day to catch up so you can start fresh tomorrow.

Summary of “Halfway Point” Assignments:

1. “Surf for ideas”

2. Implement what you learn from your idea surfing session.

3. Catch up on any tasks or items you may not have finished yet.

Today’s Resources:

See the Resource Article “3 Secrets to ‘Striking it Rich’ in Cyberspace” on
the next page.

3 Secrets to “Striking it Rich” in Cyberspace

In the few seconds it takes you to read this sentence, another domain name gets registered at
www.NetworkSolutions.com, the Internet’s oldest and largest domain name registrar.

Everyone from industrial giants to corner flower shops currently wants to stake a profitable
claim in cyberspace.

The lure of low startup costs compared to brick-and-mortar operations and the promise of
high rewards draws an ever-swelling crowd of merchants to the online marketplace.

People from all over the country ask me what it takes to succeed in the e-commerce world
once they’ve completed the basic steps for getting online.

The following three keys virtually guarantee success for any online enterprise.

The First Key:

A Quality product or service with highly evident and readily understood benefits for
consumers.

If your product or service does not represent the highest quality and value possible, and if
consumers don’t understand exactly why they should buy from you, the speed of the Internet
will just expose your shortcomings to the marketplace that much quicker.

In the offline world a product's benefits, not the features, cause consumers to make buying
decisions.

A man doesn't buy a car with a 5-liter engine because of the horsepower, he buys it for the
feeling of supremacy and control he thinks it will give him.

Kids don't want a fast computer for the computing power in doing homework, they want to
play the latest games.

The Internet magnifies this "what's in it for me" benefits-driven evaluation by consumers.
Products or services presented with readily understood, self-serving benefits for consumers
sell best online (and off).

The Second Key:
An excellent website that loads fast, provides pertinent information to targeted consumers,
and allows them to make online purchases quickly and securely.

Your website should:

· Load fast by making conservative use of graphics. (Go to yahoo.com for an excellent
example of a site that uses very few graphics.)

· Provide exactly the information your potential customers want and need.

· Make it extremely easy for surfers to navigate your site and find exactly what they
want.

· Look good on both the Netscape and Internet Explorer web browsers at various
screen resolutions (640x480, 800x600, etc.).

The Third Key:

Consistent, targeted website traffic by consumers capable of buying your product or
service.

Imagine buying a 50-foot billboard and, instead of putting it out by the highway, you hid it in
your basement. Nobody would see it!

The same thing happens if you don’t actively and continuously promote your website to
attract visitors.

With its incredible speed and communications power, the Internet acts as a magnifying glass
for any organization’s strengths and weaknesses.

E-commerce, e-mail, and a website by themselves -- without intelligent input from
you -- won't do the job of marketing, selling, and customer service for any company.

When used properly, however, they will help every organization perform all of those
business functions better, faster, and less expensively with the real and tangible result of
“striking it rich” in cyberspace!

Source: www.thenetreporter.com

Day 13 (Saturday) - Google Ad Words

2009-05-27T02:16:00.001-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To get going with Google Ad Words, start running your campaign and split testing for the
best copy

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Let’s get going with day 13. If you’ve starting on Monday then this will be Saturday #2.

Shoo the kids off to the neighbors and lock yourself away for a couple hours because
we’ve got some important work to do today.

A recent competitor to take the pay-per-click model and really run with it is Google.
Google is my search engine of choice and now they want to become a significant player
in the keyword advertising space. They’re definitely poised to give Overture a run for
their money.

Google has launched a pay-per-click keyword auction called AdWords Select. I know
many of my colleagues are doing extremely well using this resource and I’m seeing very
good results as well.

Just like Overture, Google is striking deals with other high traffic sites like AOL,
Earthlink, AskJeeves.com and even Amazon.com for sponsored listings to appear (plus of
course on Google.com itself).

Google is also using the pay-per-click model so you only pay when someone clicks on
your listing (this is their 2nd incarnation of this ad program – originally it was pay-per-
impression). Right now clicks start at .05 cents so there are still some bargains to be had.

Plus, Google also has another wrinkle -- your listing needs to get a 1/2 percent (.5%)
clickthrough to remain relevant or else it won’t be listed. That means for every 1000
times your ad is shown you need 50 people to click on it or else you get nixed.

Another very cool thing about the Google Ad Words program is that your listing will
usually go up in just minutes so you can start seeing results immediately.

Now since Google has always prided itself on relevancy - your higher clickthrough rate
works to help you keep your costs down. Here’s how it works (taken from
https://ads.google.com/select/pricing.html)

Google believes strongly in providing high quality and relevant advertising to our
users, so Google AdWords does not rank ads solely on cost. There is no way to
reserve top placement in the AdWords program.

Ad placement is based on a combination of maximum cost-per-click (CPC -- how
much you are willing to pay per click) and clickthrough rate (CTR). This means that
if you earn a higher CTR, you are rewarded with a lower actual CPC. Our system
monitors your competition and performance and automatically charges you the least
amount possible

All of this looks extremely promising and you can find out more at their site:
http://ads.google.com/

It only costs a couple bucks and you can actually
start driving to your site in as little as 15 minutes
to your site. How cool is that?

Let’s start with the basics.

First, your ad will appear on the right-hand side
as a “sponsored link”. On the right is a quick
snapshot of the ads that show up when you type
in “public domain” into Google.

My ad is circled.

Notice the ads are nothing more than little
classified ads and that’s exactly how you want to
think about your Google Ad Words ads.

Headline and then some body copy.

Let’s go inside my account and take a closer
looks so you can see how easy and powerful
Google Ad Words are…

When you first get inside your account. You’ll need to create a new campaign.

The first step is selecting the language and countries you want your Google Ad to display
to. You can target specific languages, countries and now they’re tested regions of the
U.S. Perfect if you’re a local business. See more on this here
https://adwords.google.com/select/faq/reg_faq.html

Important Note: Google does not allow you to have any kind of pop-up windows on your
site. So before you start driving traffic be sure to take off your pop-ups. I create special
pages of our sites specifically for Google without pop-ups.

Next, you’ll create your ad.

You’ve got 25 characters you can use for the headline and 2 lines of 35 characters for the
description. Then you’ve got a display URL (what shows up when people see the ad).
And the final field is a destination URL. This is where the person goes when they click
on the link. It doesn’t have to be the same URL as what you display.

When writing your ads - here are a couple ad tips:

· Use first letter caps in your ad – don’t make your ad all lowercase.

· If you find you’re getting too many clicks but not enough sales try qualifying
your ad by putting the price in your ad. (See the Instant Thank You Letters ad)

· You only have a limited amount of space so be sure to use it wisely. Avoid
using filler words like “and” and “the”. Try to maximize your selling space.

· Google users tend to respond better to “less hypey” ads.

Now after you’ve come up with your ad the next step is picking your keywords. You can
use your same keyword list you developed for Overture.
Another great thing about Google is you have strict control of your keywords.

Here’s how it works:

If you want your ad to appear whenever anyone types in anything to do with “tennis” –
you would put tennis in your keyword list (no brackets or quotes).

If you want your ad to appear only if somebody uses the exact words “tennis shoe” then
you would put [tennis shoe] in brackets in your keyword list.

If you want your ad to appear if somebody types ‘tennis shoe’ but you don’t care if they
add other phrases like “tennis shoe for sale” – then you’d put “tennis shoe” in your
keyword list within quote marks.

And finally, if you never wanted to appear if somebody typed in their search but included
the word “red” – then you’d add –red to your keyword list. (the word with a negative sign
before it). I use this many times by excluding the word “free” in my campaigns but it’s
also very helpful if your keyword could have multiple meanings and products.

More information from Google on this is here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/faq/account.html#keywords

Split Testing

This is probably my favorite part about Ad Words. I really love this! Google Ad Words
gives you the ability to do true scientific split testing. This means I can put 2 or more ads
up against each other and let the marketplace decide which one is better. Your ad will be
evenly rotated. So if your ad is shown 1000 times in a day – users will see ad #1 500
times and ad #2 500 times.

You just let the ad run until you have a good indication of which one is beating the other
and you will see a difference. You’ll be absolutely surprised at the results and it takes just
a second.

To set up a split test you just go into your Ad Campaign and click on “create new ad”.
Your new ad will be automatically populated with the text from the original ad. Just make
the changes and watch the results. When one ad becomes the winner – keep testing it
against other ideas for ads you have until you have the ultimate “King Kong” champion.

Here are couple different ads with their test results.

Public Domain Uncovered
Discover Exactly How To Find & Use
Copyright-Free Works Without Fees
www.PublicDomainRiches.com
Interest:

Public Domain Secrets
Discover How to Re-Package and Sell
Copyright-Free Information
www.PublicDomainRiches.com
Interest:

Result 100% Increase!

Instant Sales Letters
Stop Writing Sales Letters the Hard
Way! Now Just Fill in the Blanks
www.InstantSalesLetters.com
Interest:

Instant Sales Letters
Instant Sales Letters
Create Your Own Winning Sales
Takes Minutes - 100% Guaranteed
Without Writing - 100% Guaranteed

Tracking links

Another new feature with Google Ad Words is that you can individually track every
single action originated from any keyword you’re bidding on. This is huge! As direct
marketers we want to know which words convert to sales and which don’t (so we can
stop bidding on them).

You can get detailed info from Google on this feature here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/faq/conversions.html

Simply put the way this works is when a user clicks on your ad they are taken to your
web page that has a simple piece of code on it from Google. This code places a cookie on
the prospects computer and if the prospects get to your thank you page or subscription
thank you page (or whatever else you set-up as the final action page) – this will recorded.

Another way to do this is by assigning each keyword a different affiliate id# from your
affiliate program (it’s like a dummy id#). This is another easy way of tracking each sale
originated from each keyword.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Set-up your Google Ad Words account.

2. Create 2 ads to split test against each other and bid on at least 5 keywords.

Today’s Resources:

Google Ad Words Manual - This is the most comprehensive course on Google Ad
Words created by a direct response testing and tracking expert. This is brand new
information that you need to get your hands on if you want to use Google Ad Words to
make serious money.

Ad Words Analyzer – EXCELLENT tool for researching keywords and organizing your
results based on Overture and Google Ad Words campaigns, cost and more. We use this
tool daily to research.

Day 12 (Friday) - Submit your site to Yahoo, Dmoz and the “major” Search Engines

2009-05-27T02:01:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To submit your site to the search vehicles that can bring you the targeted traffic you need.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic html
· Basic ftp
· Basic Email

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – One Last Site Modification

There’s one last modification we need to make to your site before you submit to Yahoo!

You need to come up with a 15-25 word description for your site.

This is relatively simple, but you must do it correctly so you have the best chance at
getting a great listing on Yahoo!

The reason I had you wait until now to do this is I wanted you to get some good practice
at writing short, descriptive paragraphs for your Overture listings -- which prepares you
quite well for what we’re about to do here.

Take your most popular keywords (from your Overture list) and create a description that
incorporates as many of the most popular keywords as possible.

Remember the list:

16806 antique car
1578 antique car for sale
1565 antique car part
871 antique car price
699 antique car show
647 antique car values

In our example we might create a title and description that goes like this:

1Stop Antique Car Show (the name of the business)

Offers antique car show quality and classic parts for sale, discount values on hard to find
models, order parts online. (description)

This description also acts as the “ad” for your Yahoo! listing – so you have to balance the
need to “stuff” your keywords with making it readable and logical for both the category
editor and people searching the web.

Now that you’ve written your description you need to do two things:

Insert the title and description into the meta-tags of the home page of your site.

If you really want to push this description on the Yahoo category editor, you
should also insert the description at or near the top of the visible copy on the
home page in bold type.

You may not think it’s possible to insert this description visibly on the page itself,
especially if you have tweaked your sales copy… but you can always remove the
description once you get into Yahoo. Get it up there at the top if at all possible
because it will help you.

Here’s an example:

This would be the html code at the top of the home page.

NOTE: I know this is slightly different than what we told you on day 7 – but there are
exceptions to every rule. This is strictly to satisfy Yahoo and Dmoz that you are who you
say you are and you actually do what you say.

1Stop Antique Car Show

This might be the top of the visible home page:

1Stop Antique Car Show

Offers antique car show quality and classic parts for sale, discount values on hard to
find models, order parts online.

Antique car show enthusiasts here's the site you've been looking for!

Everything should match!

Once you have made these two changes on the home page, upload it to your site.

Part 2 - Website Checklist

Take the following checklist and go over your website with a fine tooth comb just before
submitting it to Yahoo as well as the other directories and search engines.

" Have you spell-checked the entire website?

" Do all the pages load?

" Do all the links work?

" Do your site name, domain name and domain registration all support the fact that
you should receive a certain name in a specific category?

" Is there anything on the site or in your domain registration that would lead a
Yahoo category editor to believe that your business was named anything else?

" Are your meta-tags in place?

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" You should go over Yahoo!’s submission guidelines one more time before you go
any further.

Click here to review them ==> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Part 3 – Submit your site to Yahoo!

Once you’ve gotten the title and description positioned and have gone over the website
checklist -- it’s time to submit to Yahoo.

Go back to your notes on Day 1 when you chose your Yahoo category and return to that
specific category page in Yahoo.

Look through that category again at the various websites listed.

Does it still make sense that you should list in this category? (If not, find one that does
make sense.)

How does your title and description compare with the others?

Would you fit into this category as far as content while standing out as a well positioned
link near the top?

If everything still looks good then let’s move ahead…

Near the top of your Yahoo! category page look for a link that says “Suggest a Site”.

Click that link and, if you are operating a commercial site, you will be taken to a page
that looks like this:

Yahoo charges to review everyone’s commercial site – but the traffic can be worth the
price. For sites submitted after 12/28/01, Yahoo will charge this fee every year.

So you click the “Yahoo! Express” button and they guide you through the terms of
service.

You have to click that you understand each item on the list, including that you understand
Yahoo! doesn’t guarantee to list your site. (They don’t guarantee to list anyone’s site!)

After you sign up for your id and password you can log in.

You will then come to a screen that asks you for the information about your site.

Make sure the category they list at the top matches the one you want for submitting your
site.

Make sure the site title matches your site title, url, business name and registrant.

Insert your web address in the URL.

Copy and paste your 15-25 word description in the Description box. Make sure it
matches the description on your site exactly.

One other note – when it asks for your contact information don’t make the mistake of
using an email from another business website.

Use an email address that reinforces your website identity.
In this case I would use the email info@1stop-antique-car-show.com

I would NOT use an email like sales@onlinecarauction.com because that might make
the Yahoo editor change the name of my submission or cause them to investigate my site!

This just creates needless problems and delays. Even your email should reinforce your
identity and name with the Yahoo editors.

The rest of the submission is pretty straightforward.

You just fill in the blanks where required – just make sure you don’t tell them you are a
local site unless you actually only operate locally.

As you go along Yahoo will get your payment information and then let you know you’ll
hear something from them within a week as to whether or not they’ll include your site in
the directory.

Though we can’t guarantee it (nobody can) - if you have followed everything in this
ebook along with Yahoo!’s actual guidelines, you should have a high likelihood of
achieving a good category listing… and certainly a better listing than if you just tried it
blind!

Part 4 – Submit your site to Dmoz

Submitting to the Open Directory (www.dmoz.com) is actually a lot easier than Yahoo.

Just go back to the Dmoz category you chose on the first day and ask yourself the same
questions as we did with the Yahoo category.

Look through that category again at the various websites listed.

Does it still make sense that you should list in this category?

How does your title and description compare with the others?

If everything still looks good then let’s move ahead…

At the top right of the category page you will see a link that says “add URL”.
Click that link and you will go to the submission page.

Dmoz’s submission process is much simpler… just one page!

They only ask for 4 things:

1. The site URL (http://www.yoursite.com)

2. The site title (copy and paste if from your website)

3. The site description (copy and paste it from your website)

4. Your email address (info@yoursite.com)

Dmoz makes no guarantees about listing your site, however most get listed within 4 to 6
weeks.

If you site doesn’t get listed within 4-6 weeks you should resubmit.

NOTE: If the category you are submitting to doesn’t have an editor you may have to wait
a lot longer because nobody is monitoring that category.

Since anyone can be a category editor, you could apply to be the editor and then be
virtually assured of a great spot if they accept you to edit your own category.

You can tell if a category doesn’t have an editor because at the bottom of the page it says,
“this category needs an editor”.

Part 5 – Submit your site to a few of the “major” search engines

Submitting your site to the search engines doesn’t guarantee anything as far as ranking.

If you want to truly use the search engines to promote your site then you need to either
hire someone or take the time to learn all you can about a subject that changes daily.

We have included some resources for you to investigate below if you are serious about
search engine promotion. They get into a lot more detail than we can here.

Web Position Gold – Web position helps you track your positions on the major search
engines so you can improve them. Excellent product for tracking how you rank.

Search Engine News – publishers of “The UnFair Advantage Book on Winning The
Search Engine Wars” Many people consider this the guide to learning how to manipulate
the search engines and get top placement.

Search Engine Forums – This forum contain a wealth of information about the search
engines and membership is free.

Regardless of whatever degree you decide to get involved with actively promoting to the
search engines, let’s submit the pages you’ve created so far.

www.Google.com - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

www.AltaVista.com - http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new

www.MSN.com - http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm

www.alltheweb.com - http://addurl.alltheweb.com/add_url

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Make the title and description modification to your site and upload the changes.

2. Go over the website checklist

3. Submit your site to Yahoo!

4. Submit your site to Dmoz.

5. Submit your site to the major search engines by going to individual search
engines and submitting each page of your site.

Today’s Resources:

Web Position Gold – Web position helps you track your positions on the major search
engines so you can improve them. Excellent product for tracking how you rank.

Search Engine Forums – This forum contain a wealth of information about the search
engines and membership is free.

Search Engine News – publishers of “The UnFair Advantage Book on Winning The
Search Engine Wars” Many people consider this the guide to learning how to manipulate
the search engines and get top placement.

See the featured article on “Achieving a TOP 10 Ranking” on the next page!
Featured Article – Achieving a “Top Ten” Ranking

I can’t tell you how many times people have asked me, “How to do I get my site to come
up in the top ten of the search engines so I can get hits and sell my product?”

What they really want to know is, “How can I get people to show up to my website
without spending any money on advertising my site!”

People usually don’t like my answer because accomplishing a “top ten ranking” on any
search engine always requires careful thought along with a significant amount of work.

Three types of “Search engines” abound on the Internet.

They include true search engines, directories, and links pages.

At last count approximately 10,000 sites referred to themselves as search engines, though
only about a dozen sites rate your attention since they drive 97% of the Internet’s search
traffic.

These sites include:

· Yahoo!
· Lycos
· Excite
· AltaVista
· Northern Light
· HotBot
· WebCrawler
· AOL Netfind
· …and a few others.

When a visitor logs onto a search engine looking for information, they enter “keywords”
about the subject in hopes of obtaining a list of relevant websites.

Each search engine operates with its own rules about judging a site’s relevancy to a

keyword search.

They look at text on the web page (body text) as well as words you can’t see which reside
in the actual code of the web pages.

This code includes such things as alt tags, title tags, description tags, keywords tags and
others.

Depending on the search engine, what you can’t see may represent a far more important
part of ranking well than the words appearing on the page.

Search engines look at how many times a keyword shows up in the various parts of your
website as well as actual location on the page.

Assuming that an important subject for your pages would appear at the beginning of a
page, those web pages starting with the keyword should rank better than those that don’t.

Also, in many cases, the more times the keyword appears (without overdoing it) the
better a page ranks.

Entire books and websites exist to teach eager website owners how to pump up their
rankings on all the various search engines, however these promotion tips will serve you
well in your quest for the “Top Ten!”

· See what others have done for maximum exposure.

Go to the various search engines and perform a search under which you would like to
appear.

Dissect those pages to find the common elements that make them show up high in the
rankings:

o How often and where do the keywords appear on the page?

o How many words on the page in total?

o Do they put keywords in their hypertext links?

o How does the coding in each page seem to relate to the others?

· Beware of registration vs. promotion

Plenty of companies will “register” your website with thousands of search engines for
about $50-$100.

But simply submitting to the search engines won’t do much for you – and besides, you
can submit yourself just as well for FREE!

Without the proper structure in your website, only sheer luck will cause your site to pop
up in the top ten!

Feature Article - Critical Search Engine Mistakes

Sooner or later anyone with a website comes to the startling realization they need that one
essential thing all sites need for online success – traffic!

Website designers and owners usually relegate traffic generation, and specifically search
engine traffic generation, to last item on the to-do list as something they’ll “worry about
later.”

If you own or advertise with a website, the following list of critical search engine
mistakes will do as much to dispel any misconceptions you might have as it will to help
you generate more search engine traffic by either cleaning up your existing site or starting
off fresh with your next one.

1. Targeting the wrong keywords.

Most people don’t give enough thought to the keywords around which they build their
site.

They do little or no research as to the relative popularity of certain terms and they
frequently use industry specific terms consumers would never use in a keyword search.

2. Using “Mirror” sites.

A technique that used to work for achieving better positions in the search engines
revolved around publishing your website in several places on the web and submitting
them all to the search engines.

The major search engines now have duplicate content filters that defeat this technique.

3. Using the same page repeatedly.

Similar to posting mirror sites, using the same page over and over no longer rates as an
effective promotion technique.

4. Endlessly repeating keywords.

Referred to as “keyword stuffing” this technique of repeating keywords in various parts
of a web page only serves to annoy the search engines and rarely results in even mediocre
placement.

5. Stealing other people’s code.

Many so called “experts” tell you to go to the search engines, find a page that ranks well
and take their code. They don’t tell you that the search engine duplicate content filters
can catch you – and ban you!

6. Treating all search engines the same.

Each search engine has its own rules. What works for one won’t always work for others.

7. Treating Yahoo! like a search engine.

Yahoo! is not a search engine. Yahoo! is a directory with its own extremely unique rules
and live human beings making the site classifications.

8. Using most automatic submission tools.

Any program that submits fifty web pages to the same search engine in two minutes
alerts the search engines to a possible “SPAM” submission.

9. Promoting most free web space.

Search engines know that very little valuable or unique content comes from virtual malls
or free web space such as Tripod or Homestead.

They routinely block content from these sites.

Every page on your website can potentially draw visitors. Ensure every page contains the
necessary “search engine friendly” elements including meta-tags and focused content.

This represents just a summary of the mistakes people make promoting to the search
engines.

With consequences ranging from weeks of wasted effort to having your domain banned
from the search engines for life, take the time to educate yourself on the proper methods
of site promotion.

Day 11 (Thursday) - Final edit on the sales letter and write titles and descriptions for pay per click links

2009-05-27T02:00:00.001-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To do the final edit on your sales letter and website; to write come compelling titles and
descriptions for your pay-per-click links.

Skills Needed:
· Imagination
· Basic word processing
· Basic html
· Basic ftp

Today’s Lesson:

Okay, onward to day 11 (hey, we’re 1/3 of the way done -- Hooray!!)…

Today, we’re going to work on some more copywriting assignments starting with putting
the finishing touches on your sales letter.

If you’ve been doing your assignment you should have a fairly well put together sales
letter – well, now we need to polish it up and really make it sing.

Now, that we’ve let a few days pass since working on your sales letter -- you can go back
at it with new, fresh eyes.

Take a look at the headline – does it really grab your audience’s attention? If not, let’s
make it stronger.

How about the opening? Does that compel people to read further into the letter?

2 tricks, I’ll tell you about here:

1. Sometimes it takes a while for our brains to get warmed up when writing (just like
a car) so many copy editors will just cross out their first couple paragraphs and
make the copy start from that point.
Can you do that?

2. I like short openings that really make people continue reading. For example….

“It’s crazy….”

“Yes, it’s true…” etc.

You want to create a “slippery slide” that people can’t off of once they start reading.

Now, pay attention to your subheads.

Are they making a sales message all by themselves? You’ve got to be able to get the sales
message across to the skimmers who come to your site.

Okay, how are your transitions? Copy transitions (or bucket brigade copy) work to carry
readers over from paragraph.

Things like…

“But, wait there’s more…”

“Let me explain…”

“Fact is, ….” etc.

Next, look at your guarantee and call to action.

Are they easy to understand? Do people know exactly how to give you money?

And the final test is to read it out loud (or have someone read it to you).

The copy should be smooth with no bumps.

At this point your Sales Letter is officially done… but be prepared to make changes in
the future as you make additional distinctions about headlines, copy and more!

Pay-Per-Click Copy

Okay, now it’s time to work on your pay-per-click titles and descriptions.

Overture will let you set your title and site description as anything you’d like – but they
will also review your titles and descriptions to make sure you aren’t misleading anyone or
bringing people to your site under false pretenses.

You can use different titles and descriptions for each search term if you want to hit
certain ‘hot buttons’ specific to those searches.

FACT - Your site titles and descriptions are equivalent to classified ads.

Have you ever seen magazines with hundreds and hundreds of classified ads? Well, this
is almost the same thing. You’re competing with lots of other sites for your perfect
customer to click over to your site.

It’s important to write benefit-laden copy and so people will click on your site. People
don’t want to waste the 10 seconds it takes to click and then hit the ‘back’ button on their
browsers.

So why should they come to your site?

Your title and description are critically important!

Your title with Overture can only be up to 40 characters long. You should capitalize each
word but you can’t use all CAPS. Here’s what Overture says about it:

Title
Titles are normally the first thing users read, so be sure to include the search term in
the title to maximize your clickthroughs. A recent study found that listings that
include the search term in both the title and description have a higher clickthrough
rate (more than 50% higher on average) than those that don't! Titles must be
between 1 to 40 characters long. You must capitalize the first letter of each word in
the title, and keep all characters lower case. (Example: Buy Cars Online Now!)

And your description can be up to 190 characters long. So come up with an important and
compelling reason for people to click on your site.

Here’s Overture’s insight into the description:

Description
The description is your opportunity to draw people to your site by capturing their
interest and attention. Write your descriptions so that users know what they would
find if they clicked through to your site. Including the search term in the description
increases your potential to get clickthroughs by more than 50%! Descriptions must
be between 1 to 190 characters long. You should write your descriptions in a
sentence format and you may not capitalize all characters.

Here’s what I have listed for my title and description on Overture:

Create Instant Sales Letters
Now in 2 1/2 minutes you can quickly and easily create a
sales letter guaranteed to sell your product or service…
without writing!

You’ll notice how the title is my headline and the description is my supporting “classified
ad” copy. You can use this is as a model - now get going…

Today’s Assignment:

1. Finish polishing your sales letter – get 2 people to read it – don’t tell them you
wrote it and listen for their reaction.

* If they ask where they can get your product or service – you’re doing well.

* If they mention how nice the letter is – you need to go back and tweak.

* Or worse, if they say “what the heck is this?” – you’re in real trouble.

2. Create your Overture titles and descriptions. Work on 3 or 4 variations and pick
the best one for the keywords you’ve selected.

3. Submit at least 50 keywords to Overture today using your new titles and
descriptions.

Today’s Resources:

Instant Web Site Traffic! – a complete guide to squeezing every last dime out of your
pay-per-click search engine listings.

Killer Classified Ads – learn how to move people to action with just a few words! The
perfect skills to have when it comes to writing pay per click ads!

Day 10 (Wednesday) - Start laying groundwork for “Targeted Traffic” to your site

2009-05-27T01:57:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To lay a solid foundation for driving targeted traffic to your website… so you can start
making sales!

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Let me ask you a question…

Would you like your website to achieve a “Top 10” placement on a major search engine?

Would you like it up there in just a few days, drawing tons of targeted traffic to your
website like a stampede of cattle on the open Texas range?

No problem!

Pay-per-click search engines offer anyone with a website the opportunity to obtain and
keep a top spot in the search engines – no programming required!

Unlike traditional search engines, which base their selections on the page’s content and
“code”, pay-per-click search engines sell their top spots to the highest bidder.

When visitors search for a particular keyword phrase, the website owners who bid the
most come up first and get the lion’s share of website traffic.

Getting to the top of traditional search engines can take months and does not guarantee a
good ranking, no matter how much effort gets expended.

Using the pay-per-click model shortcuts this extremely time and labor-intensive process.

Overture, the web’s top pay-per-click search engine, boasts millions of searches daily.

Overture has been around for years, but recently started coming on strong with the
decline in soft advertising dollars on the web.

In the past, traditional search engines made their money from selling banner ads and
sponsorships to advertisers.

Unfortunately for traditional search engines, advertisers have learned that banner ads,
general audience popup windows, and other advertising online don’t produce good
returns on investment.

As a result, this formerly lucrative method of making money has virtually disappeared…
and Overture stepped in to fill the void.

Overture’s search listings now appear in the search results of some of the web’s
traditional search engine giants, including:

· Yahoo!
· MSN
· AltaVista
· InfoSpace
· CNN.com
· All the Web
· Excite
· DogPile and more!

Anyone who bids their site into the top 3 for a particular keyword phrase (Overture’s
“Premium Listings”) not only appears in Overture, but also appears prominently on the
first page of searches on those other search engines.

Overture in turn pays these search engines a commission for any of their links that get
clicked by surfers. These arrangements have evolved into a significant revenue source for
other search engines and have massively extended Overture’s reach across the Internet.

Overture’s success has launched a virtual online gold rush to cash in on the pay-per-click
search engine model.

Dozens of pay-per-click search engines have sprung up across the web trying to grab a
piece of the pie.

FindWhat, the next largest pay-per-click search engine, dwarfs in comparison to
Overture’s size and reach. However, a recent price increase by Overture caused many of
its lower volume advertisers to seek alternative pay-per-click traffic and FindWhat gladly
welcomed them into the fold.

Anyone with a website who wants to get a jumpstart on traffic and start driving targeted
visitors across their site would do well to take a serious look at pay-per-click search
engines.

As the web gets more crowded, paying for search engine traffic represents an excellent
way to rise above the clutter – fast!

Today you’re going to sign up with Overture to set the stage for getting
traffic to your site!

Part 1 – Log on to OVERTURE

Click the “Sign Up With Overture” link at the top of the site and you will be presented
with a choice similar to this:

Unless you are strapped for time and flush with money, you should choose the “Self
Serve” option.

After clicking the “Self Serve” option you will be taken to a page to begin the actual
signup process with Overture.

You will need to have your credit card ready.

Notes about Overture:

1. Overture requires that you pay $50 to sign up. This $50 will apply to click
through’s so all your money will go towards buying traffic -- there are no setup
fees.

2. Overture has a minimum monthly spend of $20. IF you don’t generate at least $20
in click through’s each month they will subtract $20 from your account.

3. If you don’t want to spend at least $20 to promote your business each month…
you’re not serious about making any money online.

Today all we want to do is sign up with Overture and do more keyword research.

Tomorrow we’ll submit a bunch more listings to Overture and other pay-per-click search
engines.

So pick out your “top 3” keyword phrases and get ready to write a basic title and
description for each.

The first thing you must do is give them an initial list of keywords you want to bid on.
Make sure that once you go through the selection process you only make the minimum
bid to get started.

Our objective here is just to get the site approved and get started with Overture.

Here’s how I would do it to get started for my antique car show site:

First, I’d select my most obvious keywords to get started

NOTE: For now just bid the minimum $.10. You can instantly change your bids later to
whatever you want once your account gets set up.

Then I would create a single listing that I used for all my keywords at this point just to
get the account up and running quickly.
Fill in the Title - which is literally the title for your “ad” in the search engine.

Fill in the description – which is really your classified “ad” for your search listing.

Fill in the url (web address) and the bid you are willing to pay for a visitor.

NOTE: For now just bid the minimum $.10. You can instantly change your bids later to
whatever you want once your account gets set up.

Fill in 3 or 4 of these bids for your top keyword phrases and then move on to the
next step in the sign up process.

Fill in all of your contact information on the next page.

Finally, open your account with a major credit card.

Your Overture account will be activated within a few days when you receive a
notification email from Overture.

Pay-per-click Bidding Tips

1. Don’t go crazy bidding to start. Get a feel for what others are bidding and how
competitive a certain keyword is.

2. Use the “Overture Keyword Tool” to check the traffic counts on your keywords
and look for keywords that will bring you the visitors you want at the lowest
price. Certain keywords get overlooked and you can profit from them.

3. Look for bidding “gaps”. You will see gaps where two or three people bid within
pennies of each other and then it drops off… bid at the “top of the drop”.

a. Example:

1. Mary bids $1.25
2. Tom bids $1.23
3. Jerry bids $1.19
4. Joan bids $.78

You should probably bid $.79 – unless you know you want to come up in
the top 3 and then you would bid $1.20.

4. How much you bid will ultimately depend on your “visitor value”.

Your visitor value is calculated by dividing the total number of visitors by the
amount of money they generate you.

a. Example: ~For every 100 visitors you make $100
~That means each visitor is worth $1.00
~In this case you can spend up to $1.00 to bring a visitor to
your site and still make money.

5. Be VERY CAREFUL with using the “Auto Bid” option instead of the fixed bid
option. This can cause you to pay WAY MORE than is necessary to get clicks.

Let me show you an example that should make you very wary of just making a bid
and not going back to check it.

Here’s a picture of a bid from my account on a “live” keyword I’m bidding on for my
mortgage program.

I’m currently bidding $.10 (10 cents) per click. The guy ahead of me has a max bid of
$1.87 – but he’s probably only spending $.11 right now. Why?

Because the “auto bid” feature only makes you pay 1 cent more than the person’s
max bid below you. But all I have to do is raise my max bid to $1.86 and watch what
happens.

I’m still only paying $.10 (10 cents is the minimum bid – the next lowest person is
paying .07, but I have to pay the minimum) for the clicks, but I have now forced the
person above me to start paying $1.87 per click.

Why would somebody do that to him? A couple of reasons:
1. Because they’re mean (not really ?)
2. The real reason would be to force him to run out of his advertising budget so he
would go offline and the #2 listing could grab the #1 spot for a dime.
The moral of the story – check your bids regularly and make sure you are not paying
more than you absolutely have to for each click you buy. Also, use the auto-bid
feature carefully and don’t set yourself up to pay way more than you should.

Part 2 – Continue Researching Keywords

Remember the keyword tool you used on Day 1?
Overture Keyword Tool

Well go back to that tool and find at least 50 more keywords (this is in addition
to the keyword research you did on Day 1) that would bring you targeted visitors.

Also, see how much each phrase would cost you to get into the “top 3” by using
the “Keyword Bid Tool”. This tool tells you how much others are currently
bidding for a particular keyword phrase.
http://www.Overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/

Make a special note of any and all keyword phrases that would allow you into the
top 3 for a reasonable cost while you are testing your website copy – say less than
$.25 per click.
You have made many more distinctions now about what people are looking for than you
had on Day 1. You know what keywords are important and you can see how much it will
cost to get into the top positions.

That’s why we want you to research more keyword phrases at this point.

Part 3 – Additional pay-per-click search engines

Overture isn’t the only game in town when it comes to pay-per-click search engines.

Other pay-per-click engines can generate significant hits for you very cost-effectively.

You should sign up for at least one more pay-per-click search engine (if not
several) so you can get traffic coming from multiple sources as quickly as
possible.

Here is a list of other worthwhile pay-per-click search engines you should strongly
consider using:

· Overture #1

· FindWhat #2

· 7 Search

· Sprinks

· GoClick

· Kanoodle

If you really want to learn how to use pay-per-click search engines and squeeze every last
bit from each penny you spend… check out this new resource

Click here now ===> Instant Web Site Traffic!

It is written by Jon Keel, one of the world’s experts on maximizing everything you do
with pay-per-click search engines.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Sign up for an account with Overture.

2. Bid on 3 or 4 of your top keywords just to get your account opened.

3. Research at least 50 more keywords you can bid on to get targeted traffic.

4. Look for keywords with high traffic counts and low cost for top 3 spots.

5. Sign up for at least one additional pay-per-click search engine (FindWhat.com).

Today’s Resources:

For a very comprehensive list of Pay-per-click search engines go to Pay Per Click
Search Engines.

For a complete course on Pay-per-click strategies go to Instant Web Site Traffic!

Day 9 (Tuesday) - Write your autoresponder sequence and install it on your site

2009-05-27T01:56:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To write up your autoresponder messages and install them in your autoresponder.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Welcome to Day 9 – today we’re going to continue working on our autoresponder
sequence. For illustrations, I’m going to use an example of a “mini course” but these
ideas apply equally well to anything you put on your autoresponder sequence.

Personally, I would like to see you have a minimum of 3 contacts written by the end of
today.

If that’s not possible, then get it done within the next few days – but get it done!
Remember, this is work you only have to do one time and then it works on autopilot.

I set-up a sequence of 3 contacts spaced 2 days apart. So people would get part 1 of their
mini-course immediately. Then part II – 2 days later and part III – 2 days after that.

One of the easiest ways to come up with content for this autoresponder is simply to
“recycle” existing content.

Here’s what I mean…

When I created my 3-part mini course on direct mail – I simply took an existing article I
wrote and divided into 3 segments.

Easy!

You can do the exact same thing by taking an excerpt from your book or newsletter. Or,
if you’ve written articles – simply break them up into several parts like I did.

Think about any existing content you can take and rework it. Keep thinking until you
come up with a few possibilities!

Another almost painless way to get this done is brainstorm the 10 biggest mistakes (or 7
if you can’t do 10) customers making buying your type of product or service.

It doesn’t have to be long, in fact, a couple of paragraphs under each mistake and you’re
in business.

Now let me give you a few more tips for creating your autoresponder sequence.

When message #1 comes you want to immediately identify they’ve requested it and what
they are getting. Something like this:

* * *

Subject: {first name} – your free report you requested

Hi {first name},

Thank you for requesting the free report... "{Title}"

Inside this report you'll discover the secrets to {benefit
or secrets you’re sharing}. So let's get started...

==========================================
"{7 Little-Known Secrets to xxxx}"

By {Your Name}

==========================================

* * *
Next, when you’re closing day 1 – give people something to look forward to and also a
reminder to pass along your information. Something like this:

* * *
Now just by using these first 2 secrets you'll be way ahead
of any of competitors...but wait, there's still more!

NEXT -- Emailed to you in 2 days will be 'Part II' of
this special report on {your topic}. Find out:

Secret #3 – {name of secret}

{Give benefit of learning this here}

Secret #4 – {name of secret}
{Give benefit of learning this here}

=======================================
And Still Coming Up In A Few Days:
=======================================

Secret #5 – {name of secret}

Secret #6 – {name of secret}

Secret #7 – {name of secret}

See you on 2 days for part II!

All the best,
{Your Name}
{http://www.yoursite.com}
{mailto:youremail@yourISP.com}

P.S. If you have a friend who would benefit from this report,
please pass this on. Or they can get their own copy
by sending a blank e-mail to...

{mailto:autoresponderemail@ISP.com}

* * *

On the second installment you should again jog people’s memories and remind them
about the report. Here’s a simple way:

* * *

Subject: {first name} – Here’s part II of the free report you requested

Hello Again {first name},

It's time for Part II of your free report... "{Title}"

I hope that you have been considering how to use the first few
secrets you were presented in the first installment.

And now let's keep going...

==========================================
"{7 Little-Known Secrets to xxxx}" Part II

By {Your Name}

==========================================

* * *

And once again let them know what they should expect on the next installment.

Also, please don’t forget to include some kind of advertisement (you can put several)
inside your follow-up messages for your product or service. That’s the whole point,
right?

Now, I want to show exactly how easy it is to set-up your autoresponder sequence. I’m
going to show you the control panel from Aweber – here’s how it works.

Once you login – select which list you’d like to manage.

Then click on the top “messages” tab.

If this is your first time accessing the account it will let you create message #1 (this is the
first message that your subscribers will see)
You can use all types of personalization and neat features like automatic date insertion,
etc. with the pull down menu “personalization fields”. Aweber will also check your saved
message against Spam Assassin’s filters to make sure your message gets through. It’ll
show which spots are trouble so you can correct it.
For the next messages you can set the interval times that you want them to hit after the
previous message.
That’s about it. There’s really nothing else left except your assignment for today (I bet
you already guessed what it was)…

Today’s Assignment:

1. Create a 3-part (at least) autoresponder sequence system and load it into
whichever autoresponder system you are using.

Maybe your content is only long enough for 2 days – don’t worry. The same thing
happened to me on the autoresponder sequence for a new project called “Get Fit While
You Sit”.

I broke up the information into 2 days and then on the 3rd day I gave people an
unexpected bonus – a free healthy recipe. This was good because it put people into a
habit of hearing from my client and secondly, it was an unexpected free bonus.

Today’s Resources:

Complete and comprehensive resource about autoresponders that make money! You get
an entire swipe file filled with tons of winning examples (and more)
WebAdMagic

Simple fill-in-the-blank autoresponder templates for just about any situation or any
business
Instant Autoresponders

Recommended Autoresponder Services:
A Weber

Get Response

Day 8 (Monday) - Start creating the Autoresponder sequence for your site

2009-05-27T01:55:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To explain the various ways the autoresponder can be used; to look at various “real-
world” examples; and to start creating your autoresponder follow-up sequence.

Skills Needed:
· Imagination
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Welcome to week 2 of your 33 day journey to online profits!

This week we’re going to lay the groundwork for your online marketing – starting with a
secondary response on your site.

When people leave my sites I want to have a mechanism in place that will capture their
email addresses so I can follow-up.

Even if you've got a killer sales letter that is getting a 5% conversion you still have 95%
of your visitors leaving!

Why not create a way to make money from that majority as well?

I'll explain all of this in a moment.

First, you need to think about your secondary response mechanism. What is the
secondary objective of your site?

If you said "capture emails" – you’re right!

This is building your 'opt-in' list (and this gives you the ability to make money on
demand).

In order to capture the email addresses I suggest a free report or training course
sequenced over several days delivered via email autoresponder.

You don't need to use a report or training course as your secondary response. You can
just have people subscribe to updates from you, or download a free excerpt, etc.

Or maybe you're doing an online newsletter; just provide a "light" version every month to
opt-in subscribers where you heavily edit down your real content.

Really, the possibilities are endless but you need to provide enough compelling value that
visitors will part with their email address.

Using A Sequential Email Autoresponder

It's like having little follow-up robots working for your 24/7. And your prospects don't
slip through the cracks.

The company I use charges me something only $19.95/month and they have lots of cool
things in their system that makes them the best value for your money.

· They let you personalize your messages.
· They let you use actual dates in your message (so instead of saving 2 days ago
you requested our information - it says on Saturday you requested our
information).
· You can do complete broadcasts of your email list (as many times as you like no
matter how big your list gets)
· You can import/export names
· You get unlimited messages.
· You can use their tracking features to track sales all the way through from opt-in
to final sale.
· You get unlimited campaigns. So you can have 1 account and run 10 different
sequences for 10 different sites if you like.
· They have actual live customer support you can call or get a direct response from
via email.
· Mail delivery is a very real problem and these guys are one of the best when it
comes to working hand-in-hand with ISPs (including AOL) to make sure their
servers are not black-listed and your mail actually gets through.

All in all - I think they've got a really good system.

You can find them here

Okay, so let me get back to our secondary response.

I use a 3-part 'mini course' on direct mail called: "7 Direct Mail Secrets Guaranteed To
Create A Stampede of New Business!"

I deliver it in 3 parts spread 2 days apart. So I get to contact a prospect 3 times in a matter
of a few days. I give them lots of good information and I also deliver a little
"commercial" promoting my Instant Sales Letters.

To get a good grasp on exactly how these autoresponder sequences work I suggest you
fire up your browser and join me for a little mini tour.

You’ll see how some sites use “popup” boxes when you leave or when you enter. Others
just ask for your information on the actual web page.

Take a look at these sites for great examples of autoresponder sequences that have made
people a lot of money:

Amazing Formula – sign up for the weekly marketing tip

Aweber - sign up for their free “test drive”

Today’s Assignment:

1. Pay attention to web sites that use autoresponders. Create a new folder in your
email box with samples of follow up emails.

2. Think about how you are going to use an autoresponder. Are you going to give
away a free course? Report? Industry updates? Etc.

Today’s Resources:

Complete and comprehensive resource about autoresponders that make money! You get
an entire swipe file filled with tons of winning examples (and more)
WebAdMagic

Simple fill-in-the-blank autoresponder templates for just about any situation or any
business
Instant Autoresponders

Recommended Autoresponder Services:

Aweber

Get Response

Popup Windows:

FREE! PopUp Generator - provides a complete PC software package to create
various pop-up's to use on your website. A "must have" if you are serious
about using popup windows to make money!

Day 7 (Sunday) - Website posting and “surf” day

2009-05-27T01:54:00.000-07:00

Objective: Post your entire website to the web and start checking out the “competition”
for possible joint venture partners.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email
· Basic HTML
· Basic FTP
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 – Inserting “meta-tags” into your site.

Today we’re going to finish up one last important bit on your site and then post it all up
to the web.

Inserting the “meta-tags” into each page represents the “icing” on the cake for most sites.

Meta-tags, bits of code in the html documents that make up your website, help the search
engines identify your site and can help make your site more relevant to a keyword search.

3 meta-tags should concern you – but only one of them really warrants serious attention.

1. “title” tag – this tag serves multiple purposes…

a. It tells the search engines the title of your page and usually shows up as
the “clickable” link visitors choose in the search engine results.

b. Since it is the first thing people see in the search engines, it often serves as
the “headline” for your search engine listings.

c. The title tag also causes the title of the page to display in the upper left
border of most web browsers.
d. It also serves as the title of the page when someone prints it out on paper.
e. The title tag is by far the most important tag in the eyes of most major
search engines.

2. “keyword” tag – this tag lists off the relevant and related keywords to the subject
of your page. Most search engines pay very little attention to this tag… some
ignore it completely.

3. “description” tag – this tag lists a description of your page. This description often
displays in the search results of many search engines under the title tag. It acts
almost like your classified ad for your listing.

These tags get inserted in the html code of your page near the top in between the
tag and the tag.

All of your tags as well as the first words on the page should start with the most relevant
keyword phrase for that particular page.

Here’s what the code at the top of each page might look like:

antique car show information

Also, the first words on your page would go something like this:

(Title) Antique Car Show

(Body text) Antique car show enthusiasts here's the site you've been looking for!

NOTE: Every meta-tag, as well as the title physically appearing on the page and
the first words of the first paragraph start with that same keyword phrase. In this
case it’s “antique car show”.

Create and insert your meta-tags on every one of your website pages right now!

If you feel like you need a little more help with meta-tags, just go to the nearest search
engines and look up “meta tag generator”. You will find numerous places where you can
enter your title, keywords, etc. and have them automatically formatted free. All you need
to do then is just copy and paste the meta-tags into your html code.

How Google Looks At Your Web Pages

Google pays special attention to your web pages’ title tag and body copy (visible text on
the page) to determine relevance to the keywords you want to come up under.

If you want to have a better chance of coming up under your particular keywords, make
sure they appear in the title of your page, as well as in the body text and headlines on the
page. Don’t “stuff” keywords (endlessly repeating keywords in a nonsense way), but
rather use them liberally so it’s obvious the main “theme” of your page is about the
particular keyword phrase you want to come up under.

At the time of publication, Google gives almost no weight to the keyword or description
tag. They pay most attention to the title tag, body text, and incoming links from other,
relevant websites -- often referred to as “page reputation” or “link reputation” -- which is
a fancy way of saying they take into account what other similar sites say about your site
by linking to you.

This “link reputation” becomes critical when we talk about “Linking Strategies” on
BONUS Day 34.

If you’re worried about Google, then make sure that:

· Each page has a specific theme centered on one or two keyword sets;
· Each page has the main keywords for that page in the title tag;
· Each page has the main keywords for that page liberally sprinkled throughout the
body text, especially towards the beginning;
· Each page has the main keywords for that page used in a headline or bolded
text if appropriate.

Though these tips won’t guarantee top placement, they will certainly improve your
chances of ranking well massively over not doing them!

Part 2 – Post your site to your hosting account and make sure it works.

Post everything to your hosting account using your ftp program, including:
a. Sales letter
b. About Us page
c. Affiliate Signup page
d. Popup window.
e. All graphics

Configure your order link(s) with your shopping cart and credit card processing so they
are “live” and ready for buyers to give you their money.

Test ALL your links to make sure they work. You do this by opening your site in your
web browser and physically clicking every single one of them!
a. Test every single link on every single page
b. Fix any links that don’t work
c. Get in the habit of checking your site periodically for “dead” links

Test your popup window to make sure it launches correctly.

Test your website in the Internet Explorer web browser as well as Netscape’s web
browser. Test it on America Online (AOL) too if you can.

Make sure:

a. The popup window script works in Internet Explorer, AOL and Netscape.

b. All graphics show up on every single page

c. All text shows up on every single page

d. All links work on every single page

e. Go through the entire order and fulfillment process in each web browser to
make sure every aspect of product ordering and delivery works correctly.

NOTE: Your credit card processing company should provide you a
“dummy” credit card number so you can go through the entire order
process live.

In short, try to *break* your website!

Look for every possible way anybody could:

i. do something wrong
ii. get lost
iii. break something
iv. crash your server
v. cause any type of problems or mayhem

Check your site’s loading speed – does it load fast on a 56K dial up modem?

Change the resolution on your monitor to 640 x 480, 800 x 600, and 1024 x 768 to see
how the site looks at these various screen settings.

NOTE: You may receive quite a shock when you see how your site looks at resolutions
other than the one you normally keep on your monitor.

Review the “Ten Commandments” article on Day 3 if you need a little refresher.

Part 3 – Go find at least 20 “Competitors”

Find at least 20 sites that look like competitors for what you sell.

One of the best ways to find them is through the search engines.

Perform searches for your top keywords and see which sites come up on top.

Sites that come up high in the search results for popular keyword searches probably have
a decent stream of traffic going to their site.

I know it sounds obvious, but you only want to approach sites with traffic when you start
looking for potential Joint Venture (JV) partners.

Create a folder in your browser’s bookmarks or favorites called “potential JVs”.

a. Surf the web and look for competitors’ sites.

b. “Bookmark” these sites so you can come back to them easily.

As you look at these sites ask yourself these questions:

a. What is their unique selling proposition (USP)?

b. What are they selling that I could add to my product to make it better?

c. What are they selling that I could add as a free bonus to my offer?

d. What do I like about their site that I could use to improve my site?

Make notes of things you see and learn that you could use to make your offer,
product, or website better.

Make any obvious and easy improvements or changes to your website based on
what you’ve learned from your surfing.

Email at least 6 friends / business associates and ask them to take a look at your
site so far and give you feedback.

Implement any of their suggestions that make sense and appear to make your site,
your sales letter or anything else better.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Insert the proper meta-tags into the web pages on your site.

2. If you haven’t already, post your entire website to your hosting account and try to
“break” it.

3. Test every element of the website and look for problem areas.

4. Find at least 20 sites that look like competitors and bookmark them in a folder
called “Potential JV’s”

5. Learn everything you can from these competitors to make your site better.

6. Have at least 6 people give you feedback on your site and the work you have done
so far.

As we set the stage for working with other website operators, we thought this article
would help you understand the “big picture” in arranging your JV’s.

Today’s Resources:

Instant Traffic Stampede – Learn the 7 BEST, proven methods for driving an instant
avalanche of targeted traffic to your website. Make sure you get a copy of the free
report, “7 Secrets To An Instant Traffic Stampede!” available from the exit popup on
the site.

Article - Skyrocket Website Traffic With “OPT”

The most immediate source for website traffic (besides using pay-per-click search
engines) entails the effective use of “OPT” - Other People’s Traffic.

Other website operators have the targeted website visitors you need right now – you just
have to get them to funnel some of it your way.

Your mission is to find people who can refer you their traffic either for a flat fee, as a
trade for services or on a per-click basis.

The quickest way to find people to refer traffic is to take inventory of who you know that
operates a site drawing the type of visitors you need.

Once you have exhausted that list, go to the search engines and do a search for the
keywords that would bring targeted traffic to your site.

Make a list of the websites that rank well in those searches and approach those
individuals with related sites about a traffic deal.

Try to work all your agreements on a traffic trade or per-sale basis first so you won’t
have to pay any cash out of pocket.

If you don’t have enough traffic to trade, or they don’t want to work on commission, then
you should negotiate a per-click or per-signup deal.

This means you only pay when a visitor comes to your site or signs up to receive your
newsletter or other information.

With this structure you only pay for performance and can maximize your return if you do
have to spend money.

You have 4 choices for funneling another site’s traffic to yours: endorsed mailings, popup
windows, link trades, and banners.

Endorsed mailings are by far the best way to funnel traffic from another site.

When you approach someone to do a JV with you this should represent your primary goal
– get the other party to do an endorsed mailing!

A well-written endorsement letter by a website operator who already has a relationship
with people who can buy from you is often worth its weight in gold.

An effective endorsed mailing can result in traffic, sales, and thousands of dollars in your
pocket within mere hours of sending it.

Focused “popup” windows represent the next fastest way to funnel traffic to your site.

When used incorrectly, popup windows create an annoying distraction for web surfers.
Make sure your popup windows are relevant to exactly what visitors want by providing
focused content.

The next way to funnel traffic from other sites is using “Reciprocal Links” – which is a
fancy way of saying trading links with someone. Make sure you negotiate a high profile
spot for your link on the other person’s site.

Don’t let your link get buried way down on the page or you’ve wasted your time.

Banner ads represent the least effective way for getting traffic from other sites because
web surfers have learned to ignore them. However, they can result in traffic if you only
buy them on a per-click basis.

Creativity is key when negotiating with other websites to steer some or all of their traffic
your way.

Create win-win scenarios and many will jump at the chance to work with you

Day 6 (Saturday) - Pull the sales letter together and post it on the website

2009-05-27T01:52:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To put together your sales letter into final form so you can post it up to the web
tomorrow.

Skills Needed:
· Imagination
· Basic Word Processing

You may have noticed that a lot of the information products, websites, and ebooks you’ve
seen have “covers” or software “boxes” even though everything is delivered
electronically.

This isn’t by accident!

The human mind thinks in pictures and it’s hard to imagine what an ebook or a software
package looks like when you go to purchase it. However, with the right “virtual”
packaging, it’s easy for people to visualize what they’re buying from you!

Remember when you purchased this course? We had a really nice ebook “cover” on the
website so you instantly got a feel for what we were selling and how you could benefit.

If you want to get a “virtual” cover, package or box for your product – there’s only one
place we recommend – Killer Covers!

They did the cover for this ebook and many of our other online projects.

Visit their website to get a feel for how a cover can totally change your product’s
appearance and impact your sales like you never dreamed possible. At the very least
you’ll get some ideas on how you can do your own cover if you choose to do it yourself!

Alright -- on to day 6!

Today’s Lesson:

Today, we’re going to take the major components you created yesterday and “stitch and
sew” them together into a great sales letter.

But before we go there let me give you a few more tips for effective cyber-copywriting…

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Cyber Copy Tips
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When writing your copy throw everything you learned in English 101 out the window.

Write just like you talk

Use plain, easy to understand English. Nobody cares if you can use xenophobia and
ostentatious in a sentence. Write almost like you're talking to a buddy over a beer. So that
means using contractions. Be friendly and personable in your writing.

In fact, you'll notice I use phrases like "Look" or "I just told you about..." or "Listen".
These are all "talking phrases".

Write to one person

Try to think of the ideal prospect as you write and make the message just for them. Even
if your web site will be read by thousands of people each day - every person will read it
one at a time. Use "you" and "your" liberally. Focus on them, not yourself.

Keep your sentences and paragraphs very short and simple.

Period.

Sentences (and even paragraphs) can even be one word like that last one.

And paragraphs should be no more than 4 or 5 lines.

You want your web site to look easy to read with a lot of white space. Make it inviting.

Long blocks of words are scary (especially online). Paragraph breaks do not need to be
determined by content.

This is critical for your web site because reading on the screen is even more difficult than
on paper!

Make your subheads provide an entire sales message

Subheads should be like mini-headlines. Use them to break up large bodies of text and to
bring people back into the body of the letter.

A lot of people will scan your web site so you need to make your subheads give a
complete selling message by themselves. That way even people who just scan you web
site can be sold.

Many times I'll use the rejected headlines (from our last lesson) for the subheads.

Use lots of bullets

To make long letters look easier to read and draw attention to your message use lots of
bullets and be sure to make them double-spaced so the web page looks easy to read.

You can use bullets, checkmarks or numbers.

Make It Easy To Read

There are three graphic embellishments you want to stay away from in your web copy.

They are underlines, italics and ALL CAPS.

Underlining is typically used to identify hyperlinks so you don't want to confuse readers
with underlines.

ALL CAPS, like this, makes it much more difficult to read (especially on a screen).

Italics usually come out difficult to read on the screen also, the only spot I'll use italics is
for my testimonials.

Also, to make it easy to read avoid reverse type (white type on dark backgrounds). Stick
with a light background and dark type.

Remember if people can't read what you're saying… they can't buy.

To give emphasis to certain passages you can use Bolding, Boxes and yellow
highlighting.

Margins

You want to bring your margins in closer on the web site.

So instead of using the whole screen you or your webmaster needs to set the margins
closer for easier reading.

Never, ever make people scroll left or right to read your sales letter.

People's eyes have difficulties reading anything that is set too wide.

That's why you'll notice most magazines and newspaper are set in columns.

* * *

Now, with all of that said, you should model your sales letter after proven winners.

Go explore around the Net and bookmark copy that compels you to buy. Take the best
elements from all of these and combine them into your own sales letter.

In fact, one of the ways I learned to write copy so well was to write out (in my own
handwriting) proven sales letters from the masters.

This is the quickest and easiest way for the process to become imprinted in your mind.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Put together your own winning sales letter.

2. Take the elements from your last homework assignment and cut and stitch them
together.

3. You should also have a file of sales letters you’ve seen online you like -- and you
should also be saving your junk mail.

4. Pay attention to the headlines, openings, P.S.s, subheads, guarantees, transitions,
etc. (all the spots we talked about).

5. Also, be sure to read the article in the resource section about how to test your
sales letter before releasing it.

Today’s Resources:

Killer Covers – get an incredible visual representation of your product or service so
prospects immediately know what you sell!

How To Use Testing For Breakthrough Marketing Results

By Yanik Silver

Advertising is expensive. And it costs you the same amount of money to run an ad (or
mail a letter) that brings in 2 customers as one that drives in 20 customers. So that
difference is in your ad (or letter).

Let's say you've come up with what you think is a good ad (powerful headline, good
offer, sizzling copy, etc.), now you're ready to test.

Testing will help you:

1. Save yourself a bunch of money.

2. Improve any results you're currently getting.

3. Stop guessing about what works.

I'd say those are some pretty good reasons to learn all about testing and how to apply it to
your business. So before spending loads of money on your new ad you can (and should)
do a few low-cost/no-cost tests:

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The Sleep On It Test
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First, you should let your ad sit for at least a day. Then the next day you can come back to
it with new eyes and a fresher perspective. You can find errors that weren't apparent
before.

Also, your chances of writing a good ad are significantly improved with rewriting. (I will
rewrite an ad or letter 3, 4 or 5 times before I'm done.)

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Reading Aloud Test
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I don't know what it is about reading something aloud versus reading to yourself, but
you'll pick up lots and lots of insight into how good (or bad) your ad really is by reading
it aloud. All the bumps and rough spots jump out at you.

Or a variation on this is to have someone else read it you. This is even better. As they're
reading it, you should take out a copy of the ad and make notes on it. One big advantage
of this is your reader is completely impartial.
He won't stress certain phrases or words to make the meaning clearer. And if the reader is
having trouble you know that's an area to edit.

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Sneaky Opinion Test
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This test is really great. Take your ad off your printer and make a xerox copy of it. Then
go around to a few people who should be in your target market and say something like,
"Take a look at this, I just found this in a magazine." Key point: Do not tell people you
wrote the ad because they'll be say how nice it is.

You're gauging their response. If they say something like "Did you write this?" or "This
is really good." What that really means is your ad stinks.

But if you start hearing "Do you know how I can get this done?" or "Do you do this?"
then you know you're on to something good and ready to spend money on your test.

Opinions are great, but the only votes that really count are the ones that are paid for. The
first thing you *don't* want to do is call every newspaper, magazine, throw-away, etc.
You need to start by testing small. And that means spending as little as possible to get
accurate results.

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Test Small
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Joe Sugarman (He sold millions of Blu-blocker sunglasses) tells how he would test all his
ads in the Southwestern edition of the Wall Street Journal. Because this was the cheapest
and smallest edition of the Journal to test.

That way he was able to read results quickly and then decide whether or not to 'roll-out'
to other editions. So how can you apply this information to your business?

Easy.

Let's say you've been running ads in your local paper. Well, usually newspapers have
zoned editions based on zip codes. So instead of paying for your ad to appear in the entire
circulation, you simply put it in one of the cheapest and most representative zones
available.

And by tracking the response (using a specific phone#, person, extension#, etc.) you can
safely predict what results you'll get once you go out to the entire circulation.
One more point: It's better to run your test ad in a daily paper instead of a monthly
magazine. Simply because you can ascertain information more quickly.

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Don't Fall For Your Ad Rep's Traps
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You cannot multiply zero. That means if there is no life in your ad -- kill it before it
drains more money and time from you.

Don't listen to your media rep's b.s. about repetition and getting discounts for multiple
insertions. Remember, these guys have no clue about how to create advertising that
works. If they did, they'd be running ads in their own magazines and making tons of
money.

Infomercial marketers realize this point. Imagine spending $100,000.00 to produce one
single 30 minute spot and then buying $400 - $1,000 in media to test it out. That's what
infomercial companies do.

They know if the phones aren't ringing after a couple of TV spots -- they're definitely not
going to ring if they throw tens of thousands of dollars in media at it, either.

Follow these tips and you'll be able to save a lot of money plus increase response. Just
test until you come up with a winner and then keep running it!

Day 5 (Friday) - Write the copy of the sales letter

2009-05-27T01:50:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

Today’s lesson objective is to continue the process of writing your sales letter.

Skills needed:
· Imagination
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

With your 50 headlines I want you to start identifying which ones are the most powerful.
Sometimes I have my wife look at them and tell me which one really moves her. It has to
be a first glance.

When I have my top 10 or so headlines then I move on to creating the sales letter. I use
the best headline for my headline on top of the site. My second strongest one is usually
the first sentence and then I try to use the other ones throughout the copy as subheads.

Today, we’re going to put together the rest of the sales letter and one of the easiest ways
to teach you how to do this is by looking at an analysis of my site…

My 12-Part “Power Web Copywriting” Formula

(This is how I am able to get approximately 1 out of every 32 visitors to buy my product)

For illustration of the formula - I’ve analyzed my site Instant Sales Letters.

Let’s start…
1. Create Immediate Attention with a Powerful Headline.
You can see I use a ‘prehead’ (this is the small headline above the main headline), a
headline and a subhead. All 3 of these are powerful enough to be the main headline.

Your headline’s job is immediately get your prospect’s attention and stop them dead in
their tracks. (We’ve already covered this on Day 4.)

2. Create Instant Believability with Testimonials.
One of your biggest problems on the Internet (or anywhere) is being believed. The
best way to assure people you are not a scam artist or huckster is by providing
testimonials. As you can see I like to include a testimonial as close to the top of the letter

as possible. I’ve placed these 2 testimonials from prominent Internet marketers above my
headline. This way I get people immediately believing what I say before they read my
sales letter.

3. Build Interest By Discussing a Problem, Expanding on your Headline or
Incorporating a Story.

The first part of your sales letter is critical to your success. Here I expand on the benefits
I got people excited about in the headline. They start imagining the success one sales
letter could bring them.

I also use a story to keep readership high. People love to read stories. It’s nearly
impossible not to read a good story.

4. Whet Reader’s Desire with Hot Benefits and Bullets.

Benefits are the results your prospects are looking for. If you sell a book – people don’t
want to read the book they want the ‘secrets’ and information inside.

You can incorporate benefits into your bullets (which are really “mini headlines”) so use
the same powerful words to build desire and stress benefits or how they can avoid pain.

Bullets are one of the most powerful persuaders in a sales letter. You’ll see companies
like Bottom Line or FC&A actually makes almost their entire sales letter bullets. And
that’s because bullets work!

Bullets are almost like “mini-headlines”. So the same rules apply. Bullets arouse
curiosity. I just love the way bullets compel people to find out more…

And they really drive people’s desire sky high for your product or service. One bullet that
somebody desperately wants to find out is often responsible for them buying a product or
service.

Pay attention to these bullet formulas:

· Stop ____ without expensive _______.
· Five simple ways to _________.
· How to stop ___________.
· The absolute best time to ________.
· End your ____________.

· How to avoid the 12 biggest _______ mistakes.
· How to become a _____ even if you can’t __________.
· No more __________.
· The jealously-guarded secret of ______________.
· The no-lose way to ____________.
· The truth about ___________.
· 6 facts you must know about __________.
· A simple technique for _____________.
· What can teach you about __________.
· Why almost everyone is wrong about the _____________.
· The correct way to use _______________.
· An easy 3-step system for _______________.
· How to quickly and easily create __________, using _______________.
· What you can learn from _________.
· 18 new ways to get ________________.
· New ways to get more out of ______________.
· What never to believe in any _____________.
· How to make sure you’re not overpaying for _________.
· 9 ways to slash your ________ costs.

5. Intensify Desire with Testimonials Showing Results.

Not only do I start with testimonials – but I’ll put them throughout the letter.

People love reading testimonials because they are much more powerful than anything you
could every say about yourself.

Here’s how I use testimonials to prove my points:

6. Build Value by Comparing Apples to Oranges or ROI.
Establish Why Price is Really a Great Value.

In order to prove that your product or service is a great value you need to show it. I do
this by comparing my letter templates to having to pay me or another copywriter to write
them for you. This way I can prove it’s a great value.

7. Explain Reason-Why.

Explaining to people the reason why you are doing something is one of the most
powerful persuaders you could ever incorporate into your sales letters. I have an entire
article about it that you can read here:
http://instantsalesletters.com/articles/trigger.html

Take a look at how I justify such a great value for buyers in this paragraph:

8. Create ‘Greed’ Desire or ‘Gotta Have It’ Mentality with Free Bonuses.

I like to pile on the bonuses and really get people excited.

Sometimes they buy the main product just because of the bonuses. Do I care? Nope!
Your bonuses should be so good you could sell them on their own.

You can see here the bonuses are worth nearly triple what they’ll pay for the Instant Sales
Letter templates.

That’s what you want! You want people to really get excited about the incredible deal
they’re getting!

9. Unconditional Guarantee to Alleviate Fears (even better-than-risk-free
guarantee).

The more risk-free you can make it for people to take action the better.

There’s no need to worry about offering a strong guarantee if you’ve got a good product.

Here’s how I present it in my letter:

10. Demand Immediate Action Using Scarcity or Time Deadline Stress What
They’ll Lose if They Delay.

Nobody likes to make a decision. That’s why you have to help them along by
incorporating a time deadline and reminding them of what they’ll miss out on if they
don’t take action. Sometimes it can be as easy as this one paragraph:

11. Make it Absolutely Clear What to Do Next.

Here’s where a lot of sales letters wimp out. Don’t make people guess what you want
them to do. Tell them “click here” to get started right away.

12. Power P.S.

I will give prospects another chance to get additional information in the P.S. of the letter.
This link would take them to a page that answers even more questions about the
templates. Then the P.P.S. summarizes the benefits and what they’ll get if they order
now!

There you have it! Just put these 12 elements to work in your sales letter
and you’re all set.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Get the major elements of your sales letter together:

2. Come up with your irresistible offer (see bonus article at the end of this section)

3. Get together your testimonials. If you don’t have any yet – ask people to review
your product/service and get back to you. Ask existing customers if you can use
their comments.
4. Create a list of 20 bullets points for your product or service highlighting benefits.
A simple way to do this is to take every feature and come up with several benefits
for it. Remember a benefit is something your product does (result it produces) for
the customer.

5. Think of a believable and truthful ‘reason why’ you are making this offer.

6. Bonuses. Think of several high perceived but low-cost bonuses. Information
products like reports or ebooks are perfect for this.

7. Craft your guarantee. Try to be as liberal as possible, a lifetime guarantee sure
would sell more than a 30-day guarantee.

Special Notice: Inside the “show-and-tell” 33 Days to
Online Profits Video CD-roms you can see an actual
sales letter from start to finish. You’ll see all the different
editing processes and more. You just pop the CDs into
your computer and watch as right before your eyes each step is
brought to life. Check it out here

HOW TO CREATE POWERFUL OFFERS THAT DRIVE YOUR SALES THROUGH
THE ROOF

By Yanik Silver

What does a mafia boss know about marketing?

Lots. Read on to find out...

Do you remember in the movie "The Godfather" when Don Corleone says, "I’m gonna
make him an offer he can’t refuse"?

And it’s this simple concept that’s the backbone of any successful sales proposition you
make. (However if I were you, I’d probably leave out the threats of violence in your sales
piece.)

From now on, your job is to create such powerful offers that anyone reading it would say
to themselves, "My goodness, I’d have to be a complete idiot not to take them up on this
deal!"

And creating a powerful offer like this is easier than you think.

Let me share with you one of the most compelling offers I’ve seen. It took a dying hotel
on the wrong side of the Vegas 'strip', where you had to watch your wallet at every turn,
and transformed it into a super moneymaker.

This is from a very successful ad that used to run for Bob Stupak's Vegas World hotel.

Listen to this deal and see if you wouldn't act on this even if you were just an occasional
gambler:

"Act now, to receive a virtually free Las Vegas vacation. For $198 per person or $396 per
couple I will:

1) Put you up in a luxurious mini suite in an exciting Las Vegas hotel right on the famous
strip.

2) I will give you free tickets to a show with name entertainers.

3) I will put a chilled bottle of champagne in your room for free.

4) I'll let you drink as much as want for free, whether you're at the gaming tables, playing
slots or in one of the lounges.

5) I'll hand you $1,000 of my money to gamble with for free.

6) I'll let you keep all your winnings.

7) I'll guarantee you'll win a color TV, VCR or a faux diamond ring.

Obviously I'm not going to give this incredible deal to everybody in the whole world.
There can only be (small number) of these vacation packages available. First come, first
served."

If that's not an irresistible offer, I don't what is. The closer you can get to something like
this, the more customers you’ll have falling all over themselves to give you their money.

Does this give you a few ideas?
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Using The Bonus Pile On
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Vegas World’s offer uses a concept I call "Bonus Pile On". And the way it works is to
keep piling on bonus after bonus until finally you have to say "no mas" and whip out
your charge card.

It was the same thing with the famous Ginsu knife commercials a few years back. They
used this technique perfectly to sell millions of dollars of cutlery. The announcer would
say "And if you act now you’ll also get..." and then about 15 different knives and kitchen
gadgets would pop up on the screen.

It made you think about how much value you were getting for such a little price. That’s
the power of the "bonus pile on".

So what’s the best way to start using this in your business? Well, one of the best ways I
know is using paper and ink. You can give away a series of valuable reports with any
purchase. What’s more, you could even make this information available as a download
from your website so you’d have zero distribution cost.

Or you could make deals with other businesses where they’d let you give away a product
or service from them to your customers. If you really use your imagination here you’ll
come up with lots of ways to create a "bonus pile on".

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Make Prospects Take Action Now!
===============================

There’s no doubt about it - deep down, everyone of us is a lazy procrastinator. That’s
why you need some kind of deadline or scarcity factor to make prospects take action
now. If your prospects believe an offer is going to be around forever, there’s no reason to
take action.

That’s the reason deadlines work so well. In one of my businesses, I’ll stamp a red
deadline on the order form for the last day prospects get over $2,000.00 in free bonuses.
And believe me, it’s not unusual to get people ordering right on the very last day of the
deadline just because of this stamp.

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100% No-Risk Guarantee
=======================

Finally, the last component of a powerful offer is to make your deal as risk-free as
possible. Nobody wants to make a mistake and be stuck with something that doesn’t
deliver as promised. That’s why you should make every effort to lift the risk from the
prospect and place it squarely on your shoulders. Make a bold guarantee and make it for
as long as possible. If you have a quality product, you shouldn’t worry because most
often return rates will drop the longer you extend guarantees for.

Another strategy to try is offering a 30-day "hold-your-check or charge slip" trial. That
means people will send you checks postdated 30 days out or you won’t charge their credit
cards for 30 days. Joe Karbo used this to sell tens of thousands of copies of his book "The
Lazy Man’s Ways to Riches".

Now you have all the keys to creating your own irresistible offer and watching your sales
soar. Just keep adding value and more bonuses until you come up with an offer than
makes your prospect feel guilty for not ordering.

Day 4 (Thursday) - Begin writing your sales letter

2009-05-27T01:49:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To brainstorm headlines and get your thoughts straight on the sales letter you will create
to sell your product or service.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Welcome to Day 4 - you’ll be spending the next few days with me, Yanik.

Before we begin on the sales letter process, I want to share a story with you…

A couple months ago I was sitting on a plane on my way to speak at an Internet
marketing seminar. Instead of catching up on my reading, I struck up a conversation with
my neighbor. He told me he had just graduated college with a marketing degree.

I hesitated for a second, not knowing if I should tell him what I really thought, but I went
ahead anyway...

I confided in him that I had also graduated with a BS in marketing, actually a top 25
business school, but that I *never* learned anything useful in my marketing classes.

He was stunned.

I went on to tell him there was just *one* critical skill (something I never learned from
any stodgy professor) that has been responsible for the majority of my success, both
online and off.

I know this might seem hard to believe, but it's true and I have proven it time and time
again. As I've grown and built several successful web sites, plus my offline businesses, I
have always relied on this *one* critical skill.

And do you want to know what I told him it was?

It's simple....

I'm talking about how I discovered what it takes to write powerful, persuasive,
moneymaking copy so good that people are practically forced to order!

Many people don't realize how important good ad copy is to their success.... and that's
why they end up closing their doors and blaming the economy or making up some other
lame excuse. Let me tell you, once you master this skill you can literally write your own
ticket.

And that’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this section -- so let’s get going…

(Copywriting is a vast subject and I’ve included some valuable resources at the end of
this section to help you along.)

STOP! For me, I find I learn from real life examples and “doing it” rather than just
reading!

So before we start into your website, I want to give you few examples of top selling web
sites and let’s see if we can’t figure out the common link they all have.

Take a look at each one and then continue on through this section.

Example 1: Amazing Formula

Example 2: Instant Sales Letters

Example 3: How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook in 7 days

Example 4: Public Domain Riches

Example 5: Ebook Secrets Exposed

Example 6: No Cost Advertising

Example 7: MYSS

Example 8: Internet Marketing Center

These eight websites have generated $100,000’s in sales!

Did you figure out what they all have in common?

They are all just sales letters! Pretty simple, almost the exact same as you’d see delivered
in your mailbox as “junk mail”.

The truth is you need to forget almost everything every guru or Internet marketing expert
tells you. We suggest the simple sales letter works better than almost anything else you
can have on your site.

(Just trust me on this one – try it my way first and then if you still want to do all kinds of
crazy things you can do them with the profit you’ll make using my methods.)

Your main goal is to sell… and having all kinds of content and free stuff on your site
will distract people away from your main objective. (Actually, you’ve got 2 objectives –
the first is to sell and the second objective is to get contact information for your
‘maybes’.)

You’ve got to study direct response advertising because the web is really the same thing
– just on a computer screen instead of a sales letter sent through the mail or a direct
response ad in the newspaper.

STOP! Think for a moment about why most sites fail…

It’s not because they haven’t invested in the best shopping cart system…and it doesn’t
have anything to do with not using Flash or some other fancy “plug-in”…and it’s not due
to the fact they’ve over-looked top-quality graphics or design work…

So what is it?

The real reason most web sites can’t make money is because they lack strong web copy.

Consider this: If a site didn’t have any graphics – just words – could it make sales?

Absolutely!

But what if a site didn’t have any words – just graphics – could you expect to see any
sales?

I don’t think so! Therefore…It’s The Words That Sell!

The right words have the almost magical power to make your visitor BUY!
Anytime I start with my sales letter I always start with the most important element…the
headline. (Now, this already assumes you are an expert on your subject and you’ve done
your research on your product and its benefits.)

Brainstorm 50 - 100 Headlines

Your headline’s job is to immediately get your prospect’s attention and stop them dead in
their tracks.

So my headline on Instantsalesletters.com is “In only 2 ½ minutes you can quickly and
easily create a sales letter guaranteed to sell your product or service without
writing”.

Does that pretty much grab your attention if you’re interested in selling your product or
service? I think so.

But before I tell you my secrets for creating headlines let me give you the thoughts from
guys a whole lot smarter than me about headlines:

David Ogilvy says, “On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as
read the body copy. It follows that, unless your headline sells your product, you have
wasted 90% of your money.”

And Claude Hopkins relays the importance of a headline, “The salesman is there to
demand attention. He cannot well be ignored. The advertisement can be ignored. But the
salesman wastes much of his time on prospects whom he never can hope to interest...The
advertisement is read only by interested people who, by their own volition, study what we
have to say. The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest.”

John Caples has these words of advice, “If you have a good headline, you have a good
ad. Any competent writer can write the copy. If you have a poor headline, you are licked
before you start. Your copy will not be read...Spend hours writing headlines - or days if
necessary.”

I don’t think these masters would have placed such an importance on headlines if it didn’t
really matter. In fact, John Caples says that he’s seen one ad pull 19 ½ times better than
another one simply by changing the headline.

You can believe it!

In my own personal tests the best I got is about 2 1/2 times — but that’s still pretty damn
good! So for spending the same amount on marketing and advertising you can more than
double your response — not too bad.
Now, when coming up with powerful headlines you want to be able to answer the
questions nearly everyone has on their mind whenever they read your ad. Here are the
questions you need to zero in on:

What?So

Cares?Who

What’s In It For Me?

Why Are You Bothering Me?

If you have good answers to these 4 critical questions then you’re well on your way to
success.

Here’s What Your Headlines Should Do:

1. Identify your ideal prospect and speak directly to them

Your headline needs to grab the person you want to attract and single them out. If you
want business owners, your headline should begin with “Business Owners! Discover
How to Make Your Computers Work Harder and Faster!”

Do you see how this qualifies exactly who you are looking for? You have targeted
business owners looking to make their computers work faster and harder. You can easily
target any profile you wish just by building-in these screening devices in the headline.

The more narrow the criteria — the less the quantity of responses you’ll get but the
quality should be higher.

2. Offer the biggest promise or self-serving benefit to the reader

Answer the question everyone has on their mind, “What’s in it for me?” You answer that
question and your ideal prospect will stand up and take notice.

This brings us back to the same question everyone is constantly asking. Everyone is busy,
so get to the point with the biggest benefit right away.
3. Your headline should make the reader inclined to keep reading

Curiosity is a very powerful human emotion. However you don’t want your headline just
to be some trick to get people to read. If you can combine curiosity with self-serving
benefits then you have a real winner.

But don’t be like some creative types… never use double meanings or some obscure
reference in your headline. People are too busy to pick up on those. It’s much easier to
click away from your site than try and figure out what you mean.

Humorous or cute headlines are most certainly a major waste of money.

4. Offer news if possible

News is always a good attention-getter. Everybody likes to stay current. So
announcements are almost always “surefire”. You can capitalize on new developments,
improvements, new procedures, etc.

Headline Appeals That Last Forever

Generally there are only a few things people want (this is important – I’m not talking
about need):

· Be healthy
· Look better (reduce fat, be prettier, more handsome, etc)
· Be rich and make money
· Save money
· Get rid of problems/find the easy way out
· Not be embarrassed
· Have fun and excitement
· Gain respect and feel important

Of course not all of these appeals will apply to your business, but many can if you take
the time to figure out how to apply that appeal. But not only are there universal appeals –
but headlines that have worked before can usually be reworked over and over.

Human appeals are immutable. These next headlines I have compiled for you have all
been successful in selling different products or services – you should be able to use these
as brainstorms for your own powerful headline.
Take this list and use for your own ideas (each of these headlines is a proven winner and
has made money):

40 Proven Moneymaking Headlines

1. “The Secret To Making People Like You”

2. “How To Win Friends And Influence People”

3. “Do You Make These Mistakes In English?”

4. “Hands That Look Lovelier in 24 Hours — Or Your Money Back”

5. “When Doctors “Feel Rotten” This Is What They Do”

6. “How I Improved My Memory In One Evening”

7. “They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano — But When I Started To
Play!”

8. “Throw Away Your Oars!”

9. “Thousands Now Play Who Never Thought They Could”

10. “Discovered — Amazing Way To Grow Hair”

11. “How To Collect From Social Security At Any Age”

12. “The 5 Problems Everyone Has At The Dentist — And How (practice name)
Solves Them”

13. “Corn Gone in 5 Days Or Money Back”

14. “How A Strange Accident Saved Me From Baldness”

15. “A Significant Breakthrough In The Fight Against The Effects Of Aging”

16. “Right and wrong farming methods…and little pointers that will increase
your profits”

17. “Some straight talk about vitamins and your sex life”

18. “Speak Spanish like a diplomat”

19. “Stop dreaming and start making money”

20. “Suppose this happened on your wedding day”

21. “Take this 1 minute test – of an amazing new kind of shaving cream”

22. “The amazing new Beverly Hills ‘wrinkle eraser’ discovered by a top oriental
chemist!”

23. “The amazing diet secret of a desperate housewife”

24. “What the travel agents won’t talk about can save you 50%-70% on your
cruise vacation!!!”

25. “To people who want to write -- but can’t get started”

26. “We’re looking for people to write children’s books”

27. “You can laugh at money worries if you follow this simple plan”

28. “Why some people almost always make money in the stock market”

29. “38 fun and easy ways to earn $500 next weekend”

30. “7 steps to freedom”

31. “Confessions of a disbarred lawyer”

32. “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from
the electric clock”

33. “Banking secrets that banks don’t want published”

34. “Can you pass this money test?”

35. “How a fool stunt make a star salesman”

36. “How to wake up the financial genius inside you”

37. “How to pay zero taxes”

38. “If you can lick a stamp you can lick your weight problem”

39. “New diet burns off more fat than if you ran 98 miles a week”

40. “My feet were killing me…until I discovered the miracle of Hamburg”

These 40 headlines, proven to work throughout the years, will continue to work… and
they are pretty easy to model for your own stuff!

How about we take the third one down the list: “Do you make these mistakes in
English?” written by Maxwell Sackheim.

It ran for 40 years!

This is not some pretty ad for Chevrolet or Coca Cola that they had no idea if it’s making
money, this is a mail order company that knew they were making money and they ran
this ad for 40 years.

Maybe if you’re selling a real estate information product it could be “Do You Make
These Mistakes Investing in Real Estate?” Simple, right?

Or if we’re selling a course to webmasters it could be: “Do You Make These Mistakes
Building Web Sites?”.

Remember, don’t copy – but emulate. One of the greatest headlines ever was “They
Laughed When I Sat Down At the Piano – But When I Started to Play!…”

That one has been knocked off lots of times – but you have to understand the big idea
behind it. This headline succeeds because it dramatizes the triumph of the underdog.

Quick Starts for Headlines

You may have noticed that certain words are used more frequently and continue to be
used in winning headlines. The most powerful words used in winning mail-order ads (the
hardest kind of advertising) were the words, “you”, “how”, and “new”.

Not far behind was “How To”.

So if you ever get stuck for a headline, a classic which almost never fails to work is
“How To…”. (It’s a shop-worn classic, but it still works like incredibly well.)

Today’s Assignment

You guessed it:

Come up with 50 headlines for your product! Never edit. Just keep coming up
with all kinds of headlines. Start with the craziest, wackiest ones to warm up your
brain.
Remember, your headlines should answer the big questions we talked about:

· So what?
· Who cares?
· What’s in it for me?
· Why are you bothering me?

Got it? Great – get going!

Today’s Resources:

Instant Sales Letters
Create a winning sales letter in just minutes…without writing!

Web Copy Secrets
Learn the secrets of outrageously profitable websites from the inside out. Peel away
layer-after-layer to discover how they turn visitors into sales. It’s like a sales copy
autopsy.

Make Your Words Sell
Whatever you're selling on the Web - if you want to sell more... You need to use the right
words! Images don't sell. Graphics don't sell - Your words sell! I give this web
copywriting resource a big thumbs up.

How To Master The Art-And-Science Of Writing "Killer" Ads & Sales Letters
Even if your ads and sales letters are doing okay, you can now double, triple, or even
quadruple the results you're getting once you discover the step-by-step system for writing
powerful ads and sales letters that sell!

Push Button Sales Letters
Here's software that lets you fill-in-the-blanks, click a button and poof! You have an
instant sales letter for your product or service. You get a sales letter nicely formatted on a
web page when you're finished. Just polish it up some, link it to your order form and
you're off and running.

Dan Kennedy’s Copywriting Seminar-in-a-box
“Only 115 people were permitted to attend Dan Kennedy's recent, closed door, 2-day
Seminar where he revealed ALL of his most prized, most powerful and most profitable
copywriting techniques. Everything else was just "elementary school" before this.”

Books:

Here's my recommended reading list. My bookshelves are literally filled with marketing
and advertising books and I try to review as many as I can. Here is my list of top books
you MUST read:

"My life in Advertising/Scientific Advertising" by Claude Hopkins. "My life in
Advertisng" is not public domain and worth reading. I've read both these books about 7
times.

"My first 65 years in Advertising" by Maxwell Sackheim. Out-of-print.

"How to Write a Good Advertisement" by Victor Schwab. One of the first books I
ever read on advertising and still one of the best.

"Tested Advertising Methods" by John Caples. Absolute classic. Devour this one and
also look for Caples' other books that are out of print.

"Advertising Secrets of the Written Word" by Joe Sugarman. Sugarman has made
millions for himself selling blu-blocker sunglasses. His copywriting book is a tremendous
resource for any copywriter.

"Ogilvy on Advertising" by David Ogilvy. An absolute must-have classic written by an
agency man who actually understood direct response.

"Magic Words that Bring You Riches" by Ted Nicholas. One of my direct marketing
heroes. Ted took the guts of his $197/year newsletter on direct marketing and distilled it
into this book.

"The Ultimate Sales Letter" by Dan Kennedy. Superb book. My copy is dog-eared
and heavily used. Perfect for helping you create your own powerful sales letter.

"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini. This isn't a
copywriting book but you must get this book. I've read it at least 7 times and it will help
you understand the psychological triggers to a sale. Very Powerful!!

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eBook - “7 Hidden Psychological Secrets to Getting More
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Day 3 (Wednesday) - Site building begins

2009-05-27T01:47:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To design your site on paper and begin the process of setting it up online.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email
· Basic / Intermediate HTML
· Basic FTP
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

NOTE: You will have to decide whether to build your site yourself or hire someone to do
it for you.

If you know how to do the following then you should have the skills to do it yourself:

· Create basic html pages and basic graphics, including
o Inserting text
o Creating and modifying basic graphics and clipart
o Inserting graphics
o Creating basic links between pages and to other sites

· FTP files to a website

If you don’t know how to do these things then check out the site listed below for a list of
services and people who can build it for you.

NOTE - Make sure you ask about:
· Professional References – talk to at least 5 people who have hired them.
· Look at samples of their work to make sure they can deliver what you want.
· Ask about guarantees on their work.
· Get everything in writing before you hand over any money.

ELance – offers a wide range of services provided by professionals all over the world.
You post your project for free and people bid to do the job. This is a very popular and
innovative service that can help you find professionals to do everything from web design,
search engine placement, graphic and logo design and more!

Also, here is a list of places you can go to learn how to do it yourself.

· A Beginner's Guide to HTML from the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
· HTML Quick Reference from The University of Kansas
· HyperText Mark-up Language from W3C
· Matts CGI Script Archive

Freeware and shareware

· Shareware.com
· Download.com
· WS FTP
· Netscape Browser
· Internet Explorer

Part 1 – Creating your site in simple, step-by-step fashion

The first step in designing your site doesn’t involve the computer at all! Surprisingly,
designing your site begins with laying out the structure on paper using a simple diagram.

We’ve used everything from bar napkins and shopping bags to envelopes… but it’s bets
if you use a flow chart.

Create a simple flow chart of how the site looks, similar to this (next page):

AVOID the mistake most people make -- which is trying to create a huge site just to
impress their friends!

Most sites only need 4-6 pages.

Those include:

1. Main “home” page with product information and offering along with a link to
shopping cart or secure order form. This page is usually a sales letter type format.

2. “About Us” page that explains who you are and how that relates to what you sell.

3. “Contact Us” page that details how to get in touch with you via phone, fax,
email, and “snail” mail.

4. “Affiliate Program” page or “Make Money” page with information about how
to sign up for your affiliate program.

Keep your site simple, to the point, and lead people to making a purchase decision about
your product.
STOP! Right now, pull out a piece of paper and sketch out the organization of
your site. Get a clear picture of how your site will flow.

Make a note on each page about what information you will include on that page.

Part 2 – Understand how Yahoo looks at your site

We will spend more time on submitting to Yahoo on Day 12, however you need to
understand the basics about Yahoo now as you build your site over the next few days.

Yahoo cares about two things when it comes to listing your site:

1. That you pay the fee for them to review your site -- and --

2. That your site does what you say it does and no less (and no more).

By organizing your site as we have outlined above you will show the category editor two
things:

· You will show (and hopefully convince) them that the business name you are
trying to get listed is actually your “real” business name -- this is especially if it is
obvious that name will rocket you to the top of the category list.

· You will guide the Yahoo category editor to list your site how you want, because
you won’t include any extraneous information on your site which distracts them.

Tips on building your site so the Yahoo category editor will accept it:

· Make sure your business name, domain name and the domain registrant name all
match. Yahoo watches for people trying to exploit the system… especially those
sites they see will shoot to the top of a popular category.

· Stick to a relevant theme and don’t stray from it. If you sell cable tv de-
scramblers… don’t muddy the mix by trying to sell satellite dishes. ONLY talk
about and sell de-scramblers on your site.

· Don’t submit a site with lots of links to external information on other sites. You
must have good information on your site or Yahoo will most likely reject you.

· Don’t sell any other people’s products as an affiliate… Yahoo will reject you as
having “duplicate content”. Yahoo must perceive that you are selling your own
products or services or they will most likely reject your site.

NOTE: You can always add affiliate links later… just don’t do it until after you
get your site accepted.

The process and details of manipulating the search engines and Yahoo fills entire books
and informational programs!

If you want to come up at the top of the pile when someone searches for your product…
or if you are particularly interested in learning how to use Yahoo and the search engines
to get traffic to your site, check out these additional resources:

Web Position Gold – Web position helps you track your positions on the major search
engines so you can improve them. Excellent product for tracking how you rank.

Search Engine Forums – This forum contain a wealth of information about the search
engines and membership is free.

Search Engine News – publishers of “The UnFair Advantage Book on Winning The
Search Engine Wars” Many people consider this the guide to learning how to
manipulate the search engines and get top placement.

Part 3 – Define your “look and feel”

Here you will decide the style and layout of your site’s pages.

Take a piece of paper and sketch out what each page will look like.

Ask yourself:

What colors will you use?

What type styles will you use?

Where will you position your text and graphics?

(Check out today’s featured article for the “10 Commandments” of Web design.)
business.

Some elements you should
consider including on every
page:

1. A “header” at the top
of every page – usually
one that reinforces the
name and identity of
the company.

2. A “footer” at the
bottom of every page
that includes the
business name, email
address, and phone
number. You should
probably leave off
your mailing address
to avoid having a
Yahoo category editor
classify you as a local

3. Have buttons or text links to all the pages on the left side or top of the page so
people can get to any page on the site no matter where they are currently.

4. Keep the total page file sizes low to speed up download times and reduce visitor
frustration.

5. Keep consistent fonts and type styles throughout the site – don’t switch from page
to page.

Now, take out some additional sheets of paper and sketch out a basic design for
each page on your site.

Part 4 - Using templates to shortcut the process

Just getting started on the web?

Need a little help getting that site off the ground?

Go to any one of these sites

· 123 Web Templates and More – Offers over 200+ professional website
templates, all available for one low price.

· Dollar Templates – offers low cost, high quality web templates.

· Templates for you – wide assortment of templates available for immediate
download.

· Template Search and Best Templates either have, or can help you find, free web
page templates.

You can find pre-done websites that look like you actually spent a lot of money to have
them created!

Just download a template, fill in the text and you have a ready-made site.

If you have the most basic web publishing and graphic skills you can use these templates
to get your website up and running quickly.

If you have a modest level of skill you can even modify the graphics to give your site a
totally customized look.

Now, download a template or create a “template” page for your site so you can
plug in the website content you will develop over the next few days.

When you’re done you should have a completed “template” page that just needs
the website text.

Part 5 - Using Popup windows

Popup windows probably rate as the most hotly debated marketing topic online.

Some people love popup windows while they drive other people to the verge of insanity.

Nobody stays neutral on this subject!

One thing you can’t deny – popup windows really work when it comes to building up a
list of subscribers from scratch or expanding your existing list.

Popup windows have three main uses:

1. Getting people to sign up for a mailing or “newsletter” list.

2. Getting people to sign up for a “mine-course” where you ‘teach’ them more
information about your product or service -- which should make them want to buy
your product.

3. Redirecting traffic from one site to another so you squeeze maximum value from
your visitors.

Currently, building up your own in-house mailing list probably rates the best use for
popup windows.

Chances are you found out about this book as a result of a list you subscribe to – whether
our list or someone else’s.

FACT! If you want to break into the big bucks online you must develop your own list!

Your own list creates a ready market for existing and new products as you develop them.

There are two major types of popup windows:

1. Entrance pop’s – where the window appears as soon as the visitor hits your site.

2. Exit pop’s – where the window appears as the visitor leaves the site.

You should experiment with entrance vs. exit pop’s to see which produce the best results
as far as total sign-ups and conversion to buyers.

Lots of resources exist to help you set up popup windows on your site and we’ll get into a
lot more detail about specifically using them with your autoresponder on day 8 and 9.

For now you want to get a popup window configured on your site so you can plug in your
autoresponder in a few days.

This is an excellent resource for creating and using popup scripts (and we are providing
it as an unadvertised FREE bonus for you):

· *PopUp Generator* - provides a complete PC software package to create
various pop-up’s to use on your website. A “must have” if you are serious about
using popup windows to make money!

Other places to find popup scripts:

· A1 Java Scripts - just do a search for “popup” script

· CGI Scripts - check out the “miscellaneous” scripts.

· Pop-up Generator - provides a free, basic popup window generator where you
just fill in the blanks and it makes your code while you wait.

For now, you need to do two things with your popup script.

Decide whether you will use an entrance or an exit popup.

Download a popup script and install it on your site.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Lay out your site on paper;

2. Define the look and feel of your site on paper;

3. Download a template or create a “template” page for your site so you can plug in
the website content you develop over the next few days;

4. Decide on the use of your popup window:
a. Decide on entrance vs. exit pop (we recommend exit only)
b. Mini-course
c. Newsletter opt-in
d. Traffic redirect

5. Download a popup window script and install it on your site.

Today’s Resources:

ELance –Post your project for free and have people bid to do the job.

Search Engine Help

Web Position Gold – Web position helps you track your positions on the major search
engines so you can improve them. Excellent product for tracking how you rank.

Search Engine Forums– This forum contain a wealth of information about the search
engines and membership is free.

Search Engine News – publishers of “The UnFair Advantage Book on Winning The
Search Engine Wars” Many people consider this the guide to learning how to
manipulate the search engines and get top placement.

Web Page “Templates”

123 Web Templates and More – Offers over 200+ professional website templates, all
available for one low price.
Dollar Templates – offers low cost, high quality web templates.
Templates for you – wide assortment of templates available for immediate download.

Pop up Windows

FREE bonus for you):
*PopUp Generator* - provides a complete PC software package to create various pop-
up’s to use on your website. A “must have” if you are serious about using popup
windows to make money!
“Budget Cruncher”!

Web page Templates

Template Search and Best Templates either have or can help you
find free web page templates.

Search Engines

Search Engine Forums– This forum contain a wealth of information about the search
engines and membership is free.

Popup Windows

· A1 Java Scripts - just do a search for “popup” script

· CGI Scripts - check out the “miscellaneous” scripts.

· Pop-up Generator - provides a free, basic popup window generator where you
just fill in the blanks and it makes your code while you wait.

Feature Article - The Ten Web Page Commandments

“What makes a good web page?”

People ask me this all the time, though they often encounter difficulty boiling the
question down to so few words.

They, like any serious website operator, want to know how to create and maintain the
best possible website given the constraints of Internet technology.

The following “commandments” represent the ideals towards which every new or
existing website should aspire.

The 10 Web Page Commandments

1. Thou shalt have a Purpose

Clearly define the site’s purpose and ensure all content (pages, graphics and text) tightly
focus on that purpose. Discard all extraneous material.

2. Thou shalt be Lightweight

Use only small, fast loading graphics. If you must use large graphics use thumbnails and
image slicing to diminish the size of every file as much as possible. Use standard
optimized gif’s and jpg’s and avoid anything that requires the user to download a “plug-
in” to view your content.

3. Thou shalt Load Fast

Each and every page on your site should weigh in under 30- 50KB total, including
graphics and navigation.

4. Thou shalt Not use False Code

Use only html. Never use java (different from JavaScript), xml, dhtml or other forms of
code that require a surfer to keep their browser set up “correctly” to accommodate your
page. Also, avoid using 200 lines of JavaScript for rollover buttons in your page!

5. Thou shalt respect the Search Engines
If you want search engine traffic use whole web pages that don’t incorporate frames.
Search engines get confused trying to read content from frames pages. Also, you will
become educated in promoting to the search engines if you are serious about coming up
“on top”.

6. Love thy Surfers and Visitors

Design for “last year’s” technology so surfers using 28.8 or 56K modems can download
and use the site quickly and easily.

7. Thou shalt Not Annoy

Use only stationary text and graphical layout elements. No Scrolling text, marquees, or
animations of any kind including rollover buttons. This eye candy steals valuable
bandwidth and adds little to a site’s main purpose.

8. Thou shalt Not Scroll Left or Right

Design your pages so they never force a visitor to scroll left or right no matter what the
resolution settings on their monitor. Sites that read “best viewed at 800 x 600” really say
“look at it my way because I don’t care about your preferences or limitations.”

9. Thou shalt stay Consistent

Include a standard navigational structure on every page. Though it may mean a serious
challenge for the designer, users should only need to click once to find every major
section of a site. This includes using standard link colors in all text links. Blue: hyperlink;
Purple: visited hyperlink; Red: active hyperlink.

10. Thou shalt Know Thy Traffic

Use a site-wide statistics program that enables you to determine what brings someone to
the site, where they go once they arrive, and when and where they leave. This critical
information helps with marketing efforts as well as identifying parts of the site that need
tweaking or adjustment.

Day 2 (Tuesday) - Physically setting up shop online.

2009-05-27T01:44:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To set up the necessary physical elements for operating a profitable online business.

Skills Needed:
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Email
· Basic HTML
· Basic FTP
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

NOTE: We have a very busy day ahead of us -- so let’s not waste any time.

In today’s lesson you will:

· Register your domain name.

· Set up a hosting account for your website.

o Make sure you have a website statistics program set up so you can
measure your traffic and other “critical numbers”.

· Purchase an “Auto-responder” automatic email follow-up tool.

· Sign up for a credit card merchant account or find an alternative means to accept
online credit card payments from customers.

· Unless you will sell only one or two items delivered electronically, you will need
a shopping cart.

· Finally, you will need to set up an affiliate program so you can solicit other
website owners to sell your product or service in exchange for a commission.

Part 1 – Registering Your Domain Name

Registering a domain name has gotten very easy over the last few years.

When I bought my first domain about 4 years ago, it cost $70 to register a domain and
most hosting services tacked another $25 to $50 on top of that!

The process of registering a domain is simply a matter of knowing the name you want to
register (remember all the research we did yesterday), filling out an online form and
paying with your credit card.

In fact, most hosting services now make it even easier by allowing you to register your
domain name as part of the hosting sign up process.

You register your domain name with a “registrar” who then keeps your record so when
people type in your domain name they find your site.

You typically buy your registration for 1-10 years depending on the registrar and how
much you want to pay up front for the domain.

One CRITICAL note about your domain name and Yahoo! – Remember yesterday
when we looked at Yahoo and saw they list their sites by the company name?

Well one of the ways that Yahoo checks to see if that really is your company name (you
didn’t really expect they would just believe your business started with an “!” symbol did
you?) is by going to the registrar of your domain name to see who has registered it –
typically called the “registrant”.

Example: Let’s keep going with the antique cars.

I decided to name my domain and my business 1StopAntiqueCarSales.com.

When I register that domain I will put 1Stop Antique Car Sales as the name of the
business in the registrant section of the domain sign up.

That way, if the Yahoo category editor does check the domain name registrar, they will
see that the name of the business matches the domain name.

Yahoo explains all of this to you and I highly suggest you click here for more
information: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
One more Tip: Based on information obtained from our own results and advice from
recognized experts, right now, it really appears optional whether or not you should
separate your domain name’s keywords with a hyphen (-) in order to increase the chances
of scoring well. You can either do it or not… it doesn’t appear to make any difference,
though it may be useful in order to get a domain that works if the first one you want is
already taken.

Based on this information, the following domain names would work for the above
example:

1StopAntiqueCarSales.com

1StopAntique-CarSales.com

1Stop-AntiqueCar-Sales.com

1Stop-Antique-Car-Sales.com

So now it’s time to register your domain name.

Here are some domain name registrars we know provide reliable service at a fair price.

Sign up for your domain name now.

Domain Registration Services

Dotster – offers excellent domain name registration services at discount prices!

Domains Bot – Search for live expired, expiring soon and “on hold” domains.

Part 2 – Setting up a web hosting service

When I launched my first website way back in the “dark ages” of 1997 I was paying
almost $150 a month in hosting and data transfer charges.

That’s right – a hundred and fifty bucks a month!

My web host watched how many files I uploaded like a hawk and took fiendish glee in
sending me large invoices every single month.
Fortunately all that has changed for the better!

Many hosting services don’t charge “an arm and a leg” for hosting your site.

You can host your site for $10-50 per month depending on how much space you need and
how much bandwidth (data transfer) you plan to use.

Here are some important things to consider when you evaluate any hosting service:

Server space
You will need enough server space to host your site. Most basic websites only need about
one to two megabytes of web space for the entire site.

However, make sure you get at least 5 megabytes of space so you can expand without
worry.

Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the amount of data transfer you get with the account.

Most hosting services now talk in terms of “gigabytes”. A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes of
data transfer.

Here’s what this means in real people terms:

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred to visitors as they view your web site.

Your web hosting service includes a certain amount of data traffic with your package,
and fact is most web sites use far less than the allotted amount.

For example, let’s say you have a web page 40 kilobytes in size (including graphics)
going over the net.

Your hosting account allows you a 4000 MB (4 gigabyte).

This allowance equates to about 100,000 visitors downloading that particular page!!

This sounds like a lot – but let’s take it one step further.

Most hosting services have in their fine print a restriction on how much bandwidth you
can use at any time.

Let’s say you have an ebook that is 500kb in size and 10 people tried to download it at
the same time… that would most likely cause a “bargain” hosting company’s server to
“throttle” your bandwidth.

This means your service will slow way down during that peak usage period.

The moral of the story – a “bargain” doesn’t always mean a bargain.

If you plan to sell a lot of ebooks or other electronic products, make sure the hosting
company you hire can handle the load and is flexible enough not to shut you down right
in the middle of a peak usage period.

CGI scripts
The hosting company you hire must let you run cgi or perl scripts on your account. Most
do, but make sure before you sign up.

Cgi scripts run many of the interactive elements on your website, including: contact
forms, affiliate programs, shopping carts, click tracking, and more.

Website “stats”
Many hosting services provide you with a website statistics (stats) program. Make it
provides you with the following information:

· Unique Visitors – how many individual people have come to your website within
a specific period of time.

· Referrers – where do your website visitors come from? If they come from a
search engine, what keywords are they using to find your site? Any worthwhile
stats program includes this information.

· Page views – total page views gives you snapshot of the overall activity on your
website.

One note about “hits” – the term “hits” gets thrown around pretty loosely online and
nobody knows exactly what it means.

“My website gets a lot of hits.” is about the most useless statement you could make!

Hits can entail everything from page views to individual files loading on your site. One
page could be responsible for 10 “hits”!

Your main concern in monitoring your website stats is how many unique visitors are
coming to your site. In other words - How many people are showing up who can buy
from you!

Sign up for your hosting account now!

“Bargain” Hosting: Under $10 a month

Your Site - Offers a comprehensive hosting service for $5 a month.

Mid-Level Hosting

All Net Web Design And Hosting – Offers a special deal to “33 Days” purchasers – well
worth checking out. Personalized service and very responsive.

More “Robust” Hosting: $25 a month

Host 4 Profit – Offers a high quality, high speed hosting service at an incredible
price! Includes:
~ 300 MB of web space
~ 10 GB of Data transfer (That’s a LOT!)
~ Unlimited autoresponders
~ Website stats
~ NOTE: Each additional hosting account you set up is only
$5 a month… it’s a great deal!

If your hosting service doesn’t provide you with a good stats program then you will need
to set one up.

Here are some options for setting up a stats program on your website.

Web Trends Live - Very comprehensive website stats program – monthly fee.

A W Stats – basic online stats service – free!

With the advent of really inexpensive and reliable web hosting nobody has a valid excuse
for not getting their own website to promote their product, ebook or business.

Part 3 – Selecting and using an Autoresponder automatic follow up tool

What The Heck is an Email Autoresponder?

Email autoresponders work like a fax-on-demand system.

Maybe you’ve seen the systems where you call from your fax machine and dial a certain
code and you’ll get back a document in your fax machine?

Well, an email autoresponder works the same way.

If you send an email to an autoresponder address you’ll get back a prewritten message.

Using A Sequential Email Autoresponder in your business

Until just recently, you could only do a one-time autoresponder with one message coming
back.

But now you can set up a whole sequence of autoresponder messages going out on any
day you choose.

For example:
· Message #1 might go out immediately
· Message #2 goes out 2 days later
· Message #3 goes out on day 5
· Day 8 comes another message, etc, etc.

Do you see the real beauty of this whole thing yet?

The best part about it - everything gets done automatically for you because it’s triggered
when a prospect submits their email address.

So that means you can simply set up your system once and it keeps working over and
over again like a tireless money-making robot making sure no prospect ever slips through
the cracks.
Because the vast majority of your customers WILL NOT buy on the first visit to your
site, it’s critical that you have an automated way to follow up with them several times to
entice them back to your site to make a purchase.

Sequential autoresponders give you that *automated* follow up without the tedious
headache of having to do it yourself manually.

Tom Kulzer of smart autoresponder provider AWeber Systems once wrote:
"Consistent follow-up gets results."

“Turbo-charge” your autoresponder with these “TOP 5” Tips:

1. Make “time sensitive” offers in your email follow up. Get your prospects to feel a
sense of urgency that “this offer won’t last forever”.

2. Reinforce that urgency with your follow up mailings. One technique is to have a
“countdown” of days remaining as each email arrives.

3. Build extra incentives into each follow up mailing until the prospect just “can’t
take it anymore” and has to buy from you. These “Bonuses” or incentives could
include:

a. Free Reports

b. Free ebooks

c. Freeware programs

d. Mini-Courses delivered via email

4. When using bonuses – don’t forget to remove clients from that particular
autoresponder follow up as they become a client! You want to avoid any
confusion or extra, unnecessary emails to that new client.

5. Include a “survey” as part of your autoresponder sequence. Use feedback from
your subscribers to help make your autoresponder results even better.

a. What do they like about your autoresponder?

b. What do they hate about it?

c. What other information do they want?

Suggestions for Putting Your Autoresponder To Work

Here are a few of the best ways to put a series of autoresponders to work for your site:

1. Follow up with prospects who download an excerpt from your product or sign-up
for a trial service.

- Encourage them to come back to your site for more information or to make their
first (or repeat) purchase.

2. Multi-part training courses.

- Teach people about a single part of the overall “picture” you are trying to sell
them. Demonstrate your knowledge by giving them something of value and you
will get value in return (their money).

A good example is giving away the first chapter of your ebook free to entice
people to buy the whole thing.

This technique is actually a universal principal - Tell people what they need to
do and then sell them how to do it.

3. Persuading hesitant prospects to become ecstatic buyers.

- Gently remind visitors why they came to your site in the first place and then give
them reasons to return

4. Deliver special reports that prove your company’s worth.

- You already probably have (or can gain access to) information or articles that
would make an excellent “Special Report” that proves you are an expert in your
field.

5. Provide an “evergreen” newsletter to prospects to maintain contact.

- Take elements of your business that never change and turn them into a timeless
newsletter. This means you teach people principles that never go out of date or
style.

6. Automatically follow-up with buyers to sell them even more and make sure they
stay happy!

- It’s much easier to sell an existing customer than it is to find a new one! Don’t
make the mistake of letting a one-time customer stay a one-time customer. Follow
up with your buyers to make sure they have what they need and always look for
new products you can sell them based on their interests.

Just think about how nice it will be to automatically and consistently follow up with
customers to increase sales!

Here is a list of autoresponders we feel comfortable recommending to you.

Research these companies and sign up for your own sequential autoresponder
system today.

A Weber – Highly Recommended! Very reliable autoresponder system used by many
of the web’s top marketers.

Get Response – Recommended! This is the system we use (along with a lot of other top
online marketers). Lots of great features, easy to use, reliable – what else can you say?
This is a great tool that will help you make money!

Auto Response Plus – A stand alone autoresponder system that eliminates the need to
pay monthly fees (other than website hosting). Does require some professional help to set
up on your hosting service but may be worth a serious look.

1 Shopping Cart – Fully integrated system of shopping cart, autoresponder, ad tracker,
credit card processor and more!

Part 4 – Merchant Accounts

A merchant account can represent one of the largest expenses in setting up your online
business.

But you can accept credit cards online without “breaking the bank”.

Since over 90% of all transactions on the Internet involve using a credit card, your
business will ultimately fail if you don’t allow your online customers to use “plastic”.

The problem for most small businesses and “micro-preneurs” involves the (sometimes)
high cost of setting up and maintaining a credit card merchant account.

Fortunately, a few companies have responded to this problem with unique solutions
enabling online merchants to accept credit cards without going broke in the process.

One in particular may be of special interest if you are selling information products such
as ebooks or software your customers download directly from the Internet…

ClickBank

For a $50 one-time fee ClickBank enables online ebook, software and other electronically
delivered product and service sellers to not only accept credit cards, but provide instant
delivery as well.

ClickBank allows any merchant to accept virtually every major credit card in the world.

The online merchant simply adds a purchase link to their site, the customer clicks the
link, fills in their payment information and the credit card gets authorized on the spot.

Once the card gets approved, ClickBank redirects the buyer to a page on the merchant’s
site that enables them to download the ebook, software, or other product they have just
purchased.

The buyer gets an email receipt from ClickBank with the details of the transaction.

The seller also gets an email from ClickBank letting them know a transaction has taken
place along with the buyer’s name, email address, state, and country.

ClickBank mails checks every two weeks for sales made through your account, minus a
$1 fee and 7.5% of each transaction.

ClickBank also charges a $2.50 fee for each check they send out, but sellers can pick the
minimum amount they want to make before a check gets issued.

ClickBank also makes it easy to recruit and pay others to help sell your products through
your own affiliate program.

ClickBank provides the tools for setting up affiliate links, tracking sales and takes care of
paying your affiliates every two weeks.

Overall ClickBank represents and excellent alternative for anyone who wants to test their
hand at selling online information without spending hundreds of dollars on credit card
processing for a product that may or may not sell.

ClickBank does, however, have some drawbacks:

1. They take a relatively hefty chunk out of your pocket compared to more
traditional credit card merchant accounts.

2. You have to wait about a month to get paid on your transactions because of the
way their accounting system is set up.

3. You cannot sell anything but electronic products and services – no physically
delivered products allowed.

4. The ClickBank system is “bare-bones” -- with no built-in autoresponders or
follow-up mechanisms of any kind. You get the purchaser’s name and email
address and that’s about all.

If you will sell anything other than electronic products or services, or if you want
something more robust than the ClickBank system, then you’ll need to get a more
traditional merchant account.

Here are some things to consider when looking at a merchant account and comparing
providers.

· Do they allow Internet sales? Many credit card processors still don’t allow
merchants to process Internet sales -- so you’re wasting your time trying to sign
up with them.

· How much do they charge up front in application fees? Many companies reselling
credit card services charge outrageous application fees -- so make sure you
compare costs!

· What monthly minimum charges apply? Whether you sell anything or not the
processing company will charge you a monthly fee.

· How long must you commit to their service? Some services make you sign up for
3 or 4 years.

· Do you have to buy any equipment? Equipment is another profit center for credit
card processing companies, especially the ones that make you lease software
programs or “terminals” for $50 a month.

· Do you get a “virtual terminal” where you can manually process transactions you
get over the phone or through the mail? You don’t want to have to buy expensive
equipment used to “swipe” cards.,

· How much do they charge as a “real-time” gateway fee?

o NOTE: A real-time gateway allows you to tie your credit card processing
in with your delivery system / shopping cart.

o This enables you to process people’s credit cards in “real-time” online…
without you having to input the numbers or swipe a card through a
machine.

o Also, you must make sure that the credit card processor you choose works
with the delivery system / shopping cart you choose.

Here’s a list of Merchant Account Providers you should check out. Many of them offer
additional services that can save you a lot of time and money.

Check out these credit card processing companies now to compare services
and pricing.

ClickBank – very good service for those just starting out selling information and
electronic products online.

Electronic Transfer – Internet-friendly credit card processing company. Can help even
if you have been declined elsewhere.

Marketer’s Choice Credit Cards – Integrates real time credit card processing and
shopping cart along with many additional features.

Part 5 – Setting up a shopping cart

Setting up shop on the Internet involves more than slapping together a website and
submitting your pages to the search engines.

Statistics tell us that over half of all cyber-shoppers never complete the purchase cycle
started in online shopping carts.

The shopping cart that displays your wares in cyberspace can mean the difference
between success and failure as consumers take that leap of faith and submit their credit
card information over the web.

All shopping cart software should enable consumers to select items and send payment
information over the Internet; however, individual cart packages vary significantly
between providers.

Some shopping carts require the merchant to obtain their own secure server, while others
allow the shop owner to fill out a form through their web browser, upload product
pictures, and set up a functional store in a matter of minutes.

Shopping cart solutions range from software packages costing thousands of dollars in up-
front and monthly charges to free online carts that capture credit card payments and even
send e-mail notification each time a new order arrives.

For most new merchants, credit card payment and processing create the most confusion
regarding shopping carts.

Processing orders online not only requires a secure shopping cart, but a merchant account
with a bank or credit card processing company as well.

The secure shopping cart enables the shop owner to accept payment information for
goods and services purchased online while the merchant account and real time payment
gateway enables them to actually process the customers’ payment.

Beyond the basic “secure-server” and “check out” features, many shopping carts provide
other services, including:

· payment processing
· sophisticated accounting and financial reporting
· customer tracking
· order tracking
· inventory control
· and much more!

Surprisingly, any business with less than a dozen items for sale will find a number of
low-cost shopping carts (some with very sophisticated capabilities) available on the web.

Unless you plan to take a course in website programming, a shopping cart created and
maintained through a web browser-based interface represents the best solution for the
vast majority for businesses large or small.

By logging onto the Internet, you can set up a store, download orders, and perform many
accounting and reporting functions right in the web browser.

Any carts requiring significant programming, software installation and extensive HTML
knowledge rarely warrant the extra effort.

Get excited! Here are some carts known for their user-friendly setup and powerful,
reliable features.

Check out these shopping carts, make a decision as to which one will meet your
needs, sign up for it.

ClickBank – excellent and simple way to go if you only have a handful of information
“e” only products to sell.

Marketer’s Choice Shopping Cart – Integrates real time credit card processing and
shopping cart along with many additional features.

Part 6 - Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs (also known as reseller programs, associate programs, etc.) are an
opportunity for you to get dozens, hundreds, even thousands of web sites all driving
traffic to your site and making sales for you…

And the best part is you don’t pay until they make the sale!

Amazon.com was one of the first companies to build an affiliate program and right now
they’ve got approximately 150,000 affiliates working for them, just sending them visitors
and customers. Their affiliates get paid every time someone clicks on their link and buys
a book.

There are two ways you can start your own affiliate program.

The first way is to have a service bureau take care of nearly everything for you.

They’ll handle recruiting (to an extent) and administrative functions like sending out
checks, tracking, reporting, etc. But normally, you’ll pay a much higher percentage than
if you did it yourself (which is the second way)

A good example of a service bureau is Commission Junction.

If you don’t think you can handle some of the administrative tasks of running a program
in-house then you should consider outsourcing.

Here is a description of the “ideal” affiliate program.

Keep in mind however, that this is the “sports car” model and your budget may require
you to start small and build.

Important Features Your Affiliate Software Should Contain:

· Real time stats for affiliates to check their sales and their commissions without
any interaction from you.

· Ability to export affiliate information into files for easy payment and
administrative work… unless you have hired a bureau to do it for you.

· The ability to credit affiliates for the sale months or even years later if their
referred visitor buys

· Can it handle a 2-Tier program? This means your affiliate program pays your
affiliates not only on their sales, but on the sales of affiliates they introduce to
you.

· Can it work on multiple web sites? Can you use the same affiliate program for
different products you sell or do you have to buy a new license every time you
start a new business or site?

· Can you pay different commissions to different affiliates? You’ll want to reward
your “heavy hitters” with higher commissions and you need to have that
flexibility on a case-by-case basis.

· How simple is it to get software support? Do you have a 1-800 number to call or
do you have to rely solely on the “help” file?

· Is installation and integration provided? Do you have to install it yourself, and if
so – how hard is it?

· Ability to email all affiliates announcements. You should have the ability to send
broadcast and individual announcements to your affiliates to motivate, retain and
get them going.

· Ability to automatically add affiliates and give referral ID#s. Your system must
allow affiliates to “serve themselves” in the sign-up process. You won’t have time
to sign up each individual once your business gets going.

· Email notification of sales for affiliates. Nothing motivates an affiliate more than
receiving an email notification they’ve made a sale and commission check is
coming!

· Full integration with your shopping cart/order processing system. You shouldn’t
manually track sales against your cart transactions and affiliate roster. What a
nightmare! Your processing should automatically track product sales / returns and
automatically adjust your affiliate commissions accordingly.

Other notes and tips on Affiliate Programs:

- Give your affiliates proven tools they can use to sell your products, including:
o Proven Sales Letters that sell really well;
o Endorsement letters they can send to their email lists;
o Banners they can put on their sites;
o Ezine articles they can run;
o Ezine ads that pull buyers.

- Don’t ask your affiliates to do anything you haven’t already done yourself when it
comes to running ads, using website copy or emailing their existing customers.
Nothing destroys your affiliate network faster than telling affiliates something
will work… and they find out it doesn’t!

- Stay in touch with your affiliates… they will sell the products freshest in their
minds.

- Pay your affiliates well and give them high commissions – the higher the better
because, after all is said and done, they’re doing it for the money!

- Never take anything away. Once you offer affiliates something you can’t take it
back… this includes reducing commissions or not paying on time.

If you know you will need an affiliate program, here are some excellent packages
to check out:

Synergyx – combines digital delivery, shopping cart and “bullet-proof” affiliate program.
We just recently upgraded to this software.

1Shopping Cart– Integrated affiliate program makes this shopping cart “must look” if
you want to really want to automate your business.

AssocTrac – One of the web’s most powerful and popular affiliate program software
packages. Used by many of the Internet’s most successful marketers.

ClickBank – Has a very simple affiliate program you can use if you are selling
information or electronic products.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Register your domain name.

2. Set up a hosting account for your website.

(Make sure you have a website statistics program set up so you can measure your
unique visitor counts and other “critical numbers”).

3. Purchase an “Auto-responder” automatic email follow-up tool.

4. Sign up for a credit card merchant account or find an alternative means to accept
credit card payments from people online.

5. Unless you are selling one or two items you deliver electronically, you will need
to sign up for a shopping cart.

6. Finally, if your shopping cart or other delivery method doesn’t have an affiliate
program built in, you will need to set up an affiliate program so you can solicit
other website owners to sell your product(s) or service(s).

Today’s Resources:

Domain Registration Services

Dotster – offers excellent domain name registration services at discount prices!

Domains Bot – Search for live expired, expiring soon and “onhold” domains.

Web Hosting Services

Your Site - Offers a comprehensive hosting service for $5 a month.

All Net Web Design And Hosting – Offers a special deal to “33 Days” purchasers – well
worth checking out. Personalized service and very responsive.

Host 4 Profit – Offers a high quality, high speed hosting service at an incredible
price!

Website Stats

Web Trends Live - Very comprehensive website stats program starting at $25 per
month.

Email AutoResponders

A Weber – Highly Recommended! Autoresponder system used by many of the web’s
top marketers.

Get Response –This is the system a lot of other top online marketers use. This is a great
tool that will make you money!

Auto Response Plus – A stand alone autoresponder system that eliminates the need to
pay monthly fees (except web hosting). Does require some professional help to set up on
your hosting service, but may be worth a hard look.

Marketer’s Choice – Fully integrated system of shopping cart, autoresponder, ad
tracker, credit card processor and more!

Merchant Accounts

ClickBank – very good service for those just starting out selling information and
electronic products online.

Electronic Transfer – Internet-friendly credit card processing company. Can help even
if you have been declined elsewhere.

Marketer’s Choice Credit Cards – Integrates real time credit card processing and
shopping cart along with many additional features.

Shopping carts

Marketer’s Choice Shopping Cart – Integrates real time credit card processing and
shopping cart along with many additional features.

Affiliate Programs

Synergyx – combines digital delivery, shopping cart and “bullet-proof” affiliate program.
We just recently upgraded to this software.

Marketer’s Choice – Integrated affiliate program makes this shopping cart “must look”
if you want to really want to automate your business.

AssocTrac – One of the web’s most powerful and popular affiliate program software
packages. Used by many of the Internet’s most successful marketers.

ClickBank – Has a very simple affiliate program you can use if you are selling
information or electronic products.

“Budget Cruncher”!

The “Budget Cruncher” sections highlight products and services
for people who just don’t have very much money to work with.
Keep in mind that these services usually come with the bare
minimum you need. and may not have the capacity to handle much
business.

Website Hosting

You can buy a domain name and get a year’s worth of hosting from www.doteasy.com
for $25 a year or www.name2host.com for $15-35 a year. Though it may sound like a
great deal, they don’t give you a whole lot of bandwidth, you don’t get cgi-bins (without
paying extra) or much of anything else. It’s about as bare-boned as you can get!

Website Stats

A W Stats – basic online stats service – free!

Day 1 (Monday) - “Why are you going online” & Preliminary domain name selection

2009-05-27T01:40:00.000-07:00

Lesson Objective:

To determine your personal objective in creating an online business and to start thinking
about which domain name(s) makes the most sense for your venture.

Skills Needed:
· Imagination
· Basic Surfing
· Basic Word Processing

Today’s Lesson:

Part 1 - Define “why” you want to launch and promote your business
online.

Motivational guru Tony Robbins teaches that the reason for doing something rates much
stronger than the methods you use to get the job done.

If you have strong enough “why” to go online and create a successful business - then you
will find the ways to get the job done.

Ask yourself - Why do you want to create an online business?

Do you want to create a stream of “passive” income – income that comes to you while
you work, sleep, play in the yard or drive down the road?

Do you want to create a sense of security for yourself about where your next check will
come from?

Do you want to supplement your income so you can afford some of the “finer things” in
life instead of living paycheck to paycheck?

In his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series of books, Robert Kyosaki advises against anyone
getting a part time job… he says you should always start a part time business.

Your own part time business can offer you many different tax, income and personal
advantages.

We’ll let you and your accountant decide the tax advantages for your particular business,
but we do know that an online business rates as virtually the best type of small business
to own.

Here’s why:

· You can operate from virtually anywhere as long as you have a computer, phone
line and a dial up Internet access account.

· You have the lowest startup and operating costs of virtually any business you
could run.

· You can start with almost nothing and work your way up to a business that
generates $ thousands $ in revenue within a relatively short period of time.

So I’ll ask you again - Why do you want to go online?

What does going online and making a “success” of it mean to you?

STOP! Take a moment right now and close your eyes… and for once don’t just pass over
an exercise like this lightly! Actually do the exercise I’m about to describe!

Close your eyes and visualize what having a successful online business means to you.

See yourself making sales every single day and having customers gladly send you their
money in exchange for your products, information or services.

Feel the great and relaxed feelings of having extra money in your bank account.

This visualization exercise will help you formulate a solid, worthy, personal goal and
keep you motivated and focused through the 33-day process.

Now – write out one primary goal you want to accomplish by sticking to this
plan for the next 33 days and really going for it!

Take that goal and write it on a 3 x 5 card and put it where you will see it when you wake
up in the morning and before you go to sleep each night.

If you really want to burn this goal into your subconscious mind you should read it aloud
once each morning and evening.

By the way, this is not some “corny” technique we dreamed up -- this is one of the key
techniques Napoleon Hill teaches in “Think and Grow Rich”, the classic success book on
how to turn your thoughts into riches.

All of the techniques we teach in the rest of this program will have MAXIMUM impact if
you know exactly why you want to take the necessary actions each and every day.

So do you have your goal clearly stated and written down? GOOD!

Let’s move on to part 2 of today’s lesson…

Part 2 – Analyzing “Keywords” to make your domain name selection

Your domain name represents one of the most important decisions you have to make in
going online.

Even if you only plan to promote someone else’s affiliate link… you must have your own
domain name (and tomorrow we’ll talk about website hosting for that domain) so you
have an “address” to use in promoting your product, service or information.

Your domain name is made up of a combination of words and or numbers. It serves
several purposes:

1. It is the “address” people use to find you online…

2. It helps create your identity online…

3. It helps the search engines determine how “relevant” your site is to a particular
keyword search.

Now, I know the next question on your mind right now is, “What about all these domain
names ending in .tv, .biz, .info and other names?

Should I get one of those?”

In a word - NO!

Don’t go with one of these domain names with a weird extension on the end. You want a
good old .com (pronounced dot-com) domain name.

Why?

2 Reasons:

1. The search engines seem to give better treatment to .com domain names.

2. The buying public gives more respect to a .com domain name.

Hey! When you think of a domain name or web address, what do you think of?

A name ending in “.com” of course!

So put it out of your head right now that you will get anything other than a .com domain
name.

Now, before you go off and start looking for one word domain names – which probably
have all been taken – you must find out the most popular “keywords” your potential
audience will look for and then you must craft those particular words into a domain
name.

Having a domain name rich in keywords is critical for success online -- especially with
the search engines.

We will now look at a tool you can use to determine which keywords rate the most
popular for your target audience.

NOTE: From time to time this link may go down, change or become unavailable. That’s
the nature of the Internet. We have used our best efforts to keep the information up to
date… but it can change literally in an instant.

If the link goes down, wait a while and try back later.

NOTE: You will need an active Internet connection to use this tool as well as other
links in the book.

You can do some truly amazing keyword research with the following link.

This tool allows you to see actual search terms people type in and will also suggest
related words they use.

Here you can see actual counts of how many times people searched for a particular
phrase last month on Overture. This will really help you compare the popularity of
various keyword phrases.

Click over and put in the most popular keyword phrase you think people would use to
search for what you sell.

One way to always have access to this tool is to sign up with Overture to deliver
traffic to your site… a technique we discuss in a few days.

Once you enter what you think is the most popular keyword phrase, each of these sites
will return a list of related words and phrases people have searched for. This allows you
to see -- without a doubt and without guessing -- which terms rank most popular.

Here’s a brief assignment you should complete as soon as possible.

Research which keyword combinations are most popular, then copy and paste the
50 most popular keywords into your word processor and rank them in order of
popularity. (Most popular first.)

Pick the top 3 to 5 keywords and combine them to make at least 5 different
domain names that would incorporate those keywords.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say we’re selling an ebook about selling antique cars and parts through car shows.
Our keyword research might look like this:

My first search was for “antique cars”

Overture returned these results:

16806 antique car
1578 antique car for sale
1565 antique car part
871 antique car price
699 antique car show
647 antique car values
370 antique car sale
307 antique car insurance
303 antique classic car for sale
283 antique toy car
272 antique pedal car
215 antique and classic car for sale

I would initially have these domains in the back of my mind – BUT I wouldn’t go buy
any domains until I went through Step 3 of today’s lesson… so put your credit card away
for now :-)

1. antiquecarsale.com
2. antiquecarpartssale.com
3. antiquecarsalevalues.com
4. antiquecarsaleshowvalues.com
5. antiquecarpartvalueprices.com

The actual domain name I chose would depend on what EXACTLY I was doing with
these antique cars.

Selling them? Restoring them? Selling parts? Etc.

NOTE: It helps if you keep all of this information in a word processing file so you can
simply copy and paste to and from the document as you go along.

Set that list aside for now… we’ll come back to it a little later.

Part 3 – How Google, Yahoo, and Dmoz (the Open Directory) affect your
domain name choice

Yahoo and Dmoz are the two most important directories where people go to search for
information on just about any subject you can imagine.

Google is now by far the most popular search engine on the Internet.

Directories classify sites according to categories – much the same way the yellow pages
list similar businesses together – whereas search engines classify sites based on
keywords, page text, links from other sites and at least 100 other factors.

Yahoo currently ranks as the most popular overall search directory in the world, while

NOTE: Coming up #1 for a keyword search in Google or Yahoo! (or any other
search engine) is different than coming up in a category search. Getting TOP
search engine placement is a topic that others have written entire books about!

We give you links to get more information about products that can help you get a
high listing for a keyword search later in this ebook, but it’s not possible for us to
cover this subject in any depth and keep the size of this book under 500-1,000
pages.

Google ranks as the number one search engine.

What does this have to do with your domain name?

The name of your business dictates how and where you get listed in a directory
category.

Our focus in this part of the ebook is to get good placement on the Category Listing
pages of Yahoo and DMOZ. We will give a basic overview of properly creating your
web pages for a higher probability of ranking well in Google in the next few days.

If you want to come up high (first) in the category listings of any directory then you need
to name your business correctly.

Here’s a summary of how the category ranking system works:

1. Names beginning with punctuation marks and symbols come before numbers

2. Numbers come before letters

3. Letters show in alphabetical order

If you want to show up at the top of a category, your name probably better start with a
number or the letter “A”.

Now, go to Yahoo and Dmoz and choose the category you want to show up in when
someone does a search.

You do this simply by logging onto both sites, doing a search for your most popular
keyword phrase and then choose the most appropriate category that comes up on the first
page of the search results.

If at all possible, you want to get into the first category that appears when you search for
your most popular keyword phrase. (The red arrows will take you to a category view)

Next, click on the category link to see what type of name you’ll need in order to come up
at or near the top of the alphabetical listings.

Does your name need to start with a number?

Does it need to start with the letter “a”?

Do you need to try to get a punctuation mark in your name like “!” or “#”?

Let’s keep going with the “antique car” example.

When I search for “antique cars” on Yahoo the first relevant category that shows up is:

Business and Economy > Shopping and Services > Automotive > Classifieds > Classic Cars

When I clicked that directory link these links appeared at the top of the alphabetical
listings.

· 1 in a Million Cars - designed to help people locate rare and collectible classic cars from around the
world.
· Affordable Classics Inc. - sell, purchase, appraise, and locate classic cars.
· Alex Classics - featuring classic cars and vintage vehicles, classifieds, collectibles, spare parts, and
more.
· All British Cars 4 Sale
· Antique Autos Online - marketplace for antique/classic cars, trucks and parts.
· Auto Classics
· AutoX - searchable databases of classic sports cars, restoration service providers, part suppliers
and specialty car dealers.
· Bad Boyz Toyzz - liquidators and locators of classic cars and custom built motorcycles.
Specializing in street rods, original and restored antique collectors cars, and replicas.
· Cars-On-Line - classic and exotic cars for sale by owner, featuring 50s and 60s, muscle cars,
Corvettes, Mustangs, and Harley-Davidsons.

In order to come up near the top of this category I would simply name my site and my
business something like:

· 1StopAntiqueCarSale.com
· 1SourceAntiqueCarShowSale.com
· 1StopAntiqueCarShowandSale.com

Any of these names would put me toward the top of the list… which gives me a much
better chance of getting found and clicked once a visitor shows up to the category page.

So now – based on what you see in YOUR category – what domain name do you think
would put you at the top of the list?

Write out at least 5 domain names and put them in your word processing
document as possible names to register.

Repeat the above steps of searching for your most popular keyword phrase and
clicking the first category with the Open Directory (www.dmoz.com).

NOTE: At this point you should now have a word processing document with:

· at least 50 keywords ranked in order of popularity
· your Yahoo category
· your Dmoz category
· 5 domain names that would put you at or near the top of both categories

Part 4 – Google and your domain name
Again, we need to point out that there are dozens of books and tools out there to help you
get placement in the Google search engine (this is completely different than Google “Ad
Words” which we’ll discuss on Day 13).
Depending on which search engine guru you listen to, having your main keywords in
your domain name may help you show up higher in the search results in Google, but will
by no means guarantee it.
Apparently Google does not care if your keywords are separated by hyphens (-) or not, so
the domain analysis we did for Yahoo and Dmoz will also get you a domain with a
fighting chance to make it to the top of the Google search results (though there are many
other factors that influence your placement besides a domain name).
Here’s a graphic (next page) that shows the top search results for the search term “antique
cars” in Google. As you can see, only the top one has even the word “antique” in the
domain name.
Google places more emphasis on your page’s title and page content, things we’ll talk
about later in this book.

Summary of Today’s Assignments:

1. Write out your personal objective for going online with your own business
venture – your personal and compelling “why”!

2. Type this “why” up and post it where you will see it every morning when you
wake up and every evening before you go to bed.

3. Research your keyword phrases and make a list of the TOP 50 most popular.
Rank them in order of popularity.

4. Go to Yahoo and Dmoz and pick out the best category for your business in each
one.

5. Write down at least 5 domain names that would get you at or near the top of each
of those categories.

6. Record all of this information in a word processing document so you can access it
easily.

7. Wait until tomorrow to register your domain name because there is one more
piece of information you need in order to register it correctly.

We have two feature articles for you today:

· The first will help you evaluate your current Internet skills…

· The second will help you avoid one of the most common pitfalls many
new online business owners encounter.

Feature Article 1 - Are you “E” Literate?

With so much happening at lightning speed with the Internet, e-mail, e-commerce, and
electronic information in general, a sense of “falling behind” has overtaken many people.

Though an integral part of our society, the sheer magnitude of all this new information
technology has many people feeling overwhelmed, frustrated and ready to give up.

It’s a fact the majority of people don’t know what it takes to survive and thrive in the “e-
world” of the new millennium.

The first step to “making it” in the electronic age: Become totally familiar with the basic
tools and information distribution equipment of the times.

Step two towards becoming an Electronically Literate Person (ELP) means accepting that
the e-world landscape will continue to change at a rapid pace and whining about it won’t
help.

The final step in attaining ELP status revolves around obtaining certain basic skills which
enable you to flourish on this ever-changing electronic landscape.

ELP’s concern themselves with four areas in gauging their level of literacy and
proficiency in the world of “e”.

All ELP’s possess the following skills:

Personal Computer skills-

1. Use a computer keyboard and mouse

2. Install and upgrade software

3. Maintain and update anti-virus software

4. Familiarity with scanners, digital cameras, printers, speakers, and cd-rom’s

5. Save documents, pictures and other data files to disk or writeable cd-rom

6. Creating basic documents in a word processor and html editor such as Front Page

Internet Skills-

1. Basic surfing and navigation using a web browser

2. Use Search engines and proper search techniques

3. Download programs, pictures, and other files

4. Print web pages

5. Upload html pages to the Internet using ftp

E-mail skills-

1. Compose, send, receive, organize, save, and print e-mail messages

2. Send, receive, and open attachments safely

3. Set up and maintain an e-mail program

4. Manage contacts in the address book

Keep up with changes-

1. Read about new tools and applications

2. Learn new skills, take classes

3. Use and improve skills daily

How do you rate as an ELP?

These represent the basic skills anyone who wants to succeed in business, let alone start
an online business, must possess.

Source: www.TheNetReporter.com - the Web’s #1 source for Online News

Feature Article #2 – Beware the Online “Bizz-Op”

Anyone with a lick of entrepreneurial spirit and a brand new home computer has
wondered at least once how to put both to work on the Internet making money.

The online world beckons more than ever with the promise of instant riches for the next
“million-dollar” idea.

For those who can’t think up their own product or service to sell online, thousands of
business opportunities tout themselves as the path to online riches.

To cash in and get your piece of the pie, they explain, all any self-motivated, self-starter
needs to do is hand over a couple of hundred dollars and they will instantly find
themselves in a “proven, turn-key” business on the World Wide Web.

Many online business opportunity sellers, “bizz-oppers” for short, fail to mention that the
real money for them lies in getting people to sign up for the opportunity itself.

These bizz-oppers have multiplied like fleas on a stray dog, and can open and close shop
online faster than a con man with a card table at the local swap meet.

Though many online opportunities seem legitimate, many represent little more than ideas
-- which might work if you devoted every waking moment to working them.

If you want to use your computer to make money from home, asking the following
questions should help you actually choose a business opportunity with a fighting chance
of success.

Though some of these questions may seem a bit abrasive, we’re tired of seeing people get
ripped off.

1. What is the business’s target audience?

Realistically, how many people can and will actually buy the product or service?

2. Why do they need you? Why don’t they just do it themselves and keep all the
money? (This usually exposes businesses only interested in signing people up.)

3. Is there a sign-up fee? If so, what does the fee buy you?
· Technical support?
· Marketing materials?
· A website address?

4. If the business involves using their website, can you modify the site or is it static?

You won’t benefit much from a site that looks like a thousand others if you plan on using
the search engines to promote it. Most of these sites are templates that rarely contain even
the minimum elements to make it appealing to the search engines.

5. How do they track your customers as opposed to another affiliate or distributor?

Sites that use cookies to track visitors and commissions only work as long as the
customer retains the cookie on their computer.

6. Will the company solicit your customer for other products and services?

If so, will they pay you a commission on additional purchases?

Not doing so isn’t necessarily bad… since most affiliate programs work this way.

But if you have to pay hundreds of dollars to sign up for an “opportunity” and the
company still owns the customers (who you found) and will make thousands of dollars
from them on the back end while leaving you out in the cold… go find another
opportunity!

Use common sense when investing in an online business opportunity.

Don’t come across with any money until you’ve had a chance to talk with at least ten
people who have bought into the opportunity, as well as ten people who were unhappy
with it and quit.

If the opportunity promoters won’t give you names of both happy and unhappy clients
you need to keep looking.

Source: www.TheNetReporter.com - the Web’s #1 source for Online News
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Keyword Research

Ad Words Analyzer – EXCELLENT tool for researching keywords and organizing your
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Good Keywords (FREE) – small, effective PC software that enables you to quickly
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Getting the Right Mindset!

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Blogger Adsense Guide

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Chapter 1

What Exactly is a Blog? A Bit of Blogging History...

Making Money with a Blog

A Successful Blog

The Future of Blogging

Chapter 2

AdSense as a Monetization Model

How Does AdSense Know What Ads to Send?

Where do the Ads Come From?

Using AdSense for Monetization

Rules of AdSense

AdSense for Search

How Much Money Can I Make from AdSense?

Chapter 3

Setting Up a Blog Using Google’s Blogger

Blogger Set-Up, Step 1 – Create an Account

Blogger Set-Up, Step 2 – Name Your Blog

Blogger Set-Up, Step 3 – Choose a Template

Congratulations - You Now Have a Blog on Blogger!

Using the Dashboard in Blogger

Posting a Message

Blogger Settings

The Blogger Template

Signing Up For AdSense

Chapter 4

Once You Are Approved for AdSense

AdSense Block Locations

Graphics and AdSense

The AdSense Console

AdSense Report Tab

Chapter 5

AdSense Setup Tab

My Account Tab

Need More Help With AdSense?

Creating Engaging Content

Chapter 6

What Should I Write About on My New Blog?

So, how do you really come up with a topic for you...

Posting Messages on Your Blog

Formatting Your Posted Messages

The Meat of Your Messages

Increasing Traffic to Your Blog

Chapter 7

Finding Forums of Interest

E-Mail Signature Files

Back-links Bring Traffic to Your Blog

Article Submissions

Press Release Submissions

Blog Directory Submissions

Comment on Other Blogs

Team Up With Other Bloggers

Chapter 8

Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization

Stay on Topic Post Often

Links

Keywords

META Tags

Ping

SEO and Marketing Your Blog

Chapter 9

Your Blog Design

Vlog and Moblog – The Future of Blogging

Create an RSS Feed

Alternatives to Blogger

Final Thoughts

Useful Web Resources - blogging

Useful Web Resources - blogging

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Keyword Elite – SEO Software
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Wordpress Adsense System
Most comprehensive system teaches you how to set-up, manage
and profit from Wordpress and Google Adsense.
http://adsense.easywordpress.com

Easy Blog Traffic
Experts reveal exactly how they get tons of eager, loyal readers
and customers to their blogs using secret tools, plugins, and
strategies. Also has 12 video tutorials that show you step-by-step
how to use free / paid web resources to get traffic to your blogs.
http://traffic.easywordpress.com

Squidoo Profits
This ebook is a real gem. It reveals how you can use Squidoo™
“Lens” to get traffic, increase your search engine rankings and
generate more cash for your existing business.
http://squidoo.easywordpress.com

Niche Marketing Strategies Revealed
Stephen Pierce and Patric Chan bust every myth in niche
marketing, and tell you exactly what’s stopping you from making
millions in small, untapped niche markets.
http://www.winningyourniche.com

Resell Rights for Newbies
Great site for anyone trying to make money online with Resell
Rights products. This site has a coupe of really good video tutorials
that show you how to choose, modify, and sell Resell Rights
products for cool profits.
http://www.gobalarecommends.com/rrfn

Final Thoughts

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I can’t help but wonder what the next generation of blogging will look
like. The possibilities are pretty endless when you think of all that is
possible online today. And with this growth and change in technology
will always come new and more innovative ways to make money with
a blog.

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The best suggestion I can make to you on the future of blogging is to
try and keep up with the emerging blogging trends and get into
something as soon as you can see a way to generate income with it.
Do it before other people flood the market and you will have a nice
income from your blog for years to come.

You should also support the blogging community by participating in
other people’s blogs, and helping those new to the medium. There is
plenty of revenue to go around and it’s a nice thing to help out other
people along your life’s path.

Best of luck to you and happy blogging!

Alternatives to Blogger

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While blogger is a great option for creating a blog and monetizing it
with AdSense, especially for beginners, it is not the only blog host
online. Some other popular options include WordPress, Moveable
Type, and TypePad. Each blog host offers their own set of options and
variety. Some blog services require payment while others are free of
charge like Blogger.

While starting with Blogger can be a great way to get into blogging,
you may find at some point you would like to move your blog to
another provider. This is fairly common practice and simple to do.
You will however have to develop some HTML skills to be able to move
your blog to another format because the Blogger templates generally
only work well for Blogger.

Create an RSS Feed

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By creating an RSS feed to your blog you can essentially syndicate
your blog, much like comics and television shows syndicate their
content.

What is an RSS feed? RSS stands for “Rich Site Summary” or “Really
Simple Syndication” or “RDF Site Summary” depending on the version
that is being used. RSS is essentially a way to stream up to the
minute news and updates on your blog around the world via the
internet.

Readers of RSS streams use a content reader program called a feed
reader or aggregator. These can be downloaded free of charge online
with the most popular ones being News Gator or Bloglines.

The feed reader, or aggregator, checks websites where the user has
subscribed to see if there is any new and updated information and if
the site has been updated then the feed reader will copy that new
information so that the reader can read it. The purpose of the
aggregators is so that the reader does not have to keep checking a
site to see if it has been updated, the reader, via the RSS feed, does it
for them.

Adding RSS feeds to a Blogger blog is a very simple thing to do.
Simply go to the Blogger Dashboard, then to Settings -> Site Feed and
enter in whether you want full post syndication or only a short bit of
your post to syndicate. You can then add a syndication button to the
front page of your blog and that is all you have to do. By doing these
simple steps your visitors can subscribe to your RSS feed and will
know when your page has been updated!

For a monetized blog it is best to leave the syndication to the short
syndication option. This shows your readers that your site is updated,
but they will still have to visit your site to read your entire messages.

This insures that they will be seeing your Google AdSense ads and
possibly clicking on them. You want to tease them with the RSS feed
information to ensure they come to your blog and read the rest of the
message.

Vlog and Moblog – The Future of Blogging

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With ever emerging cell phone and video technology capabilities, we
are now seeing vlogs and moblogs come onto the blogging scene.
Vlog stands for “video blog” and is a blog which incorporates moving
video images into it. Moblog stands for “mobile blog” and refers to a
blog which allows the blogger to upload video and photos taken with a
camera phone or to even call in a post to their blog from their cellular
phones.

The goal of these new blog forms is still the same – get visitors to
come see what they are all about and then keep them loyal and
returning day after day, week after week. This can be an easier task
when your blog contains video and updates “from the field” via your
cellular phone. Just think for a moment about all of the interesting
things you could put on your blog. You could post about your
vacation, while you are still on vacation, and have pictures on your
vlog for all to see before you return home.

Vloggers and mobloggers are now using their vlog and moblogs to
create their own news and radio stations. Imagine being out for a
night on the town and a witness to something newsworthy. You can
shoot the footage with your cell phone and upload it almost instantly
to your vlog or moblog for the world to see. You could have your
images up before a traditional news crew could even arrive on the
scene, if they even made it there to witness the news in action.

Other vloggers and mobloggers are creating their own short films with
the same technology. Some use a webcam and record their own video
shows with them, edit them, and post them to their moblog or vlog.
This can allow them to create their own instant programs or short
movies. Think of the possibilities to being able to do this and the
amazingly large audience the internet can bring you to watch what you
have created!

The software industry is starting to see the value in the ability of
people to create these special enhanced blogs and is creating software
to make the process cheaper and easier. There are now affordable
options available for video creation and editing which are simple
enough for most people to learn and use.

Your Blog Design

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Once your blog is up and running for a while you will invariably find
that you want to make some changes to it. Maybe you want to make
a simple change like turning the blue type to green type or maybe you
want an entirely different template and look to your blog. Most all
changes you can think of to make to your blog can easily be done with
a little Blogger experience under your belt.

As you learn and grow your blogging and HTML skills, you will
undoubtedly discover new and innovative things you can add to your
blog to make it more appealing to your reader, and ultimately make
you more money as well. Always be on the lookout for new and
innovative things you can do with your blog and ways that you can use
it to generate income for you.

To simply update the look of your blog you can use different
templates. There are a million and one options out there for free or
cheap templates you can use with Blogger. Because Google’s Blogger
is an industry leader for blogging many people develop skins (cool
background images) and templates for use with it. Playing with new
templates and skins can be fun and you can end up with a really great
unique looking blog as well. Your blog is simply an extension of you
and your business so you will want to take some time and change it
around from time to time.

If you want to play around with other templates for your blog you
might consider playing around with a temporary blog. This way any
changes you might make will not have any effect on your main blog.
This allows you to decide if you like the changes or not, before you
implement them. This can save you a lot of time and frustration when
you are just starting out and learning to work with Blogger templates
and settings.

You will also want to always back-up your current template before you
make any changes. This is very important. You need to always be
able to easily go back to your old template if you do not like the new
one. You do not want the hassle of trying to figure out what went
wrong in the change. It is much easier to just revert back to your old
template and then try again with the changes.

If you change templates you will also need to copy and paste some of
your code from the old template into the new one. Things like
AdSense and your personal links will need to be manually put on your
new template from the old one.

Backing-up your template is not just an option; you really must
do it each and every time before you make changes to your
blog. This will save you a lot of valuable time and frustration.
It is also very important to decide if you want your blog to look
“professional” or have a more homemade feel to it. You want your
blog visitors to feel they get value from reading your blog. Will the
value of your blog be in providing your readers with an education or
more in providing your readers with entertainment? Are you writing
as an “expert” in a field? Do you want to be known for your
professionalism and experience? Or, do you simply want to share your
human experience and provide a bit of entertainment to your readers?

Assume for a moment that I have a blog with the topic of business
ethics. As my primary business I am a consultant on business ethics.
I want to be known as an authority on business ethics. I use my
business ethics blog to promote my primary business, while also
enjoying some revenue from AdSense. On my blog I post professional
articles and opinions. With this blog I would likely want a very
professional appearance. I want to appear to my readers very
professional and as if I am doing well in my chosen profession. I
would use a very corporate and professional looking template for my
blog to convey this to my readers. I would also choose not to post
pictures of my children and pets on this particular blog.

Now, assume for a moment that I have another blog on the topic of
self-reliance and living off the land. I live in this way in my personal
life and I want to help others to be able to as well. I want to be a
friendly resource for people who are interested in living as I do. I
want other people to be able to relate to me and share their
experiences with living off the land. On this particular blog I post
stories about my home life and thoughts on how to get the most from
simplified living. While this blog can also be a monetized blog with
AdSense on it, I would probably want it to have a more “homemade”
feel to it. My visitors aren’t thrilled with “corporate and stuffy” so I
don’t want my blog to appear that way to them. I would use a
colorful earthy template and probably post photos of my children and
homestead on this blog.

As you can see in the two examples above, the way your blog looks
should have a lot to do with its function and purpose. Getting the
right feel and look to a blog is very important in having your readers
feel at home and visiting it often. You want your readers to see your
blog and understand its purpose and direction easily.