May
17

Social Proof – The Online Ad Network pays!

carolw44 on May 17th, 2013

The Online Ad Network is all over the traffic exchanges and safelists, but how can you know it works?

The owner, Brian Rooney, has posted social proof on his blog, with a post about the top earners.

http://www.theonlineadnetwork.com/blog/2013/04/25/toan-top-income-earners/

He’s listed everyone who has made $200 or over.

As for the effectiveness of the ads, my friend Kenny Kolijn, owner of Banner Ads That Pay, got himself some good referrals to his site from his ads at The Online Ad Network.  The trick is, he says, to add a few new ads every day.

But… make sure you ads are in the correct categories! They are checked regularly, and people who abuse the categories can log in to find all their ads gone.  (Don’t worry, the categories are very clear and if you are taking liberties, you will know it.)

Looking for a team build to join? You can’t beat the 7K Team.  They are the black hole of TOAN at this point, sucking up referrals like crazy!  The owner and admin of the 7K Team is Clinton Clark, who has a lot of experience with managing sites, and also with finances. He is the owner of the Quik series of sites, which lost their database a while back.  If you had anything to do with those sites, you will know that Clinton has a great reputation and very high standards for the type of site he will allow himself to be associated with, or will even allow to be advertised on his websites.

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Feb
14

It’s Not Over Until I Win!

carolw44 on February 14th, 2013

Why are you in internet marketing? Do you have a dream? Or has life put you in a situation where this is your only hope?

It can be a hard thing, to keep on working at this business when you have no idea how it will turn out.  Maybe you started because you saw an ad for some flashy product, and thought you would make quick cash.  And you didn’t get the quick cash, but something keeps you going.  Something inside you won’t let you quit.

Here is a great, encouraging video from a guy who created his success from the bottom up.  He knows what it is like to make it through the pain and keep on going, and he has done very well.  I hope you will find it as encouraging and affirming as I did.

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Jan
20

Why I Love GVO – It’s More Than Just An Autoresponder!

carolw44 on January 20th, 2013

I first found GVO when I needed a place to host a few videos for one of my sites. Since then, I’ve been using more and more of the features, and getting value out of the affiliate plan too.

It’s amazing what they pack in for a measly $9.97 per month at GVO.

Here is what you get (and if you feel overwhelmed, don’t worry, you don’t have to use it all, but it’s there when you need it.):

  • Hosting for up to 4 domains – so you can host your own sites, or even create and host them for other people (and charge them for it too!)  With full cpanel access.
  • Easy blogger builder – if you can’t handle cpanel and all that techy stuff then you don’t have to!  You can set up blogs with a few clicks from the members area, and post from the members area too.
  • Easy video producer and hosting – create your own videos right there on the site, or upload from your computer. Add the videos to your squeeze pages with just a few clicks, or embed them in your sites or blogs anywhere.
  • Autoresponder – this one is really simple to set up and use, compared to AWeber or even TrafficWave. And once your list exceeds 500, you can upgrade to 5,000 for under $25 per year. That’s about the same as most other autoresponders will charge you per month.
  • GVO Conference – live conferencing software
  • Prospecting System – to help you build your affiliate income in the GVO program
  • GVO Academy – live training included in the cost of the hosting
  • Affiliate Income – you will get paid on your referrals 10 levels down, every month. There are bonuses of all sorts to be had as well. And since GVO is such a useful tool at such a low price, your downline retention should be pretty good. Mine has been so far.

There are training videos for all important functions inside the site, so you will always know what to do.

Click here to learn more about GVO HostThenProfit.

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Jan
13

Relaunching 6am EST Thursday – Last Chance for 75% Commissions!

carolw44 on January 13th, 2013

Build Your List With Ease is growing and evolving!

We now have 3 editions of the ebook – one each for ListWire, GVO and TrafficWave autoresponders.

We have monetised download and thank you pages.

And new emails in the email series.

And even a CTP badge (you’ll find it in the Referrals area).

EXCITING CHANGES COMING!

Relaunch is at 6am EST on Thursday the 17th.

The site will get a fresh new look.

NAIL DOWN 75% COMMISSIONS NOW

All existing upgraded members will be upgraded to JV status, with 75% commissions for life.

After launch, all new members who upgrade will earn 50% commissions.

So if you are a free member, now is the time to upgrade to nail down the 75% commission for yourself.

http://buildyourlistwithease.com/login.php

YOUR REFERRAL LINKS WILL NOT CHANGE

So you can relax, your existing promotions will still be ok.

Your existing downlines are ok too.

BUT DOWNLOAD LINKS NEED CHECKING

Your current ebook download link still works, but…

IF you prefer to send people to the TrafficWave or GVO autoresponder editons rather than the free ListWire edition, you will need to log in and get the new links.

And remember to change the links in your email series as well.

I AM EXCITED!

Build Your List With Ease is stepping up, bigger and better than ever!

I hope you will stay with me on this new leg of the journey.

Thank you for your support.

Carol Walczak

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Jun
17

What Is A Sales Funnel? And Why YOU Should Have One.

carolw44 on June 17th, 2012

Are you promoting you A** off and getting nowhere?

That’s what happens with most new marketers, until they finally realize that you can’t just stick your awesome sales page in a traffic exchange and get rich overnight.  It’s a dream that dies hard, I know that from personal experience, and I still try it once in a while.  That’s human nature for you!

So what does work?  Once you are ready to be a little bit patient, I recommend you get yourself a sales funnel.

A sales funnel is a system which does several things for you.

A sales funnel will build your list.

It will process your subscribers through a system which promotes your other programs to them.

And it will make you cash as well.

In this way, every subscriber you bring in to the funnel will possibly benefit you in these ways:

  1. They are on your list, so you can promote to them in the future
  2. They see your programs as they are processed through the system, and they sign up to some or all of them.  This brings you referrals and commissions in multiple programs.
  3. They may choose to buy in to the funnel program as well, which will bring you direct cash.

Here are three of the best funnels for traffic exchange surfers:

MySurfBiz – this is a 3 step program.  Step1 adds subscribers to your list. Step2 shows them your programs plus 2 bonus programs, and you will get signups here. Step3 is where you make the instant commissions on sales of MySurfBiz. The system contains an email series which you can use with any autoresponder.  I am part owner of this program, though I joined while it still belonged to the original owner.  Using MySurfBiz finally made me realize how effective and valuable a sales funnel can be.

TEProfits – this is an older and well respected marketing funnel from Scott Douglas.  It has a free level as well as a paid level.  The email series they provide for upgraded members to use is comprehensive and educational. Worth reading even if you don’t want to join.  Scott does not do “hype”, so if you are sick of all that, then you will enjoy the materials on his site. You can opt in here, or read the crash course here.

Affiliate Funnel – this is probably the oldest one around.  It has huge downline builders and rankers for traffic exchanges, safelists and other programs inside, as well as pages where you can promote your programs to your downlines, and on the traffic exchanges.  This one is free to join, and they even promote your referral id’s to the various programs in emails to your downline.  Their squeeze pages are being updated and there is an email series you can use.

If you are a newbie, you might try a funnel and then decide that you are not getting results fast enough.  I will tell you now, you can go back to promoting sales pages and see how you like your results there.  I’m pretty sure you’ll be back to your funnel after that! : )

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Apr
14

Review of Drip Fed Blogs – Self Help Blog

carolw44 on April 14th, 2012

Drip Fed Self Help Blogs sales pageI’ve been keeping my eye on the drip fed blogs since I first saw the Drip Fed Recipe Blog.  I didn’t want the recipe blog, I was wishing for a self development blog instead, and I was absolutely delighted when Justin and Brad came up with the Drip Fed Self Help Blog.

I paid my $47, gave them my blog domain, and waited about a week for my blog to appear.

When it came I was pretty happy.  I have a fully hosted blog with 365 days of posts already pre-loaded.  These posts are set up to post automatically once a day. Each post has a link to Brad and Justin’s self help course, which pays $140 commission.

The posts are a mixture of videos and articles, and quite well written, with a mixture of common sense and Law of Attraction principles, and not too extreme for the general public.

The blog itself is on the Woo Canvas theme, which is very plain at first sight, but can be prettied up and formatted in any number of ways.

You can find a link to a Sample Blog on the sales page.

The posts have not been tagged, which looks like a drawback at first, but in the members back office they explain that tagging all the posts the same way would reduce their effectiveness with Google.

Yes, everyone else with Brad and Justin’s self help blog has the same articles… but they are all posted in a different order to help reduce the duplicate content issue, and they are not worded exactly alike.

The members area has helpful videos on all aspects of setting up your blog, and also training on how to promote, including free traffic strategies.

They also explain how to move the blog to your own hosting if you want to do that.

At this point I’ve had the blog 2 weeks, and have been really busy with other projects, but I’ve managed to personalize it, add an auto post to Twitter, and do some tagging.  Now I’ve added Google Analytics, and it’s time to get some good backlinks.

Overall, I am very happy with the blog and I expect to make ClickBank commissions from the links already provided, as well as my own banners on the side.  I like the fact that the theme starts off pretty plain, which means that I can personalize it my way, though it looks ok as is, too.  Having a few of my own blogs and knowing how hard it can be to come up with content on a regular basis, I really appreciate the drip fed posts, and the quality is good.  The blog loads reasonably quickly too.

I think the setup is ok for a newbie who has no WordPress experience, as the members area videos cover the basics, and Brad and Justin will fix your blog if you make a mess of it.

At this point, apart from one typo, I haven’t found anything that I don’t like.

Only time will tell if this blog earns me the commissions which it should, but that depends to a large degree on my own skill and effort in promoting it, as I would not depend solely on organic search engine traffic.

After I paid, I was given the option to buy the older  drip fed blogs for a reduced price.  It’s a steal if you have the cash.

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Feb
28

The A-Z of Writing Good Promotional Emails

carolw44 on February 28th, 2012

I just found this excellent video on Darren Olander’s blog.

He explains how to write an email which will stand out in safelists and in your subcribers inboxes.

The key elements are:

Subject – purpose is to get people to open that email.  Shock or interest them, but don’t give away too much!

Personalization – use it conversationally, don’t abuse it.

Main points – not too much detail, just tell enough to make the reader want to see your site.

Closing – give them an action, such as “Click here to get your ….”.

P.S. – this is the most-read part of promotional emails, so make it count!

Watch Darren’s video below for all the details:

Click here to join Darren’s Adchiever Safelist
Click here to go to Darren’s blog

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Feb
9

Simple Conversion Tracking For Your Squeeze Pages

carolw44 on February 9th, 2012

You probably have your squeeze page out there in a number of places, and it can be hard to tell where your signups have come from.

Here is a simple way, and you can try it out for free.

I use the trackers at TEToolbox, so you will need to log in at TEToolbox to follow along.  They will give you up to 10 trackers for free.

First, create a tracking link for your squeeze page.  (Click on Websites tab, then click on Add Tracker.  Enter your squeeze page URL.)

Now you will see your Tracker URL and Conversion Image.

TEToolbox tracker

Take the Tracker URL and add it to your traffic exchanges or rotator.  You can also use it in safelist and autoresponder emails.

This will do your click tracking for you.

Now take the Conversion Image code and add it to your Thank You or Confirmation page.

If you are using the TEToolbox Thank You page, you will need to edit it in HTML mode. (Use the HTML button in the wysiwyg editor.) Just add the code at the end of whatever you have there, click the Update button, and remember to click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

The image is only 1 pixel by 1 pixel, so it won’t spoil the look of your page at all.

Now, when someone submits their email address on your squeeze page and is redirected to the Thank You page, they will be counted as a Conversion, and you will have some idea of where you are getting the most response from your advertising.

(If you are not using Thank You pages yet, grab a copy of Build Your List with Ease and learn how to do it.  It’s a great way to monetize your list.)

Watch Tim Linden’s video at TEToolbox for a complete explanation.  You will find it under the Help tab, click on Help Videos.

Here are some cool things you can do with the TEToolbox trackers:

  • Change the tracker link to something you can remember.  Click on Edit Settings for your tracker and enter the name in the Custom URL space to replace the number.
  • In the Advanced Settings, untick the box for “Automatically Track Clicks as Conversions”.  You only want your actual signups to track as conversions now.
  • Add other urls to your tracker.  This is good if you are split testing different versions of a squeeze page, or perhaps getting signups from your blog and your squeeze page.
  • Add your squeeze page tracker along with your other sites to another tracker which you can then use as a rotator. The tracking will still work just fine.
  • Add a tag of up to 10 characters to the end of your tracker.  You won’t need this on websites or traffic exchanges as TEToolbox will automatically list those as sources, but it is very useful for safelists and other email campaigns (otherwise you end up with stats saying the click came from mail.google.com and so on…).  TEToolbox will then show you stats by tag.

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Jan
30

Money, and the Sharing, Caring Person

carolw44 on January 30th, 2012

How do you feel when “gurus” show you how to sell, with hype and pressure and scarcity tactics?

Do you feel confused because yes, you do want to make money, but you don’t feel right doing it like that?

Well you are not alone.

Money can be a tricky topic, although if you are here in the marketing world then you have moved past the point where you think it is evil and dirty.  So what is holding you back from raking in the rewards?

I’ve just finished listening to Mike Klingler‘s webinar  “How To Break Free From Your Resistance To Money (Money Consciousness vs. Money Resistance)”.

Mike talks about the difference between sales mindset and empathy mindset.

The sales mindset is all about creating a product and making the sale. It’s often self-oriented, as long as the person makes the money they want, they are happy.  And there is nothing wrong with that, overall.

If you are empathic sort of person, one who cares and shares, and deeply wants to help make this world a better place, then this approach will not work for you. It will only confuse you when you try to apply it.

An empathic person needs to understand that they need money too, because without money they have less power to change the world and make it a better place.  However, the empathic person needs to train themselves to bring in the cash.

How do you train yourself?  You do it by over-delivering, and getting feedback of appreciation.  Once you realize you are helping people then you will naturally feel better about asking for payment, and eventually, as your skills and contribution grow, you will feel ok about raising your prices as well.

Asking for payment is not just about asking for money, it is about the whole process of how you present your self, your product, your sales page and headlines.

The trick is, to make sure that what you are promoting and creating is in alignment with who you really are.  If, deep down, you don’t feel that your business is contributing, then it will be hard for you to get the results you want.

One way to know if you are in the right business or network is by asking yourself if the work is interesting, rewarding and fun, or just hard work?
If it’s mostly just hard work, then what you are doing is not in alignment with your deepest values.

I hope Mike has recorded this webinar.  If he does, I will post a link here.  It’s well worth the hour spent listening.

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Mike has sent out a replay link to the webinar – http://www.screencast.com/t/7fTIiNN6Fh – but it’s only good until Tuesday.  He says he will run seminars on this topic again, so if you are interested, keep an eye on his Facebook page.

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Jan
26

Help With The Mysteries of Marketing

carolw44 on January 26th, 2012

Traffic exchange and internet marketing is a very challenging field.  Get rich quick is a dream which gets many of us online, or perhaps keeps us there.  In the end, though, we need to find patience while we learn the skills we need to succeed.  For this reason we all need mentors, no matter what level we are at with our marketing.

Here is my list of people and programs who can and will help when you need it, and which you can access for free:

For basic traffic exchange marketing skills, follow the boys at ClickTrackProfit to learn how to use traffic exchanges in an organized and professional way.  Watch their training videos and the video of the day.  Surfing for badges is fun, but that’s just the icing on the cake.  You should be learning everything you can.

For basic list building skills, grab a free copy of Build Your List with Ease, and learn how to set up an autoresponder and squeeze pages.

Want some answers to your questions?  Join Krazy Kaye and the rest of the crew at Net Learning Academy.  You can join for free, attend the live webinars, and find a lot of resources in the members area.

If you are ready to learn about WordPress, social media and list building, which will allow you to take your marketing into the wider internet beyond the traffic exchanges, join the regular joes who are doing it at Family Networker.  You will get support on the skype chat room, and there are plenty of useful resources inside the members area, including a 14 day Core Training with videos.

Also, keep your eyes open for good blogs with helpful content, and subscribe to their updates.  One which I really like is PotPieGirl’s blog on internet marketing, especially the training resources in the sidebar.  She writes in a way which is very easy to understand, even if you are a newbie.

I hope this list helps you to get your skills to the next level.  There are many other resources out there, all you need to do is find them and use them.  If you have a good one, post it in the comments below.

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