Wow!

I can’t believe I haven’t made a post to this blog since the start of the month!

It shows what can happen when we get some sunny weather here in the UK!

I know us Brits are supposed to be “obsessed” with the weather, but that’s because a lot of the time it does rain or get “cloudy”, so when we have a week or so of summer weather in May we tend to want to enjoy it, just in case it’s the only summer we get…

That may sound negative, but you have to remember that last summer I had to leave my home for several weeks because the flooding was so bad there was no power or fresh water, that was a serious exception to the norm, but we don’t have great summers here that often, so when it feels like summer, we have to rush out and enjoy it while it’s there…

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I’ve bought 2 products today, one of which is a relatively “high ticket” item, although it’s half price until midnight tonight.

and when I say I “bought” them, I do mean that, there not freebie products that I got a copy of for “reviewing”, these are ones where I’ve put my hand in my pocket, and one of them I bought mostly for one of the bonuses on offer…

Dan Kennedy’s Info Riches Course went on sale on Tuesday (29th April) and for some reason the launch had gone under my “radar” until today, but I received a few emails about it today, as the price is going up at midnight, and I just had to go take a look…

It didn’t take me long to dig out my credit card and stump up the cash!

The resale right bonus to “Info Millions” 12 CD Audio Course is (imho) worth the price of this product alone, as it will add a significant amount of profit to my business, without me having to spend months and thousands of dollars preparing my own higher priced up sell for my own products!

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I received an email a few weeks ago from a fellow internet marketer, Sean Mize, asking if I was interested in doing an “adswap”, which is basically where we each send a promotion to our lists with details of a free offer from the other person.

The idea is simple, we both get some new subscribers to our list and increase the size of our subscriber base.

I’d not done an adswap before so I was interested to see how effective it would be.

We both ended up getting over 200 new subscribers on our lists, so I was pretty happy with the results.

I got chatting with Sean afterwards and he let it slip that he had added over 1,800 new subscribers to his list with adswaps in the last month, a pretty impressive number of new subscribers, especially as they’re free, which got me to thinking…

I ended up setting up a new site with a forum for fellow marketers to request adswaps here: -
http://www.imadswaps.com

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I posted on Tuesday night that I was about to have a play with a new Website Stores system to see how easy it is to get up and running before potentially promoting it to my subscribers, as it’s been a couple of days I thought I’d post a quick update…

The system is a real nice bit of kit and in under an hour I was able to get to grips with it and pull in a LOT of targeted products from ebay, amazon and clickbank for different markets as the tutorial videos are very easy to follow, but..

Having “published” my site I discovered that the ads and pages weren’t displaying correctly at all, and whilst it’s quite probably something I’ve done wrong or not set up, I’m still waiting on their support to get in touch to help me out with it, so I guess I’m not the only one who’s had some sort of problem getting up and running.

Now there’s a couple of important points to mention here, before you get the wrong impression: -

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Clickbank are probably the best known “Info product” affiliate market place and whilst they have some drawbacks with their system, specifically hoplink hijacking, the advantages tend to outweigh the dissadvantages, especially for us Brits who are VAT registered as they deal with all the VAT requirements for us, saving a (potentially) huge accounting headache, but…

One of the dissadvantages of clickbank if you’re not in the US is the time that the cheques can take a while to arrive in the post and then even more time to clear in your bank account, as well as your bank potentially charging fees for a “currency negotiation”.

Well Clickbank have now solved that problem by offering a XACH direct deposit option!

If you’re a clickbank affiliate you should have already received an email about it, but if not and you want to use this facility, you can contact them via email here:

I signed up for the service a couple of weeks ago and received my latest payments straight in to my account as promised, which means a couple less trips to the bank each month and less charges taken out of my profits by my bank !

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Sometimes insisting on testing a product out myself before telling my subscribers about it can potentially cost me sales, today is a good example, although I have to admit it’s my own fault.

A new store building system was launched a few hours ago and I knew about it far enough in advance to have been able to test it out before now, but due to my own dissorganized and hectic schedule, and perhaps spending a little too much time in Warcraft, I didn’t get around to trying it out myself before today.

So potentially I’m could miss out on some sales simply because other marketers are already letting their lists know about it, and I won’t until I’ve tried it.

I figure that if I can’t get it working for me, then I can’t promote it…

If you’re wondering why I’m doing this post rather than getting on with testing it, well I’m waiting for the nameservers to resolve for the site I’m going to test it out on, I did say I hadn’tplanned ahead on this one!

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With more and more “affiliate marketers” promoting the same products and fighting over the potential commissions available it’s becoming common for marketers to offer bonuses for the “Big” launches, but is it worth it for any launch/product..?

that’s actually a loaded question in a way, as it’s exactly what I’m doing today, I’ve just made probably my biggest bonus offer or “bribe” for a product launch in a LONG while..

Recurring Income With No Website Bonus Offer

so why am I offering such a big bribe for this product?

2 reasons..

1st, it’s a very good product and I know that anyone who goes for it will be happy with their decision, so it’s worth me giving them a bit of a “push” if they’re sitting on the fence..

2nd, I’m feeling a bit competitive and I’d like to see if I can get a bit higher up the leaderboard before the JV competition closes at the end of today, as at the moment, my firend Ben is one place above me…

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Here’s a quick and simple plan for making some cash in just 7 days (or less) without needing a website, it was my answer to an email I recently received from a subscriber who wanted to know how he could get a bit of cash in a hurry without having to spend any money up front…

1. Do a bit of keyword research to find a suitable “non-high competition” niche.

Use the free version of WordTracker here: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

2. Use the best 22-25 keyphrases to write 20-25 artilces for the niche, writing 4-5 articles per day is a pretty easy target to achieve, with a bit of pratice it should only take an hour or so each evening to knock out the articles.

You can do the research for the articles quite easily by using big article directories like EZineArticles.com, just make sure you write original articles, don’t copy or plagiarise!

3. Then sell those article as a “private label” package on The Warriors Forum as a Warriors Special Offer or “WSO”.

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I mentioned the new AWeber blog broadcast feature in a post a few weeks ago - Internet Marketing Automation

Well, I’ve finally found time to get it set up on this blog, so if you’d like to receive email notifications when I post something new on this blog simply sign up using the “Email Updates” otpin form in the side bar on the right hand side of this page.

obviously you won’t receive a new notification until the next post after you’ve signed up, but I’ll be adding some new posts regularly over the next few days, so sign up now to check out how it works.

I’m going to test out a few of the default “html” templates for the notification email, so I’d be very interested in what you think of each one..

thanks!

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Have you evern wondered what people actually do when they visit your website or blog?

Which bits they read, which bits they oom past, which links they click on…

OK, maybe it’s just me being nosey…

anyway, I found a way of doing exactly that recently and it’s way cool!

oh, there is one downside, it’s a bit like when you “get” facebook, you can suddenly lose hours as they fly by without you noticing…

The system I’ve been using to “spy” on my website visitors actually records what they do on your sie, including where their mouse goes and what they click on, which can be very revealing..

I’ve also stuck it on a few of my product salespages to see what people do, whether they do really just scan the bullet points or zoom straight down to the price or the “P.S.” at the bottom.

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