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AffiloJetpack is something I like to think of as a “content solution” for those who really want to make money online.  Mark Ling is the super affiliate behind AffiloJetpack, which has about 8 or 9 months of intensive development behind it.  By the end of this article, you’ll know why we refer to it as a content solution, and why having good, readable, high-quality content is one of the most critical ingredients to a successful online marketing business.

The simple goal of this article is to inform you about one business model that’s been proven for years, and to show you that AffiloJetpack is a great asset for those who choose this business model.  It’s a combination of affiliate marketing and list-building.  (If you don’t know what these are, don’t worry: I’ll define them for you.)  I’ll also ilustrate some potential hurdles and pitfalls that people who try to follow this model come across.  I’ll then show you how Mark Ling’s AffiloJetpack solution overcomes these hurdles for you.

So…What Does It Take To Really Start A Successful Business Online?

To be sure, there are many, many business models you can follow.  Actually…some aren’t even business models, because they’re just scams and fly-by-night operations.  It can be very difficult to tell the true, long-term business models from the schemes and the scams, especially with a lot of hype and false promises out there.

Just keep in mind that most long-term successes usually require a certain amount of work, especially in the beginning.  After you reach a certain threshold, you start to see the success you were building.

Anyway, a number of years ago, I heard that if you want to start a business, you have to know what people need (or want), and give it to them. Yes, this is very simplistic, and you probably knew that, but if that’s the case, why do so many people still fail?

Of course, there are a number of reasons why people still fail.  Two major reasons are: faulty business model, and second, even if they follow a good business model, certain unforseen hurdles get in the way.  These hurdles prevent you from having all the pieces in place, and at this point, many either stall or give up.

Affiliate E-Mail Marketing: A Very Viable Business Model (If You Have All The Pieces)

Let me take a quick moment to define affiliate marketing for you: basically, you agree to promote a certain product or service.  You don’t have to be the creator of the product or deliver the service.   When you refer people to that product or service, and they buy, you earn a commission.   This can all be done through the Internet.  In a way, it’s like you (or your website or your e-mails) become a digital salesperson.

There’s also e-mail marketing.  No, I’m not talking about spam.  The type of e-mail marketing behind this business model is legal and moral.  It’s called permission-based e-mail marketing.   Another term is opt-in (or, double-opt-in) e-mail marketing.  Don’t let the term “opt-in” scare you: it just means that the person has given you permission to sent them e-mails (some of which may have a commercial intent).
This is different from spam, which just involves sending messages to people who haven’t given you permission to.

Listbuilding is just the act of growing the numbers of people (subscribers) who have given you permission to send them e-mail messages.

An autoresponder is just an e-mail marketing tool that you can use to send e-mails to the people who have given yo permission to send them e-mail messages.

So, can you start to see what affiliate e-mail marketing entails, and why it’s a viable business model?

Think about it: On one end, you’re promoting a good, solid product or service.  On the other end, you have a growing list of people who are potentially interested in the offer you’re promoting.  You (or rather, your automated autoresponder) send them an e-mail message suggesting (selling) the product or sevice you recommend.  When they buy, you earn a commisson.

This can happen over and over again, resulting in multiple commissions.

This e-mail-and-profit cycle is so well-established that one of the mantras of Internet marketing is to “build your list” and develop a “relationship with your list”.

But, people still meet some big hurdles with this business model, and these hurdles can lead to frustration and failure…

Common Affiliate Marketing Hurdles/Pitfalls: Have These Happened To You?

What follows are some of the biggest hurdles that people who have attempted to follow the affiliate marketing business model have faced.  If you’ve failed at affiliate marketing before, or are not where you want to be, I’d bet that, other than just not doing the work, one of these hurdles is to blame.  If you’re new to your affiliate marketing journey, knowing this will be a great asset to you, and will really help you see how AffiloJetpack is the solution you’re looking for.

Hurdle #1 is a generalization, #3 and #4 are the ones that take the most time, and #5 is the most important…

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle #1: Knowledge, Effort, Time, and Skill

I sort of hesitated to list this one, because it’s an overriding hurdle that can seen as a generalization of the more specific hurdles listed below.  And beyond that, it’s only to a matter of degree that this is even a hurdle.  That is, in any viable business model, you do need knowledge, effort, time, and some minimal skill level.  Yes, there’s a wide gamut of knowledge and skill: the experienced affiliate marketer is obviously a lot more knowledgeable and skilled than the beginner.

They key here is that there are tools in place (such as AffiloJetpack) that minimize the size of this hurdle.  For example, having to create enough content is an enormous, almost Hurculean, hurdle for any affiliate.  However, with AffiloJetpack (which is why I consider it a content solution), the content hurdle is greatly minimized…and in fact, is not really a hurdle at all.

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle # 2: Having To Create A Website

If you know how to create a website, great, but do you know how to create one that’ll be successful?

If you don’t know how to create a website, then that might be hurdle that requires time and effort to get skilled at…unless you were handed some pre-designed websites or had a tool in place that drastically minimized the time it would take you to put up a profitable website.

And even if you know how to put up a website, there are most likely ways you can put up better ones…

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle # 3: Content – Having To Create An Autoresponder Series

Did you know that it can take up to 7 messages before a potential buyer responds?  That is, you sometimes (not all the time) have to tell someone (your subscribers) about something (the offer you may be promoting) about 7 times before they buy.

But also, you don’t want to be too aggressive or “burn out” your list of subscribers by sending them too many sales-oriented e-mails: you also want to blend in some real content, some how-to’s, and information that they can benefit from without having to buy anything.

This is a fine balancing act…and…it’s best to have a lot of these messages in place, because they’ll be rotated as more and more people join your e-mail list.

Imagine trying to write a good mix of informative and sales-oriented e-mails—enough to last a year.  Let’s say, 75 e-mail messages, each about 600 words long.  Even if you were good at researching and writing (which a lot of us aren’t), imagine how big of a hurdle that would be.  Even if you outsourced this, it would cost a lot to get a good writer to do all that for you.

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle # 4: Content – Having To Create Web Articles

To create a good impression on your site visitors (and potential subscribers), you have to have a site that’s authoritative on the subject they’re interested in.  One way to portray that authority is to have enough informative articles on that subject.  Again, another hurdle: Remember having to write essays on subjects you had to research?  Imagine having to do that, except that, instead of one essay, you had to research and a series of about 20 articles.

Notice that hurdles #3 and #4 were both content-related: Content creation takes a lot of time, effort, and expertise.  It’s very, very difficult to succeed (at least, with this business model), without well-researched, well-written articles and how-to e-mails.

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle #5: Niche and Market Research

Market research is perhaps the most important part of affiliate marketing.  To be sure, you have to know whether there’s a market for what you want to promote, what that market is willing to spend, and how you can reach them.  There are many, many methodologies and tools to help you do this.

Many affiliates know how important this is, and hence, they spend a lot of time (too much time, actually), on this step.  This is a big, big hurdle, because people know that if they pick the wrong market or the wrong offer, everything else is for naught, no matter how well they try to do.  The fear of picking the wrong market (or, the unending need to pick the “perfect” market) is what keeps a lot of affiliates marketers stuck at this stage, never able to move forward with confidence.

Affiliate Marketing Hurdle #6: Getting Targeted Traffic/Interested Visitors

Getting targeted website traffic is an ongoing concern for web businesses.  There are many, many ways to do this, and some are more viable than others.  There are also paid and free ways to do this.

AffiloJetpack: The All-In-One Affiliate E-Mail Marketing Solution

In light of the 6 major hurdles listed above, what if a super-affiliate (who’s been making money online since 1999) were to:

• Do your market research for you and, using his years and years of expertise, pick markets and offers that were sure to buy and sell,

• Create the e-mail messages  you were going to need, with a good blend of knowledgeable, informative and sales-oriented e-mails,

• Give you about 20 well-researched, well-written articles to put on your site,

• Give you all the elements of a pre-done website and a one-click install solution that would minimize the knowledge, time, and effort you’d have to put into creating your attractive website, and

• Give you the training you need to drive traffic to your site?

That’s what AffiloJetpack gives you.  Some have said that even the content components themselves (the e-mails and artcles) were worth it—they eliminate 2 of the greatest hurdles.  That’s why I consider AffiloJetpack a “content solution”.  But it’s more than that, since it gives you virtually everything you need to set up some solid Internet real estate.

In conclusion, if you really want to start a successful online business and earn money on your own terms, I think you can see why AffiloJetpack is a viable investment for you.

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Product Launch Formula 3 Launches or a Rolling Launch?

Product Launch Formula 3 is the third release in the Product Launch Formula series by Jeff Walker.  The others mainly covering launches in non-IM niches. This is the first where Jeff will dive head-first into how to pull off a big guru launch like the stars.

There’s  a small problem though.  Product launches as Jeff teaches in the Product Launch Formula 3 can  bank you a lot of money and fast.  But it’s not going to be useful to you if you can’t get to a point where you can actually pull off a big launch.

Here’s a strategy that you can put to work right now, no matter what your guru status is – it’s called a rolling launch.  You can do this no matter what niche you’re in and it’s exactly how I’d  go about launching a product  that sits in the background and makes money on a daily basis.

Here’s what we’re going to cover:

• The front end product – How to quickly and easily create a product that you can “soft” launch with.
• The upsell product – How to offer a good oto/upsell product that you can create later.
• The sales funnel – How to structure you sales funnel, so you’re building a list, selling your product and converting people who you may have left your site and offer forever.
• Affiliates & JV’s – How to build a perpetual profit machine finding affiliates to promote you, and optimizing for affiliates who find you.
• Instant Sales & Affiliates – How to get thousands of instant eyeballs to your new product for $20 bucks
• Guru Status - How to get to guru status and pull off a Product Launch Formula 3 style launch the easiest way possible.

The Front End Product

No matter what niche you’re in it’s fairly easy to create a product that will sell well.  I recommend a product structure where you’re offering video training as well as the training in PDF form.  Video training will always have a higher perceived value – but many will want a readable form of the training as well.

Here’s what you do.  Create your training in PDF form – meaning write a report.  Then simply convert the training into a Powerpoint presentation.

Your video version of the training will simply be you reading the PDF version.  Of course while reading you have the opportunity to throw in additional insights that aren’t in the PDF version.  Don’t just read the training, it’s not only boring but provides no additional value.  The purpose of the video training is to freely expand on the written version.

It’s as simple as that, and now you have a product with video and a written report.  This creates very little additional work for you while providing infanitely more value.

The price point for your front-end should be about $47-$77 and you should offer 75% commissions.  You’re not going to make a boat load upfront, but you can easily offset that with…

The Upsell / OTO Offer

Want to make more money quickly and easily?  Have an upsell / one-time offer to your sales process.  Here’s how to create a killer upsell that you can even later use as its own stand-alone product if you want.

Offer a 3-4 week, on-going training program.  This means that you don’t have to create the upsell before you launch, and  this usually turns out to be some of the best training you’ll ever produce.

Of course, the upsell should be complimentary, additional training that is too valuable to include in a $47 front end.

You’ll create and deliver the OTO training using the same process you used to create the front end.  Another option is to do live webinars which increases the value of your offer in terms of perception and actuality.  Live, interactive training is great, but it’s a little harder to pull off.  Choose one and go with it.

Now that you have (or will have) your products, you need to dig into your sales funnel.

The Sales Funnel

This is where you…

• Capture leads and build a list
• Make direct sales with your front-end product
• Make even more sales with your OTO/upsell
• Convert people who opted-in but didn’t take action the first time to paying customers (prospect to buyer)
• Make affiliate sales on those prospects, promoting relevant products to them

Here’s what you need in terms of pages and tools to make it happen:

Aweber – I use and highly recommend Aweber.  I just like it’s interface and ease of usability as opposed to others like GetResponse.

Google Website Optimizer – You’ll use this tool to for split testing.  It’s simple to use and it’s free.  I highly recommend it.

Google Analytics – You’ll also want to have your normal analytics set up because GWO doesn’t provide in depth analytics of your site overall – only of the split tests you set up.

Amazon S3 – This is where you’ll store all your product content, including your video and written PDF training.  It also hooks easily into the next tool we’ll talk about.

EZS3 – This is a tool you’ll use to deliver your video training.   It connects with your Amazon S3 account and allows you to create video players easily.  It then spits out a simple piece of javascript code that you paste on your site to display it.

Now that you have your necessary tools, you need the pages that will make your sales funnel work.  This is obvious, but what’s not so obvious is how to do it right.

The Front End Sales Letter

You want three versions of your front-end sales letter:

• A version with just video
• A version with just text
• A version with video up top and text underneath

If you’re not familiar with the concept of a video sales letter, get familiar with it.  It`s simple to do and regularly outpulls long form, written sales letters.  People like to listen – it’s easier than reading.  It also helps you control the message.   People like to scroll and scan long form letters, most hardly even read them.

To create a video sales letter simply make a word-for-word Powerpoint presentation of your written copy.  Use a white background and simple black text with the “Calibri” font in Word.  Make your font size a minimum of 36.

Here`s a trick.  Use EZS3 to create a player with no border and where the only control is to pause and play the video.  This creates a situation where you get to deliver you whole message, and the prospect won’t skip perhaps your most important conversion element.

Split test the 3 front end sales letters using Google Website Optimizer.  Do a simple A/B split test between the 3 pages and go with the winner.  You can use splittest.com to accurately choose which will continue to be the highest converting page.  I’ve consistently found video and text coverts the best, but you have to test.

The Upsell / OTO Letter

Immediately after a front end order is completed, the buyer should be redirected to the OTO offer page.  This is simple to do with Clickbank.

Use the same principles we talked about in terms of page structures and testing on the front end letter.  The process is exactly the same as your front end sales process, except now you’re selling your OTO offer.

Your Prospect Optin Landing Page

Your offer should be something that can be delivered in a sequential fashion.  The optin incentive should be something of true value that will help push prospects back to your front end sales letter and ultimately into becoming customers.

And if you guessed that you’re going to make 3 different versions of your optin page and split test them with Google Website Optimizer, you guessed right.  Exactly the same as your front end letter and upsell: video, just text, video+text.

Headline across the top, optin copy/video to the left, and optin form to the right.  Always include an arrow pointing to your optin form.

Don’t put any sort of optin element on your front end sales letter.  It’s just counter-productive most of the time.  Instead use an exit grabber like Exitsplash to catch people who are LEAVING your offer.  Why distract someone from your most important sales message?  This is where you want them to be… Keep them there.

You’ll simply redirect your saved exits to your optin page.  Of course as I mentioned, you’re split testing between 3.  Once you determine which is the winner, shut the two losers down and use the winner as a control.  Start split testing the winner with a slightly modified version of it.

The goal is to continually replace your winning your optin page with a higher converting one until you’ll eventually hit the plateau.  Now here’s the cool part.  Once you can’t create an optin page to beat your control, create a drastically different one and start split testing that against your current winner.

If the experimental  optin page out-pulls the current winner, use it as the new control.  You simply repeat this process until you absolutely can’t squeeze another optin out of your landing page.

2 Buyer Optin Pages

This is fairly straight forward.  You have somebody you just spent their hard earned money with you, so what do you do with them?  They trusted you enough with their money.   Why not build that trust and a relationship with them by getting them on your list?

These are just simple pages where you ask them to register to receive the download.  And voila, you`re building a list of proven buyers.  This is the most valuable list in your possession, for sure.  You need two: one for your front-end buyers and one for your upsell buyers.

2 Download Pages

This is again fairly obvious, you need 2 download pages – one for your front end, one for your upsell.  If you’re upsell is ongoing training, place the schedule of the upcoming training, and the core training downloads.

They should immediately redirected to the download after they register on the buyer optin page.  Also be sure to “noindex” your download pages so Google won’t index them.  You don’t want your download page as a double-indented listing under your main site listing in Google now do you?  A major loss of sales.

By the way – if you forget and that happens, simply change the download page URL and update your buyer list with the new download page.  It’s kind of a pain and you will get support tickets for people who never got your email.  It’s best just to avoid more work all together if you can right?

Product Launch List Control and Flow

Remember how we said we wanted to get your optins but no-action takers back to your sales message?  This is where the sequentially delivered follow-ups come in.

You should prepare a follow up sequence of around 7 emails, building trust, delivering your optin content, and pushing them back to your sales message.  Likely you’ll convert a lot of sales that would have been lost forever.

You also want to set up the automation rules in Aweber, so that people who do go from your optin follow up sequence to paying customers are taken off of the prospect list when they register on one of your buyer lists.  We don’t want to bother people who already purchased with those follow ups.

If you promise something and it’s not fully delivered at the point they turn to a customer, you can simply put the full incentive on the download page so they still get what they opted in for in full, alongside what they bought from you.  Remember that trust thing – a good way to build and keep it.  Don’t think these things don’t go unnoticed.

So that’s it… or is it?

Not quite.  Now that you’ve got your perpetual profit machine set and running, you need to go into JV /affiliate finding mode.

But first, you want to make it easy for JV’s and affiliates to promote you, if they happen to find you first.  Always have an affiliate resource page.  Here’s what can and/or should include on the page:

• A short 3-7 minute video – explaining your product, why it’s beneficial for them to promote your product, and how much money they can make.
• Conversion proof elements – surprising fact is that people like to promote things they know will make them money based on solid data.  Once you have solid conversions stats over a period of time, putting them on your affiliate page is one of the most valuable things you can do.
• Highly Visible Affiliate Link – Remember you should be using Clickbank so put the hoplink they should use to promote your product right there on the page.  Only makes sense to make it easy for to find the affiliate link.
• Product graphics – it’s always good to have a visual representation of your product but it’s not absolutely necessary to your sales process.  But, don’t get me wrong, it almost always help.
• Email swipes – have about four different versions of promotional emails prewritten that they can simply copy, paste and promote.  Remember we want to make it easy for them.  Take a differently angle with each of them which gives the potential affiliate a choice to as which closely matches the tone he uses with his list.
• Go all out – if you have extra time, why not also include pre-written blog posts, articles for submissions to article directories, promotional videos for submission, and anything else a potential affiliate could use to promote you.
• A JV optin box.  As an alternative, you could deliver the additional promotion materials after they optin.  Now you’re building a list of potential affiliates and future joint venture partners (where you start making big money).  Once you establish yourself and are at this stage – this where a Product Launch Formula 3 style launch comes into play.
• Your personal contact – don’t forget this critical element.  Provide a direct email where someone can personally contact you.  Imagine someone with a 100k list waiting to promote you, but not able to contact you.  I think that clearly illustrates the importance of the 2 minute procedure.

You would be surprised how many people will find you.  Especially if you’re listing is rising in Clickbank as a quality product.  Simply create the affiliate resource page as I’ve described, and link to in the footer of the main site.  This IS one of the most important steps in the process – so don’t skip it.

Once you’re ready for affiliates who find you, now it’s time to go find some affiliates.  Go where these people hang out.  Usually that means forums and their own sites.  Bloggers are especially good people to target.

At first approach smaller affiliates who are always on the look out to find and promote products that will make them money.  Usually you’ll get a modest amount of sales from these people but it’s still money.  And remember how you’re building proof of conversions and a list.  This opens up the floor for larger JV opportunities.

Once you get to the point where you can reciprocate a promotion, you’re in the money sweet spot.  Joint ventures, and eventually a PLF3 style launch.

Rinse and repeat

Want to build a real business online as a product creator, than this is how you do it.  I’ve just laid a step-by-step to building a successful rolling launch.

The difference between the people who consistently spin their wheels in IM and those who accelerate ahead all comes down to one simple word.

Action.

So now that you know exactly how the successful ones do it – why not start right now?  And once you get up, running and are successful like this you’ll be in a position where the Product Launch Formula 3 training can help put you over the top, from not only making money – but making job-killing cash on the Internet.

How to Get Instant Buzz and Eyeballs to Your Product

There’s nothing like doing all this work and then end up sitting sit there with your awesome product and funnel with the crickets chirpin’ in the background.

Spend your next $20 wisely and create a Warrior Special Offer for you product.  This is where you offer at discount price.  Like maybe your normally $47 product at $17 as a WSO.  Like I said, this gets instant eyeballs to your offer as well you can have a little blurb for affiliates looking to promote good products that will make them money at the end of your WSO.

Now are you’re not only making money, but you’re grabbing the attention of potential affiliates and JV’s.

But BEFORE you post your WSO take a look at some of the most successful WSO’s already in the forum.  You can tell which they are by the number of thread views and replies.  Duplicate the elements that made them successful.  If you do that, you stand a better chance to be successful with your WSO.

So that’s it?

Yep – that’s how you do it.  A highly effective guide to launching your own product, and making money.  Don’t try to over-complicate the process.  It’s really not that hard to pull off a rolling product launch.

You can do this in nearly any niche (with the exception of the WSO strategy) which means there’s plenty of opportunities to start now.  Millions in fact.  If you’re interested in taking your product launch to “guru” launch stature, then you should definitely check out Product Launch Formula 3.

And let me know what you think.  Was this helpful?  Got something to add, or ask.  Leave a comment below.

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Here’s what I’ve got for you today…  On April 27^th, Brad Callen is launching his new link network called SEO Link Vine.

I have absolutely been dominating using these types of networks to grab first page rankings for some of the most competitive keywords you can find.  If you’re not familiar with the concept of blog networks, basically it’s a platform where you usually pay a monthly fee.  You submit your content and it gets published on blog across their network.  The good ones take great care to maintain a good network.  They have to, because their business depends on it.

For most of your sites you’re not going to be able to build a lot of good, authority-type backlinks.  So instead of quality, you need to go for quantity.  Pure link quantity is where the sweet spot in Google is right now.  As long as the sites you get the links from are sites in good standing with Google (they’re not authority sites, but they’re not spam blogs either).

There are lots of these sites.  In fact, there are millions.  What I’m talking about is having the ability to get your unique content submitted to and published on hundreds of the kinds of blog I just spoke about.  Oh and did I mention, automatically drip-fed and published on a daily basis?

Blog link networks like SEO Link Vine are perhaps the last frontier in getting real, quality links that count and that send you the link juice you need to rank for your target keywords.  So of course there are good ones and some bad ones.  Some have more advanced options than others, for example, supporting spun content, and evenly drip-feeding your articles across blogs in a way that looks natural to Google.

That’s why when I heard Brad Callen was launching his new link network, SEO Link Vine, I was interested to say the least.  Brad’s the type of guy who knows how to do things right.

Brad has personally paid $1 for each site that people have added to his network.  He’s not the kind of guy to pay someone for adding a bunch of spam blogs if you know what I mean.  And if you don’t, I’m saying that SEO Link Vine is likely going to be one of the higher quality blog networks out there.  If you’re doing any SEO, it’s definitely worth a look as source for building quality, one-way backlinks fast.

The one thing that sets SEO Link Vine apart is that it is one of the first times I’ve seen the platform actually check and track your progression in the search engines.  If that’s the case then Brad expects you to see results.

So what does It Mean to You?

All of the above, and to say this:  Having a comprehensive link building strategy is paramount to your success in the search engines – for the short term as well as the long term (you still want to be making money in 2 years, right?)

If you’ve been too focused on one aspect of link building, you need to step it up a bit to stay ahead of the curve.  If you don’t do this, you leave yourself at the mercy of one algorithm change that could wipe out your whole game.

Whether it’s shoving out a few dollars a month for a couple high quality link networks, or simply making a conscious effort to slowly and gradually diversify your link building – you need to do it, and start now.  Because when all the games and gimmicks run out and a lot of people can’t keep up anymore – where will you be?

SEO Link Vine Bonus

Remember I told you I was absolutely killing it with link networks… That’s a good thing for you because I’ve helped to put together an extremely valuable bonus package for you if you order SEO Link Vine through that page when it goes live on the 27^th.

Everything you need to know is there, but here’s the short of it.  We’re giving away 3 weeks of on-going training, showing the exact tactics we use to hit the first page of Google for some extremely competitive, but high profit keywords.  You’ll also be getting 10 weeks of reports where we do the research for you, handing over lists of profitable SEO keywords you can use with SEO Link Vine and the additional training.

You definitely don’t want to miss out on this one.  This training is going to be extremely valuable – and definitely worth a lot more than you’ll invest in SEO Link Vine to make it all work.

There are exactly 100 copies of these bonuses that will be given away, so move fast if you want in.

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On March 29th, Jeff Johnson Launches Traffic Voodoo…

This is a new course on Traffic and generally that would beget a flood of yawns from yours truly.

However, this is different because it’s from Jeff Johnson…

Now Jeff is pretty underground, more so than the rest of the old boys like Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Mike Filsaime and co, so it’s excusable if you don’t know him.

But, Jeff is the most powerful affiliate and traffic driver of them all, and by far.  And while I feel I know exactly how the other guys are doing it, I know that Jeff has something more to offer.

It’s clear that this guy actually *does* Internet marketing rather than just selling it.

And if you’re not on the JV lists for many of the biggest recent launches, there is no way you can know this but here are some of the results I’ve seen Jeff get.

First off, he finishes first when he promotes something.  I’ve not seen anybody beat him on any promo for a long time now, even some of the guys I thought were untouchable get crushed and tossed to the wayside by Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo…

As you may know, many big launches, especially for high tickets have optin contests. Now I’ve been building lists for years in the IM space and have had more successful product launches than just about anybody I know, but I’ve never been able to send more than 2k optins so far.

That’s why when I saw Jeff had sent something like 8 thousand optins for the Magic Bullet pre-launch, I knew the “Silver Fox” had something up his sleeve.

Pre-launch has now begun for Traffic Voodoo, and the first piece of content is excellent.  It’s about going after product launches and is very well done.  The only complaint I have is that I first mentioned this method (or something very close to it) almost three years ago now.

It was dubbed the “googlizer” and sold in my membership site Players With Money.  Lots of people made and continue to make great money with it.

However, I’m sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg and we will see some wicked traffic tricks in the coming days as Traffic Voodoo goes live.

This is one launch you should follow…

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I’ve got something pretty cool that I put together with the help of one of my top students, and Adword whizz Bryan.  I originally gave away the Streaming CPA Profits report which got some awesome feedback.  I promised I was going to be releasing more the kind of “one strategy, make money” reports, so here it is.

How would you a sure-fire strategy for setting up laser-targeted Adwords campaigns?  The kind of stuff people are doing behind the scenes to grab extremely targeted clicks and, ever-dropping bid prices and ever-increasing profits…  What’s the coolest about this is, you can almost infiltrate any reasonable niche, and if you set your Adwords campaign with this strategy you’re going to be 10 steps ahead of 99% of your competition.  Sound good?

Here’s just some of what’s revealed inside:

• How to find the absolute “dead center” of your market where YOU can be profitable.  This is not about competition, or anything else.  It’s about finding your slice of the pie and eating it.

• Your foundation for building your “profit house”.  This is the whole centralized reason you must have in place before you ever dream of starting an Adwords campaign.

• How to harvest “dead center” keywords, ranking them almost scientifically, and confirming that you have indeed found that profit bulls eye.

• A proven strategy for structuring your ad groups and running an effective ad campaign that is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to lose your shirt on.  Awesome side effects include: Explosive CTR’s (10%-15% regularly), lower bids, and higher profit margins.

• How to launch an Adwords campaign (the stupid-easy way) and go from build phase to a running campaign in five minutes.

• A lot more in a strategy-packed 51 page Adwords guide.

• Included are ad database spreadsheets that will help you pump out ads lightning quick and post them to your campaigns.

Download the report now below and leave your comments, feedback and questions.  The more feedback I get the better I feel about giving away some of my best strategies for free (there will be more on the way)

Download Adwords “Bulls Eye” Profits Report

Enjoy and let me hear what you think…

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How would you like a CPA tactic you can get into right away? What if it didn’t cost a thing to get started, the market was wide open and you could profit from this in just a few hours?

Good news: you can, and better news yet: as a loyal reader, it’s yours free, although I may take this offline at any time…You can download the Streaming CPA Profits Report below. It’s 25 pages or so, a quick read…

I want to expand this with more step by step detail, resources and ideas, but that will take another week or so to write up, so make sure you are on the list if you want to get part 2 (and some other great reports that are in the works).

This CPA tactic is based on very simple incentivized marketing. I wonder how long into the report before you realize how big such a thing can be scaled… Pretty amazing stuff.

Download the report below.Leave your comments and questions in the box below, I will answer them here and take the rest of your feedback into account while writing up the more complete version…

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On July 21st, Perry Marshall published an email conversation he had with Dr.Glenn Livingston concerning the dramatic quality score devaluation of Affiliate Review Sites containing bare affiliate links.

I interviewed Glenn on the extent of this “slap”, who it affects, how to work around it and some keys to bullet proofing your business for the future…

Click play to listen to Dr.Livingston’s enlightening answers:

Listen to the interview here

Here is the excerpt from Perry Marshall’s blog that started it all:

“I got word from several affiliate marketers that Google dropped the hammer today on affiliate review pages.   Many pages went from quality scores of 10 —> 1 overnight.

And these were NOT skinny sites, rather well build out, consistently updated blogs with good navigation above the fold, xml site maps, high click through, hyper-relevant keyword mapping, low bounce rates, long average time on page  … everything else Google loves.

When we analyzed which pages survived, and we take it in combination with other information, it seems pretty clear they’ve added code which screens for affiliate links on the landing pages.

At the moment it seems cloaking and PHP redirects are untouched, … but I can’t imagine these are far behind.  (I’m guessing they’re just avoiding this in order to decrease their server burden … takes some CPU cycles to visit every link on the page and evaluate for affiliate code)

I’d say it’s safe to conclude Google’s on the war path against affiliate review sites, and we should be advising clients towards a different business model… at minimum it seems necessary to avoid placing affiliate links on landing pages, but ideally, I think people need to move towards a deeper list building/relationship building strategy and/or a strong e-commerce model.
Time to stop “building on sand”.”

Note that Perry goes on to comment further and the article is definitely worth reading…

Here are the free Adwords Resources Glenn Livingston generously provides during the call:

- Very insightfull 90 minute presentation on negative keywords

- Quick Adwords Audio on content network secrets

- Glenn Livingston’s Blog (tons of free adwords tips)

Glenn is the CEO of Rocketclicks.com, a cutting edge search engine optimization and Pay per Click Management firm.

I will be updating this post with a full written transcript of the interview as soon as it is completed.  Thanks for sharing your comments or feedback in the box below.

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Watch the video and then place your order through the link below…

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I was looking at my business today and started asking myself what made a big difference for me, in the past and today…

One of the most instrumental parts has always been “getting a ton of inbound links”.

Over the years, I’ve gathered quite a collection of sites where anybody can claim a one way back link within seconds, complete with anchor text.

Now, some of these are dead obvious and likely you have them already on your link radar, but others are more obscure and provide high quality backing.

My preferred way of attacking this has been to put aside 10 minutes a day where I submit one of my sites to 10 different services such as these.  It keeps the traffic flowing and the rankings on the rise…

And if I’m doing a googleizer or sniping a keyword, then I just turn on the mustard full blast…

Well this is my list of sites I’ve compiled till now.

If you have a solid one of your own and would like me to add it, I may be able to do so…

For now I simply suggest you download the list to use now or whenever the occasion next presents itself.  Note that 95% of these sites are “do-follow” so you receive full link joy from them.

http://www.netfrontiermarketing.com/playerslinkdb.pdf

There is no optin, no upsell, nothing of the sort, it’s just small token of appreciation for being a loyal subscriber.

P.S. It would be really cool if we got together to make this list “the list” of free do follow backlinks.  If you make any significant contribution, I will be happy to link you and give you credit here and within the document itself…

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I’m talking to you, gurus and wannabe gurus of the Internet Marketing world.

You’ve worked really hard to build that list and your success with it will have a big influence on your next product launch. Yet you write bad promo email after bad promo email and watch your list shrink every time you hit send.

When alarmists like Rick Butts tell people to unsubscribe from internet marketing lists that don’t deliver, you quake in your pants cause that means YOU. And you’re getting scared because it’s about to hit the point of no return and you don’t know what to do.

1) Write your own emails:

Think you can copy paste the pre-written JV email and get away with it? Wrong. It’s a mortal offence any one committing should be quick to repent for.

We’ll investigate the other reasons you need to do this in a moment, but let’s consider for just one second how it looks when you send the template email.

It says one of two things and suggests a mix of both: first off, you don’t care enough about the product to have reviewed it yourself and you are promoting it just for the money or to return a favour. Secondly, it says you don’t give a crap about the people reading it. They are numbers on your list. Numbers that fall quickly.

2) Have a Freaking Emotional / Ethical Barometer:

Yes there are hoards of newbies out there to who you can sell anything. That doesn’t mean you should. Not all offers are created equal and not all gurus are created equal.

Some will not deliver and others will massacre the customers you send them with daily promos for junk. And you recommended them. Trust: minus 1.

3) Be Relevant, or at least try:

Ok so a new product came out, you like it and you want to promote. How does it fit into the CORE message you yourself have sold them on earlier?

Yes, this is marketing and you can stretch things, but it’s good to stay in the same ballpark or at the very least give that impression.

Want to make sales AND have your prospects thank you for it? You’ve already taught them something when they bought from you originally. Show them how to get the most mileage out of it and propose products and services that fit in with that mission.

That way you look like you practice what you preach and you still believe in your stuff…

4) Deliver SOMETHING beyond an Affiliate Link:

Ideally you will NOT write promo after promo to your list, but we all know that can happen… If you just can’t do it any other way for now, then add value to each promo by delivering something else with it.

Most of the time, this takes the form of a story that uncovers a relevant business lesson. Or it describes in some detail how something can be achieved. Therefore the promotion is not the end all be all, the actual object of the promotion is the accelerator they buy if they want to do it faster, better, etc…
But thanks to you, they can now do it anyways. Whether they buy today or not, they got something out of the interaction.

5) Don’t be a Doormat, nor a Bore

People are looking for guidance and reassurance. They like to get this from people they trust.

They already WANT to trust you since they got on your list, but if you get all wishy-washy, they’ll listen to someone else that really believes what they’re saying.

You want a polarized audience, not a sleepy one. If you can get half the people to love you and the other half to hate your guts, you’ve done a much better job than if NOBODY cares…

Having good copy skills will also make your emails more interesting, and therefore readable so please, go…

6) Read some Halbert

I make it no secret I’ve gained nearly all my copywriting jiujutsu from the Gary Halbert Letter. Yesterday, I went back for a refresher and found this great piece…

Let me say it without mincing words: copywriting is the marketer’s prime value. If you fall short here, you will NEVER get to the top. Never.

If you don’t know copy, your emails don’t get opened, don’t get read, don’t capture attention, don’t create desire, and don’t generate action.

Oh, and since they don’t do any of those things, they are useless. Not just to you, but worse even, to your prospects, who will soon give their limited attention span to someone who knows how to keep it and get something out of it, for the sake of both parties involved.

7) Find Something Wrong with it

Think about it. No product is perfect. We all know that. If you promote flawless product after flawless product, it’s your credibility taking a hit every time.

I’m sure if you actually reviewed it, you found some parts you liked less and some parts you liked more. Don’t be afraid to make the product and proposition feel REAL by admitting it’s imperfect.

Imperfections also create the perfect opportunity to…

Add Value to the Proposition:

Here I’m talking two main issues. The first way you add value is by helping the prospect make the right decision for themselves.

You give them the information they need to situate if and where the proposition meshes with their current situation. Whether they buy or not, they can thank you for helping them make the right decision.

The other way to add value is the classic bonus.

Often this will target the flaw you exposed earlier. For example, did you feel bogged down reading the 200 page book? Offer up a mindmap that counters the flaw.

Have something more to say on the subject than the author did? Can you offer more depth on one specific tactic, can you hold hands, provide a short cut?

The answer should nearly always be yes.

Sure you can get away with “shock and awe” bonuses, aka $2749 worth of PLR ebooks you paid $1 on Ebay for Master Resell Rights to, but that gets old real fast and the backlash is just around the corner…

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I’m sure I’m missing some but just these 8 brief points, once applied, will get your emails opened and read for a long time to come as you become they guy or gal that provides a dose of personality, real world logic, buyer protection and education as well as added value.

If you’re reading this, you’re either a marketer with a list or a prospect on those lists. Share your experience below. Did I miss any big ones?

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