Internet Marketing Trip

Many people, at least marketers know that Gary Halbert was and remains one of the best copywriter of all times. If you don’t know about his stuff you can go to The Gary Halbert Letter website where you will be able to read many of his sales letters. Both in the online and offline world, Gary Halbert was very inspiring but of course was responsible for generating millions of sales.

It was a very long time that I didn’t visit this website, and I just read a report by Sam Markowitz, also known as Gary Halbert’s Last Protégé. Here are 5 marketing secrets you can learn right now to implement in your sales process. These will inspire many of you if you don’t already have seen this stuff.

Read it carefully, it’s well worth your time.

I could say oops, Chris Rempel did it again. The “it” I’m talking about is a new VIP Confessions report : The Visitor Value Multiplier. Allow me to call it VVMM.

At first you could think that multiplying your visitor value is about selling more than once, offering backend sales or building a list to send them more offers. Well, it’s not that, as list building already has been mentioned in his previous reports. It’s actually easier than that.

The report tells you how to multiply any site’s earning with simple tweaks. I love Chris Rempel’s stuff, really. First’, it’s always cheap and always delivers. There are always some great ideas that you have never read or heard before. I already talked about his material (see the post Chris Rempel – Vip Confessions Reports by A Lazy Marketer).

These previous releases taught you how to create easy websites with almost no work (Chris likes to work smarter, not harder). Short and very straight forward. The VIP Essential package was of an amazing value to me. It was made to implement the VIP Conduit Method even more easily than it already was : you got the high converting templates Chris uses to create these websites, you almost only have to fill in the blank.

There is something Chris Rempel seems to be obesessed with, and that’s CONVERSION, which is not a bad thing. He always focused his message on conversion, so even with low traffic, the methods he reveals allow you to generate sales.

In the VVMM, he pushes the conversion message further. This VIP report is the longest one (36 pages), and it tells you everything you need to know toimprove your conversions. All the elements of your website or landing page that you can quickly modify and see if you are getting better results.

Yes, it’s about testing and tweaking. And as he says,it’s about numbers too : getting the highest conversion rate possible by scaling. Testing is not viewed as the funniest part of making money online, so Chris Rempel explains how and why it is essential. You can see live examples in the report and you may start to think that’s fun.

In fact, VVMM shows you why conversion is more important than your traffic : because with the same level of traffic, if you can double, triple or more your sales by just adding a picture or changing your headline, it’s certainly worth taking the time to dive into split testing and some other things linke that.

This is also the first time Chris talks about Pay Per Click. He generally is a fan of free traffic generation methods and organic  rankings, but for the purpose of this report, PPC is the most appropriate, and the fastest way to get a high enough level of traffic that shows you reliable numbers. So PPC marketers are maybe the ones who will benefit the most of this report, although there is a chapter on running tests for affiliate sites and content sites.

He gives you the free tools you need to get started. Yes, free tools that are enough to compare and optimize your results. Of course, this report is not the Bible on landing page optimization but it actually tells you from experience how to get a better converting website, the easy way, step by step and to push the conversions at the maximum, and that’s what we want. It’s not that hard actually, I’ve checked the tools and it’s worth using them. You need these tools to track your results and know what to improve.

It’s a great report, and it follows the spirit of Chris Rempel material that is focused on conversion.Think “conversion optimization”. It’s priced at $14.95, again, it’s well worth it and even more. Chris is really a guy I trust now. When he produces something new, it’s always fresh. He always makes things easy for beginners but also give new tactics for advanced affiliates.

At the end of the report, Chris shares a technique that puts all you just read at a higher level. He recommends that you get familiar with the conversion optimization process before you try this one. When I read it I thought “oh F*ck Yeah !”. As a smart working marketer, it’s about profiting of other’s work. I can’t tell much about it, but it’s ethical and legal, it’s not outsourcing either. Just tweaks and you’re done.

Chris Rempel again created something brilliant, an eye opener for many people. Do I recommend VVMM ? Of course I do !

Check now the Chris Rempel VIP Confessions report The Visitor Value Multiplier Manifesto.

Screenshots from the VVMM report :

Hey everyone, I just want to share with you (well only the one who don’t already know about it) the free presentation that Jason Moffatt did at the Mass Control even in San Diego. You can watch this 50 min presentation for free here.

You will need first to enter your name and email address to instantly see the entire presentation. I’ve received emails from people’s newsletter I subscribed to. I don’t remember (maybe Frank Kern) who sent me the link but I checked it and it’s very good.

Many times when I have to see a long video by internet marketers I don’t watch it. It’s often too long before you they really deliver their real message, and you often need to buy sometyhing before you get something really good. Hopefully there are few guys that have something great to say, without too much crap.

So back to the crazy presentation Jason Moffatt did at Frank Kern’s Mass Control event in San Diego. I don’t know if this is the mexican outfit or when he asks people to join him on stage to drink beers, eat nachos or wear viking helmets that made me think I should watch it in full but I did. And you should too, he reveals some cool tricks that you can implement right now, either being an affiliate or having your own product.

You may only need your webcam to get started, just a YouTube account to upload your creations. Video marketing is a great way to get traffic for free, I started to try this myself. I can say I don’t like the sound of my voice in the first and only video I made for now but this is not really important. There are crappy videos that get views and generate traffic. What’s important is to get people to go visit your website and make some sales.

There are many people who are making tons of videos and get thousands or millions of views but they’re not into internet marketing or online selling. They don’t even have a website, Jason Moffatt talks about that. If these people had one link in their YouTube description box they could certainly profit from it.

The concept he wants you to know is that you don’t have to “sell” in your videos to make sales… Just watch Jason Moffatt’s presentation and you’ll know what I mean.

One question first, do you know G-Lock Software ? This company creates small softwares for webmasters/internet marketers that can really be useful and a nice alternative too expensive solutions.

Their main product is G-Lock Easy Mail, it’s a mailing list management tool, which you can send your newsletter or promotional emails with. There’s a free, a personal and a business version. That’s cool to send to your list, but you first need to build it.

Now the title of this post is Free Ultimate Email Marketing Guide, so go check their free. Actually you have the choice to buy and download it for $19 or read it completely free online. The guide is available on the G-Lock Easy Mail website which actually is a great resource blog for email marketing. They have many posts for getting a list and take the maximum out of it.

They have created a free WordPress plugin, named WP Double Opt-In List Management Plugin (available on the G-Lock Easy Mail website too). You can add it as a widget to your blog, the users who register will be added to your WP database and you will be able to manage your list from WordPress, sending an automatic confirmation email and welcome email. You can then export your list or link it to G-Lock Easy mail, I don’t know if the list, once exported can be used with another email software, but I think that should be possible.

Two other G-Lock softwares may interest you :

• Fast Blog Finder (download – homepage)
• Fast Directory Submitter (download – homepage)

Both have a free trial and paid version. The first will search the internet for blogs related to yours, so you can go and comment on them for backlinks. The second is an automatic directory submission software. There are currently more than 2800 directories it can submit too, but it’s for the paid version. You can still use the free version and submit your website or blog to 150 directories.

Finally you can check G-Lock Software website if you want more details about them.

I got 2 emails from Dean Hunt this week and I now take the time to spread the word about the possibility of your WordPress blogs getting hacked. Actually, Dean saw his rankings dropped for no visible reason until he discovered some hidden links in his footer. You can’t see these links, but Google can and hundreds of links saying “Buy Viagra” in your footer isn’t really good for SEO, especially if you don’t have a Viagra website.

The full story can be read here : Has Your WordPress Blog Been Hacked ?. It will tell you how to be protected.

Dean was in the top 25 make money online blogs when it happened to him, so he created a tool that checks your Google cache. It will show you the external links from your website, so if at the bottom of the list you can see some spamming links, then something is wong. The tool is the cache checker.

See the following post Dean made : Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs Hacked. Dean checked the top 100 blogs to find if there blogs were hacked, and he found anoter one, Affiliate Confessions.

What’s the end of the story ? Getting hacked gets you backlinks ! Hmm, just kidding. Use the Cache Checker tool and see if you’re safe, and read the posts from Dean to be protected.

For those who were wondering if I’m still alive (about 0.6 person), I’m still busy with my review works but almost done. They will be the base of some case studies as I am combining some of the few techniques I learnt to make and use reviews (and make a bit of cash).

As I said previously in some of my posts, affiliate marketing involves promoting products, and reviewing them. To get a review copy of ClickBank products, some affiliates would prefer to purchase and then ask a refund. It’s not something I have done, and I won’t do that. I have bought some products to review them but to use them too.

But as many others, I also constructed some reviews by scanning the salespage and reading others reviews. I mentioned the Chris Rempel VIP stuff, which is excellent, and will teach you how to create “kind of” mini review websites without knowing or buying the products, without scanning others reviews, in an ethical way, giving your opinion, and make sales without much efforts. And it works for any niche.

But if you want to get review copies of stuff that really interests you, and want to promote those in detail, the best way is to… ASK.

I’ve contacted last week 5 of the best selling authors in one of the ClickBank category, and another one from another category. All answered me positively. I got answers the same day, sometimes after 2 days, 3 days and the last answer was today, 6 days later. Don’t blame merchants if they don’t answer you immediately, they are busy too and maybe not at home for a few days or don’t have the time to be in front of their computer to read email, or maybe this is someone else who manages their support service. What you want is to get a copy.

I’d like to say that if you contact them and say you will review their product then, REVIEW THEIR PRODUCT. Just don’t do it to get your copy. If you ask then you may want to use it, so it should be easy for you to make a review and know if this work. Of course if you are already expert or have enough knowledge on the subject, then it would be easy for you to determine if the techniques work without of course applying everything. But if you don’t plan to use the product, ask a review and do nothing from the information, maybe it’s an ebook on how to make money with Google AdWords, then this means you don’t want to take action anyway.

I have contacted them all the same day, and maybe I should have contacted them one after the other, and wait to have the first review copy and do the review after contacting the second author. But I thought that since they were successful and so many reviews already exists that they may decline my request. Now I have a lot of stuff to read, download and review. But hey, I asked it, I got it ! So maybe you would want to ask for review contacting authors one by one, asking for another review copy only when you’re done with the previous one.

So I may not publish anything here for some time (I know it would not be the first time).

Okay now maybe it’s time to add some value to this post… here is an email template you can use :

(object : Review copy request)

Hello First Name,

I just visited your website thewebsite.com and I am very interested in promoting your offer on my review sites as an affiliate. Therefore, I would like to request a review copy of your course/ebook/software so that I may build my review.

I think you have an excellent product and am looking forward to generate many sales for you/us.

Thank you for your time.

Your Name.

Change the parts that need to be changed. When you get a positive answer (and maybe negative?) don’t forget to thank the people who just allow you to get some valuable informations and do your job. They are trusting you in a way. Keep them posted of your work when the review is done.

Now for me is time to get back to my review works. If you have some other templates like these that you want to share please feel free to do so !

Bye.

In my previous post about the great Chris Rempel VIP Confessions products, I highly recommended you check his last releases VIP Essentials. I rated this 5 stars and actually put a 5 stars graphic at the botom of my article.

Well this little graphic is a creation by… me. I’m not a web designer but you know, when you are an internet marketer, you tend to (and you should) have interest inmany elements of webmastering. You obviously have more than one job when you don’t outsource. At least when you begin you need to everything yourself and develop some skills in SEO, advertising, copywriting, administration, web design… It makes an impressive business card !

Well back to what I was saying, I’m not a web designer but actually spend some times to do some graphics for my websites. Sometimes I just want another header for a blog. Since affiliate marketing involves reviewing and rating products I created “stars”, to add to my reviews. It’s nothing really exceptional or beautiful but it’s free and may help someone out there.

So I’ve made :

• 4 different sizes : tiny, small, medium and big.
• 2 different files format : JPG (white background, lighter) and PNG (transparent background so you can use it with any background color, a bit heavier).
• half stars, so you can rate with 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, etc.
• a “Best product stars” (don’t know really how to call it, you can see it at the top of the post)

Here is how the different sizes look :

You may use these to rate products on your review pages (Effectiveness, Ease of Use, Bonuses, Customer Support…). All are in JPG format, and you can download the stars for $57 !

No ! It’s free, just right click and save . This SuperMegaCool Affiliate Marketing Graphics pack is a small zip file of about 540 ko.

It was in my newspaper this morning, but already announced by other sources of course (okay actually I only knew it from a Shoemoney email yesterday). Google has now its own web browser, called Chrome. Of course it will be safer, faster better than any other web browser… Hmmm, I truely think they have done something great (they can afford it right ?)

It’s still in beta version, but you can download and test it.

Download Google Chrome.

Yesterday, in my “Finally Back Home” post, I mentionned that in my email box there was some very nice stuff, after I delete all the spam and newsletters that all sell the same things.

It was from Chris Rempel, the author of Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate, a very good ebook. I may write a review of it, I bought this few months ago. Anyway, Chris creates some special “VIP” marketing material that he promotes to his buyers list. I have to admit I truely like a lot all of his reports, and already own the “Conduit Method” and “Reverse Niche Selection“.

Chris always prices his products very cheap and they are of a very high quality and value. This time, back from my vacations, I had the pleasure to see he released “VIP Essentials“. It’s a package including :

• Website templates (html, XSitePro, and WordPress theme)
• Step by step traffic blueprints (free and paid methods)
• Outsourcing templates (sample job offers, project descriptions…)

This actually has been designed to help you build an empire of websites that use the Conduit Method. So what is the Conduit Method ? It’s, in Chris words, the simplest method to make money with affiliate marketing, and it truely is. More than simple, it’s even stupid.

The Conduit Method was the first VIP report Chris Rempel wrote, and it is brainless. I told you I liked all of his stuff, I own everything, it’s so cheap that you shouldn’t miss it, and above all it’s made for lazy people . You need to create minisites to promote products (well it sounds like normal affiliate marketing), but you just don’t have to think. Don’t think about the content, don’t think about pre-selling, don’t think about SEO, you don’t even have to know well the products you promote to sell them. I can’t reveal everything, but you will be able to create hundreds of pages if your only skills are reading and writing.

Now with the VIP Essentials, it’s even get better and faster. You get the high-converting templates Chris uses to create his “Conduit websites”. Just systematically add content to these, without much research. With the traffic generation blueprints, and the outsourcing reports you can be a Super Affiliate too. You don’t have to outsource any task if you don’t want to. But when you can afford it (it’s cheap really), the jobs involved being so simple, you will be able to relax and have the “work” done for you. Just check your stats to see sales coming.

Well I’m not urging you to check this stuff. Well actually I am, because it’s really good. I told you Chris makes his marketing stuff cheap :

• Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate was released last year I think, it’s $29.95
• The Conduit Method is $14.95,
• Reverse Niche Selection is $14.95
• VIP Essentials is $29.95

Even if you bought everything it would cosst you less than $100. And what makes this so good is that you can also immediately use this material, and profit from it. His reports are short, but very powerful.

Frankly, you should have a look at least to VIP Essentials, his last product and you will see what I mean. With it, you will want to create many websites. There are so many niches you can profit from, because you have no real work to do. And if you’re smart you can target products or services with high commissions, it works too. Highly Recommended Products. 5 stars !

Wouh… my vacations are over, actually I came back Wednesday last week. I’ve been away from home for exactly 30 days. Now I’m back to home, and so I’m back to work. I have so many things to do, I didn’t have the ability to work from my vacations places but I had fun, that’s cool too.

Hopefully I have made a few things before I left that I can now use and there are some really great things that should happen soon for me. Well, at least I hope so. My updates on this blog are still very irregular but hey, I’m definetely not a blogger.

When I came back I had hundreds of new emails, lot of spam, and some very nice stuff that I will talk about in my next post.