NetBizSimplified

Thrilled as most people are especially newbie that are just starting out where $19.00 per month to have an Aweber account is impossible.

Well, we’ve heard it many times to build lists. As the saying goes “Money is in the list” which is all true. Some other variation people comes up with are “Money is in a responsive list”.. etc. But it doesn’t matter as the point here is to have a list.

And the prerequisite to build a list is to have an autoresponder that allows you to follow up with the people that have opted in. Don’t forget that autoresponder helps to leverage your effort. Say for example you drive traffic using PPC to your offer, if you can get people opted in your list, you have the chance to direct them to any future offers that you may have without paying anymore. That’s leverage!

And I trust that you know that the conversion rate is going to be higher too simply due to fact that a lot of people don’t buy on any website during the first visit, right?

Okay, enough for that. So, you need an autoresponder. A good autoresponder with all these features:

• You can send unlimited follow up emails
• You can also send unlimited broadcasts
• You can send both Text or HTML emails or a combination of them
• You can track the links in your autoresponder (this is no brainer, you can track which links that get the most clicks)
• You can manually add subscribers
• You can have the full stats of your list – open rate, remove rate etc. which allows you to work on a better email subject.
• You can add the form in your website or any of your Web 2.0 property without knowing complicated HTML

Just look at this.. doesn’t it looks professional?

And you don’t have the money?

Well…no problem.

You don’t need to pay monthly fee with Listwire. It’s Free for life.

Click here now to get your free autoresponder before its cap is full.

Okay, I’ve never promoted anything without trying it myself and I basically don’t make my living online in the IM niche. Hence, I wish to make known to you something that Alexa reminded me.

Now, if your business model evolves around an autoresponder (eg. if you have similar business model like Affiliate Money Machine etc.), then your list is the lifeblood of your business. Hence, the last thing you want is to build a list and then lose it.

I am not a skeptic but being a business owner, here’s something we must be aware of.  What on earth would a man offer this for free if it’s not for charity?

“How are they going to remain in business? What’re their income sources?”

Now these are important questions that we need to know. It’s also the reason why all those lifetime hosting that offers unlimited space and bandwidth for a one time fee failed. There’s no free lunch!

It will be disastrous to have your list of 10,000 subscribers suddenly gone if they were out of business right?

And what’s more confusing is that, the guy behind Listwire (Gary Ambrose) also owns a paid autoresponder service. If this free autoresponder is that good, then he will be losing all his customer in EmailAces. Don’t it makes sense?

Well, nobody knows but Gary has given his informal assurance in forums…

But that’s not enough. We need some facts to back up. So, I have dug deeper to find out. Here are some of the limitations I found with ListWire so far that at least satisfied some of my reasonings that Listwire is legitimate.

• You can only set up to 12 autoresponders lists
• You can only have up to 10,000 subscribers per autoresponder list

But Gary says it’s not a hard limit which means, the system won’t stop adding your subscribers after you’ve reached the limit..

Still thinks 10,000 is not enough? Do your math, 12 lists x 10,000 = 120,000 subscribers! And have a look at other free services:

• You can only add a maximum of 10 subscribers manually per day
• There’s an ad on all links you created with the inbuilt link tracker

This ad operates on a credit system and probably these are some of the monetization that Gary uses. Perhaps, this at least make some sense that Listwire will last for long.

And there’s an affiliate program offered by ListWire. Perhaps, they will offer option to upgrade later to remove above limitations. Who knows? And this again make more sense to me that they will be in business for long.

Okay, other than all these ListWire is perhaps one of the best ads-free (no ads in your emails), Free autoresponder so far. There are a lot more to it. Here are other interesting features it offers:

* Unlimited Follow-up Messages
* Send Text Only Messages / Send HTML Only Messages
* Send Combined HTML/Text Messages
* Visual WYSIWYG HTML Editor
* Personalization. First Name, Last Name, Email, Etc.
* Advanced Personalization. Create Your Own Values.
* Message Open/Read Rate Tracking
* Use Your Own “From” Email Address and Name
* Turn Off or Skip Individual Messages
* Turn Off or Pause Entire Campaigns
* Send Broadcast Messages Instantly
* Schedule Future Broadcast Messages
* Copy Campaigns Including Custom Prospect Fields
* Include Attachments With Your Messages
* Import Single Prospects
* Edit Prospect Data Individually
* Create Custom Fields For Advanced Personalization
* Automatically Capture & Store Prospect IP Address
* Blacklist or Block Individual Email Addresses
* HTML Subscribe Form Generator With Tracking
* Customizable HTML Subscribe Forms
* Recycle Prospects
* Support Ticket System and members’ forum
* Co-registration system (display your list for members who has signed up)

Impressed? Well, go try it out it yourselves for free. Just click the banner below..

Best wishes to your new list building venture!

Cheers!

Waken

This is not exaggerated at all. And that 5 minutes include uploading your video on Youtube as well.

Check out one of my videos here that I have just created with the tool. It looks very professional too. Don’t you agree?

Well, there’s really nothing technical about it. The tool is almost self explanatory that will guide you step by step and cost you nothing.

If you know how to play around with the AIDA formula, creating search stories videos is a piece of cake. There’s absolutely nothing to install on your pc, nothing to buy and click click click easy.

Okay, here’s the link: Youtube Search Stories.

The last step allows you to post the video to your Youtube account. You can enter a catchy title and brief description about it. All other setting like sharing and rating options will be at its default.

The only 2 columns that you need to change once you posted the video to your account are:

• The tags: include your keywords here
• The categories: choose the right category for your video

You can change above by clicking on the “edit” button of that particular video.

Don’t forget to take some time to decipher the trends of the top rated and most viewed search stories videos there. There must some resemblance that we can copy.

Here’s free ebook that will explain further..Creating A Stream Of Affiliate Commissions With Video Commercials.

Cheers!

Waken

P.S. If you’re serious to make video marketing as one of your traffic generation methods to make you more money, I recommend you to get your hands on this – Recipe for shooting and distributing sales pulling video commercials.

Yeah, I know it’s frustrating! You could be banging your head against the wall thinking what went wrong. Was it your landing page? The merchant sales page? Or the traffic that you drove to your site was not targeted enough?

Now the answer is very subjective and there are plenty of possibilities. Perhaps, each of it counts and contributed to the total failure of your campaign. It will take volume of pages to explain each component and how to tweak it. So, I will not. Basically there’s no secret and no short cut. You just need to tweak, test and analyze.

• Test – just make some changes here and there to your site and to try out new ways of driving traffic that you have not done before.
• Analyze – You don’t really need complicated software or scripts. Install Google Analytics and StatCounter to your site. Those pretty much give you enough info and idea on what changes you ought to make to bring in more and more traffic, conversion and sales.
• Tweak – made those changes that you feel will improve the performance and rinse and repeat the process with your next campaign.

Okay, this is not what I intended to tell in this post actually. In fact, what I wanted to show you today that could be one of the reason why you are having such poor conversion rate is because, you have chosen the wrong product!

Here is a detailed discussion on choosing the right affiliate product for promotion that I did some time ago..

But, that again wasn’t main point today. Sorry, I tried not to be long winded but that is an inborn traits that I could hardly control. Now, if you are promoting affiliate products from Clickbank especially, what you must do is not just to locate the products from the Clickbank marketplace. Even if you’re using paid service like CBengine is not enough. Let me show you why.

Remarks: All screen capture shown was correct at the time of this writing. Nothing has been added, edited or changed but simply screenshots made during the findings.

Disclaimer: There is no intention to defame the vendor or to delude or to confuse the public by making fake or false statement whatsoever. All examples quoted on this post are meant for reference purpose only and “as is” basis with no liability whatsoever to the author and NetBizSimplified.com. By reading this post, readers agreed that no claims will be made against the author and NetBizSimplified.com and further agreed to make their own findings and due diligence before making any decision.

Example # 1

Now, if you type in “Private label products” in the search box at Clickbank marketplace, here’s one of the product being listed there.

And what you will need to do next is to copy and paste the vendor id and make a search in CBengine. The same product was listed as well…

It’s a very good product to promote with recurring commission. In fact, I promoted this for some time but that was before the change that I am about to show you. Now let’s have a look at the order page…

Do you notice that?! They are processing the payment via 2CheckOut and not Clickbank! Yeah, in other words, don’t you ever expect to get commission even if the conversion rate is good. The reason? Well, that’s obvious – the vendor is using another payment processor to process orders.

Example # 2

I have come across many similar vendors on Clickbank. Some will place two order buttons on the sales page where one goes through Clickbank and the other through 2CheckOut. In that instance, your chances of getting paid have been immediately reduced to 50%.

Okay, here’s one example. Type in “auto hits machine” in the search box at Clickbank marketplace and you will find this in the first result page.

Now, let’s have a look at the order page. You will see 2 order links on the page.  If you’re an affiliate promoting this, then you’ll be lucky if the buyer clicks on the 2nd link to make the purchase which will be processed through Clickbank and you’ll get your share. But if he clicks on the Paypal button, then you’re doomed.

Yeah, I know that Clickbank has integrated with Paypal in some way. But look at this…

You’ll be brought directly to Paypal. Now, if the order was processed through Clickbank, visitors will be given the option to pay directly by credit card or with Paypal and the page should look as follow…

And if visitor clicks on the Paypal button on this page, he will be brought to Paypal to login into his Paypal account to process the payment with the Clickbank heading at the top which will look like below:

Example # 3

No, it’s not only vendors in the “internet marketing” or “business to business” category that are doing this. Here’s another example in the “Pet” category. See that? It can be found on Clickbank marketplace and …

… also in CBengine. Wow! 75% commission must be alluring to affiliate. But if you do not make proper testing prior to promoting this, then all your effort will be wasted.

Now let’s check out the order page …

Only one order button. So, what’s wrong? Because the order was processed directly by Paypal and never pass through Clickbank.

So, be very very careful when selecting an affiliate product to promote. There are many things that you must pay attention to. Other less serious “tricks” that vendor uses are to direct your hop link to a lead capture page. Now, some of them do credit you when a purchase was made as your affiliate id will still be embed in his autoresponder series. But, don’t be shock that some don’t.

And we have always heard about affiliate hijacking and cookie stuffing. Do you know that these black hat methods are done by some of the vendors themselves?

These could also be the reason why super affiliates only promote products from certain vendors and highly competitive niches. If you are an affiliate marketer who prefers Clickbank over other payment processors simply because you think that you’ll get paid for sure, you’re wrong. It wasn’t Clickbank fault, but vendors.

They never realize the power of affiliates.

Okay, that’s all for today. So, do proper research before you start promoting an affiliate product especially if you are gonna use paid methods to drive traffic to the product.

Cheers!

Waken