Web 2.0, question answered, seminar info June 24, 2007
Posted by Mike Paetzold in : newsletter , 1 comment so farOpt In Master Course News - June 24, 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. I have added it to the blog so you can leave your comments.
Seminar Information
Topic - Using video
Speaker - Mike Paetzold
Date - June 30, 2007
Time - 12 noon edt
Click here to see the time in your area
The Tuesday seminars have been stopped. I will be using the seminars on Saturday for both Affiliate Funnel and Opt In Master Course as they cover the same topics. Please check the Affiliate Funnel Blog to get the replays of the past few seminars. Each Saturday’s seminar is usually available by mid week.
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Question of the week
This question was asked and brings up a good point although I don;t think the questioner realizes it.
Should you set up splash pages for each sales page, or can you set up one splash for your webpage pertaining to the products? I use articles on my main webpages, then add links going to sales pages.
My first comment is that I almost never send people to a sales page directly through my advertising. Rather than promote a specific product I always promote my list or subset of my list.
Here’s why:
If I send people directly to a sales page (with the exception of my sales page for my product) I can only get one of two results.
They buy - good for me but how do I follow up? The product owner gets the contact info not me.
Or
They don’t buy - bad for me and spent my time or money with no way to follow up.
Now if I spend my effort on my squeeze page then after they are on my list I can send them to the sales page and now no matter what they do I can still follow up with them.
Much better use of my resources. Which way do you promote?
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Question page
If you did not add your question to the survey yet and even if you did and have another please go and tell me what your most important question is on list building. This will help me get seminar topics and information in here that each of you want and need.
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Want to knw my secret resource for using Web 2.0 for traffic?
Check out my personal blog for information on a free teleseminar I am doing.
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Recommended items
Forum Know How
If you are looking for a forum filled with valuable information instead of flames and spam check out this forum. Not free but I guarantee that you will get more value for $48 a year here than anywhere I have seen.
=====> Forum Know How
15kin 7 days
A new product from Brian Edmondson. Apply the methods that Brian used to be a top 20 affiliate for the Butterfly Marketing launch that allowed him to sell over $15,000 in 7 days with a list of 1286.
You probably can’t duplicate it (I haven’t) but I have increased the response rate of my list by a factor of 3 or 4.
=====> 15k in 7 days
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Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
OMC is a great educational resource, and anyone who wants to learn how to build a professional mailing list is welcome to use this service at no cost what-so-ever. But the real power of this system is the explosive viral potential of our rebrander option.
Remember, when you make the very wise decision to rebrand your copy of the Opt-in Master course, you’ll earn $27 every time you sell a rebrander package to another marketer. This payment will go directly into your paypal account. I never even touch these funds.
Plus you’ll be able to insert your own referral IDs right into your own copy of the Opt in Master Course before distributing it. So anyone you give the free course to will join our recommended programs list through your referral URLs!
There are currently 23 programs in the Opt in Master Course that YOU can earn viral traffic and affiliate commissions from. Even more great programs will be added over time.
And of course as a rebrander you’ll have access to six list-building splash pages and your own OMC sales page that sends prospects straight to your auto responder after they request your customized copy of this course. Open up your copy of Opt in Master Course right now and click on the ‘Make Money w/this Book’ link to learn more about becoming a rebrander.
We have also added the special seminars just for rebranders to add even more value for our rebranders.
Thanks for your support and we are here to help you build a profitable list.
Mike Paetzold
Father’s Day, seminar info and more June 17, 2007
Posted by Mike Paetzold in : newsletter , add a commentOpt In Master Course News - June 17, 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there.
Seminar Schedule
Topic - Using Myspace
Speaker - TBA
Date - June 23, 2007
Time - 12 noon edt
Click here to see the time in your area
The Tuesday seminars have been stopped. I will be using the seminars on Saturday for both Affiliate Funnel and Opt In Master Course as they cover the same topics. Please check the Affiliate Funnel Blog to get the replays of the past few seminars. Each Saturday’s seminar is usually available by mid week.
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Question page
If you did not add your question to the survey yet and even if you did and have another please go and tell me what your most important question is on list building. This will help me get seminar topics and information in here that each of you want and need.
=====> Survey Question
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Question of the week
What are hybrid squeeze pages? How do you make them, and should we be using them instead of regular squeeze pages? What do you think of Russell Brunson’s Squeeze Page template? (I know, you asked for a SINGLE question, but they’re all kind of related!)
First I haven’t looked at Russell’s template so I can’t comment on that. In the copy course I am taking John Hossler is recommending much shorter pages for squeeze pages from the older long form style.
Short quick pages with 4 to 6 bullets have been testing best. My advice is to test both and see what gives you the best results. Remember that the bullets need to be benefits not features and you need to create cusiousity.
Recommended items
Forum Know How
If you are looking for a forum filled with valuable information instead of flames and spam check out this forum. Not free but I guarantee that you will get more value for $10 a year here than anywhere I have seen.
=====> Forum Know How
15kin 7 days
A new product from Brian Edmondson. Apply the methods that Brian used to be a top 20 affiliate for the Butterfly Marketing launch that allowed him to sell over $15,000 in 7 days with a list of 1286.
You probably can’t duplicate it (I haven’t) but I have increased the response rate of my list by a factor of 3 or 4.
=====> 15k in 7 days
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Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
OMC is a great educational resource, and anyone who wants to learn how to build a professional mailing list is welcome to use this service at no cost what-so-ever. But the real power of this system is the explosive viral potential of our rebrander option.
Remember, when you make the very wise decision to rebrand your copy of the Opt-in Master course, you’ll earn $27 every time you sell a rebrander package to another marketer. This payment will go directly into your paypal account. I never even touch these funds.
Plus you’ll be able to insert your own referral IDs right into your own copy of the Opt in Master Course before distributing it. So anyone you give the free course to will join our recommended programs list through your referral URLs!
There are currently 23 programs in the Opt in Master Course that YOU can earn viral traffic and affiliate commissions from. Even more great programs will be added over time.
And of course as a rebrander you’ll have access to six list-building splash pages and your own OMC sales page that sends prospects straight to your auto responder after they request your customized copy of this course. Open up your copy of Opt in Master Course right now and click on the ‘Make Money w/this Book’ link to learn more about becoming a rebrander.
We have also added the special seminars just for rebranders to add even more value for our rebranders.
Thanks for your support and we are here to help you build a profitable list.
Mike Paetzold
Seminar, vacation and more June 3, 2007
Posted by Mike Paetzold in : newsletter , add a commentOpt In Master Course News - June 3, 2007
Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter. There will not be a newsletter next week because I will be traveling. If you are in Philly for JV Alert look for the Old Bald Guy as I would love to meet you.
Seminar Schedule
Topic - Using Splash Pages
Speaker - Jon Olson
Date - June 9, 2007
Time - 12 noon edt
Click here to see the time in your area
The Tuesday seminars have been stopped. I will be using the seminars on Saturday for both Affiliate Funnel and Opt In Master Course as they cover the same topics. Please check the Affiliate Funnel Blog to get the replays of the past few seminars. Each Saturday’s seminar is usually available by mid week.
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Question page
If you did not add your question to the survey yet and even if you did and have another please go and tell me what your most important question is on list building. This will help me get seminar topics and information in here that each of you want and need.
=====> Survey Question
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No questions submitted this week so I’ll add an article.
Do you maximize your opportunities?
by Mike Paetzold
It always amazes me when I go through a signup process and someone uses the default pages. If you are doing this you are losing money.
This is a very easy way to start monetizing your list process. Now you don’t need a huge sales page here but there are a few ways you can easily increae your income while not doing anything more than a short one time bit of work.
If you belong to any membership site they probably have a thank you page ad. Use it.
Make sure that when someone signs up and clicks the button to start the verification process that you have an actual page to send them to. Really this is a great place for a one time offer but if you aren’t comfortable with that here is an alternative.
Create a simple page that explains explains that they need to verify their email to get whatever you are offering. Right after that add the copy and paste HTML for the thank you page ad for your favorite product or membership site.
Quite a few good product and program owners will supply you with this so it is just a matter of copy and paste to add it. If you would like to see an example here is a page I use.
Adding just this one thing can create extra income for you.
Look at your process and make sure that you aren’t missing areas like this to increase your profit from the same effort. You’ll be glad you did.
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Mike Paetzold is one of the creators of Opt In Master Course, a complete guide to building and managing a profitable mailing list.
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This week’s article is by Mike Paetzold. You can use this article on your blog or newsletter as long as it is reprinted in whole with the links in tact. If you are a rebrander you can substitute your link for mine for Opt In Master Course.
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Shameless Self Promotion
I am launched my new product Beginners List Formula” last week. It is based on a couple of seminars I did about organizing your list for the most profit and one on creaing your own product.
I was extremely lucky in those seminars to get input from friends like Robert Puddy, Soren Jordensan and Jon Olson to add to what I had prepared. Then I took this and created a step by step plan to allow you to get a list started and monetizing itself properly so that you can really ramp up your efforts.
Really thought about making it a product that would sell at $47 and its worth at least that but decided that I would rather help more people so priced it at less than $10 and set it up that anyone that bought it could sell it for 100% direct to their Paypal account.
Like I said I may be biased but really think it is worth so much more and so has everyone that has read it.
======> Beginners List Formula
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Items you should check out
I’ve been able to get you FREE Lifetime Membership in Instant Squeeze Page Generator - the one site where you can build killer squeeze pages with a click and play wizard! They even give you multiple choices of free gifts you can use to make that special offer to get subscribers… But it wasn’t easy - and it won’t last forever!
=======>Instant Squeeze Page Generator
If you have tried safelists and weren’t happy with the results I strongly recommend a book from the “Safelist King” Soren Jordensan and his partner Michael Cobb. Guarantee that if you read and implement these tips and tricks for your safelist ads you will use them regularly to add subscribers. Again, the key to using different advertising resources is understanding the best way to use them. This book will show you step by step how to do just that.
=====> -Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide
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Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
OMC is a great educational resource, and anyone who wants to learn how to build a professional mailing list is welcome to use this service at no cost what-so-ever. But the real power of this system is the explosive viral potential of our rebrander option.
Remember, when you make the very wise decision to rebrand your copy of the Opt-in Master course, you’ll earn $27 every time you sell a rebrander package to another marketer. This payment will go directly into your paypal account. I never even touch these funds.
Plus you’ll be able to insert your own referral IDs right into your own copy of the Opt in Master Course before distributing it. So anyone you give the free course to will join our recommended programs list through your referral URLs!
There are currently 23 programs in the Opt in Master Course that YOU can earn viral traffic and affiliate commissions from. Even more great programs will be added over time.
And of course as a rebrander you’ll have access to six list-building splash pages and your own OMC sales page that sends prospects straight to your auto responder after they request your customized copy of this course. Open up your copy of Opt in Master Course right now and click on the ‘Make Money w/this Book’ link to learn more about becoming a rebrander.
We have also added the special seminars just for rebranders to add even more value for our rebranders.
Thanks for your support and we are here to help you build a profitable list.
Mike Paetzold
