Anyway, I finally found the time to write a post… and that give me the chance to wish you all a Merry Christmas

I know we are all busy getting ready for the holiday season (and I have a Christmas party tonight), so I’ll keep this short and sweet, with just a few news and updates.

As I mentioned Instant Banner Creator just launched and it has been a massive success so far. Well over 10,000 members in the first week, and we have been getting some raving reviews. If you haven’t created your free account yet, you should go take a look… I really think we succeeded in creating the easiest way for you to make your own professional looking graphics.

It’s been an amazing year for Dragon Surf, we celebrated our two year anniversary earlier this month. The new Super Surf partnership with the 4 other exchanges have really kicked things into high gear… And we should hit 35,000 members tomorrow on Christmas eve (what a nice present).

Speaking of Super Surf - we have some big Christmas promotions scheduled, starting tomorrow on the 24th. Basically we want to give you more credits, bigger bonuses and better deals - so you can save time and spend it with your family during the holidays. Watch out for the emails and log in to your Dragon Surf over Christmas. We’re also adding a new feature to the 5 Super Surf exchanges… Popping Balloons will hit a computer near you this Christmas

And finally… I want to mention my Internet Marketing Success Formula. This site is 4 months old now, but still spreading like wild fire. If you haven’t grabbed your free copy yet, you can get it here. Print it out, read it and make business plans for 2009 while you digest all the lovely Christmas food.

That’s it for now, I’m off to enjoy that party… But before I go, I want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

- Soren Jordansen

Russell is one of my mentors and has taught me a lot about internet marketing. If I had been givne this opportunity 4-5 years ago I would have jumped on it… I didn’t, but YOU have the chance now…

It’s called the $100 Million Dollar Challenge. Russell’s going to personally train you to make money online, and he wants everyone to make a collective $100 Million Dollars!

If you’ve been struggling with your online business, then you need to check out what Russell has to say in the video.

The members area has a ton of cool stuff - In fact I would have to say it the the most kick ass members area I have ever seen. It certainly made me frantically scribble down notes, because Russell really raised the bar for the rest of use here.

Anyway I took a screen shot from inside, so let me just tell you about a fraction of the content you get in there. Here’s the training area:

1. There are 4 training videos. Actually these are webinars with slides and everything and you have room to take notes as Russell walks you through step by step how to make money online. And remember this is just phase 1 there are 6 phases in total, each of them with their own training videos. And here’s the really cool thing about the videos… if you close them down and come back later, they will actually ask you if you want to resume on the slide you were on last… very, very cool and useful.

2. There’s a quiz to match every video training session. This is in order to make sure you “got it” and when you score high enough you get a code word to unlock the next session. Don’t worry it’s not too hard, and it makes sure you get the maximum benefit out of the training.

3. With each training step you will get an assignment you need to do. It will be focus on using the skills Russell just told you about and focused on forwarding both your business and make you some money…. And get this… When you complete these various steps and assignments you will automatically post to the super cool Wordpress blog Russell has set up for you. Yes you get your own blog, designed to help you make money while you go through the training.

4. This is the section where you enter your codes and links after completing each step and assignment and as you can see, this will unlock more advanced modules… This whole training system is probably the most clever I have ever seen, and it’s very much designed to make sure you do the right things, in the right order and most importantly start making some serious money in internet marketing.

=> Sign Up For Free Here To Experience This Powerful System For Yourself!

And as I said, this is only a fraction of the features and content you will find inside the members area… you really need to see it for yourself to believe. I know I had pinch myself a couple of times (while swearing about not being the one to come up with this)… Russell and Brent, I know you are reading, this is absolutely brilliant guys

All I can say is that I urge you to sign up for this and go through all the training, complete all the steps etc. I can guarantee you that it will make you money… And here’s the thing… People usually pay Russell thousands of dollars for coaching, but here… and only here… is your chance to get it for free. Click the button below to sign up now!

P.S. The most difficult part about making money online is actually making your FIRST $1.00 online. To help you do that now, Russell is actually going to give you one dollar for every person who you refer that signs up for this contest! And the steps you complete, together with your pre-built blog will all help you make a ton of referrals and commissions.

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Why do YOU care?

Because by the millions, local restaurants, contractors, & shops of all kinds are suddenly desperate to get a website done, and ranked.

“Easy Offline Riches”, the maverick product which “sold out” on the Warrior Forum, gives you the tools to STEP IN FRONT OF THAT TRAFFIC.

=> Grab Your Copy Of Easy Offline Riches Here!

Easy Offline Riches gives you a kit, and website that makes this really easy to do. Everything you need to contact businesses, and have them COME TO YOU is included. In fact, if you buy the product, you can qualify to let Mark Lareau and his team do all the work for you after you make initial contact—> REALLY!

I’m going to first show you a testimonial from Keith, who is in charge of the “Local Biz Builders Forum” in the U.S.:

Here’s his forum post talks mainly about the way, once you get Easy Offline Riches, you can have Mark’s and his staff actually close the deal for you:

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“This program kicks ass. Sorry for the language, but “butt” didn’t seem to drive the point home. I cannot believe the effort that has gone into this program and the quality of information and tools Mark is providing here. I was really blown away by all of the resources given to help you succeed. And that is what this forum is all about as well, so it really hit home with me.

Now I try not to interfere or talk too much about peoples offers. Yes, I will support members here, and am always willing to give testimonials, especially if they are good products, but I usually try to not go much further than that. It can cause people to think I am playing favorites. So usually I shut my mouth after saying my peace.

But I felt compelled to once again open my big mouth and comment here.

I have been super busy as well with my own business, but am going to not push my own services for awhile (minus my existing clients) and focus on working Marks back-end affiliate program. I believe in it that much. I will probably use my portal to help promote the site as well.

I honestly think that this is a great system. Now I am not afraid to talk to business owners, but the great thing here is that by using Marks system, once I have it down, I can still work MY town the way I want with my existing system, but also target the rest of my state with Mark’s system! Talk about STATE domination!!

Anyway, I don’t get overly excited about “systems” very often, so when I do, I feel I should share…

~Keith

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=> Grab Your Copy Of Easy Offline Riches Here!

Again, you probably saw the reference to Mark’s affiliate system. You actually can get Mark to do the lion’s share of work, and sell websites to businesses FOR YOU once you get this kit. You also make the “lion’s share” of any of those sales, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

See what this is all about now. Quite the find…

You see how this is so different and refreshing? Finally giving you a concrete chance to succeed even if you are new to work-at-home and online business?

“Make It So” by signing up here:

=> Grab Your Copy Of Easy Offline Riches Here!

But that’s too easy, so I’m going to do something different. I’m going to post a review from one of the many members who downloaded their copy yesterday… So take it away Mr. Jerry Reeder!

The Internet Marketing Success Formula Floored Me

I have to tell you right off the bat, Soren Jordansen’s Internet Marketing Success Formula knocked me for a loop when I got my finally got hands on his free 41 page e-book.

It’s bursting at the seams with useful information Soren gleamed from his own experience and, more importantly, from conducting scientific surveys of internet marketers.

Basically, the average internet marketer is a new marketer who desperately wants to make enough money so they can quit their day job but has doesn’t have the foggiest idea on how to actually go about doing so.

There is one startling finding that many seasoned marketers overlook, or just plain don’t know, and it is from this fact that Soren lays out detailed proven tested step by step plan

This e-book is written for the new marketer or for any other marketer who is stuck and hasn’t yet experienced success online.

When you can get right down to it, it’s a roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty how to guide on starting a internet business from scratch.

Everything, and I mean everything, is covered from choosing a web host, building a squeeze page, monetizing the list building process, how to set up a profit pulling email series and what types of affiliate programs convert the best while creating the trust and creditability.

The traffic generation system starts with methods that generate tons of free traffic immediately and progresses through more advanced and time consuming tactics as well as using paid traffic to build your business.

The only thing I wished Soren would have spent more time on was the chapter where he shows you how to take it to the next level. However, it’s really for internet marketers who need to get their basic hands free affiliate system set up and running first.

Now, what make Soren’s report stand head and shoulders above every other basic how to guide are the real life examples Soren is currently using in own business. He doesn’t waste your time with fictional dog training case studies or other such nonsense.

And get this, Soren is letting people rebrand this e-book for a ridiculously low price.

I’m not kidding when I say using the methods revealed in The Internet Marketing Success Formula could mean the difference between you becoming one of the scant few percent making real money online or still spinning your wheels trying make sense of internet marketing and going nowhere fast!

My recommendation is to get your hands on this free e-book and follow the steps exactly as Soren says.

- Jerry Reeder
www.ListMarketingTips.com

=> Grab Your Free Copy Of Internet Marketing Success Formula Here!

Now that is something I can get excited about - Because what James if offering you, is a push button system, that basically follows my step-by-step articles to the letter. Here’s what you get:

1. Professionally designed squeeze pages
2. Rebrandable ebooks
3. Pre-written follow up series
4. And everything is hosted for you

Everything can be used to promote whatever you want (not limited to MLM), and you can be set up and ready go with a few mouse clicks.

=> Grab Your Risk Free $1 Trial Here, And See For Yourself!

Your might be wondering why I’m recommending a service called Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, after all I don’t really have anything to do with MLM… Fair enough, let me explain.

As I said these squeeze pages, reports etc. can be used to promote whatever you like - The key is that they follow the right formula, e.g. promoting a good squeeze page, giving away a great report in order to get people on your email list, and then following up with whatever you want to sell/promote.

I also believe that this is a much needed service in the internet marketing world. A lot of my readers have gone through my articles and realized that they needed to follow the steps - but unfortunately a lot of people are also being held back by lack of technical knowledge. By using a service like Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, everyone can follow my list building success plan.

Just to show you that this can be used to promote anything, here are (just) a few ideas:

1. If you are involved with an MLM company you can obviously use this system to help you promote it. Using these squeeze page will not only skyrocket your results, compared to promoting those generic company pages - It will also open up an additional residual income stream, from people joining Instant MLM Squeeze Pages under you. And don’t forget that you will also build an email list, potentially outstripping your MLM business as far as income goes.

2. If you are involved with an MLM business and you have a downline, you can contact them an invite them to try Instant MLM Squeeze Pages. They get a tool that will help them build your downline faster. And on top of the increased MLM income, you open up an additional income stream from your existing downline.

3. Here’s the route I’m taking… I know there are thousand of people out there who are struggling to promote their MLM businesses. By advertising my personal Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, I can give them the information and tools they need. At the same time I will be building my email list and I can use the follow up series and the rebrandable ebooks to promote whatever I want (in this case mainly Dragon Surf)

I’m excited about this new service, and I’ve got to praise James for coming up with such a great idea (and executing it in A+ style). I’m sure you can find ways to use this in your business and I highly recommend grabbing the trial offer (while it’s there), so you can give it a good spin.

=> Grab Your Risk Free $1 Trial Here, And See For Yourself!

So How Do You Get Filthy Rich On The Internet?

Following the steps in the first 4 articles is a very good start. Building your own list is extremely important if you want to be successful in internet marketing, and you can make a very decent income just from promoting affiliate products… But in order to take your internet marketing career to the next level (the filthy rich part), you really need to have your own products. As you are about to discover, setting up your own product isn’t that difficult. But first lets take a look at some of the benefits from having your own products.

Leverage Your Affiliate Program

If you have your own product, you can also have an affiliate program. By giving your affiliates an incentive (usually cash commissions) to promote your pages - you can move from just you promoting your squeeze pages, to having hundreds, even thousands, of people driving traffic to your site. Sure you give up a percentage of each sale, but the extra sales will outweigh that by far… Being able to run an affiliate program is one of the biggest reasons why you want to have your own products.

Leverage The Power Of Joint Ventures

With your own products you are also poised to do joint ventures with other marketers… You can promote their products to your list of customers/members, and they can return the favor. You can find products related to your service and add them to your auto responder follow up series. Not only will you earn commissions on any sales you make, but you can get your JV partners to turn around and add your product to their follow series. You can also do various other forms of integration marketing with your JV partners, including swapping thank you page ads, log in/log out ads, exit pop ups etc. Doing joint ventures like this is arguably the fastest and most profitable way to grow an internet business.

Leverage Your First Product To Expand…

Launching a product, doesn’t matter if it’s a free or paid service, ultimately comes down to building a list of customers/members. Chances are that your original customers will be the people most likely to buy from you again. In other words you can leverage your original lists to launch new products and services. This particular strategy is very well covered in Robert Puddy’s Mastering The Membership Model ebook, you can download a free copy here.

Setting Up Your First Product…

… Is actually quite easy. In line with Robert’s ebook above, I highly recommend that you set up your first product as a free to join membership site. I use and recommend the full version of the Launch Formula Marketing Script. But if you purchase the one time offer at either Floating Action Button or TweetMyBlog you will actually get a free copy of the LFM Lite script, which is perfect for setting up your first product.

Creating a free product, that people want to sign up to get, is very similar to the process I described in How To Set Up Your Squeeze Page & Monetize The Sign Up Process. Here’s a rough battle plan for you.

1. Create a free product that has enough value to make people want to sign up at your membership site to get it.
2. When they sign up for the freebie you present them with a one time offer. This could be for an upgraded version of the product, some related products, rebrand rights to the ebook etc. This will of course generate some profit that you can reinvest, and thus grow you site faster. But the real purpose of the OTO is to generate commissions for your affiliates and JV partners - keep them happy and keep them building your list.
3. Then you have your follow up series for your new customers. With a free to join program you want to monetize it the same way as I explained in How To Write A Killer Follow Up Series That Converts Like Crazy. Of course now that you have your own product, with an affiliate program - you should put more effort into finding JV partners, so you can swap auto responder emails.
4. Use your new list of members (and affiliates) to launch new products and services.

Using something like Launch Formula Marketing, makes all of this very easy. It has an inbuilt affiliate program (every member is automatically an affiliate), it automatically integrates with your auto responder and it presents the one time offers to your new members.

Some Ideas For Your First (Free) Product

Write a short ebook on a topic people in your niche are interested in. If you don’t want to write your own ebook you can go to elance.com and hire a ghost writer. You can get a super quality ebook written for under $500. If you go the ebook route, it’s pretty simple to come up with a good one time offer - you can offer rebranding rights or maybe resale rights, plus some related bonuses.

Doesn’t have to been an ebook, you can give away software, scripts, plugins etc. TweetMyBlog is a good example of free to join site, giving away a free Wordpress plugin. Again you can go to a freelance site like elance and get a programmer to create something for you.

Another (very simple) option is to grab one of the many private label rights products out there, and put your own spin on it. New graphics, edit the sales letter a bit, maybe bundle a few products together. Resale Rocket is my favourite place to hunt for good PLR and resale rights products.

You should also consider making your first product an interview product. Get on the phone and interview some marketers on a topic your target market would be interested in. By interviewing successful marketers you get the benefit of becoming “famous by association” - and if they are willing to do the interviews in the first place, chances are that you can also get them to promote your product (instant high profile JV partners right there). I highly recommend that you grab a free copy of Bob Jenkins’ Teleseminar Formula - It will show you step by step how to get an interview product set up in 10 days or less.

I also recommend the Dominating Clickbank Videos. They will show you step by step how to take a resale rights product and turn it into your own successful product. I actually used Dominating Clickbank as the blueprint for one of my first product launches, and as you might have guessed, that turned out pretty well for me

We’re At The End Of The Series

I hope you have enjoyed these list building articles… And that following the steps, have gotten you started building a list and that you are starting to see some profits from your efforts. As I said the first 4 articles deal with laying down the foundation for internet marketing success, and it’s something I believe everyone should set up… before even starting on creating their own product. But as we have discussed here today, creating your own products is the key to taking it to the next level… and possibly getting filthy rich on the internet.

Here are the first 4 articles, in case you missed them:

1. How To Set Up Your Squeeze Page & Monetize The Sign Up Process
2. How To Write A Killer Follow Up Series That Converts Like Crazy
3. How To Drive Massive Amounts Of Traffic To Your Squeeze Page
4. How To Drive Even More Traffic To Your Squeeze Page

What About The Ebook?

As I’ve said before, I’m going to take this article series and turn it into an ebook. However I have a bit of work to do before you get to see that. I want to add some more content, make the ebook rebrandable and add a killer affiliate program to it. In other words, you’ll have a to wait a bit, but I can promise you it will be well worth the wait.

Got Any Comments, Requests Or Rotten Eggs You Want To Throw?

Feel free to leave a blurb below if you have any questions or comments about todays article (or the series as a whole) - or maybe a few suggestions for what you would like to see in the final ebook - thanks

1) What is Twitter and why should I use it?
2) How can I use Twitter to promote my internet marketing business?

I have found a great video that explains the first question, you can watch it here:

And now for explaining the marketing bit…

First of all, as the video above states, Twitter is a place where you can let people know what you are doing, in between emails and blog posts. This will help your members, customers and prospects put a face on you as the marketer. They can relate to the things you are posting and feel like they are getting to know you.

Building a solid relationship with your readers will do wonders for you bottom line. Twitter is especially powerful if you engage in conversations with your followers. Make them feel like they are part of your community, like they are special - and you are on your way to getting customer loyalty for life.

Twitter is also a very powerful way to get noticed by leaders in your industry. You want to seek out people in your industry who are more successful than you are, and add them to the list of people your are following.

When they post at Twitter, you can reply to their tweets and they will be able to read it. Don’t spam them, you need to add to the conversation, offer your help on something, or post an intelligent question. If you do this the right way these “industry leaders” will start to notice you, and remember you - and trust me that’s a great thing

Also sometimes these “industry leaders” will reply to you, and that is where the fun begins… All their followers will see that they have found you worth talking to, and they now have the chance to go check out your Twitter page and start following you. You are in other words becoming “famous by association”, and you can really pick up a lot of new Twitter followers this way.

And then you can of course use Twitter to make announcements to your followers for example when you have put up a new post on your blog. That’s where Tweet My Blog enters the picture. It will automatically ping Twitter every time you post at your blog. And the Tweet My Blog widget will help grow your Twitter following on auto pilot.

Just to sum it up… you can use Twitter to direct traffic back to your blog or site and it can be very powerful for that, especially when you build a huge following. But you have to use Twitter as a networking tool. Don’t just spam your links to the world - engage in conversations, network, build relationships and post tweets that have some value. If you do that, chances are that a lot of people will click your links when you do post a “marketing tweet”.

If you grab a free copy of Tweet My Blog today, you will also get a free copy of a great Twitter marketing ebook called: “A Geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself & Your Online Business In 140 Characters Or Less With Twitter”. Click the banner below to grab your copy now!

Together with John Merrick I have just come up with the perfect solution for you… Our new product called Tweet My Blog.

It’s a Wordpress plugin that makes it super easy to combine the powers of Wordpress and Twitter - driving massive amounts of traffic to your blog.

And the best part… It’s 100% FREE!

TweetMyBlog will automatically…

1. Post a tweet whenever you update you blog. The tweet will link back to your blog, driving a ton of interested readers your way.
2. Highlight your latest Tweets on your blogs sidebar - increasing your Twitter following.
3. Promote your affiliate link on auto-pilot, whenever you use the plugin and sidebar widget. Earn commissions just for posting to your blog.

This is far more than just another Wordpress plugin - This is a fully fleshed out marketing plan that will put the power of Twitter at your finger tips.

And… Even though we are giving this plugin away for free, you should take a close look at the special offer we have in store for you when join. We are very proud of that one and we know it can skyrocket your marketing power when using Twitter and Wordpress.

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But before we get started on that we need to take a close look at your conversion tracking…

Conversion Tracking & Split Testing

Hopefully you have set up your conversion tracking after reading last week’s article. As I mentioned there are a couple of reasons why you want to pay close attention to your conversion tracking stats, let’s take a close look at two of them…

1. With proper conversion tracking you know the exact cost of one new subscriber to your list. If you (on average) pay 25 cents per subscriber at source A, and 50 cents at source B - you of course want to focus your advertising budget on source A (all other thing being equal).

But since you have monetized your sign up process and have a good auto responder follow series - you also know roughly how much money you make from each new subscriber going through your follow up series.

So if you earn $1 per person going through your follow up series (that’s a very realistic number btw), and we take a look at the example above - you would of course keep purchasing as much traffic as you can from both source A and B, for as long as the conversion rates and earnings stays up.

And that’s the beauty of doing proper conversion tracking and knowing your numbers. You can pretty much automate (pay for) most of your traffic generation and still be in profit - and that leaves you with time for testing and tweaking your pages, emails etc. to improve your conversions and earning, and for developing new systems and products.

2. But just because you are in profit doesn’t mean you should be satisfied. You should use your conversion tracking to continuously improve your squeeze page. That way you can raise you conversion rates, decrease your cost per subscriber and in turn allow you to build your list faster, for bigger long term profits.

What you want to do is run some simple split tests on your squeeze pages. I’m not talking about advanced taguchi testing, although you can do some pretty advanced stuff with a free Google Analytics account - I’m talking about simple A/B split tests, here’s what you want to do:

1. Make two versions of your squeeze page (for each different traffic source). Rotate the two pages so each of them get 50% of the traffic. This is very easy to manage using Hitsconnect as they have both have conversion tracking and rotators.
2. You want to test simple changes, like a different headline, changing one of the bullet points, changing the font style or background colour etc. You ONLY want to split test one thing at a time, otherwise you won’t know what is causing the change in conversion rates.
3. When you have collected enough tracking stats to determine e.g. which headline is converting the best. You toss out the losing squeeze page and keep the winner.
4. Then you try to beat the winner by creating a new squeeze pages testing something else, like changing a bullet point.

This sort of split testing is an ongoing process, that will continue to improve your conversion rates and thus both speed up your list building and earn you more money.

If you want to know more about conversion tracking, I recommend that you download this free ebook “Tracking Your Way To Profits“.

And now it’s time to start generating even more traffic to your squeeze page…

Step 1: Using JV Giveaways

I have been using JV giveaways for years, and as a result I have added thousands of new subscribers to my lists. Contributing to a giveaway is one of the fastest and most effective list building techniques I know of.

Essentially a giveaway is a huge co-registration/list building JV… All the contributers upload a gift and then promote the event to their existing lists. The members, who sign up for the giveaway, can then browse all the gifts, and if they find something they like, they need to sign up for that particular contributors list to get the download link. As a general rule gifts will rank by the number of referrals contributors put in - and the higher your rank is, the more subscribers you will likely get from the event.

If you have followed the steps in the first two articles, it should be easy for you to get started using JV Giveaways. The squeeze page set up and follow up series are perfect for this - and as you build your list using the other traffic methods, you can leverage that list to rank well in the giveaways, and thus bring in even more subscribers.

Power Tip: You want to be on the first page of the giveaway, but you don’t want to put more of your own subscribers in there, than absolutely necessary to achieve it. I tend to use safelists and list builders a lot when promoting giveaways. That way I can still build my gift rank and get a lot of new subscribers, without having to share my existing list with all the other contributors.

Here are a couple of recommended JV Giveaway resources.

JV Giveaway Secrets an excellent free to join site with some good information on how to best use giveaways. But the main reason I’m recommending it, is that they will also keep you updated on new giveaway events that are worth contributing to.

My Giveaway Secrets a great ebook by my good friend Derrick VanDyke. It’s an excellent step-by-step guide for people who want to start using giveaways to build a profitable email list. You can read more about the book and Derrick’s affiliate program here “Giveaways, Paypal Payments & More“.

Step 2: Using Article Marketing To Build Your List

Article marketing is a long term strategy that can build a consistent flow of traffic to your squeeze page. Here’s how it works:

You write some short 400-600 word articles on the same topic as your squeeze page, free gift and follow up series. Whatever you write about make sure it does not read as a sale letter, your articles should be purely informative. If you don’t want to write your own articles you can do like me, and go to somewhere like elance.com to find a ghost writer.

You then submit your articles to all the popular article directories, my two favourites are Ezine Articles and Isnare

When webmaster and ezine publishers look for free content to reprint on their websites and in their newsletters, they turn to the article directories. In exchange for the free content, the publishers agree to leave the article intact and include your resource box. This is where you get your traffic… Every time someone reprints one of your articles, your resource box is included, with a link to your website. Because the article directories often have a good search engine rank you are also likely to get some search traffic to your articles - provided that you write about a topic people actually search for (and use a headline + keywords that are optimized for the search engines).

The key to getting good results from article marketing is to write an awesome author resource/bio box. This is an incredibly crucial part of the system, that you need to spend some time on. Don’t waste the efforts of your article writing by slapping down an ineffective bio box like,

Joe Schmo is an expert in golf. Click
here to find out more info on golf
–> www.golfmastery.com

Consider the author resource box like an ultra-small salespage where your one goal is to get that reader to click on your link. You only have a few sentences to hook the reader with curiosity and then give him a powerful reason why he should click on your link.

In our example, I would probably use something similar to the following:

Joe Schmo is a golfing expert who recently developed an
eCourse that details a step by step process for adding greater
distance to your long drives. If you are interested in learning
more about his “5 Ways To Add Distance To Your Drives” eCourse
and shedding strokes of your game, please go here:
=> www.golfmastery.com

Power Tip - The 2 Part Strategy: Consider breaking your articles up into two parts. You can then post the first part to the article directories (include “Part 1″ in your headline) - in your resource box you then people to click the link to get part 2 of the article. If you articles are good, that will give your click trough rate a significant boost. You can either post part 2 on your blog (which would then have some form of lead capture on it) - or you can send them to a squeeze page where they opt-in to get part 2 (and probably another freebie to convince them to part with their contact details).

If you want to learn more about how to use article marketing effectively, I recommend that you download these two great free ebooks: Free Traffic Secrets and The 22 Step Plan

Step 3: Using Your Blog To Build Your List

Using a blog is the absolute easiest way to rank well in the search engines. Set up a Wordpress blog and start posting articles on the niche topic you are trying to build your list in. I’m not going to write a whole lot about how to set up your blog and get traffic to it - I’ve already covered that in this article: How To Setup A Profitable Blog

The key is to convert some of the search engine and web 2.0 traffic, your blog will be generating, into subscribers for your list. I know I’m a bit biased But the most effective way I know of, is to add a Floating Action Button with an optin form to your blog. You can see the FAB script in action over at Mike Paetzold’s blog

If you want to learn more about blogging I highly recommend these resources:

FirePow
Wordpress Made Easy
7 SEO Tips For Wordpress
15 Minute Blog Traffic

Step 4: Building Your List With PPC Advertising

I’ve saved Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising for last, because it’s one of the hardest traffic generation methods to master - also I don’t use PPC very much, so I’m by no means an expert. But it deserves to be mentioned because it can, without a doubt, be one of the fastest and most cost effective ways to build a list. If you want to learn a bit more about PPC advertising I recommend that you download this free ebook: Adwords Made Easy

I’ve seen a lot of people waste a ton of money on Adwords, because they rushed into something they didn’t really understand. Here are a couple of warnings you need to pay attention to, before you start your first PPC campaign.

1. Remember that you pay for every click - it does not matter if people subscribe or not. Use the other traffic source to make sure you have a squeeze page with a decent conversion rate before you start running it in Adwords.
2. Figure out what you earn on average per subscriber going through your one time offers and follow up series. That number along with your conversion rate will determine the maximum you want to pay per click. For example, if you have a 50% conversion rate and you earn $1 per new sub you could afford to pay up to $0.50 per click and still break even.
3. Google will assign a quality score to your landing page - basically the better your quality score, the less you have to pay per click. The short squeeze page we have been using so far is not that good for PPC campaigns. What you can do is take that page and add an article beneath it (the article needs to relate to the keywords you use in your campaign)

If you really want to get into PPC advertising I highly recommend seeking out Perry Marshall, he is THE authority on PPC advertising.

So Was That All The Traffic Sources

Nope… Not by a long shot. As I have said before there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to generate traffic to your squeeze page. What I have highlighted here, and in the last article, are the methods I use the most. As a list builder the key is to look at all the different traffic generation methods and think, “hmmm… how can I use this to build my list?” And again, I highly recommend that you also read the Free Traffic Secrets.

What You Have Now & What Is Coming…

We are approaching the end of this this article series. If you have been following my suggestion so far, you should now have a fully monetized squeeze page system, a great follow up series and a steady stream of traffic that converts into new subscribers. Your job is to keep that flow coming and to keep testing and tweaking, so you can keep increasing your conversion rates and earnings.

With a constantly growing list of subscribers you are well on your way to true internet marketing success - in the final article in this series, I’m going to discuss how you can leverage that list to get in on juicy JV deals, create your own products etc. This is where we start talking about getting “filthy rich” on the internet. Stay tuned for the next article

Got Any Questions Or Comments?

Please leave a blurb below if you have any questions about some of the traffic methods, a comment on the article - or maybe there is a particular aspect of JVs and product creation you want me to talk about in the next article? Thanks for reading - I hope you found the information useful.