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My Blog Readers have Earned Over ONE MILLION with Neverblue

Over the past decade I've had the task of working with many different affiliate networks. Some thrived, died, went out of business and a few also went on to be acquired and become parts of larger companies. One of the few successful and very … Read More

Breakdown of a Profitable Facebook Ads Campaign

With the latest backlash of articles coming up on TechCrunch about deceptive and scammy ways to make money on Facebook, I wanted to provide you with a full breakdown on how to create a successful CPA Facebook ads campaign. Step and step details on a … Read More

Create Killer Landing Pages – Free Template

I get questions all the time about landing pages and what are the best ways to create them. Instead of writing a post on what you should focus on, I will simply take an existing ad campaign from MarketLeverage, and made a real landing page out of. … Read More

Insider Secrets to a Making a Million Dollar Web Site!

A few days ago I released my first post on "How I Made $860,538.38 PROFIT in 4 Months!", along with the picture of my $306,373.24 check. Due to the massive exposure and questions generated from the post, I thought I'd bring you the second … Read More

How I Made $860,538.38 PROFIT in 4 Months!

First off, I would like to make it clear that this post is NOT to impress you, but to impress upon you what's possible! This is a quick review on how I went from one of my worst years of making money online to my best year, and all it took was one … Read More

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Save and Make Money with Online Webinars

One of the biggest trends among top bloggers and gurus in the internet marketing space, is that they all love doing webinars and live meetings with their readers, fans and customers. It’s an excellent way to get real with your audience, without having to meet them in person at an expensive conference and it eliminates the need for travel.

When choosing what webinar / conference meeting software you are going to use, it’s important to look over the the pricing plans and the amount of members that you can include within your package. ClickMeeting.com has become a popular company in the conference and webinar space, and offers competitive rates that allow even the smaller blogs and businesses to get up and running without having to spend a lot of upfront cash.

Doing a quick price comparison between ClickMeeting and GoToMeeting, you can see how you could end up saving almost 50% if you were to run a webinar with ClickMeeting over GoToMeeting. Over the course of the year, this could result in thousands of dollars in saved money.

When choosing a webinar package, the most important thing to look at is the amount of attendees you can have in your event at one time. A webinar with 100 users would cost you as low as $59.95 a month on ClickMeeting, while the same attendee size would cost $99 a month on GoToMeeting.

ClickMeeting Affiliate Programs Pays 20%

In addition to focusing on lower price plans, ClickMeeting also offers a nice affiliate program than offers 20% payouts. With annual discounts and packages available, as an affiliate, you can earn as much as $648 per one sale.

Once logged into the affiliate area, you have a wide selection of methods to promote ClickMeeting, as they have videos, pre-written blog posts, email ad copy, banners and more. ClickMeeting has a great affiliate members area and is extremely easy to use and navigate through the different tracking and ad creatives.

Other benefits of the ClickMeeting affiliate program include:

As a marketer, guru or blogger, there are a lot of opportunities to promote ClickMeeting and make money through their affiliate program. You can signup for a free trial with ClickMeeting and write up your own review on their webinar services, then use your referral url in the post. The growth of people using webinars to reach out to their audience just continues to growth, and so will the opportunity to make money in this space.

ClickMeeting Webinar Soution & ClickMeeting Affiliate Program

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26 July, 2011 Posted by: Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Get Reviewed

How to Monetize a Login Page

Yesterday I was logging into my Flickr account, which of course is owned by Yahoo.com, so I logged into my account through their site. If you’ve ever logged into their site, you may remember it just being a simple login form like most web sites. Imagine how many people log in to Yahoo and their properties every day? It has to be mega millions!

Now even better… imagine if that login page was monetized? Well, it looks like Yahoo got the message and is finally banking off their login page. Right now it’s just a variation of advertisements for Capital One credit cards, but it’s still pretty cool, and a great way to monetize a page no one thinks about.

To experience the Yahoo login page yourself and see the variation of advertisements, you can click here.

I’d love to see the back end stats for this ad campaign! I bet the impressions are through the roof, but how about click throughs and conversions?

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25 July, 2011 Posted by: Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Marketing

Old Navy Knows How to Monetize After the Sale

I previously wrote about how BestBuy Knows Customer Email Marketing, which pretty much summed up how awesome of a job they do with their customer emails, then purchase follow ups. I was at Old Navy the other day and they asked for my email to get a 30% coupon on my next purchase, so I said sure. I gave them my email, then when I later check my mail on my iPhone I saw that they sent a full receipt from my recent purchase, which was pretty cool.

So Old Navy managed to get my email address by just asking for it at the time of checkout… but what do they also get?

  1. Subscriber to the Online Newsletter and Mailing
  2. 30% Coupon for me on next purchase (more return sales)
  3. Traffic to their online stores and social networks.

You can see a screen cap of a partial from the sales receipt which is sent through the email.

Sure, some of you might be thinking gig deal… a receipt through email, who cares?

How many customers does Old Navy and the Gap family have per day? If only 10% of the people provide their email address and get the follow up email above, imagine how much new business can be generated from such a simple task. Not to mention the benefit for customers to have a duplicate of their receipt in their email. How many times have you wanted to make a return, but lost your receipt.

Old Navy provides you with a receipt, but also includes links to their other online stores for possible new purchases.

Scrolling down to the bottom of the receipt, you will see active links to Old Navy’s social networking sites at Facebook and Twitter, along with a link to their main site and how to start getting mobile coupons right to your cell.

Just like I wrote about how BestBuy was ahead of the learning curve and knows how to properly and effectively follow up with customers through email and mobile marketing, Old Navy is also showing they know how to play the game, and doing quite well at it in the process.

As we’ve seen the rise and quick fall of BlockBuster because they did not adapt to the fast and changing times, we will continue to see more companies fall if they do not keep up with the pace of fast learning companies like BestBuy and Old Navy/Gap.

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24 July, 2011 Posted by: Filed Under: Marketing

Ten Most “Liked” Music Artists on Facebook

The ability to target an audience based on their demographic data, but also their “interests“, makes Facebook Ads still one of the best ad platforms out there, if not the best. Through “interest” targeting, you can build campaigns that are focused on exactly what the user is interested in, which leads to a higher click through rate and more conversions.

Focusing on music artists, I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 music artists on Facebook and listed them below.

1. Eminem – 43,597,895

2. Rihanna – 40,970,115

3. Lady Gaga – 40,845,124

4. Shakira – 37,267,475

5. Justin Bieber – 33,219,214

6. Linkin Park – 32,525,479

7. Katy Perry – 32,218,637

8. Lil Wayne – 29,169,770

9. Bob Marley – 28,719,894

10. Akon – 27,966,380

 

So now that you have this information, what can you do with it?

The easy answer is to build an ad campaign which targets to each of these Facebook groups. Select an affiliate offer (such as free iPod/iPhone) and build a landing page that is built specifically for each target audience.

If you are lucky enough, you might be able to find an ad campaign that was already built specifically for your celebrity of choice. While looking through oDigger, I was able to pull up the following Zip Submit offer for Lady Gaga.

Get creative and see what you can do to build campaigns around celebrities, movies and music artists. Facebook just makes it too easy to target these audiences. Your job is to make sure the campaigns convert and back out into a profit.

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21 July, 2011 Posted by: Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Facebook

Key Insights to Buying and Selling Web Sites

As a long time developer of Internet businesses, I’ve always built things myself. Now with the growth of the Internet, the days of do it yourself are opening up to a real business of buying and selling web sites businesses.

This video and blog post come from my coaching of Zac Johnson while he was developing his new book, Flip This Web Site. What I share below are 3 case studies from Flippa, done live (and I’ve never worked with Flippa or know any of the people involved in these web sites, so this is my opinion only), showing you how to evaluate a web site business purchase by looking at 3 sites that were bought recently on Flippa.

Key Insights to Buying and Selling Web Sites

Buying and selling web sites demands that you know the business you are getting into and have some sense of how to evaluate it.

After all, if you buy a site that needs tons of tech development, and you have no tech skills or don’t know anyone, or can outsource this well, that’s not a smart buy.

But if you know your skills and can leverage the foundation someone else has built, this is a powerful tool. And it’s smarter than building from scratch, or if you want to develop a portfolio of businesses.

What inspired me about reading this book is that there is real value in a web site purchase. This is not just about buying a domain, which is an excellent investment but often requires business development.

Here I’m talking about buying a web site that exists, with assets like steady traffic, email lists, and sometimes revenue. The way Flippa lays it out for you is powerful, easy, and safer than anything I’ve seen before, including eBay.

Here’s the 3 skills I see as important to buying and selling a web site:

Smart Buyer 1. Tech Savvy

Many sites for sale have been developed to a certain stage technically and either need more time, money, or resources to grow.

Those with technical skills may find these kinds of sites lucrative. Of course the nature of coding means you need to look at their code to make sure it makes sense, and you can adapt it your own way.

In a world powered by AJAX, PHP, and MYSQL, it’s a no brainer to buy many of these businesses. Think of it like buying a fixer upper house, can you add the right tech tools to improve performance, and of course drive traffic and revenue?

I’ve seen several examples of purchases, especially on the lower end, based on technical teams who can simply fix and either flip or grow a web site.

If you don’t have technical skills, be sure to research whether you need them for the site you are buying. Bad code is after all, bad, and if you can’t adapt it or improve it, you’ll have to start from scratch…which defeats the purpose of buying a web site if you can do it yourself.

In the video I share an example of a site that has traffic and an iPhone app sold for around $3500; if the iPhone app alone is good, this is a pretty low price to get going, but as with all things Internet, buyer beware…check under the hood before you buy.

Smart Buyer 2. Search Savvy

Flippa has many, many sites with high PageRank, keywords, traffic, and built are search. Search experts have long known the power of acquiring sites and creating a portfolio of high traffic, usually leveraging what they already have and integrating the new site into what they are already doing.

Search sites based on strong keywords may also be smart for a newcomer who simply needs some traffic and an existing site, while they learn the craft. Be careful if you are too much a newbie, but the allure of a search site in this market is easy to figure out.

Just be sure you check all their claims, check their PageRank out using tools like SEOFirefox (among MANY others), and search for the keywords related to the site to see the positioning.

Just like buying a house, do your research and look for what’s lacking; that’s where you can add value, and leverage the existing site to either grow your business or integrate it into what you are doing via search.

Smart Buyer 3. Internet Marketing Savvy

Internet marketing should be a required skill for anyone buying a web site, because if it doesn’t make money, and you can’t help it make more money, what are you doing?

Sure you can buy a site that is generating revenue, but anyone in the business knows you’ll have to keep up and adapt. Knowing how to convert traffic, write copy, and continually test and update the site is crucial to success.

My favorite inspiration from this review was a site called RecruitingBlogs.com, a Ning site with a huge community, traffic, and targeted to a human resources audience. Career sites with traffic and a loyal audience are incredibly valuable, and this one listed as selling for $95,000 on Flippa.

In about 4 years the loyalty this site built enabled the builder to flip it for a nice profit, and give more than just a web site…he sold a loyal audience and traffic that monetizes.

That’s the key to building a business online; loyalty and monetization. Be sure to check out Flippa and see what’s up, this is not only smart, it’s a new trend in this growing business called the Internet!

This guest blog post was written by Declan Dunn, be sure to check out his Pivot and Profit video series here, and on YouTube.

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19 July, 2011 Posted by: Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Make Money