I thought I would share something with you today which this morning sent me over the edge

A couple of weeks ago I was testing some particular methods when I came across a New WSO and the guy was doing something simliar to what ive been testing myself

I don`t` often buy wso`s and and even less so from people that I don`t know or know of. But anyway I decided to buy it to see if this guys method was simliar to mine and thought I might be able to pick up a couple of extra tips

Well after looking at the product it was ok, nothing groundbreaking but some simple methods and techniques which would work and would help you to make some extra income without a doubt so it wasn`t a bad little product at all

One of the reasons for buying the wso was of course to see if I could pick up some extra tips

The other reason was because I wanted to see how he would market to me after I had purchased his product

I wanted to see how much value he sends me and maybe some extra (non-advertised bonus tips too)

(Yeah they do actually still exist some people still do that)

But I was dreaming lol

Guess what I got from him?

Promotion after promotion after promotion after promotion

I felt like he was treating me like his “Personal ATM machine”

He obviously didn`t think of me as a real person and that I actually had a face

As I said I bought this wso a couple of weeks ago and within only a few days he promoted another damn wso to me which was related to his wso

After he promoted this other wso I thought “that must of just been a 1 off, surely I won`t get anymore promotions from him any time soon, especially only days after buying his WSO”

Low and behold a couple of days later he emailed me saying that this other new product was going live soon at something like 10am est and if I wanted in then to watch out for his next email with more information and a bonus

This happened a few times over the first 10 days

Then a few days ago I got another email saying about his buddy _______ is releasing a new groundbreaking wso which was going live the next day (suitable for newbies and pro`s) lol

Then this morning I got another email telling me about the product which he was promoting and that it was doing really well and I should jump on board

All he has done so far is send me promotions

He hasn`t sent me any helpful information, no tips, no helpful articles, no videos, nothing. He has not sent me anything to compliment his wso which he sold me

I sometimes don`t know if it`s a case of either:

a. These marketers are that nieve and stupid that they actually think they can build there business by treating there customers like there personal atm cash machine or:

b. They know exactly what there doing but don`t care about there customers or there name or there business

I really don`t know what is worse

The last time I was on more than 5 peoples email list was back in 2009 and now I can see exactly why. I made a decision back then to unsubscribe from every single list where I just being treated like a damn cash machine and I started to use my time more wisely, that was when I started to build adsense niche sites

Ive recently subscribed to two more lists. One is the one ive just told you about which was because I purchased his wso

The other list was another guy because I wanted to see how he marketed and treated his subscribers. I had high expectations for this other guy, but he too ended up just sending me promotion after promotion after about 3 days I think it was

I will be keeping subscribed to both of them for now to see how much worse things get

Im currently only subscribed to a few lists but you can be sure that your not going to be sent garbage. One of the lists im on is Mark Thompson who runs the forum im part of. Mark always provides plenty of juicy information on his blog and if I get emails from him I always read them

The next person is Chris Rempel. Chris makes a huge effort to give his subscribers lots of free information so I enjoy being on chris`s list. Check out his recent blog post he did about how to rank after the google penguin update. This is what I call providing value

Perhaps this wso seller should take a leaf out of chris`s or marks book

If you are reading this then please make sure you Never Ever treat any of your subscribers and especially your customers like these people have

It makes me sick when I see these marketers doing promotion after promotion after promotion because it`s the totally wrong way to market to people and does NOT do you ANY favours what so ever

There are a lot of great marketers around which supply great information and treat there subscribers and customers like real people

But on the downside there is also the other end of the stick where people just use there lists as a cash machine

So if your currently on any lists and your fed up with promotion after promotion then do yourself a favour and un-subscribe

Referring to the question earlier in the post. Which do you think it is a or b?

If you have been around my blog for any amount of time then you would of realized that I like to give away lots of list building tips. Over the last 8 months ive really focused a lot more on building my lists because having your own email list is the most powerful online asset which you can build

The problem is though, when you start building an email list there are lots of questions that you need answers to and one of those questions is

“Should you use single opt in or double opt in?”

Its impossible to tell you the answer without knowing what type of sales funnel you are using, what traffic sources your using and if your paying for your traffic or your getting Free traffic

Below I have laid out all the pro`s and con`s of both single and double so that you can then decide which one would be better for you to use in your business

Advantages of Single Opt In

Advantage 1 – The Ability to use a OTO (one time offer)

One of the most powerful ways to build your business with list building is to include a OTO (one time offer). If you use single opt in then as soon as someone enters there name and email in your opt in form they will then get redirected instantly to your one time offer page. This basically means that there are less hoops that somone has to jump through before seeing your offer which in turn (increases your conversions and making you more money)

Advantage 2 - Recoup Your Advertising Costs Quickly

Using one time offers do work very well and are very profitable if done right but one of the most important reasons for using one time offers is so that you can recoup some of your advertising costs back right off the bat. For instance if your using a paid traffic source to build your list then its important for you to make a little bit back to cover the cost of your advertising

Now im not saying you should ALWAYS use single opt in because it mainly depends on the type of traffic source you are using. If im paying for traffic to be sent to my squeeze page I like to use one time offers so that I can recoup some of my investment for the advertisement back. Sometimes I even make a healthy profit

For example – Recently I purchased a solo ad for $45 for 125 clicks

I received a little more than 125 clicks which is standard for solo ads and I actually made back around $85

So for that particular campaign I generated $40 profit, I generated an extra 8 customers to my buyers list and also another 60 + prospects into my funnel and some more of those prospects will at some point become a customer too

Advantage 3 - The opportunity to make serious profit and adding a boat load of new prospects and buyers to your list for free

What I mean is, by using a OTO is just the start. It all depends on the type of sales funnel you are using and how well your offers convert. However, there are extra things which you can include into your funnel to make it even more profitable

Such as upsells. An upsell is simply another offer which you present to your buyer after he/she has seen and bought your first offer. Hence the word upsell. It will be more expensive than the first offer which you would of presented. This works amazingly well and if your not including upsells in your funnel then you are leaving oodles of income on the table

The way the upsell works is you present a slightly more expensive offer/product to them which should be directly related to your first offer. (which was your OTO)

So the way this works is as follows – Squeeze page – opt in to get free offer – redirected to OTO – once paid redirected to upsell product

So rather than just make say $7 you then present them with an upsell on the next screen for another product for $17

So rather than have the poetntial to make $7 off of each subscriber you now have increased that to $24 (Much more powerful)

I currently use this model in my funnel and it “works like gangbusters”

Disadvantages of Single Opt In

Disadvantage 1 - You may get more garbage email addresses

Using single opt in does have its downsides because some people may put in false email addresses so you lose that person and will never be able to contact them in your follow up sequence. Also people are now a lot more aware of squeeze pages so some people purposely put in garbage email addresses just to see what is on the next page

Disadvantage 2 - Your open rate will not be very good

This really goes hand in hand with the one above because if someone puts in a garbage email address then of course nothing will ever get delivered so when ever you send out an email you will get more un opens than if you used a double opt in

Advantages of Double Opt in

Advantage 1 - They have to confirm there email address

When building a list if you want to only build  list of very interested prospects that want to hear from you then double opt in is the way to go. By using double opt in means that the person has to use a real email address because they have to confirm there email address before receiving your free high quality videos/gift

By getting people to confirm there email address it means that not only is there email address real and active but if they have confirmed then its very unlikely that when you send them an email, it goes to there spam/junk folder

Advantage 2 - You will weed out all the time wasters

This again kind of works hand in hand with the one above because by using confirmed opt in you will weed out all the time wasters. If someone doesn`t think that your free offer is worth them confirming there email address or they may not be that interested in your free offer that much then you dont want them on your list anyway, so its a win win

Disadvantages of Using Double Opt in

Disadvantage 1 - Unable to use one time offers for maximum conversions and profits

When you use double opt in you are unable to use the OTO tactic as I previously explained to you earlier in the post. The reason is because once they enter there name and email they have to confirm there email first before anything else happens. You can still include a OTO into your funnel but it will have to be on the confirmation page instead but doing it this way your conversions will be a lot lower and you won` make anywhere near as much income

Disadvantage 2 - Paid traffic methods will work out very expensive for you

If your using paid traffic such as PPC, banner ads,media buyers, solo ads, or anything else that you pay for and you use double opt in, you had better have one sales good funnel on the back end otherwise your campaigns are going to cost you an arm and a leg

So for instance if you bought a solo ad and you paid $60 for a 100 clicks (which is not expensive) then it would be good if you made at least $20 – $30 back on the front end with your OTO`s and upsells so that it helps you out. However it really is up to you but just take on board everything which ive told you

Important Points to Consider

Having gone through the pro`s and con`s of  both single and double opt in I hope you can now see that there really are a lot of variables involved when deciding which one to choose

Below I have included a few Bonus tips for you which will help you even more to decide if you should use single or double opt in

BONUS TIP 1 - By using single opt in you can still make sales from people that put in garbage email addresses because they still have the option of buying your one time offer on the next page. This happens a fair bit so bare this in mind

BONUS TIP 2 - When your building your lists what ever niche you may be in, if you are using free traffic methods then make sure you use double opt in. You will build a much more responsive list but of course because your using free traffic you don`t have to worry about making anything back on the front end to recoup some of your advertisement costs

BONUS TIP 3 - You may have to weigh up and decide what is more important to you. Using single opt in and generating some front end sales and generating more customers into your buyers lists and making most of your or more of your advertisement cost back on the front end

OR… using double opt in and relying on the fact that you have a good sales funnel on the back end which will convert a lot of your prospects into paying customers (this im talking about using paid traffic with double opt in)

BONUS TIP 4  - If your fairly new at list building or email marketing then I recommend you to use single opt in because it will make your paid traffic campaigns much more profitable. However if your using free traffic then most of the time I would recommend you to use double opt in

Lastly there is No “1 size fits all”

What works for one person may not always work for another so the best thing you can do is to test and see what works best for you and your particular business and sales funnel.

Its been a long post but I hope you now have a better understanding of weather you should use a single or double opt in for your particular online business

So are you using double or single opt in?

Let me know below

Oh and feel free to fb, g+1, stumble or twit me any anything else that you want to

Paul

How can I Find Solo Ads that are NOT in the Internet Marketing Niche?

I answered there questions over and over and even did a thread about it and lots of people liked it and found it really helpful

I thought it was time that I made a blog post out of it here but this time I will be going much deeper and giving you a full explanation of how this method works

So not only is this going  to help those guys but this is going to give you guys (my blog readers) and my subscribers some extra fire power that you can use to build your email list if your are involved in other niches outside of internet marketing

Are you ready?

Lets get started

Using solo ads is one of my favourite ways for building my email list in the internet marketing niche because there is plenty of traffic so you have more than enough to last you a very long time

But if your involved in other niches like muscles building, dating, six pack abs, acne, parenting, the golf niche and the list goes on

If your in anyof those types of niches and your trying to find solo ads to buy so that you can build your list then you may of realized that its quite difficult to find one

(Oh in case you want to know exactly what is a solo ad, I did a post about them on here a while back)

Anyway…

Solo ads in other niches are quite hard to come buy

There are some resources that you can use or (3rd party sites) that tell you or give you some places to go but what I have found is that these resources a lot of the time seem to be either out of date or burned out

Ive always been the type of guy that likes to do things differently and try to think outside of the box so to speak

So this method im about to give you is Super Powerful and very effective

The reason why its so effective is because hardly no one does it because it requires a little bit of work. I say work, its actually really easy and after you have read this blog post on how to do it im sure you will agree

STEP 1

Identify your main keyword for your niche. In this example im going to use the Golf niche so my main keyword is golf

Go to google and type in your main keyword as shown below

Go to your settings

then take instant off and also change the “results per page” to 100

You need to do this because we are going to be opening up lots of tabs so we need to have as many listings showing as possible on 1 page

Next you will of course get lots of results

What are going to do is

“Find Sites that are Building Lists in our Niche and ask Them if We Can Buy a Solo Ad Off of them”

(Bonus Tip) – If you type in Free report, this then brings back lots of sites which are giving away free reports on there sites.

Why is this good?

Well it means that they are building a list

Awesome for us!

Also try it with “quotes”

So we are now getting lots of sites appear in the results

What we do now is open up lots of sites in new tabs so your screen should look simliar to mine

STEP 2

Go to each site and scan through to see if they asking for an email address, giving away a free report or selling some kind of digital golf product from there site

This takes about 10 seconds on each site but sometimes you may have to look a bit harder to find there opt in form

Remember there is no rush with this method but of course you dont want to spend 15 mins on each site

Look at this site below, it does have an opt in form so there building a list but it was right at the bottom of the post

Here are some sites which are building lists

Another one

I think you get my point

Its very easy to do

Don`t just use your main keyword though, type in lots of other variations such as golf tips, best golf tips, golf tips “free report”, golf “free information” , how to play golf free information and the list goes on

There really isnt any limit to what you can do and type in

STEP 3

Once you have a big list of sites you need to contact them directly

Nearly every site has a “contact us” link somewhere on the site. If it doesnt then they are not worth contacting 99.9% of the time anyway because they obviously don`t take there website seriously

Find a “contact link on the site, it will usually be at the bottom

When you contact the site own you need to come across as professional and not some idiot trying to make a quick buck

Now you have 2 options

1. Email them with your free offer and ask if you can buy an ad from there subscriber list

2. Emal them and ask them if they would like to receive your New golf (digital product) for FREE , (I would be very surprised if most do not contact you if you are offering them a Free product)

However if you don`t have your own product it`s no problem just send them your free offer so that you can build your list

Now I am not in the golf niche but this is just an example of the type of message to write

I always start the message with there name or site name so that they know its not from some mass email bot lol

Hey GolfProTips.com

Its Paul Nicholls here from www.AwesomeGolfTips.com

Hope your doing well

I thought I would drop you a quick message to see if it would be ok if I buy some advertisment off you?

I see you have a newsletter that you send out to all of your golfers

I have put together an awesome Golf Report/Video series which I think your subscribers will love and im currently giving it away for free, it has tonnes of value

I can send you the funds via paypal if this works well for you?

If this sounds cool then let me know and we can go from there

Talk to you soon

Regards

Paul Nicholls

www.AwesomeGolfTips.com

Now ok its not perfect and I havent really taken lots of time to write it but I think you can get my point. Make it sound like your a professional marketer/website owner

You may get a reply you may not its a numbers game

But the more you contact the more you have a chance of getting a reply

At this point your only trying to get a response and then you can take things from there

If they like the sound of it and you begin talking more than you need to ask them these

2 Important Questions

1. How big is your subscriber list?

2. How many clicks within the email do you usually get on average per mail out?

You need to know this information so that you can work out how much you can pay for the solo ad

The best way rather than just believe what they say is ask for a screen shot of there last few emails that they have sent out so that you can see the open rates, click rates and how many people the email was sent to

If they are genuine then they shouldn`t usually have a problem providing this information for you

Then decide how much you can pay for a SOLO ad based on the figures and stats they give you

For instance if they average 200 clicks (within the email) on an average mail out then that is going to be 200 clicks to your squeeze page seeing your free offer

(This is when a high converting squeeze page will make you a lot more money)

If your squeeze page converts at 25% then you will gain 50 new subscribers

(TIP – I dont like to pay more than $1.00 per new subscriber. I always end up paying much less however all niches vary slightly)

So if you paid around $50 for the SOLO ad then you would be paying $1 per subscriber

BUT….. If your squeeze page converted at 50% then you would gain 100 new subscribers and you would only then be paying $0.50 per subscriber (this is waaay better)

REMEMBER… if you have a OTO you could easily make a lot of your SOLO ad investment back. Basically the better sales funnel you have the more profitable you can make your campaigns

For instance if you had a $5 OTO (one time offer) which converted at say 10% (this is super targeted traffic remember and i often see these types of conversions with my own low cost OTO products)

If you had 50 new opt ins (this is based on only a 25% opt in rate from 200 clicks remember, then you would get 50 new opt ins and if your $5 OTO converted at 10% you would make back $25 right off the bat

And this is only based on a very conservative 25% opt in rate and a 10% OTO conversion rate

so by spending $50 you would make back $25 right away and you would of gained 5 new buyers and 45 new targeted leads into your funnel

With a better converting squeeze page you would make way more

Now do you see how powerful this method is?

IF YOU DECIDE TO LET THEM PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCT

Then your in business because they will be building your buyers list for free and you will still make money on the back end (if you have one which I hope you will have)

This is of course if you have your own product

This is the techinique and it works very well

Rememember, if you manage to buy an ad from an authority site in your niche and they have a big list then you could quite easily gain 300, 400, 500+ more subscribers by using this method

And best of all this traffic is Lazer targeted to your niche and free offer/or product

Its been a very long blog post but I hope you can see how easy it is to find solo ads in other niches

Please leave any comments or feedback below and please “share the love” if you liked the post

Phew… this was a long post and now my fingers are aching a bit so im off to grab a coffee

If you are not sure on anything leave a comment and I will do my best to answer it

Paul

The “Google Penguin Update“

Theres been a lot of people complaining in forums (as usual) when ever theres a new google update but as always people will move on and accept that this is the way it is and its just another update that google have decided to implement

All the noise usually lasts for a few weeks and then things calm down and get back to normal

One thing that google is now paying much more attention to are factors which are out of your control and ones which we can`t manipulate and influence

Kind of makes sense don`t you think

Things like user interaction, bounce rate and time on site

In my opinion these are going to become more and more important as google continues to update and improve there algorithm

If you have adsense sites or any affiliate sites for that matter then this is of course going to effect You too

This is where things have changed slightly in terms of your google ads placement

We used to be able to get away with having a big 336×280 ad block at the top of our adsense site then with our content underneath

Not anymore

This makes your sites look a bit spammy in googles opinion

So what do we do?

Well its quite easy, you wrap your content around your adsense block

By doing this creates a much better looking site and everything will blend in together much easier. This will nearly always improve your bounce rate and time on site too (which are very important factors in SEO these days even if google won`t be upfront and admit this)

Another important factor that we as internet marketers should pay attention to as well is the size of the site that we build

We can say goodbye to 1 to 5 page mini sites (this is so 2008 lol)

Hello 30+ pages (as a minimum)

I say 30+ pages because this is a good amount of content to add as a base line. Of course you need to gauge and go by the earnings on your adsense site to see if its worth your time to invest in more content and time to build your site even bigger

One of the downsides though to having a bigger adsense site though is placing your adsense ads within your posts

I learned this first hand by updating a 35 page adsense site manually, it took me 4 hours lol

So we now not only need to wrap our content around our adsense ads but we also need to be able to add our adsense ads to our pages without spending half a day (like I did) doing it or if you decide to change anything or test something which could increase your income you also won`t want to spend hours doing it

So its important to use tools where you can. The tool I now use on my adsense sites makes it super easy to include adsense ads where ever I want them with just 1 click on a button and best of all it automatically wraps the content around my ad blocks for me

Talk about being spoon fed

Ive put a quick video together for you below showing you how this works

You can check out the Wp Easy Ads Plugin Here

Feel free to leave any comments and feedback below

Today is the 1st of May and its time for another update I guess

Well…. april has been a very interesting month to say the least

If you have been following along with my 2012 internet marketing challenge then you would of seen that this months income target was $750

Ive been keeping a record each day of my earnings and ive totalled up all of my income which I have received into my paypal account for the month of april

Im pleased to say that ive made  $3032.87 for the month of april

And… I also had my first $700 day..woohoo!

So another hugle milestone hit

Here is a screen shot of some of aprils income

So what did I do to earn this income through out april?

Well some of the income has come from the wso which I released in march which was avalanche list building

Some of the income was from this months wso which I released which was adsense cash blueprint and also some income from my first video course which I created which is based around building adsense and amazon niche sites

Before I launch a new wso I always have a target of how many sales I want to make. Of course we can say thousands, but keeping things real and realistic based on the size of my own list and how many jv partners I had on board my target for my adsense wso which went live on 12th april was 300 sales

I didn`t quite hit my target but I did get very close and as of right now im at 272 sales so I cant really grumble, I am pleased with how it went

I would of hit my target of 300 sales but the reason why I didnt is actually kind of funny

When you set up your listing in WSO Pro you have an option of setting the price of your listing so that it goes up every so many sales and after only about 200 sales I was already at about $15 and didnt want the price to go above about $14 so I didnt do my maths properly. It kind of caught me out because the sales came in so fast on one of the days that I didnt get a chance to see what was going on lol

Anyway… $15 isnt that high but obviously the higher your price the lower the conversions and I didnt want the price to go above around $13 – $14 but like I said I made a couple of minor mistakes with the price increments and the maximum price so thats why i didnt make the 300 sales because my price was higher so I had less sales, but of course I probably didnt lose much because the sales I did make were all at a higher price so that makes up for the less sales.

But im quite confident that I will still hit my 300 sales for that wso over the next month or so but my target was initially to hit the 300 sales by the end of april

…onwards and upwards

You have probably realized that I set my standards quite high and indeed I do, but im not un-realistic

So all that being said I ended up today at 272 sales which I am still very pleased with

Here is a screen shot below of my recent wso adsense cash blueprint

Why Am I creating WSO`s?

Well over the last 4 and a half years I have learned so much and I have so much information rattling around in this head of mine that I decided that I wanted to create some quality products out of it. Of course this is a great way to generate more customers into my business and its profitable but I mainly created this particular adsense video course for my current subscribers that purchased my first video course and thought I may as well make it into a WSO

Over the last year I have picked up lots more powerful strategies and tactics that I use when I build my sites so I wanted to share all those as well but this time focus just on building adsense sites

Over the last 4 and a half years my head has been like a sponge absorbing every single peice of information that I possibly squeeze into my head and creating courses and products is a kind of a relief so that I can eventually get all of this information out there.

Sounds kinda funny ey, but if you have been into internet marketing for more than a few months Im sure you can see where im coming from

So as a break down so far

January – $265.05

Feburary – $253.15

March – $1,285.81

April -  $3032.87

Today is 1st May 2012 and the target this month is $1200

Its going to be another very interesting month as I have a lot planned. I will be adding lots more juicy and great content to my blog over may so lookout for more new posts

I look forward to updating again on the 1st of June

Thanks for reading

Have you got any 2012 internet marketing goals or personal targets that your trying to achieve?

It doesnt matter if its $50 in a month or $50k let me know below I would love to hear what goals you have and how your doing

Paul

This post is going to contain a lot of information so grab a coffee and sit back

This method is one of the most powerful methods out there for generating lazer targeted traffic and getting lots of buyers

You have heard of forums right?

Oh.. and no im not just going to tell you to post comments using your signature link to drive traffic lol, although this works its no where near as powerful as what im now about to show you

So anyway…

You have heard of forums right?

Forums contain the most targeted traffic for your niche, because if somone is willing to sign up to a forum and they want to participate in conversions around a particular niche, topic, hobby or subject then they are very very interested in it

So what we have to do as marketers is tap into this type of traffic

But not in the normal way which you might expect such as leaving comments… noo noo

This takes far too long

We want big traffic and fast

I call this my “Forum Stealth Traffic Method“

What is this forum traffic method good for?

well you have a choice between:

sending the traffic direct to your sales page

sending the traffic to a blog

sending the traffic a squeeze page with some free information (the best method)

How the Does The Method Work?

STEP 1 

LOCATE the biggest forums in your niche

Firstly you need to go to google and find forums in your niche by using these search strings

“Your Niche Keyword” “forums”

Your Niche Keyword forums (without quotes)

So for this example I have used the “muscle building niche” because I know theres plenty of buyers in this niche and its a very big niche too

This is what I typed into google

Next you need to open up in a new tab all of the forums that you can find

Usually I only go down the first page because generally this is where all of the biggest forums in your niche will be

Once you have all of the forums opened up in a new tab we need to then close any forums which either don`t seem to be very active and/or they don`t have many members

I went through about 12 forums and closed about half of them. Im now left with a list of forums that either have lots of members, or the members might be a lot less but the forum is very active, or even better they have both

Here are all of the forums which I chose for this example

I have circled all of the important numbers which you should be looking at which are:

Total members

members online or total active users

Now this is what im talking about….

Look at how many members are in the above forum… over 4 million!

STEP 2

We are going to Rent a signature link off of popular members from within the forum

So we need to find members that have a high post count

Go to a forum and search for the most active threads in terms of views

“How do I do that” you may be asking?

Well don`t worry, we have a little trick up our sleeve for this

Grab this code here ===>> ?daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=voteavg
Put it directly after the main domain url and it will then automatically sort the forum by most viewed threads

Cool Huh!

Anyway, so now you know the most popular threads. Go to the thread and locate members which have a high amount of posts

This one way of doing it

The easier way (as long as they have this feature is)

Go to the members page of the forum

 Then you should be able to click so that you sort the posts by number of posts

Now this is pure Gold

We can see at a glance who has the highest number of posts in the forum. The people with most number of posts will have the biggest reach so we get more traffic to our squeeze page

All you do now is contact the member after making an account and offer to pay them for a trial advert (signature link) on there profile

Make sure you work your way down the list, don`t just look at the top 10 or 20

I would personally only pay for one signature link in the same forum at any one time

Make sure first that you can actually include a signature which is clickable before you send any email or message otherwise you will look like an adiot and also if they do take payment off of you, it may then be a waste of you cant include clickable links in the signatures

You just say something like:

Hey john its paul here hope your well, hows your training going?

Ive been working out for a quite a few years and I love it and ive recently put together a great little free package which Im currently giving away so I can give something back and help some guys out with there training

Would you mind if I paid you just to put my website link at the bottom of your profile? Its dead simple and only takes a few minutes to put in, I will send you all the information. If this sounds cool, I will send you over $25 via paypal for the next 7 days and then if it works out we can sort something out more regular if you like

Let me know if this sounds ok john

Talk soon

Paul

Thats it, a basic standard message that you send to people but obviously adapt it to what ever niche you are in and also the price will always be different in every niche so think about this and offer them what you think is worth it to you

Please Note: Do not contact the forum moderators, they will never accept its just a waste of time

You only want to approach normal members

So this is the basic concept how to drive some very targeted traffic to your squeeze page and build your list using my “stealth forum traffic method“

I would always ONLY EVER send the traffic to your squeeze page so that you are building a list. If you include a cheap one time offer as well, you will often get very good conversions because of the quality of the traffic

Once you have a deal in place see how it performs over the next 7 days and then you can determine if you want to continue the deal. If it works out then look after the member with a good deal but dont pay too much, you can negotiate.

PS: You can send traffic direct to a sales page but your conversions are going to be very poor. Your best to offer free information first then sell on the back end

PPS: You can also use banners in some forums so bare this in mind. What ever you use make sure there is a good call to action and it generates interest and curiosity, after all you want to generate as much traffic to your page as possible

Its been a very long post but thanks for reading

This is just one more solid traffic method that you can start to use to build your list and as I said it works in just about any niche. Using this method the way ive shown you cuts out any middle man and you can go direct to the source so to speak

I hope you have enjoyed this post, please leave any feedback or comments below and feel free to share it with anyone else

Paul

Today I am going to reveal to you one of the most powerful traffic generation methods that you can use to build your online business. You could quite possibly only use this method for traffic and build your email list into the thousands very quickly.

I will say though that this is a paid method of traffic but the results that you get from using this method as long as you use my tips, will definitely be worth it.

Introducing….. Solo Ads

Solo ads are Super Powerful for building your email list and building your business.

Even if you do not already have a product or an email list it does not matter because if you take your online business seriously and you want to progress then at some point you will create your own Internet Marketing product and when you do it will be a good move to use solo ads to build your list up.

Firstly lets cover some basic questions to do with solo ads:

What is a Solo Ad?

A solo ad is when you pay for a single advert to another persons email list and in exchange they will send you a certain number of targeted visitors to a designated page that you have created.

How Much do Solo Ads Cost?

It all depends on how many people your solo ad is sent out to. If you buy a solo ad and your ad is sent out to 1000 people then the cost may not be that high unless its a very responsive and targeted email list. If you buy a solo ad and it is sent out to a list of say 20,000 then the cost will probably be much higher.

The actual costs go from as low as $17 up to over $500 and even more

Why Do You Think Solo Ads are So Powerful?

Well…. in case you didnt know, getting targeted traffic on the internet is one of the hardest things to generate when trying to build a profitable online business. When you are able to tap into an almost unlimited traffic supply of targeted traffic then this makes solo ads one of the best traffic methods to use as an internet marketer.

Where Do You Send The Traffic From a Solo Ad?

Most solo ad providers are very strict and  will only send you traffic if you have some kind of free offer set up. Generally your best off to have some kind of squeeze page or landing page set up so that you can capture peoples name and email in return for the free report/video/gift or mini course that you are giving away. If you only have a sales page then you won`t be able to use most solo ad services so you will need to set up a squeeze page first.

Where is the Best Place to Buy Solo Ads From?

That is a great question. There are some solo ad providers that I am aware of and I will tell you them at the end of this post

Can I Get Scammed When Using Solo Ads?

Well… if you stick to reputable solo ad providers which are ethical then no you should not ever get scammed. You have to remember that these guys that provide solo ad services took time to build there targeted lists and make money from the services that they provide and also it takes a long time to build a good name, so it`s in there best own interest to keep there good name and not rip somone off to make a few quick bucks.

That being said, if you don`t buy a solo ad from a recognized solo ad provider then the risk of being scammed or being sent worthless traffic is going to be higher. If  you follow my tips though you will be fine.

Is the Solo Ad Traffic Good Quality Traffic?

When you order your solo ad you specify and choose the niche that you want the traffic to come from. So for instance if you want traffic that is interested in affiliate marketing then you specify this when buying the solo ad. When you are sent the traffic it will then be lazer targeted to your particular niche.

The traffic will not just be the usual bunch of freebie seekers and prospects that never buy anything. As long as you buy traffic from a reputable solo ad provider then they will send you traffic from there buyers lists and there prospects lists so yes it will be very high quality.

Bonus Tip 1

Before you go and buy a solo ad you need to make sure that you will make the most from the traffic as you possibly can, because after all you are paying for this traffic so you want to get the most return on your investment.

When you set your squeeze page up you need to carry out a “SPLIT TEST” first before you start using paid traffic. You need to find out what your squeeze page converts at.

So for example if you had a squeeze page that converted at 10% then you would know that for every 10 people that you send to your squeeze page you would get 1 opt in. If you want to use solo ads then you need to be getting much better opt in conversions than 10% otherwise you will spending way too much money to get subscribers to build your business.

You need to split test your squeeze page with something like Google Website Optimizer and you need to try to improve your opt in rates by as much as possible.

Lets say you have split tested your squeeze page and you have improved the opt in rate to 33% which perfectly obtainable. My adsense and amazon squeeze page converts at 35%.

(Update) It now actually converts at 50% but I will leave it at 35% for now so that it makes sense with this example

So you now know that for every 100 people you send to your squeeze page you will get around 33 subscribers This is much better.

So lets take things one stage further

Lets say you buy a Solo Ad for $97 and they guarantee to send you at least 300 clicks

You now know that your going to get around 99 new subscribers from 300 clicks.

This looks ok but to really work things out in more detail then do this other calculation so that you will know how much you are actually paying per new lead into your business.

You know that you will get roughly 99 new subscribers from 300 clicks by paying $97. So to work out how much you pay for each lead all you do is do $97 divided by 99 opt ins which is$0.97. So you are paying $0.97 per lead.

So you know that each lead that you generate will cost you just under a dollar. This is ok but not great. This is where a high converting squeeze page comes in handy. This is why it is vital to split test and improve your page as much as possible because the higher opt in rates you get the more profitable your business will be.

Imagine if your squeeze page converted at 50% (which some do)

You would then get 150 subscribers from 300 clicks

So the calculation would be $97 divided by 150 opt ins which is $0.64. So now you are only paying $0.64 per lead. This is much better. Anything under a dollar is ok but obviously the lower the better.

Bonus Tip 2

Another tip is working out how much money you can make with your one time offer. This is some kind of an offer which is shown after someone opts in. This is a great strategy to adopt because it can greatly reduce the costs of your solo ads. I will explain.

So say your squeeze page now converts at 33%. We know that if we pay for a solo ad which costs $97 we will get 300 clicks and based on a 33% opt in rate we would end up with 99 subscribers.

if you know what your one time offer converts at then you can calculate how much money you will make on the front end, for instance:

If you had a one time offer which you sold for $7 and your offer converted at 3% and you sent 99 people to it you would make $21.

This may not sound like a lot but now your $97 solo ad has now only cost you $76, and you have also got 3 more customers on your buyers list and also 96 more subscribers on your email list

Remember this is all based off only a 33% conversion rate for your squeeze page and a 3% one time offer conversion rate. The better your conversion rates the more you will make and the bigger you will build your email list and faster.

Bonus Tip 3

The price of the solo ad is also important not just the conversion rate of your squeeze page. If you already know the conversion rates of your one time offer and your squeeze page then you can work out how much you will make and how many subscribers you will get based on how much you are being charged for the solo ad.

Just keep this in mind, it is also very important.

Bonus Tip 4

Below are some Solo Ad Sites that are proven to be very good and are also run by reputable and ethical marketers

http:// rodgerhyatt.com/solo/

http:// marketing-your-way.com/solos/

http:// anthonytilley.com/solomailings/

http:// heimirfinnson.com/solo-ads/

http:// kelvinnikkel.com/soloads/

This is a blog below owned by reed floren which he shows results from solo ads that he has recently purchased and gives feedback too.

http:// www.soloaddirectory.com/blog/

PS: If you come across any solo ad providers that seem very cheap and they are not someone that has been recommended before or you are unable to find any feedback from anyone that has used them before then stay clear of them. Generally if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

Well done if you have got this far, there was a lot of information in this post, but very valuable none the less. Lastly like I said at the start of this post, if you don`t already have a list or an Internet Marketing product it doesn`t matter because you now know what you have to do when you do end up creating your own product and start building an email list.

Hope you liked this post

Please leave any comments below I will be interested to hear any feedback from you

Thanks

Paul

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Adsense cash blueprint is a step by step video course that I have put together showing you exactly how to put together profitable adsense sites. I cover everything from niche research to building back links plus lots more extra bonus tips, tactics and new strategies that I now use on all of my adsense sites

A few months ago I sold some adsense sites for over $8,000 and more recently I sold another one for $1,200

In this new video course I have combined all of my best strategies and tactics and also the most powerful link building methods as well which google love plus lots of my never share before insider tips!

What do you get in Adsense Cash BluePrint?

You get:

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How is Adsense Cash BluePrint different to Extreme Cash Profits? (My first video course)

Its a lot different

In adsense cash blueprint I specifically cover building an adsense only site and how to choose the best niches etc

BUT… you can still use the tactics and strategies from this course even if you don`t just use adsense on your sites because the strategies that I teach you are solid, long term and will work in any niche, ie the way I create my sites, build them, link building methods that I use and how to get the site ranked

Are there any additional Costs that I Will Have to Pay after Buying this Video Course?

There are a couple of extra plugins that you have the option of buying which will certainly make your life much easier when running your adsense site but you don`t actually need these plugins to make money from your sites, they are just an extra which I use on my sites and I would be doing you a dis-service if I didnt mention them

Is Adsense Cash BluePrint a LoopHole and Just Another Fast way to Make Money with Adsense?

Not at all

I have never used the latest loophole, trick or tactic to get my sites ranked or making money. Everything I show you in the video course are solid strategies, methods and techniques which will show you how to build profitable adsense sites which stand the test of time

How much is Adsense Cash BluePrint?

Its currently very cheap and if you want to grab it while the price is still low then make sure you head over there Now

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Talk to you soon

Paul

A couple of weeks ago I was going through one of my sites which is for a product that I have created and had a Huge Shock

I noticed that there was a gaping hole in the security of my site. Basically it was really easy to access my product for completely free. As you can probably imagine I wasn`t` too happy so I thought I had better sort this out because Im not happy with people being able to get my products for free and Im sure your not either

So what I did was I installed a new wordpress plugin. Download the Plugin HERE

I uploaded the plugin and configured some settings. All you need to do is tick boxes 4, 5 and 6 and shown below

Then save changes and you are good to go

So your probably thinking thats it and everything was good……..well not exactly because the next day I noticed another gaping hole in the same kind of area

I then installed another wordpress plugin. Download the Plugin HERE

This plugin basically hides pages on your site. Im not going to get into it too much but take it from me, if you use wordpress as the platform to deliver your product and especially if you use optimize press then you need to do this.

Then save changes and you are done

When I found that I had a flaw in my product security I thought maybe it was just my sites so I checked out some products from other marketers that used the same platform as me and guess what??

They all had a gaping hole in theres too so this was clearly a big problem

Now I know what some people may say…

“If somone is trying to get your product for free in the first places then they will most likely NOT buy something from you anyway”

Although that may be slightly true I still want to protect myself and make sure that my products are secure none the less

So..if you use either wordpress or optimize press as a platform to deliver and handle your products then do yourself a favour and make sure you are not leaving a gaping hole in your product security just as I was

If your not sure then shoot me an email and I will tell you how to check it

Feel free to pass this on to anyone else that you know of that this information could benefit

Paul

This first method is very effective and a great way for finding current keywords that are being searched for which the google keyword tool has not even picked up yet. You can often find lazer targeted buyers keywords very easily and keywords which hardly no one else would of thought of

First of all you type one of your keywords into google which you have build one of your website pages around. For this example lets use the keyword “small fridge freezer” this was just the first thing that came to mind

As long as you have the google suggestion activated then all you do is leave a space after the keyword and you will then get lots more keywords appear (already some that you may not even of thought of)

Next to dig deeper you start going through the alphabet obviously starting with A so putting A after the keyword. I went through a few letters and when I got to the letter D it gave me some excellent buyers keywords, check these out

These are  a few great buyer keywords which would convert much better. If you happen to plug some of these keywords into google and googles keyword tools says not enough data or a very low search volum don`t worry about it, still create content around these keywords. Often the best converting keywords are keywords that dont even show up in the google tool

Here are a few more keywords that the google tool may not of picked up

BUT…. it does`nt stop here

You can now go to the start of the keyword and do exactly the same. You may get a fair few repeat keywords that you have already seen but its still worth checking because theres always a few good ones you can pick up. Lets take a look and see what we can find….

Crikey… Ive found a few gems with the letter B

These are definitely some buyers keywords that you can target on your sites because google is actually telling you people are searching for these keywords right now. You may not get much traffic to some of these keywords but they will convert much much higher

2nd Way How to Find Red Hot Keywords For Your Niche

This is a rather stealth way of finding Red Hot keywords and products. This is a technique that I stumbled upon and wanted to share it with you

First of all you need to go to the yahoo directory at http: //dir.yahoo.com

This is what you will see next

Next up we have to choose another category, so just for this example I will choose outdoors

As you can see below already we have found some good niches to get into. The number next to the category tells you how many websites are within that category selling that product so its a good bet that the more websites selling a particular product that means its profitable and in demand

 Ive clicked on fishing

Then you get even more niches within fishing and you can drill even further down from there. Also yahoo give you a list of sites within every niche market that get the most traffic, so you can also use those sites to see what products they are selling and also search for the keywords that they are targeting

 These are 2 more ways that will help you to find more hot keywords and niches to build affiliate sites around

Test these methods out and let me know how you get on. Using the first method especially you will certainly find some secret keywords that you didnt even know about

Paul