During the week I took action, I bought the rebrand rights to a report, rebranded it, uploaded it to the internet and set up what I thought was a cracking little squeezepage.

Now there is no way to sugercoat this, but the results of my safelist mailings have shown that the page did not convert.

I have ideas about what to change, but comments from you as subscribers and users of safelists would really help me.

http://www.trckrs.com/18177/blog

This a TEtoolbox link which I’m using so I know where the traffic is coming from – you can hardly give away a free report on tracking without doing it yourself!

The stats shows that the safelists generated 250 c licks but sadly no-one opted in to receive the report – yes I did mean it totally bombed!

Normally this type of traffic would generate leads in double figures, and some of the non-credit sites have conversions of > 50%, so please tell me what what would put you off from entering your email?

Andrew

p.s. Here’s the advert that I used to generate the traffic

Are You Making This Newbie Mistakes?

Hi

Do you actually know if your safelist advertising is working?

If you want to find the best places to advertise then I recommend you download this free report

http://www.trckrs.com/18177/blog

When you click the link you can see why I have a built a list of thousands from safelists.

Andrew Stark

Want To Know My List Building Secret?
http://www.BuildABiggerList.com

Now the site has such a great hook, generate floods of traffic in 13 clicks or less, and enjoy hundred dollars on autopilot.

Normally I ignore these type of products, but that hook and the popularity meant I had to buy it, and as it’s a clickbank product I can buy it through my own link to check it out before deciding if I should promote it or not. After all the guy who’s on the video lives just up in the road in Stockport, if it’s a great product it could open some doors.

Pushy Sales Funnel

On taking the $39 product I went past 4 different up-sells. The sales pitch didn’t match the original page and they seemed to be pusing to buying proven campaigns that I would just copy and paste. It also talked about affiliate X, I tried they’re monthly site years ago – it was shit then, so several no-thank you’s later and alarm bells were starting to ring.

Not What I Expected, But Good Initial Content

Inside the members area Mike has gone, and we have Kieran who expalins where the traffic is going to be coming from.

The traffic comes from paid advertising on facebook and a dating site plenty of fish. Unlike google adwords they allow people to direct link to clickbank products and if you do some research you can drill deep and get super targeted advertising.

I’ve heard about this being like adwords before the mass affiliate marketer’s spoilt it and google had to slap everyone to stop every search showing up biz opps / weight loss ect.

Where’s the automatic 13 click software?

In module 3 we got round to the “software” and the product rapidly goes downhill. This is not software it’s a script that you install on your own website with the only automated part being aimed to deceive facebook staff.

These guy’s openly say that advertising the top selling products in the make money online section of clickbank break the terms and conditions for facebook advertising, but if you use this script it will show a different site to facebook staff during approval, and send traffic to banned affiliate links.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be taking on facebook’s legal team!

This product starts off white hat, but quickly turns into a very black hat method, and anyone who’s promoted it you without the warning about the black-hat is just out to scew you out of cash.

Misleading Salespage

Not only is the actual product black hat it’s completely misleading.

Lie #1 - 234 copies – total BS

If you look at the marketplace it has a link to the affiliate page where the top affiliate will get a $5,000 bonus on top of 60%.

Let’s do some maths – $39 x 234 = $9,126 x 0.4 (owners share) = $3560 – even with a killer upsell the owner is going to loose money if he sticks to this number.

Lie #2 – the actual name!

Inside the members area nothing is automated. You have to manually go through clickbank picking out products and then write your own adverts. The software itself is not automated, to use it you have to manually put in the deceptive link and clickbank product and then manaully upload it. Calling the site TrafficAvalanche may have worked, but the word auto is laughable.

Lie #3 – newbie friendly

The salespage talks of needing no PPC or technical knowledge.

The whole course relies on you using the advertising service provided by facebook / plenty of fish – this is just PPC by a different name! Installing the script to deceive the facebook staff is pretty technical, it looked easy enough to me after watching the video, but was definately not mentioned on the salespage.

I’m angry

I find it disgusting that this type of product has been allowed into the clickbank marketplace and that so many people are being sold to by unscrupulous people who ignore terms and conditions so that they can make more money.

If you’ve fallen for the slick salesvideo full of lies and broken promises then please contact clickbank directly for your refund, the only way to stop this type of crap is vote with your feet, a high refund rate should tell clickbank that this sort of black hat marketing is not something we want.

To get a refund contact refunds@clickbank.com with your receipt number.

We also spent a wonderful day in Anglesay living it up in the most fantastic house overlooking the beach, it was the kind of surroundings that I wish we could do more often.

It’s becoming more and more obvious that working for “the man” isn’t going to get me anywhere, so here’s how I’m going to fund my lifestyle.

Keep On List Building

More Safe-Swaps – Over the past month I’ve added over 500 new members to squeezepagesecretsrevealed and earned lots from all the sites build into the marketing funnel Note these messages will start to be sent with [safe-swap] in the title and I’ll put the name of the marketer at the top line.

These swaps are done with no affiliate link and go straight to the other person’s squeezepage, if you were to join via my link and stay a member for over a month I’d be up for swapping with you. My criteria is that yopu have an internet marketing freebie and the squeezepage is clear about what is being offered.

As a current subscriber / follower I trust you to make the judgement about what type of things you want to download, and who you give your e-mail address to. If you want to keep your personal e-mail free of marketing then I suggest you set up a gmail account just for your online business.

Investing In Myself

So beside adswapping creating a product and getting Joint Venture partners onboard is the next best thing. I’ve invested in John Thorhills 72 hour madness for $97 just to get access to John and record an interview with him so that I can leverage his contacts and get them to mail out for me.

For the record this physical disk arrived within 24 hours of payment, much better than waiting up to 3 weeks like some of the expensive courses I’ve bought in the past.

The plan is turn the interview into a front end product that will sell for < $10 utilise the same concept that buildabiggerlist.com is based upon. I may even try to put it onto clickbank – although I’m not sure if they accept list building products? Is that one of the many IM myths?

What Would You Like To Know?

Before I interview John I would be curious to know what you would ask him?

I’m not sure to ask him about list building, the blueprint behind his sold out coaching programme, or the process behind getting that all important first product into the clickbank market place ready for affiliates to find.

Anyway it’s getting late now and I will definately have the Monday Morning Blues when you read this.

If this has helped you to realise that you need to have sort of “lead magnet” and then a “paid product” then the next and more difficult step is to take action and get it online.

Happy List Building

Andrew

Now that I’m back at the computer I have so many things to do, but I think information overload is stopping me from doing anything. Here’s a list of possible things to do.

• watch the last 2 videos of affiliate millionaire
• read the Kaching book that arrived when I was away
• complete reading the pro-blogger ebook
• create content for my listbuildingexpert blog
• watch the social media section of underground traffic blueprint
• take action on the article marketing part of underground traffic blueprint
• find JV partners for my buildabiggerlist site
• promote my squeezepages with all my safelist accounts
• catching up on the blog content produced last week I want to read
• look into outsourcing to do some of the above tasks

As it turns out I managed to do none of the above today, and I think it’s all down to information overload.

I’m not sure how to cure it, but one thing is for sure I’m not going to be buying any more products in the near future, and I think that going back to basics and working on listbuilding is the way forward.

Last week whilst away I added over a hundred new subscribers by 2 swaps set up via safe-swaps so by applying the 80/20 principal this is probably the most profitable option.

Anyway it’s time to go and play in aweber to set up some swaps and broadcast this post.

If you suffer from the same dilemma then I suggest you take time to breath and find out the most profitable way to spend your time.

Andrew

First up welcome to the new look blog, I finally got round to installing the wonderful socrates theme, and this leads me into the content for todays post, and I’m afraid it’s a bit of a rant…

Socrates is a snip at $77 compared to getting a designer in and trying to get a layout perfect for affiliate marketing, yet when I told you about it the conversion to sales was terrible.

And this wasn’t the only recommendation in the $47 to $197 price range that has bombed for me.

Gary Ambrose MemberSpring – For $197 it was a complete business in a box, all you had to do was send traffic. Gary was even throwing in his quality list series which I had to fork out on the dud that was Keith Wellman’s Million Dollar March to get this underground list building course.

Lee McIntyre LazyListBuilding – If you want to build a list then Lee’s $97 course will overdeliver and give you a simple and actionable blueprint. I’ve been to his offline events and the way that Lee’s built his business is phenominal and I’m jealous that he’s had the balls to take massive action and achieve so much whilst still being very level headed.

Simon Hodgkinson Underground Traffic – The best series of traffic videos I have ever watched. I’m currently driving traffic to my squeezepages via Adwords for ~ 1 p a click vs being too scared to touch it before hand. The article marketing videos tell you how to write unique articles within minutes, and shows you a grey hat tactic to get people publishing the article and lots of links back to your site. Another 6 hours of video still to watch with more tactics that can only help me get more traffic.

Overall I must emailed out for these a dozen times and each time the unsubscribe rate is going up and the sales didn’t come in… So what is it about these products you didn’t like? Was it just the price?

The reason for this chain of thought is that the 2 recent emails for Andrew Fox’s Nuclear Affiliate converted very well and it actually resulted in more commission that all 4 of the great products above combined, so I know that some of you able and willing to spend money – but obviously < $47!

So to help me decide what to promote please tell me what you’re price limit is and I’ll make sure that I don’t send you offers for products above that bracket – for example it would be quite easy for me to have send you at least half a dozen emails about Ryan Deiss and his launch – expect a full inbox tomorrow from everyone desparate for your cash.

Look forward to reading your comments.

Andrew

So how did it do?

Well, from the start it’s a daunting, huge series, 36 videos of over eight hours of brand new video in the first section alone, and almost another 4 hours when you include the second bonus set of videos. All together, this series is providing an underground traffic blueprint with over 11 different ways of driving paying traffic past your thank you pages and into your bank account, and best of all it has a surprise ending!

It will literally take you days to get through this series, because you are bound to want to stop and take notes all along the way.

It’s not hard to follow the content and while the techniques are somewhat complicated at times, they are explained well and the flow charts included, give you a step-by-step action plan, with more than enough proof and examples to keep you motivated.

The video quality is great in this series; it never buffered, even while dripping through my slow wifi connection and the graphics were pro and explained the themes to a “T”.

My only complaint is in the audio of the second bonus. It was a little off in places, as if it was recorded using different equipment. However, it definitely was not bad enough to distract from the vital information. Therefore, if you equate huge amounts of information as valuable, you won’t be let down. More importantly, if you’re after cutting edge, “underground” money making secrets that you won’t find anywhere else, you’ll get them too, especially from the surprise ending!

In fact, if I didn’t have to write this blog post, I’d already be spending more time exploring the back door which Jeremy and Simon found left open by ________.com (A really BIG search engine, sorry that’s all I can say at this time.)  which they expose in the very first phase!

Phase 1 Part 1:

Here are the stats: How does 1,700-targeted visitor’s per-penny sound? That is only $17.00 dollars for 1,700 prequalified customers, in any niche visiting your offer regardless of the prevailing average cost of keywords for that niche!

This is the essence, of the first phase of the blueprint, and each phase keeps getting better!

Using this first phase’s underground tactics, you can literally have “crap for copy”, make only one sale, and still come out ahead!

Now imagine what’s happening as I test this on one of my own offers which is averaging 5 to 10% conversions with only two dollars in profits per sale.

10% conversion out of 1,700 visitors = 170 paying customers
170 customers x $2.00 = $340

Not bad for seventeen bucks!

All this is from Jeremy and Simon revisiting ideas, that other people did not think worked anymore and scouring it for underground loopholes. Now we can take advantage of the “cheapness” of this opportunity until everyone realizes what we are “up to”. This is a whole new underground spin on image ads that you can prove out yourself, by risking as little as $10.00 and getting in the neighborhood of 1,000 hungry visitors!

Without any “Black Hat” tactics!

Forget everything that you think, you know about keyword research and pay-per-click advertising. This is a brand new blueprint, with time saving brand new tools!  One of the simple tricks inside for keyword researching alone has already saved me a half hour every day!

I surmise, even a “newbie” could stop after this first section of Phase 1 and set up and organize a working plan, per this blueprint. They could, write their own copy and make their own image ad, by following the step-by-step tutorial and make back several times the cost of the course, (on auto-pilot) even before they have time, to finish the rest of the video series!

Phase 1, Part 2:

The 8 Million Visitor Section is just as awesome as the first section because 8 million visitors is really the potential. Unfortunately, this second section entails a little more patience than the first section, but once implemented, this blueprint teaches you everything you need to build your own traffic-driving “Hard Internet Asset” that will keep growing in real value while sending more targeted traffic to your offers every day.

This second section of Phase 1 is another “whole and complete blueprint”, this time, for setting up and filling a [INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] site that will dominate any niche you put it on.  (I can’t reveal the type of site here as it wouldn’t really be fair to the guys and their customers, you’ll thank me later)

So, Instead of chasing traffic around the Internet, like a hungry dog, this asset will draw traffic to you, while paying dividends with every offer, and increasing its own “cashing out” value every day.

You could easily earn $200-$300 a month off this blueprint and cash out for $30,000 or more in a year if you wanted to get out.

Phase 1 Part 3:

The next section of Phase 1 takes a fresh look at the oldest profession on the web  “Article marketing”. This “underground look” uncovers a “different” world that of the “extreme article market”.

The extreme article market, is not what it looks like on the surface and once you get your underground, “back-stage” pass, you’ll understand why you haven’t been making the profits the Guru’s have been promising.

This is a complete article marketing espionage kit, with secret code syntax’s for peeking under the hoods of article directory sites. You can then cut the strings of the puppet masters and put your articles in the money spot. Jeremy and Simon even expose the “grey hat strategies” you are up against so you can take “appropriate action”.

Finally, in this section they show you how to leverage one man with writer’s block, into an award-winning article-writing machine, even if he types with his elbows!

Phase 2 Part 1:

This phase SHOCKED me because it did a better job of explaining to me why you and I spend so much time on social media, better than anyone else has ever been able to do.

There is a problem you, I, and every one of the 400 million plus users on Facebook share and when you see this real problem for what it is, you will understand why so many forms of marketing in the social media arena fall short of expectations.

This section covers a whole separate social media traffic blueprint that blurs the line between business and pleasure so profitably it may be the only thing you’ll ever want to do online!

Phase 3:

This phase is a complete blueprint to follow for crushing the competition using SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

This underground formula is devoid of any “Black Hat” crap that will get you in trouble later on, but it does contain some of the “Gray Hat” methods that fortune 500 hundred companies use to bury negative press.

Some marketers are using some of this to edge out the competition but the people who know all of these underground tactics, are the ones charging monstrous retainers to clients who want guaranteed results for their domains and they get it!

If you use the power of this underground search engine optimization strategy, you can dominate the search engines even when people are looking up or searching for your competitors!

Everything you need to accomplish search engine domination is here. How to do the research, where to find the tools and how to use them, how to make the links, where to put them, leveraging your work over and over, even how to set-up a system of outsourcing and automation to scale your dominance across several niches and keep yourself on top!

Just as important as what to do-this specific underground blueprint explains what not to do, so the search engines do not turn around and slap you for crossing the line!

Phase 4:

Massive Traffic through PPV, CPV or pay-per-view and cost-per-view:
Jeremy and Simon, have gone all “subterranean” in this underground five part series, unearthing the reasons I see many of my friends losing their shirts in the Contextual Advertising Networks.

You will find that even the people who are making profits in the networks are still leaving lots of money on the table, I believe it’s because no one has ever been able to put together such a complete blueprint on this subject, explaining all of the factors and how they relate.

Other courses and video series on this subject have shoveled on the fluff, while Jeremy and Simon dig up why regular keyword research does not produce results and how you could squeeze every once out of each penny you spend on advertising.

These two guys have really outdone themselves by sharing tools which I’m surprised they didn’t keep secret. It’s really the only plan I have ever seen on CPV worth considering taking the time to make scalable.

Two Extra Bonuses:

I am going to skip right past one of the bonuses just so I can be the first to tell you about the second.

This Bonus is the “$50,000 Dollar a Month Traffic Blueprint”.

I don’t know where to start explaining this underground blueprint because this out-of-the-box-idea actually starts inside a box just like the ones that are on the edges of  every manicured lawn, in front of every neatly tended home, all across suburbia.

The mailbox!

If you were hoping to find the big game changer this bonus is it!

You are going to hear a lot more about this, in the future because now that Jeremy and Simon have let this out of Pandora’s Box we are going to see all kinds of changes in the way money is made on the Internet.

This Direct-mail/Internet hybrid blueprint is going to upset apple carts all over the web. This underground tactic was originally stumbled-upon by two college kids with a thousand dollar credit limit who within six months have made over a half a million dollars!

Because this new tactic works in and out, of both the cyber and brick and mortar worlds, even the “underground” insiders won’t be able to forecast its impact!

Why, Jeremy and Simon are giving away a step-by-step blueprint to this valuable hybrid secret as a bonus, can only mean that even they, don’t understand its true potential.

Hit this link ring now to get one of the best marketing courses you’ll ever get your hands on:
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A Good Intro

Be up front and tell people what they are going to learn in the first paragraph. Time is short on the internet and people want the information now rather than having to wade through pages of filler.

Don’t Keyword stuff

If you’re doing your research and using google alerts for your keywords you will soon find that most of the articles you find are total rubbish. Hint – cheap article writers are cheap for a reason!

The same is also true for many article spinners, the only part of this business that should be automated is the submission, it really is dull and really is just copy & paste 

Be Positive

I know that bad news travels faster than good, but when did bad news ever make you take out your wallet?

The whole point of writing articles is to drive traffic to your website and get people to join your list, buy your product, or take some sort of positive action. If your article gives actionable advice that helps people they will want to find out more about you and click the resource link at the bottom as a very warm prospect.

Good Formatting

Long pages of text with no breaks in the formatting make for dull reading and can turn the reader off faster than a page of flashing banner adverts. Make use of sub headings and write in short paragraphs and keep sentences short and snappy to drive the reader to the end of the article.

The Strong Call To Action

As you get towards the end of the article be sure that you have written everything that you set out to achieve in the title and that all important first paragraph.

Then lastly it’s the all important resource box…

My advice here is to create a swipe file based on the best article writers in your niche and use that to drive hyper targeted traffic back to your website.

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Now as this is my blog I don’t need to put in a resource box, but if want to know how I’m going to use this article to earn $10 to $500 per month be sure to check out John Thornhill’s Auto Article Profits