What Do All Online Marketing Systems Have In Common…?

Yes, that’s right, it’s called The Front End.  It may be  a squeeze page, a lead capture page, a splash page, an opt-in page, a lead magnet landing page or any page that is designed to attract visitors,  subscribers, prospects, and buyers.
Whatever it’s called, the name doesn’t matter as much as the page itself.

It’s simply the front end. It’s the first thing your visitors see and if it’s done well and it provides exactly what’s offered then your new visitors will be new subscribers.

Squeeze page types and designs are a larger topic and something fit for the subject of another article.  It doesn’t need to be complicated though.  It just needs to work properly.

Creating, uploading, and testing my own list building squeeze pages are some of the most useful skills I’ve learned as an internet marketer.  Attracting many visitors to view my new squeeze page is the only way to test those skills.
That’s what giveaway events are all about. If event members view your gift listing and click on it they’ll arrive at your opt-in page commonly referred to as a squeeze page.   You now have one click of interest in your favor.  Your squeeze page needs to turn that one click of interest into a successfully confirmed subscriber.

I’m almost done preparing a short video on how to quickly edit and create good squeeze & thank you pages using a template.  I’ll be adding download links for special pre-formatted squeeze and thank you page templates that you can customize yourself once you see the video(s) I’ll soon be publishing.

The best way to really see how your pages are looking to a browser is to use an amazing little web page editor called notepad ++.

Notepad ++ Link to Download Page Here
It’s free and I couldn’t live without it now.  I’ll show you why it’s so valuable in my next video.

Stay tuned, there’s more JV List Building Giveaway Spotlight to come!

P.P.S.

Post Plus Some…

St. Patrick’s Day Joint Venture List Building Giveaway Is One Month Long – It’s Under Way And It Started Today!

As a contributor to St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway I decided to check out the entire list of gifts being offered and then send a “Giveaway Scouting Report” to my subscribers.

Here are my TOP 3 recommendations for the best gifts of the event:

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1 —- Backend Income Secrets

This product is hands down the best offer
in the giveaway. It contains 6 video instruction
modules plus a companion manual.  This
generous set of videos products falls under
the categories – “required viewing” & “must have”.

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2 —- How to setup a WordPress 2.8 Blog.
eBook & videos.

From contributor Ed Rubi

This gift product is a close second to my top pick.
The video ebook contains 6 step by step video
instructions for setting up Wordpress blogs with
accuracy.  I paid over $100 for a similar program
over 2 years ago!

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3 —- The Online Profit Devil’s Giant PLR Directory

This gift is an eBook directory of actual links to
the biggest listing of professional grade PLR libraries
that contain thousands of PLR articles, videos, books
and templates.  This directory is definitely worth
having when you need some fresh ideas and content.

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The St. Patricks Day Event last for 30 days so
if you decide to join you can take your time
and sign up for the top offers every few days
or so.  Once your in, your in.  You’ll have access
any time you choose for 30 days.

If you’d like to join the giveaway I hope to see you there!
I’ve posted the event access link below:

St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway – It’s All Green

“Beware the March Madness and her little dog Toto to.”

INTRODUCTION

Joint venture giveaway events have become a permanent feature of list building and lead generation online.

There’s been over 200 contributors and over 500 members in each of the last 5 giveaways I’ve joined.

Each event is competitive and exciting at the same time.  The more that contributors promote the event the better the results and the more exciting it becomes.  These events are the best way to test your stuff.  If you do well in a giveaway then you’ll do well elsewhere online.

Giveaway events should be treated much like any other marketing campaign, i.e., article marketing, blog marketing, video marketing, etc.

It’s something that once you start, there’s no turning back.  You simply keep on joining events and improving until you get the results you’re after.  Once you’ve prepared everything necessary for an event you’re in a position to easily duplicate the process over and over again.

Article marketers write and submit articles to article directories on a continual basis and giveaway event contributors join every giveaway event they can possibly manage.

The only difference between each giveaway that you join may possibly be in your choice of gifts.  If one gift doesn’t get any response you can try another gift next time or you can even delete one gift during the event and replace it with another.

Most giveaway events allow their contributors to show up to three gift listings which further extends your ability to test your market.

I don’t want to give the impression that all of this is easy or done quickly.  It takes time to prepare your gifts and offers.  When you’re ready to join a giveaway you’ll have completed a long list of tasks.

If you have your own website and you’ve learned to upload web pages and digital products and maintain and update your website then your as ready as ever to begin preparing your gifts and offers as an event contributor.

If you don’t have your own website but you’d still like to become a contributor and build a list for email marketing purposes then I highly recommend Jeff Dedrick’s Instant Bonus Page Creator.  Jeff’s service provides a web based template for creating your own opt-in page and download page.  You can either press a button and activate your new pages on a site hosted by Jeff or you can copy the new html index files and upload them to your own website.  There’s a free version and an upgrade version of the program at -  http://instantbonuspagecreator.com

It’s extremely important to remember that building a list is useless if you’re not prepared to nurture your list.  It may seem obvious at first but it needs to be said for the sake of others just starting out.

If you take the time to become an active event promoter and contributor make sure that you also prepare a series of follow up emails for your new subscribers.

Your new list is your real house of business and a giveaway event is a clear road to your front door.  There must be something more than one gift on the other side of the door.  When someone opens it we need to have a real business on the other side.  If you simply add a couple extra gifts on the gift download page you’ll make a lasting impression on your new subscribers.

We only need to lay a good foundation to make an impression that get’s good results.  My next four articles will cover the four cornerstones of JV list building giveaways.  Let’s build a strong business foundation by learning the art of the giveaway together!

Microbloggery Is A Twitter Brew

Did Twitter take over the internet or is it merely a prevailing trend?  Is it
the latest fancy passing or passing fancy?   I do jest.  Hold on one moment while I check Twitter’s Alexa ranking…

Twitter’s daily reach is up and down, but it’s mostly up.
Over 63% of Twitter’s participants come from these 5 countries:

Twitter gets a little over 6% of it’s traffic from search engines.

The number of spin-off sites and programs designed to facilitate all manner of twitter needs has risen sharply since it’s popularity has grown.  I’ve added a sampling below of  my favorite twitter related sites and programs.

free search tools:

>>>  http://followerwonk.com/
>>>  http://www.tweetgrid.com/

excellent 2 min. tweetgrid demo video

>>>  http://www.vimeo.com/2356559

free productivity tools:

>>>  http://www.socialoomph.com/
>>>  http://tweetake.com/
>>>  http://thetwittertagproject.com/followfriday.php
>>>  http://twitter.grader.com/index.php

free client-side twitter dashboard:

>>>  http://tweetdeck.com

free income earning programs using twitter:

>>>  http://sponsoredtweets.com/
>>>  http://tweetglide.com/

other income earning programs using twitter:

>>>  http://www.hummingbird2.com/
>>>  http://www.turbocashgenerator.com/
>>>  http://www.thetwittertank.com/

Is twitter.com a success?  It registers significantly in over 20 countries around the world and it has a total of  5,737,867 registered users.  That’s not counting all the people who access twitter by simply subscribing to twitter members RSS feeds or visiting the the twitter members pages via any search engine.

If any of my readers would like to add their own favorite twitter related sites please do so (affiliate links are permitted).

I wish all a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!
Thanks to all the friends and graduates of John Thornhill’s masterclass and to all my subscribers and visitors, without your support blogging would be dryer than the Texas sand.  See you next year.  Steve D.

Blog posts can attract and hold your visitors attention to your website; visitors who will subscribe to your feed and participate with your site in the future. When you take the time to create blog posts that suck visitors in, you’ll have a great foundation on which to build your business!

Let’s face it – there are a lot of websites out there from people to choose from! No matter what topic you choose, there are bound to be countless other blogs on the same topic.   How do we make our blogs stand out and get people coming back for more?

In four ways -  discover, recover, transform, and create fresh topical content, in any way, shape, or form you can find to do so without using any black-hat-techno-fraud.

When you create your blog and your posts, you have two specific groups of people you’ll be courting – new visitors and patron visitors. The new visitors want to know what your blog is about within a few seconds.

This means that you need to have a tagline at the top of your blog that explains your mission focus.  This statement, displayed under the title of your blog, will give your new visitors an instant snapshot of what you’re about.  Make the sign up box for your RSS feed obvious and you’ll get new subscribers.

Your regular visitors especially need to be thought of as well.  Keep content fresh and update your blog frequently.  When you think about it, each and every post you make is an opportunity to lose or keep visitors.

In this short report, you’ll learn a step by step process to getting your blog running and holding onto the visitors that come YOUR way! Whether you’ve had a blog for a while and need to update it, or you’re brand new to blogging, you’ll be able to use this process to get traffic and potential buyers.

“How To Write Blog Posts That Suck Visitors In” comes with MRR, and eBook affiliate branding feature.

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_______________________________Deerfield Post Xmas Gift

Success is measured in many ways and money is only one of them.  Yet, because it can be measured it tends to be the only measure of success that gets anyone excited.  It’s human nature.  The subject line of over half the emails that I receive has a tempting number with a dollar sign and often that’s the email that gets opened, at least until the reader becomes desensitized.  Still, Curiosity is a dependable aspect of our nature.

Lately,  I’ve been somewhat preoccupied with the sociology of  the internet.  I spent quite a bit of time reading marketing studies from Michael Cheney and Jeff Walker.  Both of these gentlemen have had some influence upon me, especially Michael.

I’ve never known anyone so young as he, who has overcome as much as he has and to have come through it all with such brilliance.  I do not envy Michael or people like him.  I do admire their tenacity, spirit and courage in the face of adversity.  I’m moved by their indomitable good will towards others who’ve chosen to learn the art of positive influence.

If not for John Thornhill, I would’ve never known of Michael’s work.  And as this thanksgiving weekend comes to a close, I remember my friends on the medicine wheel, the ones who share their good fortune in the best ways they know how, with consistency, commitment and most of all, with heart.

“If you learn from the best, you can become the best.”
John Thornhill’s Monthly Mentorship

Command Your Resources From Two Windows!

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The information age is upon us. When we first glady opened our hard drives to the magic of file transfer protocols and all the information that would follow did we know the extent of it?  Do we even know the extent of it today?  I don’t know …and that’s okay.

I do know that I have been overwhelmed with resources of all topics and types.  When I couldn’t find what I knew I already had I decided it was time to bring some law and order to my computer and my business.

Fear Not, Your Own Database With Power Windows Is Here!

I made the 12 minute video above to demonstrate the power and simplicity of a 2 folder database system.  When I took the time to create a logical structure for my new database I was rewarded with 10 fold in speed and efficiency.

I’m well aware of the many database software programs already available.  That’s why I made my own.  Creating and maintaining a software database program is a major time suck.  If you’re already using database software that’s great.  My point is that some programs are way too sophisticated for the needs of most internet apprentices.

On the other hand they’re sophisticated programs that are a perfect fit for online marketing.  Camtasia, Photoshop, PowerPoint, and Word are money makers’ and product creators‘ tools of the trade.  They take time to learn but they’re rewarding in return.  I also recommend Excel.  It’s a spreadsheet and database program combined.

If you’re using a free or paid database and you’ve already taken the time to create and name all of your FIELDS and FIELD TYPES then you’ve essentially created the database yourself.  The software itself will index every record entry, query information, and produce reports.  That’s what an already flourishing business may need in fact.  Does a newbie or twobie need that much computing power?  One day, perhaps.

In the meantime we need to access, organize and activate the resources that we already have on board.  We need to create our own portable infological database with power windows.  That’s what my little video is about.  I hope it fits.

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