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3. Congratulations: YOU HAVE FULL GIVEAWAY RIGHTS FOR THIS SPECIAL REPORT
You CAN send this special report to your lists as a bonus gift.
You CAN give this report to your friends and family.
You CAN use this special report as a giveaway to your subscribers, friends on Facebook, contacts on
LinkedIn, followers on Twitter etc...
You CAN add this special report as a resource on your blog.
You CAN add this special report as a resource on a free or paid membership site.
In fact, you can utilize this report in any way that you like.
The only conditions are:
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You CANNOT sell this special report.
Send this report to your fellow Internet marketers now. They’ll thank you for it!
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5. Contents
Before the green light ……………………………………………………………………………………………..6
Do you want to make more money online? ……………………………………..7
Before starting your list-building engines …………………………………………9
Share first, sell later philosophy ………………………………………………………11
List-building wheel – how to get it rolling ………………………………………………………………13
Module 1: Autoresponder service – the hub of your list-building wheel ………………..16
How to use an autoresponder effectively ……………………………………….17
Module 2: Squeeze pages ………………………………………………………………………………………20
How to get targeted traffic to your squeeze pages and websites …….22
Module 3: Opennetworker.com – the TURBO engine …………………………………………….30
Module 4: Facebook ………………………………………………………………………………………………34
8 steps to grow your network on Facebook …………………………………….34
Module 5: Twitter …………………………………………………………………………………………………..42
6 steps to grow your network on Twitter …………………………………………42
Module 6: LinkedIn …………………………………………………………………………………………………47
6 steps to grow your network on LinkedIn ……………………………………….47
Module 7: Your blog ……………………………………………………………………………………………….50
6 steps to make your blog go viral ……………………………………………………50
Module 8: Giveaways ……………………………………………………………………………………………..55
Module 9: Podcasts ………………………………………………………………………………………………..65
Full throttle …………………………………………………………………………………………………………….61
Do you want to get a real BOOSTER to making money online? ………..61
About the author ……………………………………………………………………………..63
More information and resources ……………………………………………………..64
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6. Before the green light…
Recommended resources: symbols explained
In this special report, I recommend several Internet marketing resources. They are evaluated by using
the following symbols:
X - $ $ $ = Cost (X = free, 1 = less than $30 a month, 2 = $30-80 a month, 3 = more than $80 a month)
‘ - ‘ ‘ ‘ = Amount of work (how much “sweat” or work by you is needed, 1 = less than 5 hours a week, 2
= 5-10 hours a week, 3 = more than 10 hours a week)
* - * * * = Effectiveness (e. g., in growing your networks, driving free traffic to your squeeze page,
Facebook Page and blog, 1= fairly effective and 3 = super effective)
! = Turbo tip, a highly effective, underground Internet marketing tip.
Note: The cost of each resource is relative because all of the recommended resources are battle-tested
and they work. They’ll pay themselves back each month – usually many times over.
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7. Do you want to make more money online?
You may have tried different Internet marketing strategies, products and services. As you may have
noticed, most of them don’t work properly. Been there, done that. I’ve used hundreds of hours and
thousands of dollars testing them – for your benefit. You’ll save lots of time and money. You don’t have
to stumble. You don’t have to make all the mistakes I made at first. In this report, I’ll focus on solutions,
and tell you exactly what works.
The cons of most Internet marketing (IM) programs:
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They cost a lot. You may have to pay up to $2,000 for a product or program.
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You get a tsunami of follow-up emails from the seller.
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You get tons of lame, cheesy and outdated MRR and PLR products as bonus gifts.
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They take too much time to learn and implement. You may get 15 videos and 10 special reports
to study. Who has time to check all those materials? I don’t, that’s for sure!
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They are so technically complicated that you will need Bill Gates and his brother to install them
or make them work. Yet, they always say that even a chimpanzee can install the program. Yeah,
right.
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8. Let me help you save tons of money, time and frustration. I love helping people building easy homebased online businesses. My unique purpose is to help people gain insights and make their lives
extraordinary. My Internet marketing philosophy is called Learn & Earn (L & E). I’ll help you Learn and
Earn. First, you’ll Learn the best and most profitable IM strategies and tactics. When you start
implementing and mastering them, you’ll Earn wads of money.
No B.S.
When I started my online marketing business, I needed a no-nonsense and comprehensive list-building
blueprint like this special report. I’ve read hundreds of online marketing books, eBooks and special
reports, but none of them has offered a clear blueprint or alternative blueprints like this report.
To build your networks fast, you’re going to need an inspiring objective and an effective strategy. This
report will show you how to build your lists from 0 to 1,000, or even 2,000+ in less than 30 days. When I
started my Internet marketing career, I had a couple of hundred people in my networks. I grew a
network of more than 10,000 people in less than two months. I don’t tell you this to brag, but to show
you that the strategies presented in this report really work.
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9. Before starting your list-building engines…
I assume you have a website or several websites.
But…
You may struggle building your list or growing your network. Furthermore, you may want more targeted
traffic to your website. All in all, you want to make more money online.
What is a list?
You may be active on different sites and networks on the Net, and have different lists of contacts. In this
special report, lists are defined in a broad sense. Lists are different networks of yours. For example,
they can be your autoresponder lists, Facebook friends and fans, Facebook Group members, LinkedIn
contacts and Twitter followers. All of them have immense social, professional and monetary value.
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10. There are two fundamental reasons why Internet marketers’ build lists. First, it can cost you triple (or
more) to attract a new customer than it costs you to retain an existing one. Second, the experts say that
every subscriber in your list is worth an average $1 each month. Accordingly, if you have 1,000
subscribers, you can potentially earn $1,000 passive income each month. If you have 2,000 subscribers,
you can potentially earn $2,000 passive income each month. This income helps you pay a substantial
amount of your static costs, such as loans, food and transportation. How cool is that?
Objective
Your goal is to continuously build several of your networks. Your objective is to build big autoresponder
lists – yes, you’re going to need several targeted lists.
The strategy
About 80 % of your IM activity should involve in making contacts online in different ways and adding
people to your list. Accordingly, you’ll need to have your opt-in forms in as many places as possible.
I’ll introduce several effective strategies in this special report that will help you grow your networks fast.
Outcome/Result
When you build your networks and your autoresponder lists, you’ll start earning continuous, increasing
passive income. You can build an easy home-based business, and in the long run, find financial freedom.
Something to look for!
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11. Share first, sell later philosophy
"You get all you want if you help other people to get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
You certainly can monetize your lists. Yet, the only sustainable IM philosophy is to give first and receive
later. Your objective is to build relationships with like-minded people who seek guidance to achieve
their goals. People are looking for leaders and great coaches. Build relationships first, sell only later.
Don’t just blatantly sell, offer solutions. Don’t offer hype, offer your help. You must always keep in mind
that people are interested in themselves first, then anyone else who seems to be interested in them.
Every one of us is listening WII-FM channel, i.e., What’s In It For Me channel. Always think “Win-Win”
and create synergy.
Be an authority and be yourself. Instead of psychology, use personality. Be genuine, be a real person,
not another marketing robot. There are too many shameless scammers among Internet marketers. “Be
a marketer, not a sharketer” was a great piece of advice I read on an IM forum. Be different. Be a
dolphin among IM sharks.
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12. PII
Follow and trust in the PII formula. PII stands for Promote, Inspire & Inform. Combine all three with the
promotion approach being the smallest part. If you follow this formula, you’ll stand out from the online
marketers' crowd like a beacon.
“The money is in the list”
You’ve certainly heard the IM adage, “The money is in the list.”
No, it isn’t!
The money is in the relationship between you and your subscribers. You must become a leader and
coach. You must build trust, loyalty, and relationships.
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13. List-building wheel – how to get it rolling
This special report is based on a framework of a list-building wheel. The wheel consists of different
modules, i. e., list building strategies. Studying and implementing one module will get the wheel rolling
– faster and faster.
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14. Figure 1: List-Building Wheel
Mastering different modules
Please read this report at least a couple of times. Next, choose one module that you want to master.
Study and implement that thoroughly. Once you do, you’ll easily and continuously grow your network.
Once you implement one strategy, it might be all the strategy you ever need. When you do something
systematically for a period of time, you master it. You can, for example, become a marketing wizard on
Twitter or a warlock of Giveaways. If you try to learn and implement everything at once, you really don’t
grow your networks. You’ll just grow wrinkles and gray hair.
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15. After mastering one strategy, you can learn to become an expert in another one. For example, after
learning how to master Twitter, you may want to master LinkedIn and create an impressive presence
there. Whichever you pick, study and implement it properly before moving on.
However, after reading the report, you will probably want to start growing your different networks and
building different platforms at the same time. That’s a good idea because you can automatically build
several networks at the same time and easily link different platforms.
How? Just keep reading.
OK, let’s start our list-building engines!
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16. Module 1: Autoresponder service – the hub of
your building wheel
First, we’ll take a closer look at your most important asset: an autoresponder. It’s the hub, the center of
your list-building wheel. You really need an autoresponder. If you don’t create autoresponder lists,
you’re leaving tons of money on the table.
You need to use a paid professional autoresponder service to monetize your lists, i. e., to add them
automatically to a certain list, administer your subscribers, and send them follow-up and broadcast
messages. A follow-up email is a pre-made and scheduled email that is automatically sent to your list. A
broadcast email is a one-time email, e. g., an endorsement or a one-time offer.
There are a great number of professional autoresponders. I recommend AWeber. I’ve used their
services for a long time. Aweber is reliable and versatile. Their services are easy to use, flexible and their
delivery rates are the best in the industry.
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17. Some IM experts say that you should train your list to receive 5-6 emails a day! Yeah, right. Those
“sharketers” may profit, but I call that spamming. Please don’t bombard your subscribers with emails;
don’t blast your list to pieces. You should aim to build relationships and be a helpful and trustworthy
expert.
How to use an autoresponder effectively
Below are some tips to keep your subscribers happy and loyal, and wanting to buy from you, not from
your competitor.
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Create 5-30 automated follow-up emails to each of your lists. Mix promotional and
informational emails. Examples include welcome email and download link to bonus gifts,
reviews of your product, useful tips and checklists, your edited articles or links to your videos
and articles and advertisements of your own products, services and affiliate products.
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Schedule your first 2-3 follow-up emails to be sent once a day, and the rest of the bunch every
2-4 days.
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Send 1-3 highly useful mini email courses to your lists. You can include one mini course in your
follow-up emails (schedule them to be sent every three or four days).
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Send your list surprise bonus gifts once a month at random times (so that it always comes as a
nice surprise to them). A giveaway can be an eBook, special report, audio or video clip, software,
script, application, or free membership, for a few examples.
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Send reviews of products you’ve used that might benefit your subscribers in some way.
Describe the pros and cons of the product. Whenever possible, embed your affiliate link in the
review.
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Send new and topical ads (broadcasts) 2-4 times a month to your lists. If you send too many ads
to your subscribers, they’ll unsubscribe before you can blink your eyes.
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Create and send a monthly newsletter or ezine to all of your lists. The newsletter doesn't have
to be long. Just be sure to send them 70-80 percent valuable information and max 30 percent
advertising.
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18. ! The benefits of your product
1. Make a list of 5-10 reasons someone should buy your product.
2. Make each of the 5-10 reasons into a short message. Embed your link in the message.
3. Add the messages into your autoresponder as follow-up messages.
! How to create great content fast
There are tons of quality PLR (Private Label Rights) eBooks and other digital materials on the Net. You
can buy PLR materials relatively cheaply and turn them into email courses and other follow-up messages.
! New affiliate promotional material
Inform your list about new promotional materials of your products that you have for your affiliates, and
mention that they’ll earn at least 50 percent of all sales they generate. Include your sign-up link.
Ezine tips
Below are some theme ideas for your ezine:
Insight of the month (your own or a quote)
Tip of the month (e. g., 3 tips to... or 5 steps to...)
Q & A of the month (you can even create a Q & A)
Article of the month (your own or your colleague's or an article from an article directory)
Video of the month (your own or your company's or link to a YouTube video)
Ask subscribers to send the ezine to their friends. Include the opt-in link to subscribe at the end
of the ezine
Include your links to your networks (Facebook Page, Twitter, etc.)
Encourage your readers to “tell a friend” and pass on the ezine to them.
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19. ! Utilize your email signature line
Include a link to your irresistible freebie in your email signature line, for example.
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To get a FREE special report on building your list from zero to 1,000 in less than 30 days, go to
www.xxxxx
Recommended resource
AWeber
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AWeber
AWeber has great onsite tutorials on how to use an autoresponder effectively. Subscribe to their
newsletter, and you’ll regularly receive priceless tips and great case studies of their customers.
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20. Module 2: Squeeze pages
To keep the link-building wheel rolling, you’ll need to get new people to regularly opt in. The most
common way to get people to subscribe to our list is to use squeeze or opt-in pages. In this module,
we’ll discuss how you can utilize opt-in pages and drive traffic to them.
There are tons of sales pages on the Net. Many of them are lucky if they have a conversion rate of 1
percent. Most Internet marketers try too hard to sell on their sales pages. The ideal use of your squeeze
page is not to sell, but to capture the emails of visitors. Thus, you can build a relationship to them and
email them regularly. According to marketing studies, your prospect needs to see your message at least
seven times before buying. You need to gradually convert a prospect to a buyer. And hopefully, a loyal
buyer.
Because of spam, most people guard their email addresses like their credit cards. The most important
thing is to use irresistible bonus gifts for opting in. Offer 1-3 high quality bonus gifts for subscribing. A
giveaway can be, e. g., an eBook, special report, audio or video tutorial, software, script, application, or
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21. free membership. Make sure that your gifts solve a few, but not all, of the problems of your list
members. Your freebie should create a strong need to know more.
Exit traffic tactics
Another tactic that can dramatically improve your conversions is to use an exit pop-up. Driving traffic to
your site is only half the battle. The other half is monetizing that traffic. Did you know that at least 95
percent of visitors leave your website in the first 3-7 seconds? How many subscribers and how much
money are you losing every day?
The good news is there’s a solution: you can utilize exit tactics. Don’t let visitors leave your page too
easily. When the visitor tries to exit your page, you can have a pop-up appear. On the pop-up, you ask a
visitor to think again and return to your site. Or even better, you can include your opt-in form and an
image of your bonus gift on the pop-up. Or it can redirect a visitor to a new squeeze page or affiliate
link. This tactic can easily improve your conversions 100 percent or more.
The research shows that that exit pop-ups work. They often outperform page-embedded subscription
forms for subscriber conversion. They really help convert visitors into buyers. (Source:
marketingexperiments.com.)
! Examples of highly converting pop-ups
Collect ezine subscribers
Advertise affiliate products
Make a reduced offer of your product
Make a one-time-offer (OTO) of your product
Collect visitor feedback why they are leaving your site
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22. Should you include an audio or video clip on your squeeze page?
There are mixed opinions: some experts say it increases conversions, but some say it decreases. Test it
for yourself.
Split test: add a video or audio clip to your sales page to see if it improves conversions.
How to get targeted traffic to your squeeze pages and
websites?
Constant traffic is the lifeblood of your website. You don’t need traffic – there are robots that can send
your site a million visitors a month, but there won’t be any conversions. You need targeted traffic!
As follows, I’ll introduce some stellar traffic-generating tactics. Even if you apply just some of them,
you’ll get more traffic to your site, that’s for sure. What is cool is that most of them are free. It just takes
some time and dedication from you.
First of all, I wouldn't recommend buying traffic from traffic-driving services, even if they promise you
targeted traffic. They usually just use bots to drive useless traffic to websites. An Internet marketing
guru tested one of those services. He bought 500,000 “unique, targeted visitors” to his website. How
many sales did he make?
Zero, zip, nada.
OK, let’s take a look at what works.
I assume you already have at least basic knowledge of onsite and offsite SEO. You know you’ll need
backlinks. Ideally, you’re going to need a great number of backlinks from a variety of high PR sites, such
as:
Article directories
Web 2.0 sites
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23.
Social bookmarking sites
Video sharing sites
Forums
Blogs
Creating backlinks from a variety of sites will drive free, targeted traffic to your website. Below are some
tips on how to generate free traffic to your site.
Write articles and include your blog link in the author box. Distribute them to article directories, starting
from ezinearticles.com. You can use Isnare to distribute them to hundreds of directories.
Start creating promotional videos, and add your keyword rich link in the description of the video. You
can easily create spectacular videos on Animoto. I have created a great number of videos on Animoto.
It’s super easy and fun to use. You can add your own photos, images or video clips. You can even use
their excellent selection of ready-made sound tracks.
Distribute the videos to different video sites (YouTube, Metacafe, etc.). You can use TubeMogul to
distribute your videos. Add several descriptive one-word tags.
You can submit your content to top social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and
Yahoo Bookmarks by using Onlywire. It’s free and easy to use.
Comment regularly on blog and forum posts in your niche, and leave the link to your website or
Facebook Page in your signature.
Create a Squidoo lense on Squidoo.com and a page on Hubpages.com, and add your links on the pages.
By the way, Google loves these two sites.
Send out press releases via PRLog (free) and Webwire (inexpensive). Keep in mind that press releases
are not ads, but promotional tools. Customize your press releases, and tell why your site is unique. Keep
it on one page.
To learn more about SEO, check out SEO and affiliate marketing expert Matt Carter’s blog:
Matt’s marketing blog
and subscribe to his highly useful free SEO video course.
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24. ! Top 10 social bookmarking websites
1. Slashdot.org
2. digg.com
3. technorati.com
4. furl.net
5. backflip.com
6. hug.com
7. mixx.com
8. ma.gnolia.com
9. connote.org
10. mystuff.ask.com
! Your author bio box
Offer a freebie in your bio box rather than telling stories about you. In other words, create a short sales
pitch and include a link to one of your bonus gifts, such as a free special report, eBook or script. People
love freebies, remember?
! How to create a cool Squidoo lens
1. Make sure your page on Squidoo looks great. A polished page gets more results.
2. Promote your product and website through your profile and content.
3. Title your lenses effectively and use keywords to get attention.
4. Make the introduction and description captivating and useful.
5. Add enticing images.
(Source: http://www.susangilbert.com/50-powerful-social-media-tactics-for-squidoo/ )
! Pay a blogger
Pay a blogger to write about your product or website.
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25. Check out: ReviewMe
! Create text links
Text links are important in offsite SEO as they create anchor texts. To create a text link on a website or in
your author’s bio box, you need to make an html code, such as:
<a href=http://www.threeinsights.net/book>The Three Insights</a>
In other words, you wrap the text with a hyperlink. Some bulletin boards and forums use BBcode. Below
is an example of BBcode text link.
[url=http://www.threeinsights.net/book]The Three Insights[/url]
! How to write a killer press release
“The Essential 6 Steps to Writing a Killer Press Release”
! Create an awesome logo
Create a logo and add a unique slogan or purpose statement under your logo. Use it in your emails,
squeeze pages, videos, websites, etc. to brand yourself and your business.
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26. Recommended resources: Squeeze pages
Instant Bonus Pages (IBP)
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Instant Bonus Pages
IBP offer you an easy and fun way to create impressive download pages of your bonus gifts. You can
select from a great variety of templates and options. The service provider will even host your pages. You
can choose from many great bonus gifts by IBP and include them on your download pages.
If you upgrade, you’ll also be able to create great opt in pages. You can include your own Aweber opt in
form. How cool is that?
Instant Squeeze Pages Generator ISPG
X - $$
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Instant Squeeze Pages Generator
ISPG offer you an easy and fun way to create awesome sales pages. You can select from a great variety
of templates, graphics and other options. The service provider will host your pages. You can choose
from a great variety of smoking hot bonus gifts by IBP, and include them on your download pages.
If you upgrade, you can include awesome pre-made video clips on your pages.
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27. Recommended resources: Exit technology
Mike Steup’s WP Slide In
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Mike Steup’s WP Slide In
Mike Steup’s WordPress plugin means that you can establish eye-catching, subscriber sucking opt-in
ads.
The activated plug-in allows you to insert a variety of messages that will pop up at the pre-defined time,
and includes transparent pix as well as opt-in forms.
It’s possible to have several messages show up at any side of the computer screen for the length of time
that you prefer. You can easily sequence the frequency for the showing of the ads. You will have
thorough control over these ads within the command screen, plus you can also set one which are visible
by visitors and stop those you do not at any moment.
If you upgrade, you’ll have a great number of options to customize your slide-ins.
Exit Splash
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Exit Splash
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28. I use Dave Guidon’s tiny but powerful Exit Splash script on most of my sites. It’s one of my favorite
scripts. It doesn’t allow visitors to exit from your website too easily. With Exit Splash, you can increase
your sales and capture fresh leads. Use Exit Splash to capture leaving visitors and open a new channel of
communication and new opt-in opportunities with your prospects.
Guidon’s product comes with useful tutorial videos, effective features, great customization options, and
excellent bonus gifts.
Other recommended resources
Isnare
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Isnare
It’s a useful and inexpensive service to distribute your articles to hundreds of article directories.
Animoto
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Animoto
To create really spectacular videos and to utilize all of their awesome soundtracks, you can upgrade to
the Pro version.
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29. TubeMogul
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TubeMogul
Easily distribute your videos to a great number of video-sharing sites.
Onlywire
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Onlywire
Distribute your content with no sweat to more than 40 social bookmarking sites.
PRLog
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PRLog
It’s a great and effective free press release distribution service. You don’t always have to pay for results.
I got one of my PRLog press releases in a competitive niche on the first position on Google first page in
just a few weeks.
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30. Module 3: Opennetworker.com – the TURBO
engine
Thank you for reading this report this far. I’ll reward you by introducing Opennetworker.com (ONW). It
is a turbo engine to boost your list building. It’s a “those-in-the-know” resource to build your networks.
OpenNetworker.com is the secret of how to build larger and more diverse networks on the world's top
social networking sites.
Through a shared backend database with their sister site TopLinked.com, you get the combined benefit
of both services (when you join OpenNetworker.com, it is the same as joining TopLinked.com)
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31. I have tested many networking systems. Most of them don’t really work. This one does. All the biggest
social media sites are included in the system. It will help you build your different networks
automatically. In addition, it’ll help you link them easily.
How to build your different networks automatigally
Pay the very reasonable membership fee. Download all the lists you want. Then send invitations to
connect with you within each network. Please follow their rules. If you just copy and send them by using
Outlook, for example, your membership will be banned. And you can be accused of spamming. You can
ask the members to connect with you. And remember to send max 20 friend invitations a day on
Facebook. Otherwise, Facebook may shut down your account for spamming.
The Open networker system works automatigally. Try it yourself.
OpenNetworker.com
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32. ! Loayltepays – Get Paid to Share the Content You Like
You can join Loyaltepays for free. It’s a great and growing online community for publishing and sharing
content and connecting, sharing and finding support with experts in your niche, fellow publishers and
Internet marketers. You can join as a Premium member to publish your own content and share other
members’ content. You can also join as a free member to share content. They have an awesome
commission structure for creating recurring income streams.
I just love Loyaltepays because they have a win-win system to all parties involved. I can easily publish
and share the content I like and earn healthy recurring income. And it works in virtually any niche.
Loyaltepays
! Simplify list-building with Safe-Swaps
Safe-Swaps has an all-in-one automated system for ad swapping, especially in the Internet marketing
niche. It will help you with all steps of ad swaps. You can build your list automatically. You can easily find
reliable partners for successful ad swaps; the community has more than 3,000 verified premium
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33. partners. You can create long-term JV partnerships. You get a free, quality autoresponder and great
integration with your present autoresponder. Furthermore, if you publish a newsletter, it will be
published in their high traffic directory, which effortlessly gives you new subscribers.
Safe-Swaps
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34. Module 4: Facebook
In the following modules, we’ll discuss how to grow your social media (SOME) networks, build
relationships on SOME and monetize your networks.
You may wonder, "Isn’t Facebook (FB) just for connecting with friends and posting comments and
photos? And has anybody actually made any money on FB?" Yes, it’s a great place for networking,
sharing and selling. Facebook has over 800 million users, and that number is rapidly increasing. More
than half of its users are over 35. That means millions and millions of users have their credit card at the
ready! Facebook offers increasing opportunities in building your lists and growing your network. You
need to have a goal, a plan, and a great strategy to build your network on FB.
8 steps to grow your network on Facebook
Step 1: Create an account
Add your photo and create a professional profile. Add descriptive content on your profile. Add your links
and other great images. People want to know about you and connect with you.
Send friend invitations to ONW members. And please follow my advice and send max 20 new friend
requests a day, no more. Accept all decent friend requests. Send them a welcome message with a link to
one of your bonus gift opt-in pages.
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35. Remember to add new friends to your network sublists (one message list cannot have more than 20
friends on Facebook). Thus, you can easily send them messages in the future.
Step 2: Create a Like page (Fan page) or several pages
You can start to earn continuous passive income by utilizing FB Pages. You can create a cool page or
several pages in your niche. The advantages of pages are:
1. Customizable features and applications.
2. SEO opportunities – pages show up in search engines.
3. You can send updates to fans.
4. Automatic content submission – you can set your blog and twitter feed to automatically post on
your page.
5. You can create events.
6. You can create cool URLs of pages.
7. You can monetize your page.
The experts say that each person that likes your Page or is a member of your group is worth an average
25 cents a month.
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36. Tip
Create a professional description on your Page. Add your links and great images on your Page.
Create a Page on which you give out free materials in your niche. Check out and like one of my
pages Free Self-help Downloads
! How to change your long and cryptic Like page URL
Go to your profile. Visit facebook.com/username
Next, type a new name on the box and check availability.
You can also change your profile name.
Note: You can only do this once.
Step 3: How to get likes on your Page?
Invite your friends to like your Page. And like their Pages too. Share regularly each other’s content on
Walls and Pages.
Regularly like Pages in your niche, and join Groups in your niche. Be an active and helpful contributor on
3-10 other Pages and Groups. You can at times add links to your articles and videos. Now and again,
invite members to like your Page and connect with you.
! Find tagging (reciprocal) partners
Tagging partnership means reciprocal tagging for greatly increased visibility.
1. Send emails to your friends and suggest tagging partnership.
2. Post tagging partnership invitations to your Wall, such as “Would anyone be interested in being my
tagging partner?”
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37. Add the YouTube application to your Page (through Involver). You can add a link to your YouTube
channel and the app shows thumbnails of your latest videos.
Add Promotion Gallery application on your page (through Involver). This app adds other users’ Pages
that you recommend on your Like Page. It can have a great synergistic effect, and help you build strong
connections with other page admins.
! Create several accounts on Facebook
You could create and use at least two different accounts on FB, e. g., one of them to administrate your
adverts. Add both of your accounts as admins to your Pages. If you have only one account, and Facebook
suspends or shuts down your account for some reason, you won’t be able to admin your page anymore.
You would be FB paralyzed. But, bear in mind that this is actually against Facebook Terms of Service.
You are supposed to create just one account. Accordingly, if you create two or more accounts on
Facebook, you do it at your own risk.
The safest way is to ask your significant other or friend (who doesn’t use Facebook a lot) to create an
account and add him or her as an admin on your page.
! FacebookFriendAdder
You can use awesome Facebook FriendAdder software to speed up account creation and administration.
Step 4: Add great content!
Post 2-5 times every day on your Wall and Page. No pressure. Your posts don’t have to be long.
Tips:
Start a mini course in your niche. Every day, post 1-3 sentences useful and inspiring pieces of
advice. You can add images for enhanced visibility.
Post links to your videos, podcasts and articles.
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Include at times status posts to make your posts more personal.
Post a question of the week on your Page.
Add Notes (your articles, etc.) regularly, add a great image, add at the bottom of your note your
resource box + link to your squeeze page (like an article bio box).
Regularly post ad messages. Every fifth of your posts can be an ad with a link to your squeeze
page etc.
Tag posts by your friends and colleagues and share them on your Wall and Page.
If you regularly post great content and you get constant traffic on your Page, your Facebook
Page might end up on Google first page. And you’ll get tons of free visitors to your Page. Not
bad, eh?
Each month, create a great and fun quiz on your Page. Use the app Fan Appz.
You can promote your quiz on FB, Twitter, your site, blog, etc.
Utilize Networked blogs syndication. Watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtD8ghYkp4
You can easily link your blog posts on your Facebook Page, and drive more visitors to your blog
too. Check out the video “How To Add Notes and Your Blog On Your Facebook Fan Pages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8qp-cQdV4w
Where to find fresh and topical material for posting?
You can find great videos on YouTube and useful articles on article directories that you can easily link to
your Wall and Page. You can find great quotes in your niche on a great number of quote sites.
Step 5: Create a group
When you have more than 1,000 likes on your Page, you can create a group. Your group can be open or
private. The benefits of a group are that the size of your group is limitless, you can easily send messages
to all group members and you can easily create group events.
Tips:
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Add exclusive content (remember the private members’ area) on your group, e. g., eBooks,
special reports, tutorial videos and podcasts and scripts.
Send no more than 1-2 ads to Group members a month.
Step 6: Suggest Joint Ventures (JV) with other Page and Group admins
When you have more than 1,000 members on your Page or Group, you can suggest JVs with other Page
admins and Group creators. Then your Page and Group will really go viral, and you’ll get a tsunami of
likes and group members.
Simply contact them, and say something like:
Hi X,
I’m YOUR NAME. I’m a member of your successful Page/Group “X”.
I also have popular Page/Group on this theme, called “X”.
I have a great proposal for you.
If you are interested in growing your fan base at no cost to you,
I’d like to propose we make a simple swap promotion.
I’ll invite all my fans to Like your Page, for free, and I hope you’ll do the same
on your Page.
If you are interested in my suggestion, please feel free to reply.
To our online success,
YOUR NAME
Step 7: Create an Event
You can easily create an event on Facebook, e. g., a webinar or a giveaway. Best uses of webinars are:
“question & answer” sessions, short sales presentations, and “how to” demonstrations.
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40. You can be the expert of the webinar or you can interview an expert. Market your Page, blog, website or
squeeze page at the end of the webinar. You can also market a webinar of a leading expert in your niche
and get whopping commissions.
You can easily invite your friends and other users to attend your event. To get them join you can use
additional incentives, and add your own bonus gifts. For example, “Use this link to sign up for Jack
Johnson’s Doberman Training Webinar in the next 48 hours and receive my free Doberman Training
Guide.”
Furthermore, you can add great webinar replays as bonus gifts for visitors who opt in.
Step 8: Create Facebook ads
You can easily create targeted and cost-effective ads on Facebook. Facebook offers free tracking
statistics to advertisers. The most inexpensive tactic is to point your ads to your Like page.
Tips:
Split test 2-5 different ads to see which of them gets the most clicks.
Use a smiling image of a young man/woman/couple or a humorous, yet relevant image.
Body: highlight benefit, a strong call to action: “Like my Page and get X.”
Buy pay per click ads. Start with less than half of the suggested bid. Facebook is a money-making
machine, and they always suggest you more than is reasonable to pay.
You can use your own images or buy them at a reasonable price, e. g., from iStockphoto.com.
Recommended resources
Jo Barnes’ blog
Jo Barnes is the queen of marketing on Facebook. Her blog is loaded with tons of practical and easy tips
on promoting on Facebook. Her own page, The Social Networking Academy, is one of the most active
and synergistic Pages in the social media marketing niche.
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41. Paul Teague’s Fast Fan Pages
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Fast Fan Pages
Paul Teague’s product shows you the fastest and easiest way to create profit-pulling Fan Pages on
Facebook. There's no tech involved, no massive guidebooks to read, no coding, no extra expenses. Just
'select and click' simple. Anybody can use this, from a sole trader to a big business!
And not only does he give you the tools for the job, he’ll show you how to use them too. Paul Teague’s
product comes complete with comprehensive, step-by-step 'getting started' videos showing you exactly
what to do and how to do it.
Webinar software
For webinar software, check out GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting or DimDim.
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42. Module 5: Twitter
Twitter is a micro blog where you share your ideas. Twitter is rapidly growing. They are getting on
average 400,000 new users every single day. More than one billion tweets are sent every week. Twitter
is a great place to generate business, too. You’ll need a stellar strategy in order grow your network on
Twitter.
6 steps to grow your network on Twitter
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43. Step 1: Create a separate account in each of your niches
Create a fantastic background (tip: check out TwitBacks) and a great description. Add links to your
websites.
Step 2: Start to regularly follow people on Twitter
Invite your ONW members to follow you.
Step 3: Start a mini course on each of your accounts
Tweet informative and insightful comments 1-2 times a day.
Step 4: Tweet regularly
Tweet about your squeeze page and bonus gifts. Invite followers to Like your Page on FB. Tweet about
your videos, podcasts and articles. Participate in discussions. Reply to users. Retweet other users’
(especially the experts in your niche) great tweets to connect with them and to get noticed.
Step 5: Tweet about your offers and ads only 1-2 times a week
There are an unbelievable number of spammers and spam bots on Twitter. You recognize them easily as
most of them only tweet links and don’t have an image in the profile. It’s not easy to sell things or
services on Twitter. Yet, some Internet marketers manage to earn five-figure earnings a month on
Twitter. The best tactic is to allure your followers to check out your squeeze pages, and have them opt
in to your list. You can sell later.
Best ways to sell are to use humor and easy-going language on your tweets. Below are a few examples:
“I stumbled upon this course and it really hit me…”
“I dug up this cool offer …”
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“They must be nuts to give this awesome sample away…LOL…”
“Check out this ninja tip about X…”
“If you are not an idiot, you can monetize this…”
“What if you realized that you’ve been misled in everything about X…”
You can add your affiliate links, too.
Step 6: Offer targeted help
Use Tweetdeck.com, Twithawk.com, or Twitter Search to see who’s asking for advice in your niche and
then offer some help, and ask them to opt in to claim bonus gifts.
! Link your accounts
Link each of your niche Twitter accounts with your niche Facebook Page and LinkedIn profile. Your
tweets will appear as posts on your Page and LinkedIn profile. Easily add great content and save tons of
time. See Help section on Twitter for instructions.
! Set up Twitter alerts
Tweetbeeb.com is a lot like Google alerts. Set up your keywords and you’re pinged each time they are
used.
! Best times to tweet
Some experts say your links get more clicks and your tweets will be retweeted most between noon and 4
p.m. EST. The best times to tweet your offers are just before and on pay days and on holidays.
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45. ! Create an account on a CPA network
You can register at maxbounty.com or neverblue.com or any other CPA network. People love free
samples and there’ an army of freebie hunters on the Net. Via a CPA network you can offer freebies to
your followers, e. g.:
Gift check
Movie ticket
iPad
! Get your new content indexed by tweeting
When you add new content to your site, article directory, etc., tweet about it. Google spiders will crawl
like crazy to get your link indexed. For example, “Just added a new lense about X on Squidoo + link.”
! Hootsuite
Use Hootsuite to manage your social media accounts. It’s very versatile, easy and fun to use.
! Finding quality content
StufftoTweet.com is a content aggregator that lists the trends and most popular content on social
bookmarking sites such as Digg. You can re-tweet content that you think your followers would find
interesting. Check out TweetMeme.com, Technorati.com, and AllTop.com too. These sites are useful
because your re-tweets will be about popular and topical things. You can post on your Facebook Wall and
Page too.
! TweetBeep
TweetBeep offers free Twitter alerts by email. You can use the service to keep track of conversations
based on keywords or usernames.
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46. Recommended resource
Hootsuite (HS)
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Hootsuite makes my social media life so easy! HS is inexpensive and versatile online tool.
Features and benefits of HS are:
Manage unlimited social networks and profiles under one interface
Schedule Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Company Pages and Google + Pages posts and
messages
Track keywords, mentions, and trending topics
Unlimited RSS/Atom feeds
Integrated social analytics so you can measure engagement and campaign success
Collaborate with team members to enhance social communication and improve efficiencies
and much more.
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47. Module 6: LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a network of over 200 million professionals. It’s a great network to connect with like-minded
people. LinkedIn is not just a social site for people to make friends. It is a professional media site that
caters to professionals, entrepreneurs, self-employed, head hunters and those in high positions. You
need to have a good strategy on LinkedIn too in order building your network.
6 steps to grow your network on LinkedIn
Step 1: Create a professional profile
Create a catchy headline, and use the keywords, such as “dog trainer” or “email marketer,” you want to
rank for in your headline. Add your special skills, expertise, and highlights of your career. Add links to
your sites and use descriptive titles (e. g., keywords you want to rank for) of the sites. If you want to
rank for certain keywords, add them several times in your current and past experience. Utilize LinkedIn
apps to highlight your videos, sales presentations, special reports, etc.
Set a custom URL, e. g. http://linkedin.com/in/YOURNAME
Remember to make your profile visible to everyone.
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48. Step 2: Send invitations to connect to ONW members
Accept their invitations too. You will be amazed how fast your network grows on LinkedIn. When I
started connecting on LinkedIn, I got more than 1,000 new contacts in four weeks.
Step 3: Post regularly
Post interesting and relevant comments. You can post ads with links at times.
Step 4: Join several groups on LinkedIn
Be an active contributor on them. At times, you can invite group members to Like your Facebook page
and connect with you on Facebook too.
Step 5: Create your own group
Create a great theme and a descriptive title to your group. Invite contacts to join and post relevant and
interesting content. Naturally, add your links at times.
Step 6: Post ads
You can post text-based ads – DirectAds – on LinkedIn. Each ad runs about 30 days. Like on Facebook,
you can target your ads based on job title, industry, seniority, a certain group, or other targets.
! Download your LinkedIn contacts to an autoresponder
When you have at least 1,500 contacts, you can download their emails to your autoresponder list (at your
own risk!). I recommend using safe-swaps.com or GetResponse for this. AWeber makes downloading
your LinkedIn list harder because it requires a verification of opt-in. Some of your LinkedIn contacts will
naturally opt out. If you follow the principles of the chapter Share first sell later philosophy of this special
report, most of them will stay on your list.
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49. Downloading your lists is not possible on Facebook and Twitter. But it’s possible on LinkedIn. Cool?
Cool.
! LinkedIn InMail
Consider subscribing to LinkedIn's internal mailing system. The monthly fees are quite expensive, but
you may reach hundreds of contacts easily. Certain response rates are guaranteed by LinkedIn.
! Track your links
Hypertracker.com is a useful and fairly inexpensive service that allows you to track each link you post on
the web. It also provides information on the activity of visitors on your website. Thus, it allows you to
follow a prospect from clicking your link to the time he or she exits your site. You will be able to track
which marketing approach works and which doesn’t.
! Cloak your links
You can use your domain name to redirect leads to an affiliate product by cloaking your affiliate links to
prevent link robbery. You can do this by logging into your domain user panel. Redirect the URL to
transfer traffic directly through your affiliate link. Visitors who see the link won’t even recognize it’s an
affiliate one!
Alternatively, you can use cloaking service called ViralURL. You can easily cloak your links and track
them. Furthermore, they have a great affiliate program.
ViralURL
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50. Module 7: Your blog
Despite new web 2.0, blogging still remains very popular. There are now 100 million blogs globally,
approximately 1.5 new blogs are started every second, and bloggers post on average 20 posts per
second. Blogging is a great way to connect and share with people on your niche. It helps you earn
respect as an accomplished expert in your niche.
You can add your opt-in form and bonus gifts on your blog site. You can easily monetize your blog site by
adding AdSense, banners, product reviews, and affiliate links.
6 steps to make your blog go viral
Step 1: Use a WordPress template
WordPress templates are easy to optimize for search engines, and they are easy to use. Use your most
important keywords in creating categories and in the titles of your posts. There are a great number of
free apps to add to your WordPress sites.
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51. Step 2: Post continuously
Post informative, fun and great content 1-2 times a day. At times, tell personal stories – e. g., give your
readers a “sneak” peak into your average work day. Use humor and self-irony.
Step 3: Add social bookmarking box and buttons to every page on your blog site
Make it easy for visitors to share your content. Check out http://sharethis.com to get customized social
media buttons on your site.
Step 4: Add “Like my Facebook” app to your blog
Check out your Facebook Page settings for this app.
Step 5: Link your blog posts automatically to your Facebook wall and Like pages
See Networked blogs syndication tip earlier in this special report.
Step 6: Add an opt-in form on your blog
Remember your most important goal? Add your opt-in form on several pages on your blog.
! How to triple your opt-in requests without spending a cent
Add your opt-in form in the middle of your page, such as in the middle of your product review. For
example, offer a free 5-day mini course or a special report on the subject. While the visitor is interested in
your content, you let him or her to know that additional, ongoing, up-to-date information is available.
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52. Blogging tips
Blogging is not as difficult and time-consuming as you may think. Below are some tips for blogging:
Your own video or video from YouTube
Podcast
An excerpt of your book, eBook, special report, etc.
Your article or articles from article directories
Your own insight or a quote from a quote site
Promote your product or affiliate product
Promote your affiliate program
Feedback/testimonial from a reader/customer
Q & A session
Review of a new product/program
Review of a new book/movie
New 3I products/services
Recommended resource (blogs, websites, etc.)
Lists (top 5 ways… top reasons…)
News about your niche
New research
Guest blogger/interview
Self-assessment
Survey (use Survey Monkey’s free version)
Contest with great prizes (works like gangbusters on Facebook too!)
Ask a question
! Ezine contest
You can give a hot new product each month to one lucky subscriber. You could ask a question at the
beginning of your ezine, and subscribers must look for the answer somewhere within the newsletter. The
first one to send the answer wins the product.
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53. ! Suggest JVs
Ask for JVs with fellow bloggers in your niche, Facebook Page Admins, Warrior Forum members (see
section Warrior JVs), prolific Ezinearticles.com writers, etc. Most of them are crying for more traffic.
Suggest to them things like:
Affiliate deals to promote your product
Guest blogging
Interviews
Podcasts
Product review
Exchanging bonus gifts to subscribers
Banner trades
Forum signature swaps
Tweet swaps
List cross-promotions
Like Page and Friend swaps on Facebook
Email solo ad swapping
Solo ad swapping in your ezines.
! Reciprocal links
Reciprocal links mean that two websites link to each other. Always try to get links to your site from a site
with more traffic than yours. Accordingly, traffic to your site will increase.
! Be the first to promote
If your potential JV partner has a great product and an affiliate program, promote his or her product first.
Sign up as an affiliate and market the product on your blog, to your lists, etc., first. When you get that
piece going, you can tell him or her about that, and ask for a JV. The marketer will without doubt love
your suggestion. And your JV will work like gangbusters!
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54. ! Wondering who’s talking about you?
http://whostalkin.com is even better than Google Alerts. It’s a current social media search engine. The
results are shown in chronological order.
To maximize Google Alerts, make sure you’re using all keywords possible. Include your name, product
titles, niche keywords, website and blog URLs, etc. When inserting URLs, don’t use the http://www
prefix, just the short version, e. g., myselfimprovementcoach.net
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55. Module 8: Giveaways
Giveaways (GA) are a great, inexpensive and fast way to build your lists. You can participate as a
contributor in a giveaway. Contributors list different freebies, such as eBooks, special reports, software,
scripts, and free memberships. You can list your own bonus gifts, text ads, and special offers. A giveaway
lasts usually 7-14 days. During that period, visitors can download freebies. In order to download your
gifts, they must opt in.
Tips:
Always upgrade (from $5-97) to offer more bonus gifts, text ads, offers, and to get more
visibility
Try to get JV partners on board. This is not necessary, but you’ll get bonus points for this.
You must market the GA to your lists, otherwise your offers may be downgraded.
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Participate especially in the giveaways arranged by the “big dogs” of online marketing. They’ll
typically drive 10,000 or more members in their giveaways.
Your gifts must be among the stars of the show. Offer irresistible and unique gifts with fabulous
graphics and captivating titles and enticing descriptions. You can use your own gifts, JV partners’
gifts, or PLR products. The opt-in rates vary a lot, but you can expect a rate of even 75 percent,
which is phenomenal. Depending on the number of members of a giveaway and the quality of
your freebies, you can expect to get 15-300 subscribers via a certain giveaway. Isn’t that cool?
My best result has been more than 1,100 subscribers in a giveaway (a private self-improvement
giveaway hosted by me). You’d have to pay a fortune to get this result by pay-per-click ads.
Add free bonuses on your gift download pages.
Join in a new giveaway as a contributor at least twice a month and inform your lists about the
new giveaway.
When you gain experience on giveaways and build your networks, you can create your own
giveaway.
In the Internet marketing niche, I recommend giveaways arranged or recommended by Chris
Freville, Paul Teague, and Anwesh Rath.
In health and wellness niche, I recommend giveaways arranged or recommended by the
aforementioned gentlemen or Dr. Joe Rubino, Carolyn Hansen, and Stephanie Mulac.
When you promote a giveaway, you’ll get credits for referrals. For example, you might get more
displays to your text ads. Furthermore, you can win the best contributors’ prizes.
! Host your own private giveaway
I’ve arranged a great number of private giveaways in the self-improvement niche. I invite only 4-5
contributors – quite a few of them have been the industry leaders. Each of the contributors gives one gift
on the squeeze page of the event. I’m positive that you can host a superb private giveaway in your niche
as it’s a win-win event to all parties.
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57. ! Alternate your images
Alternate between 2D and 3D images of your freebies. I’ve noticed that sometimes a quality 2D image
stands out of the pack like a pearl. Check out Amazon’s Book section for proof of this.
! Create a giveaway page on your blog
Create a GA page and update it regularly. Thus, you make it easy for your visitors to become members
and contributors to the giveaways that interest them.
Where to find great bonus gifts?
To find quality PLR content and bonus gifts, I recommended Resell Rights Weekly and Mike Steup’s
different PRL sites. Furthermore, I recommend Viral Ebook Explosion. You can use their great eBooks as
bonus gifts, rebrand them and add your own affiliate links to them.
Resell Rights Weekly
Mike Steup’s PLR sites
Viral Ebook Explosion
Recommended resources
Auto Cash Funnel
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Auto Cash Funnel
Auto Cash Funnel is one of the most practical, no-nonsense training courses for an IM newbie. The
course will teach you step-by-step how to participate effectively in giveaways. They even give you a
great number of free gifts to start with. The instructional videos are so useful that you can contribute to
your first giveaway in less than 24 hours.
Push Button Giveaways 2.0 (PBG)
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Push Button Giveaways 2.0
You’ve probably noticed I love giveaways. Yet, I must admit it’s pretty tedious to join them. You have to
fill the same details over and over again… Boring!
I’ve found a “Push a few buttons” solution: Push Button Giveaways by Keith Purkiss and John Thornhill.
PBG pretty much automates joining giveaways. You can easily join tens of these events in a month. This
system has everything you need to easily and effectively build your list by joining giveaways. It stores
your gifts, text ads, and special offers. It lets you join giveaways with a few clicks of your mouse, and
then add your details, set up all your gifts, etc. with a few more clicks. I use PBG regularly, and it's simply
awesome.
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59. Module 9: Podcasts
Every Internet marketer and his or her neighbor is writing articles or creating videos like crazy. You can
stand out of the IM crowd by creating great podcasts. You can submit your podcasts online, and link
them to your blog, FB Page, etc. Podcasting is a method of publishing audios to the Internet. Podcasts
are an effective and free way to get traffic to your squeeze pages, blog, and website. You can easily
recycle your content. First, write an article, submit it to the Net. Second, record a voiceover of the
article.
You can use an audio recording service, such as AudioAcrobat to record, to organize and store your
voiceovers.
Submit your voiceovers to different podcast sharing sites such as iTunes for free. It is easy to submit new
voiceovers under your existing podcasts.
Add links to your sites on the description of your podcast and at the end of each voiceover.
! Naming your audios
Include your website URL in the title of your audios, e. g.
Part 1 – www.threeinsights.net.mp3
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60. If you cannot use multiple dots in your file name, try this:
Part 1 – wwwthreeinsightsnet.mp3
Related podcast websites:
apple.com/podcasting
podcasts.yahoo.com
podcasting-tools.com
ipodder.org
podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html
Recommended resources
AudioAcrobat
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AudioAcrobat
AudioAcrobat is an inexpensive service to record and publish your audios.
Cinch
Cinch is a no-cost and easy way to record and share your audios on the Net.
Cinch
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“Pick something, and just run with it, master it, make it WHAT YOU DO.
Once you've mastered that, then grab another tactic and MASTER that.
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63. About the author
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Tim Pond is an author, coach, and Internet marketer. He’s CEO of Pond Insights. He has published 15
books. The Happiness Hop is his latest book. His own unique purpose is to help people gain insights and
make their lives extraordinary. He is the proud father of three children.
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