I’ve just completed the case study work and have now turned my focus back to completing the course so I hope to do an early beta release of the course in the very near future. I appreciate the patience.

I hadn’t actually realized how long it had been since my last post until a member, Rockin Rod, emailed me mentioning how long it had been and what I’d been up to.

I’ve taken a couple screen shots of what I’ve been up too which you can see below. These are the case studies I mentioned.

BTW, these will be the last “money” shots I show on the blog because to be honest … I think it’s kind of lame to show money statements.

Anyway, there are a couple things I want to mention about these pics …

The first one is actually a follow up to the last blog post about the Vacation That Pays. In that post I talked about how a mailing list campaign to one of my newsletters gave a massive boost in sales. The cool part of it was that because of the increased awareness it brought to the website in question, even after the direct effect from the mailing campaign wore off the overall sales for the site was settled down to about 3X (about $600/day) more than before the campaign.

The first image below is the same account and niche website 6 weeks later and as you can see the daily sales has not slowed down much at all and remains somewhere between $400 and $600 / day on average. In another couple weeks I’ll probably do another mail promotion to give it another boost.



This next image is for a different account and different niche website. As you can see from the large one day payoff this was also due to a mail campaign to the newsletter associated with that site.

The list for this campaign was just under 6000 people.

Anyway, yeah I’ve been busy … but it’s been worth it. Once again I do apologize for being absent for so long, but I think the course material I’ll be able to put together from this will be very valuable and I look forward to sharing it with you all.

todd

I was traveling down to LA for the latest Eben Pagan Guru Mastermind Summit and decided to take an extra few weeks personal time. We did the big tour from Vancouver to Napa Valley, San Francisco, Monterrey, LA for the summit and then to Las Vegas (of course).

Anyway, during the first week we still needed to coordinate some work for a mail campaign that was just launching so we managed to squeeze this in from the hotel room a couple hours a night.

If you’re wondering how a vacation that requires a couple hours of work each day for the first week be considered one of the best vacations I’ve ever had?

Check out the pic below for the results of the mail campaign. The clickbank account shown below is a different account than the one from my previous post and is actually a different campaign all together. (sorry it’s not video like the last one … I was traveling and my laptop doesn’t have camtasia on it so I had to take a screen shot)

This particular campaign was doing on average about $200 per day before the email promotion. We had a very good day on August 13th and the week that followed. As you can see we had a $39K week ending August 19th!

Truth is, it was more like a $50K week from this particular promotion because there was a couple minor upsells that are not clickbank and do not appear here but contributed approximately $10K to the overall promo bottom line.

There are a couple key observations I want to point out in particular.

1. After about 1 week the sales from the promotional email had dropped off to a minor trickle, but the overall sales have not returned to their previous 200 per day level. Why? Because the email promotion increased awareness of my site and as a result I’m getting more traffic than ever before which is why most of the new sales now are from sources not directly from the email promo. The baseline daily sales for this campaign has now moved from $200 / day to about $500 / day because of the mailing list promotion.
2. Because of the increased awareness for the site and new increased traffic the promotion has a secondary effect that my list with the starring roll in this whole promotion is now also growing faster than it ever had before. It’s kind of a crazy feedback loop … mailing list promo increases traffic and awareness and in turn makes list grow bigger …. It’s a crazy world.

So you might think this was the highlight of my vacation right?

Nope!

The highlight was without question the Customer Getting Summit in LA which was part of Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind program I’m registered in.

What I learned at the Customer Getting Summit a couple weeks ago will easily translate into far more money than the email promotion shown earlier in this post … and that is exciting!

For more Eben Pagan and the Guru Mastermind posts check out

Eben Pagan’s Amazing Guru Mastermind Videos

Putting Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind to the Test

Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind Bootcamp

And to find out exactly how I dominate my niches for maximum profit follow this link.

I’ve been running a poll asking people about their thoughts on mailing lists and the results are pretty surprising; you can see them in the video below.

Building a mailing list is often overlooked by beginning marketers who “just don’t get around to it”. But if you want to build a real business online you absolutely must start capturing your leads because your survival may depend on it.

If you haven’t started your mailing list then consider for a moment what your plan will be when the next Google slap happens? How will you survive when suddenly your organic listings disappear to the 100th page overnight because Google changed the rules again? Or your PPC cost suddenly triples overnight? What will that do to your business?

The Answer is in your list! Your list isn’t just about making more money, it’s about adding stability to your business. While you’re working to regain your organic rankings you can continue to contact and make money from your prospects using your list. It will carry you and keep you afloat while everyone else is drowning.

The idea of the bootcamp was to provide a whirlwind tour / overview of the Guru Mastermind program over the period of two days. I was thrilled to find that it wasn’t a big pitch fest but rather two solid days of rock solid, usable material that I’ve already begun to implement in my business.

When I say two solid days I mean solid! We started 8:30 am and didn’t finish until 8:30 pm (9:30 pm on the second night). With only a 1 hour break for a late lunch as well as 15 minute breaks every 90 minutes, it was a very long day but well worth every minute.

We covered everything from why it’s important to think like a marketer and not an expert. How to create self contained concepts for your information products along with frameworks for teaching and conveying information that will appeal to the 4 basic learning styles.

We went into depth on wordsmithing, the art of using the right word for the right effect. We covered traffic and advertising as well.

I also learned a very cool technique from one of his guest speakers, Opher Brayer, who taught us how to create a high quality ebook or information product in a very short period of time … like a week! The method he describes would make it easy for anyone to do and, dare I say, actually enjoyable. Not to mention easy to outsource!

Describing the method would be far more than what could be done in a blog post, but I will try and find some resources to his material as I do believe he teaches his method. Here is Opher’s twitter account (thanks sheyne) http://twitter.com/opherbrayer.

I think one of the most valuable parts of the Guru Butcamp was the networking opportunities. I spent 2 12 hours days in a room with 400 like minded people all building their information marketing business. The attendees were at various stages of their business development from complete beginner to those making a million dollars a year. Needless to say the connections I made were invaluable.

My decision to join the Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind program is already turning out to be one of the most valuable decisions of my life.

If you want to know more about Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind program check out Putting Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind to the Test.

Lastly, although we were restricted from filming or taking pictures we did manage to get a couple that at the end of the even so without further delay …

Eben Pagan and me … I’m the fat one

Now last year when he first launched this course he was charging about $10K for the 1 year course. This year he is offering 2 different versions of the course, one called the home study course which is much much cheaper and then the regular full on course which is also much cheaper this year.

If you’re very serious about building a real, full-time online income that far exceeds any paying job you will ever land in your lifetime then this might be the product for you. After all, there’s a reason all the top internet marketing gurus refer to him as their mentor and guru.

Check out the video here and you’ll quickly understand that Eben is not your typical all hype internet marketer, but rather a very professional product developer who knows how build an information business, and more importantly knows how to teach it to others.

Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind  Course

I have to be honest here, I have never taken Eben’s course before and have just singed up for his full blown 1 year program to put it to the test. And yes, I will be reporting on it through this blog throughout the year.

Although I haven’t taken Eben’s course before, I can tell you that Eben has been responsible for much of the income I make every week simply as a result of what I learned from his free videos in his previous launch which I wrote about in a previous post called  Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind Videos.

How so?

If you’ve been taking my free marketing course you know that one of my primary techniques is to create product specific bonuses for the affiliate products I market. Those product specific bonuses I talk about are essentially mini info products in their own right.

If the mini info product bonus you create is done right then it can often turn into a sellable product on it’s own. Here’s how I’ve been doing it …

You create a bonus mini eBook for a product you’re marketing as described in my course. The eBook, which can be as little as  15 pages,  is targeted to helping people get more out of the product you’re marketing. Some of the people arriving at your site already have the product, but since your bonus eBook looks so good they wish they had bought the product from you.

Next thing you know people are asking if they can simply buy it from you. So you slap a small $29 price tag on it and then expand it a little to maybe 30 pages. Now all of a sudden you’re not only selling the original affiliate product, but for existing owners you’re now selling them a mini product like an add-on.

If it picks up steam you continue to expand the mini info product and up the price until you have a full fledged info product ready for clickbank.

The beauty of this model is that you don’t have to go crazy developing an info product until you’ve first tested the waters with a simple 15 page mini bonus. Only after you begin making affiliate sales and people ask to buy the guide do you then put the effort into turning it into a full on info product … and your affiliate sales you get from giving it away as a bonus in the beginning will actually fund your efforts to create the full on product.

That’s how you bootstrap yourself into an info product of your own and start making crazy big money.

I have followed the exact model I just described many times now. I have recently repeated this model just in the past 3 months with a new product which now makes about $350/day via paypal sales. I expect it to triple or more once I move the product to clickbank, which I’m in the process of doing now.

So how does Eben Pagan’s Guru Mastermind course fit into this?

Well it was Ebens previous free videos that inspired me to push the info product creation and the success his free material has brought me is precisely why I’ve decided to take the plunge and shell out the money for his 1 year course. I’m so confident that it will literally explode my online business that for me it’s a no brainer.

I already use Portal Feeder to drive all the traffic I could possible imagine to any web site I want, the only piece left in order to get from $1000 days to some serious uber guru money is creating top notch info products right?

Portal Feeder is absolutely the most powerful and efficient set of money making tools and training on the web bar none! The problem is that it’s not for newbies. If you’re new to affiliate marketing and are still trying to figure out what an affiliate link is or have never made a clickbank sale (or any affiliate sale) then this is probably not the place for you.

If however you are at that stage where you’re making a few hundred dollars a month then this is exactly where you need to be if you want to take your marketing profits to the big leagues and really make a serious living at this.

If you are a newbie and are pretty dedicated to your new found trade then you can more than likely make it work for you as well. In fact the only reason I single out newbies is because this is a serious tool for those who know what they want … not for tire kickers just thinking about it but not doing anything.

OK, with that out of the way let’s get down to business.

Portal Feeder is the big brother of Traffic Kahuna and PPC Kahuna. In fact when you join Portal Feeder what you’re getting is access to ALL of the Kahuna trainging and tools and I PROMIS you, you will never need anything else but these tools and training to make a killing online.

You know you need a lot of traffic for your pages if you’re going to make sales. How do you do that?

You need massive incoming links. You need lots of Web 2.0 real estate like squidoo pages, hub pages, blogs etc … You need lot’s of social bookmakring, you need other blogs posting with links back to your site etc …

But how they heck do these big time marketers manage to do all that? There’s only so much time in a day right?

OK, now imagine you have nearly 9000 blogs you can post blog posts to with back links back to your site. Image you have professional article spinner tools that let you take one article and turn it into a hundred truely unique (and readable) articles that you can now drip out to you network of blogs scattered all over the web.

Imagine you had a tool where you could create multiple profiles and then automate the social bookmarking of your web real estate scattered all over the web from multiple accounts.

Imagine you can use a single desktop tool to manage multiple blogs and other real estate all from one location.

Imagine you had some of the worlds top internet marketers constantly spilling the beans on how they do things in their continuous training sessions and then give you the tools to actually do it for yourself.

Portal Feeder is how the mega marketers do what they do. They have the tools to build large networks of websites, blogs and web 2.0 pages all driving massive traffic to their property.

With Portal Feeder there are simply too many tools to describe here but trust me when I tell you that everything you need is right here and the training n how to use is and the ongoing support is second to none.

Now I have to be honest, Portal Feeder isn’t cheap. At $300/month it’s a tool only for the serious marketers out there. But if you’re already pulling even a couple hundred amonth then there is absolutlely no doubt in my mind that the Portal Feeder tools will turn your tiny few hundred dollars into some serious quite your job kind of money.

The question of whether it will pay for itself or not is entirely on your shoulders because all you have to do is use the tools and you will be so far ahead of your competitors it you’ll feel sorry for them.

I’ve been bragging about Traffic Kahuna for about a year now and a month ago the Portal Feeder doors finally opened again so I took the plunge and it was the best decision I’ve ever made. I knew it would be but given that the doors only open once (maybe twice) a year it’s not so easy to get in, especially since the turn over rate is almost nonexistent.

It’s a pretty exclusive club to say the least, but if you think you’re ready for the big leagues and you’re actually going to use the tools then now is the time to jump on this or you could be out in the cold for another year.

Portal Feeder

This video was brought to my attention from a comment on my “Help Me Help You with the New Weekly Poll” post left by Neil. Thanks Neil! I’m sure many people will come away with a better understanding from this video.

What do you think of the video?
Know of any others that would compliment this video?

Leave a comment below.

There’s a lot of misinformation floating around about CPA offers and it usually comes from blokes who’ve never actually even been involved in CPA before. Fortunately Gauher Chaudhry’s recent release of his FREE 89 page guide, The Insiders Guide To CPA Marketing Profits, will certainly set you straight.

Oh yeah, the answer is YES people are clearing $100K a month with CPA marketing!

If your exposure to affiliate marketing is largely ClickBank, Commission Junction and the likes of these then you’re world is about to get a whole lot bigger once you read this free report.

What is CPA marketing and why is it so lucrative?

CPA stands for Cost Per Action. Unlike typical affiliate marketing where you earn a commission when someone you refer makes a purchase, with a CPA offer you get paid when someone you refer simply takes a particular action. That’s right, no purchase necessary.

These actions can be a simple as providing an email or even just a postal code.

E-Harmony for instance will pay up to $4.50 for someone simply filling out their information form.

Get someone to apply for a free American Express card and you can earn as much as $50.

Here’s one from one of my own CPA campaigns … how about getting paid $27 every time someone requests and information package from a college or university! Yeah, pretty sweet huh?

Ask yourself if you think it’s easier to give something away or to sell something and you’ll start to understand why CPA offers can be so incredibly lucrative.

The world of CPA offers is where the big boys play and the rewards for those who can crack it are staggering.

The Insiders Guide To CPA Marketing Profits will help you break into CPA marketing and it won’t cost you a dime. And if you’ve already spent money on the Six Figure Apprentice in order to learn CPA marketing then get your money back because this guide is free and will take you a lot further than the Six Figure Apprentice ever will.

I know some of you have experience with CPA offers and various CPA networks so drop a comment and tell me about it. What CPA networks did you use? What techniques did you use to get accepted?

I look forward to hearing your stories.

It only takes a minute to answer the poll and your effort will come back to you in multiples. Helping me understand your marketing business, what your struggles are and where you need the most help ultimately helps me understand how to best help you.  (how many more times can a person say “help” in one paragraph)

So here’s the plan. Each week I’ll be collecting the stats and changing up the questions. I’ll use the feedback to help plan out some of my future lessons and blog posts.

Having said that, please don’t assume each poll question is a direct indication of what’s to come. It’s to give me a better picture of what’s needed and the content I ultimately create may address more than one issue or poll question. Another way to put it … there may not be a one-to-one correspondence between the poll questions and what I produce next, but it will certainly guide what I produce for you.

Normally I prefer to simply ask for email regarding what you need, but the Long Tail Treasure membership is in the many thousands and it would take weeks to poor through the email responses. I’d have to change this to a quarterly poll and even then I’d spend all my time reading email rather than producing solutions for you guys. That would suck for all of us!

So please participate in the poll, it will be very much appreciated.

Lastly, please provide suggestions for future polls by adding them to the comment field below. Got a burning curiosity about how others are doing with some technique? is it appropriate for a poll? Add a comment below!

cheers,
Todd

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If you think of tags in the right way and approach your use of tags on your wordpress blog correctly they can be a huge help with SEO and this great post from affiliate-minder.com will go a long way in setting you straight.

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