Let me share my YouTube Secrets with you… Well, it’s actually not a real secret, only a functionality in the YouTube website that most people don’t know exist. At least I have never seen anybody else talking about this, so you will most likely not know about this “secret”.

This video guides you through the usage of this little secret, so that you can instantly implement it yourself.

A busy week is almost over and I’m done with re-building the websites from my crashed server. The Giveaway Announcer list is up an running… actually I’m already testing the version 2 of The Giveaway Announcer there. It includes now a system to easily build and manage multiple opt-in pages and it also tracks the number of visitors, signups and OTO sales.

This weekend is going to be a very busy one again. The Easy Viral Traffic will officially launch on Monday March 3rd. I’ve started a little affiliate contest for all members and you can win some nice cash prizes… see the details below.

Starts on March 3rd.
Ends on April 1-s

Place 1 gets $100
Place 2 gets $50
Place 3 gets $30
Place 4 gets $20
Place 5 gets $10

This Contest is based on activated referrals, no matter if they are free or paid ones. At least 100 free signups are required to qualify but that shouldn’t be hard as there is a complete traffic system plus all the products that you can offer for free.

Today I will go through the Easter JV Giveaway setup with Brad. The system is already up and running but we still have to test it and make some changes here and there. We will then go into Pre-Launch and invite contributors on Saturday or Sunday. The Easter Giveaway is an event that you definately don’t want to miss if you are building your own opt-in list.

Stay tuned, I will post the signup link for Easter Giveaway here soon.

Have a great day!

Guido

It is not enough to have the best product possible and the most effective website to advertise it. The primary key to internet business success lies in your opt-in mailing list of clients. These are the names of the people willing to receive your offers and information.

It is not possible to build a successful list by merely putting a sign up invitation on your website. With the massive competition for people’s time and money you need to create an irresistible incentive for them to give you their name and address. There are several highly successful methods to tempt them.

Exclusive and informative ebooks about your market’s interests can be given away as gifts for signing up with your list. Reports about specific products or processes that teach valuable lessons to aid your customer also increase the number of people willing to sign up for your opt-in list. If your market uses such things, a helpful software program that makes their work easier is always welcome.

Another great way to gain those needed opt-in addresses is to offer membership in a special members only area where they are provided with extra services or information. By making them feel “special” they are more likely to continue allowing you to email them your offers. Providing quality information in a recurring emagazine or newsletter will keep your name familiar. Make sure to include the hint that they may want to forward the newsletter to other friends who may find it useful. Since many people keep the html turned off in their email accounts you would want to carry an online version of your newsletters.

While the popup window was originally a marketer’s dream come true, it has been so overused and abused that it has become standard practice for people to automatically run software that will prevent them from showing. If you are still relying on popups for your address capture field then you are losing sales everyday. To replace the popup, more often people are now coding their sites with “alert boxes”. This is a second field that appears over your webpage which should contain the information about the “special” offer and the address information data fields. There are many options for these boxes; some are static while others can be written to follow the viewer up and down the page as they scroll. Always make sure the alert box can be closed out so your original page can still be read.

Once you have them in your address book it is very important to keep them. As well as offering quality products or service it is a good idea to create interest channels of your clients. By keeping your list focused on the individuals interests and only sending to those who have specifically indicated their interest in a specific topic you will have fewer people unsubscribe because of too many emails off their topic or interest.

Make sure to offer your opt-in list only quality products or information. Once you have them, it will be your reputation that either keeps them and adds weight to your recommendations or bores them into hitting the unsubscribe link in your email.

If you don’t have a system in place for building your list you can start with the Easy Optin Listbuilder

With the Internet being as vast as it is, it is easy to understand the importance of being on top of the game. One of the most often forgotten areas of web pages in a whole, is search engine ranking. While some marketers may be satisfied with the thought that they are at least noticed on the web, it is the truly successful that will not settle for mediocrity. To be successful you need to be in a position of strength, this equates to being on top. By having your pages rank highly on a search engine, you ensure that your site is generating the hits it requires to accomplish what you set out to do.

Search Engine Ranking And What It Means To Your Site

Being in the top ten on the list of pages that come up on a search engine, is ideally the place you want to be. With this type of search engine ranking, you can ensure that your pages are getting the traffic that you are actually looking for. There are many ways that you can generate more traffic to your site, to raise your ranking on search engines. Finding the right combination is the key, to whether or not you are ahead and stay ahead of the competition. If you do not make the effort on your site, your search engine ranking will easily reflect it. This is a simple case of little effort, little gain when it comes to having the site that you desire. Today there are many tools that will aid in the increase of traffic to your site, many of these can be found over the Internet itself. By using some of these tools, you can maneuver your site into the upper echelons of search engine ranking.

Strong Keywords Promote Strong Search Engine Ranking

One of the easiest ways to generate strong traffic to your site is by the use of powerful keywords. A search engine ranking will increase with the rise in traffic to your pages, thus the importance of keywords that draw people to your site above your competitions. Keyword rich content on your pages, allows for many possible variations on a specific piece of information that people are looking for. As well all know, not everyone keys in the same phrase, when looking for information. On this note, it is best to cover all of your bases with keyword variation to ensure optimum search engine ranking. It is always advisable to reevaluate your site on a weekly basis, this will allow for changes that may or may not need to be made to your site to produce success. By installing a visitor tracking counter, you can easily analyze exactly how much traffic you are receiving, apposed to how much you wish. This allows you to make the necessary chances that will net more traffic, hence increasing your search engine ranking. This form of traffic monitoring will also allow you to see what aspects of your site, or pages generate the most traffic.

Catering To You Audience Boosts Search Engine Ranking

The fact that this is a situation where you need to appease the masses, in order to obtain traffic speaks volumes on the importance of search engine ranking. By giving them exactly what they are looking for the first time around, keeps them from venturing to other sites. This will keep your traffic high, and in turn offer you the best possible page rank with the search engine you are running on.

The video below will give you an overview on Search Engine Optimization.

Listbuilding is one of the hottest topics for internet marketing. Many people try it and most of them fail. That’s because they don’t know the small but effective secret techniques that the Gurus know. Yes, there are some very special tricks and techniques that most Gurus won’t tell you about. But don’t worry, after reading this article you’ll know about these dirty tricks and you’ll soon become a Guru yourself!

Building a list is the most important task for any online business owner. Your list is your marketing capital! When starting out it will all start very slow but your results will increase as time goes by. We all started with a list of zero subscribers… And many of us managed to build a list of 10.000+ in less than 6 months. Seriously, start today and work hard on building your list… Soon you’ll be one of those Top Internet Marketers with a list of 10.000 prospects and more.

Building a huge opt-in list is based on 2 factors:

- It depends on how much traffic you send to your Opt-In page

- And it depends on how many of your visitors you convert to subscribers

When looking at these 2 factors you’ll soon see that it’s not hard to master these 2 factors. Your traffic will always depend on how much work you put into your traffic generating strategies. Do you use one method of generating traffic or do you use 10 methods?

Do you get it? You need to implement as many traffic pathways as possible, so that you get visitors from all kinds of programs and websites. Your traffic can’t rely on one source… you need to use as many traffic sources as you can!

It’s not done with using as many traffic sources as possible… You still need to convert the traffic into signups for your opt-in list. We are talking about the signup rate! It makes a huge difference, imagine you have a signup rate of 5% instead of just 1%… You’ll get 5-times as many subscribers to your list!

That leads us to tracking, testing and improving your Opt-In page. Split-Testing is the magic word here. Setup 2 Opt-In pages… one with a different headline or a difference in any other part of the site. Soon you’ll know which of your 2 pages performs better than the other one. Then you take the better one and Split-test it against a new version again. Do this until you reach an opt-in rate of at least 3%.

Once you have mastered this most important part of listbuilding, you can move on and split-test your traffic sources. You’ll soon be able to dump the non-performing sources and concentrate on those that suck in the signups.

It’s not hard to do this… all it needs is hard and persistant work. Your increased results will push you to test and track even more… You’ll soon be able to determine which traffic sources to rely on and how you have to design your Squeeze Pages. That leads to not only getting more signups for your current list, but also in knowing what to do when starting your next project. You’ll know that you need to avoid certain things or that you need to implement certain strategies… Tracking will give you the knowledge to build up a multi-million dollar online business! You’ll become better with every Squeeze Page that you design and you’ll become better at knowing what you need to implement for backend profits.

If you want to know more about Listbuilding then I can offer you a great ebook for free: Listbuilding Extreme

Below you can find a video about testing and tracking.

“Make $10.000 a month”… “Earn $5000 monthly within 30 days”… we all see these headlines at least once a day while surfing the net. All of us were beginners at some point in our marketing career and most of us took one or more of these Super Offers. If you have been there, then you know what I am talking about… if not, then read this article and save tons of cash.

As a newbie in internet marketing you need to get that thought “I can make some fast cash online” out of your head as fast as possible. It’s the cold hard truth that making money on the internet is not easy. If you are just starting out with no or just little investment capital and small knowledge about this biz, then be aware that you will most likely fail with your first projects. That’s just life… learn from it and become better. Those that don’t give up after failing will eventually be the next big names of internet marketing.

It’s all about learning, testing, tracking and coming up with the right idea at the right time. You cannot simply pull up a website, put some ads on it and start to make a full-time income… that just won’t happen. You need to develop a real business plan first… after you spotted your high demand niche. You need to create a product line, your sales funnel and most importantly a system that automates most of your tasks.

Treat your online business like a real business. An 8 hour day is nothing for a self-employed business man, most of them work 12 and more hours every day (or they did this in the past to get where they are). Forget about the idea of becoming rich quick, it won’t happen. Concentrate on building a solid business plan and putting that plan into reality, step by step.

Testing and tracking is the most overlooked tasks by newbies. Many people make the mistake to pull up a website that sells affiliate products… they test nothing. Then if they make no sales they turn away and try a different way to make money… they’ll end up with nothing. That’s why you need to start tracking everything… you need to find out what works and what does not work.

It all starts with your Squeeze Page / Opt-In Page, the front-end of your sales funnel. You test and track different Squeeze Pages and different elements on these Squeeze Pages to get the maximum number of signups out of your visitors. Once this task is mastered you test and improve your One-Time-Offer that you place in front of your signups after they have confirmed to opt-in to you list. The conversion rates of one-time-offers can vary a lot… some marketers claim to get as much as 50% of their subscribers to buy the OTO. You can aim for a 3% or 5% when you start out, that’s good enough for the beginning.

You basically continue with testing and tracking the various elements of your sales funnel until you know that your system is as profitable as it can get. Once this is mastered you can start to send traffic to your front-end of the sales funnel and rank in the profits.

Here is a video where I explain the basics:

Today was a very busy day again. Since I got my new dedicated server 2 days ago I’ve started to re-build my websites that were lost on my other server. The Easy Viral Traffic website is already in Pre-Launch since yesterday. I’ve completely created that from scratch… and it’s a lot better than before

Now it’s time to build up my influence in the giveaway market again. With the server crash I’ve lost my own installation of the Giveaway Announcer software. But still that was a list of 300 very targeted leads. All these people were interested in Giveaway Events and I always got tons of signups automatically. Well, it’s time to setup a new installation of the Giveaway Announcer again.

With this chance I’ve taken some time to improve the software and gave it some new functionality. That’s what I did almost the whole day… setting that system up and filling it with content. It’s now up and running smoothly… so it’s time to promote it. I’ll use my other membership sites and my opt-in list as well as Giveaway Events to get signups on my new installation of the Giveaway Announcer list.

The software now includes Gift Signup Pages. These are automatically designed Squeeze Pages with a signup box for the Giveaway Announcer, looking like this one here: Gift Page
One great functionality of these Gift Signup Pages is that they track visitors and sales. This way I can track different advertising sources. For example, I could add 10 of these pages and track 10 different giveaway events or 10 different safelists… So I can see how many visitors a source delivered and how many people signed up for the gift. I can also track different gifts / squeeze pages at one advertising source, for example in click exchanges or in giveaway events that allow 2 or more gifts. This allowes me to see which gift or squeeze page performs best.

What will I do with the data? Well, as you can imagine I’ll concentrate on the best squeeze page and on the best advertising sources once I got those tracking numbers. This will help me to cut down the time I spend in advertising… I won’t waste my time on sources that don’t work anymore.

Why do I tell you all this? Well, I always like to help people getting started with an online business and 99.99% of them don’t test and track! People simply start a website and write the sales copy or opt-in copy… no tracking, no improving… And I can tell you that it’s really possible to double or triple your opt-in rate or sales rate by testing and tracking… I’ve personally experienced it.

So my big call to action is: Start testing and tracking!

To your success!

Guido

You have heard it a thousand times: “The money is in the list”… and I won’t tell you different because it is true. Building your own opt-in mailing list equals to building residual income. That’s because you can advertise different products or opportunities to your list and build up multiple income streams this way.

Imagine: A new program launches and you have a 10k mailing list… You’ll instantly get 100 or more signups to that new program with one mailing to your own opt-in list. You already know that? Well, I bet you do… but do you also know how to build that 10k list in less than 6 months? No? Then read on and put the here learned tips into practice, so that you’ll soon have your own 10k mailing list!

In order to build your own opt-in list you need to have a system in place first. This is mostly an autoresponder filled with your emails, a Squeeze Page to signup new people and backend offers to moneytize your list.

An autoresponder can either be web-hosted by a company that provides such a service or you can host your own autoresponder script on your own domain. A company-hosted autoresponder is probably better in regards of delivery rates, your own script gives you more control over your list… so it’s just a question of what you prefer: More control or higher delivery rates. Choose the type of autoresponder that you are comfortable with.

The Squeeze Page is the front-end of your opt-in list system. The quality of your Squeeze Page will determine the percentage of signups that you’ll get from your visitors. A bad created Squeeze Page with a weak web-copy will get you signup rates of 0.1% up to 1% … a top designed website with great web-copy will result in much higher signup rates of 3% or more.

Let’s do some math: You get 10.000 visitors to your Squeeze Page that has a signup rate of 0.3% … So you’ll have 30 opt-in leads. Now you send the same 10.000 visitors to a different Squeeze Page that has a signup rate of 3% … You’ll get 300 opt-in leads! do you see where that leads?

Before you send huge amounts of traffic to your Squeeze Page, make sure that you have the best signup rate that you can achieve. This can be done by split-testing and improving your Squeeze Page. Once this is done you can start to send as much traffic to your Squeeze Page as possible. Here are some free of cost techniques that will result in signups… providing you have a strong Squeeze Page.

1. Participate in JV Giveaway Events as a contributor

2. Use Manual Click Exchanges

3. Use Credit Based Safelists

4. Use Forum Signatures

5. Use Article Marketing

6. Use Viral Advertising Techniques

7. Use PPC Advertising (if you can make a positive ROI)

That’s it… no secrets, no dirty tricks and no black-hat techniques… it’s all about hard and persistent work and using as many traffic streams as you can. The above 7 are just some examples from literally hundreds of techniques that you can use to build your own opt-in list. Use this article as an “eye-opener” and digg deeper into each technique.. they all have some little special difficulties that wants to be mastered before they show their real potential.

Here is a great software that has helped me to add thousands of new subscribers on my lists: The Giveaway Announcer

It’s a shame but it happened: My hosting company “Vodahost” deleted all my databases and all my files on their server. What did I do? Well, I’ve installed a new directory script that automatically builds up backlinks for me and somehow that script used too many server ressources. So the server automatically suspended my account and my websites were all offline.

So I contacted Vodahost and told them that this new script must have caused this and that I’ll delete that directory script once they get my websites back online. Well, they replied and told me: “We did a complete reset on your account… if you use any traffic scripts again we will completely remove your account”.

Wow… I replied and asked them to please get my website and databases back online… they must have a backup somewhere. I told them that they can completely remove my account if they can’t get my websites back up… I won’t risk to build up the websites again from scratch if they simply delete my stuff for no reason.

Well, they did not reply… and half my business is gone… great

That means Vodahost has deleted all my databases, all my membership sites, my blog and a lot more. What a shame for a hosting company to do things like this with their customers!

Well… I’m a person who sees this as a chance to rebuild from scratch and to improve everything. I’ve created my own little challenge to rebuild everything and get double the results within one month… and I would like to invite you to read and follow my progress right here on the blog. I can’t promise to write about everything because it’s just too much. I basically create everything myself weather it be graphics, programming the scripts, writing content and promoting the websites.

As I write this I’ve already done the first important steps:

1. I’ve ordered a dedicated server which will cost me $170 each month. I think this is the best investment I can do to become independent from those buggy shared servers and rude hosting companies like Vodahost. One problem with these shared servers is that in most cases you are not allowed to send out more than 200 emails every hour. So if you run a huge giveaway event or a membership site it might happen that members don’t get their activation email.. and then you will have lots of non activated members. This happens if there are more than 200 signups in one hour… not unusual for giveaway events or program launches!

The second problem with shared servers is exactly what happened with me… loss of data, account suspensions… So for me the only way to be independent is the dedicated server.

2. While I’m waiting here to get my server details I’ve started to build my websites offline. I use the GWM2 script for all the membership sites that I’ll launch. I’ll go with each website in a Pre-Launch for at least 2 weeks, then follows the actual Launch. You will read about these launches here on the blog.

The first membership site that I’ll launch will be the EasyViralTraffic system. This system teaches you how to build up unlimited viral traffic for free. The website is in Pre-Launch as I write this… you can have a look right here: http://www.easy-viral-traffic.com/members.php

Stay tuned!

Guido