On this week’s product review, I decided to review a new program that came up, called Everloss.
Everloss is a series of 5 ebooks and a 30 day action plan, guaranteed to push you in the best direction possible in a newer healthy lifestyle. For those who have tested the product, the most fervently dedicated have reported to have weight loss in the range between 20-23 pounds in a single month, but that is not typical.
It really depends on how hard you want to lose the weight, and the action that you decide to take. I am going to explain the five modules of The Everloss System.
First one is the “Fatloss Forever” module.
This module breaks into the world of diet myths and celebrity diets which never work, but only for those who are selling the diet, because it lines their pockets. You will also learn secrets to burning fat fast, and safely, and what minor changes you can make to boost your metabolism.
Also, Fatloss Forever goes over the foods you should consider putting into your eating rotation and what foods to take out the rotation. Also mentioned are probiotics and why your body so desperately needs these for proper digestion and improve your health!!
Second Module is “Recipes 2 Motivate”
This is not just a sample 2-3 meal plan and they send you on your way. NOPE! These folks want to make damn sure you are set with a good rotation of recipes that taste great, work with you, budget and time friendly. The food is actually going to taste great! Now that is a first for a great diet.
You will learn how to eliminate cravings, and more about certain ingredients that are beneficial and give a nurtritional advantage to your eating plan.
The Third Module, “Breathe Easy Exercises”
If you really hate exercises like I did, you could really take advantage of what this ebook says. This book outlines the methods and exercises that will NOT require the usage of expensive gym memberships or home gym equipment. The core philosophy of physical activity is what Breathe Easy Exercises emphasizes on. Also a great section on how to work your abs if you really desire to get that six pack.
Module Four, “Life’s Supplements”
Supplements are absolutely required to sustain life. Now not just any supplement, as each body is different and will require a different set of supplements, depending on life goals and other factors. Life’s Supplements will cover the different vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, proteins, and other nutrients that are needed to succeed on the eating end of dieting.
The last module is “Active Family”
Active Family reaches out to those who are actively seeking to properly nurture and raise their family, in a time where epidemics such as childhood obesity, juvenile diabetes, and heart disease is at an all time high. This book encourages activity on a family scale, and show you the way to become a success in your family’s aim to keep fit and healthy.
And to kickstart the new lifestyle and to embark on your new goals, get started with the “30 day action plan.” As a bonus, you will receive a copy of the “Cardio Ballroom Dancing Challenge Video” with Dancing With The Stars dance Instructor and world dancing champion Louis Van Amstel.
This week, will be a way less controversial topic than last weeks installment of Get Your Shit Together Thursday. We will be focusing on persistence, and how it is best applied.
We all can agree that life is not easy, and it will never be. Life will not be fair, and there is no intention for it to be fair. Out of those who are successful at what they do in life, alot of them had a very high failure rate until they got to where they are today.
You ask me “They failed many times?” Absolutely!!! The problem is that in the public eye, the failures are not really mentioned or brought forth. A person’s future success is not going to thrive off of past failures, so why should they be mentioned???
Instead, for the most successful person that is out there, persistance is the key to overstepping the failures and looking to slightly change their pitch or methods of doing business. Believe it or not, it’s these constant reinventing and revising our methods to madness through learning from our failures, and getting back up to try again.
A very good handful of case studies of persistence I could recommend:
1. Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner, was a pioneer businessman well before his political career. Governor Warner happened to fail at a few different business ventures. At the discouragement of his family, Governor Warner, which had failed his first business at 6 weeks, his second business at 3 months, had on his third try to unturn a four leaf clover, in the form of Cellular Phone franchise licenses. With his obtained knowledge, Governor Warner invested in a cellular breakthrough, which eventually became NEXTEL. His adventures netted his in the neighborhood of $200 Million!
2. Chris Gardner was an assistant to Doctors, and was a medical device salesperson for a San Franciscan based company named CMS. Chris Gardner had a stronger than thou will, being he went through abuse from both parents, and issues with family.
One day, Chris Gardner sees a shiny red Ferrari 308 QV while leaving the hospital after a sales call. Asks the guy how he got the Ferrari. The guy replies and says that he is a stockbroker. The rest is history. Persistence through the tough times, getting jailed for tax issues, kicked out of his house for non payment of rent, and just having that hungrier than heck desire to win really shows that someone can come out of the worst and be great!
Chris Gardner’s biopic is the Pursuit of Happyness, which Chris’ role is played by Will Smith. Will Smith did a stellar performance, and for those who need inspiration, WATCH IT!
Both Chris and Mark have proved to us, time and time again, that persistence pays off! No matter how many times you fuck up, there will be a time where everything pays off and you will be hopefully laughing at your current situation.
This week on Adventures in Internet Marketing, I want to cover something that might just give you another edge in this game we call internet marketing – Channels.
Channels, being different traffic methods to bring traffic to your landing page, and/or have such traffic convert and make a sale or lead.
Being in the internet marketing game seriously about 7 months now, I have been looking at different ways of generating traffic throughout the internet. Believe it or not, there are some affiliates who stick to one form of traffic building, and actually eat pretty good off of the “Digital Traffic.”
And then there is some, who happen to split their campaign into different channels to get the neccessary traffic. For example, the vertical that is being marketed, probably benefits from not only adwords or other PPC marketing strategy, but also a Viral market strategy such as You Tube Videos.
I am going to cover five different ideas for you to build traffic. Hopefully some of the self professed “gurus” will not hang me for this one! lol!
1. Bum Marketing/Article Marketing. Simply, writing 300-500 word articles indirectly and directly promoting products. From what alot of so called gurus state on their sales pages, they make it sound like this is easy and that within a month, you can make $200 a day.
Not to let you in for a Rude Awakening, but there is alot that has to go into bum marketing. Believe it or not, there are internet and affiliate marketers who are extremely successful doing this, but it is just not about writing an article with affiliate link and throwing it up to see if it sticks.
What is going to make the difference between making no sales, getting discouraged, and potentially making sales? First of all, a strong level of SEO is needed to take into consideration. For a while, you would think, just throwing an article, with the product’s name and some silly phrase would be good enough to attract traffic.
If the product is new, it will not catch the grasp for customers at first. When you write an article, you must have a consideration of a general topic that this product fits into, and use that keyword. Usually for higher competition products, pick a longer tail keyword that gets at least 20 searches and has a phrase match (search term with quotes on google, i.e. “Forex Systems”). That would help a bit with traffic, and also help increase the conversion too!
300-500 words tops. Just enough wordage to engage the reader to click on your link and sell them on the product’s purpose. Let’s cover the next traffic method, twitter.
2. Twitter. A social microblogging website, which I have been a member for some time, and I have seen some benefits with using this service. Twitter is a free service, and allows you to type to your “followers” (kinda like myspace friends) and send them not only public directly messages, but also private messages to your friends directly, or to everybody on your list!
The beauty of Twitter, is that it hooks up to an SMS service, which lets you receive and even send tweets (twitter messages) away from the computer. The rise of Adobe Air backed apps, such as Spaz and Twhirl are now bringing social media to a software level, and even the iPhone has a twitter application to send tweets. How convenient.
Marketing with twitter is probably going to have the same feel as marketing with email. Now considering the fact that you can only have 140 characters per message, you need to have an intriguing, “fast to hit the gut” type message, and also contain a link to the landing page. As time grows and Twitter goes to more stable ground with advances in their site development, I believe Twitter will be the next frontier in marketing.
3. Email. List marketing is a long standing, highly profitable, highly coverting, and highly successful form of internet marketing. Being used for many, many years before bum marketing, and viral marketing even took their first breath, List marketers have been making some serious bread.
Lists are great for when product vendors, publishers, or service providers are about to launch a product, and are a potential goldmine. Alex Goad’s “Four Tier Annihilation Method” had earned him on clickbank, close to a quarter million on launch week, then the sales kinda dipped afterwards, but was sustainable! List marketing is what is usually responsible for a huge part of the launch success.
To have a successful list, you need to make sure your list members are laser targeted to the niche/vertical that you are promoting. Do not try to push a Forex product on a list that is geared for the Making Money Online niche.
How do you build the list? not easy but then again not difficult either.
A successful method, is called a giveaway. Getting ebooks and other goodies to giveaway could be acquired by finding PLR or Private Label Rights material geared in the targeted niche. Just change the names on the PLR ebooks to your name (which is perfectly legal for PLR), which will help you become more credible and gain authority, and even increase conversions!
To get the email addresses to build lists, Just place a landing page on a domain geared for your product or niche. Next, get a form from an email subscription service such as Aweber or GetResponse, and place right on your landing page.
I would suggest joining a service such as aweber or getresponse, because these are email list marketing services, and can be configured for giveaways, multi-day courses, and now blog broadcasts! They also make sure that the email message can be delivered and bypass spam filters as well! the cost might be around $20-$50 a month, but look at how fast you can get that back through sales!!!!
Also another way to gain people to your list, is doing mutliple day courses. For example, “Free course on how to gain 5 pips in 5 days by learning a new way to Forex Trade” will attract list subscribers, because you are basically giving them information to help better themselves in one way or another. This will not only create authority to your list message, but when you place a launch ad for a new product in your niche, the conversion factor increases!
4. Adwords. PPC marketing is great, and if you know some of the major players in CPA network marketing, such as Shoemoney, John Chow, and Uberaffiliate to name a few, these guys are BIG on cpa networks.
All of them are hardcore on the aspect of using PPC networks such as Adcenter, YSM, and Adwords. Of course there are plenty more networks, but those are the big three, and everybody is the most successful with those. With a properly targeted campaign and a landing page to boot, the conversions could be very profitable.
The PPC market is great for any vertical, and any type of product, rather it is a $2.00 CPA for a zip code submit, or a $97 Clickbank Forex Expert Advisor. You can convert only in a few conditions though.
One is, where you take the PPC traffic to a landing page. No more is it acceptable to direct link to a sales or submit page, because Google will not allow more than one advertiser to direct link, plus, the conversions happen to be way better with the use of a landing page.
Two, Do not worry about being ad numero uno when it comes to bids. Sometimes, the first bid might cost $5.00 and it may price you way out of your Projected EPC (Earnings Per Click) budget. But, the second bid, might cost dramatically less. As long as you can keep yourself within the top two of three ads on a certain keyword, you will have clickthroughs, and conversions if your landing page is in sync with the message of the ad and the product in particular.
Three, Just like with Bum/Article Marketing, do not shoot right for the product name as a primary keyword. Shoot for a more general term, as brand awareness might not be wide enough by recognizing a product’s name.
If you were, for example to market the “Forex Profit Bomb”, instead of using the product’s name, look into using a more generic, long tail word i.e. “Forex Expert Advisor” or “Forex Automated Trade Software.” You can get some clicks, and be surprised when someone purchases said product.
Also get familiar with the google conversion tracking software. You will be able to find out more about tracking conversions, and knowing when to hold campaigns and when to fold them and go somewhere else!
5. YouTube. Awesome way to get traffic to your landing page. Viral video is the way to go, especially with doing raw and candid product reviews, making the appeal to purchase personal, and giving exposure to a newer, previously unobtainable audience.
Now, you don’t just have to do personal webcam shots and plead people to buy or sign up with your product or service, but you can also use a montage video of stills, stock videos, and do voiceovers with product reviews or boardwalk pitches to get people to click on the links or type in a certain website url.
Usually tell the viewers about the product, and point them to the affiliate link or landing page link, which is usually put in the description on the right hand side of the video.
Now that is only for You Tube. There are tons of different video networks out there. Google has one, Vimeo, Veoh, DailyMotion, Blip, MyspaceTV, are a few prime examples of websites to upload videos and gain exposure, and traffic. Not to mention the links to your site add to your backlinks count! Great for SEO!!!
Well, there is my piece for this week’s installment of Adventures In Internet Marketing!
Good luck and make the money!
Tom Howell
GoForexTrade.com
For todays product review, I have decided to review a hosting company that you might of heard of. The website hosting provider is called 1&1. Used by many major corporations and the nice hosting packages that fit all sorts, from bloggers, internet marketers, small businesses, and anything else in between, 1&1 internet has your best interests! Below are the reasons why:
1. Host Multiple Domains – On the basic accounts, you can host at least 20 domains and 25 subdomains! Great if you are building multiple landing pages for internet marketing campaigns, or if you are split marketing test a new product! Very reasonably priced.
2. Marketing Credits – For Joining 1&1 internet, you will get vouchers credits to join Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter, and Citysearch. This can with proper configuration and campaign management, springboard your blog or website to full on success!
3. One click solutions to get your website started! Solutions, ranging from their own website tools, to using popular third party solutions such as Drupal and MediaWiki content solutions. 1&1 internet also has a blog solution for those who are looking to become a superblogger such as Shoemoney or John Chow!
4. FREE Business Cards! of the web hosting packages that 1&1 have, a couple have a special for 100 free business cards! The thing is, you have five days left in order to take advantage of this special!!!!
Interesting “Get your shit together Thursday” this week.
Ever get that situation where you are already grown up, gone to college, or trying to find yourself, and you have family nagging the crap out of you to do something with your life?
Or maybe you have a father, or a mother, who wants you to be something in their frame of mind, and totally devoid of personal choice. For example, Your dad wants you to be captain of the football team and maybe go to school to be a douchebag professional like he is?
Or Maybe your mom is wanting to live visions of grandeur, and quite possibly chasing some pipedream that just doesn’t seem to be realistic no matter what possibilities are out there. And due to that, maybe there is some lack of financial and emotional stability.
Anyway, I am not generalizing, but you realize that family has a strong influence on some individuals and that sometimes it gets way out of control. Sometimes it really interferes with your persona and lifestyle, and sometimes it drives you insane.
Sometimes ignoring their influence will end up having them shunning you. Kinda like some folks in my family. My family has come from a long line of “Get out of high school, then have a family and settle mentality.” I am a bit too urban for that. They just cannot compute my love for the finer things in life, Vespa Scooters and such.
I decided to live an Urban lifestyle, where people want to have fun, stay single for a bit be career driven, and enjoy the atmosphere and what’s to live for before hunkering down to a family and settling for a depressing road ahead which I probably wouldn’t enjoy.
Sometimes it is a tough decision to see where to take action. You have to look deep within yourself and what you really want to do with your life. Maybe you really do not need your family to become who you want to be. Maybe just visiting them for the holidays and birthdays and such are ok.
Or maybe you are going to stick with the family ideal and live that lifestyle. To each their own.
But in the case that you have to tell them no, mentally and emotionally prepare yourself for a possible long road of issues, but somehow learn to overcome them, and MOVE ON!!!
For those who are looking to build content to promote a certain product of service in the world of affiliate marketing, there is plenty of ways to write different blocks of content or articles to either get traffic, entice purchasers to pull out their wallets, and rank better in google and other major search engines.
The following are a few good sorts of information to get you on the way to seamlessly creating content and wordage for promoting products and services…
1. Learn about the niche that you are promoting: Building information about a niche that you are trying to promote takes knowledge and all the better, experience! At the least, research the niche through a wikipedia article, and if possible read an ebook or try to devote some time to get to know more about the niche.
2. For each product or service that you are promoting, find out the numerous reasons why someone would want to take advantage of such product or service. If you take a certain product found either on clickbank or paydotcom, or any of those affiliate networks, you are going to realize that you are seeing at times THOUSANDS of angles being used at promoting a product.
For example, in the forex niche, i promoted the forex brotherhood which is a currency trading/forex trading community which is spearheaded by Jason Alan Jankovsky. Now, the attack method of marketing this product could be numerous. There are ways where you can attract any level of forex trader. Which the newbie trader needs counseling and support to become a trader who can make a livable income, and extends to the more experienced trader, who wants to know how to get an extra few pips out of each trade, and also want a better edge in their trading style.
3. Use one tiny facet advantage of such product or service and believe it or not, you can make a 400-700 word article on the issue. The facet issue can actually be used as a keyword and should be used liberally in the title, first, and last paragraph of each article/post.
4. First greeting paragraph should be inviting, and addressing the issue of why the person clicked for the article in the first place.
5. Final paragraph should give the person the ideal that this product is the one to purchase, and give them a call to action in purchasing such product now! Then place a Strong Call to ACtion with a link to whatever affiliate link or portal site that you are using!
6. Between the first and last paragraphs, keep speaking about the facet topic at length, but start injecting references to the product or service, and start framing a “transfer of ownership” and make the person think how the product would benefit the problem or facet situation.
7. Remember, with article marketing, the more articles you write and release, akin to fishermen casting their nets, the more fish, or more sales rather that you would manifest.
8. Do not forget to place articles, and pages on the website where your landing page is located at. Google loves relevant material, and will rank you higher for having more relevant, keyword heavy articles.
For the website where the landing page is, I would seriously recommend taking a few sub-domains, or sub-folders, and rolling a wordpress for them each. If your host has a one button solution for this, AWESOME! if not, just upload using an FTP the latest version of Wordpress.
9. After the install and selecting an appropriate theme, plan to write an article or two a day, just for these blogs. Using these methods mentioned above, you should be on the way to creating a successful campaign. As you are creating content, do not forget to link back to your landing page, and also link your landing page at the very bottom to several of your blog posts. The long wordpress permalinks will even be more beneficial.
10. More to come! make some money and kick some ass with these current methods and you could very well be on the way to making some serious damage with affiliate marketing!!!!
For those who are following my adventures in internet marketing segment, which usually is posted on wednesdays, you will notice that I love wordpress and that getting as much exposure is paramount to being successful if you want to make money online.
The MMO (Making Money Online) game is a tough one. There are a million ways to make money online obviously. Today we will focus on blogs and how a blog can make you money.
A few years back, I didn’t know what the heck blogging was all about. I thought it was some folks who happened to write their lives on a website for everybody to know about. Heck, I didn’t know a line of php code to save my life until about a year later, and forget asking me what mysql was.
I began blogging when I started to know the technologies of php and data warehousing. With the ability of data warehousing, I learned how to store bits of information, which could be useful for building a blog, which I did.
I called the blog software “atmosphere.” Wasn’t looking to go anywhere major with the software, as I would just use it for self purpose. Yeah, I did pathetic with Adsense, and didn’t even know what an affiliate network was, but I used the blog to spew vitriol about problems, or talk about the wonderful musings on life and such.
amazingly I got around well, but around 2008, I wasn’t getting insane traffic, and wasn’t happy with the progress of building a self designed CMS system. So I decided to get into wordpress and was amazed with the options and expandability. Being able to network to other social media sites, and such, I started to go gangbusters on using wordpress on all of my news sites, that previously used atmosphere. Unfortunately, I had to ditch atmosphere, and since the fact, I have had way more readers, and more attention brought to my blogs.
One product I would like to recommend, is Atomic Blogging. It is written by Alvin Phang, and has endorsements from top bloggers such as John Chow, Ewen Chia, and Carlo Cab. If that doesn’t motivate you right there, I do not know what will.
Blogging is a tough sport, and I have learned first hand, that with a blog, you are constantly walking on eggshells to get the edge in your topic, niche, whatever. To be anywhere near flowing with traffic and being a top blogger, you have to rise to the occassion and know the best possible ways to blog.
On this week’s product review, I decided to review a new program that came up, called Everloss.