Posted by David on Apr 17, 2010 in
Other Stuff I’ve been getting a number of questions about the free Butterfly Marketing PLR Source Code release Mike Filsaime is currently doing, see http://dahsu.com/sE4dLFq.
Below are the reasons you would NOT want to get this.
To quickly refresh your memory, the Butterfly Marketing software is one that lots of very successful marketers, including Mike Filsaime, have used it to manage their product sales process and memberships.
Normally, it came with the $2,000 Butterfly Marketing course and you didn’t get PLR rights to it, Mike is now giving the source code with PLR rights to you for free.
Here is why you should NOT get it…
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Tags: Butterfly Marketing, Butterfly Marketing Source Code, membership sites, sales process, selling products
Posted by David on Mar 24, 2010 in
Tips & Techniques Last year I wrote a blog post about how to get affiliates to promote your squeeze pages, Easy Way to Get Affiliates to Promote Your Squeeze Page — see http://fromthedeskofdavid.com/blog/tips/affiliates-promote-squeeze-page.
It included the instructions and JavaScript code how to capture an affiliate ID and send it to your autoresponder account and store it there for later use during promotions.
It was a popular post and I received a lot of e-mail about it thanking me and asking questions.
Recently I was asked for some help by Fendi on how to make it work with a different format for the affiliate ID.
The way I had originally set it up the affiliate ID had to be in this format: http://YourDomain.com/?[YourCode]=[AffiliateID]
Some examples of the affiliate ID portion would be:
- aff_id=340987
- hop=theboss123 (ClickBank)
- InvitedBy=DavidHusnian
This worked great and covered a lot of ground but Fendi wanted to know if it could work with this format: http://YourDomain.com/?[AffiliateID].
It doesn’t but I’ve made some modifications so that now it does and this post explains those and gives you updated JavaScript source code and instructions.
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Posted by David on Feb 4, 2010 in
Tips & Techniques Last time we started looking at how to build a Web site – see http://dahsu.com/wM3WXG9 — including the main ways to get it built.
The last option we looked at was building the site yourself. We’re going to look at how to do that in more depth.
Before we get started let’s do a quick review…
To build a Web site you need to have a domain name (1&1) and a Web hosting account (Blue Host and HostGator links).
You also need software to be able to design and create the Web pages that are part of your Web site; I recommended KompoZer – it’s HTML editor freeware.
After you have that here is what you do…
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Posted by David on Feb 1, 2010 in
Tips & Techniques Web pages are the basic form of communication for the World Wide Web.
Every Web site is made up of Web pages, so everyone who wants to market online needs Web pages; without cash-sucking, profit-pulling Web pages you’ll soon be out of business.
I get a lot of questions about Web pages and how to make your own free website.
So I’m going to do a short series on how to make your own website, one Web page at a time.
It will be for people who don’t know how to create a Web site or who have a Web site and want to be able to make changes to it without have the trouble and expense of hiring someone to do it.
It will be kept simple and basic and afterwards you should be able to get regular sales pages and Web sites done including formatting text, adding pictures and other graphics, and having links to other Web pages (like a shopping cart!); you’ll be making your own website in no time.
If you’ve checked at how much it cost to create a Web site you’ll see people charging less than $100, many charging thousands of dollars and, for large complex sites, it could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars or more; I’ve charged close to $100,000 for complex, custom-made Web applications.
So being able to make your own free website can save you a lot of money, particularly for new online business owners or those still struggling.
If you want to have a Web site there are 4 main ways to get one:
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Posted by David on Jan 27, 2010 in
Other Stuff This is VERY important!
It lists rules every direct marketer, online or off, needs to follow if you take credit cards as a form of payment.
I’ve blatantly stole this from Ryan Lee’s blog, sign up for his Webinar while you’re there.
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Tags: direct response marketing, direct response marketing rules, merchant account, merchant account rules
Posted by David on Jan 13, 2010 in
Online Success If 2009 was the “Year of Taking Action” then 2010 is shaping up to be the “Year of Focusing”.
Some people think lack of focus causes more business failure than anything else.
I’ve recently read numerous e-mails and blogs posts from people saying how important focus is and how they are really going to focus this year.
In fact, there have been a rash of Internet Marketers, big names and small, selling off existing, money making, Web sites to “focus”; nothing wrong with that and I applaud them but without explanation and understanding it just confuses us people.
I expect to see products released talking about focus and helping you focus and [fill-in-the-blank] focus.
In addition, one of the things I hear most frequently from people is they have trouble focusing on just one thing.
Now, I am not against focus.
In fact, I’m highly for focus; HIGHLY.
I understand how it can be hard to focus because entrepreneurs like us have lots and lots of “great ideas” and can have trouble picking one idea over the other or sticking to just one and seeing it through to completion.
Believe me, I understand.
So focus is the answer de jour and everyone is jumping on that bandwagon.
The problem is that focus just isn’t enough, just like taking action isn’t enough. Do you know why?
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Posted by David on Dec 17, 2009 in
Tips & Techniques Are Twitter lists good for anything?
That’s a question lots of people, including myself, ask.
Some people say no, what do you say?
To answer that question I decided to put on my thinking cap, do some research and see if there are any good ways to use the list feature in Twitter.
The good news is, I found lots of ways how using lists would make my life and Twitter better, here is my list my top 5 ways:
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Posted by David on Dec 2, 2009 in
Other Stuff Truthfully, I’m not a huge fan of 1ShoppingCart but I continue to use it as sort of the lesser of the evils and I’ve tried most of them.
Well, I just found out they’re adding something that is an amazing leap in functionality for them and gives them a big advantage over competing vendors, at least as far as I know.
They actually worked with some Internet Marketers and other online business experts to design and develop this new fantastic new addition to their product.
Their goals were to:
- Increase your revenue by letting you capture more sales from each customer by increasing the order size of each order.
- Be able to immediately market to new customers.
- Have a return on investment (ROI) so high that their customers would flock to it.
- Make it work for all of their customer no matter what they sell.
What they came up with is called Upsell Express and from what I can tell it is a great first attempt and will be a very valuable addition to their service. So much so that if I wasn’t a 1ShoppingCart customer I’d strongly consider becoming one.
Before I explain further, here is a short video showing some of the benefits and features.
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Posted by David on Nov 13, 2009 in
Online Success Back to this after a bit of a delay.
In previous installments, we’ve looked at what business models and why you should know what yours is and 2 proven-successful business models; that is, 2 different ways you WILL make money online if you do them right. They were: (1) Selling Physical Products and (2) Affiliate Marketing.
Both of those have made multi-millionaires and boatloads of people make a good living from them and you should seriously consider doing one of them (or more if you’ve already established yourself).
But, there is another online business model that is better than either of them.
More people profit from it and virtually all of the most successful Internet Marketers use it.
The statistics I’ve seen say that this business model generates multi-multi-billion dollars a year.
If you aren’t doing it, ultimately, you should be; here’s what it is and why…
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Posted by David on Oct 22, 2009 in
Other Stuff Man, those last 2 blog posts on the FTC stuff generated interest; comments and e-mail galore. But that’s over, been there, done that.
You’ve probably heard of Google’s PageRank; well duh!
In my opinion, it hasn’t been important for a long time — I’ve found it distracting at best but now it’s mostly so 2005 – but many people swear by it and make one of their main goals to get a high PageRank.
I lost faith in it when I kept seeing pages with low PageRank on the first page of Google.
I mean who cares what your PageRank is if you aren’t ranking high on the search results for your keywords.
For some reason though, PageRank continues to be associated with high rankings and I just didn’t see it but if people wanted to waste their time achieving it that just made it easier for me to get a high ranking (which I do care about).
Well, that’s all over with.
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