I think that the term “Affiliate Landmines” was coined by Russell Brunson, and it basically refers to a free report that you give away to as many people as possible. The report will branded to contain your affiliate links, and over time you will find that you will earn commissions from sites mentioned in the report.

The more people who find and read your “Affiliate Landmine” the bigger the explosions will be – I still regulary earn commission for sites that I have not promoted for months if not years!

This afternoon I spend an hour branding a new report and creating another landmine. The content of the report is excellent, and if you want a great source of free targeted traffic then you need to go now abd read SafeList Marketing Tactics.

You should recognise now that I’m using the same download page template that you get for free as a member of squeezepagesecretsrevealed.com and the html advert for your squeeze pages will be getting added to the promo tool section shortly.

Andrew

p.s.  When you join SafeList Marketing Tactics you’ll get a chance to rebrand the report, I would pass up the first offer for $47, but please take him up on the 2nd or 3rd offers so that you can create your own affiliate land mine.

p.p.s Please comment & post the link to your affiliate landmines.

I’ve attended a couple seminars in my day. At one of these
seminars, a speaker on stage held a small cup. Then, he
poured a ton of pennies over the cup. Most of the pennies
ended up scattered everywhere on the floor. Only a small
handful of pennies ended up in the cup.

He poured the pennies again, but this time, he put a funnel
over the cup. Many of the pennies still missed, but he
filled that cup with pennies.

The analogy is: if you capture as many leads as possible,
you’ll make more sales and more money.

When people come to your web site – whether it’s a sales
letter or content site – you want to convert them to
something. If it’s a sales letter, you want to convert
them into a buyer by paying you. If it’s a content site,
you want them to register or add their own content to keep
your site fresh… maybe click on an ad.

By adding a lead capture system to your site, you’re
placing that “funnel” over your cup and getting more
buyers.

That visitor might not yet be in the buying mood when you
present your offer. Maybe he has lots of browser tabs open
and he’s “researching” who he should buy from. Maybe he
only has a limited amount of time and closes his browser
before he’s done reading your sales letter.

Whatever the reason is, you can easily miss a sale. But by
collecting a name and e-mail address on your site, you can
get people on a list and follow up with them day after day.

There are many autoresponder services that will handle this
for you. In addition, you can write follow-up e-mails that
will automatically send them MORE e-mail after a certain
amount of time.

You can send a welcome e-mail when they first sign up…
then maybe another message tomorrow, and another the next
day.

If there are some extra benefits they might have missed out
when they read your page… you can remind them when you
send these follow-ups. Give them one of the benefits in
the message you send out on day three, and another benefit
on day five…

You could try hard selling, and hit them with a sales pitch
in every e-mail, or you could try a low-pressure
high-content follow-up series… and offer an ethical bribe
in exchange for opting in.

They want that free report, or free software, so they give
you their first name and e-mail address. You send the free
report via e-mail and then you can start sending them more
content, or more sales pitches, over time… so even if
they didn’t buy RIGHT NOW, they’ll buy eventually.

Is this legal? Of course… most autoresponder services
will save the first name, e-mail address, IP address, URL,
time and date of every subscriber… so you are protected.
You have proof that someone asked for this information.

You ALSO have a one-click unsubscribe function at the
bottom of every e-mail, so if someone wants to stop getting
messages from you, they click on ONE link and are gone
forever.

An awesome service that handles all of this is Aweber, here
is their link: http://www.aweber.com

They handle everything for you… the opt-ins,
unsubscriptions… you just sign up, create a list, and
they give you some cut-and-paste code that you can paste on
your site… and instantly add a form.

Then you write the follow-ups you want to send, and when
people signup, they automatically get these messages.

You can place this signup form on a pop-up, like one you
create using http://www.andrewstark.com/recommends/ActionPop-Up … so you
can place this on ANY kind of site – an article site, made
for AdSense site, blog, sales letter… anywhere! (We’ll
discuss this in more detail later.)

That’s the long and short of how to triple your sales in
just 600 seconds. Get an autoresponder if you don’t
already have one, and place the signup form on your site,
to get people to signup to an autoresponder series, which
will funnel them back to your order button even if they
didn’t buy right away.

We’ll talk again soon…

http://www.andrewstark.com/recommends/ActionPop-Up

Always looking for anything that will help increase the traffic to my blog I recently came across a site called Blogging Beginners.

At first I didn’t think much about it since I already had a blog up and I am no longer a beginner but after reading the page I found out that they offered much more than the normal, “Go to blogger.com and a start blog” that everybody is charging outrageous prices for.

They not only offer the basic set up your blog knowledge that you can find all over the internet but the also show you all those little things that have been holding you back.

Randy The Hermit (one of the founders of the site) is a search engine optimization expert and he shows you how to configure your blog for the search engines. What plugins you should have, how to set up your permalinks, even how to find a niche and do your keyword research and this just scratches the surface of what you get.

Wizzer (the other founder of Blogging Beginners) will explain to you what RSS is, how to use it and how to give some one a bonus for signing up to your RSS feed. Then he takes you into building a list with your blog and why and how to use Twitter.

All the videos are easy to follow and they put them in a PDF format. I had never seen videos in a PDF file before and I had to upgrade my PDF reader to watch them but I like it. All the resources are right under the video and just a click away and the best part is, if you want to watch something from the 29th minute of a 40 minute video you don’t have to wait for the whole video to download again. You just open it up and go to the spot you want by dragging the control bar. They have a video online that shows you how to do this.

They also provide you with content for your blog. Every month they give you ten new niches you can choose to work with and twenty five posts for each niche which can save you a lot of work.

I thought I was an experienced blogger but I opened their Fast Start Guide and went through it quickly and I was surprised at what I didn’t know. I was also surprise at the guide it takes you from knowing nothing to having your own blog up and running, optimized for the search engines and customized for you in an easy to follow step by step process.

But I haven’t even told you the best part. If you are like me you have probably purchased a few other courses and you get part way through them and you get stuck because there is something you don’t quite understand. Frustrating isn’t it? The worse part is you go to the people that sold you the course and you ask them and all they do is try to sell you something else.

Blogging Beginners will answer YOUR questions. That’s right as part of the membership you can request videos on anything that has to do with your blog and they will provide them not only for you but for all the members. So maybe you had a question and didn’t ask it the solution might show up because another member asked.

Now you are probably thinking this is another one of the $500 per month coaching services. Well, it is but it won’t cost you anywhere near $500 per month it won’t even cost you $100 per month or even $50 per month.

But because they do answer your questions membership is limited, they can’t answer 1000’s of question per week. I highly recommend that if you are serious about making money with a blog that you sign up while you can for their unbelievable price.

Blogging Beginners

Today I went into Manchester to meet with someone who posted at the warrior forum that they wanted to start an offline mastermind group.

His name is Guy and he’s just launched this site selling weight loss suppliments - http://www.weightloss-supplements.com

We spend most of the time discussing the topic of list building, and how it’s the best way to generate repeat traffic to your website. What I’ve suggested to Guy is that he utilises a PLR report on “The 50 best moves to get rock hard abs” to build his list via a squeezepage and pop-up on his main site.

The other thing was setting up a butterfly site where he interviews his existing nutritional experts and gives the transcript away but monetizes the list building process by selling the audio version as the One Time Offer.

The added value of the audio is that people can listen to it on the move, or even better whilst working out at the gym via their ipod.  Adding monerization to the site means that you approach JV partners and ask them to promote the free report to their list, of course you’ll need to offer higher commission, but the long term wealth of a targeted list is worth it.

Guy has only been online a few months, and I think that my product creation ideas opened his eyes to a whole new world, and that’s what getting out their and meeting people can do for your business.

We’re planning on meeting up again in a few weeks, so if you can get to Wilmslow for a Lunch and afternoon of marketing discussion then get in touch.  We’re thinking Friday afternoon as it’s nice to start the weekend early…