Get FREE Traffic With This AdWords Trick (Probably Illegal)
Posted by Osi in Affiliate Marketing
Ok, this came to me just a few minutes ago. Before I tell you, I hold no liability or anything of the sort if you go out and try this. You are completely responsible for what you do and the results you achieve. Now that we have that out of the way, I must say I have no idea if this is an already known “trick” and if it is against Google’s policy. It is just an idea I got.
Imagine getting FREE clicks on AdWords. The idea I had was to go out and write an ad. The description though, will be different here. In the description, you can tell people to NOT click on your ad. Tell them to copy and paste the green URL below the ad into their browser. This requires you to actually provide a valid URL in the green display area. So now you see what I’m getting at here. You are telling people to copy your URL instead of them clicking on the title. Hopefully inverse psychology will NOT be at play here and they will do as you say. There are others ways to tell it to them such as “copy this url to win a prize or get a free eBook.” If the person listens to the ad and copies you’re URL, you just got a FREE visitor for NOTHING. You did not pay Google for any clicks. Not a cent. This allows you to bid as high as you want, as long as you make sure that the ad compels the person to copy the URL instead of clicking on it.
The ads above were never published on the Google Search Network. If anyone was courageous enough to actually try this, then share your results in the comments section below. Give me your improvements and opinions. I would love to hear them!
The FINAL Maverick Money Makers Review!
Posted by Osi in Product Review
Maverick Money Makers? You ha
ve heard of it all over the place. There are countless reviews about it all over the internet but I believe that this one is the most informative and honest. Plus it is not one of those things that say “Maverick Money Makers is a Scam” and then once you click on it they either sell you another product or say “it is not a scam, I just said that to get your attention.” So buckle up and read along as we go through every microscopic detail.
—–The specs:—–
Domain Created: 04-Sep-2008
Mentor: Mack Micheals
Type: Membership site
Cost: $97 USD ( Recurring Billing)
Frequency: Updated every month with new content and features
Potential: Can earn over $300 a day if you take action and persist
Guarantee:60 Days Money Back!Official Site: www.MaverickMoneyMakers.com
What is Maverick Money Makers????
Maverick Money Makers is a private membership club that is dedicated to helping average Joes make money on the internet. It was designed to help those who have just started out. It is also for people who want another source of income because of current economic issues. Mack Micheals, the mentor and founder of the club, is willing to teach people how to reach success on the internet, even making up to $354.97 a day if you are dedicated. The great thing is that the club currently has over 500 hours of content. So that will last you 125 days if you watch 4 hours everyday. Some videos in the club can be as much as 2 hours long too. So you have to find the time. Something else you might want to note is that the club is updated EVERY month, so the content is constantly expanding and growing. One of the main reasons Mack created the Maverick Money Makers Club was because he was tired of all the “cheap” resources and scams that were floating around. He wanted to provide people with a resource that was simple and had everything in it.
The club also allows you to download the video or audio of every single video. This is for people who want to listen to the content in their cars or just burn it on a disk and watch it on the big screen (for personal use of course). You have to be a MMM VIP member in order to do this though.
Download the stuff if you wish!
What Can I learn…
The Main:
The basic essence of the club revolves around the idea of affiliate marketing. For those who don’t know, affiliate marketing is perhaps one of the most popular ways to make money online because it is easy to get started. Basically all it is is selling other people’s products. The greatest skill an affiliate marketer can have is, well… marketing. This is why most of the stuff at MMM shows you many ways to do marketing. Things like advertising on Yahoo Answers and Google Groups.
The Maverick Money Makers Curriculum:
As of Aug.8, the curriculum contains over 50 videos covering everything from marketing with PPC to spying on your competition. You have a wide variety of choices that you can take. Here is what it currently looks like:
Here is the curriculum for the club as of Aug.8. There are 3 main areas. Core Trainning, Quick Money Blueprints, and Skillset. (Click the enlarge)
Mindset Coaching:
This area right here is probably the MOST important. It is just a spot that can help you develop your mindset. Right now there are currently 8 people in the mindset zone including Anthony Robbins. The content here is delivered to you via audio. So it is just a recording of those 8 people that share valuable information. There are over 50 audios ranging from things like improving your memory skills and getting motivated to setting goals and solving problems. This part here could easily be sold as its own product costing hundreds of dollars. The reason it is so important is because it can make you invincible! It can teach you how to become focused, persistent, and determined which can sky rocket your success. It can mold you into that “never give up” attitude.
This is the audio player you use in the mindset area.
Do I need a website?
Having your own website is not mandatory in order for you to start making money online. BUT, if you want to make a lot of money online and treat it as a business, then you defiantly need your own website. Having your own site will allow you to do things like forward your hoplink, create landing pages, and build an asset controlled by you. Once you’re a member, you will be taught how to build your own site too.
Who can join?
I recommend this for people who are full out beginners and intermediates. If you are someone who is struggling to make even $100, then you should defiantly try it. Once you start putting some of the methods into action, you will have a clearer picture as to where you want to go with this. It is really not for anyone who is an expert and is making over $10,000 a month though. But if you are making that kind of money, I suggest giving Maverick Money Makers a try in order to give you more ideas that you could use to better your own products. I would also like to point out that silly things like your age, credentials, education, etc do not matter. Even A 12 year old can go out and make money with this thing.
The Biggest Advantage
You know what it is? It is something that most clubs and learning resources like this fail to do. Maverick Money Makers has everything in ONE spot. If you have bought money making products like this before, then you have noticed that they teach you a few things and expect you to learn the rest by buying another product. MMM does not do this. Mack teaches you everything from article marketing to AdWords and beyond. All of this is made available to you by just being a member. They will not create a video one day and decide to sell it to you. They offer it for free once you’re a member. This is a good thing because you have many different options available to you. Let’s say you did not like a certain marketing method. All you must do is simply move on to the next video until you find one that suits your needs. You do not have to go out and buy multiple products and spend hundreds of dollars.
He Has Taste!!!!
Honestly, would you date an ugly girl? Heck no! Now of course it depends on her personality too, but the looks still count. Maverick Money Makers has the looks! You can tell that Mack has spent a lot of time thinking through the overall look and feel of the website. This tells you one thing, “he cares”. If he was just out there to take your money, why would he spend days just coming up with the design? Obviously he is for real and is here to help you. The members area seems to be inspired by Apple’s design. It has a neat and clear feel to it. The links turn green as you hover over them and everything has a web 2.0 style. When you click on a category in the navigation menu, the whole menu slides down to reveal the sub-categories.
This is the homepage of the members area. There is a simple navigation bar on the side. Notice the Apple style search bar. (click to enlarge)
Watching the Videos
As you might know, the whole course is done on video. Mack teaches you through videos. Watching a video could not be any easier. Here is a sample of the video player. When you click on a video, it magically opens up and the background fades to dark. When you close it, it has a zooming effect that is similar to what you see when you close an application on the iPhone or iPod Touch. The sound quality of the videos is very professional too. Much like the videos you see on the pitch page. The cool thing about the videos is that you can choose to watch them in HD or normal quality.
Choose between standard video and HD video.
Dislikes
There are some minor things in Maverick Money Makers that you might not like. Something that I have noticed is that you cannot move the movie bar to a desired location when you are watching a video. You have to wait until that area is loaded before you can skip to it. On YouTube for example you are able to do this. You can move the bar and be 9 minutes into the video even though it has not completely loaded yet. Something else that is bothersome to me is that sometimes the information you get from a video can be too broad. This is actually not a bad thing for a total beginner, but for a “mild Intermediate” like me, I would like lots of specific details. Another thing that sucks is that once you watch a video, the background goes black for better viewing. If you click the background by accident then the video will close itself. This is unfortunate since some videos are over 1 hour long. You then have to open the video again and wait until it is loaded in order to skip to the area you left off.
This video is almost 2 hours long (good Thing). Click the dark area (red spots) closes the player (bad).
Some Things I Wish Maverick Money Makers Had
It would be great if you could have some sort of little goal planner or agenda on the Mavericks website. It would also be nice if you could add side notes to each video that you watch in order to gain more exposure to the content. A great thing that should also be included is interactivity among club members. It would be cool to be able to add comments to videos just like you do on YouTube. People should be able to exchange ideas and opinions. But hey, maybe this will be released in the next coming updates.
The Support Desk answers ALL your questions
Did you know that some people charge you an extra $100-$200 just for this. They might even outsource it to people in India who sometimes don’t even know anything about internet marketing or business online. Not here. Once you join the club, you gain instant access to the support desk. The support desk is simply a place where you ask a question and REAL people who know what they are talking about answer. I have asked questions myself and sometimes got a response within minutes. I still wonder to this day how they pull it off, but they do and that’s all that matters.
Here is the support desk where you can ask ANY question you want, sometimes getting answers within minutes.
Last Words
Here comes the part that separates the men from the boys. Go out and buy Maverick Money Makers before the club gets full and it closes it’s doors. You literally have nothing to lose. You have a 60 day money back guarantee and you can get a full refund if you do not like it (which is unlikely). You know, over the years I have noticed something funny with action and wealth. About 90% of the people who read this page will NOT take action. They will not buy the product at all. The strange thing is that 90% of the worlds population is poor. Do you notice a pattern. Choose your side. Either learn something that can change the course of your life or do nothing and stay in the same viscous cycle of having a job and working paycheck by paycheck. As Robert kiyosaki said ““The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.” So for once, do something that can help you TODAY, not tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
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A Guide to Setting up Your Affiliate Marketing Campaigns
Posted by Osi in Affiliate Marketing
So by now you have found a product that you want to promote and you have a market audience in mind. You have the answer to their problems. You are eager to get started. Now how do you build a campaign in order to sell to them easily, well you might want to think about this one real hard…
You Need a Sales Process Map
What I mean by this is that you have to map out the paths that people will take in order to get to the product you are promoting. Will they read an article you are promoting, click on a link, end up on your page, and then get sent to the product’s pitch page? What will their state of mind be as they go along this path? Figure out what works best for your product and your audience. Every combination is unique.
Traffic Strategies and Consistency
You have to have some traffic generation strategies in place. How are you going to send people to your site or your product’s pitch page? You can use a number of ways like creating videos, PPC, paid, articles, classifieds, etc. Those are just some ways you can generate traffic. The part you should really focus on though is being consistent and persistent. Keep on doing this every day. If you post on forums, then post every day. You can’t just take a shower once, you must do it every day. If not, you will smell bad.
Building Destinations Depending on People’s State
Is your audience just interested in your product or do they have a desire to get it right now? These are the types of things you should know about your target audience. If your audience was just interested in what you had to sell, meaning they are not ready to buy, then you obviously wouldn’t send them to the pitch page. You would need to have a page of your own where you get their name and email address. Then you have a chance to shape (or whip) them into buying what you have to offer. Send them to different places depending on their state of mind. Your conversion rate will be above average. If that’s what you want in the first place.
Testing What Works and What Sucks
You have to test a bunch of factors in your marketing campaign. What this means is you need to gather data and test certain elements against each other in order to see which one works better. It is like sculpting and tweaking an ice statue (the best example I could come up with). For a better understanding, take a look at the different elements that you can test. Some being site elements and others being more within the sales process map:
- The background color of your landing page
- The font of your landing page’s text
- The font’s color
- Your call to action
- Different graphics
- Different positions for your graphics
- The type of audience (this should be tested first)
- The traffic source. Such as traffic from Youtube, Google, Articles Sites, etc.
- Can you think of anymore? (sure you can)
All you would need to do is test that blue background with the red background. If red has more conversion rates, then make that your default background color and move on to another test. This is called split testing. Google has created a tool called Website Optimizer. It is free to use and it can rotate certain elements for you. So it would show page 1 to half of your visitors and page 2 to the other half. Try it out.
The Incorporation (most important part*)
Incorporate your marketing campaign into your daily schedule (I bet you thought I was going to say incorporate your company). What do you have to do every day in order to be successful? Write it down on a piece of paper. It should look something like this: 9:00AM – Advertise on forums, 11:00AM – Improve PPC Campaigns, 1:00PM – Split test landing page, etc, etc, etc. Think of this as an action plan. You brainstorm the actions you must take so that you can focus every day.
Hopefully these tips were helpful. You can go ahead and use them now. Remember to be consistent and to test things out. Testing is very important. This is me signing off…
* Leave a comment if you liked this. I am so lonely.
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