Hey Guys,

it’s Listbuilding time…

… we have just started the Pre-Launch of the famous Halloween Giveaway and you can be part of it to add a couple hundred new subscribers to your list.

In 2007 we’ve started the first Halloween JV and since then we have held this huge listbuilding event every year. Now it’s the fourth time that this popular event is going into Pre-Launch.

You can join us, click here

If you’ve never been involved in a Giveaway Event, then do yourself a favour and check it out. Giveaway Events are the easiest way to build your own list, especially if you are just starting out with internet marketing. And… it’s not only about listbuilding… a Giveaway Event is nowadays a huge advertising platform for your business.

This year we are having a Huge Referral Contest again… there are $1000 in prizes that we give away to our top referrers, next to the huge commissions that you earn from upgrades and special offer sales… and promoting such an event is not hard… it’s free to signup… so, you don’t really promote… you show others how they can build their lists… you help them!

Join us today, click here

I’ll see you inside!

Guido Nussbaum

Hey Guys,

the last couple of weeks have been amazing… we’ve been testing the Giveaway Manager 3 software on several events.

There has been: Sunny’s JV, The Worldcup JV, The Instant Underground Gifts JV, The IM JV Gifts and currently running are the Social Marketing JV and the Gentle Mentor JV.

All events have been a success and left the competition standing in the dust. Go to Alexa.com and compare the Giveaway Manager 3 events with events that ran on other software… you’ll see what I mean by saying “we left the competition standing in the dust”.

Much of this success is due to the software but also due to “How we run our events”. Every Giveaway Manager 3 owner has been mentored by me personally and I allowed them to copy my style that I used to run huge events for the last 2 years.

Now it’s your turn!

The Giveaway Manager 3 is now available in combination with personal coaching from me. Work with me through Skype and our Members Only Forum to make your own giveaway event a huge success. Inside our members area you’ll find The Live Recording of the Social Marketing JV. I show you onscreen how to install the software, how to setup and prepare the event for maximum success, how to start the pre-launch of your event, how and where to promote your event, how to launch the event and all my secret tricks and strategies that I use to add thousands of subscribers to my list.

There will be only 100 Spots available!

You can get access to our Giveaway Owner Community starting today… until the 100 spots are gone… Giveaway Manager 3 – Click Here

Hey Guys,

if you’ve been following my last blog posts, then you know that I had a bit of trouble with my autoresponder and that I’ve finally moved my lists to 2 new autoresponders, one is GVO and the other one is Traffic Wave. I’m not sure why but I got the feeling that I should go deeper into the topic “autoresponders” and therefore I write this blog post today.

I can still remember how it was when I first started out trying to make money online. There were all these new tools and new terms of language… and one of these was the autoresponder. First I thought an autoresponder is a very simple tool that just answers your emails automatically with a standard reply… but then I found out it’s alot more than just that.

First of all, an autoresponder is also the host of your list. Your list is basically just data consisting of the names, email addresses and maybe additional data of all the people who have signed up on your list. Yes, people need to sign up, you can’t just enter them on your list… that would be considered “spamming”.

Alright, so the process that we have so far is that people signup on your list… and they do that in most cases by entering their name and email address into a signup form on your website. They hit the submit button and then the signup form processes their data (name and email) to your autoresponder into your list.

There are basically 3 forms of autoresponders that you could use: Desktop Based Autoresponder, Self-Hosted Autoresponder, Hosted Autoresponder.

Here we only want to talk about the Hosted Autoresponder because the other two are not an option for beginners.

Hosted Autoresponders are programs that a company hosts on their servers. These companies (the good ones) have not just 1 server, they have huge server-clusters so that they are able to send out millions of emails per day (as they have many customers). These companies also have people who take care of the delivery rate of the emails. They do this by keeping their server ip’s off from the spam-blacklists, by switching ip’s and with some other methods. They do this for their customers, so you don’t have to take care of that.

The Hosted Autoresponders have a monthly membership fee. Some have a Flat Fee… for example at Traffic Wave you always pay $17,95 monthly no matter how many autoresponders you setup in your acccount and no matter how many subscribers you have. Other Hosted Autoresponders like Aweber or GetResponse will increase your monthly fee depending on how many subscribers you have in your autoresponders. Personally I had to pay over $400 monthly at Aweber… so if you plan to build big lists, then consider that this increasing membership fee can grow to a significant price factor in your business. You’ll be forced to promote stuff to “finance” your autoresponder costs.  Is that the reason why some “Gurus” send out so much crap?

All Hosted Autoresponders have 2 ways of sending out emails. You can use the Follow-Up feature and the Broadcast feature.

The Follow Up emails are the emails that get delivered automatically. You set them up once and then every new subscriber will receive your Follow Up Email. You can time those emails, for example you can send out the first email instantly as a person subscribes to your list. Then you can send out the second email a day later… or two days later if you like. Some marketers setup 50 or more Follow Up emails to automate their email marketing.

The Broadcast emails are the emails that you send out manually, in most cases just once on a certain date. For example, you want to announce the opening of your new membershipsite to your list, then you would send out a Broadcast email to your subscribers.

The Follow Up vs. Broadcast features is something that is not really easy to setup properly. For example: Will you send out your Broadcast to your whole list, even to the people who have just signed up 10 minutes ago? I mean, they signup and get the welcome email and then 10 minutes later they get your Broadcast email which might be a promotional email… not good if you ask me.

What if you have setup 10 Follow Up emails all going out one day after the other… wouldn’t it then be wise to send out the Broadcasts only to the people who are already on your autoresponder for 11 days or longer?

There are several things that you need to think about when setting up your autoresponders. The Broadcast and Follow Up Emails are just one part… but in fact a very important one!

That’s because the whole power of a good email marketing campaign comes from the Follow Up and Broadcast emails. Your success basically depends on what you send out and when you send it out. For example: When you setup 10 Follow Up emails… will you try to sell something already in the second email or will you give only free information and tips in the first couple of emails and start selling in the fifth email?

Personally I think your email marketing strategy must fit to the Offer that gets people on your list.

People don’t just signup for your list because you are a nice person… they signup because you offer them something in return for signing up to your list.

And right there in this Offer is the key for your email marketing strategy!

Let me give you 2 examples:

1.) When people signup for a Free Membershipsite… like a Traffic Exchange or a Safelist or a Free Download Site… then the email marketing strategy should be targeted towards building up trust and a community within the membershipsite. All you need to do to make sales is to get people logging in to your membershipsite. There you can have Login Offers, Special Offers and Backend Offers.

2.) You have a very simple Free To Signup Page where people signup to get a free ebook… then the email marketing strategy can be very different… you could do hard-selling by pushing a product that is related to the first product that you gave away for free. I mean… people signup to get the free ebook, not to join a community. They want to download their ebook and then they want to either read it or download more ebooks from somewhere else. Isn’t that what most of us do?
So in this case I personally think it would be better to hit them right then when they care about the topic… if they just downloaded a free ebook about “How to use Twitter”… then they might be interested in buying an ebook about “How to make money with Twitter”… am I right?

No matter what strategy you think is better… best is always if you test and track different strategies. Try different things and see what works best… if you keep doing this for a while you’ll end up with the best possible conversions.

Alright… this is already a very long blog post… so I must come to an end. I could keep writing about this topic. The thing is, that setting up an autoresponder… the technical part… that’s easy if you take some time to learn how to do it. The hard part is the email marketing itself and that is setting up a good Offer that people will signup for and having good Follow Up and Broadcast emails that lead people towards taking certain actions.

OK, let me guess… now you want to know how you can setup a Killer Email Marketing Campaign… correct?

Believe me, if I’d know a formula that works everytime, then I would show it to you right here on the blog. Fact is that there are certain marketing strategies and techniques that can do wonders… if used properly and if used in the right situation and content. I would recommend you study successful marketers. Signup to their lists and analyse what they do… what do they offer for the free signup… what do they offer after the free signup… what kind of emails do they send you… etc.

Also, I think you should start small. For example, if you are just starting out with internet marketing, then don’t try to open up a huge membershipsite or starting a huge product launch. These things require skills, good contacts and a couple thousand dollars to start. You need a big server, referral contest prizes, a support team, programmers or technical people for bug fixes, big jv partners who promote etc. Way too much for a total beginner!

If you are just starting out, then build up Simple Systems like a Squeeze Page (the signup page) with a free ebook offer. Learn how to get visitors to your Squeeze Page and how to increase the number of people who signup to your list (the conversion rate). Setup different offers… compare the conversion rates for different free products… test different One Time Offers that you show after the free signup to make your first money. Once you are able to get 10 and more signups per day and a couple of One Time Offer sales, then you can move on to the next bigger systems with alot of knowledge in your hands.

The next step could be starting your own Giveaway Event. Your own Giveaway Event is like a little test before starting your own Membershipsite. A Giveaway Event runs for about 4 weeks including the pre-launch. So, you can experience how it is to do Support, how to do proper email communications with your members and other things that you can later use for starting your own Membershipsite. Your own Membershipsite with a free to signup offer and monthly recurring upgrade options plus included affiliate program is the Pro Level of Listbuilding.

Alright, enough for now… Please let me know your questions and let me know what part of the whole Email Marketing and Listbuilding topic you want to know more about.

Post your comments below!

Thanks,

Guido Nussbaum

Hey Guys,

below is a video that shows what the Social Marketing JV is all about and why becoming a contributor to Giveaway Events is a great way to build your list.

Click  Here to signup as a contributor for the Social Marketing JV

Click Here for a list of more Giveaway Events

Let me know…. what do you think about Giveaway Events… are there too many currently?  What makes a Giveaway Event a High Quality one?  What holds you back from signing up as a contributor?

Post your questions and opionions below.

Thanks,

Guido Nussbaum

Today’s topic is something that I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere. It’s something that I came up with myself resulting from years of testing and tracking.

There are many “Gurus” out there who “teach” you how to get traffic to your website but none of them considers the difference of the type of website that their students might have.

This is something that took me quite a while to find out: Not every traffic source works well for every type of website. Let me give you an example: If you promote a Sales Page in a Traffic Exchange you will get no or very little results… but if you promote a Squeeze Page or Splash Page in a Traffic Exchange your results can be real good.

There are hundreds of these examples that I could give you. For now let’s just keep in mind that: Not every traffic source works well for every type of website.

Now, let’s have a deeper look into the example with Traffic Exchanges. I’ve told you that a Squeeze Page or Splash Page can produce good results in Traffic Exchanges… but that’s only half the truth. There is something else that you must consider and that is The Topic Of Your Website.

If you promote a Squeeze Page in Traffic Exchanges that gives away a free ebook about how to get website traffic, then your results will most likely be pretty good… but if you promote a Squeeze Page that gives away a free ebook about how to train your cat, then your results might be rather poor.

It’s the same way with hundreds of other traffic sources… so let’s just keep in mind for now that: The Topic and Type Of Your Website must fit to the source of traffic.

To bring some order into this puzzle we’ll form 4 Types Of Websites:

1.) Internet Marketing related Free Signup Pages (Squeeze Pages, Free Membershipsites etc.)

2.) Internet Marketing related Blogs

3.) Niche Content or Free Websites (Blogs, Free Membershipsites etc.)

4.) Sales Pages in any niche (Ebooks, Software, Services etc.)

I think it should be possible to place most websites in one of these 4 categories. So, let’s have a closer look at these categories and the sources of traffic that work best for each category.

1.) Internet Marketing related Free Signup Pages (Squeeze Pages, Free Membershipsites etc.)

Now, I guess most of my readers already know that it’s most important to build up an opt-in list. And I guess most of my readers are operating in the Internet Marketing “niche”. So this first category is most important for us.

My favorite sources of traffic to promote these type of sites are:

- Google Adwords PPC
- Manual Traffic Exchanges
- Credit Based Safelists and Mailers
- Giveaway Events

These 4 sources of traffic work best for Free Signup Websites based on my experience. That doesn’t mean that these are the only 4 sources of traffic that I use but I focus on these 4 sources.

Of course I do Article Marketing, SEO, Web 2.0 Marketing etc. as well… but these “Content Based” strategies are rather long-term strategies that you should only use for your websites that have proven to convert best. If you promote a new website through Article Marketing without knowing your conversions, then you might be wasting your time. With the 4 traffic sources above you can easily track your conversions and optimize these before you start Content Based marketing.

One fact that I’ve discovered through testing and tracking is that Internet Marketing related websites are much harder to promote through Article Marketing, SEO etc. than it is with Niche Websites. That’s due to the fact that there is just way too much competition for the good keywords and even for the long tailed keywords nowadays.

When I look at the numbers inside my Ezinearticles account, then I notice that my Niche Articles received almost always at least 3 times the views and clicks than my Internet Marketing Articles.

The same goes for my SEO efforts… I can easily get 200+ daily organic visitors from Google for my Niche Websites within just 3 months but for my Internet Marketing Websites I’ve only managed that when I launched a new membershipsite with the help of affiliates.

2.) Internet Marketing related Blogs

In the last 3 years I’ve setup several Internet Marketing related Blogs. On some I’ve posted only unique, original articles… on other blogs I’ve published PLR articles, and other blogs I’ve simply automated with RSS Feeds and WP automated posting plugins.

All blogs have been pinged, bookmarked, rss feed submitted and promoted through Web 2.0, Article Marketing and Social Marketing. The results were rather poor, the blogs received between 10 and 30 visitors daily on average.

When I did the same thing with my Niche Blogs I received between 100 and 300 visitors daily.

After alot of testing and tracking I realized why this is so: Too much competition for a too low search volume on internet marketing keywords. There are of course searches for “SEO”, “Search Engine Marketing”, “Internet Marketing”, “Online Business” etc. but try to get a Top 10 or even a Top 30 position on Google for these keywords.

Below are my favorite ways to promote Internet Marketing related Blogs.

- Send out emails to your own opt-in list when you make a new post
- Exchange Links with other Internet Marketing Blogs
- Place a link inside your Membershipsites
- Creating Linkbaits

Now, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use all the other blogging promotion strategies like: Bookmarking, Twitter Integrations, RSS Feed Submission, Article Marketing, Web 2.0 Marketing etc.

Use my favorite 4 strategies as the Traffic Engine and the other strategies as the Traffic Multiplier.

3.) Niche Content or Free Websites (Blogs, Free Membershipsites etc.)

These are really fun to promote because it’s very easy if you have done a good keyword research. There are many niche long-tailed keywords out there that you can target to get free traffic from Google and other search engines.

For promoting Niche Websites or Blogs I usually use certain routines for search engine optimization… Off-Page and On-Page.

But first you must find keywords that you can easily rank for.

Here is what I do for each keyword:

- Write a 500+ words article and post in on the Niche Blog, place links to your Niche Membershipsites in this Blog Post.

- Bookmark the Blog Post with 20 up to 50 bookmarking services

- Write a 500+ words article about the same topic as the first article. Then submit this new article to several article directories, linking to the Blog Post.

- Write a 1000+ words article and place it on a Web 2.0 site like Squidoo, Hubpages, Webpaint, Know etc. linking to the Blog Post

- Bookmark the new Web 2.0 site with 20 up to 50 bookmarking services

- RSS Submit the new Web 2.0 site to 10 up to 50 RSS Feed Directories / Services

This procedure should be spread up over a week. If you’ve targeted some easy keywords then this strategy should be enough to get you a Top 10 position, often the first or second position.

If you’ve targeted some more competitive keywords, then you can do some more linkbuilding on more Web 2.0 sites, submitting more articles or other strategies like Video Submissions, Blog Commenting, Link-Wheels etc.

4.) Sales Pages in any niche (Ebooks, Software, Services etc.)

This last category can be the hardes or easiest to promote, depending on your Marketing Base.

If you have a huge JV-Network or a huge network of your own websites or a huge list, then selling products online can be easy… if you don’t have all that, then I suggest you build that up first.

Selling products online as a beginner is not as easy as some people want you to believe. Fact is that people buy from you if they Know, Like and Trust you. This can’t be achieved from cold traffic… at least the conversion rates from cold traffic will be very low.

So, the best way to sell products online is by:

- Having a Product Launch
- Mailing out to your own opt-in list
- Having Affiliates who promote your offer
- Special Offers on your other websites and blogs
- Integration Marketing
- PPC (only if you know what you are doing)

Alright, I hope this blog post could give you at least some ideas on how to get some more traffic to your websites.

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave your comments.

Guido Nussbaum

Don’t we all dream of an automated income that flows to our bank account every month without us doing anything?

This was always my dream but after testing different models to achieve this I realized that it’s not as easy as some people want us to think.

Most monthly membership sites that we could start have one big disadvantage and that is: People won’t stay in the program forever, most drop out after a couple of months.

For example let’s say you create a monthly coaching club. The problem here is that you can’t coach people for years, most will come to the point where they don’t need your coaching anymore.

So what’s the solution for this problem?

Well, think about it… what service do you use already for years and still pay for every single month?

Let me guess… it’s your Domains and your Hosting.

Everybody who wants to run a website needs these 2 tools and once you have your website up and running it’s unlikely that you cancel it, especially if the website is earning you money.

A third tool that every internet marketer needs is an Autoresponder. Once they have it they most likely keep it for years or even for life.

So the conclusion here is that if you could offer these services you would have the best recurring income streams.

OK, let’s get back to reality… a regular guy can’t build up these services without investing thousands of dollars.

So what can we do?

The answer is: Become a Reseller or Affiliate for a Hosting company, for a Domain Provider and for an Autoresponder Company.

Referring new members to them can build you up a huge monthly recurring income that is very stable.

But you can be even smarter!

Sending referrals to 3 different companies is not easy to do… you have to split up your traffic on 3 referral links.

So what if you could send referrals to a company that offers all 3 services in one location?

That would be a huge advantage, right?

Now you only promote 1 referral link and offer 3 services in one package… that’s an easy way to build up a stable recurring income.

But it can get even better…

… what if you could build up your own little army of salespeople who promote this service and you get a recurring sale every time they sell a package to somebody?

You think that’s not possible?

Well, I thought so as well for a very long time until I stumbled across GVO. They offer such an all-inclusive package and they offer it even for less than what you would pay getting each service on it’s own at different companies.

No matter if you just want to save money on your Domains, Hosting and Autoresponder or if you want to promote these services… with GVO you can do it.

Check Out GVO, Click Here

Please be advised that GVO is NOT a get rich quick scheme, it’s a solid business opportunity that you build up over a period of several years (just like with any other legitimate business opportunity).

GVO is NOT a push button thing, you’ll actually have to work to build up your recurring income.

If that doesn’t surprise you and if you can see the huge opportunity here then you are invited to join our GVO Team where we’ll help you to build up your residual income.

There are tons of training videos, there are online seminar rooms and there are trainers who answer your questions.

Personally, I instantly jumped onboard because I could see the huge opportunity behind GVO. You are invited to step in my footprints… come onboard my GVO Team.

Join us here

Please post your questions and comments below.

See you inside GVO!

Guido Nussbaum