I was chatting with James Grandstaff the other evening and he asked me if I was still using ListJoe and some of the other list builders, safelists or whatever we’re calling them these days…

My answer was “Yes, of course…”

We then talked about his new “3 Step Secrets” system that he’s setting up for his team (and those that want to be in his team) and he asked me if I’d like to try it out.. kind of test it and take it for a test drive… well, as you might expect, I said “Sure Jim! I’d love to!”

So James sent me to a web page and I went from there.. I followed the instructions he’d laid out and got to the bottom of the 3 step secret (step 3 really is brilliant!) … and I sent out 1 email to 3016 listjoe members

That was yesterday.. Here’s the shocking part: While I was sleeping, just after midnight lastnight, I got a new sign up! Obviously it works and works well…

So, here’s my dilemma.. should I carry on testing this system and keep growing the business it’s building without telling you what’s going on, or, should I tell you about it and see if you want to join the fun?

The system is obviously brand new, hardly anyone has seen these pages and they’re converting really well which means that you have an opportunity to jump on this before it gets real big (like James’ other systems)

So, should you try it out, test it or use it?

The answer is this: If you want a very simple system that works, costs you nothing to use, and you’re willing to follow the instructions and effectively “work a system” then the answer is a resounding Yes!

on the other hand, if you’re not really fussed or bothered about this stuff, then definately not… don’t even go there

I’ll leave it to you to decide, but here’s the link to the first page I saw that lead to the rest:

>> The 3 Step Secret <<

Let me know if you give it a whirl…

Cheers

Ian

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We had a pretty good training meeting up in Northampton on Sunday just gone, this was a training to support those people that have downloaded and have put to use the ebook authored by David Butler, Gordon Bunker and yours truly (The PIE System). It was really intended to help people out with the setting up of the various programs and systems once you dig in to IMSP and PIPS and then also how to get the best out of some of those programs. So, I spent a fair while preparing and getting materials together for that. It seemed like a good idea to put together video’s that could be shown at the training which show step by step how to perform various activities and actions.

It has become apparent that for the new net marketer things can be pretty darn daunting, not to mention highly confusing and overwhelming! As I cast my mind back to when I first set out on this amazing journey it was a mad time for me too, incredibly exciting, but downright crazy!

Like anything worthwhile, there’s quite a learning curve to deal with, and, to be honest, that learning curve doesn’t seem to stop, there’s always something new to learn about and lots of ways to fine tune and improve results. That’s really what I wanted to focus on in this post.

We’re in the business of building lists, opt in email lists… We hear it all the time “Build your list” and “The money is in the list”. What I have been taught, and what I teach others is rather than sending your traffic directly to your affiliate sign up page, where ever that may be, capture the name and email address of that person first with a ’squeeze’ or ‘data capture’ page so that they can be added to your auto responder list such as those provided by Aweber or Get Response. That’s all very well, but, the question has always been “How do I get someone to part with their name and email address on a capture page and end up on my opt in list?”. There’s lots of ways of doing this, but what’s worked really well for me is to use proven systems that are known to convert traffic into subscribers and subscribers into buyers. A great example of this is James Grandstaff’s Instant MLM Squeeze Pages, my favourite squeeze page of the lot is this one: http://www.theeasyprofitgenerator.com
I have spent many hours studying James’ system and techniques, and, through this I managed to put my own little squeeze page together which captures subscribers for my e-lottery business: http://stacktheodds.net

Having these great systems and capture pages is great, but it’s completely pointless if we don’t have traffic! So, I suppose that’s the next big question: “How do I get traffic to my squeeze pages?” This, for me, is where the fun really begins! So, what follows in this post is a few methods of creating traffic at low cost or for free and also what I’ve done to measure the ‘responsiveness’ of that traffic.

Talking to any good net marketer, they will always say ‘Track your results’. Simple web stats can tell you about where that traffic came from and what may have been searched for etc, but it won’t tell you what ‘actions’ occured on your page and it certainly won’t tell you what traffic turned into a ’sale’ or ’subscriber’.

Why Track?
If we’re going to spend time and money on developing a traffic stream to our squeeze page, we want to know which traffic sources are providing results. A really good service that was recommended to me is ProTrackerPlus. It’s a great service because it not only allows you to track all sorts of links and sources, it also teaches you how to track, or as the boys over there (Dam and Mark) put it… All you want in a tracker.. with the Training You Deserve!

Setting up a free account over at ProtrackerPlus allows you to set up 5 trackers. So, I deceided a while ago to track some of my pages to see what happened.. The results were surprising (at least to me!).

Heres my results from tracking my pages on 4 manual traffic exchanges over 5 days (in no particular order):

1. Dragon Surf
Clicks: 893     Actions: 15     Sales: 2     Conversions: 0.22%

2. Traffic Splash
Clicks: 498     Actions: 14     Sales: 1     Conversions: 0.20%

3. Traffic Gold Rush
Clicks: 127     Actions: 1     Sales: 0     Conversions: 0.00%

4. Hit Safari
Clicks: 509     Actions: 5     Sales: 2     Conversions: 0.39%

This test has been a real eye opener for me. Generating traffic for free in a Manual Traffic Exchange is not really my favourite pass time, and, to accrue the amount of traffic you see in the figures above for free takes a little while.

What have I learned?

In the last 5 days, Hit Safari out performed the other 3 exchanges with a conversion rate of 0.39% (for every 509 clicks I have got 2 subscribers to my list) It’s worth me spending a bit more time at Hit Safari or even worth buying some traffic

Traffic Goldrush has a bunch of traffic still left to deliver (something like 700 hits) but has not managed to deliver me that traffic over the last 5 days.

Dragon Surf is a steady 0.22% conversion and delivers the traffic at a good rate

Traffic Splash also steady 0.20% and delivers traffic at a good rate

The surprise here for me has been Hit Safari. While surfing I always pick up loads of free prize credits which always made me a little suspicious. Turns out my suspicions were unfounded and that this Traffic Exchange not only delivers traffic it also provides responsive traffic!

List Builders

Another good source of responsive traffic for me has been list builders. As part of the training we did on Sunday I produced a few videos, I’ll post two of them here.

The first one is based on List Joe. List Joe is a credit based list builder. This effectively means that if I read other List Joe members emails, I will earn credits, which in turn will enable me to email ListJoe members. The video is based on using a free account which allows you to deliver 2500 emails to ListJoe emails every 7 days.

My List Joe results have been to land 3 subscribers for every 2500 emails sent (which resulted in 120 visits) That’s a pretty good conversion rate of 2.5%

Finally, There’s Downline Builder Direct.
Downline Builder Direct is more of a ‘Safe List’. This means that I agree to receive other DBD emails in return for the ability to email DBD members in return. This is not credit based, so it means that we have to concentrate a little harder on writing a good email that encourages people to open it and read it. (There’s a great free course just come out by Michael Rasmussen called ‘Email Promo’s Exposed’ I would strongly recommend checking this out if you are interested in sending out promotional emails!)

That’s it for this post, I hope this has been useful to you in some way. Do comment, even if it bored your socks off I really enjoy any feedback…

Cheers!

Ian

I spent a while this morning just going back through my calendar, notes and posts and I am pretty surprised at how much can change in a single year. 2008 started in a difficult and sad way with my dear wife losing her father and an uncle within a few days. Mick, my father in law, was a military man, an extremely proud husband, father, grandfather and leader who will always be sorely missed. His legacy is the way in which he lived his life, he set a fine example in taking responsibility, doing what’s right, speaking his mind, being brave and chasing down his dreams. An inspirational act to follow!

With all of this, and not wanting to dwell on the sadness, it put us in a position where we needed to evaluate our lives and set some goals for the future. So, that’s what we did!

My wife’s, Larina’s, side of the family are very small and it soon occurred to me that I would have to step up to the plate and be the man of the family, I promised Mick with my last words to him that I would take care of his girls and I continue to strive to do that today.

So, goals were set and decisions were made. We’d sell both of our houses and move into something a little bigger meaning that Coral, my mother in law, could come live with us annexed or otherwise… My idea of a shed at the bottom of the garden didn’t go down too well so maybe something a little more elaborate was in order

What transpired in the housing market here in the UK, and indeed around the world had a big impact on those plans! We did manage to find several suitable places that ticked all the right boxes but with the market going the way it was we knew it just wasn’t going to be plain sailing. To this day we have not moved or sold the houses and are still contemplating the markets.

This situation has irritated me somewhat! I mean market conditions have been able to limit our freedom and choices… Those of you that know me will know that I don’t take this kind of stuff laying down, I knew that if I wanted to change some stuff in our lives I would have to change some stuff in our lives…

Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely grateful for what we have, a lovely family, our own home, my own business, a property in North Cyprus, vehicles and so forth, but what I really crave for my family is the freedom to choice and security.

As you may have read in one or two of my ezine articles, I was into mlm up until 1999. This was ‘old school’ mlm, product based, home meetings, driving thousands of miles, books, tapes, the whole shabang.. come ‘99 I quit after 5 years. To this day I am not exactly sure why I did so.. but I did. The thing is that mlm or network marketing gets engrained. The rewards are exactly what I still craved, freedom. To be honest I had been keeping tabs on the leaders from that organisation and in May 2008 I found out that some pretty drastic stuff had happened. I don’t want to harp on about it but people like the Scrivens, Gregory’s and Butlers had some very serious issues to deal with. I watched with much interest what was happening to those people and that organisation.

In August 2008 we took 3 weeks out and went off to our place in Kyrenia, North Cyprus. I love the island, the people, the way of life and of course the climate is good too. The food is magnificent and the coffee is to die for My eldest son and I managed to get our Advanced Open Water PADI Scuba Diving tickets and we had what was simply a fantastic time. Now we have been over to Cyprus many many times, but this time something happened. I realised I wanted to be there a lot more of the time and I found out that my family did too. Larina was born there (Mick and Coral having been stationed there for many years) it is kind of like going home for her.

So, we get home and miss the place like crazy, and in true ‘be the man’ style, I sat down with Larina and set the goal, we would be there in time for the London Olympics. I wanted to watch the opening ceremony on the giant screen in Kyrenia Square. The thing is I realised that we were going to need the income to support ourselves and being a Scuba Instructor probably wouldn’t cut the mustard. My business, much as it is subscription based probably would end up shrinking and eventually dying. I needed something else.

It was September 2008 when I wrote to Jerry Scriven and inquired as to business opportunities. I was looking for a business that I could build online, that would provide residual income, that I could take with me wherever we went. Jerry very kindly passed my inquiry on to Dave Butler… the rest, as they say, is history.

So here we are, at the end of 2008 with a bunch of online mlm or network marketing businesses all of them growing… it’s so exciting!

I have learned so much over the past few months it’s astonishing and we haven’t even started yet! Things are a lot different 10 years on (that is in the way we build our businesses) what a huge learning curve that has been. The difference is that it is FUN FUN FUN! (kind of important!)

The dream is real, we are moving steadily towards our goal and we can see it happening.

I’ve a few people to thank:

Larina, my wife, Thank you my Love for your patience and belief
David and Tina, Thank you for helping me get started and being a great mentor
James Grandstaff, Thank you for developing a magnificent downline building system for us all to use
Gordon Bunker, For being a great crossline pal and Joint Venture partner
The Team, For being an inspirational bunch of entrepreneurs
Sean Supplee, For being a great online friend and running partner

Lastly, I’m really looking forwards to 2009, it’s going to be a great year. One of the last opportunities to come my way in 2008 is Web Prosperity. You can check it out here: http://ian.webprosperity.com

This opportunity is still in pre-launch and promises to be one of the great success stories of 2009. It actually launches Jan 6th.

If you are wondering what you can do to make 2009 even more successful for you and yours then I would strongly recommend you go take a look and grab yourself a free position before launch. Without too much of the detail this is a 2 x 15 matrix that will be filled not only by you but also your upline… Launches like this don’t come around too often, they are a truly special event that can make a MASSIVE difference.

I definately urge you to go look at the site, get a position and then wake up Jan 6th realising that you already have a downline… http://ian.webprosperity.com It costs nothing to find out!

That’s it for my last post this year.
Have a wonderful new year celebration and a super prosperous 2009 and beyond
Cheers!
Ian

A Video seemed a lot more sensible to me… enjoy!

Here’s a list of the tools I use in the video:

Aweber
Quick Tab Change by Jay Hines
ListJoe
Instant MLM Squeeze Pages by James Grandstaff

I do hope you’ve found this infomation useful and that it helps you save time and money in your advertising efforts.

Go ahead and leave a comment and let me know what you thought!

Cheers!

Ian

Well… it allows you to email 20,000 random members or your downline inside the program, whichever is greater, with your offers every 2 days!
It allows you to earn 50% on all sales.. cool!
There is also a huge array of Diamond Level Bonuses which are available for download.

There’s a bunch of levels in between free and diamond, but to be honest, I didn’t want to hang around

So, how has it been?
I was shocked at the results, my mailings have resulted in 40% conversions.. I am measuring conversions by page viewed and actions on those pages… My last mailing resulted in 60 page views, that converts to 24 list members and of those list members several bought into my product, this made me enough to pay for my membership for several months!

Is DBD worth it?

If you are building lists, downlines and ultimately supplying products, yes it definately does and I urge you to check it out!
The only point I would raise it that if you are going to mail 20,000 members, then please make sure your email subject is of interest and that it will encourage people to open it, otherwise, unfortunately , your ad will not be seen

You can Access DBD here and join for free!

All the best

Ian

I’m sure you know what’s involved in mlm, it’s all about building a downline, and helping those that join you in your mlm business to become successful through assisting them with building their downlines.

Lord know’s I get an awful lot of help from my upline, chiefly Dave Butler. Dave is one of the UK’s finest network marketers having been working with mlm businesses for the last 20 years.

Dave is an absolute master of building large network marketing organisations running to many thousands of people.

So what does this have to do with building a ‘Lazy Downline’?

Dave introduced me to james Grandstaff’s system “Instant mlm squeeze pages” (there’s a link to it, which I am certain you have noticed on this page). James has been incredibly successful in building massive mlm organisations of over 14,000 people. That’s pretty amazing right?

What staggered me was that James does not use traditional network marketing techniques, on the contrary, he has developed a 3 step system which makes building downline organisations here on the net a breeze.

I read an eBook written by James entitled “How to Get Rich Building a Lazy Downline”. It was a fascinating read, James tells the tale of alcoholism, of a gentleman with an income of $13,000 a month who was scared! and talks about a method known as ‘Giving them a fish’

The book was a real eye opener, and really, it suggests that us mlmers should ‘unlearn’ all of those old downline building techniques, you know the ones, call up your friends and family, colleagues and associates etc, buying up and calling so called leads and so on, the lazy way is better, use a system which generates highly targeted prospects and which pays you in the process!

OK so the ebook is available here BUT, please bear in mind this is normally distributed via a squeeze page, so any reference to receiving the ebook via a squeeze page should be taken into account.

All the best, have a great day!

Ian

After quite a crazy weekend, I thought I’d jump straight back in this morning with a blog post. I say crazy because my brother, in all his wisdom, asked me over to his place to watch the Calzaghe, Roy Jones Jnr. fight on Saturday night.. well as it turned out it was very early Sunday morning! Paul told me the fight was due to start at 2.15am Sunday Morning… Heh! it didn’t get started until 4.30am and I rolled home to bed at something just before 6am. I’m just glad he won!! Anyway, onto today’s post…

I’ve had some great results from Downline Builder Direct and can happily recommend it as a service.
I was introduced to Downline Builder Direct by James Grandstaff, and, as you will see when you look at the site James’ endorsement of the service is slap bang in the middle of the home page.

James being on that home page quoting some amazing statistics encouraged me to go for the diamond membership, well, that and a one time offer which was very hard to ignore

So, I posted a couple of emails to the members and had some great results. I managed to achieve a 40% conversion on the squeeze page (This One) I was promoting, which is probably the best conversion rate I have ever achieved in any program.

I suppose this can also be attributed to the brilliant squeeze page I am using which is not my design, but one of those available to members of Instant MLM Squeeze Pages. I guess it can also be attributed to the kind of people that are members of the Downline Builder Direct community, they’re obviously interested in building downlines and downline building systems!

So, If you are looking to get more traffic to your pages and more importantly high conversion rates on the page then I would heartily recommend you go take a look at Downline Builder Direct

That’s all for now

Cheers!

Ian

1. Get a dream (that’s easy )

2. Build a list of your ‘warm’ contacts… friends, family, colleagues etc etc

3. Grab the phone and go through the script… the one that says “Hey Joe, I just took a look at a very exciting business and I think you’ll like it too…”

4. Get yourself round to Joe’s house with your professional suit on, your briefcase packed full of literature, compensation plans, follow up materials etc

5. Get back to Joe’s house a few days later to follow up

and so on… I’m sure you know the story

Is there something wrong with these methods? Well, in truth, no, there’s nothing wrong with this at all, my issue is this: it is just not easily duplicateable, it’s no secret that in order to be successful using these methods, you are going to have to talk to one heck of a lot of people to find your leaders, and in order to find them you are going to face an awful lot of rejection, disappointment and pain in general, that’s fine if you are the sort of person that can deal with this and if your dream is strong enough, and, generally you will find that there is a ’self improvement’ system which will teach and mentor you, again not a bad thing, but, is it necessary in todays new age of network marketing?

Using these ‘old school’ methods you soon find that your friends, family and other warm contacts soon run out, and you have to start looking at other ways of generating leads, again this is not necessarily easy for most people, sure, theres people out there who just seem to be magnetic, they attract people to themselves and make striking up a conversation look like a walk in the park. In my opinion though, these people are few and far between… So what’s the answer?

Today, we have the internet, we have software systems and we have ways of developing leads without ever having to lift the phone or even leave the house! Sounds a bit more like it to me, and actually, it sounds like a lot more fun!

What we have is ‘The Funded Proposal’ A system which allows you to build your network marketing business online (and making some money while you do it!)

On this page you will find a link to a brilliant eBook which was crafted by ‘The Downline Duplication Specialist’ James Grandstaff, who is a very smart software developer who’s skills include viral traffic generation. The eBook includes transcripts from both James and Daegan Smith… they call him “The King of Never Calling a Single Lead”, Daegan is the head of Internet Marketing for one of the worlds largest network marketing companies, says it all really doesn’t it!

Now if you want to grab yourself a copy of this eBook (valued at nearly $100) and gain redistribution and sales rights in the process, just pop your name and email address into the form.

You’re not going to part with any money in doing this, on the contrary, you are actually going to get yourself surprise bonus access to an extremely powerful media presentation by James Grandstaff, this on it’s own is valued at nearly $300!

Why would I be letting you get access to this for free? All I can say is, all will become very clear!!

Go ahead and pop your details into the form and discover ‘The Perfect Funded Proposal’ and blow your Network Marketing business into orbit

Cheers!

Ian

I became familiar with the principles of Network Marketing and MLM back in 1994.

I was introduced to a large MLM company by my friend Robin one evening around at somebody’s house.

I was blown away by the content of Robin’s presentation, the dreams he built, the network building diagram and compensation plan. I mean I was totally awe struck, I had never seen anything like this before and I really thought that was it, my ticket to freedom… all I had to do was find half a dozen buddies who saw what I saw, and that was it, I’d be made for life.

Well, if you are like me you can imagine what happens next.

My friends don’t get as excited as me, I come back to Earth with a bump and I end up wondering if there is something wrong with me or something wrong with the business I was so excited about. Fortunately, my upline, Robin, is a smart fellow, he’s got me using ‘the system’. It’s a system of books, tapes, meetings and functions. This system keeps me in the business, builds my confidence and belief and provides tools to help me build and train my downline. It empowers me to put on a suit and drive around the country late at night showing the business plan to people, looking for the one’s that see what I see.

I soon realize that this is no ‘get rich quick’ scheme and actually, there’s some hard work involved.

Five years later, I discovered the Internet, and I let my Network Marketing business go. I don’t know if it was the loss of belief in my self, the business or the system, or, if it was the constant rejection and pain I felt every time a distributer quit, but I let it go.

If you’ve been involved in ‘Old School’ MLM or Network Marketing as I’ve described above, you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say that MLM burns itself into your heart. It never leaves you, you know that it is right, wholesome, ethically and morally correct and probably one of the most powerful business models out there.

Enter the Internet. Combine the Power of the Internet, MLM companies and Downline Building Systems and you are looking at a completely different animal.

Take away the pain, the rejection, the prospecting telephone calls, the driving, the suits, in fact everything that was expensive and painful, take it all away, that’s old school!

Bring in automatic downline building systems, viral traffic systems, auto responders, social networking, interactive websites, online training and conferencing, blogging, article writing and search engine optimization and you have an extremely powerful system which attracts people to your mlm or network marketing business.

Turn the Old School on it’s head, the systems out there today bring your leads and prospects to you magnetically, people chase you and ask for the information, your business grows around the planet and those friends you thought would be so excited about that business don’t even know what you’re doing.

If you are anything like me, (if you’ve read this far you probably are!) I encourage you to check out the New Age of MLM and Network Marketing. Understand that the Internet and technology has revolutionized the MLM business model and that potentially it will change your future for the better. Put aside those old reservations and worries, they don’t exist here on the net. Embrace the terms MLM and Network Marketing, here on the turbo charged Internet those words are as acceptable as ‘A Cup of Tea’

Ian T Taylor can help you start and develop your Internet Based MLM or Network Marketing business, start here: www.theeasyprofitgenerator.com