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:
VWD have just launched their much anticipated ‘Viral Marketing System’ to the affiliates on their network, and it’s proving to be a hit with the 200,000 current members of the website.
VWD dropped the £9.99 joining fee allowing affiliates to join the program for Free. This is great news for both new and more experienced affiliates and sets VWD up for explosive growth over the coming months. New affiliates get a 100% free, zero risk, online presence with built in viral marketing system, more experienced affiliates can focus on assisting new affiliates with the growth of their networks.
VWD’s affiliate program is one of those rare cases where payments are made on 7 levels of affiliate activity, almost unique!
It’s been a while since I posted here on my blog.. tut tut! The truth is that I have been pretty busy with a number of things both on and offline.
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):
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!)
So, With a Diamond Membership at Downline Builder Direct, you have the ability to email 20,000 members every 2 days. This safe list has been great for me. At my last mailing it produced 13 subscribers to my list.
I cannot tell you the number of hits it took to create these subscribers as I didn’t use a tracker. I chose to use a fully qualified domain name in the email that I sent rather than a tracking link. For some reason this seems to produce better results than a ‘tracker url’. I suppose that’s a price we pay…. The downline builder direct membership I took costs $77 and it has been worth every penny so far!
So here’s what I did in DBD the other day in video:
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…
Traffic Witch has launched and is growing like crazy! At the time of writing there are more than 1200 members already.
Traffic Witch is paying up to 75% and it’s going to be HUGE, well worth joining right now
Cast a spell on traffic witch…
Eye of Toad… Tongue Of Newt… Make It Easier To Recruit…
Just Add Your Links To Complete The Potion And You Will See A Huge Promotion!
OK, enough of all that…
Why am I recommending Traffic Witch to you?
What is in it for you?
Well, this is a feature packed traffic exchange with good design and the owner got Jon Olson and Robert Puddy in to help him build Traffic Witch.
You can grab yourself up to 75% commissions and a really cool bargain if you upgrade straight away, but that’s not the most important thing.
The owner is Guido Nussbaum. Why is that so important? You’ve probably heard of Guido. He is one of THE biggest names in the JV Giveaway market. Guido has very large lists of people who do not use traffic exchanges… yet!
These people are all about to be mailed about traffic exchanges. Many will join Traffic Witch as their first
ever exchange.
This exchange is going to brimming full of people that will see your ads, not only that, they will be joining your other programs too… Just MAKE SURE you fill in the downline builder with your ID’s!
Downline Builder Direct or DBD as it has become affectionately known is a fantastic resource for building downlines and lists.
I was introduced to Downline Builder Direct by James Grandstaff, via Instant MLM Squeeze Pages..
Initially I took the free membership which was cool, it allowed me to pop in all of my programs into the built in downline builder and it actually produced a web page I can promote, again this was totally free, you can access the page by Clicking Here I’m sure you’ll agree it’s pretty nifty and allows promotion of many of the programs you work with.
After hearing about some of the ’shocking’ results people were getting with this program I decided to upgrade to the Diamond Level. What does the diamond level offer?
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
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
A fantastic new squeeze page which pulls like crazy. James just announced the release of this first new squeeze page via his blog.
The new squeeze page is available to platinum members of Instant MLM Squeeze Pages James notes there are more pages to follow.
He also recently added the ability to use Get Response with the system as well as Aweber, this is now Live too.
There are many downline building systems to choose from out there. I have used several, and, I’ll be perfectly frank and honest with you, they are NOT all the same thing.
You see, when building any MLM business, the most important asset you have, apart from an upline who believes in you, is your list. In today’s ‘new age’ of MLM that list is actually your optin list, that’s your list of subscribers who optin to get information from you about opportunities and systems to help them build their MLM business. These optin’s, leads, people, individuals, however you like to refer to them have joined your list and probably your MLM downline system through using that MLM downline system.
So how do you choose which MLM Downline System to use?
Here are some very important questions you should ask yourself before you make that decision:
1. Do your optins actually join YOUR list?
OK, so you found an amazing, 100% Free MLM downline building system that produces leads and downlines for you. Did those leads actually join your list? I’ve seen this, you spend hours of hardwork in the Traffic Exchanges and List-Builders promoting this system that supposedly has evrything… It’s free, it provides lead capture pages, video, personalised to you, follow-up messages to send, everything, and great, you have leads appearing in your back office. Now all you want to do is broadcast a message to them. Can you do it? Actually in some scenario’s, No, you can’t, but guess what, the system owners can and, they do!
2. Who controls the messages sent out to your leads?
You really ought to be using one of the auto responders like aweber or get response to manage your list optins and control what messages are sent out to them. I have seen, and worked with, some MLM downline systems which purport to have those leads available to you, which they are, but they are not in your auto responder, they’re in someone elses and you have no control over what opportunities, offers and, importantly, links that are sent out to those individuals.
Successful New Age MLM downline builders all agree, have your own auto responder, have your own optin list, write your own series of follow up emails that you can control.
3. Can you obtain support and training from your upline?
In order to be successful in MLM, you are going to need training and support, period! It’s just the way it is. With some of the mlm downline systems out there, which I have worked with, I contacted my sponsor by email, the email that he joined with. It took me three weeks to get even a reply and for him to say, actually I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m new and No, I don’t know anything about all those emails I’ve been sending you about ‘our fantastic team’. Now this one is the straw tht broke the camels back for me, I’m a bit old school, I KNOW that you need to have the help and support of an upline team to be successful in MLM. If that downline building system does not encourage communication and training for it’s team members, it has a hole in it.
4. Are you put under undue pressure to part with your money?
Some free mlm downline systems suggest they can deliver 10’s and even 20’s of streams of ‘passive income’, great! Some of those streams of income are expensive to get started and, in fact, they maybe prohibitively expensive, particularly for the newcomer. The newcomer has put in lots of work and is seeing some success with his downline growing, a new stream of income is announced and unless the newcomer signs up within a very short timescale it’s going to be hard luck, your downline will join around you.
5. You want to stop using that system, what happens to your leads?
I built a list in a system I shouldn’t have done, other people were contacting my leads with their own offers and programs, this is just plain wrong! There is only one thing to do when this happens, quit that system and start to build your own list with an mlm downline system that builds YOUR list, not someone elses.
So, to conclude, I know how exciting it can be to discover a 100% Free MLM downline building system, I really do! But, before you go ahead and take out your wallet and credit card, consider your options very carefully. If the answer to some of the questions I have raised above is less than positive or they ring a bell, be very careful.
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