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):

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

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

You can Access DBD here and join for free!

All the best

Ian

You’ve probably figured out by now that I’m an mlmer, network marketer or it even seems to be referred to as affiliate marketer these days too.

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

James Grandstaff has done it again!

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.

Checkout the new squeeze page: Here

Cheers!
Ian