I have been stunned by the results of VWD’s recent launch of their ‘Viral’ site.

12,000 new members in under 30 days is not too shabby!

This one page includes a very short teaser video with some pretty ‘generic’ text discussing a huge market and encouraging visitors to opt in for more information.

I was watching some Frank Kern stuff the other day, about the ‘triangle of trust’ and the power of video on blogs and I think he made a real important point:

Video holds a relatively high ‘preceived value’ to website visitors, especially on a blog.

Frank talked about the blog being a fairly ‘non threatening’ environment. ie. it’s not perceived as something that will sell you something (like a sales page does)

So, maybe, it’s the video on this viral page that’s made all these people opt in…

Of course, once you have opted in, you get the info and all the ’social, tell a friend and bookmark tools’ to help get the word out about the site… I wonder though whether it’s those that’s driving the traffic to the viral page, numbers on the inside suggest the social tools are doing very well, especially for those just starting out on the net.

Anyway… here’s the page that’s creating all those members: http://stacktheodds.net/free what do you think?

If you’re really not interested in becoming a PPC blackbelt, then this course is definately not for you!

Actually, if you’re in MLM or Network Marketing and you’re not using PPC advertising then I totally understand how you feel. I shy’d away from PPC for fear of loosing a stack of cash very quickly… As you’ll know there’s a bazillion horror stories out there about PPC and the big G. All the advice I got when I started on my Internet Network Marketing quest was to avoid PPC until ‘I knew what I was doing’.

BUT, we all know that there are people out there who are making, literally, fortunes using the PPC traffic methods.

I got to the point where I decided that I’d like to learn PPC in order to expand my various businesses and on good recommendation invested in Mike Dillard and Jim Yaghi’s PPC Domination course which is available through Magnetic Sponsoring. There’s a full 30 day money back guarantee and Mike Dillard’s reputation is excellent, so, I took the plunge.

To be honest, the first video in the series I didn’t really learn too much and considered actually going for a refund, but, having got through that and moved on to the next video’s I am really impressed. It just felt that it may turn into a pitch for something else… Turns out I was wrong

This post is not to say that the free and paid traffic methods I currently use are not working… on the contrary, they work very well, but, adding the PPC string to the traffic bow seemed a very sensible thing to do, especially when the people running this course are pitching at Internet Network Marketers… that is really special, I don’t know of any other PPC course out there, specifically tailored to the Network Marketing and MLM niche.

Don’t let me decide for you, get the scoop here and get access to a total of 3 free videos which outline the course and talk about what this is really all about

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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!

Here’s your link: TrafficWitch

Cheers!

Ian

I am not going to try and say that submitting a single article to one of the directories is the answer to all our prayers and we’ll all get rich over night! That would be daft.
What I am getting at here, is that for a ‘long term online marketing strategy’, writing articles and submitting them to the article directories is a free resource that will benefit you in several great ways:

1. Writing an article actually makes you feel good! I know this doesn’t directly translate to anything tangible in a financial business sense, but, feeling good about yourself is pretty important when it comes to being successful in business. A great deal of satisfaction can be derived from writing a good article.

2. Authoring an article positions you as an expert. We all need to ‘brand’ ourselves here on the Internet and becoming an authority in your niche is important. We tend to believe what we read in ‘black and white’ and the author is generally seen as an authority in that field. The benefits of being seen as an expert in your arena are endless, it attracts people to you and enables you to deliver information to your colleagues and prospects with relative ease.

3. Link Popularity. When you submit an article to a directory, there is usually a ‘resource box’. The resource box is a field where the author of the article can write a ‘mini bio’ and include a couple of links to websites. A condition of someone using your article in their blog, ezine, website, newsletter etc is that they should include the ‘resource box’ in the post. This creates back links to your websites which will improve the page rank or importance of your website in the great scheme of things.

4. Visitors! Similar in principle to the above point, but that resource box will encourage more visitors to your websites. A good article will leave the reader wanting to know more about you and your business. The traffic you generate using this technique is free and of high quality. That is to say the visitor already has an interest in your subject and is likely to be already warmed up to your promotions.

5. SEO. I’m sure you know this acronym means Search Engine Optimization, if you already have your website key phrases figured out, embedding them in the title and body of your article will yield search engine results and readers of your articles. Another great free traffic source.

So there we have it, some brilliant reasons to use Article Marketing in your online strategy.

One of the best article directories I have discovered, (there are literally hundreds of them!) is ezine articles. You can check out my profile here if you like: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Ian_T_Taylor

All the best, get writing!

Cheers!

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