Module 3 of Dean Holland’s Quick Start Challenge is about email list building.
Once you get your blog set up and start to get visitors with the free traffic methods that Dean recommends in Module two ( How to get traffic to your blog) you need a way of capitalizing on that traffic. Dean calls it Push Button Income and Automation. If only!
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Module 2 of Dean Holland’s Quick Start Challenge is about how to get traffic to your blog. You can read about Module 1 here: I’ve Just Discovered The Quick Start Challenge!
In the first video Dean starts off by talking about getting people to know, like and trust you. He says to do that you have to establish a working relationship with them by getting them to your blog to read your posts.
Well, that is one way I guess, but not the only way. I know marketers who don’t blog or at least don’t blog regularly and still manage to get people to like know and trust them. I think a lot of people have turned to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to do that now. ( more on this later)
Don’t ask me now how I ended up watching the video promoting Dean Holland’s Quick Start Challenge but I arrived there somehow.
I know internet marketers say that videos work better than text sales pages but I actually hate them. I have not got the patience or time to watch some long winded video especially after you have been told to watch this “short” video!
I often click away in the hopes that I will get taken to the text version which sometimes happens. But, I noticed that Dean’s video actually stated the length of it underneath which was just over 6 minutes so I thought I would grin and bear it.
Well, it was certainly effective because I got hooked!
Yes, I signed up for The Quick Start Challenge. Yes, I know, yet another coaching course! If you have been reading my blog you will know that I am a bit of a coaching course junkie. Been there, done it but haven’t quite got the T shirt yet.
You might have noticed that I started this blog some time ago and have fallen by the wayside several times. I was posting quite regularly and building a list at one time with my free report but not getting very far with it. I am in another niche as well and post regularly to that blog and send out a newsletter each week to my subscribers.
I started to create another squeeze page funnel but was not happy enough with it to test it with solo ads. Quite frankly the information in the free report and book was out of date by the time I got it all together. Then, earlier this year I found that I had a lot of (too many) projects on the go at one time that were not getting finished so something had to go. This blog was the one that suffered.
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This has been bugging me for a while now so I am going to get it off my chest. I have said it before and I am saying it again. If you are going to take the time to comment on my blog posts then make great blog comments if you don’t want to get trashed.
Think that’s a bit harsh?
Well, what use are wishy washy comments like “great article, keep up the good work” or “think that is the best article that I have read” or “Thanks for sharing this very interesting post. Keep it up always”?
I don’t see these sorts of blog comments as any form of flattery. They just scream that you have not even read the post.
When I see comments like that I just think they are a very lazy way to try to get a dofollow backlink because I use the CommentLuv Premuim plugin. (Or, maybe you outsource your comments and don’t check to see what sort of comments your outsourcer makes.)
In the days before blog commenting became a way to get a dofollow backlink the whole point of making a comment was to join in the discussion and add something that other readers might find useful.
Oh boy, have I had some trouble! You wouldn’t think that installing a couple of plugins could cause so many problems. I have been wanting to change the WordPress share plugin I was using on my detox blog to one that included a prominent Pinterest Pinit button for some time.
One that was recommended by James Penn in his Facebook Thief Warrior special Offer, that I bought recently, was the Really Simple Facebook Twitter WordPress Share plugin.
James said that it worked wonders for increasing the sharing and to get more traffic to his blog and when I took a look at it on his blog it appeared to be exactly what I wanted. I went ahead and uninstalled the one I was using and installed the new one.
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I don’t know about you but I have had enough of these email subject lines that try to trick you into opening them. In their efforts to win readers many internet marketers seem to have resorted to using email subject lines that – well – just suck.
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I haven’t been posting regularly to my blog recently. My excuse is that I have had (and still have) so many ” making money online from home” things going on that writing blog posts has had to take a back seat for a while.
I have been trying to get my new squeeze funnel together, getting new sales copy for my detox ebook, getting a Kindle book created, working on my Green Organics business and organizing a party for my big ?O birthday. (No, I am not telling you which one., a woman has to have some secrets!)
I know that’s far too many things to be doing at one time but for various reasons too boring to go into here, that’s the way it worked out. One project that I have at last finished is to publish an ebook on Kindle. It’s called
“How To Thin Legs: Get Thinner Thighs And Slim Calves Fast”
It’s a while since I wrote something on this blog but there has been so much going on that I simply have not had time. ( more about that soon!) But yesterday my e-mail account was hacked so I felt I should warn you.
Hacking is getting worse so it can happen to you too. I wasn’t the only one though. I heard that a lot of Yahoo and Google mail accounts were hacked even though Google mail uses https security.
It wasn’t too long ago that my computer doctor sent out a newsletter warning about this. Did I take his advice about creating a secure password ? Unfortunately not.
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I’m not happy. Not happy at all. I think I have taken a hit from Penguin. The traffic to my detox blog has dropped off again in spite of the SEO back links I have been building since Google’s Panda.
Google launched Penguin, their latest algorithm change, on April 24th and I have noticed that my search engine traffic has been going down and down since then.
Some of it may be the time of the year of course as the majority of people are searching for information about detox in the earlier part of the year. Still it makes me wonder.
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It was only when I joined Warrior Plus that I first cam across EPC’s. Earnings per click or EPC as it is more commonly known, is probably one of the most important numbers for an affiliate marketer to know and understand.
Having a good understanding of what EPC is and how it is calculated can help you to quickly identify offers that will help you reach your income goals.
Continue reading What Is EPC And Does It Matter To Affiliate Marketers?