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That’s right I managed to jump to the top of the list at ListJumper.
That means that when I did my-every three days-random mailing, to those below me, most of the deliveries would go to people I hadn’t reached before, especially as there are new members coming in all the time.
OK this isn’t the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me, but it gives me an excuse to put up the dolphin picture. Hope you like it.
Both the Listjumper and TheListauction bring in sign ups every time I post, and as I use the squeeze pages from instantmlmsqueezepages, rather than the generic sales pages from the opportunities I am promoting, I get new members to that program as well as the main opportunity, and sometimes both.
One feature of Thelistauction is that gold members can place ads at the top of random letters sent out by other members. This is in the form of a text ad and a url.
Now, the gold members tend to be the more experienced and professional marketers and one thing that stands out is that they almost all use Viralurl to cloak their links.
Regular readers will know that I have done a couple of posts about Viralurl, and I cannot understand why anyone would promote a long ugly website address, or expose their affiliate link to the possibility of being hacked off, when there is an excellent free program like this, to solve the problem.
Not only does it tidy up your urls, but you can put a small ad on the Viralurl bar that shows at the top of web pages that have been cloaked, and others look at when clicking on to your links.
Viralurl do a series of videos explaining the system, one of which is a review and can be watched HERE.
Lastly, here is another downline type program that has GDI among the various ones in it’s list. It is called The3cashmachine and is reputed to be an excellent money building set up in it’s own right.
Paul at affiliatecurve, who is my sponsor and does very well with GDI, says that The3cashmachine and Hits2u, are his main sources of referrals for that program.
You may also want to look at GDIincometeam which I have only just come across, and obviously does the same job.
Most affiliate programs provide you with an all bells and whistles sales site with which to advertise their program, and get yourself referrals.
These are usually very professional and include a long written message from the program owner, proof of payments received photos, glowing testimonials and bullets listing the various features and advantages. There is often a video to watch as well.
This is all well and good, but stick this on your traffic exchanges etc and nobody will give them more than a glance. To regular surfers these sites all look the same, besides which, these people already have their own program to sell, they’re not looking for another one.
However, if you use a squeeze page, instead of the take all day to read sales page, you will get some interest.
This is because squeeze pages just give enough small snippets of information, to raise people’s curiosity, then ask them to fill in their details to find out more. These can then link to the regular sales page, which they might read on this occasion, and possibly sign up.
If they don’t you have their email address and can send them a follow up message and add it to your list. Some programs will do this for you automatically.
Luckily the two programs that I have talked about on this blog both provide their own squeeze pages, as well as the regular sales ones.
You can see Acme’s by clicking HERE, and one of GDI’s HERE.
This brings me to the main point of this post.
I have joined a program called InstantMLMSqueezePages.
The idea is you are provided with squeeze pages to promote any MLM/affiliate/networking program.
These squeeze pages actually advertise a free report, such as---How To Get Rich Building A Lazy Downline--which is packed with information which is invaluable to any internet marketer, and is valued at around $97. Click HERE to see what this looks like.
As I said previously, surfers aren’t looking for a new business, but they are interested in anything that might help them promote the one they’ve already got. So, they sign up for the free report.
What’s in it for us then?
Well, firstly the report is rebranded with your Instantmlmsqueezepages ID, which is a lucrative affiliate program in itself, and also has a link to your main business, which people are also encouraged to look at.
So you see you are killing two birds with one stone, as sign ups to either program should see you in the money.
Plus, you will get the information from the people who fill the form in, and can add them to your list for follow up messages, even if they don’t immediately become active.
More experienced marketers who sign up for the platinum level of membership have the opportunity to transfer these signees, automatically to their Aweber autoresponder.
Where do you promote these squeeze pages?
Just go back to my “traffic” posts and there’s plenty there to get you going.
Incidentally, as I said previously InstantMLMsqueezepages is a worthwhile affiliate program in it’s own right, and this also applies to most of the list builders that are out there.
I think you could make money promoting these various programs on each other, especially as you know the people involved there, have already bought a similar product.
A quick update on my traffic building post..
I have just signed up to a new program called List Jumper.
This is another program for emailing random members, but works in a different way to the others.
Everybody is placed in a vertical list on joining and starts at the bottom. Then you can earn credits by reading emails and JUMP up the list. You can then mail quantities of members below you every few days.
Like most programs there is a free version and various upgrades. The paid versions allow you to email more people and also to rise up the list automatically.
The reason I am putting this in a quick post is that the program is still in pre-launch, and anybody getting in early is going to be starting from further up the list.
Also, and I think this is a big attraction, all members can make a residual income from this, by getting sign ups, right down 7 levels. Even free members can do this and I think that the commissions look quite generous.
Again, as with other programs you‘ve got nothing to lose, by having a look and getting a proper understanding of what‘s involved..
I personally think this one has a lot of potential.
If you have been following my ventures here, you will hopefully have signed up with acme-people-search and Global Domains International.
Acme will bring you sales with the affiliate programs they use, plus $30 for each referral, who stays in the system.
GDI will add a growing residual income, once you introduce more than 10 people to their program.
Something I’ve only just realised with GDI is their leaderboard bonus plan.
If you refer five people in a week you get a $100 bonus, 10 people $200 and so on.
This will galvanize me into action, promoting this program, which of course, neatly brings me to traffic.
Unless you have your own opt in list to sell to, you’re going to need traffic.
Even if you have a list, you need to keep finding new things to try and sell to subscribers, which is hard going, and can end up being seen as too pushy for some.
So, list or no list, we all need fresh traffic, so here are some of the methods I am using.
First of all Thelistauction.
As readers will know I joined this fairly recently, to promote acme, and upgraded to their silver membership. With this I can email up to 2500 random members every 5 days.
It costs $19 per month which means I only need one sign up per month to be in profit.
As I have been getting several per posting this is looking like being, the proverbial, no brainer. To get maximum credits, so that you can post to the full 2500 you need to read received emails. To take the hassle out of this I have a separate mail account, just for these, and look at as many as I need to and delete the rest. You also have control over the number of emails that you want to receive per day from the back office.
Another good sauce of traffic is Leadsleap.
With this program you promote your site with a text ad, which is similar in style to an Adsense ad. These are shown on the Leadsleap website and blog, plus the newsletters that are sent out. Your ads are always featured on the newsletters to your downline, to 10 levels. This makes the system viral as a downline of this size could easily bring you thousands of hits. There is no lengthy surfing with this system and you only need to click on ten ads per day to get the maximum number of credits possible. This is quite an unusual system and I would recommend reading it’s web page for a better understanding of how it works. This one is completely free, and the newsletters themselves are probably worth signing up for.
Next Linkrefferal
I wont say a lot about this because I think many of you are already members, and absolutely everybody recommends it. Again this is viral and getting referrals will explode the number of people viewing your site. The paid version will save having to do so much surfing and keep your site in the front rank without any effort.
Next, that old stand by--traffic exchanges.
Now I realise that the success ratio on these is not very high, but traffic is traffic, and there are ways to use TEs to maximum advantage. None of these ideas are original but for any of you new to TEs, here goes.
Firstly join 5 or 6 TEs and list acme and GDI using the splash page options, as surfers never stop to read the standard sales pages, which they might have seen a hundred times before. Also list, Thelistauction, Leadsleap, Linkreferral and you could also advertise the different TEs on each other, as they are viral too.
You will find that not all the TEs allow this many sites to be advertised, but there is a way around this. Many TEs will allow rotators, so listing all your sites on one of these will solve the problem, and will also keep all your sites in one place for editing purposes.
The most popular rotator is Pageswhirl, which has a free and paid version. For completely free, I have been using Freerotator.com without any problems.
The next step is to surf them efficiently. You will need the Firefox browser from Mozilla.com to do this or any browser that utilises tabs.
Put all your traffic exchanges in a separate favourites folder and then click “open all in tabs”. Now you have all your TEs set up ready to surf, you just click on them all in turn, for as long as you want to.
As you start to make money it’s worth ploughing some of your profits back into upgrading some of these programs, as often you will get a lot more for not very much.
Here is a list of the exchanges that I use, but of course you may already have your favourites.
Trafficswarm, Webizinsider, TrafficG Easyhits4u,
Dragonsurf, Hovertraffic Trafficroundup
Don’t forget about Traffic Digger and FreeViral [see previous post]. These are completely viral, and need no surfing, just promoting.
As I said it’s all about traffic and hits are hits. Therefore any other ways of getting your main programs seen is worth using. Anything from free classifieds through to article posting will all make a difference.
Hope there is something here that is useful and good luck.
