Archive for July, 2006

Rich Schefren REVEALED

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

If you were on the teleseminar last night, you should already know
this…

But, if you missed it, here’s what Rich is up to…

As of Noon EST today he is releasing a membership program for
those who were unable to join him for the $5000 personal
mentoring. He shares much of the same material he’ll be offering
his $5000 mentorees, just not the level of access!

So if you didn’t have the 5 grand to join him there, but still want to
learn that material that’s sent guys like Mike Filsaime “rocketing” to
making over $150,000 a month, this is your chance.

But, like before, there is a very, very small number of memberships
that are available.

So if you want to take advantage of the last chance you will have
to get this one-of-a-kind strategic information, you’d better hurry.

Don’t delay and I’ll see you at the top ;-)
Willie

Do This Today - July 25th, 2006

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Choose any one or two of your products and make
sure that you are offering an upsell at the
point of purchase. When I make the upsell
something for which the price is 50% - 100%
of the price of the original item, I’m averaging
roughly 45% of my customers going for the upsell.

These are extra sales with a much higher profit
margin since I have no acquisition costs…
the customer has already been sold (acquired)
with the first item.

Do this today and you’ve added extra profit
without any real “effort.”

Willie

Free Teleseminar - Viral Marketing Expert Morgan Westerman

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Morgan Westerman took a public domain poem, set it to music,
added some beautiful pictures, and came up with the site at:
http://TheInterviewWithGod.com

This video won the Point of Life Gold Award of Excellence and
is considered one of the top 1000 Christian web sites.

This website and video now generates MILLIONS, and has
generated a HUGE mailing list. The site went viral after
Morgan gave it just a little push, and is now probably
unstoppable!

Morgan is speaking at my friend, Rhea Perry’s Entrepreneur Days
in August.

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, July 25 at 8 PM, you can talk
to him on the phone when Rhea Perry interviews him.

To get the call-in details, just register using the form here.

I’ve shared the stage with Morgan at several seminars, and
he is truely a viral marketing expert.
Don’t miss him tomorrow
night, and don’t miss meeting him this August!

Willie

Is This Copywriter The Next Halbert - At A Fraction Of The Price

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Over the years, I’ve coached and worked with hundreds of struggling web marketers. I’ve also reviewed, individually and in group settings, hundreds of websites. On practically all of those websites the problem was rarely the product… it was almost always the copy.

Marketers, such as John Reese, are often quoted as saying you can have a lousy product but good copy and you’ll do well. You can have an incredible product, but lousy copy, and you’re guaranteed to fail. The copy on your website Sales Letter is more important than most people will ever realize!

Writing winning Sales Letter copy is just plain tough some times. I know from firsthand experience that feeling of struggling to put together just the right words.

And the thing with Sales Letter copy is that it simply has to be persuasive and personal. You have to keep the reader sitting on the edge of their seat from the very beginning all the way through to the end… “sliding down the slippery slope.”

One small misstep and your reader, no your customer, is gone. When they click away, that’s it…there goes your sale.

Copywriting is one of the MOST important aspects of your marketing campaign. If your product is the best thing since sliced bread it absolutely won’t matter at all if you can’t grab your prospect by the eyeballs and bend him or her to your will.

Your graphics, your professional looking site, your Alexa ranking, your Page Rank, your product…they’re all pointless without copy that seals the deal.

This is exactly the reason that copy is often outsourced to high priced writers. Some of these guys have even become more well-known and popular than the top gun Internet Marketers that they write for.

Guys like Gary Halbert, Michel Fortin, Dan Lok, Jo Han Mok, John Carlton, Carl Galletti and many others have made names for themselves in this business by providing copy that literally forces prospects to open their wallets and whip out their credit cards.

Because of their successes, they now have the luxury of charging $15,000, $20,000 and much more, plus a percentage of the back end profits whenever they take a copywriting job!

Well, every now and then a new “gun for hire” emerges and rockets to the top with their talent…and if you’re lucky you can grab their services before they’re charging $15,000, $20,000 and back end percentages.

I have the privilege of being friends with just such a person.

John Hostler has a refreshing and unique style that has been garnering serious attention with some major “players” in this industry. In addition to many marketers you may not know, he has worked for John Delavera, and is the exclusive copywriter for Ewen Chia, who calls his work “kick ass”.

Because John and I are friends (frequently chatting on the phone), he has agreed to do something special for me and my subscribers – many of whom I know desperately need his services. He has agreed to a special copywriting offer, for just 10 clients, in the month of August.

You’ll be pleased to learn that he really is making this offer a special deal, and by being decisive, you’ll be able to finally have webpages that sell your products masterfully.

Again this special copywriting offer is only open to 10 smart marketers. Once those 10 spots are filled he’s pulling down the page.

I don’t think it’ll be very long before John is ranked with the great copywriters, and the buzz around him seems to agree.

You have a very limited opportunity to grab John before he’s charging $15,000 or $20,000. You have a very limited opportunity to grab him before he explodes on the scene.

To reserve 1 of 10 spots you need to get to his site now. Copywriters of this caliber often get backed up for months when their customers start talking about them. You can check out the offer at http://www.johnhostler.net/copyspecial/williecrawford

Here’s To Great Profit-Pulling Copy,

Willie Crawford

WARNING - Affiliate Marketers Pay Attention

Monday, July 24th, 2006

WARNING - Affiliate Marketers Pay Attention
Copyright 2006 by Willie Crawford

A few weeks ago I started getting popup warnings
saying that given sites were blacklist when I’d
click on a link in my email. I’d then be asked if
I was sure that I wanted to go to that site.

Since these were sites that I knew to be
reputable, I’d click “OK.” In many cases, these
were sites running special offers for Internet
marketing products.

After doing some research, and asking questions
on discussion forums, I discovered something
shocking. The most recent version of Pegasus
(the email client) was apparently triggering these
warnings when you clicked a link to a site listed
in one of the blacklist databases.

Further research indicated that Pegasus even
went so far as to regularly check for updates
to this database. Yes, the software running
on your desktop, regularly updated itself by
accessing a database of blacklisted sites.

A surprising number of MAJOR Internet marketers’
sites were in this database. These were sites
that had a lot of affiliates who do “silly” things.
Some of these were sites that had done major
big ticket product launches recently.

What caused the problem in the latter category
above? Too many affiliates used the url of the
affiliate program’s site, and there were simply
enough complaints to get given sites blacklisted.

One of the problems with major product launches
is that when enough people email for the same
promotion, on the same day, then many people
can get dozens of emails promoting the same
product. This is especially true in the Internet
marketing arena where some people subscribe
to dozens… even hundreds of ezines. Some of
these people out of frustration will file spam
complaints!

Some of the recent big ticket launches have
offered 50% commission on $997 - $1497 products.
Those commissions are nothing to sneeze at! On
top of that they often run affiliate contests that
offer fabulous prizes. The temptation to get as
many promotions out as possible, often using poor
techniques,is simply too much for some affiliates!

The solution to the problem caused by too many
people emailing using the same affiliate program’s
domain is simple. First, make sure that you use
accepted email practices (Don’t Spam). Secondly,
use a redirect url or a promotional domain. This
offers some protection, in that if complaints are
filed due to the massive promotions, the number of
complaints against the affiliate program’s url
will be reduced. This also reduces the chances of
YOUR email generating one of those dreaded
“Blacklist Alert” popups when your link is clicked
upon.

There are side benefits to using redirect url’s
including the ability to change the destination
of the url. If you become displeased with one
affiliate program, and find a more suitable
competitor, you can change where one of your
redirect url’s point to. Without this capability,
once your links are in cyberspace, you lose
control over them!

There are many ways of setting up redirects,
to include redirects coded into the header of
a web page, java script redirects, and php redirects.
I won’t explain how to set all these up in this
article. You can go to any search engine and
find hundreds of sites explaining how to do this.

There are also services, and pieces of software,
that will redirect url’s for you.

My favorite technique is to use a promotional
domain. You can purchase a domain, and then,
without even building a website, simply redirect
that domain’s url to your affiliate url. This takes
less than 10 minutes to set up. You can purchase
domains for less than $9 a year at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/domains

If you read through many of the more than 400
articles that I’ve written, you’ll see that many
of the links promoting affiliate products use
promotional domains. This is because it work!

Many people also think that affiliate url’s look less
professional. There are also some people who simply
don’t like the idea of YOU earning a commission off
of their purchase. So when they see an affiliate url
they simply snip off the end. This sends them to the
base url, and you lose the commission. The customer
still pays the same price, but they’ve just cut you out
of a hard-earned commission.

I could give you a dozen other reasons to use redirect
url’s or promotional domains. However, I feel that
just the problems mentioned above should suffice.
One other consideration is, how do you think a potential
customer feels when he sees one of those popup warnings?

The title of this article begins with “WARNING.”
That’s fully justified, because if you’re not
heeding the warning, you’re losing a major
percentage of your affiliate sales!

—————-

Willie Crawford has been marketing and teaching on the
Internet since late-1996. For more great tips, and updates
on the world of Internet and affiliate marketing, visit
Willie’s very popular blog at http://WillieCrawford.com/blog/

Do This Today - Sunday July 23rd

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Look at all of those courses you have stacked
up on your desk, and piled all around your
office (ok, I just described my office).

Anyway… pick the one course that you’re going
to actually use the material from soon. Leave
that course near your desk. Put all of the
others in boxes, and stick them in the closet.

Now, actually finish that course :-) After
you’ve finished it, go to the closet and
choose the next… as you begin to apply what
you learned from the one that you just finished.

It’s ok to keep going through course after course
because our brain does actually store that
information. Then when you’re struggling to
solve an annoying problem, We DO subconsciously
tap into that storehouse of knowledge.

Willie

Video Preview Of Uncut Internet Marketing

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Jason James has relatively new membership site filled with uncut videos/interviews by some of the top Internet marketers.

There is a LOT of great information in those videos, and several of those marketers have mentored me.

I’ve arranged a video that shows you what’s in the site. It’s fairly short but could help you to avoid missing a great site. The video overview is at:
http://www.uncutmarketing.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=920_0_0_0_tour_10

Take a look ;-)
Willie

Do You Have This Problem And Not Even Know It?

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

As I look at my plans/goals, and analyze
the advice of my mentors I recognized
one big time waster that I created, that
I’m sure many of you have too.

Over the years I joined many private sites,
and forums that offer the “private message”
feature. Some of these sites notify you
via email when you have a PM… others
don’t. So you often don’t even get sometimes
urgent messages intended for you until you
log in. Consequently, I’ve developed a
list of places I “must” visit semi-regularly
just to ensure I don’t miss messages.

Some of these sites allow the PM’s to
pile up, and even show in threads. I
actually have over 200 PM’s on one site.
That’s what made it all sink in. On that
site, in many of those PM’s I was actually
coordinating new projects and JV’s.

Soooo… now I’m going through and shutting
off the PM feature on most (if not all)
sites that I’m a “member” of, and forcing
them to contact and coordinate with me via
email. Some, I’ve forcing the contact to
be via help desk.

I think that this will save a lot of time,
and avoid my missing time-sensitive
messages.

Are you plagued with similar problems???

Willie

Anik Singal’s Affiliate Manager’s Course

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Anik Singal’s Affiliate Manager’s Course

When I first heard about Anik Singal’s course
for training affiliate program managers, I was
extremely busy with a project. The idea didn’t
excite me very much so I didn’t bother to even
take a look.

You probably read reviews of the course over
a month ago!

However, as I was reviewing a client’s affiliate
program, and relooking at my own, I decided to
get and read it.

It’s VERY eye-opening for anyone who runs an
affiliate program, or even sells affiliate
products.

The first part of the course that I listened
to was a CD on spyware, malware and parasiteware.
These all potentially affect you affiliate
program, your affiliate sales, and have
potential legal implications. I was extremely
surprised at the size of the problem.

There are tons of other CDs and DVDs as well
as several manuals.

He covers things I never would have thought
of in building an affiliate program, training
an affiliate program manager, recruiting and
motivating JV partners and affiliates, building
a sales PROCESS that works in the first place.

It’s just an all-around indepth course that
I’ll find myself referring to often.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, do that
today. It’s a lot of quality information!
http://www.amclassroom.com/cmd.php?af=433945

Willie

Anik Singal’s Affiliate Manager’s Course

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Anik Singal’s Affiliate Manager’s Course

When I first heard about Anik Singal’s course
for training affiliate program managers, I was
extremely busy with a project. The idea didn’t
excite me very much so I didn’t bother to even
take a look.

You probably read reviews of the course over
a month ago!

However, as I was reviewing a client’s affiliate
program, and relooking at my own, I decided to
get and read it.

It’s VERY eye-opening for anyone who runs an
affiliate program, or even sells affiliate
products.

The first part of the course that I listened
to was a CD on spyware, malware and parasiteware.
These all potentially affect you affiliate
program, your affiliate sales, and have
potential legal implications. I was extremely
surprised at the size of the problem.

There are tons of other CDs and DVDs as well
as several manuals.

He covers things I never would have thought
of in building an affiliate program, training
an affiliate program manager, recruiting and
motivating JV partners and affiliates, building
a sales PROCESS that works in the first place.

It’s just an all-around indepth course that
I’ll find myself referring to often.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, do that
today. It’s a lot of quality information!
http://www.amclassroom.com/cmd.php?af=433945

Willie