Tag: affiliate marketing

While the world as we know it is completely different than it was just a couple of months ago, this might be a good time to notice priorities.

Things that may have seemed crucial on January 1st
might not make any sense at all now. And things you were neglecting might be what’s truly important after all.

This is an awesome time to get clear on what you want and what you want to achieve, both this month and in the coming year.

Spend some time each day just sitting quietly with a pad and pen and write down ideas as they come.

Notice which 20% of your efforts result in 80% of your positive outcomes and do more of that.

Get clear on what you want, where you want to go, and how you will get there.

Upside Down World – Lean into the Times

Now is the time to adjust your offers to suit the world situation. Don’t go forward with marketing as it always has been. Acknowledge what your customers are going through and help to ease their burden.

Do you offer a plan for people to start their own businesses? Offer them a much-needed discount to gain entry.

Do you offer a software as a service? Upgrade them for free for the next 3 months or 6 months.

Do you offer a service? Tailor that service to address the problems your customers are experiencing right now.

By meeting your customers where they are right now, you’ll come across as compassionate and caring – two things everyone needs right now.

Irving

 

Don’t Make This Sales Video Mistake

I received an email the other day from a well-known marketer, inviting me to learn more about his new service. It sounded promising, so I clicked the link.

In the sales video he starts off telling me that the video is only 2 minutes long and that he knows this because he timed it. Great! I’m busy but I decide I’ll dedicate two minutes to watching the video and finding out what he’s offering.

15 minutes later, I closed the window. I never did find out exactly how long the video really was because I’d lost all interest.

The funny thing is, I liked what he was promoting. I thought it made good sense and it was something I could use. But when he told me the video would be 2 minutes long, and then it turned out to be far longer than that, I realized I couldn’t trust this marketer.

Which is why he lost the sale.

If you say your video is 2 minutes long, make it two minutes long. In fact, whatever it is that you promise someone to get them to watch your sales video, FULFILL THAT PROMISE. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been promised a key piece of info if I’ll sit through the sales video, only to realize at the end that they never gave me the information they promised.

And I never, EVER buy from those videos. Do you? I doubt it. Because don’t you feel deceived? And maybe a little bit cheated, too? I know I do.

Irving

 

When Keeping 10% Pays You 1,000%

There is an old piece of advice that says you should always, ALWAYS pay yourself first. Take 10% off the top of everything you earn and save it, invest it and most of all, keep it for yourself.

You save this 10% off the top before you pay any bills, before you pay taxes, before you buy food or pay the mortgage.

And over time, that 10% will add up to significant money and even financial freedom.

But there’s another 10% I want to talk about, and it’s time.

If you’re spending the best 10 hours of your day working for someone else, or even staying home with the kids during this unusual time in history, I’d like to suggest the following:

Spend the first hour of every day working towards your big goal. If your big goal is your own business, then spend that hour making progress on your business.

Nothing gets in the way of this hour because this hour belongs to YOU – not to the kids, your spouse, the boss or to your emails.

You are paying yourself first with this hour. I’ve seen people build entire businesses and quit their jobs by being iron-clad adamant that this hour – every single day – is used for nothing but growing their business.

Maybe your goal is fitness oriented. Use the hour to work out. Or maybe your goal is learning a language or new skill. Whatever the goal, commit the first hour of the day – when you are freshest and the ideas and solutions come quickly – to work towards your goal.

And six months from now you’ll probably need a new goal because you will have (finally!) achieved your current goal.

Irving

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If you’re like me and “Sell Digital Products Online,” this is FOR YOU.

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– Free Full Features Access

– No Credit Card needed

– No Transaction Fees

– No Monthly Fees

– Sell Unlimited product funnels

– Affiliate MarketPlace

– Powerful Affiliate Software

– Easier to use and more powerful than the industry leader.

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Irving

Save $100 Dollars a Month – By Using This Simple Free System

If you use shopping cart or affiliate software for your business, you’ll want to pay close attention to this article. It can save you hundreds of dollars in overhead expenses for your business.

Especially if you’re using software or services just a ThriveCart, SamCart, PayKickStart, Clickbank or JV Zoo. You’ll want to pay attention…because what I’m sharing with you today is making marketing history.

GrooveDigital software development company, owned by marketing legend Mike Filsaime, is focused on creating the most powerful, affordable and simple to use all-in-one software service that you can use to build, grow and manage an online business.

Well, they just seriously disrupted the business software market by carving off a major portion of their flagship product, GrooveFunnels, and making it completely free (at least for now).

Introducing GrooveSell.. a powerful sales and affiliate platform for digital marketers and infopreneurs to sell their products. The software at it’s core helps you take payments and manage customers for physical products, digital product and services. It comes with a full-featured affiliate system too (GrooveAffiliate) which lets you amass an army of commission-only salespeople to help you promote and get paid for your products!

This easy-to-use software creates checkout pages that are designed to convert more visitors into buyers, more clicks into sales, and manage the process from beginning to end.

This is no “basic” software version either. It allows you to do some pretty ninja tactics to increase your dollar per sale. Not only can you do the usual up-sells and down-sells in your product funnel, but the software adds order bumps before purchase, and true 1-click up-sells (with and without confirmation) to your funnels. This allows you to make point of purchase impulse sales of related items, increasing your dollar per transaction of just pure profit.

GrooveSell also features a powerful set of tools that lets you set flexible pricing structures that are unheard of on other platforms. Need a free trial product? No problem! You can set any trial length or price you’d like. If you have an one time onboarding charge followed by a monthly maintenance fee.. GrooveSell can do that too. Want to offer two annual payments that recur every year at the same time? It can do that too.

You even have eight different options for recurring billing. The system will automatically charge your customers at their regular billing interval (weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly, every two months, quarterly, bi-annually, annually and every two years).

It integrates with all of the major payment processors, like Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net and if you don’t have a merchant account, they are releasing GroovePayments very shortly, where they will process payments for you for a very competitive percentage.

Plus, it grows with you. For bigger businesses doing high volume there’s merchant account warming and load balancing built into the system, so you can avoid getting your credit card or PayPal account shut down during major promotions.

With your free account you get:

Unlimited products
Unlimited product funnels
Unlimited checkout loads (bandwidth)
Unlimited affiliates
Unlimited customers
Unlimited support
Unlimited payment gateways

And all of this is free. That’s right, free for life.
-no credit card required- ever
-no monthly fees
-no surprise bills
-full feature set
-every upgrade they ever do

Plus, there’s an incredible bonus of GroovePages Basic, which lets you build pages for up to three product funnels. So you can create a sales page, checkout page, and thank you page to deliver your product to your buyer.

The bottom line is: You can do anything with GrooveSell that you can do with any digital marketing shopping cart out there.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

How much does grabbing your free GrooveSell account save you?

Well let’s compare GrooveSell to the other major players in this space
ThriveCart (one time $495.00 payment)
SamCart ($49.00 per/month)
PayKickStart ($99.00 per/month)
JV Zoo (5% commission on all sales, +2.5% additional for some sales)
Clickbank ($49.95 activation fee, $1+7.5% transaction fee for each sale, and a whopping $2.50 fee each time you want to withdraw your money!)

Which brings us to these questions… What’s the catch? Why is it free?

There’s zero catch. In fact, when you get your free account, you won’t even get an immediate promotion to try and upsell you.

The software is in beta at the time of this writing, so there are some features (like support for worldwide currency) that is not yet available. The company has assured me that all features will be ready by their launch in July 2020. Until then, the platform is still fully functional and usable.

GrooveDigital stated that the company wanted to give back to the community, and provide real value to people… not just a flimsy ebook or lame set of templates to entice you to join their list… but REAL value in the form of a usable product that never requires a purchase.

And they’ve done just that. You could build a pretty decent business using nothing but the free product you get with GrooveSell, plus your social media pages.

And while the folks at GrooveDigital hope that one day you’ll decide to upgrade to the full suite of tools that comes with GrooveFunnels (which includes an email service, membership sites, video marketing, a helpdesk, calendar, and all the tools you need to manage and grow a robust business), GrooveSell and GrooveAffiliate are yours to keep for free, forever.

All you need is your name and best email address.

Oh, there’s also an active Facebook group. The company keeps out the spam and off topic posts, and instead ensures a community of users that share ideas and information. We are all learning and growing there together.

Whether you already have a shopping cart service and looking to reduce your monthly bills, or your just getting started with your online business and your budget it tight… you’ll want to check out GrooveSell. Do it today while it’s still free.

Irving

Okay, to be fair your paid members aren’t truly ‘stealing’, even though it might feel that way to you.

I recently joined a paid monthly membership that consists of hundreds of videos. As I was browsing the site, a pop-up box with a one-minute video appeared, showing me how to share videos with my friends.

I paid to be a member. My friends are NOT paid members. And yet I can send them a link to any video I choose with the full blessing of the membership site company.

Now why would they let me do that?

One reason – it’s the best possible advertising they could have, and it costs them NOTHING.

Do you have a paid membership? Can you let your members share a video or module or lesson of their choosing with a friend?

You might need to get a special script to make this happen, but if you’ve got great content, it could be well worth the one-time price.

Irving

Amazon Slashes Commission Rates for Program That Gives Publishers a Cut of Sales

Commissions have dropped as of April 21, 2020,

• Furniture, Home, Home Improvement, Lawn & Garden, Pets Products, Pantry from 8% to 3.00%
• Headphones, Beauty, Musical Instruments, Business & Industrial Supplies from 6% to 3.00%
• Outdoors, Tools from 5.5% to 3.00%
• Grocery from 5% to 1.00%
• Sports from 4.5% to 3.00%
• Baby Products from 4.5 to 3.00%
• Health & Personal Care from 4.5 to 1.00%
• Amazon Fresh from 3.0 to 1.00%

In addition, Amazon is taking third party affiliate networks out of the loop and has hit pause on direct affiliate programs with publishers such as BuzzFeed and Vox.

In positive news, affiliate campaigns for casual clothing such as t-shirts and yoga pants are outperforming other categories because people are staying home right now.

https://searchengineland.com/amazon-affiliate-commission-rates-cut-332966

Affordable Book/Website Illustrations

If you’re a self-publishing author, or you simply want illustrations for your website or PDF, check out this site.

Any illustrations you commission come with full rights, meaning they cannot be reused by the artists and you do not have to ask permission to reuse them yourself.

This means your illustrations can pull double duty, not only making your book more valuable but also appearing on other merchandise you sell.

Illustrations are just $45 each with $0 royalties and no hidden costs. And the examples are gorgeous.

https://getyourbookillustrations.com/

Do You Have an Idea to Combat Covid-19?

Here’s how to find partners and investors by establishing credibility and proving that you can move fast.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/348772

How to Add Original Artistic Images to Your Site for Free

Use the Google Arts and Culture app to turn your photos into works of art. A new feature called, “Art Transfer” that lets you apply various art styles to your own photos has been added to the app.

To use the Art Transfer feature:

• Open the Google Arts and Culture app
• Tap the Camera icon in the bottom-center
• Click Art Transfer.
• Either take a new photo or choose one from your current photos
• Choose an art style to apply to your photo.

For example, that landscape photo you took could become a bold, swirling Vincent van Gogh-like painting.

https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/transform-your-photo-style-iconic-artist/

Instant Place Holder Copy Wins Bets

Do you need some fast placeholder copy for a new site you’re building?

Or would you like to win a bet on how fast you can type?

Here’s the trick:

Open Microsoft Word and type the following: =rand(3,10)

Hit enter, and in this case you should see 3 paragraphs of 10 lines each. Change the numbers to anything you like, depending on how much copy you want.

If you’d rather have Latin than English, type: =lorem(X) You’ll get “X” paragraphs of this filler text.

Note: The Replace Text as You Type feature (File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options > AutoCorrect tab) must be turned on for this feature to work.

$1 Million Every Second

I just read that the Federal Reserve is printing $1 million every second.

Now if I could just have 5 seconds of their time…

My 4 Favorite Reverse Image Search Apps

Have you ever needed to identify a picture or an item? These apps let you upload an image to search instead of entering text.

CamFind – take a picture, upload the image and CamFind identifies the object.

Google Lens – Google’s visual search engine analyzes the image and gives you a link to the Google image search page in the results.

Photo Sherlock – upload the image, optionally crop the image to focus on the main element, then let the app fetch your results.

TinEye – this is an online tool, so you’ll need to download a dedicated app. Search an image by URL or by sharing a file. You can sort the results by best match, most changed, the biggest image, newest or oldest.

WhatsApp is Limiting Forwarding

To fight misinformation on the corona virus outbreak, WhatsApp has introduced new limits on message forwarding. This means you can now only forward a message you’ve received onto one chat at a time.

https://blog.whatsapp.com/Keeping-WhatsApp-Personal-and-Private

7 Best Calming Apps to Clear Your Mind

Calm – This is a great meditation app for beginners. Choose a meditation length of 3 minutes to 25 minutes. Then choose a topic such as managing stress, gratitude, forgiveness, happiness or many others.

Dark Noise – Ambient noise can help you focus on your work or even get to sleep at night. Choose from 30 possibilities, including a cat purring, rain, brown noise or a spaceship engine.

Day One – Research shows there are many benefits to daily journalism, including releasing negative thoughts and memories, gaining key insights and feeling happier. Day one is a daily journal that makes it easy to organize your thoughts and clear your mind.

Insight Timer – Features 30,000 meditations and music tracks you can access for free, many of which deal with anxiety and stress.

MindMeister
– This is a mind mapping tool available on mobile devices as well as online interfaces. Do you have a million thoughts swirling around, distracting you and making you anxious? Use this app to organize and prioritize your thoughts so that you can stop being distracted by them.

Simple Habit – Tackle stress and manage depression through 5 minute meditations based on what’s happening in your life now.

Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock – Helps you feel more refreshed in the morning by tracking your sleep to wake you up in a light sleep phase, as well as vibrating when you snore to encourage you to shift position.

Email Marketing: Doing THIS Reduces Reply Rates by 40%

According to SalesLoft, explicitly referencing Coronavirus or COVID-19 in the subject line of an email creates a 40% reduction in reply rates. Their suggestion: Be human, don’t lead with Coronavirus, acknowledge the situation and then get to the point.

Secondly, things are changing fast. What worked last month might not work this month, so continually be testing and adapt your approach as necessary.

https://salesloft.com/resources/blog/staying-agile-changing-world/

 

Irving