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Are You Using Email As Affiliate Marketing Strategy? A Quick Report

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In the latest 2011 Affiliate Summit AffStat were asked this simple question:

“Do you maintain an opt-in e-mail list for your site(s)?”

As you can see in the screenshot below, the results says that most Affiliates are marketing with Email.

Although most of affiliates responded yes for this survey question, I was quite surprised by this graph and the percentage of affiliates that doesn’t using email in their affiliate strategy. Email has been one of best affiliate strategy for as long as I can remember.

In this report over fourteen-hundred affiliates were surveyed on their methods, preferences, and strategies.

2011 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report

Source: Scribd.com

Categories: Resources - Tags: Affiliate Marketing Strategy, email

How To Start Your Own Profitable Mailing List – Yaro Starak Case Study

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Email list building strategy is used by most successful Internet businesses out there, and it was widely used by Yaro Starak with his blogmastermind program. Today, I want to share you how Yaro Starak switched from 0 to 30.000 subscribers in just two years.

One things some people don’t know, is that very few blogger start building an email list almost immediately. Usually, when people start blogging they think the traffic coming to their site from search engine or social media are enough. Sure, it’s all important, but is not enough.

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Yaro Starak Case Study

When Yaro started blogging he wrote reviews of products and services that had monetized with affiliate links. Unfortunatly, this strategy give a bad response rate, because first to get a handful of sales, Yaro had to work for a lot of time.

A short year later, he has built an email list and started combining his blog with the list. In brief, he’d wrote a review to his blog and an email to his list telling people about the review. The result was amazing, he made the sales within the first 24 hours.

The reason of this great change is due to the fact people read email much more frequently than they read blogs. Also, this strategy works best because the email list increasing visibility to your business as increasing the conversion rate because your readers are getting both blogs posts and emails.

How To Build An Email-List

According to Yaro, there is no need to wait a lot of time before starting to build a mailing list. Whether, you’re just starting out in the online business world, no matter, you need to add an opt-in form on your blog in order to increase your subscribers numbers.

Here, are the exact phases on how Yaro switch from 0 to 30.000 subscribers in just two years.

Phase 1 – November 2004: Yaro start his blog.
Phase 2 – January 2005: Yaro switch his blog to the entrepreneurs-journey.com. At this point Yaro reached 1000 RSS subscribers.
Phase 3 – January 2006: Yaro add an opt-in form to his new blog an create his first landing page at blogtrafficking.com.
Phase 4 – End of December 2006 – Yaro reached 3000 RSS email subscribers. Yaro made 3000 subscribers in two years of blogging and one year of email list building.
Phase 5: Yaro start his first product blogmastermind, which I’ve talked enough in my blog. His list grew from 3000 subscribers up to 15000 subscribers, a dramatic growth compared to the previous years.

Now, the final question is: What happened. Well, in a nutshell Yaro released his own product. Yes! This strategy works best because according to Yaro it deliver big value in a short period of time. Also, the great power of having product is that you can get affiliates to promote it for you.

Remember, starting an email list is crucial when it comes to making money on the Internet. If you don’t have a list you are leaving a lot of money on the table.

Categories: Marketing - Tags: email, list

How To Make Money Online – What Should You know?

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Today, I’m going to tell you exactly how Internet marketing works in it’s simplest form, so you learn how people make money online. These essentially are the key points to follow for the conversion process that makes people millions of dollars from the Internet day by day.

Squeeze Page
Email Follow-up
Sales Page

1. Squeeze Page – The Squeeze Page is a Web page designed to capture information in exchange for an incentive. You obtain a reader’s name and e-mail address information and possibly more contact details, and you give them something to download for free, usually, information like a email course or report.

2. Email Follow up - The Email Follow-up is the process of sending emails to the readers who signed up at squeeze page. In a nutshell, you providing a brief review with more information about the product you are promoting. It’s a great way to establishing trust to your potential customers, and the condition necessary in the final step of the selling process. The emails also it’s important to the “pre-sell” phase, to transfer people to the sales page.

3. The Sales Page - The Sales Page, is the last step before selling the product, and it’s the final “pitch” in the conversion mechanism, delivering information about its features, benefits and including many other psychological tactics to persuade potential customers to purchase your products. Sales pages also includes the transaction element, the part of the process where money is collected.

These are three key point for success online, but if we look at the most successful bloggers out there, you’ll find a common trait they have traffic too.

Getting a steady stream of people showing up on your web site every day who visit the squeeze page is essential in the entire process.

The following 3 techniques are ways that you can make your blog or website more sticky. They come from my own experience of blogging ever the last 2 year.

1. Build Traffic With….

You can make use of services where you pay money to advertise, such as banner advertising, sponsored review services like Reviewme, Linkworth, Sponsored review, Text Link Advertising such as Text Link Ads, or direct ads such as banner 125×125.

2. Build traffic With…

Any form of content that increasing exposure to your business through search engines, social media such as Digg, Facebook and so on.

3. Build traffic With……

Using article directories to increase your site exposure. It’s another way to create back-link to your site. Go-article and Ezinearticle are two site I use to submit my articles. The only downside is that your duplicate articles might be better positioned by search engines rather than the original post on your blog! In this case your duplicate articles are compete against the original. To fix this problem I reccomend you a powerful article rewriting software for article marketing.

Categories: Marketing - Tags: email, follow, page, sales, squeeze

Death Switch, Getting Your Passwords When You Die

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If you have need catering service for a business event or meeting, the Web offers many solutions to satisfy your strictest dietary needs.

Imagine you die with computer password in your head. Now, if you want to send any important data to your loved ones after your death, a new company called Death Switch is offering you the chance to do this. A deathswitch is an automated system that prompts you for your password on a regular schedule to make sure you are still alive.

How Does It Work

First, you need to send an email message with what you want to say to your family. With the free account, you get 1 recipient and no attachments.

You can also choose the premium account to sending 30 messages plus files such as videos, pictures and documents, as mail attachments. In this case you have to pay a fee . Then, send it to Death Switch.

Then You receive for some period of time a regular email to see if you are not dead and you will respond them via email. If you don’t respond, they will continue send out several more email to make sure that you are live and if you don’t reply to those, Death Switch reaches the conclusion you are dead and the system will then send out your email to those you have specified.

Seems Good, But……

In my view it sound like a good idea. With a lots of passwords in my head(contacts, skype, important data like bank account), my partner don’t know how to access. Thus, an automatic system like this would be a good idea.

Of course, there’s always a but… I wonder, if you need to trust of a service like this to send your important password via email.

Secondly, what if you receive the emails into the spam folder accidently and the system deduced you are die?

There are other better ways to make sure your passwords get out when you die. The simply and direct way is to put a list of your data inside of a fireproof safe and tell where you keep the key to your loved ones.

Categories: Internet Security - Tags: email, passwords

17 Email Services Alternative To Gmail

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Gmail(or Google Mail as it is known in the UK) has brought the whole email service to up a level than the competitors, effectively becoming the better free email service.

For those who are not satisfied with this service, there are many other webmail services alternative out there, as well.

Whether you need of traditional web based email, below is a collection of 13 alternative webmail services to Gmail you can test.

Note: Currently the email service listed below are just 12 due this post was update recently.

I’ve highlighted the main features with different colors to help you make a better comparison and choose the ideal service to your needs.

Webmail/POP3/SMTP Access: Standard protocol for receiving e-mail.
Spam and Virus Filtering: Prevent from unsolicited e-mail messages.
Storage: The maximun space that each email account provides.
e-mail forwarding: Services that automatically redirect your email to an existing email account.
Price: Free or membership members

17 Best Gmail Alternative

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1. Canada.com - Is a free alternative email services, which allows you to manage all your e-mail accounts through one mailbox! Once you switch to MailPlus or PremiumMail you get the same great features of a basicmail, plus additional storage, e-mail forwarding, POPaccount access and much more!

2. Bigstring - Bigstring provides a free email account and free email address for personal email. It’s an email service for both individuals and businesses that is recallable and changeable. With a patent pending technology, BigString allows users to easily send, recall, erase, self-destruct and modify an email after it has been sent. For a regular Free Email Account you get, 2 GB of Storage, Video Emails, Large Attachment Capacity, Automatic Message Highlighting, Advanced Spam and Virus Filtering, and Advanced Message Sorting.

3. Bluebottle - This email services comes with two packages: Access and Premium. Both provides Spam filtering, which let you block and stop the spam emails that is targetting your inbox, anti-spoofing, and virus protection. They support Webmail/POP3/SMTP Access. Bluebottle access goes for US$9.95/year, while Bluebottle Premium is priced US$24.95/year.

4. Boardermail – Is an email service powered by Outblaze that is opened to anyone. It provides messaging, and webmail, spam and virus protection, unlimited email storage, online calendar, and mobile email.

5. AOL Mail - Is a free web e-mail system that provides you unlimited storage, spam filtering, and much more.

6. Aussiemail - Is a free email service provider based out of Australia, but can be used from anywhere. It offers spam filter to block any spam that is targetting your inbox, and other features.

7. Mail.emailaccount.com - Another based free email services.

8. Fastmail.fm - FastMail is an email provider. You can access your emails and send emails from any computer connected to the Internet with a web-browser. The free account for no commercial use supports Webmail/POP3/SMTP Access and 10M storages. They also provides one of the most secure and reliable email environments in the industry.

9. Hotpop.com - Is a free web based e-mail system that store thousands of messages with up to 100 megabytes of space. They offers spam filter to stop spam undesirable mail before it ever gets to your mailbox. You have your mail forwarded to up to 15 addresses. They support POP3/SMTP Access.

10. Hushmail.com - Is an easy-to-use web-based email which provides a private, secure free email accounts. If you are wondering who provides encrypted free email, well hushmail do it, and include automatic virus scanning as spam filtering as well, and much more.

11. Icqmail.com - Is a free web based e-mail system that provides advanced spam and virus protection, and mail tracking options which allow you to see if an email you’ve sent has been read by the recipient.

12. Dcemail.com - DCpages.com is a free web e-mail system which allows you to access your e-mail from any computer in the world via the Web. They offers spam filter to block undesirable mail to your mail box and much more.

They are all good alternatives to gmail, anyway if you have some other service I’ve not mentioned above, feel free to share it below.

To Our Success,

Nicola Deiana

blogger

Categories: Tools - Tags: alternative webmail services, Best Gmail Alternative, email