Price: Somewhere near 50.00 Product Type: Video modules and .PDFs Launce Date: February 16th, 2011 Author/Creator: Rob Rammuny of Rob’s Web Tips
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Rob Rammuny is a 16 year old entrepreneur. Don’t let his age fool you, Rob knows his stuff. A self-starter and action taker, Rob Rammuny knows what it takes to make money online. In the Point Copy Profit course you will receive 8 Video Modules and supporting .PDF documents and blueprints. In the Point Copy Profit course you will learn about video marketing, sneaky amazon tactics, social media profits, and more.
Hey school housers – I don’t think that is a word, but it is now. Anyways, I landed in San Diego about 2 hours ago and headed on over to the Hard Rock hotel. The lobby is stunning and the people working here are really nice. Anyways, I have made my first video from my room, while hanging out with one of my best friends, @wirelesspacket – “Lenny” via iChat. The blog posts will be fast and furious, short and to the point because the bulk of the content will be in video form. So, with that said, here is your first video. I hope to bring you alot of fun video for the next 4 days so that you can be a part of this epic conference. As Diddy says, “LETS GOOOOO!” I’m locked in….
More to come – stay tuned. You are getting to go with me…
Are you just starting out in affiliate marketing and PPC advertising? Are you a veteran PPC player that is looking for other ways to maximize profits with little marketing spend? Have your PPC campaigns recently drained your pocket book with little ROI? It happens to the best of us. Sometimes a PPC space is hyper-competitive and your advertising costs can skyrocket due to a number of factors including: keyword competition, veteran marketers, poor ad copy, non converting landing pages, weak urls, the dreaded quality score (Google), and a host of many other factors depending upon the search engine you are using for your marketing efforts.
Have you ever seen a drop card or a promo post card flyer? Of course you have! In the world of guerrila marketing, street teams are hired to go out and use drop cards to market businesses, music artists, club events, sporting events, etc. This type of marketing costs pennies in comparison to some PPC campaigns.
Still not sure what a drop card is? No problem, I’ll explain. A drop card is nothing more than a simple business card or post card that has effective ad copy, eye catching graphics/color schemes, and a URL. These drop cards are strategically “dropped” in public places with high traffic, such as: gas stations, shopping malls, strip centers, restaurants, cafes, clubs, bars, college campuses, car washes, bookstores, movie theaters, etc. in order to maximize visibility and exposure to potential customers. Beginning to see the idea? You basically blanket your local area with your advertisements for very little spend. I will show you where you can pick up your own drop cards to test this offline marketing method.
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EXAMPLE:
Running some CPA offers for ringtones? Are you finding that some PPC keywords are way too expensive? Perhaps you should try drop card marketing. Here is a real example of how an affiliate marketer might employ this offline marketing tactic. Let’s say that you own the url, RingToneKing.com and you use this url for your online marketing efforts (not sure who owns this, but hey, you just got some free exposure – you’re welcome) and you are finding that your PPC efforts are not doing as well as you would like. So, you begin a drop card marketing campaign in your local area to generate some traffic and hopefully, some conversions. I have written a fast action guide for you to model in your marketing niche. Let’s get started!
1. Purchase A Separte, Unique Domain
In this example, let’s say you decide to buy RingToneOffers.com, which is different from your primary domain, RingToneKing.com, that you market online (SEO, social media, PPC, etc.) You want this separate domain name so that you can effectively track your offline efforts. When we say “offline”, we simply mean that our marketing is done offline but our conversions happen online, since we are driving people to our domain via our drop cards. This new domain should have some form of analytics running: google analytics, awstats, or something similar, so that you can see that people are coming to your site from your offline marketing efforts. You will only want to use this new domain for your offline marketing efforts. Head on over to GoDaddy.com to pick up your “drop card domain”
2. Carefully Select Your Placements
Since you are marketing ringtones, you know that your target audience is somewhere within the demographic of male and females between the ages of 15 to 30. You have decided that your best areas to advertise with your drop cards would be near local highschools and colleges/community colleges. Scout out local movie theatres, movie rental businesses, theme parks (if applicable), sporting events, shopping malls, fast food restaurants, starbucks, cafe’s, ice cream parlors, etc. that are in close proximity to these areas. You might also consider areas where young adults hang out such as: clubs, bars, etc. and use your drop cards accordingly. Young people buy ringtones, so you need to advertise to those areas. This isn’t rocket science! Think of this type of offline marketing as online marketing within the Google content network or on sites like adbrite. How is that the same? Well, you get to select your placements within these content networks, right? So, do the same in regards to your offline efforts. Select your placements wisely and they will convert, but just like online marketing, you MUST have great ad copy, the best design that fits both your budget and your product, and a unique URL.
3. Budget, Ad Copy & Design
As you already know, the success of your online PPC marketing is contingent upon your budget, focused keywords, great ad copy, good urls, and awesome landing pages. This also applies to your offline marketing efforts. You must decide what your budget is for offline marketing, as this will determine what options you can include on your drop cards. The larger your budget, the more design options are available to you. You must also focus on creating good ad copy, so that your potential customer completes the first call to action, which is picking up the card and taking it with them. The design factor of your card: color, fonts, and background must also be taken into consideration, as this plays a key role in the potential customers completing both the first call to action and the second call to action. This second call to action includes retrieving the card to get the url to visit the website. (On a side note: this is why selecting a great domain name for offline marketing is so important. Someone may pick up your card and read it, but not take it with them. However, if you have a solid domain name and your ad copy was good – it is possible that they will remember the domain name!!)
4. Start Dropping!
Now that you have an idea of what drop cards are, and how you use them, you must order your first run and start dropping these cards in high traffic public areas!! Good luck!
As you may have already heard, Mr. Mike Filsaime, is giving away an unprecedented 5,000 copies of his Butterfly Marketing 2.0 software and manuscript. The copies will be given away on March 24th, starting at 12:00 PM for those people who signed up for the early bird list – you still have time to get on the VIP list for free. Just sign up here. If you have had the chance to read the original Butterfly Marketing manuscript, then you know how powerful this system is.
How many times have you got excited about getting started with affiliate marketing, internet marketing, building your own product, creating a blog or forum, etc., only to gas out before accomplishing anything because you get so wrapped up in the possibilities of failure, the endless details or become overwhelmed with fear. My friends, you are suffering from analysis paralysis, and I have been the victim of this success crusher many times. What is important to note here is that you can overcome analysis paralysis. How? It’s easy. You just have to take action. It’s really that simple.
Here is a common day dream scenario: How many times have you said these things?
“I want to make money online”
“I want to work from home because I hate commuting to my horrible job”
“I want to be the next internet millionaire”
“I want to supplement by current income with part-time money making on the internet”
“I want to be an internet rockstar and have many followers who come to me for information”
“I want to become successful by starting my own internet based business”
Most of us have said those statements either to ourselves or to others. The problem is, most of the time we fail to get past these stumbling blocks because we become crippled with analysis paralysis: the most common excuses/statements:
“Im scared that I will fail”
“If I fail, I will be a disappointment to myself and my family/spouse”
“If I don’t make alot of money at the beginning, I will not be successful”
“My spouse, family, and friends will not understand what I am trying to do.”
“I am broke. How can I expect to make money when I don’t have alot of extra money to invest”
“I am scared to invest money in internet marketing courses because they might not work”
“I will just buy one more course before I start”
“I will do just a little more research before I begin”
“I don’t have a clue how to set up a website/blog or build a list”
“People might laugh at me or my product”
“People will think that my videos or blog posts are dumb”
“I’m not good at producing content”
“And the list goes on and on…”
By taking action I mean, it’s time to crush all of these excuses and make sound decisions. Now, I am not discounting these statements above, I am just saying that at some point you have to talk through these things and make a decision to become successful and take the necessary steps to prepare yourself for success. A perfect example of a very successful internet entrepreneur is Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com. Last night, I was fortunate enough to get in on the Shoemoney webinar hosted by BigMaketingOnline.com and on that call Jeremy answered my question, which was: What did you have to sacrifice at the very beginning of starting your online business and what kept you going each and every morning?
Jeremy said something that really hit home with me. He basically said he knew that he wanted to create and be responsible for his own success and DID NOT want to work in corporate America EVER again. He didn’t want to be forced into a certain salary bracket. He wanted the freedom to do as he pleased. Jeremy also said that he had to sacrifice alot to get where he is today. Basically, he had to “bust it out”, each and every day. What does that mean? Giving up sleep, television, partying, etc. At the beginning you gotta give up some things in order to taste true success. You have to pay your dues. Nobody is gonna give you the game. You gotta get out there and GET IT! Know what I mean?
Watch Jeremy tell you how he got started online: CLICK HERE
I think we all want that. The problem is most of us become paralyzed with fear factors or failure factors that prevent us from being successful. So, we get back into our cars every morning with our coffee, sit in traffic, and head straight to our cubicle when we get to work, where we dream about being successful online.
Here is the take away:
Nobody ever won a cy-young award for pitching in baseball by sitting on the bench for the entire season.Get your rear off the bench and get in the game. It’s time to make some decisions. You either want success or you don’t. That’s up to you. Just know that Affiliate School House is here to help you get started and school is currently in session.
Video Disclaimer: I noticed that I did not tell you guys and gals that it’s important to talk about your ideas and reasons for getting started with your spouse or family. However, YOU ultimately have to decide what is best. You want success? You gotta get out there and go for it! Have faith in yourself and surround yourself with good people.
ADDITIONAL STUDY RESOURCES
MORE ON MARKET RESEARCH AND MARKET UNDERSTANDING:
Ed Dale is a wonderful source for explaining market understanding and research,
which is critical in determining your success as an affiliate marketer. I highly suggest
checking out this resource. It is top notch in both production and content value.
CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED AT THE AFFILIATE SCHOOLHOUSE:
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Morning Marketers!
Let’s dive right into today’s lesson:
I just watched the previous video about how to get started in affiliate marketing and I realized that I didn’t emphasize enough on some key points. I just wanted to make sure that I made myself clear about the defining your passions and researching the market part. After many frustrating hours of studying and testing, I believe that it is super important for new affiliate marketers, or even those who are struggling, to start out slowly and focus your foundations around products that you are passionate about. Sometimes it is hard figuring out what to promote. I find that it is always easier to write/blog/promote products that you really like. Wouldn’t you agree? Let’s say that you are passionate about the Smurfs. Perhaps you believe that there are other people out there that would be interested in buying smurf collectibles: shirts, figurines, glasses, etc.
However, just guessing that there MIGHT be a market for your product is simply not enough, nor a beneficial way of spending your time because you could be wrong. We don’t have time to waste based on market speculation. Being passionate about your product(s) that you want to promote is the first step of establishing a successful affiliate campaign, as long as market exists for your product.
That brings us to the second part of our equation for affiliate marketing success – “market research”. No matter if it’s a product that you are passionate about in your affiliate beginnings, or a product that has great commissions associated with it, there must be a market that is actively purchasing your product to justify promotion. We must use tools at our disposal to research our markets, either a free tool like Google keyword research tool or a paid one. I suggest starting out with free tools first – a tutorial on this will follow soon.
Ed Dale is a wonderful source for explaining market understanding and research,
which is critical in determining your success as an affiliate marketer. I highly suggest
checking out this resource. It is top notch in both production and content value.
CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED AT THE AFFILIATE SCHOOLHOUSE:
Join the program by clicking the banner and join the Affiliate School House study group.
The Beginning:
In order to get started in affiliate marketing, you have to find products to promote. The task of selecting affiliate programs can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. In this post we will discuss the best methods for selecting great affiliate programs that both complement your passions and have a buyer’s market, which is key (if there isn’t a buyer’s market, then you will not be making any sales). Typically, new affiliates feel the need to sign up with every big affiliate program company (cj, linkshare, etc.), corporate affiliate program, information product, etc. that they can sign up for because they believe that being a member of more affiliate programs will yield more money. In most cases this is just not true. Those of you who have done this, please raise your hand. I know I have. It’s ok, it happens. At first, the prospect of making money with affiliate programs fills the new affiliate marketer with hope and excitement. As a result, most new affiliates end up running around signing up for everything under the sun and end up gassing out before actually promoting any products or seeing any money come in. I have been there too.
So, what is the best method for getting on the right track from the very start?
There are several key factors that when combined will yield the best returns.I think the best way to illustrate this is by giving you a list of questions and statements that will help you make the right decisions in regards to what will work best for YOU and YOUR business.
Selecting Affiliate Programs:
It’s important at first that you select some items that you will have fun promoting. If you are interested in what you are promoting, you will work harder and put in the extra efforts because you have a genuine interest in the products. It will make the journey more tolerable when you come across bumps in the road and will make it that much sweeter when you taste success.
The Best Method/Approach For Selecting Great Affiliate Programs: A Quickstart Guide
Assuming you don’t have a blog or website – What things are you passionate about? (cooking, sports, fashion, toys, electronics, etc.)
Assuming you don’t have a blog or website – What items from your passions do you think you would have the most fun promoting? Select some niche products.
After selecting some niche items, use Google and other research tools to determine if there is a buyer’s market with good volume for those items.
If you currently have a blog or website, what is it about? Is there room to promote products within it? If so, select items that complement your site/blog.
Use sites like commissionjunction, sharasale, and linkshare to search for affiliate programs.
Use Google to search for your selected niche products. Review the results and try to locate products. Look for affiliate programs on those sites.
Get involved in the affiliate marketing communities and ask other people which affiliate clearinghouses/programs they like the best.
Sign Up for several affiliate programs/products. DON’T GO OVERBOARD!
This goes without saying, BUT, select the associated programs that have the most traffic and the best commission rate/structure.
Deploy your affiliate links via your website, blog, articles, forums, etc. <— more on this later.
Optimize your pages/articles for your related affiliate items with current SEO tactics
Review your traffic and conversions. Maky any necessary adjustments.
What is it? How Does it work?
The basic idea behind affiliate marketing is really quite simple. As a matter of fact, you have probably already witnessed a version of affiliate marketing in your daily life, but didn’t notice. In affiliate marketing you basically act as a salesman/saleswoman for Brand “X” by promoting their products using your own website, blog, newsletter or other marketing tool. In this example, let’s refer to Brand “X” as Amazon. Amazon.com, the company, wants affiliate marketers – YOU, to drive quality traffic to their website in order to increase their POTENTIAL sales volume. Read more
Preston here, for Affiliate Schoolhouse, letting you know that we are currently working on the backend of our site and will have the polished version up in a jiff, so just hang tight while we get this machine up and running. We will be launching very soon!! Read more
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