Neuromarketing: Social Proofing on Landing Pages (Part 1)
Neuromarketing is one of those buzz terms used to describe a recent infatuation with new technology. It’s promise is simple. Consumers make buying decisions based on unconscious factors that are out of their control. The purpose of neuromarketing is to anticipate unconscious reactions and provide the ultimate sales platform: an emotional and logical boot in the direction of your checkout cart. It is a study driven by the emerging field of neuro web design. When I look at the challenges facing web designers in 2012, I’m grateful that I …
Neuromarketing: The Weapons of Mass Conversion (Part 2)
Note: This is the second of a two-part series on Neuromarketing. Read the first part here. Previously we looked at how social proof can lead to more conversions, more sales and more money in your bank account. Social proof is a cornerstone of neuromarketing. But it’s not the only child. In this post, we’re going to look at three of the most powerful selling techniques …
Change of Plans: I’m Moving to America
By now, you are surely familiar with Finch’s twice-a-year, “I’m Moving to…” post. I change plans faster than a badger in a honey maze. The latest twist should therefore come as no surprise. Only a few months ago, I revealed that I was trading London for Bangkok (where I lived in 2010/11). Much has changed since then. For a …
Banners Broker Scam – Don’t Let It Affect You
Banners Broker is one of the most popular MLM programs of recent times. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated and bloodsucking ponzi schemes I have ever come across. Banners Broker is based around an industry we know a lot about – online advertising. Before I continue, let me point out the obvious. This post is not written for my usual readers. If you’re expecting tips that …
How to Learn by Osmosis: The Traits of a Successful Affiliate
There are many blogs, forums and ebooks where you can learn the intricacies of online marketing. Some are great, some are poor, but nearly all are inferior to the process of learning by osmosis. Osmosis is the art of unconscious learning. It is where we stop studying materials, and start absorbing them. 1) Park balls on knowledge 2) … 3) Profit …
How to build your own traffic source
Never put all your eggs in one basket. I am sure you heard that one before and diversification is now more important then ever. We all noticed the ever rising costs of traffic, the daily influx of new affiliate marketers and all the dying networks around us. Affiliate marketing is like a warzone – only the strongest will survive! If you…
Build your own offer in 5 easy steps
Creating your own product / offer is a crucial step to long term success and financial freedom. Wouldn’t it be great to have a digital product which requires no shipping, no handling and you can sell it over and over again? I will show you exactly how to do that! We don’t have to lower our standards and become a sneaky low life selling ebooks on clickbank. That has nothing to do with running your own…
$1,000 Profit per day Adult Campaign Guide
Like most affiliate marketers you are probably stuck with facebook ads, plenty of fish and maybe some pay per view traffic. Don’t get me wrong, those sources are great and I love to work with them but what if I would show you a traffic source that is cheap, has huge volume, very few restrictions and is totally easy to work with? We all remember those Acai Berry days when part time affiliates became millionaires in a matter…
Get paid 300{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} more for your leads – Why API leads are the future
In recent years, API leads have become more popular and more widely accepted amongst advertisers. Smart affiliates are taking advantage of API’s for years to monetize their leads over and over again. Before I got into detail why API leads are so important, you need to understand what an API actually is first: API means nothing else…
Incorporation as an Affiliate – Tax havens where are you?
LLC, Limited, Holding or should I just forget about it? A lot of affiliates keep asking me for advice and how they should structure their business but there is no simple solution that suits everyone out there. US citizens have a lot of advantages in the affiliate game (fast payouts, low thresholds and easy access to credit cards) but when it comes to taxes and tax optimization they have the toughest nut to crack. Not only is the IRS…
How To Make Money Online Using Expired Domains To Set Up Pay Per Post Blogs
At some point every blogger decides it’s time to start making some money online. They may have started their blog to talk about their wedding plans or build up an online resume, but eventually they start to think ‘Hey. There oughta be some way I can make money with this.’ Well, there is. You can set …
What Will Happen To My Blog When I Die?
No one likes to think about death but we all know it’s inevitable. And not to sound like I’m trying to use sensationalism to influence your decision, but you never know when something dreadful might happen. Your demise isn’t the only thing you need to be concerned about. What if your incapacitated for an extended period of time. What happens to your blog –…
Three Niches I Would Get In If I Had Time
Ask any blogger who’s been at it a while and I’m sure they’ll all tell you they have something on the back burner. We all do. But we’re also smart enough to know that we’d have to take time away from our business if we want to start something new. We remember how much time it takes to get a new blog off the ground. Anyway, here are three niches I would get into if I only had the …
How To Improve Google Rankings for Your Older Posts in 5 Easy Steps
Every award-winning athlete will tell you, you’re only the champion until someone comes along who’s better than you. And someone will always come along, it’s only a matter of time. Your award-winning blog posts are the same – they’re only going to stay at the top of the index until one of your competitors comes along and writes something even better. And it’s…
When To Update WordPress Immediately, and When Not To
If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time then you’ve probably seen that little message on your dashboard telling you there’s an update available. Should you click it or not? Should you do it now or should you wait? Is it safe? Is it complicated? And what happens when you do? What does a WordPress update do? Behind that pretty WordPress theme is…
Improve Your Conversion With A/B Testing
In the blogging world the word “conversion” can have several meanings but what it boils down to is this: Are your visitors doing what you want them to do? If you tell them to subscribe are they handing over their email address? If you tell them to visit your blog are they showing up at your door? If you tell them to “Click Here” do they do it? If not, you can imporve your conversion rate with a little A/B testing. The Importance Of A/B Testing The Internet is littered with abandoned…
WordPress SEO: Get Insane Traffic From Google (7985 Words)
When I started my first online project, I was extremely passionate about it, and I had really high hopes for it to become an authority widely recognized among the webdesign world. But I realized really fast that you can’t just build a website in 5 minutes, throw it onto the interweb and wait for a huge crowd to come visit it. Of course, this website was my first “baby” online, so I was thinking: They will understand how great my website is! The thing is, a lot of people around the internet are thinking …
Be a Kid Again and Make Your Blog Stand Out
Starting a new blog is always exciting. Designing a cool theme and choosing the colors makes you feel like a kid again, opening up a new box of paints. But like any new toy, the novelty soon wears off. Instead of blogging with enthusiasm, creating that fun, exciting content you did in the beginning, your blog is beginning to sound like it’s being written by a robot. Oh, to…
Blogging Isn’t All There Is to Blogging
Most successful bloggers didn’t get that way because they just sit there and blog all day. Their business may have started with a blog but now its grown into so much more. Yours will, too, as soon as you understand that blogging isn’t all there is to blogging. Step outside that …
How To Rank Well Your Inner Pages In Search Engines
Your homepage is usually the highest ranking page on your blog, but take a look at it, what do you see? Generally, all you see is a list of blog posts accompanied by a few snippets of text. Most bloggers think that just raising the rank of the homepage pulls all the inner pages up, as well. However, that’s not really how it works. In fact, if all your ingound links point to your homepage, you’re wasting a lot of link juice. Building the rank of your homepage is important. But the …