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Two things and neither have to do with US politics. Tomorrow is election day and if you are in the US make sure you exercise your privilege. Now to the news.
The first is from Bob The Teacher.
He is hosting a teleseminar tomorrow. He wants to help you grow your business through free reports.
Bob’s actually giving tickets away for free to his subscribers and customers (and their friends), as a special Thank you gift.
With all these huge mega-launches, it’s pretty cool to see him do this.
But there’s something else you should know about what Bob’s doing.
(I know about this because Bob keeps me in the loop…)
In addition to learning from him tomorrow for free, he’s going to be knocking off up to 74% of the price on his internet marketing products.
So if you have a specific area you need help with (like list building, traffic, social networking, etc.), you can get one of Bob’s training courses at least half off.
Anyway, hope this helps you get a momentum boost in your business! Get your free ticket here:
If you can’t be there live for his teleseminar - sign up anyway. He’s giving away the recordings AND the transcripts as an additional thank you gift for his subscribers!
Now to the second voting item
Affiliate Funnel has just updated their Traffic Ranker. If you are using traffic exchanges this will give you access to stats and the opinions of thousands of surfers. You get to vote for the exchanges that work for you.
No more opinion or an agenda you will see the actual stats they are getting plus the rankings are created by the surfers not just one person’s opinion.
Check out Affiliate Funnel and all of the tools to help you. If you are using traffic exchanges this is a must for your business.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Hey Guys I am away because of a death in the family and will be back on Wednesday. In the mean time I have this guest article from Bob Jenkin’s. Hope you enjoy it.
3 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Website With Teleseminars
By Bob Jenkins
The number one issue faced by any business person with a website today is getting traffic.
Without visitors to your website, how will you ever be paid for your products and services (or through your affiliate recommendations)?
One solution to this problem is holding a teleseminar.
A teleseminar is simply a phone call where somebody (i.e., you) talks to somebody else (i.e., a guest expert or just the audience) about a specific topic of interest.
You don’t have to have any specific educational background or be some kind of certified expert to hold a teleseminar – just the courage to hold an intelligent conversation for about an hour about something you enjoy.
Marketing with teleseminars gives you over a dozen ways to get traffic to your products and services. Let me highlight 3 of them for you right now.
Teleseminars can…
Provide a live event for people to get immediate answers to their questions
Turn into articles and blog posts which are magnets for search engine-traffic
Connect you with new affiliates who share your teleseminar with others in exchange for a commission
Let me describe how each of these 3 could work for you.
Attract Traffic With A Live Teleseminar
When you host a teleseminar, you provide a specific time and date for a group of people to gather together. At heart, most people are still social animals. Because of that fact, if people know they can get together with other people like them at the same time and date and learn or discuss their favorite topic, they’ll show up.
And if you provide a way for your listeners to ask you a question that you answer during the teleseminar then they’ll definitely want to connect with you after the call is over.
Create Traffic Magnet Articles And Blog Posts
A second way teleseminars can generate traffic for your website, products, and services is by turning into text.
Most people talk at about 200 words per minute, and within an hour, you can create a 50 page transcript. Simply by breaking apart that text, you can create a dozen articles and many more blog posts with just a single teleseminar.
You then submit those articles to article directories and ezine publishers to spread your message. Each article becomes a traffic magnet by connecting readers back to your website through a link at the end of the text.
You can “write” weeks worth of search-engine friendly content by taking the same articles and breaking them up into blog posts you publish on your own blog or on someone else’s.
Get Affiliates To Send You Traffic
My favorite method of getting traffic with teleseminars is by creating an affiliate program for the sale of your teleseminars, their transcripts, or additional calls you do in the future.
Even before you hold a call, people are willing to pay in advance for the transcripts and/or the recording of your teleseminar. And once you start selling something online, you can invite affiliate marketers to promote your teleseminar product for you.
In exchange for sending you traffic, you agree to pay a certain percentage of the profits – a simple arrangement that’s made very easy with software available today (ranging from free to quite expensive).
Affiliates then spend their time and energy sending you traffic and you can spend your time concentrating on holding an excellent teleseminar.
Start Getting More Traffic With Teleseminars
These are just 3 methods of getting traffic with teleseminars that you can put into action immediately. And once you get started, you’ll quickly realize that your traffic problems are suddenly not so large anymore!
Bob Jenkins is the creator of TeleseminarFormula.com, an in-depth training program teaching business owners how to use teleseminars to magnetically attract better customers, get more sales, and accelerate their growth using their phone. For your free copy of “The 7 Secrets To Success With Teleseminars”, visit TeleseminarFormula.com today.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed. Please allow a bit extra for comments to be approved.
Usually, when I see “free training” online, I expect it to be some kind of 5 page report or dinky review of something else.
I’ve just been reviewing Bob The Teacher’s Teleseminar Formula free apprentice program, and I can’t believe how much detailed teaching he has packed into this.
You’ll learn a ton quickly from Bob in this training, and whether you have already held your own teleseminars successfully or you laugh at the thought of you hosting one yourself, this is a must read.
1) How to make mcney from a teleseminar even before you pick up the phone… (see page 33)
2) How to increase affiliate commissions by holding a specific type of teleseminar… (page 14)
3) Where to get a free affiliate program so you can have others promote your teleseminars for you (page 37)
As you can imagine, just those three tips alone make this free training worth a lot more.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bob starts charging for it.
Better not take any chances - create your free apprentice account now and start learning the 7 Secrets to Success With Teleseminars…
You’ll see the 7 Secrets To Success With Teleseminars is more than a 50+ page ebook - you also get an audio MP3 and study guide to make sure you get the most out of it all.
Well we have done an overview of the total system now it is time to get into details. We did cover mind set earlier at least to the extent that it will be covered here.
Picking your niche I referred you to a whole set of blog posts at Amplification Marketing News on niche research. No point in duplicating that series here.
Now we get into the offer. There are 5 parts of this and we will cover 3 of the 5 here. The other 2 are already covered in an excellent manner by my good friend Soren Jordansen and quite truthfully there is not much I could add to what he already has available. those will be linkable from the list below.
The hardest part is understanding exactly who your target is. You want to attract the person who just needs more and more of what your topic is.
Okay lets look at a golfer for this example. I personally chase the little white ball around (can’t call what I do golf). However, that does not mean that I am not always looking for information and products that will allow me to improve to where it could be called golf.
What would I be interested in?
A way to read greens better (gotta stop those 3 putts)
A way to hit the ball straight (get a way for me to do that and you will make some money
How to increase the distance I get when I drive (mine is pathetic)
These are just a few things that not only duffers like me would like to know how to improve but even good golfers would.
Now if this is the person you want to target what can you offer that will make me just have to have it.
Okay here is where you start to put your offer together. You can create any of the following reports.
5 Ways To Never Misread A Green Again
3 Easy Steps To Straighten Your Drive
Add 20% More Distance To Your Drive In 20 Minutes
Now if this is a topic you love (you did follow the niche research didn’t you?) you can easily create a report like that. You can use Open Office and write the report and make it into a pdf for a free way to create this.
Or if you aren’t comfortable with how to format a report like this properly there are software programs that will walk you through a fill in the blank in order to create the report for you. One of the better ones I have used is Special Report Generator.
Now you are not limited to just reports. In this case maybe you have a new golf ball that will get me 20% more distance. You can offer to send me one. Would I sign up for that? You betcha.
See the item you offer can be a report, a physical object, a piece of software but the main thing is it MUST be something that your target customer just must have.
Now you need to create a squeeze page (a way for people to get on your mailing list with the offer they JUST MUST HAVE.) that Soren has covered and then a follow up email series that will allow you to continue to build the relationship.
You will need some type of list management software and for me the only choice is AWeber. They are one if not the best for delivery and they have great tutorials to walk you through the technical aspects.
Finally as you are setting up these pages you will want to include tracking. Google Analytics has some great tools that will allow you to do this and there are quite a few tutorials there to show you how to set it up. Leter you may want to use more robust services and we will cover those when we get to tracking.
Make sure that you are using different signup forms for each squeeze page that you use. This way you can track the results from each and see which works and which don’t. You also need to track the results from your follow up series. One of the reasons I recommend AWeber is that they can track all of your results from your follow up series and you can create and track the signups from each subscribe form you create.
Tracking is very important and needs to be set up from the beginning. You will always want to work on improving your offer as you go along and if you don’t have the tracking installed you won’t know what is working.
This is the next section in the series on building an actual business. This came about because of the results of the survey I ran as to what people wanted. The results showed that if this was going to be of value to the majority it would need to be more comprehensive than I originally thought.
The first part will be an overview. We started that yesterday with the mind set post.
Time is absolutely the most valuable asset I have. It is all too easy to waste time creating an on line business. Mapping out what you need is the best way to make sure that you actually accomplish things that are necessary. No planning and you will not be likely to succeed.
There are a number of tools you can use for organization like Outlook and Google calendars for reminders. A desk calendar is a necessity for me.
I use a white board to keep track of current items. Having it in my face shows me what I need to get done. Makes the list hard to ignore and even better if it doesn’t change my better half tells me about it.
The final piece for me in getting organized and one I use all the time is a free piece of software called Free Mind. It handles my to do list and I use it for every project. Below is the start of the map for this series.
Any time I am starting a project I start with a mind map. Even something as simple as an article or complex blog post I map out before I start. This allows me to move the pieces and resort things easily.
Each week Steve Roye and I use a mind map to set up the topic of discussion over at Amplification Marketing. This way we make sure we don’t skip steps and keep the podcast going.
Now it took me quite a few tries to get comfortable with using this software but Bob Jenkins has a great course on using it called Discover Free Mind. I strongly recommend it because it will save you time in maximizing your use but that is a decision for each person to take.
Finally, the mind map gives you an idea of where this series is going. It will start with the main topics then drill down more as we go into each area. (See the mind map isn’t finished and will continue to evolve.)
Now to finish packing and head to Philly for JV Alert. Be back with the next lesson Tuesday.
More and more my partner and I are using Squidoo for a lot more than just back linking and pre selling affiliate products. It works even better for micro sites for off line businesses.
Paul just created a lens about Automotive Micro Sites.You can use a lens rather than pay the high prices that some of the micro site sellers are charging. They are much easier to get ranking higher because they are part of Squidoo rather than a new domain.
Now this works for him to sell cars but you can also use this for any high ticket sale if you structure it for your area and your business.
Creating these types of sites can be very profitable if you are working with any type of high ticket sales business that is off line. Just to name a few - real estate brokers, mortgage brokers, mobile home sales, boat sales, etc.
If you have built up skills in the internet marketing field you can easily transfer these to help some of these off line businesses quite profitably.
Want to understand more about using Squidoo?
Check out Bob Jenkin’s Squidoo Secrets 2.0. You can get started for free but you really should consider the upgrade as the skills he will help with will improve your usage of this great tool.
Let me know by leaving your comments how you have uised Squidoo effectively for your business whether it is on or off line.
Just got access to the new Squidoo Secrets 2 from Bob Jenkins. Now I have always liked Bob’s teaching style and strongly recommended his original Squidoo Secrets.
The various tweaks I have learned from him have continued to help me drive traffic, get subscribers and make sales from my lenses.
You really need to check it out and the upgrade is something to really consider. I grabbed it and that is why I said WOW!!!! in the title.
One of the biggest problems I have had is getting organized and staying that way. One look at my desk would let you know that not having clutter isn’t possible for me.
Organized chaos would be a polite description of my desk.
Running projects though used to mean a separate folder for each with notes attached as checklists.
Then I started using mind maps to lay out projects. I started with Free Mind but it took 6 months and 3 tries to really learn how to use it and make it part of my business.
I knew that I needed something like this to be more organized but…
The learning curve killed me. That was why I would use it for a few days, then get frustrated and go back to my legal pad. It wasn’t clean but it was comfortable for me.
Well they say the third time is the charm and about a year and a half ago I started getting comfortable with using Free Mind. It allowed me to lay out my projects and unlike my legal pad I could change things easily and it reduced the clutter on my desk too.
I have it open constantly now and use it not only for big projects but for organizing an article or even a blog post like this. See the map below.
Mind mapping is something that everyone tells you to do but learning how to use the software even though it is a free software can be frustrating to be polite (which trying to learn this I wasn’t).
Imagine my surprise when my friend Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins launched his new site - Discover Free Mind.
Boy do I ever wish I had had this site two years ago when I first started mind mapping. If you know you need to get more organized and want to learn how to do this without the frustration go let Bob teach you.
I did and grabbed his full package and I can tell you that even after using Free Mind for over 18 months regularly I still found new things that I hadn’t discovered in his teaching.
This gets one of my highest recommendations and it will allow you to get much more done in much less time. Go get his videos at
