5 Bucks a Day

I just picked up a truly wonderful set of videos yesterday that I can share with you.  The name of them is “High Page Rank”.

There are over 3 hours of videos spread over 12 separate modules, along with a 30+ page report, and Powerpoint slides included.

They include discussions of page rank in general, and ways to both attain high page rank, but more importantly how to get more traffic to your web sites.  Individual videos discuss article marketing, digg, stumbleupon, squidoo, and more.  They’re very well done.

Although each one could probably be sold separately for $7 to $17, you can get them all in a bundle at a very cheap rate if you rush over to my dime sale site, where the price started at $2.95 (ridiculous, I know), Even if the price maxes out at the full $17 that I set it for, it’s a bargain.

Don’t take this lightly because of the price, you’ll get a good education inside of 3 hours, and did I mention that you can resell them, or if you have a membership site, you can add them there (like I did at Earn1KaDay.com).

I mentioned in a prior post that I was going to start offering lots of bargains, and affiliate marketing opportunities, via the dime sale model.  I released Power Effects last week, it was a gigantic hit.  If you missed it, check it out:
http://www.1kad.com/PowerEffects

Anyway, back to the high rank video series, you can check it out here (there’s a full video posted on the page, it will give you an idea as to the quality):
http://www.1kad.com/high-page-rank-videos.php

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As you may have noticed if you’ve been reading a while, sometimes it doesn’t take much to get me excited. Ever since the ah-ha moment when my 5 bucks a day strategy was conceived, each time I find something that can help possibly conceive another success story of that magnitude gets me all worked up.

The latest is the Instant Dime Sale Creator product that I picked up a couple weeks ago. What a dime sale is, in Internet marketing terms, is that the seller of a product determines the absolute lowest rock bottom price he’s willing to sell his product for, and sets up a sales page at that price.

He then increases the price (either manually or using an automated script) at regular intervals, until at some point the price becomes higher than most people are willing to pay. So in the beginning customers are getting an absolutely unbelievable bargain, after a while they’re getting a good deal, then a fair price, and then it’s overpriced.

A good dime sale script will give you the ability to set a maximum price, so that after a certain number of sales, the price stays the same and doesn’t discourage those that are willing to pay a fair price, while still giving bargains to early buyers.

Instant Dime Sale Creator (IDSC) has the typical dime sale features (price increment with each sale, and maximum price), plus much more. The extra features include easy PayPal payment button creation, the ability to have a .00 price increment (more on the beauty of that later), built in one time offer ability, built in affiliate program (you can pay your affiliates anywhere from 1 to 100% of the sales amount), statistics for your products and affiliate performance, and download protection (so that your product is protected from those that want to use your product without paying for it). And more.

OK, this is a dime sale script, so why would you want to not increase the price after every sale? Well, the thing is, IDSC makes it so easy to set up a sales page with a PayPal payment button, you’ll get spoiled, and want to use it on products where you just want to charge a specific price. So you can do that by having the initial price be what you want, and not increase it.

The other really huge thing about this script is that it allows you to set up as many dime sale campaigns as you want. It keeps track of them in a database. Other scripts make you install the software again each time you want to set up a new product. Not IDSC. The admin panel is ridiculously easy to use to add a new campaign.

When it comes down to it, the features of this dime sale script that are the most unique and valuable are that it includes a built in affiliate program, it allows you to set up unlimited campaigns, it makes it easy to have one time offers, and it protects your downloads.

And that’s where my “pretty well baked idea” comes in. I love ideas. I’m always brainstorming. I get tons and tons of half baked ideas, some of which I fall in love with for a couple days and then realize it’s not feasible or too much work. Some I carry through to completion or outsource, and some I just have no time for.

My idea is that I have tons of great products that I’ve purchased in the last year to give to Earn1KaDay.com members. I own resell rights to those products, and can sell them if I want to, but mostly I purchased them so that I could give them to members for free. There are thousands of dollars worth of downloads waiting for new members there and I’m adding to that every week.

Some of those great reports and software products allow my members to resell them on their own, but many of the best of the best don’t. So here’s my plan.

I’m going to set up a special site, or section of a site, for “dime sale bargains”. I’ll load it up with all the stuff that I’ve been accumulating. Now mind you, this isn’t junk that you see on eBay for .99, these are fresh reports and often very valuable products. Each customer will automatically be offered an opportunity to be an affiliate for my site. And each customer will be able to get on an email list for notification every time I add something new.

That way, three things happen. One, customers will get great bargains. Two, prior customers will be first in line to get the next great bargain before the price rises. Three, customers will have the ability to promote anything on the site and get commissions.

Right now, the only thing available is the dime sale script itself, at a great price. It will give you the ability to set up your own dime sales, your own affiliate program, your own one time offers, and do something similar to what I’m doing with your own products. You can learn more about it here: ==> Instant Dime Sale Creator

The price rises with every sale, so if you put it off, you’ll pay more later. This is a great product, you’ll love it and make money with it, I assure you.

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I’ve been quiet on here the last couple weeks.

What excuse can I use? Short winter days? Super Bowl fever? Too much else going on?

Whatever reason it was, I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with wikidot, which I’ve mentioned before, and now I pretty much am happy with what I’ve learned in the last month. In fact, so happy that I took the time (on Super Sunday, no less) to put together a few videos and a report on how to get top search engine rankings with wikis.

What better way to continue this conversation than to point you to my wiki so that you can learn more about what I’ve been doing while I haven’t been blogging? If you want to know more about how I’ve been getting great search engine rankings on some competitive keyword phrases, you need to visit my Wikidot Tutorial page.

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I participated in a very interesting discussion today on the forum about the importance of CTR (click through rate) on AdWords campaigns.

A member had a very high CTR and was happy about that, because it meant Google gave him a better quality score, and possibly lower bids to earn a high position. But he wasn’t getting any sales.

He was doing one of my favorite techniques, which is campaign blasting, which teaches to quickly launch campaigns with the goal to determine winners and losers. After a predefined amount of time or clicks, an assessment is made as to which category the campaign fits into. If it’s determined to be a loser, it’s axed, if it’s a winner, it continues and/or is expanded to more keywords, more landing pages, etc.

My thought was that if the person was getting a good CTR, and a lot of clicks, but no sales, the visitors were interested in the topic, but maybe not targeted to the landing page itself. In other words, once they got there, they weren’t interested, so they clicked away without buying. And maybe he should put wording in his ad to scare away some visitors (like prices), or at least have negative keywords so that people looking for something the landing page didn’t cater to wouldn’t see his ad.

The person said he wasn’t worried about wasting his money on clicks because they were fairly cheap, all he wanted to do was find out whether the niche was a winner or loser.

Ah, therein lies the problem. He thought he wasn’t wasting a lot of money because after he spent 20 or 30 dollars, if he had no sales, he’d delete the campaign, and that’s all he would lose.

Or would he, I asked?

Suppose he really had stumbled onto a good niche that had the possibility of making a lot of profit. And suppose that if he targeted his ad better, perhaps even to the point where if his CTR was relatively bad, the ones who clicked through were in buying mode. Let’s say that he only got a 1% CTR, but out of maybe 300 clicks he got 3 or 4 or more sales.

And suppose, doing it the way he was doing it, he had a 10% CTR, but out of 300 clicks he got no sales. Which is very possible because 9 out of 10 of the clickers should have been excluded anyway, as they had no interest in what they found.

In the 2nd scenario, he would determine the niche to be a loser after buying 300 clicks. In the first scenario, he would have found a winner.

And that campaign would have profited him, potentially for month after month, year after year.

See how important it is to do it right? If you aren’t going to give a campaign blast your best shot, don’t bother doing it at all. That’s one reason why my friend Matt Levenhagen’s Campaign Blast Guide is one of the most important books you can have in your library if you’re going to spend money on AdWords. It’s the difference between investing and wasting, it really is.

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I was asked today for advice on what kind of URL to link to when submitting an article to ezinearticles.com.

Normally the preferred approach, when people are practicing “Bum Marketing” tactics, is to link to an affiliate merchant. But ezinearticles guards against that, so you have to generally link to your own landing page, where you review the merchant, do a presell, and then link to the merchant.

So in effect you’ve done two presells, asking for the visitor to click twice, to get to where you want them to end up.

The question was whether linking to an article on a blog would be good, and here was my answer:

Yes, linking to a blog is one way to accomplish that. Be sure the article in your blog is different than the one you publish to ezinearticles, so as to give the visitor more or different information.

Or here’s an idea off the top of my head. Think about setting up a wiki here:
http://www.wikidot.com

There you’ll be able to put up any number of articles of your own. Your ezinearticles resource box could say something like “If you like this article, I’ve got lots more for your at http://yourkeyword.wikidot.com ” or whatever, and there you can have your own little article directory where you can have affiliate links and offers.

I’ve recently become very excited about the wiki possibility, I’ve started this one here:
http://earn1kaday.wikidot.com

and it was very easy to do. I’ve set permissions so that only members of my wiki can make entries, and only the owner of a page can edit it. I’ve also set it so that only people that were invited and have a special password can become a member, and at this point only members of earn1kaday.com were invited to become members to that wiki.

But, it will be ranked in the search engines, should be ranked well in fact, and anyone can read any page.

I intend to claim a lot more wikis in the weeks and months ahead, and it will be a large part of my strategy in 2008.

Why would it be better than setting up a full site? Well, I don’t have to buy a domain name. I suspect that Google will give it extra love. The functionality is incredibly easy, no need to FTP anything for example. You write a few paragraphs and your page is immediately up and visible.

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I’ve heard some good things about DealDotCom, and I finally gave it a good look today.  Whoever the owner is, or whoever his or her copywriter is, sure knows how to get people to pull the trigger.  Interesting stuff, you should check it out.

What made me look at it was one of our Earn1KaDay.com members has the “deal of the day” over there, a free WordPress plugin that will help you earn affiliate commissions for referrals by placing a RSS feed for the DDC site on your blog.

Seeing that some of the deals of the day are pretty good deals, if you get enough traffic to your blog, and it’s in an Internet marketing type of topic, you could do well.

So check it out, here’s the link to our member’s (Azlan Kasim) product:
http://dealdotcomrss.nichemoneysites.com/ 

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Several weeks ago one of the members of Earn1KaDay.com took it upon himself to organize a challenge.  One of the business models I teach (videos and personal attention to any members needs) is what I call the Mini Money Sites, where we have software and techniques to construct mini sites designed to promote small niches, usually including lists of merchandise available on eBay.

These are nothing like the ugly sites you’ve seen elsewhere where they scrape content designed to get AdSense clicks, make .50 a day and make 5 or 10 of these sites a day, building up a huge Virtual Real Estate empire until the sites get delisted.

So it’s not like these sites can be pumped out in a few minutes spewing crap all over the Internet.

Anyway, the guy who organized the challenge told the participants to figure out how many sites they thought they could build in a week, and then double that number, and get to work.

In other words, push themselves, get out of their comfort zone, and prove something to themselves.

Most of the members did what they set their minds to do, proving once again that if you think you can, you can.

A new challenge is starting up on Friday, one member originally thought he could build 2 sites a day last time, so he doubled that and tried to build 28 for the week.  And he made it.  This time he’s going for 56.  Again, these won’t be crap sites, and if he makes that, I’d say he will soon have a very nice income stream, just in time for the holidays.

There’s still time to learn how to build these sites and take the challenge.  Your goal might be to build 4 in a week.  Nothing wrong with that.  Even 1.  Go for it.

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