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Category: Marketing

  • The first step to financial success…

    It’s been a bit of a gloomy rainy day in my neck of the woods today.

    Also, it’s a wee bit cold as well.

    I came across an interesting section in “Magic Words That Bring You Riches”.

    A classic book by Ted Nicholas.

    Ted says that the first step to financial success is a saleable product.

    And that before you can begin to build any income you first must have a product to sell.

    Now I try to do a hybrid of selling my own products and affiliate marketing.

    (It’s the best of both worlds.)

    Ted goes on to say that there are two ways to get a product.

    Develop it from scratch.
    Acquire the rights to sell a product.

    I’ve done both myself. And the second option I found is by far the easiest of the two.

    Although now it’s a lot easier with the help of AI to create your own products.

    Ted says that most entrepreneurs develop a product from scratch. And often without a well-defined market.

    Then they ask themselves, “How can I sell it?”

    Which most of the time leads to failure…

    The main role of an effective marketer is to find what people want and just give it to them.

    If you market a product that’s already selling, you are benefiting from someone else’s market research.

    Customers have demonstrated they want it through paid orders.

    According to Ted, that’s why the most direct way to business success is to obtain the right to sell a proven product.

    So that’s why you should check that any product you want to buy the resell options to has already made sales.

    It’s been a bit of a gloomy rainy day in my neck of the woods today.

    Also, it’s a wee bit cold as well.

    I came across an interesting section in “Magic Words That Bring You Riches”.

    A classic book by Ted Nicholas.

    Ted says that the first step to financial success is a saleable product.

    And that before you can begin to build any income you first must have a product to sell.

    Now I try to do a hybrid of selling my own products and affiliate marketing.

    (It’s the best of both worlds.)

    Ted goes on to say that there are two ways to get a product.

    1. Develop it from scratch.
    2. Acquire the rights to sell a product.

    I’ve done both myself. And the second option I found is by far the easiest of the two.

    Although now it’s a lot easier with the help of AI to create your own products.

    Ted says that most entrepreneurs develop a product from scratch. And often without a well-defined market.

    Then they ask themselves, “How can I sell it?”

    Which most of the time leads to failure…

    The main role of an effective marketer is to find what people want and just give it to them.

    If you market a product that’s already selling, you are benefiting from someone else’s market research.

    Customers have demonstrated they want it through paid orders.

    According to Ted, that’s why the most direct way to business success is to obtain the right to sell a proven product.

    So that’s why you should check that any product you want to buy the resell options to has already made sales.

    If you’d like the rights to a proven product that you not only can sell and keep 100% of the products…

    But also comes with all the assets to build an email list and teaches you the basics of email marketing.

    Then take a look at 7-Day Commission Machine.​

    A done-for-you email funnel that includes:

    • An High Converting Lead Magnet
    • A High Converting Opt-in Page
    • A Highly Optimized Thank You / Confirmation Page
    • A Highly Optimize Download Page
    • 5-Day Follow-Up Email Campaign

    And a 7-Day training…

    That takes you step by step on how to connect all the assets you get.

    I’ve also included three bonuses:

    1. Kickstart Your Affiliate Commissions – Top 50 affiliate programs to promote in various niches giving you a kickstart in commissions and sales.
    2. Marketing Mechanisms – List of both free and paid tools need to both build and grow your email list.
    3. Email Marketing Essentials – 57 High Converting Headlines that grab’s your reader’s attention and get your emails opened.

    ​Click here for more details.​

    Zaf.

  • I got a great deal on hosting…

    This morning was a bit cloudy though warm.

    So I spent part of the morning with my wife.

    We’ve been doing the front lawn and hedge. The last cut for both the lawn and edge was about two weeks ago.

    And we thought today would be a good day to get this done.

    Friday I’d started backing up my websites in preparation for moving to a new hosting company.

    I’d been thinking of moving from Siteground to Namecheap for a while now.

    Especially with the rise in cost for Siteground.

    But was just put off with having to set up all the emails I have and setting up the email config for the autoresponders that I also use.

    But, over the past couple of days, I bit the bullet and moved over to Namecheap.

    There is a deal that was too good to pass up.

    For two years of hosting with Namecheap, it was just $53.88.

    Against $467.27 for a year’s hosting with Siteground.

    (A no brainer really.)

    If you ever decide to move hosting company, then you will need to make sure first that you have a backup of your site(s).

    The best WordPress plugin to do this yourself is Duplicator Lite.

    This creates a backup of your site. With an installer file.

    Or you can do a manual backup of your WordPress site and database.

    One thing to note if you do use a plugin such as Duplicator to do backup …

    …then your best to upload the backup of your site via FTP to the new hosting company.

    Rather than trying to use the cPanel.

    Zaf.

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  • A new WordPress plugin I’ve been testing

    For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been trying out a new tool.

    A WordPress plugin to add countdown timers to any of your WordPress pages.

    The plugin is Thrive Ultimatum.​

    The plugin allows you to create three sorts of campaigns.

    ✅ Fixed date campaigns
    ✅ Reoccurring campaigns
    ✅ Evergreen campaigns

    So far, I’ve only tested the fixed-date campaigns.

    If you’ve visited any of my sales pages recently you would have seen the timer at the top and a ribbon timer at the bottom.

    You can see a screenshot below:

    Thrive Ultimatum

    One great feature I like with this is the ability to lock a page, so no one can access page before a certain date and after your promotion ends.

    Once your timer hits zero the page can be redirected to any page you choose.

    At the moment you get this for $99 for the year.

    There are also a few other cool features with this that I haven’t yet looked at.

    Worth checking out if you need a timer that can also automatically redirect your page.

    Zaf.

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  • I’ve been using ChatGPT to create some AI prompts.

    It’s been another warm 21 degrees here in Notts today.

    And according to the weather app, it’s going to stay warm for the next couple of weeks.

    (We’ll see how long that lasts, lol.)

    Today’s email is just a quick one…

    For the past couple of days I’ve been working on creating some new bonuses for my current upsell I have.

    All with the help of ChatGPT to outline them.

    Here’s one of the prompts that ChatGPT created:

    “Write a short-form tip for beginners who want to grow their email list. Make it practical and easy to apply. Add a hook at the top and a soft CTA at the bottom linking to a free guide.”

    And here’s a screenshot below of both the prompt and output.

    That prompt is a value post or quick tip prompt.

    It took me a couple of hours to get what I was looking for but so far it hasn’t done too bad.

    What do you think?

    I found that the more information you can provide in your prompts the better the results.

    Zaf.

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  • I got 1.3k Facebook followers in 24 hours

    Have you ever applied to be an affiliate and asked how many followers you have?

    On some of the affiliate platforms such as Impact, you can get asked this when signing up to promote a product.

    I did when I applied to be a Canva affiliate…

    But what happens if you have a brand-spanking new Facebook page with ZERO followers?

    That you want to use for your affiliate marketing.

    This method I’m about to share with you and that l learned from another marketer.

    Will get you from 0 to 1000 followers + in a matter of 24 hours or so.

    (You want to aim for 1000 followers but the more the better.)

    This will help you get massive authority, from people seeing your page to potential affiliates or affiliate managers.

    It gives you an authority on the Facebook advertising platform.

    They won’t see you as a newbie or at least the algorithms won’t.

    And like I said previously this will help you when signing up to certain affiliate platforms.

    For this, you will need a Facebook Ads account and about $15.

    You set up an ad using a simple cute photo of kittens or pups – kittens seem to work the best.

    With the words “Like cats?” Click here.

    This is to get page likes or engagement.

    So when setting the campaign up make sure to select engagement.

    This should then give you a description saying something like “Page likes.”

    As for the countries, there were just two, I targeted.

    1. India

    2. Africa

    Targeting such countries as these brings the cost of the Facebook ad right down.

    This means you’d only be paying between $5 – $15 give or take. To get 1,000 plus Facebook followers/likes.

    I did this for a page I setup in the energy niche and within 24 hours I went from ZERO to 1.3k Facebook followers.

    For about $15.

    The photo you can get from a free image site or Canva, which I did.

    Zaf.

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  • Simple 6-step checklist I use to write emails

    Over the weekend I decided to get the front and back gardens mowed.

    The grass started to get quite long with all the rain and sunshine we’ve had recently. Lol.

    A few months ago.

    I enrolled in an email marketing course and after going through this, I created a simple checklist I use when writing emails.

    So, I thought I’d share that with you today.

    Hopefully, you’ll find it useful as I do.

    Below is the 6-step checklist.

    1. Before you start to write your email ask yourself… “What would I say to someone in this email?” “How would I tell the story and just write naturally?”

    2. Subject lines – write multiple ones for each email and choose one you like the best. The best structure to follow is curiosity and benefit.

    3. Story/Lead – Use time, place and tension. When it happened. Where it happened. What happened?

    4. Segue – This is where you transition from the email to the call to action (CTA) for example “Why am I telling you this?”

    5. Write the email out in one go DON’T edit while writing. Editing, while you’re writing out slows you down a lot.

    6. Focus on ONE thing. Keep your email focused on one thing at least when first learning to write emails.

    Have a great day.

    Zaf.

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  • I used AI to create a simple eCourse

    Quite a few months back now I decided to create an eCourse.
    For beginners in email marketing.

    I used two free tools.

    One is for the opt-in page, and the other is to create the Course.

    Below is a screenshot of the opt-in page created using Systeme.io.

    I created the eCourse using the free version of ChatGPT.

    Uploaded the email to Systeme in an email campaign, and also created what’s known as a subdomain.

    Now the subdomain part is NOT necessary it was something I was testing out.

    (If you don’t know what this is then do a quick Google search.)

    And I did YouTube videos linking to the opt-in page.

    And then left it and checked a few months later to find that I had a few subscribers.

    I created the eCourse by entering this prompt into ChatGPT :

    “Please create me a 7-Day Email Marketing Course for beginners in email marketing which Is to be delivered by email for new subscribers.”

    After a couple of iterations, I got a good eCourse.

    I’ve gone through this procedure today and it’s remarkable the improvement in the output since the last time I did this.

    As you see there’s NO reason why you can’t start building an email list for free.

    Zaf.

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  • Why ONE lead magnet may not be enough

    I’ve just watched a video from one of Frank Kern’s trainings.

    In this video, Frank talks about creating four or five lead magnets.

    (Money magnets as he calls them.)

    To solve a specific problem.

    Frank goes on to say that what people fail to realize is that usually, the problem is a symptom of about 4 or more underlying conditions.

    An example Frank gives is Low sales.

    Low sales are usually the symptom of all or a few underlying conditions such as:

    ✅ Low traffic
    ✅ Bad conversion
    ✅ Bad selling process
    ✅ Bad funnel
    ✅ Etc

    Each of your lead magnets should solve a specific underlying problem… that is causing the major symptom.

    Which will give you instant specialization in the positioning.

    And because you’re helping them and providing the knowledge to them. Also positions you as an authority instantly.

    Some experts recommend businesses having 15 or more lead magnets…

    Now I’m not sure about that myself.

    But I do think you should have more than ONE lead magnet.

    Having different lead magnets…

    …allows you to cater to people who are in different stages of their online journey.

    Either way, you need to make sure you have a plan for both creating your lead magnets and for your email marketing.

    Zaf.

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  • What most copywriters DON’T do but should

    If you know anything about copywriting, then you know that you need to have a “swipe file”.

    Of headlines, bullet points sales pages etc.

    Now something I’ve not long learned from Gary Halbert’s newsletter.

    Is that most copywriters don’t realize that they should also have a swipe file of…

    Interesting Facts!

    Yep, that’s right.

    And in his newsletter, that’s now free online to access.

    Gary gives 12 facts with examples of how to use them.

    The first three facts are below:

    1. If Jell-O is hooked up to an EEG, it registers movements virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult.

    2. On average, a Twinkie will explode in a microwave in 45 seconds.

    3. 100 shares of McDonald’s stock worth $2,250 when it was first offered in 1965 was worth more than 1.4 million dollars 30 years later in 1995.

    And here are two examples he used in sales pages…

    First Example

    “Dear Friend,

    If Jell-O is hooked up to an EEG, it registers movements virtually identical to the brain waves of a healthy adult.

    I mention this because I just returned from a seminar of so-called “webmaster experts”.

    And I think if you hooked up their brains to an EEG machine, their brain waves would be inferior to the brain waves of plain, ol’ Jell-O.

    It seems to me, none of them knew anything of real value about enhancing website profits. Like the few secrets I am about to reveal in this letter:”

    Second Example

    Dear Friend,

    On average, a Twinkie will explode in a microwave in 45 seconds.

    This is, I believe, less time than it takes for a prospect to go ballistic when he or she is put on hold or into “voicemail hell”.

    Only stupid marketers allow this to happen.

    If you sell anything that people can order by phone, you need to know about some of the secrets in my new book called ”17 Magic Ways To Turn Incoming Telephone Calls Into Massive Amounts Of Money”.

    Interest facts are great to use in all your marketing.

    If you want to read the full newsletter on this search Google for “Gary Halbert Newsletter Interesting Facts.”

    Zaf.

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  • I’ve just upgraded to ThriveCart Pro+

    I logged into my ThriveCart account today and was greeted with a new interface.

    When I first saw it… I thought “What the fu*K”.

    I was initially caught by surprise by the change in the interface.

    And I also didn’t realize at first that I could also upgrade for free, lol.

    Since I already have a ThriveCart Pro account,

    I clicked on the small green thin banner to upgrade to ThriveCart Pro+ expecting to see the cost of the upgrade.

    I don’t know how on earth I missed that it was a FREE upgrade.

    After going through the initial setup I had the option of upgrading all my products to use Stripe Connect+.

    This is for a business account for Stripe.

    Looking on Google it said:

    “It allows a business to take a payment from a customer and split it between several other businesses.

    This includes the Stripe Connect platform itself, plus other parties, like drivers, shoppers, or other service providers.

    Connect also enables software platforms to offer payment functionality to their customers.”

    I’ve had a pro account now for about 3 years.

    Since I don’t use PayPal, Stripe has been a great alternative for taking payments.

    The new ThriveCart Pro+ account… offers enhanced reporting, advanced analytics, multiple order bumps and more.

    There’s now a max of 6 order bumps for each digital product.

    (Though I doubt I’ll ever use six, maybe two, three at the max.)

    No doubt there are going to be some bugs like any new features being rolled out.

    I think it’ll be a little while yet before I add more than one order bump to my products.

    Zaf.

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