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If you are one of those marketers who is like constantly testing and tweaking and trying to improve conversions on your sale letter like me, welcome to the club. Make sure you read every word on this post.

Yes, there is some work involved but the tool set I’m going to share with you: Script Smart is extremely powerful and is used by every successful internet marketer. In fact, Ryan Deiss told me about this tool set and insisted that I invest into it, ever since I had been extensively using this in all my sites.

Its all about increasing your profits and conversions from your existing online sales letters or optin pages with very little additional work. The idea is you integrate tried and tested marketing tactics quickly into your web pages with the help of a few scripts.

Some features of this script-smart include scenarios like, presenting a special one time offer (OTO) for your product while your prospect is in the middle of reading through your sales letter, giving them a time limit on the offer with a built-in sense of urgency.

If you are in the middle of a product launch, you probably need a proper countdown timer that is based on your actual server time which keeps everyone in the world on your timezone when the countdown hits zero, instead of being at the mercy of every ones local computer time as so many countdown scripts are prone to using.

The biggest thing I have benefited form the script is the ability to recycle prospects who are leaving the site by making a one time offer. Something that has not bee possible since the downfall of pop-ups. Script Smart seems to be very effective with this. This is worth every dollar you pay for this tool set.

In tool set is priced reasonably at $67, which in my opinion is just a steal

Pros
• If you are a complete non-technie don’t worry the UI is pretty simple and the whole things is pretty intuitive with a few clicks. Select a script you need, enter in your values into a form and it gives you the right code to paste into your web page source.
• Instead of having to find some help on elance or pay for a developer to make them for you, Script Smart collection of marketing scripts are all located in one application that generates all the encrypted code for you.
• Excellent support and a very good product evolution path, I started with version 2.0 and now its at version 3.03
• Not found in the mainstream promoted by a zillion affiliates, that means you have the early to market advantage still.

Cons

The only thing I have to write is Arron Dwyer the creator of this tool has put in a very comprehensive authentication and authorization mechanism in place. THat means you cannot simply pass on the tool to everyone. I understand why Aaron is doing this, he wants to protect the IP and the integrity of the tool set. Your email id is used for authentication.

This not an issue with me becuase I paid for the full version of it, but the challenge is every time I change computers or change email ID’s I have to email support(but they are very responsive).

From a business point..Aaron! aren’t you tired of simple requests like “change my email please” and “Why can’t I start script-smart”

You should buy this toolset and if you don’t want to buy you have to leave a comment explaining to me why you are not buying it. Here is the link where you can read more about the tool and yes its my affiliate link

http://gorichonline.com/recommends/script-smart.html

(That affiliate link is encrypted by script-smart tool Isn’t it powerful)

Just to summarize this review, script smart has become an integral part of my business now.

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“Creating stellar content for your marketing is great. But great content doesn’t (quite) distribute itself. It needs vehicles for people to pass it along, discuss its merits, argue over its controversies, blog it, mash it, tweet it and even scrape it. Which is, of course, where social media comes in…” — Sonia Simone, “Why Content and Social Media Are a Powerful Match”

“A strong foundation increases the value of everything you do.” Aaron Wall, discussing SEO strategies.

“It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic.” Jeff Eisenberg

“SEO is knowing what the search engines want and giving it to them… so hard they f***ing bleed” Dave Naylor

“It’s better to think of social media tools as amplifying customer opinion rather than improving it.” Joshua Porter

“SEO is a marketing function for sure, but it needs to be baked into a product, not slapped on like icing after the cake is baked.” Duane Forrester

“Trying to increase sales simply by driving more traffic to a website with a poor customer conversion rate is like trying to keep a leaky bucket full by adding more water instead of plugging the holes.” Bryan Eisenberg

Twitter is like hugging. Just becuase it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there. Tony Hsiesh

“We now have indisputable proof that online marketing, YouTube and Twitter and all that it encompasses is meaningful and has arrived,” Gene Grabowski

“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” Tim Ferriss

Thanks to Frank Kern, Mike Filsaime, Ryan Deiss, Anik Singal & folks at stompernet we have promotions going on every week of the year. As I am writing this post, Keith Wellman’s EasySalesLetter lunch is underway. Again the buzz is it will be a million dollar launch. Thanks to these folks affiliates like us make a few dollars…:)-

Before and during the product launch its usual to get a flurry of emails, that could be pretty intimidating. Here is a quick guidance on how to buy into one of these promotions, if you wish to do so:

Based On Reviews: The general mass buys based on reviews that people like you and me write upon using a product. You can certainly do so yourself, but given a product in its launch is too new and its too early to judge its success.

Based on Association Sometime people buy products from marketers becuase they want to somehow associate themselves with them. People have bought high end product from me just to become friends with me. Many marketers know this and during the launch, they make themselves heavily accessible to the public only to pull themselves out soon after.

So don’t buy just becuase you are expecting anything additional from the creator of the product. Buy based on merit and your understanding of the product.

Based On Bonuses: Many marketers wait for all the affiliates to promote so that they can pick and choose whose offer makes sense. During one of the recent launches some of the reputable marketers gave away their earlier versions of their product. How valuable these bonuses are? again that you have to decide.

If you are clicking too may affiliate links make sure you clear the cookies before you go to the link that you absolutely have to buy from.

Based On Impulse: Marketing could be a dangerous game when you are on the receiving end. Despite the rise of social media marketing, more and more people are impulsively buying things without even checking with friends and family. Facebook where are you?

Use your judegement and make sure that you have a strong recovery plan before you invest $1997 into any home study course.

Based On Your Need Not On The Promotion: This is characteristic of a true qualified buyer. Always buy what you need, never the one that is heavily promoted. There is nothing wrong with marketing promotions, but its important that you build the value instead of some one else telling how valuable a product is for you.

This is an unusual post and trust me there is a lot of wisdom in it.

Over the years I had the great pleasure of mentoring and coaching a lot of aspiring bloggers. Some became a successful and others just gave up and struggle to this day.

Occasionally some people ask me why they have failed as bloggers?. My answer is how much commitment did they have for the cause on hand.

When I ask that question instantly they say, we struggled for 3~6 months but we could not make any money, so we gave up.

If you carefully study all the successful bloggers who make a lot of money online there is a common pattern that that you can find
across all of them and that is, they all blog because they’re passionate about the subject. They hardly care if they make any money are not. Money for them is secondary, just a byproduct of their hard work.

Side Note: the top 10 bloggers in the world have custom themes for their blog

John Chow went on record to explain how it took one year for him to make his first dollar from his blog. During that entire year John kept on blogging and making at least two posts a day on his blog without expecting any money in return. John’s is a common story and every bloggers who has really made it to the top has struggled, myself included.

Just to give you an idea, on a given day I try to make about a minimum of three posts on this blog if you see the right column you will see that there are not that many comments on each of the posts, yet I continue to blog because I really do not know what else to do with my dead time other than just blog.

Also if I look back and see why I had been successful with some of my blogs I see a common pattern there again. The blogs into which I have put a lot of money are the ones that are doing really fine. Any blog that I ever set up for which I just downloaded and installed wordpress and a free theme are not doing that well.

My observation is big investment usually means longer stickiness.

Again this is my observation I’m not saying that you will not be successful using free themes or a free blog platform that’s not the point. It all about how much commitment you have for the cause.

I spent $,$$$ for custom creating this blog theme. At the time of creation of the theme I just had about 10 posts. I never had an idea that I would come this far but I had a vision and the willpower to do whatever it takes to make this blog successful.

I don’t expect you to spend $2000 for creating a custom theme but I do expect that you have a $2000+ commitment or more before you expect any kind of success from your blog.

Responsibly hand crating means you have good content, good presentation, good engagement and good feedback mechanisms on your blog.

Remember, with great success comes great responsibility.

One thing is very clear The more emotional and financial commitment you have in your blog the more successful you will be.

No questions about that.

There is a reason why you see more text on this blog than graphics. The reason is dazzling graphics will never make you money. Also text properly distributed across the site, helps in eye ball navigation as well as search engine indexing.

A combination or good graphics + appealing font + helpful navigation can make an average blog look stunning. This blog is a small step in that direction for achieving perfection.

I have met all kinds of blog designers over the years and personally read about 1000+ blogs on a daily basis. Through all this I have come to learn that all successful blogs use a “functional format”

What do I mean by a functional format?

• Inverted Pyramid Writing:

  One of the easiest, and most readable, forms of writing one can use is called the “inverted pyramid”. This style is characteristic of newspapers. The basic idea is that the reader should, from your first sentence, be able to ascertain what the entire article is generally about. If they want to know more, they can read the entire article. The specifics of the article should be of diminishing importance as the article progresses. This article, in fact, is written in that format.

  Sports writers are some of the best writers out there. One of their conventions can be very challenging, and rewarding, for the writer: telling the story backwards. Some sports writers will start an article about a particular game at the end and work their way to the beginning. It’s a very impressive feat when it’s done correctly and a very enjoyable way for readers to take in your writing.

  A strong “lead” is as important to blog writing as it is to any other literary form. Your first sentence is your most important sentence. Make sure it grabs the reader’s attention, informs them of what the article is about and entices them to read further. Good newspaper stories, great novels and short stories almost always start with a sentence that almost forces the reader to dig deeper into the body of the story.

  The very basic concepts of writing, of course, always apply. If you’re going for a journalistic or scientific feel, remember to always reference where you got your information and, if possible, to link it via hypertext. Your paragraphs should have a topic sentence and should focus on defining and expounding upon that thought. Punctuation should be sophisticated and correct. Too many writers “dumb down” their online entries by skipping such wonderful linguistic tools as semi-colons, colons and dashes. The English language allows its writers to engage in some of the most colorful language in the world. Learn how to use the tools with which your language is equipped and use them.

• Implicit Optin

  An implicit opt-in is something where by the visitor is compelled to drop the contact details, in other words have no choice but fill the damn form automatically, again not by any forced means(pop-ups, pop-unders, lightboxes or anything of that nature). A good offer is the foundation for an implicit optin.

  My offer to you on this blog is to show you how you can make $10k in 30 days. That’s pretty powerful if you are trying to lean how to make money online. This blogs core focus is to teach people how to make money online. An implicit optin has less to do where the optin code is placed, it could be on the top of the blog it could be on the right panel. But the point is getting attention is not the primary objective, its getting the user to take action.

  There is a reason why my optin box pops up on the footer. 44% non-intrusive conversion.. Amazing isn’t it?

• Gap Elimination With Triggers

  How do you handle the space in between blog posts has a lot to do with your blog’s success, something many bloggers don’t talk about. Some just run adsense ads or some other affiliate offers. Some place a few social bookmarking icons. So what really works?

  In my observation my best adsenese revenue was generated by placing the adsense code in between posts. I experimented this on my personal blog www.SriniSaripalli.com. On this blog I placed “Subscribe To My RSS” as a trigger with “Tell A Friend” box to create some viral effect. How well it works I don’t know, but testing is on.

Try these triggers and let me know if you don’t make money.

Happy Blogging!

Sorry, I don’t know what a “Clipping Service” is, was the response I got when I asked one of my internet marketing friends if he is using one. When I explained why its important, he further turned me down saying he is an internet marketer and internet marketer’s don’t need a service like that.

Its amazing how internet marketers are struggling to go offline yet are not willing to practice the age old methods for success. Before I go any further.. lets understand

What is a Clipping Service:

Wikipedia defines it as “media monitoring service”. A media monitoring service provides clients with documentation, analysis, or copies of media content of interest to the clients. Services tend to specialize by media type or content type. For example, some services monitor news and public affairs content while others monitor advertising, sports sponsorships, product placement, video or audio news releases, use of copyrighted video or audio, infomercials, “watermarked” video/audio, and even billboards.

Such services hold, or have held, various names - changing over time as new forms of media are created. Alternative names for such services include:

* Press/media cutting agency/service
* Press/media clipping agency/service

A clipping service provider’s job is to search thousands of magazines and newspapers for articles, ads, promotions and anything else that you specify. You as a subscriber to this service will pay a basic monthly fee and the provider would mail you the original ads, promotions, articles to you on a monthly basis. Some providers even charge an additional fee for every clip in addition to the monthly fee.

We are fimilar to the term “Swipe File” in the interent marketing realm. And a clipping service helps you build your swipe file almost instantly. With a service like this you can monitor what your competitors are doing in your market.

If you are a direct marketer or a market of any sort for that matter a “clipping service” is must to have.

Where can you find a reliable service provider? Just google the term “Clipping Service” you will find a bunch.

Inc magazine provided a lowdown on the clipping service providers in 1992. Here is the list

* BACON’S CLIPPING BUREAU, CHICAGO (800-621-0561)

Costs $160/month, plus 96¢/clip. Follows 50,000 publications internationally, in 33 countries; 3,500 U.S. newspapers (all dailies plus most weeklies); 6,000 trade and consumer magazines; wire services. Delivers twice a week; two-to three-week lag. Features analysis of advertising-dollar equivalent. Will target by state or region; circulation; or type of publication.
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* Burrelle’s, Livingston, N.J. (800-631-1160; in New Jersey, 201-992-6600)

Costs $218/month, plus $1.17/clip. Follows 11,000 U.S. newspapers; 6,300 consumer and trade magazines; English publications in Canada; wire services; Japanese economic news. Delivers twice a week; two-to three-week lag. Features TV extracts. Will target by western or eastern United States; state; city; or circulation size of newspapers.
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* Luce Press Clippings, New York City (800-628-0376; in New York State, 212-889-6711)

Costs $210/month, plus $1.12/clip. Follows 15,000 U.S. publications — every daily newspaper and nearly every weekly; consumer and trade magazines; wire services. Delivers twice a week; 10-to 14-day lag. Features Canadian coverage (extra $65/month); international coverage ($10/month/country); TV extracts from news.
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* New England Newsclip Agency, Framingham, Mass. (508-879-4460)

Costs $98/month, plus 68¢/clip. Follows all 1,400 newspapers in New England; also key nationals like the New York Times. Delivers one to five times a week; 5-to 10-day lag. Features daily municipal bid announcements; transcriptions of local TV news.
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* Superior Clipping Service, Billings, Mont. (406-248-5996)

Costs $48/month up to 60 clips, 40¢/clip thereafter. Follows all Montana and Wyoming papers. Delivers once a week; one-to two-week lag. Features daily municipal bid announcements; can clip outside region for 60¢ per clip.
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* Magnolia Clipping Service, Jackson, Miss. (601-956-4221)

Costs $30/month/state, plus 40¢/clip. Follows every publication in Mississippi and Alabama, plus daily papers and business journals in Georgia and Tennessee — about 600 in all. Delivers twice a week; five-day lag. Features coverage of top 45 national publications; faxes daily (extra fee); will analyze your coverage versus competition’s.
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* Allen’s Press Clippings, San Francisco (415-392-2353)

Costs $30/month to $56/month, depending on states. Includes 100 clips; thereafter, 30¢ to 38¢/clip. Follows 2,400 newspapers — all papers in 10 western states, plus key nationals. Delivers twice a week; one-to two-week lag. Features strong focus on labor press, via trade journals.

– Researched by Michael P. Cronin

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