The Results Are In!
Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by on your endless journey through the world wide web! Just a quick blog post for you today, to show you how I did on my last promotion.
If you take a look past the “Snow Pictures” post, you’ll be able to see that I posted an “Action Plan”, showing you how I was going to promote a brand new product that launched a week ago today - Total Web Traffic. The idea behind this was to show you, step by step, day by day what my “Plan Of Action” was to promote this new product. I hoped it would give you a better understanding of how I do things, and I hoped it would give you all some ideas so you can do the same!
My promotional methods were very straight forward and by no means ground breaking, some of you even thought I wasn’t doing as much as I should and the promotion would be a failure. So without any further deliberation, and whilst the snow is turning into precipitation (come on, it rhymes!) here are the results from my Total Web Traffic Promotion.
As you can see, I was the 3rd best affiliate during the launch period, and if you take a closer look at the chart you can see that I finished ahead of some of the “big guns”. That’s not all, take a look at what the creator of the Total Web Traffic Course, Dave Nicholson, said about my promotion:
He thought that my conversions were outstanding, and he didn’t know how I managed it….well Dave might not know how I managed it, but you do!
I did exactly what I said I was going to do in last weeks blog post. I kept everything simple, and guess what - it worked. There’s no reason why any of you can’t do the same!
All in all I’d say I spent around 2 - 3 hours putting the promotion together, and that 2 - 3 hours of work brought in plenty of affiliate commissions as well as a new i-Pod.
And before I go, this is a disclaimer for any of my close friends or family members that may be reading this post. If you get an i-Pod for Christmas, it is PURELY COINCIDENTAL, it does not imply that I’m a cheapskate in any way! 
And that’s pretty much it for today. All I’m trying to get at in this blog post is that it’s not always necessary to over-complicate matters. If you get the basics right, then you are on the right track, and I think my results in the Total Web Traffic competition prove that.
As always, feel free to ask me any questions and I’ll gladly answer them for you.
Dan
It’s Snowing!
It’s a while since I’ve posted some pictures on here, so I decided to go out today and do some snapping.
The snow fell around 24 hours ago, but it’s been so cold that it hasn’t melted, so all of the local roads are covered in ice! More snow is forecast for tonight, so who knows, maybe I’ll be getting the camera out again tomorrow 
And before any of you ask - Yes, it was as cold as it looks!
Watch Me Promote A New Product
Hello everyone, and welcome to what is a fairly overdue blog post. Is it just me or does everything start to take twice as long in the run up to Christmas, tasks that should only take me a few hours are taking all day, and tasks that should only take a day are taking a week.
The cold weather doesn’t help either. I’m actually sat here typing this on the laptop whilst resting my icy feet on an electric heater, who says Internet Marketers have it easy!?
Anyway, enough about the cold, I’ll try do a David Blane and put it out of my mind whilst I concentrate on writing this post. I’ll pretend I’m on a beach in Dubai and the sun is shining down on me. (There’s probably a joke in there somewhere but this is a family friendly blog!)
So with my surf shorts twitching in the warm breeze, the sun reflecting off my shades, and with my luxury cocktail in one hand, here we go with todays post.
One thing all Internet Marketers need to be successful is traffic. Without traffic there will be no product sales, no adsense clicks and no newsletter sign ups.
###— Editor Note —###
The first part of this blog post was written yesterday. Everything under this note was written today, when I happen to have caught a bit of the man flu, so excuse any grammatical errors, I’m running on cough medicine and paracetamol’s!
###— Editor Note —###
There are loads of different methods you can use to generate traffic, someone I was speaking to last week said he could think of 121 different methods. Now I don’t know if I can top that, but I thought I would show you what I’m going to do to (hopefully) generate traffic to an affiliate product that is launching tomorrow.
It all started about 10 days ago when I was interviewed about a certain traffic method that I’ve already mentioned on this blog. The interview is to be included as part of a traffic course that shows you loads of different traffic generation methods.
The creator of the course emailed me a couple of days ago to see if I’d be interested in promoting the product for him. As I was a part of the course (the interview) and I had seen the content, I knew it was a good product so I agreed to promote.
I then thought about what I could do to promote it, after a bit of deliberation I’ve decided this is what I am going to do. So you can take a look in “real time” and see if what I’m doing is going to work!
Before we go on, I should just mention the product is going to launch tomorrow - Thursday 27th November.
Step 1
Date: 26th November
Action: Go to D9 Hosting and purchase a domain name that is similar to the product name.
Step 2
Date 26th November
Action: Create a video that shows people what they are going to get if they decide to purchase the product. The way I’m feeling today though, it’s likely to be a silent video!
Step 3
Date: 26th November
Action: Submit the video to Youtube, Google Video, and other similar video sharing networks.
###— Editor Note —###
The video will contain a link to the domain name I purchased in step 1
###— Editor Note —###
Step 3
Date: 27th November
Action: Send an email to my email lists, only send to the lists of people that have websites. (Is that you?)
Step 4
Date: 1st December (25 days until Christmas!)
Action: Send a reminder email to the people on my mailing lists that the price will go up by 30% on the 2nd December.
Step 5
Date: 2nd December onwards
Action: If the feedback is good, I’ll add the product to my autoresponder email series, and I’ll make sure my videos continue to get good exposure.
So there you have it, that’s my plan, do you think it will work?
I suppose only time will tell. If you are on my mailing list and have a website, keep an eye out for tomorrows email, you’ll then be able to see the product I’m promoting, and you might be able to see some of my other plans in action!
I’m going to sign off now, and see if I can bring myself to create the video.
Thanks for reading!
Dan
How To Sell & Publish Your Books On Amazon.com
It seems that one of life’s greatest mysteries is:
“How Do I Get My Own Book Published?”
Statistics show that the vast majority of people feel they have at least one book in them, but they have no idea how to find a publisher.
Thankfully since the dawn of the Internet things have become a lot easier. There are now services out there that will help you turn your own master-pieces into physical paperback, or hardback books that can be sold in the world’s biggest online market places including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Waterstones.
In dead simple terms, here is how you do it:
1. Write the book
The first step is to write your book. I find the easiest way is to open up your favorite word processor (Microsoft Word, Open Office Writer, etc.) and get typing! If you set yourself a target of so many pages/chapters each day, you’ll be surprised at how quickly things start to take shape.
2. Format the book
Add some pictures if you wish, insert a contents page and generally “jazz up” the layout of your book. Make each chapter start on a new page, make the main headings bold and use a different font to make them stand out just that little bit more.
If you a stuck for ideas, just read some of your favorite books and take note of how they format everything.
3. Send the book to your publisher
Yes, you already have a publisher waiting to accept your book, and you didn’t even have to leave the PC (or MAC, I’m all for equality!) screen.
At present your book is still in digital form, so it’s known as an eBook, or e-Book depending on how pedantic you want to be. But whichever way you spell it, you need to upload your eBook to the publisher. And that’s actually pretty much it, you can now sell your book online, and the publisher will print and ship the book for you, but now the best bit.
4. How to sell your book on Amazon & Other online book stores
All you need to be able to sell your book on Amazon is an ISBN number. Again, it’s dead simple - get your publisher to do it for you!
The publisher is able to give you all the help you need when it comes to getting an ISBN number for your book, as well as selling your creation on Amazon. They’ll even take care of the distribution side of things for you!
So in 4 easy steps, that’s how you sell your book on Amazon. It can actually be done in less than an hour assuming you’ve already written your book
Of course, I’ve shown you everything in it’s most basic form, there are of course a lot more questions that you’d need answers to before you can become the next JK Rowling, things like:
- How to generate sales of your book
- How to find the publisher
- How to get the ISBN number
- The formatting limitations for a hardback/paperback book
- What size do your images have to be?
- How to do you make a professional front and back cover for the book?
- How do you break into the Amazon worldwide marketplace
- Can you use PLR (Private Label Rights) material?
- How to turn any existing eBook into a physical book
- And so on…
If you are at all interested in publishing your own book, then I strongly recommend you check out “Ebook 2 Book”. All of the bullet points and steps that I mentioned above are covered in the guide, and it really will save you hours, if not days of research time!
Click Here To View Ebook 2 Book
A Step By Step Guide To Publishing Your Own Book/eBook On Amazon
I’m Now On Twitter
I’ve finally managed to stumble my way into the world of Web 2.0 and am now the proud owner of my very own Twitter page. So if you have an account and fancy following me…in a none-stalkerish kind of way then you can do so here:
You can also see my latest “Tweets” in the Twitter widget to the right of the page.
