Critical Steps to Online Success--Design your Squeeze Page and attach your Web Form (or Opt-in Box)

You're now ready for a very exciting step.

It's time to get your website up and running.

First you will need to design your Squeeze Page and attach
your Web Form to allow visitors to register for you FREE
Book and Newsletter.

So just what is a squeeze page? A squeeze page very simply
is a "call to action". You want your visitor to opt-in to
your list.

A squeeze page is a web page whose only function is to
provide a page where visitors can opt-in to your list and
get your material. And it should be purely that. You don't
want to confuse your visitors by having other outbound
links on the page.

You have "one" single call to action on your squeeze page.
It should be very clear exactly what you want your visitor
to do. You want them to fill in the web form and subscribe
to your list so they can get their fee gift…and that's all!
Your opt-in rate will be significantly reduced if your
visitor is confused. So absolutely… no AdSense ads on the
squeeze page and no other links…not even to your main
website.

What do you put on your squeeze page?

1.A headline describing what your offer is about.

2.A few bullet points describing the benefits of your
offer.

3.Simple instructions on how to fill out the web form.

4.And of course the web form itself.

Your Auto-responder provider will have instructions on
their site to help you attach your web form.

Setting up your web form (or opt-in box as it is often
called) can be more complex than you may think.

If you think you might need help with this then see my
article:

"Internet MLM - Getting Started With the AWeber Auto
Responder"

Just copy and paste that title (without the quotes) into
the Google search bar and my article will be the first
entry returned. It will help you over a few of the more
confusing aspects of the process.

Once you are happy with your Web Form you simply paste the
HTML code into your Squeeze Page code where you want it to
appear on the page.

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Keep on Winning

Regards

Jim

Critical Steps to Online Success- Auto-responders- What's the best one?

We want an auto-responder to deliver our emails
automatically in the sequence we design and to subscribe
the respondents at our web page to a list we designate on
the auto-responders database.

So the first thing we want to be sure of is that our auto-
responder company is stable enough to be around for
awhile…it pays to stick with the big ones if you don't want
your business to be dislocated.

From my experience and everything I read AWeber is the
most popular of the Auto-responder services and is highly
endorsed by many users.

But all auto-responders are not born equal so first let's
examine some of the things an auto-responder can do for us
and what makes one better than the other.

This is a good cross-section of popular auto-responders on
the web at the moment:

AWeber http://aweber.com/

EmailAces http://emailaces.com/

GetResponse http://getresponse.com/

IntelliContact http://icontact.com/

RobotReply http://robotreply.us/

Before subscribing to any of these you'll want to know a
few things about them.

How well do they deliver your emails?

Independent testing suggests that the first 4 all deliver
above 80% of your emails but Robot Reply seems to fall way
behind at 50-60% delivery of your emails.
In these days of spam where AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. have
such vicious spam filters I would think that these numbers
are bit high.

How do their Features compare?

Aweber, GetResponse and IntelliContact all have great
features so there's not a lot between them in this area.
Email Aces has OK features and Robot Reply trails the field.

How quickly do they respond to your email queries?

Get Response and AWeber are reported to respond to
"Trouble Tickets" in 4 to 6 hours while the rest take 20
hours and over.

How much do they cost?

Pricing is an important consideration and for some people
over-rides every thing else.

The following prices are not totally current so you should
check for yourself. Pricing is time sensitive but this will
give you a ball park idea of what to expect.

GetResponse: $17.95 per month ($17.95/mo for 10,000
subscribers + $4.50/mo for extra 5,000)

Aweber: $19.95 per month ($19.95/mo for 10,000
subscribers, plus $9.95/mo for extra 10,000)

RobotReply: $34.95 per month

EmailAces: $37.90 the month you sign up, then $29.95 per
month thereafter.

IntelliContact: $109.00 per month. Ouch! (but it does
allow up to 15,000 subscribers)

Pretty obvious here…GetResponse is the lowest cost
followed closely by AWeber while IntelliContact is way more
expensive.

It would seem to me that AWeber and GetResponse come out
ahead of the field.

I personally use AWeber most of the time and find them
very good.

Sometimes when I want to upload a purchased list in bulk I
will rely on other services. AWeber is totally restrictive
as far as double opt-in is concerned and insists on the
verification email. This protects both them and you, but if
you have purchased a double opt-in list it can be a pain.

The way I handle this is to upload my bulk list to another
service and have my "web-form" send the respondents to
AWeber for my long term list needs.

Keep on Winning

Regards

Jim

Critical Steps to Online Success-How to put your business on Auto-pilot

You must have an Auto-responder! This is Critical.

Why?

What will an Auto-responder do for you and why do you need one for your online business?

Here's why you need one!

You need to duplicate your efforts. You won't have time to do all of the work yourself!

How much will it cost?

All good questions and I asked them all myself. It seems that getting started in this business we are continually dipping into our pockets. And as we expand it gets more and more.

But look at this…where else can you start a business with nothing down except an idea, a computer and an internet connection? which most of us already have anyway.

When James Watt invented the steam engine he began a movement that was (in my opinion) the prime mover in the abolition of slavery. For centuries people in civilized countries were appalled at the whole institution of slavery but such is the greed and self interest of the race of man that we weren't willing to give it up until we had replaced the function with something that works better. In America's South it took a Civil War. And it was all about economics. Not much of an endorsement of the true nature of man. The steam engine allowed us to multiple our efforts. The machines could be working while we were sleeping and they were much faster and more accurate than manual input.

And that's exactly what an auto-responder will do for you.

It will be there taking care of business while you are
sleeping, working at something else or off having fun. When
someone accepts your offer and subscribes to your list the
auto-responder will take care of them.

You absolutely must have one!

AWeber is the most popular of the Auto-responder services
and is highly endorsed by all the pros…so why fight city
hall.

To find out exactly how to do it, see my articles:

Critical Steps to Online Success- Auto-responders- What’s the best one?

Critical Steps to Online Success-Auto-responders-How to
Subscribe to AWeber!

By Jim Keayes

Just copy and paste the URL into Google and you'll find it
no problem.

Keep on Winning

Regards

Jim

Internet MLM: Getting Started with the AWeber auto responder

As you know I am very committed to building my Network Marketing Business (aka MLM) on the Internet.

I hate the rejection factor and the incredible time inefficiency of the warm market building process. Let's face it, the internet has arrived and it ain't going away, so let's make it work for us.

But as we all discover--unless you're already an internet Guru--there are a few hurdles to be overcome first.

And right now, top of my list has been finding my way around AWeber, the auto responder I have decided to move to for my opt-in lists.

All of these online services advertise how easy it is to use their site, but I have to tell you that it just never seems to work that way for me. I find their documentation to be hopelessly inadequate and the sites way less than intuitive. It's not just AWeber; it's most of them. And I am pretty savvy around computers and the internet.

Let's just deal with one component of setting up your AWeber auto responder--using personalized salutations in your email messages--e.g. Hi Mary or Dear John etc.

How exactly are we going to set this up.

Well I am finally able to report that it's very easy if you just use the opt-in webform creation tool exactly as they set it out for you.

That sounds pretty smart and straight forward, right? Well not exactly; and here's where I got confused. AWeber sent me a tutorial indicating that personalizing messages using "first name" has way better opening rates than using the persons "full name". And I know that I feel way less threatened by a form that only asks for my first name and email.

But here's the thing! The default option when you set up your opt-in form is "email" and then "name". So people who see name in the form will enter either their first name or their "full name". Besides not pulling as well , using the full name in the salutation, such as "Hi John Smith" looks pretty tacky.

I found that when I tried to use a "custom field" to request just "first name" only, that I ran into all sorts of conflicts and it wasn't capturing the name at all. Totally my fault I'm sure in how I set it up, but just way too confusing for a beginner.

The good news is that there's a trick which isn't explained anywhere that I can find--but please let me know if it is there somewhere.

And here's the trick: the opt-in form will capture whatever name is entered in the field. Then when you want to enter a personalization field into your email e.g. "Dear first-name" you simply use the drop down list and select "first name fix". Sounds logical right?

But here's the bit that isn't explained!

This field will go and capture just the first word in the name field and return that as the name for your email. It will ignore the rest of the name. As well as that using the "fix" variable in the field, the software will automatically capitalize the first letter of the name for you.

Problem solved.

I hope this is clear. I spent a lot of frustrated time and energy getting to this place.

Seems simple I know. Am I the only one who runs across challenges like this?

Keep on winning

Best Regards

Jim

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