MATHEMATICS

Here is a little something someone sent me that is indisputable
mathematical logic.

Remember, this is a strictly mathematical viewpoint. It goes like this:

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder
about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all
been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.

How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here’s a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these
questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But ,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T

2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

And, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G

1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that while hard work
and knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it’s the
bullshit and ass kissing that will put you over the top.
anyway…something to think about!

Finally after a long few months of work, I’ve launched the Internet Marketing Revenue Seminar!

Revenue Seminar brings the top internet marketers in the world, to share their ideas, strategies and secrets that they’ve used to build their empire. Revenue Seminar also brings attendees covering the whole gamut of internet marketing that came to meet, network and learn from top experts in SEO, Media, leading internet technologies and related fields.

This is your opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful countries in the world (including holy places) and meet the best internet marketers in the world and make great business with them.

Why are my events so successful?

It’s clear to anyone involved in Internet Marketing that it is a fast changing and complex world. New ideas, strategies and technologies appear at a bewildering pace. As I traveled the world for the past 11 years, I’ve been building the best international events to fit the internet marketing community.

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a few days ago, I’ve received an email from get response subject was:

Congratulations on the great response rate!

here is the email:

Dear Itay,

We’d like to congratulate you on the great response rates you’ve
achieved with your email campaigns! It’s a pleasure for us to have
committed customers like you and we’re proud that you’ve chosen
GetResponse to help you grow your business.

We’re so impressed with your open and click-through rates that
we’re trying something completely new! We’d be delighted if you
agreed to share some email marketing tips and tactics with other
GetResponse users – so they can follow your successful example.
Every entrepreneur creates their own path to success but many of
the techniques may help other SMB marketers as well. Plus it would
give your brand some FREE publicity. Here’s how:

We’d like to publish your “success tips” on our GetResponse blog!
This would allow you to promote your company to thousands of
GetResponse users and other blog followers interested in email
marketing. It would also establish you as an expert in your field
and inspire confidence in your offerings. We believe that this
combination of free PR and online exposure would greatly benefit
you and your fellow marketers.

We hope you agree! To help you with those tips, please either fill in
the brief survey attached or use the “Reply to” option.

And don’t worry about the writing style – a good message speaks
for itself (plus we’ll smooth it out and let you review it).

The GetResponse Team looks forward to partnering with you and
hopes you take advantage of this great PR opportunity.
Thank you for your cooperation and keep on prospering!

Best,

GetResponse Team

Now before I share with everyone my tips I wanted to give you my two best tips for me to be getting a high response rate and thus this email:

1) Big List vs. Quality List – when I need to select between the 2, quality always works better for me. I encourage people to get on my list but only the one who really fit. I do not do any dirty tricks to get people subscribe – sure my list will be bigger BUT quality is very low and thus makes the marketing work, harder. Vote for Quality!!!

2) Set your subscribers expectations – by setting your subscribers expectations (telling them how many times you are going to be emailing them) creates an understanding that reduces irritating replies (or possible complaints) and increases their expectations to your emails at any given time.

This 2 foundation tips are the ones making me to have a huge CRT and later on a conversion of 15% to sale!

Good luck

I called this post the “Affiliate’s Life Analogy by Mr. Bean”, I hope you get it…

Ok, you don’t know anything or know very little of internet marketing. This is not a bad situation. Both the internet and the offline world are filled with great opportunities for you to acquire the knowledge you need in order to succeed in online marketing.

You probably now thinking, hey, the internet is full with internet marketing free information… and it is!!! But wait… you don’t need just ‘information’, you need a real solid knowledge. A knowledge you can actually succeed with and the good thing about it, that this education is not costly and affordable to anyone. But without paying for the knowledge you will not get anywhere. Did you know that most affiliate marketers, even the more experienced one, are buying their knowledge (online and offline).

Set in your mind, you will have to invest every year you are an affiliate marketer a sum of money to get more, new and updated knowledge, this is one of the secrets of success.

You are not going to be rich!!! But don’t be discourage by that.

Most affiliates are NOT making millions. They are making a few thousands of dollars that enabled them to quit their jobs, work for themselves and change their lifestyle forever.

Now let’s be honest, most of us, only need a few thousands of dollars a month income and here my friend, you can be yourself!

When I was 18 years old (almost 20 years ago, boy I am growing fast ), when people asked me what are my goals when you reach the age of 30. The answer was $1M in the bank. The reaction of most people was be careful that “your expectations wont blow in your face”. But the keyword here is not expectations but setting the right goals. Think about it for a sec… if I’ve said $100,000 in the bank and was able to get to only 50% of my goal, I would have in the bank $50,000 – nice… but not as much nice as setting the goal to $1M and by reaching only 50% of my goal, I will have ‘only’ $500,000 in the bank!!!

I hope I made my point clear. Don’t expect to be a millionaire from Internet Marketing, as I said, most of them do to set their livings. Just set your goals to where you really want to be (plus some margins for errors).

It has been a long time since I’ve written in the blog and the truth is I have no excuse what so ever. Even if I tell you I was working like a dog, it is not an excuse. Well, it is an excuse, but not a good one. Hope to keep it going back on track now.

Now this This is one of the biggest reasons why affiliates and Internet Marketers are failing. So… how can you be wrong? Why does it matter what product you want to promote? Well, the answer is really simple. There are 2 simple thumb rules, or you can call it ‘tests’, that I do, in order to determine if I say yes or no to a product. Here we go:

1)   Is this market is a buyer market? Back then I found a great niche – the astrology niche, it has zillions of searches and the cost per click is rather low. I’ve tried back then many products and services, building lists, but the bottom line, these people wanted free astrology information and weren’t planning on paying a dime for it or anything related. You have to do a good research (I do admit that sometimes you can really know and the best way to do is to test it…).

2)   Is there a market? You probably thinking, this is a strange question but it is not. You have to see if there is a market. You have to find out if there is enough volume of targeted audience to make it worth a while for you to test the market.

Now it doesn’t really matter if you are planning to make your own products or promote other people products – the 2 rules always apply to both.

ClickBank is the largest digital products marketplace. Anyone who is already actively promoting the ClickBank marketplace’s products can tell you that this is one of the most amazing business and technology they have worked before. There are 5 basic yet very important elements that create this company to the success it is and making you the possibility to make your living by promoting the different information products available.

These 5 important elements include:

1) Your commissions are 100% secured – one of the biggest issues to any affiliate promoting digital products is that they don’t know the vendor and have no guarantee that they will get their commission at the end of the month. Working with the products within ClickBank’s Marketplace makes these commissions 100% secured. ClickBank is built in a way that they it is the payment processing entity and the affiliate program together. They are the one taking the commission and transferring it to you. You are 100% guaranteed you will get your commissions – and on time!

2) Starting is fast and easy – ClickBank has created a simple mechanism to enable anyone who holds an account (takes 2 minutes and it is free) to promote any of the products available. Every merchant has a product ID that fits into a simple URL and is provided by ClickBank to your use. All you need to do is place your ClickBank account ID into the URL and you are set to go. Amazingly easy!

3) High standard products – Searching online for products to promote might be easy today with the available technology but really knowing which product and vendor is reliable and working within important guidance and rules is really hard. ClickBank has the most advanced due diligence and security departments to ensure that any merchant and product available for you to promote (or buy) at the marketplace are within the regulations, policies and are high quality. All you have to do is choose and test the ones converting best for you and you don’t have to worry about the rest.

4) High Conversions Processing – ClickBank has invested (and still do) significant amount of time and money with perfecting the processing process and optimizing (and perfecting) the processing page.  This ongoing process makes the best converting and secured processing page for the product you promote. And not surprisingly, the conversion rate is higher than normal – meaning more sales for you!

5) Experienced and professional staff – this should have been the first reason. Any business is run by people. When working with a company, you would want to know that the people behind that company are reliable and professionals. Well, I can tell you that the people behind ClickBank are amazing. It starts from being extremely professionals and reliable to the fact that they are amazing people. They manage the company with high passion and the desire to make the best they could do to its affiliates, vendors and buyers. And this is what makes me love the company.

So if you haven’t started until this moment to promote any of the products on the ClickBank marketplace, there is no other right time – Just do it!

The past 2 years has clearly outlined the fact that focusing on one market only, has its downside. Most of the internet marketers who focused only on the US market felt reductions in conversions and sales. But some of the affiliates were able to fill their income reduction by expanding their business overseas. Sure, US is huge and maybe still making the most to any internet marketer but I am telling you now, straight forward in your face, if you are not involve with any international you have to stop everything and get a game plan. You are missing, the biggest market in the world, the world itself with its amazing economy and money to spend the offers and products you promote.

Here are a few reasons why most internet marketers & affiliates do NOT cover the international market:

1) Language Barrier – this is a huge thing for people and I would say is more mentally than actually a real barrier to overcome. Think about the first time you ever landed in Paris, France and most people don’t speak English. How will one cope with creating ads, keywords, optimize campaigns and landing pages without knowing the language? Well, the world has changed and today you can hire online, people to work for you that know any language and for very low cost.

2) Offers – not too many offers are accepting international traffic. This statement is true but in the past 12 months I believe more and more offers are being designed for the international market and today in any area (even diet) you can find products shipped worldwide and offer accepting users from almost everywhere. Search for these offers, they are there.

3) Comfort Zone – this is also a mental barrier. You already making money of something and it’s easier to be lazy (yeh, it is) and not leave your comfort zone and build yourself a new adventure. Well you can do that but you can also expand your mind, cross your own barriers and explore new opportunities.

4) Didn’t really think about it – so now when you know it, no excuses…

so…what is your excuse?!

Have you heard this before? Did you think it is a simple bunch of crappy statement? Well, you couldn’t be wrong more. Content is the King!

When I started, long time ago, learning the basics of SEO, one of the key elements was have good and valuable content. Nothing has changed in the past decade.  Content is still extremely important.

Let me tell you about a project I’ve done 2 weeks ago. A simple website with a wordpress template. I’ve added 3 pages with good content written related to 3 pay per lead programs. I’ve set 10 incoming links and simple keyword tag on the page. After 2 weeks, the site was picked by google and one page has already generated 25 highly targeted clicks and 4 conversions. At $25 commission per lead I was able to score pure $100 from a simple good content page. How difficult is it to make this kind of website. Proving my point, that content (and simple SEO) still the king, I am now expanding this site to 100 different products. Now lets do the math. If each one of them generates only 1 sale a month at $15 commission, I will be making a minimum of $1,500 per month just from this site. And if I put more efforts, this site could generate thousands of dollars per month. So what are you waiting for?

Content is the Kind, Long live the king!