Saturday, 23 December
Today was our AF Christmas Party. There was no content today. Just a big game on Anagrams and LOTS of prizes. Bridget Malone was the big winner. There were LOTS of winners though.
There’s no recording for today since we didn’t have any training going on. See ya next week! 🙂
Today, Saturday, October 11th, Email Advertising and You
Marci’s key points today were product familiarity and passion…
Don’t try to promote a site if you aren’t familiar with it. If you aren’t familiar with it enough to answer questions about it (without researching) then you shouldn’t try to promote it. And if you don’t know it well enough to enjoy using it, then how can you show passion in your email for it?
Marci also gave a quick breakdown of your successful email. Starting with the opening line, which should set the tone and topic for the email. Then to the passionate detailed description of ONE of the benefits/features.
Next, the call to action. Show your passion in your call to action! Not a dull and mundane “click here” or “join here”! Show a passionate action like “grab it” or “don’t waste another second…”. Use your imagination! And, of course, make it an immediate action!
Finally, you get to the signature and the P.S. I’m not going to expand on these here. Check out the recording to hear the rest. You’ll be glad you did!
http://www.spreecast.com/events/email-advertising-and-you
(If you can’t click on the link, then just copy/paste it into your browser.)
The link will expire next Saturday, so see it soon!
Features! That would be the one word to describe one of the net’s most popular and effective traffic exchanges, WebmasterQuest.com. Over 7 years old, this exchange used to be constantly updating itself, however that has trailed off in recent years. From it’s famous cheat prevention scripts to very professional web design, this exchange was once one of the premier programs online.
WebmasterQuest brings to the table the most diverse and innovative features for any traffic exchange on the net. Features include everything from banner services, email advertising, the brand new ‘LinksPage’, lotteries, affiliate exchanges, surf for cash services, instant win credits, and much more.
The program prides itself on having some of the best cheat prevention around, and it does. Their cheat prevention is very effective and does ensure that you are receiving real page views from real people. Exchanges will always be plagued by surfers that cheat, but WMQ does it’s best to make sure they don’t get far in their program.
WebmasterQuest provides a fun atmosphere, highly unique traffic, and one of the largest databases online. It has recently begun to decline, simply because it’s out of sight, out of mind. It’s rarely promoted and I cannot remember when was the last time we received an email from the new owner. However, this is a MASSIVE program and should always be considered when starting any campaign!
To say that TS 25 is a remarkable program is an understatement. This program has done more for the industry in the past few years than I can start to explain, but I will try. Number 1 reason this program is as good as it get’s, it promotes user activity. If you don’t click here, you don’t get any results. The more you surf, the more you receive, and folks this is almost unheard of in an upstart hit exchange.
Reason number 2, it is a complete 180 degree turn from what we are all used to. Not only is this program very unique, it has completely eliminated the concept of referring people and hoping they click so you get credit. Remember the ‘old’ way of doing things? You click, and your downline clicks, you get benefits. Nope, you could refer the Queen of England and she could tell all of the U.K. about this program, you would get zero benefits. Sound weird? It is, but it works!
This program is very complicated, but TS25 does a great job of explaining itself. I suggest that everyone take a day or so and go over all the training material on the site. It’s great stuff and the more you understand about how this program works, the more you will agree with it’s claim to be the ‘evolution of the exchange industry’.
This program has raised the stakes for all current and new exchanges online, what’s so exciting is to see what program steps up now and keeps this great trend going. TS25 could be the perfect traffic exchange!
Here’s a new feature we are going to do every week in Affiliate Funnel. Basically we will review a program from within the system and post it on the blog. Hopefully this brings more attention to the programs within the system and AF as a whole. Our first program reviewed is…
Billed as the perfect traffic exchange, Advertising Know How started out like no other program online. Robert Puddy, actually went from program owner to program owner, exchange surfer to exchange surfer, and asked exactly what they thought made the ‘perfect exchange’. This was a great way to start a business, not only to get your name known, but to get to know your customers.
AKH is a very solid program. Traffic flow is steady, the site design and features are very useful and Robert continues to improve his program day in and day out. A few things that set this program apart is the e-zine builder within the program. A very unique twist on traffic exchanges, as it incorporates building an e-zine with your membership in AKH.
While it’s built on the TCN Script, Advertising Know How is essentially a custom script. It has improved over time as not only a great traffic exchange but also as a powerful list builder with it’s e-zine credits and makes this a must join! Be sure to log in today and join this remarkable traffic exchange…
We did it! A special thanks goes out to the over 200 members that participated and had a chance to win. be sure to check the winner’s circle at the forum to see if you won a prize! Again, we’re honored that you have helped Affiliate Funnel reach this milestone in only 6 short months. And thanks to all the program owners who donated their prizes to help build this into the ultimate membership site on the internet.
We also added a new program to our system called ‘List Grenade’ which you can check out by clicking on the ‘Affiliate Products’ link in your member’s area. Remember, you get up to 50% of the commissions off of any sale of this amazing list building tool. We hope you enjoy it!
And finally, here is the information for the seminar this week;
Topic – Importing the email series
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – October 6th
Time – 12 noon edt
It’s almost time to end of Race To 7k contest! Why? because as of writing this update there is only 59 more active members to go until we hit the 7,000 member mark! Thank you all for all your amazing work at letting the world know about the ‘Funnel’. And get this, 191 members of Affiliate Funnel have a chance to win one of our amazing prizes, donated to the contest from the programs listed in AF.
Please make sure you check out the program in the next few days as our contest is coming to a close. But there is still time to refer those new members. We will be letting people know once we hit the 7k mark with an extra special update hopefully next week.
Also, do check out last week’s seminar which has been posted below on Tracking and Conversions.
Here’s last Saturday’s seminar where we talked about branding ‘you’ and the concept of promoting yourself first before anything else.
