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Thanks for being a member of Affiliate Funnel. Happy 4th of July to all

I was reviewing some stats and was quite pleased to see some and disappointed in others.

First what I am pleased with:

To date members have earned over $6200 in commissions from Affiliate Funnel.

This has been spread over 116 different members and that doesn’t count any money these members have made from the various programs and the programs they promote within Affiliate Funnel

Shows me that the system works for those that use it.

Second what I am displeased with:

Too many people haven’t used some of the tools we have. Probably our fault for not emphasizing it enough. Look for that to be addresses shortly.

There is a reason that we push list building and branding your self to the extent we do and it is real simple – IT WORKS!

See our purpose here is to allow everyone to create the business that fits them. It really doesn’t matter if you are looking to make enough to cover a car payment each month or you want to quit the job you have and hate. (Been there – done that.)

Building a solid foundation and an email list can get you there. To help the rest of the month our seminars will be about gettiing started and back to basics.

We will get to other topics but as there has been quite an influx of new people into Affiliate Funnel we really need to get them started. Our goal from day one has been to allow everyone to succeed to the level they desire.

Below is the seminar schedule for the next two weeks.

Topic – Branding You
Speaker – Jon Olson
Date – July 7, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Topic – Getting started
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date -July 14, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

If you are in the US hope you are having a great 4th of July holiday.

Mike

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Affiliate Funnel News

Okay we updated the exchanges this week. 4×4 Hits has been removed and replaced by RealHitz4U. We did a review and already there has been some gripes.

Please take the time to keep us up to date with what exchanges are working for you and what exchanges you would like to see added. If you don’t give us your input we can’t take into consideration. Add your input into the proper section of the forum.

We will be reviewing all the traffic generation items at the end of August again. This will continue to be an every two month process.

Seminar Schedule

Topic – Using Video
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – June 30, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

You can find the time in your part of the world at Time and Date.

There are some neat things coming that I think you are going to really like. (But I can’t tell you yet only tease you ).

Have a great week.

Mike

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Affiliate Funnel News

Got a great guest speaker for the seminar this week – Ross Goldberg. Now I met Ross in Dallas and again in Philadelphia. When it comes to Web 2.0 Ross is the go to guy at least for me.

Topic – Using MySpace and other networking site
Speaker – Ross Goldberg, Web 2.0 Traffic Hurricane
Date – June 23, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Referral Contest Winners
I announced at last weeks conference the referral winners.

Gustavo Torres – blog

Paul Kindler – Squidoo lens

James Killman – Squidoo lens

Congratulations to our winners.

TE and Safelist Changes
Early next week Jon and I will be reviewing the current selection of traffic generators. Your input is wanted. Please add your comments in the forum on what you like and don’t.

Hope to see you Saturday.

Mike

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Affiliate Funnel Update – June 14, 2007

Lots going on in the background here at Affiliate Funnel. Hopefully in the next 24 hours if the programming God’s are with us you will have referral tracking on your latest referrals. It picks up 90% in our tests. My guess is that the 10% are coming directly from the ebook links as there would be no referring site and this only started after the release of the book.

One of the interesting things about this is the trends I can see from it. Far and away the biggest single referrer is the email series. Over the last two weeks while we have been testing almost one third of the new members came from a link in an email. Add in the 10% showing no referrer that are coming from the book and nearly half of all new members are coming from using the squeeze pages.

The cool part from my view is that I know from my own tracking that for me about 50% have been actually joining of all my verified subscribers. Thus each person who has referred people this way probably has increased their list by at least twice that number. This works and no matter what you want to promote on the back end you should be using this to get your business going. Okay going to get of the soapbox now.

On another note all commissions for May were paid yesterday and there was a 14% increase in the amount earned over last month. Keep up the good work and I hope to be sending you money next month.

Seminar Info

Topic – Focus – How to get it
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – June 16, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

This should be a good conference. It was probably a major point in over half of the presenters last week at JV Alert in Philadelphia. Master this one thing and it will truly help your business.

Traffic Exchanges and Safelists

Reminder – Add your input in the forum for the traffic exchanges and safelists that you are using and are working for you. We will be reviewing the current group shortly and your input is wanted.

Referral Contest

This one will be a bit different in the way it is structured. The winners will be drawn from a lottery. Each referral gets you a ticket in the draw. The more referrals the more tickets. The key is that ANYONE that refers one person between now and 9 am Saturday the 16th can win the prize.

Winner gets a custom blog installed and optimized by me. Value $120.00
You can see what is involved at http://wptutorial.com/order/

2nd and 3rd place will get a lens set up at Squidoo on a topic of your choice.

Here is the current leader board because they should get kudos but it is entirely possible that none of these people will win the prize. As of this writing there are 81 people with at least one chance for a prize.

1 Kevin Anderson 15
2 Daniel Duverge 14
3 Soren Jordansen 11
4 Terry LaFever 7
5 Paul Kinder 6
6 George Nikolis 5
7 Darrell Dean 5
8 Michael Saunders 4
9 Eric Suiker 3
10 Ray White 3

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Affiliate Funnel News – June 6, 2007

Seems the book is working for a few people that I know are giving it away. Our current referral leader has been giving it away. Make sure you check it out. You can rebrand it and use as a sales tool to promote Affiliate Funnel.

Referral Contest

This one will be a bit different in the way it is structured. The winnrers will be drawn from a lottery. Each referral gets you a ticket in the draw. The more referrals the more tickets. The key is that ANYONE that refers one person between now and 9 am Saturday the 16th can win the prize.

Winner gets a custom blog installed and optimized by me. Value $120.00
You can see what is involved at http://wptutorial.com/order/

2nd and 3rd place will get a lens set up at Squidoo on a topic of your choice.

Now those prizes are guaranteed but the more people referred during this period the more people that can win. Over 500 new members in the two week contest and there will be 4 lense to be made or a total of 5 winners.

Over 1000 and there will be 10 winners total.

Seminar Schedule

Topic – Using Splash Pages
Speaker – Jon Olson
Date – June 9, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Traffic Exchanges and Safelists

Reminder – Add your input in the forum for the traffic exchanges and safelists that you are using and are working for you. We will be reviewing the current group shortly and your input is wanted.

Referral Tracking

We are currently tracking the referrer in the admin area and as soon as the test is done you will start to see exactly where your referral came from barring any glitches.

I will be away this weekend and if you are attending JV Alert this week end look me up. Would love to meet you.

Mike

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Lots of updates and I’ll start with the first. Just completed and uploaded the “Ultimate Guide to Affiliate Funnel”. It is designed to sell Affiliate Funnel and also show you exactly how to get the most out of your membership.

This is an idea we have handed out in at least 3 seminars for someone to use to build a list for themselves. Now no one took action and quite truthfully this is needed so I did it and will build my list with it. Here is how it will work. Every member can download the book from the member’s area but if you want to rebrand it you will have to sign up to my list.

Once you have verified your email you will receive the link to the rebrand kit. If you want to rebrand it and I recommend you do if you are using the email series, go to the link below, fill in your name and best email address and verify your account.

=====> Rebrand Ultimate Guide To Affiliate Funnel

There will be squeeze pages coming that will promote the book as a free report that you may use if you rebrand it. There will also be changes to the members area over the next few days.

< RANT >
Now I am going off here for a bit. Too many times I hear that this doesn’t work and that doesn’t work but this book is a perfect example of why things don’t work. Quite truthfully this was not a book I wanted to write. I would have loved to promote a similar book that one of our members wrote and allow them to build their list with my help.

Both Soren and myself offered to help anyone with the technical aspects. Despite that no one took action to build their business. Quite truthfully that is why some don’t succeed. It does absolutely no good to get the best ideas if you won’t take action.

Now section 2 of this book has a 10 step action plan that if followed and ACTED ON will help you build a list and your business. Will you let this golden nugget lay on the floor or will you grab it and use it?
< END RANT >

Seminar Schedule

Topic – Squidoo and Blogging
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – June 2, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

New Referral Contest

Starting when the prizes are announced at the seminar for two weeks we will have another referral contest. Top prize has a value of $120 and here is the kicker.

Refer one person and you can win the top prize

Yep we are doing something different for this one. Each referral will earn you a chance to win one of the 5 prizes. The more you refer the more chances you get but you only need one to win.

This allows anyone to win if they work hard and get referrals.

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Affiliate Funnel News

Seminar scheduled for tomorrow so I have added the newsletter this week with the seminar notification. Save the amount of emails you get ;).

Tomorrow’s seminar will be on Affiliate Landmines. Those great little critters that I love.
There will be one tip that will not be on the audio so you want to make a concerted effort to attend if you can.

Topic – Affiliate Land Mines
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – May 26, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

If you are not using the squeeze pages and email series for your promotion you may want to take the time and effort to try them. My stats are showing that I am running well over 50% of all people that double opt in are joining AF. Not only does this add to your downline here but all those people will now be on your list for other promotions.

Look for another addition shortly. Waiting on graphics but think everyone will like this one.

That is all for this week have a great holiday if you are in the US.

Mike

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Affiliate Funnel Update – May 16, 2007

Been some additions to the squeeze pages. There are now a few that don’t use the hover pop and a few that are not personalized. The one squeezenopic1.php is based on a page submitted by George Nikolis. Thanks George.

Anyone else that is willing to share let me know and we’ll add more. That new page by the way has been doing well for me since I put it into rotation last night.

If you are not using the squeeze pages with the email series you are missing a huge opportunity. Not only will it help you build your Affiliate Funnel downline it builds YOUR list at the same time. Take the time to set it up and use it. The results may surprise you.

Seminar Topics

This week’s seminar will be on tracking. One of the easiest ways to increase your results from the same effort is to test, test and test. To do that you need to track. All seminars are noon edt on Saturday so mark your calendar now.

Topic – Tracking
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – May 19, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Look forward to seeing you there.

Improvements

We are always looking for ways to improve things. Stop in the forum and let us know what you would like to see improved or changed.

Also let us know what you think of the exchanges and safelists and any ideas to upgrade the quality. Your input is extremely important so leave a comment or stop in the forum. This is the best way for us to improve this for everyone.

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Seems the squeeze pages are working and starting to see an increase in signups. If you are not using the email series and squeeze pages you may want to try them.

Seminar Schedule

Topic – Basic HTML for ads and splash pages
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – May 5,2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Check the time in your part of the world by clicking here.

Last Week’s Seminar Podcast

I have added the audio from last week’s seminar at the bottom of this post.

Thanks to Soren for an excellent presentation.

Your input wanted

The best way for us to improve this program is to get your input on what you want. We try to provide multiple ways to help and for you to ask for waht you want.

Use the forum for any questions you have. Leave your input for seminar topics by clicking the survey link above. There is a lot of valuable knowledge here with our membership and attending the seminars and asking questions in the forum can get you the answer you may be seeking.

Thats all this week. See you Saturday.

Mike

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Okay this Old Bald Guy and the Code Wizard (Mike Paetzold and John Merrick) have been busy while the The traffic Exchange Guy (Jon Olson) has been off commiserating with now being over the hill since he reached the ripe old age of 30.

There are now three pages that you can use to capture leads. One is a splash page with a pop over that will ask for name and email. The other two are set up specifically for the traffic exchanges and the safelists. Both also use a pop over along with the regular squeeze page.

You do need to do some set up work because anyone filling out these forms will be going directly to YOUR autoresponder sequence. You will need to set up your autoresponder with the messages provided or your own if you prefer. Create a form and put the code in the promotion area right below where you will find the URL’s for these pages.

Finally, you will need to test all aspects BEFORE you start to use them. This will give you the start of a full email marketing campaign that you can adapt for your business.

There have been additional lessons added and you should use the forum for any questions so we can develop an FAQ for others and improve the lessons.

Hope you enjoy and have great success building YOUR list.

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