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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th July 2020, 12:32 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 125
Posted By Steve L
Re: Suggestions on creating a personalized ebook?

Definitely possible. You'd need to set up a lot of marketing automation conditionals. I'd use Typeform for the questionnaire and Convertkit for the marketing automation.

It would be easier to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th July 2020, 12:57 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,083
Posted By Steve L
Re: New to Creating a Blog

Other than that, what type of audience are you trying to attract?

The low hanging fruit is to write about any and every little challenge you overcome in journey of creating your first blog. But...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th July 2020, 03:29 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 1,022
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is It Sleazy TO Sell Products You Haven't Tried?

Absolutely! Trust is everything in business and life. Don't jeopardize your reputation just to earn a buck. It's never worth it in the long run.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd July 2020, 01:12 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 2,420
Posted By Steve L
Re: SEO or Paid Ads

There's no reason not to do both. That is if you can afford ads. A lot of people can't afford ads so organic growth is all they're left with which is fine. Just because organic SEO takes time doesn't...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd July 2020, 06:33 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 133
Posted By Steve L
Re: In search of Wordpress Membership Site Plugin

Building memberships sites can definitely be a huge headache. My favorite membership site solution is Podia right now. I also like Webflow + Memberstack. It's easy to sync Stripe or Paypal with...
Forum: Social Media 20th June 2020, 06:38 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 671
Posted By Steve L
Re: Instagram Followers

If your goal is to get clients, I'd start with Google Ad Search Campaign and maybe supplement with Google Display Ad Remarketing Campaign. Social media is more for long term brand awareness, not for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2020, 05:36 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,796
Posted By Steve L
Re: How to start with paid advertising?

First of all, I would never spend advertising to promote another website. If you're going to advertise, you should have your own e-commerce website and drive traffic there. Use Etsy and other...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th April 2020, 01:54 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,149
Posted By Steve L
Re: Any suggestions on what are the best niche as an bloger?

I just write about problems that arise with freelance, blogging and bootstrapping a digital product business.

Blogging from first-hand experience always produces the best content IMO. With that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st December 2019, 09:11 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 370
Posted By Steve L
Re: Are podcasts effective for Internet Marketing?

I think so if you like creating content in that format. It's just another channel to utilize for your content marketing strategy.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th December 2019, 12:34 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 185
Posted By Steve L
Re: Cashback website builder

What kind of functionality do you need it to have exactly?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2019, 05:19 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 492
Posted By Steve L
Re: More Businesses Should Start Using Live Chat

I've encountered a lot of businesses that aren't willing to commit to this channel. Their staff is already busy answering phone calls and email. It's a tough sell getting them to also answer instant...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th November 2019, 07:18 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 235
Posted By Steve L
Re: What do you do when customers' payment plans fail?

I agree with trying to just getting them to pay a single payment for the entire course instead of breaking into monthly payments. I've seen marketers charge up to a one-time $2k for an online video...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st November 2019, 07:55 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 206
Posted By Steve L
Re: Thinking about getting rid of Adsense/Affiliate links on my site and just Ask for Strictly donat

Not sure how much you'd make but you could become a verified publisher/content creator with the Brave/BAT platform: https://publishers.basicattentiontoken.org/ (no affiliation)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2019, 12:34 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 265
Posted By Steve L
Re: Wordpress Website

I agree. I'm personally seeing about a 40% increase in organic Google traffic every month (sometimes more) on my blog by doing nothing more than writing new blog posts. I do have a static site blog...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th October 2019, 03:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 282
Posted By Steve L
Re: How do I create a lead magnet on my landing page - YouTube or Vimeo?

Yea, you don't need to spend $50/mo to Vimeo to do that. Gumroad will let you do it for no cost. They allow for online video streaming rentals which you can price at $0. It will automatically build...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th October 2019, 11:16 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 275
Posted By Steve L
Re: How are you tracking call performance?

Honestly, this is why I prefer using Google Ads for all of this type of testing instead of Google Optimize. You can setup the call conversion tracking to track for mobile and desktop. You can utilize...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th October 2019, 11:10 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,239
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is the AIDA model applicable to internet marketing?

I find 'pain, dream, fix' to be more helpful and effective.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th October 2019, 11:39 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 320
Posted By Steve L
Re: Marketing ideas to relaunch an outlet tile company? Help

Without a marketing budget you'll want to focus on content marketing or blogging.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th October 2019, 06:41 PM
Replies: 63
Views: 1,874
Posted By Steve L
Re: What's working for traffic today? (getting back into IM)

Content marketing or blogging. Nothing has really changed, provide valuable content and the traffic will come. It takes some time to get picked up in Google but you can get a headstart by...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th October 2019, 03:55 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 485
Posted By Steve L
Re: How can I improve this funnel?

You've forgotten to give them a reason to buy today! Where's your limited time special offer with hard end date? Without it people will put off making a decision indefinitely.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2019, 08:58 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,129
Posted By Steve L
Re: Restaurant Digital Strategy?

Yea, ordering online from your table is becoming more popular. I really like the concept.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2019, 12:38 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 167
Posted By Steve L
Re: Chatting with visitors when they reach your site!

My favorite tool for this is Drift and they have a decent free tier. I've also used tawk.to which was pretty good as well.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th September 2019, 03:08 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,129
Posted By Steve L
Re: Restaurant Digital Strategy?

To achieve demonstratable ROI with a Google Ad campaign for example would require a CRM and for you track customer sales and data. You don't typically do that with a restaurant unless you have maybe...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2019, 01:38 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,129
Posted By Steve L
Re: Restaurant Digital Strategy?

Hey friend, it sounds like to me you have yet to determine your average customer lifetime value. You say even if you generated a $22 cost per lead it wouldn't be profitable because of the average...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st September 2019, 08:42 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 263
Posted By Steve L
Re: how come brick and mortar stores dont collect data

I agree but it is mostly the bigger brick n mortar businesses doing this level of tracking. In my experience, small businesses have been more like how ThePromotionalGuy describes them above. I have...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th September 2019, 10:41 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 200
Posted By Steve L
Re: Need Help With Backend Setup

I'm a fan of Drip.com for email marketing automation and segmentation. Not sure how you'd get it to automatically trigger the project in project management software. I know Basecamp does have project...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th September 2019, 10:01 AM
Replies: 77
Views: 1,665
Posted By Steve L
Re: Which Is The Most Successful IM Strategy?

The most successful strategy is to simply serve others IMO. Help them find solutions to problems they face.

From that list I'd rank content as #1.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th September 2019, 09:19 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 263
Posted By Steve L
Re: how come brick and mortar stores dont collect data

I agree, I've had small business clients who have some weird aversion to even using CRM software. This naturally made it impossible to set up offline sales conversion tracking with their Google Ad...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th September 2019, 12:15 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 504
Posted By Steve L
Re: Nearly 20% drop in visitors to our website - the catch: we're improving our tactics

There could be many reasons for the decline honestly, organic SEO is really complicated to say the least. My experience with organic Google traffic has been the opposite, the more I post the more my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th September 2019, 04:28 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,610
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is it worth it to use paid advertising for just 1 single product that costs $59?

If you can dial in your ad campaign to the point where you're spending say $10 in ads to make a $59 sale, I don't see why that wouldn't be worth it. Sure you're not making as much if you had a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th September 2019, 04:26 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,610
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is it worth it to use paid advertising for just 1 single product that costs $59?

Yes, then using personalization software if the subscriber comes back to your homepage they'll see your premium offer instead of the free offer. Since they already have taken advantage of your free...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2019, 11:01 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,610
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is it worth it to use paid advertising for just 1 single product that costs $59?

Gotcha, yea I think it's definitely worth trying since you seem to have a proven product and sequence. There's a lot to know on the Google Ad side of course, assuming that's the ad channel you were...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2019, 10:41 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,610
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is it worth it to use paid advertising for just 1 single product that costs $59?

I'm a fan of this strategy. The traffic from the ad will be fairly cold in that you haven't earned their trust yet. The exception being if the ad is also an endorsement from another marketer to their...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd September 2019, 12:57 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 159
Posted By Steve L
Re: Ideas on how to build up a comic blog

See what theoatmeal.com does and do something similar. No reason to reinvent the wheel, he's shown his business model is the way to go when it comes to self-publishing comics online. The creator...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 30th August 2019, 12:52 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 194
Posted By Steve L
Re: Which theme and plugin ?

I'm assuming you're referring to Wordpress. I'd probably use carrd.co for lead generation pages, sales pages, stripe checkout, etc. It's not Wordpress though. For blogging, I'd use either Gatsby or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th August 2019, 09:54 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 185
Posted By Steve L
Re: Is there any way to track the source of clicks to my sales page?

You can achieve this easily with Google Analytics by using UTM parameters. No 3rd party necessary.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
Forum: Email Marketing 24th August 2019, 09:49 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,468
Posted By Steve L
Re: What email platform can I upload and old but large email list to?

I use Drip.com these days but I hear ConvertKit is great too!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th August 2019, 12:39 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 124
Posted By Steve L
Re: Best way(s) to promote and monetize a video only website?

If you post the video transcript under the video you'd most likely get more SE traffic. Something to keep in mind!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th August 2019, 11:00 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,874
Posted By Steve L
Re: Selling e-books online without a Paypal or Stripe account

Gumroad will allow you to process payments and even accept Paypal without actually needing your own Paypal account. It's processed through their account and they just send you money to your bank...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th August 2019, 06:20 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 414
Posted By Steve L
Re: Looking for cross-sell or upsell suggestions

I think you should put together a 'good, better, best' offer which the $59 price point being the cheapest option. Then package together more stuff for the 'better' and 'best' offers to provide more...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th August 2019, 08:21 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 148
Posted By Steve L
Re: Question, is multi-topic for a Self Development blog OK?

Absolutely, I try to imagine writing each article or blog post as if I was speaking to one person and their specific situation.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th August 2019, 11:53 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 118
Posted By Steve L
Re: Better Monitizing a Content/Clickbakt Site

It sounds like you haven't done enough market research to determine what kind of products you could create and sell to this audience. There has to be something. There should be countless product...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th August 2019, 11:50 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 429
Posted By Steve L
Re: How can i connect with agency founders online without spamming?

Inbound/content marketing for the long-term and have you considered PPC for the short term?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th August 2019, 11:45 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 186
Posted By Steve L
Re: Inbound marketing-lead nurturing-gated content

I'm totally with you on this. If you already have their info and they're on your list, let them access it immediately without having to provide their info again.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th August 2019, 01:41 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 179
Posted By Steve L
Re: Validating a business idea using Paypal as a payment processor before having a registered busine

I definitely prefer Stripe over Paypal. If you're not wanting to do a custom Stripe checkout, you can use TypeForm integrated with Stripe. There are also payment solutions like SendOwl or Gumroad. A...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 8th August 2019, 09:08 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 749
Posted By Steve L
Re: Help with Local Vape Shop

You might want to just go old school a little. You know those free newspapers given out in every city that is like one article surrounded by ads? I always see smoke shop and related ads in those...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th August 2019, 03:33 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 453
Posted By Steve L
Re: Are Live Videos Replacing Content?

He's hyping you up to buy his upcoming live video course :)

Seriously, content will exist in multiple formats forever. There are times when you prefer to read then there are times where you need a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st August 2019, 01:59 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,423
Posted By Steve L
Re: What Is The Best Backlink Service?

I don't actively look for backlinks and my impressions/clicks are trending up in the Google Search Console. I don't think hiring a backlink service is necessary and more likely to get you penalized...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st August 2019, 01:56 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 334
Posted By Steve L
Re: Stop Producing Great Work

I totally get what you're saying and agree for the most part, I'd just phrase it differently.

Obviously, you want to deliver great work and should always strive to do such, but you shouldn't let...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st July 2019, 06:04 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 535
Posted By Steve L
Re: How small of a niche is too small to be worth the effort?

Just ship your product and you'll know for sure. It's better then wondering'what if?' Just don't spend forever on the product. Ship something quick to validate the idea so to speak and see if you get...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th July 2019, 11:37 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 426
Posted By Steve L
Re: How do you fine tune your ideas?

Just ship that thing already and let real customer feedback guide you on revisions. ;)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th July 2019, 09:00 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 203
Posted By Steve L
Re: How would you proceed to have conversion rate from 0.5% to 1% ?

I'd probably test a whole rewrite of the sales copy/pitch and possibly see if there are any improvements that could be made to the page speed.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th July 2019, 01:53 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,062
Posted By Steve L
Re: How to Make a Replicated Sales Funnel

Yea, InfusionSoft is the only one I know of with it all easily replicable but man is that software clunky. I also hate page builders as most of them don't load as fast as my flexbox templates.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th July 2019, 01:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 106
Posted By Steve L
Re: Who would outsource a blog optimization service?

IMO there are several different audiences that would be interested in this type of service. Try picking one and pitching to them to see how it goes. Each has their own unique situation they're in,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th July 2019, 10:37 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,062
Posted By Steve L
Re: How to Make a Replicated Sales Funnel

In that case, if you're not wanting them to sign up for CF, there's no one-click solution unless you created one yourself by creating your own ClickFunnels so to speak.

You could also build your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th July 2019, 09:23 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,062
Posted By Steve L
Re: How to Make a Replicated Sales Funnel

Are we talking just some landing pages or do they also include automated email sequences?
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