New Website Question/opt-in squeeze page

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I am new to affiliate marketing. I used the Chris Farrell membership to get me started. But here is what I don't really understand.

I created a website with about 7 different pages and some subpages. I put an opt-in form with my free giveaway on the sidebar of my pages. Is this the correct location for this?

Also, I am having a little bit of trouble figuring out where to put my links to my affiliate promotions. I am finding it a bit overwhelming to go and update each page each week with new deals. Do I really need to do this? Or can I just do a generic article at the top of the page and then link to my affiliate site for the deal? I have been trying to describe each deal on each page, and it is taking forever.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    You want to build a squeeze page as per the CF training. So a free offer with an opt-in form to your Aweber list.

    Traffic comes to the squeeze page and gets onto your list and receives your follow up auto-responder sequence of emails.

    These emails are where you put your affiliate offers. You don't need to keep updating a page.

    If you want to run a blog, you would still use a squeeze page to build a list but then you would use the list to drive traffic to the blog by promoting your articles and offers on your blog to your list.The blog should also have opt-in forms.

    That is the gist of what you are trying to do.

    The squeeze page and sales funnel are the key pieces to get people on your list.

    Your autoresponder sequence is they key piece to build a relationship with your list.

    The squeeze page starts your sales funnel and this leads to your offer, OTO's, up-sells and down-sells.

    You can start with a simple funnel and add components as you learn.

    Once you have a tweaked funnel and autoresponder set up you can spend most of your time driving traffic in various ways. CF is a big fan of social marketing and facebook for traffic as it helps build the relationship through social interaction while it builds traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author gabrielle08
      Thank you. So, what do I do with my website? It doesn't contain a blog.

      And, I do have an auto responder. Do I need to set up my homepage of my website as my squeeze page?
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      • Profile picture of the author Dave37
        Originally Posted by gabrielle08 View Post

        Thank you. So, what do I do with my website? It doesn't contain a blog.

        And, I do have an auto responder. Do I need to set up my homepage of my website as my squeeze page?
        I would say that will depend on your objective:

        - If your goal is make money blogging or posting articles on your website, then you can leave the optin form on the sidebar.
        You can create a sub-domain your website for your blog (ex.: blog.website.com, or www.website,.com/blog).

        - If your goal is making money with email marketing, then the best choice would be to setup your optin page as your home page, generally by offering something for free.
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      • Profile picture of the author onSubie
        Originally Posted by gabrielle08 View Post

        Thank you. So, what do I do with my website? It doesn't contain a blog.

        And, I do have an auto responder. Do I need to set up my homepage of my website as my squeeze page?
        If you don't want to build and maintain a blog you can make the domain a squeeze page and communicate using your list instead of a blog.

        If you want a blog too, you can put a squeeze page on your root domain and then the blog in a subdirectory like mydomain.com/blog

        CF membership has changed quite a bit since I was there so I can't help you with specifics of how it all works now.

        But he does focus on list building (as described above) so keep that in mind as you are learning.

        You need to go through his stuff to understand the ideas of how you brand yourself, market and monetize.

        Use the forums there too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Sarlo
    I created a website with about 7 different pages and some subpages. I put an opt-in form with my free giveaway on the sidebar of my pages. Is this the correct location for this?
    Yes usually optin box goes there, it's a good place.

    Also, I am having a little bit of trouble figuring out where to put my links to my affiliate promotions. I am finding it a bit overwhelming to go and update each page each week with new deals. Do I really need to do this?
    You already have an optin-form meaning you're building a list - now give them advice and content they need via email and plug in affiliate links in those emails.

    Same goes for your website, you have to discover what your visitors need and then give them that while plugging in an affiliate link every now and then. Since you're an affiliate that may mean writing articles and putting aff links in them or at the bottom of article.

    I find it a bit dull to just have a blog with just articles like I assume you're going to do... but try it out. You can also put small square banners on the sidebar linking to affiliate products.

    You can also try writing free special reports (10-12 pages or longer pdf files) and put aff links in them then give them to your list (in some follow up email) and write a blog post about the special report and give it away. You can also try other content like info-graphics, videos, slideshows, etc more interesting your website is more visitors are attracted and they keep returning (repeat visitors).
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    • Profile picture of the author savidge4
      This is not a "it Depends" kind of question. YOU DO NOT PUT A SQUEEZE PAGE as your main page of your site.

      There are a number of reasons for this. The product you are offering today may not be the product you are going to offer 6 months from now. Any effort you have placed in your current product will be lost, if you change the main page / squeeze page idea.

      Consider any and every opt-in page ( squeeze page ) you create as a permanent fixture to your site. As you develop the understanding of the process you will figure out that you might have more than one opt-in per offer. Each targeting a specific need or answer to a question to bring traffic into your offer. IE a weight loss product you could target an audience that wants to lose weight to look good in a bikini, or to lose weight for a school reunion or to loose weight after the holidays. These ALL could be the SAME product with different target audiences.

      a format that I have found to work the best for me, is on the top of the side bar to have a basic opt-in ( Join my newsletter today ) and right below that have a graphic that hi-lites your FREE Offer ( Click here for a a free report on 10 secret weight loss tricks ) - link THIS to your squeeze page.

      As you move forward you only have to change the free offer graphic and ADD an additional opt-in.
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      • Profile picture of the author gabrielle08
        Savidge4....So, am I understanding you correctly to say that the opt in on the website sidebar is good, and then once they click there to opt in, have it take them to a squeeze page? I do have the sidebar opt-in, but I have it taking them to opt-in. Not a squeeze page.
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        • Profile picture of the author savidge4
          Originally Posted by gabrielle08 View Post

          Savidge4....So, am I understanding you correctly to say that the opt in on the website sidebar is good, and then once they click there to opt in, have it take them to a squeeze page? I do have the sidebar opt-in, but I have it taking them to opt-in. Not a squeeze page.
          Half way there. Have the opting box at the top that takes them to opt in... THEN have an image link below that says 'Free Offer Click here" or whatever and send THAT to the squeeze.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingshouse
    Originally Posted by gabrielle08 View Post

    I am new to affiliate marketing. I used the Chris Farrell membership to get me started. But here is what I don't really understand.

    I created a website with about 7 different pages and some subpages. I put an opt-in form with my free giveaway on the sidebar of my pages. Is this the correct location for this?

    Also, I am having a little bit of trouble figuring out where to put my links to my affiliate promotions. I am finding it a bit overwhelming to go and update each page each week with new deals. Do I really need to do this? Or can I just do a generic article at the top of the page and then link to my affiliate site for the deal? I have been trying to describe each deal on each page, and it is taking forever.

    Any help is greatly appreciated!

    Chris is a great guy and would love to hear from you.

    Anyway your opt in box can go in the top right hand corner in the middle or at the bottom of your posts.

    Thing is you need to test it to see which one works best for you.

    I would simple put my affiliate links at the bottom of the post/article.

    I hope this helps.

    Will D
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