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Give me a little wink if I'm right

by startefl
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Hello,

I know that you big dogs don't want too many people eating from the adult table. But do me a favour, I've got a family to support, so before I go full stream ahead can you give me a little wink if I'm on the right lines.

I buy some solo ads.... test my squeeze page, and then buy a load more.

I send the traffic to my converting squeeze page

Perhaps follow it up with an OTO

Now I send my list loads of value and build a relationship with my list.

I might even send some emails diverting some clicks to people I'm click banking with.

From time to time, I might throw in a low price sale, which moves those buyers into another part of my list.

I will try and find some 'big marketers' to send offers to my list on behalf of, to start to build a relationship.

All the time my list is swelling, from the click banking and the bought solo ads.

And finally, I have a responsive list, that's big enough to start selling solos.

At the same time, I've made some 'friends' with influential people who I will now find it easier to persuade to promote my own product launches.

So I earn a regular income selling solo ads, and some larger paydays with my product launches.

Now... I know it's about the execution but am I way off track here? If I was to put $5k on my credit card and buy some good traffic, is there a reason it wouldn't work?
#give #wink
  • Profile picture of the author BigFrank
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    Originally Posted by startefl View Post

    Now... I know it's about the execution but am I way off track here? If I was to put $5k on my credit card and buy some good traffic, is there a reason it wouldn't work?
    Life Rule #12 - "You never know until you try."

    Cheers. - Frank
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    • Profile picture of the author jmh777
      Originally Posted by BigFrank View Post

      Life Rule #12 - "You never know until you try."

      Cheers. - Frank
      He's right you can't be afraid to try!

      You have to start small, if it works, SCALE that sucker.
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  • Profile picture of the author Synnuh
    You've got the right idea. That's the easy part.

    There are lots of things that can go wrong but focus on solving problems, and don't spend more than 5% of your budget before you go back and start analyzing what the last 5% got you and you'll profit before the $5k is up.

    If you've spent $1k and aren't seeing any positive results, spend $500 on getting help.

    Read books on copywriting and direct response marketing to fill in the gaps, non-affiliates on YouTube for the technical stuff.

    You're good. You'll figure out what can go wrong as you build the list, just don't go nuts thinking it's fool proof, blowing your budget.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    yeah we don't have to make things complicated. Start off small. Meaning you sound great. ;-)

    Gather some data first and see what your numbers are. Your opt in rates, sales on the front end. EPC's.

    Some will tell you that you have to dump a bunch of traffic of related keywords then start to break the ones getting clicks into adgroups and go from there.

    I like to take the opposite approach.

    I find a couple of adgroups that are getting me the conversions and build from there.

    Of course your talking solo traffic and I'm talking ppc. Actually I use them both. To be honest I find ppc to work better at times. Slower but the conversions can be much greater resulting in a lot, lot less cost per subscriber.

    Understanding it all and having fun.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Feast
    I think you have it all sorted. You've got the right idea.
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    Guaranteed Commission anyone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Originally Posted by startefl View Post

    I buy some solo ads.... test my squeeze page, and then buy a load more.

    Just to be sure you understand . . . test your squeeze page on a small scale with a number of different solo ads. Test it on free traffic, some forum posting, and blog commenting. This will test your squeeze page offer (copy and layout) on a number of different types of traffic sources. Track everything, then tweak to get optimum results.

    Don't scale up your paid traffic until you have a high converting squeeze page and put your money into the traffic sources that are giving you the highest conversions.

    Continue this process throughout all your marketing campaigns. No sense wasting your money or time on low conversion traffic sources.

    Good luck,

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author startefl
      Steve whats your suggest for conversion. I've read 30% is that about right or should I be aiming higher?
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by startefl View Post

        Steve whats your suggest for conversion. I've read 30% is that about right or should I be aiming higher?
        If you graph your conversions over time, you should get one of those curves that starts out rising fairly steeply and then at some point starts to flatten out. The point where it starts to flatten out is what you should aim for.

        I know of people who would be really depressed if they got 30% conversions.

        Just keep testing until you reach that point of diminishing returns.

        If you also track by traffic source, you'll notice that some sources perform very well for you and some bomb completely. Try doing more of the first and less of the second.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve B
        Originally Posted by startefl View Post

        Steve whats your suggest for conversion. I've read 30% is that about right or should I be aiming higher?

        Are you referring to conversions on your squeeze page or conversions on your sales page (offer)?

        Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
    Originally Posted by startefl View Post

    Now... I know it's about the execution but am I way off track here? If I was to put $5k on my credit card and buy some good traffic, is there a reason it wouldn't work?
    I see considerable wailing and gnashing of teeth in your future if you do that.

    Do NOT put 5K on your credit card based on a theory no matter
    how many positive responses you get. Remember... these positive
    responders... it ain't their five large, bubba! LOL

    Do you actually have a product for sale? If not, does someone else
    have a product you're going to sell for them? Despite what you've heard
    building a list simply for the sake of building a list isn't the pathway to the
    promised land.

    Ya gotta have some revenue along the way!

    I suggest... as have others... that you start small... test and tweak... see
    what shakes out. Then scale it up.

    Oh... and those solo ads... buncha sharks in those waters... be careful.

    I highly recommend you look into Facebook ads and get really good at that.
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