My First $1000 Week and how I did it

Congratulations on the milestone. Way to go.

First of all, congrats. It must be very exciting to earn $1000 in a week.

I'm not familiar with PPC. But I interested to know if you have high converting traffic from organic search. Do you rank your squeeze page on SERPs or use other funnels (articles, blog posts, web2.0) to direct the SEO traffic to your squeeze page?

congratulations!

that is so amazing, i am hoping and praying one day I will have a story like yours!

Cheers and much success,
Emma

Japp thats a great way to increase your sales....And this can and should be done even if you have adsense sites or an affiliate.

I started to collect subscribers on one of my affiliate sites last month and in one month my commission has doubled...

Listbuilding is great if done correctly...

Mehmet

Congratulations, winebuddy.

Thanks for the reinforced motivation -- I know how important building a list is, but still, when it comes to projects, I sometimes find myself procrastinating setting up a method of generating a list.

I always try to build an optin list whether its my own product or cpa the only exceptions are when I am promoting certain small niches where there is not much other oportunities to sell to them.

Rob - ABSOLUTELY right!

The followup is almost if not more important than the sales or the optin page. MUST be excellent content and MUST develop the relationship with the prospect and encourage feedback.

I get tons of emails from the people on my list. Sometimes I have time to answer and sometimes I have to answer in a broadcast - either way, the follow-up is what SELLS your product.

GREAT POST Rob

OK Mr Winebuddy I just purchased your ebook. The only thing that I would say that in the pass I've purchased various ebooks and systems and I always find that the author always leaves out that Secret Ingredient! So consequently you only get so far... but not far enough to make a difference!!! That being said I'm quite excited to go home this evening and implement your system and trust that your belief is one of... there is enough money out there for everyone to get a piece of the pie...
So heres to everyones success and mine.

On the Road to Success

Congratulations!

Thank you for sharing your success.

Congratulations and thank you for sharing your words of wisdom and encouragement. WTG!

Wow, Congratues. That is great deal man.
Let me try your way :p

Very nice, the list is key!

Congrats to you...

cheers,

Patrick

Thanks for this. It just gave me a kick to go and add lists to my sites and rewrite the autoresponder messages

This shows it can be done. It's great to share in one's success and be able to know it's possible.

Congratulations Mike!

Good strategy!

Excellent, after 9 years full time in this business it is still a pleasure to see others succeeding keep it going always

Nice work man!

I have a new Clickbank product I am now finishing and should launch in a month or so.

I have a few questions for you, hopefully you won't mind answering. If you do, then too bad for me.

1) Could you explain what is a "Mini Launch?"

2) Also what is the difference between a "Video Squeeze Page" and a normal "Squeeze Page" other than the obvious?

3) You said you would send your subscribers emails for months. What did you write about in all those emails that did not turn your subscribers off and kept them reading your emails? I read in another thread the 4 to 1 ratio was a good one to follow. In other words, you would send them 4 emails supplying little tidbits of quality information for what ever subject you were promoting and on the 5th you would attempt to sell them again. Is this what you did?

Thanks Bill

Nice work.

Are you also continuing to monetize your list with affiliate offers, or (better) creating more products to sell to your subscribers and buyers?

Now that you know you have a responsive list. Make sure you maximize it. Money left on the table is lost forever....

Kathy

The way I would describe it is to take a segment of your list, create about 3 to 5 emails building up to a certain day or event (like a special price or a special pricing with bonuses), let them know the space is limited, let them know why you are doing it. You do this over about 3 to 5 emails over about 1 week or so and then BOOM - the day, hour, and minute comes and people are waiting with their finger on the "buy now" button. I am doing one right now for my entire list and it happens on Saturday morning at 10am EST. I won't even be near a computer at that time - I will be tailgating at a ballgame and then going to the game. Everything is already set up on my autoresponder.
The most obvious difference is the video. However, there's more - the video MUST be compelling and MUST contain the basics of a sales message to get people to WANT whatever it is you are offering. A regular squeeze page has to have a lot of text. A VSP only needs an optin form and the video.

Simple - high quality content that they are searching for. The higher the content quality and the more personal you are in your emails, like this

"Hey Sam, I was just reading over some brand new stuff on bullet-reloading and came across this unusual technique to load powder.... here it is: _______ tell me what you think"

And when the sales message comes, it almost needs to be like an afterthought in most messages - but in every 7 or 8 - you need something more hard hitting in my opinion.

Hope this helps,
Mike

Congrats!

And thank you for the encouragement!

Thanks for you answers. I have one more question if you don't mind. You really don't make it clear or maybe I missed it, are you selling multiple products or just one?

I have heard that list building is the most important. I am a relatively new blogger and a little while after I started I added a form to by blog for people to subscribe. Well I didn't get any subscribers. Truthfully I thought to myself why are people going to subscribe to me as they know I am new. So anyways I decided to take down the form and just try to build up some quality content. So thats what I have been doing. I will eventually put up the form again to get some subscribers as I believe you are right it is a good way to make money on the internet, but right now I am going to focus on content.

What I have learned is though is that inorder for people to subscribe people need to trust you and believe in you. You need to communicate to them and share with them and build a lasting relationship with them. You do this by building quality content and communicating to your visitors though comments. The process may be slow but I believe it works. So my concentration right now is building quality content for my visitors. Share with them my knowledge. Show them things I know. Build a relationship with them.

Good luck to everyone!

I was going to say that but you beat me to it Rob! EXACTLY - no one is going to just fill in a form for the heck of it - give them a totally unresistable reason!