Clickbank + Blog: Am I on the right track?

Dave,

Very welcome
Squeeze pages are important for selling the actual product. Remember: Video Converts the best atm.

Building a list is also important, as you want to build a relationship with your customers.
This is possible via lists if you create a good email funnel

Cheers,
Aron Prins

Great job on getting started and you have the right mindset about providing value.

To be honest, getting a squeeze page shouldn't be more than $30 unless if you have to hire someone to do it for you. But if you are going to be sending traffic to a page then it should be yours where you collect there email address and have the ability to promote to them in the future.

Internet marketing is very cheap to get started, but you still have to invest some. There are still ways to make money without spending money, but it will take a lot longer today unlike 5 years ago.

Start building a list with a squeeze page and you will see how it is way more profitable.

There are options to start out very cheap or even free with autoresponders. Mail chimp is free until you get 500 subscribers or aweber is $1 the first month.

Don't get to concerned about asking for a email address, because if you look around at just about anywhere you go, they ask for your email address.

The big companies know the value of having the email address and you should too, but you don't have to be one of those crappy marketers.

Offer a free tip everyday so they subscribe and actually give them the free tip. You are in this business to make money ( at least I hope so) so you will have to promote to your list eventually if you want to make any money at all.

Study what other marketers are doing in your niche and model after them.

If you don't mind me asking what niche are you in? You can pm me if you want to tell me and I can help you out a little more.

Bingo! This is exactly what you should do.

Forget putting the affiliate links in the articles, and start promoting your chosen products to the list you generate. Your buy rate will increase because you will have somewhat of a relationship with them!

Aweber makes it incredibly easy to set up an opt-in form.

Good luck.

Hi Dave,

Taniwha's post above (#13) is the one you need to read and understand.

Building a list is very likely indeed to make the difference between making some money from it and making nothing from it (and not even having a productive learning-experience).

This post may help you: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

You also need a traffic-generation plan that doesn't depend entirely on search engine traffic.

Probably. I'd certainly strongly advise you not to focus on more than two, to start with, and for most people one would be far preferable.

I do. You can buy them, but it's an outsourcing job, and outsourcing is difficult, especially when you're starting. This is something that most "writers-for-hire" can't produce very well anyway. It's also much easier to outsouce things you do have experience of doing than things you don't. And decent ones are expensive. (The last ones I did, when I was working as a writer for marketers, over 4 years ago now, I was paid $80 for. That's per email, not for a whole sequence.)

This is more or less true, unless you're a cross between a very good writer and marketer and "the teacher who can confidently stay one chapter ahead of the students", I suppose.

Well ... I think one can either have or acquire expertise on quite a few?

I have exactly the opposite perspective, on that point, for a large variety of different practical reasons, ten of which are explained here.

Here are a few more posts/threads which might help you a bit ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8083936

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2161932

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8368374

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post8367306

I don't, really, Dave - not without planning to build a list from day one. I think that would rapidly turn frustrating, produce almost no income at all (maybe even literally no income at all) and not even be that valuable a learning-curve, with its mistaken approach based on a mistaken concept about how informational products in health niches are actually sold. There are plenty of reasons for this, all explained at some length and in some detail in the threads linked to above.

More specifically, I think that "just getting started with something" and "taking some action" for the sake of it isn't a good approach to this kind of endeavour, at all. The people who encounter insuperable difficulties aren't typically the people who haven't taken action; they're usually the people who've set off in the wrong direction.

I know what you mean, but I don't really agree with you; sorry.

You do appreciate that a "squeeze page" (specifically) isn't the same thing as an "opt-in page" (generally)?

I don't actually use squeeze pages at all, myself.

I'm not suggesting you should use a squeeze page for this, but to do it without the specific purpose (and design) of the website being "to collect the visitors' email addresses" would, in my opinion, be a huge mistake, and you might well really gain nothing at all in monetary value, and almost nothing even in educational value, from trying it that way.

If they interest you, here are five posts about list-building which might help to orientate you a little ...

What are the essential things to know about list building?
Lists: How Long to Presell - Averages
Website or squeeze page
Where to get reports to give away on opt in page? (ignore the title: the post's about something different)
Autoresponders vs. Broadcasts