I vote CB ban those stupid exit pages. Wait! Are you sure? Are you sure? Really, you want to leave?

There's a universal law about envying and or putting down / complaining about others who are financially successful, or trying to be, while attempting to become financially successful yourself.

I.E. you see a gorgeous sports car ($100,000+) driving down the street,
and inside of it sits a well dressed man with a beautiful girl by his side.
And in your head you are thinking.... "damn you, you rich *******,
you must be one of those scammers who rip people off to get what you got".

The same day you go home and look online on how to become rich on the internet.
You then come across a website that goes all out, and implements all of its conversion tactics (exit pages, etc) and pulls out all the stops on it's visitors.

You now have 2 choices,

1. Bitch about it, because you got a little stuck in a sales tactic.

2. Say "you go guy (or girl) and applaud that website owner for not taking NO for an answer the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or even 10th time, and laugh about it.

Because in the end, this will make the difference between you still being either a wannabee "internet marketer" 5 years from now, asking and looking for "the secrets" because your sales are low, if any, or you being a successful marketer using all the tricks in the book as long as they are legal.


People, realize that all the things you don't like when "buying" obviously are in place, and exist because it is what helps a successful business in "selling".

Which one do you want to be??

The thing is that for a lot of these products, I'm talking about IM and Forex because I have contacts there and know the people selling them:

The customers are, to put it kindly, idiots.

If you look at the demographics, just as an example, your dealing with people who have spent their entire live's being unsuccessful. The majority are over 40 years old and make less than $30K per year. Only around 1/3 have college degree's (which I won't hold against them because I dropped out myself).

The point is though that in some of these niches, the buyers of the product are not the actual customer.

That is to say, the relationship the vendor cares about is not the one he has with his buyers -because 80 to 90% of them are totally out of the market with in two or three months. They buy TONS of stuff during that time, and then flame out. He obviously needs to have his list of buyers and prospects, because.....

The relationship they care about is the one they have with each other. That is to say, the important relationship is with other JV's, with affiliates.

I always thought it was stupid too, but I had a conversation at an event with one of the top CB IM sellers, a guy who I know for a fact tests everything (and does it properly), and his results have always supported using 2 or 3 exit blocks and reductions in prices, new offers on each block.

I suspect that by now part of the problem in niches like IM and Forex is that people have simply come to expect them and won't buy if they are not offered at a discount. I don't have proof that it's true, but common sense would suggest that people have become conditioned to expect it.

I sell higher end stuff, my average buyer makes over $100K a year. I have a much different approach because I get a lot of long term value from the relationship with them. This leads to a different approach.

I wouldn't offer a discount on leaving my page. I think it devalues my product and shows the customer I don't really care about the relationship I have with them -and I do - they allow my family and I to live a nice lifestyle.

But what's true for my business is not true for everyone else's business.