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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th April 2018, 05:48 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,046
Posted By Derek S
Re: Did Smart Phone Kill The VSL?

Autoplay has been LONG disabled on smartphones and now modern browsers are no longer allowing it, no matter what your embed code is set to. Safari already has this in place and Chrome is on its way...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st September 2016, 09:14 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,568
Posted By Derek S
Re: Too bad clickbank does not use paypal...

What's easier than weekly direct deposit?

I LOVE Wednesdays :D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th September 2016, 08:22 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 436
Posted By Derek S
Re: HIGH PRICE vs. Monthly Subscription

So I'm testing this right now actually.

I've started with a $37 per month recurring model where I offer a $1 three day trial for customers to see if it's for them.

So far in my first small test...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th June 2016, 08:27 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 661
Posted By Derek S
Re: What I learned after a failed product launch on ClickBank

You're right on the money and spoken like someone who's going to make it on clickbank!

Create products that compliment other products, not directly competing with them. This way top vendors have...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th October 2015, 10:29 PM
Replies: 959
Views: 63,342
Posted By Derek S
Re: ClickBank soon requiring ALL sales pages to have a ClickBank branded header.

Hey John, Glad to hear you're in the top 5%
of us clickbank Vendors... I myself fall in the
top 1% category.

This is the first time I've even responded to
anything about the clickbank changes...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd October 2013, 08:53 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,055
Posted By Derek S
Re: New ClickBank Order Form - Is It Important?

Thats why I always include the product as an attachment in my thank you email right when they order. If they don't get to your thank you page, it's there waiting for them in their inbox too.

I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st September 2013, 09:49 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 327
Posted By Derek S
Re: Perfectaudiance.com???

I have been using them for a few months mainly just using Facebook retargeting. I cannot tell you if my campaigns have been profitable because I'm not really tracking - But it is great for bringing...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th April 2013, 08:32 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 587
Posted By Derek S
Re: [ADVICE NEENDED] Work for a Top Digital Agency or...

If you currently are making good money from your own company PART TIME... The obvious answer to your question is screw the job and put the full time hours into your own company.

I built my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd March 2013, 01:41 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,609
Posted By Derek S
Re: My Odesk Nightmare

This is part of the reason you should always give a contractor some sort of test run before hiring them for your main job.

I always give my guys a trial job before I move them on to the real deal....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd November 2012, 01:45 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,137
Posted By Derek S
ClickBank Vendors... Make Loads Of Money Today Doing This...

So as a Canadian I loath American holidays as I see my traffic and sales both crawl down to half of what it should be... All while it is a typical business day for myself.

The upside?

BLACK...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th November 2012, 11:30 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 489
Posted By Derek S
Re: VSL: Capture Emails Without Stopping Video

Hey tropic,

Best way to do this on the cheap would be to simply have your optin form below the video in an iframe. When the email is captured it will change the iframe and not the main page...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th November 2012, 08:58 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,747
Posted By Derek S
Re: Clickbank product creator

First off if you have a competitor who is BUYING TRAFFIC for LONG PERIODS of time (i'm talking over a month of ads running in the same place)... It is safe to assume that their sales copy is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th November 2012, 02:41 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,747
Posted By Derek S
Re: Clickbank product creator

Here is what I have done in the past when outsourcing product creation.

1) I buy all of my top selling competitors guides
2) place an add on eLance and oDesk for a ghost writer whose first...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th November 2012, 11:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 863
Posted By Derek S
Re: ClickBank insists on disclaimer for pen name

I use a pen name for different markets all the time. Just explain in the fine print that you do it to protect the private life and safety of you and your family.

people who read it will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th November 2012, 07:58 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,398
Posted By Derek S
Re: Exit pop-up discounts! lol

I charge a $4.95 "processing fee" for the 14 day trial and their creditcard is re-billed for the remainder automatically after 14 days. Plus my product is solid so I know 98% of the people who take...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th November 2012, 11:54 PM
Replies: 337
Views: 22,631
Posted By Derek S
Re: New Clickbank color coded risk tier accounts

Clickbank obviously changed their tier copy as people in green level felt offended for whatever reason by the wording when they happen to be perfectly fine.

Best thing to come out of this thread...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th October 2011, 09:40 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 503
Posted By Derek S
Re: Flipping Out.....

here is your issue from what I can tell based on your OP

1. If you changed the title tag what so ever this will kill your ranking. Change it back to your old one and you SHOULD see the ranking...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd October 2011, 01:42 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,002
Posted By Derek S
Re: What if ClickBank posted refund stats for their products?

I would have that system gamed so quick with the help of a good sized offshore team. Would take me less than a week to completely ruin all my competitors refund rates and assume my actions would be...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th September 2011, 10:48 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 860
Posted By Derek S
Re: Shouldn't I Be Busier?

I hear ya man,

Seems like the more money I make these days the less I am motivated to go and make even more.

Over a year ago I had around 17 employees with the goal of making less work for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th August 2011, 10:21 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,153
Posted By Derek S
Re: Where to find outsourcers who work on commision?

Things will become a lot more easy for you when you start calling them affiliates instead of outsourcers.

;)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th August 2011, 02:10 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 492
Posted By Derek S
Re: Verisign

Hey man,

I would say that if you are your own merchant and need it for SSL certificate purposes it is a must have.

If you just want their trust seal for conversion purposes I would go with an...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th August 2011, 09:03 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,188
Posted By Derek S
Re: Do you choose to NOT use Google Analytics because you don't want Google snooping around your sit

want it to keep track of a few sites? Then it is an amazing tool and you wont find any other tool online that even compares for the price ;)

But if you have a large network of sites (100+) all...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 7th July 2011, 12:04 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 9,454
Posted By Derek S
Re: New PayPal Competitor Wiki Pay?

First red flag I get is this "Jemvip" fella consistently insisting you use his AFFILIATE code for just simple things like having your answers answered. Heck I could say I AM an official WikiPay rep...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th June 2011, 12:29 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 560
Posted By Derek S
Re: how to recognise authority sites?

If the site is an authority site you will often see many internal pages ranking high for their long tail keywords with very little links pointing to the page. This inner page has the ability to rank...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th June 2011, 07:50 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,925
Posted By Derek S
Re: Google's Black Menu? Anyone Else See This?

mentioned this over in the SEO section days ago!

Google is testing design changes out now. when you do a search the left side navigation will be all black and red instead of it's original...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 23rd June 2011, 10:40 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 9,454
Posted By Derek S
Re: New PayPal Competitor Wiki Pay?

I absolutely LOATH PayPal and actually refuse to ever use them again after giving me serious grief with account freezes from simple micro product launches.

More competitors the better in my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th May 2011, 09:46 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 606
Posted By Derek S
Re: This little change increased my opt-ins by 3% - it might surprise you

this is why it is always good to test...

I still think you should test longer... How conclusive (in %) was your a/b test?

Thing is most people have been spammed to death and this is an...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th May 2011, 10:04 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 4,363
Posted By Derek S
Re: "As Seen On" - FTC Cracking Down on Fake News Sites

I'm against FTC on this one.

Their issue should be with content and nothing to do with the design. Who are they to start saying how you should design your site. "it looks too official" is probably...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th April 2011, 11:43 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 6,806
Posted By Derek S
Re: How Do I get from $1,000 Per Week to $1,000 per day.

Three basic options:

1. More traffic
2. Better Conversion rate
3.Cross promotions/ up sells

I get the importance of building a list but am not a fan of opt-in pages at the beginning of the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2011, 10:47 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 5,619
Posted By Derek S
Re: How I Find Out Where My Site Is Ranked For My Keywords

Call me paranoid but when you have a bunch of top ranking sites - I don't want google to link me behind all of them so easily by giving that info over to them on a silver platter lol.

I will never...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th April 2011, 12:29 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,057
Posted By Derek S
Re: how old before you start backlinking?

build them the second your site is indexed in google. Speed of backlinks wont matter as much as consistency will. I recommend going full force manually building links right away and dont worry about...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th April 2011, 09:42 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 4,254
Posted By Derek S
Re: Big Mistakes I Made When Outsourcing... (Philippines, Kenya, USA, Canada)

some great tips there let me add to the list with some of the stuff that helps my team of guys working for me and how I can sort through applications quickly based on who actually read my job...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th April 2011, 01:09 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 914
Posted By Derek S
Re: Difference between domain xxxyyy vs yyyxxx?

First thing you should do is see what version gets the most searches per month and use that version.

you will rank better for the keyword that matches exactly to the domain but will also rank for...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th April 2011, 12:07 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 2,004
Posted By Derek S
Re: I think the information given on this site is BS

Few red flags jump out in your post to me. The first being you ranting over a site that gets "55,000 UNIQUE Visitors per month" with the site itself only having "a whopping 113 backlinks" you must be...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 2nd March 2011, 04:38 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,116
Posted By Derek S
Re: The new iPad..

I got my iPad the first day it come out last year (crossed the border to get one because Canada got shafted at launch)

It is a nice update but if you already have the first iPad, I dont think...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st March 2011, 12:35 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,948
Posted By Derek S
Re: Google Sniper Sites

I dont know about conversion rates for that kind of sales page but I am guessing you should be making 1 sale for AT LEAST every 200 visitors that you send to their site. at 13 visitors to your site...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th February 2011, 12:25 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,334
Posted By Derek S
Re: Google Smacked One of My High-Traffic Auto Blogs.

Interesting stuff. Could just be a Google Fart(TM) and after a few weeks once the air has cleared the rankings could come back ;)

PM me if you see it bounce back in a month like I think it might.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th January 2011, 03:26 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 827
Posted By Derek S
Re: 3 YEARS of Same Adwords ads and Landing pages. Then today....

Welcome to the club, everyone I know doing serious business on adwords has been slapped... that domain is no longer good on their network ever now sadly.

The days of direct response sales letters...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th January 2011, 11:07 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,588
Posted By Derek S
My Personal Stepping Stone Guide to Making $1000 A Day Online...

This thread started as a response to someone asking how to make $1000 a day and transformed into a much longer than expected individual post of my own.

These are the exact steps I mastered (in...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st January 2011, 10:26 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,502
Posted By Derek S
Re: Google Gets Ready to fight "content farms"

LOL what a joke!

I'm putting it out there first...

$1 to every member nice enough to mark my competitors sites as "spam" once this chrome plug-in becomes available ;)
Forum: Copywriting 28th October 2010, 03:29 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 725
Posted By Derek S
Re: Have You Ever Doubled Your Conversion Overnight By Changing Your Headline?

I once had an AdWords headline that would convert paid cold traffic on my sales page at a constant 2%... but every single ad I tested against it would convert the traffic at less than 1%...
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th October 2010, 10:42 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 29,521
Posted By Derek S
Re: whats the best short url generator?

stay away from bit.ly as it is facing being shutdown soon due to the takeover of the .ly domain by the Libyan Governmen.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st October 2010, 09:12 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 566
Posted By Derek S
Re: Testimonials?

I used to wait for testimonials to come to me, boy was that a mistake!

if my program promises results in X number of days I will then followup with customers after that amount of time has...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st October 2010, 09:00 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 145,610
Posted By Derek S
Re: New members: Read This

My biggest pet peeves are the posts like "Thats it I quit Internet Marketing" where they expect attention and should really be titled "Quick give me a lot of attention and talk me back into it"
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th September 2010, 01:48 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,098
Posted By Derek S
How a List of 71 People - Pulled In $2072 - In 24 Hours Flat...

I typically never post long winded tutorials of my successful marketing experiments here on the warrior forum, so I felt it was time. Keep in mind the method I am about to reveal to you was done in a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th September 2010, 12:53 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 789
Posted By Derek S
Re: I'll Never Tweet...... er.... did I say Never

the key to twitter being effective is not using it to sell, sales are a byproduct. Use it to move the free line, build trust and authority. This keeps people coming back and checking your twitter...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th September 2010, 10:37 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,769
Posted By Derek S
Re: Dude trying to tarnish my name? action to take?

How much is it worth to you and can you prove any damages to your business? If its worth your time and money, you can go after him for slander assuming he is stating "facts" instead of personal...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th September 2010, 12:52 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,217
Posted By Derek S
Re: Like it or not, iPads are getting Big Love.

It's Called the Apple store ;) but if you have a Best Buy closer, that will work too lol. I got mine the day it come out in the states and a month before they had even become available in Canada.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th September 2010, 02:41 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 1,804
Posted By Derek S
Re: Pricing a product

You could create a powerful buyers list from this product... If they buy this, they will truly buy anything and your set for life lol

The only way I see this selling is if Frank Kern's name was...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd September 2010, 04:44 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 966
Posted By Derek S
Re: Legal Documents For My Sales Page

I just found this last night from Shoemoney! watch the video, this guy knows his stuff and provides you with everything you possibly need (including how to go about going after someone stealing your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd September 2010, 04:08 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 959
Posted By Derek S
Re: Am I the Only Warrior That Doesn't Necessarily Make More Money From Building a List?

I sell my own product and tested a squeeze page not all that long ago. I had 40% opt in rate and less than a 1% conversion rate on a product that converts 2-5% regularly.

Needless to say I took...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th September 2010, 04:53 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,047
Posted By Derek S
Is PR Important?... Heck Yes!

Every day or so I come on here and see threads asking about when google will update PR.

Often many people jump in and dismiss the question all together and feel the need to spread secondhand...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th August 2010, 09:27 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,178
Posted By Derek S
Re: how to protect files and thank you page from google & hacker?

I just did this today after noticing people accessing my download page without buying on Google analytics...

If you are using paypal make sure your html buy button code is encrypted.

If my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th August 2010, 10:29 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 627
Posted By Derek S
Re: Text Link Buying and Selling - Tell me everything

Google says this for THEIR best interest Not yours. If you pick good quality sites this is called advertising and google can not possibly know your intentions are for obtaining PR. Google wants...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th April 2010, 02:43 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 420
Posted By Derek S
Google Is The Leading Cause Of Balding....

I like to think of myself a little of a SEO guru when it comes to backlink building and ranking for competitive keywords, but google has had me wanting to pull my hair out lately...

My latest...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th October 2009, 12:28 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 2,477
Posted By Derek S
Re: Be Careful - Windows 7 Upgrade is crippling computers...

gizmodo reported that over 80% of the people who installed windows 7 went smoothly.

Over 80% Of You Had a Smooth Windows 7 Install Experience - Windows 7 install - Gizmodo...
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