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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st October 2015, 10:29 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,579
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Where can I find a decent virtual assistant?

Sam,

I have hired a VA from Upwork before. It was a good experience overall. Be prepared to try out a few though before you find one you like. I think originally we hired 3-4 after going over the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st October 2015, 10:18 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,206
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Any great ideas on how I can monetize this niche?

Roni,
First of all, I think you did a great job here. I had a chance to look at your Facebook page as well as some of your books. I really don't think you're as far off as you might think.

First...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th October 2015, 11:23 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 1,772
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Best advice you ever had?

Fast. Good. Cheap. Pick Two. :D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th October 2015, 01:06 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 564
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Can I start a successful online video production business?

jorgemv,
I would suggest you think about licensing the content instead of selling it directly. If you're dealing with local business owners who don't have a website why not go the pay-per-call...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th October 2015, 12:33 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 416
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: I need help coming up with a name

iMarketMusic.com is available :D

Also, musiclaunched.com and musicable.com and musicramp.com
Forum: Email Marketing 11th October 2015, 12:28 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 934
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Quick Question about solo ads

One idea would be to do a quick search on Google:
parrot training inurl:parrot "email" "subscribe"

Click through the links and look for sites with: 1) Email signup forms, 2) Advertising,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th August 2012, 01:36 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 16,125
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Secrets from the World's Greatest Salesman - Joe Girard

@Claude,
You are indeed correct. I came upon a copy of "How To Sell Anything To Anybody" in my local bookstore a few months back.

Loved the section where he talked about handing business cards...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 12th September 2011, 12:18 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 551
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Dilemma about key phrase..

Great work getting started. :)

Quick question.

Do you already have a product in mind?

If yes...is the product focused more on beginners or on a general audience?

Also, are you checking...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th September 2011, 11:46 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 713
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: High bounce rate - HELP?

Kyle,
Is this the overall bounce rate for the site?



If yes, then you may want to "look under the hood" just a bit. :D

Take a look at the bounce rate for specific keywords...as opposed to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th August 2011, 09:40 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 424
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Backlink Questions..

Vinny,
It's possible that it's still to early for Yahoo to have crawled those backlinks and for them to be showing up in Site Explorer.

One more thing that might help is to setup a Google...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th August 2011, 09:03 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 714
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: WSO Split Testing

Yes...you can do this. :D

There is free software in the War Room that is all setup for this. And we even threw in some basic videos to show you how to set it all up.

It works like...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th August 2011, 03:14 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 653
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Who has heard this....

Yes, this method can work quite well.

You'll definitely want to run an A/B split test to make sure the Earnings Per Subscriber is the same with both pages.

I'm running one of these right now,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd August 2011, 11:46 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,144
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: LESSONS LEARNED... Share your story about Internet Marketing so we can all learn from your mista

Mike,
This is a great thread...and fun to read.

I remember the first time I setup a merchant account for a little ecommerce store.

I was spinning my wheels...and doing everything "by the...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd July 2011, 01:12 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,774
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Today is Not a Good Day...

Dang...it's a good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read this...or I would have snorted it all over my screen and keyboard! :D

Karen, sorry to hear about your loss of the letter "p".

My...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd July 2011, 06:11 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: DreamHost's Gonna Terminate My Account Suddenly!

Twist,
Sorry to hear about your problems with them...

One thought I had, which doesn't solve the issue at all, but may at least buy you some more time to come up with a better solution is to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2011, 01:20 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 720
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Naming Ventures - One of my largest IM Hurdles

Melissa,
I often spend far too much time on this myself.

One thing for sure that really helps is to have a clearly defined USP first.

Also, have you tried doing some visual brainstorming (i.e....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2011, 01:35 PM
Replies: 84
Views: 3,714
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Copyright Infringement. Be careful who you linking with. Jail possible...

I could be incorrect on this...but I believe the criminal infringement charge would be based on the NET Act which was a U.S. Federal Law passed in 1997.

From Wikipedia:


I'm curious for more...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th June 2011, 01:24 PM
Replies: 126
Views: 6,840
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Warriors and other "Internet Marketers" Clogging Kindle With All Their SPAM...

Interesting article...thanks for posting.

Isn't it a bit of a stretch to call this SPAM?

I own a kindle, and unlike my email account, I've never seen any unsolicited titles just popping up as...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th June 2011, 01:57 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 848
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: How to find the best specific blogs?

Sparhawke,
I'm not really sure from your question if you are just after the backlinks, or are looking to generate traffic from the comments alone (or both)...

However, I think this will be a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th April 2011, 01:45 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 695
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Best forum marketing method

Sean,
Have you taken a look at The largest Message Boards and Forums on the web! (http://www.big-boards.com/) for a list of the biggest forums in that market?

Also, in addition to using your sig...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd April 2011, 02:39 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 777
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Advice needed to persuade Google to see my backlinks

Robert,
Great job taking action. :D

A better method of checking for these links is to visit the cached version of the backlink page and see if it is cached with your link in place.

The "link:"...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th April 2011, 01:58 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,531
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: 100K Single Opt-in or ~30k Double Opt-in?

John,
Great work taking action and setting up a great lead gen system.

I have an idea for you that you might want to try...so you have a truly definitive answer.

Create 2 lists.

One is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th April 2011, 01:42 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 900
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: VIDEOS - How Long Is Too Long?

Bambii,
This is a good question...

I think this depends quite a bit on the expectation of the viewer when they land on your site...

For instance, when I hit up Youtube, it seems that most...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th March 2011, 12:26 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,408
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: I Made My Frst Kindle Sale! lol

Hey...2 sales in such a short time...way to go! :D

Sounds like you have a "Kindle author" success story in your future. :D

I've got a few Kindle books that the formatting is screwed up on, but...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th March 2011, 02:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 862
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: not bad...$1200 today.

Great job George!

Here's to another $1200 tomorrow. :D

All the best,
Jack Duncan
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th February 2011, 10:47 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 954
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: How many is it going to take?

Bella,
I second what Barry said...great work taking action.

And it worked. :)

Pinging that is...

Google has already indexed and cached your latest post on your blog:
Pinging Search Engines...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th February 2011, 08:20 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 954
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: How many is it going to take?

Bella,
You may have an issue with your site...

I noticed that Google has quite a few pages indexed, but your permalink structure is different for all indexed pages than your current...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th February 2011, 08:13 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 5,143
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: The Death of Article Marketing

Carlsbadd,
I think you nailed it...and my stats are lining up quite well with yours. :D



I realize that this isn't the SEO section...but the issue here IMO doesn't have anything to do with...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th February 2011, 07:07 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 874
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: 900 click a month That Good Or bad ?

Kom,
Can you define how you are measuring these clicks?

Are you talking about all visitors, unique visitors, page views, hits, etc...

A little more detail would help to see where improvements...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th February 2011, 02:46 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 4,789
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: 150,000 reasons NOT to use Google Images.

clarajones10,
You can actually find commercially free reusable images now...

Under advanced image search, select only images that allow commercial reuse. :D

...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th February 2011, 02:36 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 4,789
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: 150,000 reasons NOT to use Google Images.

They are certainly not exempt...they just have the 150K+++++ to hire better attorneys and drain the plaintiff dry. :D

See this:...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th February 2011, 12:58 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,119
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Facebook Games: A very common budget would be between 250 and 500 thousand USD...

hpgoodboy,
Did you just send this 1 email?

I'd take that same email and send it to 100 developers and see what kind of a response you get...

Honestly, in software development, the estimates...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th February 2011, 11:23 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 643
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: 10 Keywords You Need to Explore

cheap

alternative (especially if the product has a high price/monthly fee or is perceived as potentially dangerous)

video

support

help
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th February 2011, 03:17 PM
Replies: 148
Views: 4,647
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Is the War room really worth it?

You really should join the War Room...

Really...

Here are some specifics of what's inside:

There are 20 Full Pages of Threads...and every single one contains something as a "gift" in the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th February 2011, 02:33 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 615
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: I think I have gone wrong

Tom,
First of all, I want to commend you on digging in and getting things rolling. You've taken action, seen results...and are obviously hungry for more.

I'll second the statement above that the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th February 2011, 01:06 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 589
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: The Value of Videos in WSO's?

That was a good one...

My experience has been that they do increase the value of your WSO for some Warriors.

I think this is true of really any product, but I think it is especially true if you...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 5th February 2011, 01:31 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,895
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: ** HELP ** We need a Plugin or Software to Run are own Awards Voting * IDEAS anyone? *

Robert,
I'm not exactly sure if this is what you are looking for...

But you could try to use the VoteItUp plugin for this: Vote It Up Wordpress Plugin (http://www.onfry.com/projects/voteitup/)
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th February 2011, 01:08 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 906
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Why is Free so Expensive?

Marvin,
This is a really good question.

I'd say you have to start with a clear vision of where you are headed, and what your next steps are.

If you know that the next thing you need to do in...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd February 2011, 11:03 AM
Replies: 92
Views: 7,794
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Matt Cutts of Google Using a Big Stick to Teach an Important Lesson about Traffic Diversity

I think that's absolutely a good lesson to "take away" from this change...and you can take it one step further by saying, "Diversify your income sources..."

Google's going to do what they want to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th January 2011, 02:36 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,193
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: "You're A Fraud!"

Christophe,
Sounds like the guy was just having a bad day...but then again, maybe every day is a bad day for him. :)

These emails can provide a huge boost to sales if you can stomach it...

The...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th December 2010, 11:40 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,750
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Be Aware Of New PAYPAL Scam Flooded These Days on Internet

Sure thing...

You can order one from inside your PayPal account...

It adds a much better layer of security by creating a random code on a device they mail to you...

Here is the info page:...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2010, 04:54 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 711
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: I Already Knew That

Willie,
This is great advice...and it's also the reason that so many of today's great copywriting tips can be found in books that were written almost 100 years ago...

We're still communicating...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd December 2010, 09:47 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,656
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Signups increased by 60% after actually REMOVING the opt-in form

There is 1 and only 1 thing proven with this data:

Version B had 60% more optins than Version A.

That's it.

There are tons of differences between the two versions, and absolutely no way to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th November 2010, 02:37 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,655
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Celebrating My First ClickBank Sale

Great work DrMeg... :D

Now you just have to get a few more so you can have that ClickBank check sent to you and you can party!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th November 2010, 02:36 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,839
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: To my Former Employer: Thank You for Laying me Off!

Charles,
Great work...and good for you for making it happen.



You nailed it right there.

Test...improve...test...improve...and when you think you have it all figured out...Test again. :D
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th November 2010, 12:48 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 708
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Thesis theme question

Asim,
I love Thesis and use it on most of my sites. (The others are slowly being migrated over.)

For me, the benefit is in the design control...

I don't have any proof that it helps purely...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th November 2010, 12:45 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,169
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: #2 on Google in 3 weeks....I'll tell you how I did it

Jennifer,
Great work and great results!

A couple more things you might also want to try is to include H3 and H4 tags (keyword rich) as well as using underline (along with italics and bold as you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th November 2010, 12:28 PM
Replies: 70
Views: 2,599
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: single vs double optin conversion?

willoh,
This is a good question...and the correct answer is: TEST IT

Create 2 lists with your provider, and rotate the opt-in code 50/50.

It won't take very long for you to have actual "proof"...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th November 2010, 01:11 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 915
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: How will Google Instant Preview affect your marketing?

Quentin,
That is definitely the reason they rolled this out.

I'm sure their #1 target is the "made for adsense" and "splog" sites.

I think this could actually help those who have a single...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th October 2010, 03:11 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,810
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Any Photoshop / Kunaki boffins?

Yeah, not sure about that 16 bit jpeg statement... I thought jpeg could only be 8 bit...

Hmm...I'll have to explore that idea some.

If it would help, here is a pretty nice Kunaki template that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th October 2010, 02:34 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 445
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Cant get accepted to bing?

Are you trying to get into Microsoft Ad Network...or Microsoft Ad Center?

Microsoft Ad Network is their premium ad network that deals with large media buys from agencies. (Think BIG money) :D
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2010, 11:41 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 513
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: "unblockable" popups...

Derek,
They definitely don't have any affect on your rankings if you use the DHTML versions.

I've tested both Lightbox and Footer as well as slide ins, etc...

Just make sure to test.

And...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2010, 01:32 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 804
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Tracking Opt-In Rates with iContact - Best Practices?

JP,
I have an account with iContact and we track opt-in rates via Google Analytics.

Basically, you want to setup a Goal in GA.

Make sure the redirect page and confirm page are tagged.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2010, 11:20 AM
Replies: 89
Views: 2,966
Posted By Jack Duncan
For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. - Marketing Brevity Explored

This "short story", written in just 6 words, Hemingway called his best work:

It sure packs a punch.


Back in 2006, Wired Magazine ran a little experiment based on Hemingway's story. You can...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2010, 10:44 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,147
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Ways To Target Mothers/Business Women

Mr.S,
Just thought of one more for you...

I'd try PPV on Etsy.com.

That site is made up of roughly 80% women, and they are "pre-qualified" in the sense that they are running a business via...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th October 2010, 10:39 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 2,147
Posted By Jack Duncan
Re: Ways To Target Mothers/Business Women

Mr.S,
One great way to get this info directly from Google is via their Ad Planner.

Basically, you want to start with one place that you KNOW has some of your audience, then use the "Sites Also...
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