To start with, test the following:

- I would have the video auto play when page loads
- Cloak the ugly clickbank affiliate link with either a url shortener or plugin
- Have a pop up optin form for your free ebook
- Put the optin form in the sidebar, instead of having to click through to it

Pop ups are a BIG turn off. Just ad the eBook picture and image in the top of the sidebar. Make it attractive.

If I was you I'd take the video out completely and make the front page a squeeze page. Make your own youtube video telling people to opt in for something awesome like "5 Killer Tips that Will Shred The Fat in 5 Days" or something like that. Make the whole front page geared to getting an email address like this old site of mine. It's pretty crappy compared to what I do now but it still gets tons of opt ins everyday.

You can use camstudio with open office if you want to do it all for free.

Get them into your funnel and feed them bite sized chunks of info tailormade for solving their problem *AND* keep prompting them to interact with you. Say something like:

"What's holding you back from shedding the weight? Hit reply to this email right now, explain where you're struggling and I'll help you out."

And also,

In every email hit their hot buttons like crazy. Use stories and and emotive language to make an emotional connection with your prospects. Have a look at this post on persuasion - it may help.

The diet niche is a tough nut to crack. So many scams have made people very wary of making a purchase so you MUST build trust or you wont get high conversions.

Hope it helps,

Jimmy

I would switch to Aweber or any autoresponder other than mailchimp before anything else. Affiliate marketing is against their rules, Part 1, 11 F.

I would do couple of things.

1. First of all I would add some buttons to let people share it on facebook, twitter, google+, etc. You can use sexybookmark plugin to do that.

2. You have the optin form on the right but it's not above the fold, I would get it up so that visitors can view it without scrolling it down.

3. I don't know if you have done this on purpose of what but the banner on the right links back to your homepage...I would rather link to some affiliate offer or simply remove it to get the optin form up. Hope this help

Looks good now. But I think yesterday you only had email field in the opt in form and today you have included the name field..

I would go ahead and ditch the name field and only use email and they should increase the optin.

I think your going about the affliate sale backwards (IMO).

I would do it in this order:

1) Get the email optin. (create something free to get the optin). Don't worry about the affliate sale yet.

2) Use an autoresponder, send out a couple of free tips related to the affliate product subject.

3) Send out the affliate product email on the 3rd autoresponder email.

4) Repeat steps 2 & 3 above, send out an affliate offer every 3rd email (3 emails max per week).

Try & have as many similar/related affliate offers lined up, one per week. So 8 similar affliate products would be enough for 2 months (8 weeks) worth of autoresponder emails.

Don't forget the free content in between offers, that's the key to help keep them on your list.

Keep the emails short & simple with good free content/tips.