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Forum: Email Marketing 19th July 2025, 01:12 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 373
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Sudden Surge of Hard Bounces?

Quick update. It looks like it was just that week when I posted it. I advertised on a particular unnamed network. When I did, I got the surge of invalid addresses to my optin form. I stopped...
Forum: Email Marketing 3rd July 2025, 09:55 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 373
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Sudden Surge of Hard Bounces?

Quick update, yeah the service provider basically told me that there is nothing they can do about it and the validation service provider said since their integration with my EMS is 3rd party (Zap),...
Forum: Email Marketing 29th June 2025, 10:57 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 373
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Lightbulb Sudden Surge of Hard Bounces?

Hello everyone. I have been in affiliate marketing for quite some time, almost 20 years now but I honestly am just relearning email marketing given that so much has changed since the good old days....
Forum: Beginners Area 27th May 2025, 05:18 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 140
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Hello Everyone! New to the Community

Welcome to the WF. Great to have some new faces here from time to time. Great community they have here. I have been a member for many years and continue to gain some wisdom from the users and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th March 2025, 04:35 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 2,620
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Is anyone here still doing direct mail or direct response in

While I won't be spending 30K per month on lead gen ads in national magazines and weekly as well as daily newspapers, as we did back in the 90's, I have been toying with doing a couple test runs. I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2025, 11:52 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

You brought up so many good points, I don't even know where to start. Adobe liquid mode alone is a good reason to not stress too much about it either. In fact, I have decided recently (after my...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2025, 05:05 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 5,478
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Thank you, Kay King

This is a huge loss for everyone here on WF. Kay was definitely a staple and a pillar, offering up of her time and her wisdom over the years to all of us. We will be forever grateful and missing...
Forum: Beginners Area 4th March 2025, 12:13 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 211
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Hello Everyone

Welcome to the forums. Glad to have you here.
Forum: Beginners Area 4th March 2025, 11:50 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,438
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: New to Digital Marketing: How Can I Start Earning on the Side?

Like I tell everyone, start cheap or free. Build your traffic foundation through social if you can, or by inexpensive means. Have a central point the traffic goes to (eg a lead capture style...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2025, 07:05 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

Yep that's exactly what I ended up doing. I made a single lead magnet PDF e-Book in the dimensions of 5 by 8 (5" wide by 8" tall). With that aspect ratio it seems to be pretty mobile friendly.
Forum: Social Media 1st March 2025, 09:23 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 576
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Instagram DM's Yay or Nay?

Great question and one I have been meaning to ask about here. So if you initiate a DM (and without sounding spammy), can you guys think of a classy sounding way to offer out a lead magnet or is the...
Forum: Offline Marketing 1st March 2025, 09:08 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 2,620
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Is anyone here still doing direct mail or direct response in

Living in the internet marketing times we are now, I realize a lot of (most) marketers are strictly digital, but I do see some here and there utilizing print media still. My curiousity is that since...
Forum: Email Marketing 1st March 2025, 08:58 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 913
Posted By Kent Hopkins
RE: Selling Email Databases Leads

We would usually market our lists through list brokers we would find in the SRDS manuals. (Standard Rate and Data Service). Have you looked into this? SRDS is the direct marketing go to for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st March 2025, 08:46 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
RE: Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

You created your lead magnet with a website that had autoresponder service functionalities? Was it an email service provider that happened to have a lead magnet creator tool or what?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st March 2025, 08:41 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
RE: Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

This is hilarious. It is good advice yes, but I'm referring to the manner at which you wrote this with the built in Cajun accent. Did you do all that manually or is it scripted in some way? If...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th February 2025, 06:42 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
RE: Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

Right however that's the landing page. I'm talking about our downloadable PDF E-Book
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th February 2025, 09:43 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,156
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Do you make a lead magnet in two versions? Mobile and Computer?

I am designing yet another lead magnet but this time I got to wondering. Hmmm should I make a mobile version and a desktop version? Overkill?

Your thoughts would be genuinely appreciated.

...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th January 2025, 04:20 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 756
Posted By Kent Hopkins
RE: I haven't been on Warrior forum in 5 years

You are absolutely correct and your analogy is brilliant. So much has changed since I've been in the marketing game around 1995 and to a limited extent even the late 80s. The people coming into...
Forum: Beginners Area 7th December 2018, 05:25 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 2,616
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: 2 months in with Affiliate marketing. No true profits yet.

Yep as stated by another user above, the shiny object syndrome is rampant. Stick to your guns and stick to one money making method. Master it. That is the best advice for getting the momentum...
Forum: Beginners Area 17th October 2018, 01:43 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 185
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How do people find you Facebook page?

To put it shortly, keywords in the page name. Don't KW stuff it but keep it creative and relevant to what it is.
Forum: Beginners Area 9th July 2018, 11:45 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 120
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Hello

Welcome to WF! Don't be shy and feel free to ask for advice or help in the appropriate areas.
Forum: Beginners Area 5th April 2018, 04:15 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,822
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: WordPress vs WIX???

Yep or you could use WP with a page builder like BeaverBuilder. I am loving it personally.
Forum: Beginners Area 28th March 2018, 10:31 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 794
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: List Bought of 15,000

I agree with a couple of the people who have already responded. Using this list could lead to troubles as Katie mentioned. You could get blacklisted quite easily. Use a service who allows for use...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th March 2018, 07:17 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 534
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Need direction...totally Clueless

There really is no secret formula for success. You need to spend at least one year creating a history online by consistently contributing content to a blog, social media, or something about a...
Forum: Beginners Area 22nd March 2018, 11:03 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 805
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How to select keywords for new websites?

While in many cases it can be beneficial to the point of getting potential visitors to click on your link in a search, having keywords within the domain has far less weight on the optimal indexing of...
Forum: Beginners Area 21st March 2018, 01:22 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 724
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Can start an online business and keep my full-time job ???

Bad decision. I would go expand your ebay business but only to raise money to get established with a dedicated ecommerce platform that you own (not a third party vendor who can pull the plug at a...
Forum: Beginners Area 21st March 2018, 01:20 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 139
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Need hosting opinion

I would advise SiteGround. They are like 4$/month and are optimized for fast Wordpress dedicated hosting. Customer service is great and the fact that they specialize in one thing, they are very...
Forum: Beginners Area 12th March 2018, 09:16 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 523
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How to get lots of relevant backlinks for your site?

Answering questions on Quora is a great way to get relevant non-spammy white hat backlinks. You are not ever going to build a long term business by building tons of back links really fast, unless...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th March 2018, 06:07 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 352
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Merchant account nightmares?

Dave Hermansen,

Yeah it's too bad and it does seem like that would be the case. Unfortunately there was more to it than simply being a protective measure. You see, we never had a lot of charge...
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 09:07 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 268
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: what do you recommend SEO vs Adwords for a B2B startup?

100% PPC. Unless you are in the business of hoping and waiting.
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 09:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 112
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Can a generic landing page be optimized to reach to top of Google's searches?

I'm going to concur with what Chris is saying above and add that by their nature, landing pages are designed to be simple and focused. With this being said, it is not common that a landing page has...
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 11:53 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 397
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Will www.ForumWarrior.com have same search impact as www.WarriroForum.com ?

The amount of weight placed on keywords within the URL is so minimal these days, it's barely a question worth asking.

So the short answer is: It would make no difference either way. I do not...
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 11:48 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,076
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Best Advertising Platform

Personally, I believe something like this would be done in more of a precision manner via AdWords. The reason I say this is very simple. With AdWords you can get down to the nitty gritty keyword...
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 10:23 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 172
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: B2B Facebook Ads

This post requires more information. Tell a little bit more detail here. Are you using brand names or trademarks? You mentioned an error message, but you are not disclosing what that message says....
Forum: Beginners Area 10th March 2018, 10:19 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 110
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Hi , Newbie From Pakistan Here

I would advise that you pick something and become proficient. This could be one of many skill sets such as.

SEO
SEM
SMM
Email Marketing
PPC
Copywriting
Outsourcing
Project Management
Forum: Conversion Rate Optimization 9th March 2018, 01:42 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 458
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Getting started

I am currently in the process of finding a good copywriter to rewrite a headline and convert my long copy to short copy on one of my website. Like yours, the site has been up and selling for 10...
Forum: Beginners Area 9th March 2018, 12:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 178
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Creation of information products. Where to find?

Also try

https://www.upwork.com
https://www.iwriter.com

Best regards - Kent
Forum: Beginners Area 9th March 2018, 12:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 271
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Hi All, Back after 8 years (Starting all over again) - Hope ya'll will extend a warm welcome :)

Welcome back! I understand what you're saying about pressure at work, and I too took a bit of a break. I was still active with IM in general but not as much as I could have been. With all of the...
Forum: Beginners Area 9th March 2018, 05:56 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 136
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: New Member- How Do I Start?

First off, let me say welcome to the Warrior Forum. Secondly, let me just say good luck to you and I think if your service (and follow through) is good, you stand to do pretty well here on WF.
...
Forum: Beginners Area 8th March 2018, 04:10 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 372
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Email marketing list building - newbie

Yes I agree that buying a list from ANYONE is a waste of money and time. Build your own list. Your own subscribers will actually want to hear from you and listen to things you say. Get them on...
Forum: Conversion Rate Optimization 8th March 2018, 10:50 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 336
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: My opt in page conversions have absolutely cratered! Help?

Nothing may have happened in regards to your marketing. It could be things happening in real people's lives. A few weeks is not necessarily long enough to make a conclusion that something has...
Forum: Beginners Area 8th March 2018, 10:17 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 195
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Launched a digital product and have built a cool brand - best ways to increase traffic/conversio

Kerri,

Hi, that is a nice USP and it sounds like you have put a ton of time and thought into this. Have you considered getting the product onto an affiliate network so that others can be doing...
Forum: Beginners Area 8th March 2018, 10:09 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 167
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: hop link

It will work yes, however it is possible for you to get linkjacked. In other words another affiliate can easily substitute your hop for his hop or just plain remove it where either way you get no...
Forum: Beginners Area 7th March 2018, 09:44 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 143
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Clickable link on Instagram

And IG's simplicity is what makes it so popular. FB could learn a lot from them. But apparently they think it's better to buy them out and then try to change everything to make it more like FB. ...
Forum: Beginners Area 7th March 2018, 09:22 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 499
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How Do I Get Permanent Back links?

Directory of links. Bad idea. So let me just tell me what has worked for me and other people I know. First get traffic to your site. Like, a lot of traffic, you can do this by generating buzz,...
Forum: Beginners Area 7th March 2018, 02:55 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 304
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How to get quality back-links for my website.

Hopefully your blog is not in English, and if it is, I would recommend touching up on your grammar (a lot). Alternately, of course you could hire writers.

In regards to your question, the best...
Forum: Beginners Area 6th March 2018, 10:32 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 243
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: dropshipping

Be very, VERY careful selecting suppliers. We used to run a dropshipping and physical shipping hybrid model business. The big thing I would warn you about is making sure your suppliers have ample...
Forum: Beginners Area 4th March 2018, 09:04 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,102
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Bulk website traffic checker?

We have been using a site for this for years and years called statcounter (http://www.statcounter.com) It is free but they have paid options too. I never needed to use any of the paid options...
Forum: Beginners Area 4th March 2018, 09:01 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 157
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Clarification about using Amazon product description on my affiliate site

No. This is not a violation of Amazon TOS. The reason it is not and never can be is because these items of information are provided by the manufacturer and not by Amazon.

Changing it could put...
Forum: Website Design 4th March 2018, 08:58 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 441
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Genesis Framework for Wordpress

Hey Mark, thanks for the info. I have been checking out Beaver Builder and it looks great. I do not want to spend hours doing design work, and it's not for a lack of knowledge with CSS, PHP and...
Forum: Email Marketing 3rd March 2018, 08:32 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 430
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Free Offer Vs Promoting The Product

It has been my experience that promoting a free offer / lead magnet to get them on the list with no affiliate links works best. What we do is offer valuable content which warms them up to an idea...
Forum: Beginners Area 3rd March 2018, 07:43 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,826
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Advice about Digital Marketing Courses

Lisalotty,

Yeah that is a huge subject and where to start, where to start? I can tell you this, you do not need to spend that kind of money to learn this stuff. By it's nature, the industry is...
Forum: Website Design 3rd March 2018, 07:33 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 441
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Genesis Framework for Wordpress

Mark Lovett,

Beaver Builder looks interesting. But what is the difference between the Beaver Builder theme and the Beaver Builder Themer? Themer is being sold as a separate product. For Beaver...
Forum: Email Marketing 3rd March 2018, 11:02 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 483
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Solo ads or Shoutouts

Not sure if I would go with Solos for this, as I do not think it's necessary. If you ever get to a point where you have tapped out traditional media, then maybe a thing to consider. In my...
Forum: Beginners Area 3rd March 2018, 10:54 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 486
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: How can I grow a subreddit?

That sounds totally feasible to me. Have you considered trying to reach a broader audience off-site by posting to other social media channels in related groups, pages, hashtags and by using quality...
Forum: Beginners Area 3rd March 2018, 10:44 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 149
Posted By Kent Hopkins
Re: Website Hacked, Trying to Figure out Malware and Blacklist Repair

Kate,

I am so sorry to hear this, and believe me, I know how much work goes into this stuff. When I started I had zero kids, and now I have six! We have had blogs, membership sites and forums...
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