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Forum: Website Design 16th April 2018, 06:49 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 118
Posted By Tonester
RE: Securely Provide Video Content

I was looking into this recently - a training course where, depending on the dates people signed up would show only the videos they were supposed to see. So, for instance, each month would have it's...
Forum: Programming 16th April 2018, 06:36 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 135
Posted By Tonester
RE: Wordpress issue - can anyone help?

Thanks to everyone that responded. Yes, the issue is fixed.

Tony
Forum: Website Design 12th April 2018, 04:47 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 76
Posted By Tonester
Recommendation for pop-up plugin anyone?

Hello,

I'm trying to find a pop-up plug in that will create a 2-step opt-in form?

I know Thrive Themes has it but I don't use Thrive. Also, I find lots of great pop-up builders with lots of...
Forum: Programming 1st April 2018, 04:26 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 135
Posted By Tonester
RE: Wordpress issue - can anyone help?

Thank everyone for the replies. It just might be my page builder, which I'll know for sure soon.

Btw, I use Instabuider and love it. I've use used it for a few years and never had any issues...
Forum: Programming 30th March 2018, 03:16 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 135
Posted By Tonester
Wordpress issue - can anyone help?

Hello all,
I've encountered an issue with my Wordpress site today.
http://imwiththetonester.com

It seems my last post ONLY, titled "top 10 characteristics of a successful entrepreneur" is not...
Forum: Email Marketing 7th March 2018, 07:12 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 385
Posted By Tonester
RE: Building value into an email series

Sorry, but ProducerK is wrong. Maybe this worked a year ago, but today you MUST provide value to people so you establish your authority and trust with your list.

You are competing with others in...
Forum: Beginners Area 7th March 2018, 07:00 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 506
Posted By Tonester
RE: Starting out affiliate marketing! Could someone please destroy my unrealistic expectations?

Giving up too early is definitely a problem, but also, there are a lot of variables to a successful campaign. The offer, the targeting, the time of day your email goes out, the color of your buy...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th March 2018, 10:56 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 962
Posted By Tonester
RE: Paid ads advice for a beginner bing ads

I totally agree with Internet Trillionaire about everything, but what I wanted to say is...

I've done advertising on many different platforms and, although I am far from an expert, I never could...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th February 2018, 08:09 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 106
Posted By Tonester
RE: Having Problem With Pinterest

Is your website mobile friendly? This is a must. Also, I've heard if your opt in form is in the sidebar, that it won't work. Needs to be a pop-up over the site. BTW, just getting into Pinterest...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th February 2018, 08:04 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 307
Posted By Tonester
RE: Landing page background image tips?

Agree, split testing is a must. Many times what we THINK is the best thing and what ACTUALLY converts are 2 different things. The final results can often time be totally surprising, so trying to...
Forum: Beginners Area 6th February 2018, 07:41 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 162
Posted By Tonester
Question About Pinterest in 2018

I'm just getting started with Pinterest and I'm wondering about creating a business account.

I want to promote a couple of different websites in different niches.
I know I could use 1 business...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2018, 10:52 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 350
Posted By Tonester
RE: No Funnels, will just Front End sell?

I don't know your list, but I would say as an upsell, how about something related to advanced training on Wordpress. Many people know only how to do the basics, but what about "Wordpress hacks to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2018, 10:44 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 845
Posted By Tonester
RE: Should I Include An Email Opt In Page For A Clickbank Product

ALWAYS build an email list first and develop a relationship with them. This might mean a few less sales up front because not everyone on your list will open the promo email with the Clickbank link. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2018, 10:38 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 392
Posted By Tonester
RE: My subcribers wanted me to open a coaching - I'm not really sure...

From reading your question, IMO, you're not ready to coach someone. There are soooo many ways coaching can be done. You need to research those a lot more and make sure you can get people results,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2018, 10:34 AM
Replies: 221
Views: 11,893
Posted By Tonester
RE: How do I get traffic, subscribers, followers, without paying for ads?

Steve B. said it good but I want to add my 2 cents.

1. Do keyword research to find out the best keywords in your niche. Since most keyword research tools cost money, use the Google keyword...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2017, 07:03 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 721
Posted By Tonester
RE: Solo Ads vs. PPC

I've done solo ads and did not have a good experience.

Built a list of almost 1K using solo ads. Even though I researches sellers and only used ones with good testimonials and good ratings, it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2017, 06:57 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 276
Posted By Tonester
RE: In 2017 What Are The Biggest Challenges Facing Your Business?

My biggest challenge is staying consistent in my efforts. Life gets in the way sometimes, as it does with many people, but the work still needs to get done.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2017, 06:55 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 205
Posted By Tonester
RE: New to IM and this forum. Where to start?

#1: Decide what niche you want to go in. Make sure it's a niche others are making money in, and that there's a large enough audience. IT also helps to be familiar with the subject and it's one you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th April 2017, 06:41 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 350
Posted By Tonester
RE: What are the key elements of building and growing of a successful internet business?

I 2nd the "building a list" skill. This is THE more important thing you can do, in whatever niche you want to go in.

Think about all the businesses out there. When you purchase something from...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 27th March 2017, 04:48 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 139
Posted By Tonester
Facebook tracking pixel

Hello All,
Hopefully someone can share their advice here. I know this has been written elsewhere, but I haven't found the answer to my specific question about contradicting advice.

Regarding the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th January 2017, 07:07 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 835
Posted By Tonester
Re: Help about trafic sources ?

Just know, you have to get LOTS of traffic to make money with any website, and free traffic will take much longer than paid.

I would suggest combining a few methods together - different sources is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th January 2017, 07:05 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 442
Posted By Tonester
Re: Internet Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Hacks #1: "The Imperfection Connection"

The point is a valid one - always be yourself. However, that doesn't necessarily translate to sloppy videos. There is a fine line between the 2 that you have to figure out. If you look 'fake' in...
Forum: Warrior Forum Classified Ads 30th January 2017, 04:29 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 154
Posted By Tonester
Free List Building Case Study [No Opt In Required]

WATCH ME BUILD MY LIST AND MY BUSINESS!

Stop Believing All The Hype

I'm sure you, like me, are tired of the sales pitches, the over-hyped products, the false promises of quick riches.

That's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th December 2016, 10:48 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 596
Posted By Tonester
Re: Best Niche Ever = The One You Know the Most About

Totally agree with DeanJames.

It's a balancing act. The most ideal situation would be a niche you're passionate about. But, carefully consider what kind of income potential that niche has.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th December 2016, 10:43 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 210
Posted By Tonester
Re: I want to get involved in Digital Product Creation

I think it's important to start with what you know. If you do this, you will already be over the first hurdle - getting credibility. You'll already have it. I'm sure a lot of other people would...
Forum: Programming 11th November 2016, 08:21 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 108
Posted By Tonester
Re: Question About Optimize Press Integration With Wordpress

Found out the answer. It turns out Aweber does not to single opt in in that case, but will set up up manually for you if you request it.

Just in case anyone wants to know.
Forum: Programming 11th November 2016, 11:16 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 108
Posted By Tonester
Question About Optimize Press Integration With Wordpress

Hello all,
I"m not sure this is the right topic here, but here goes.

I'm creating a membership site using Optimize Press and currently I'm using Aweber as my autoresponder.

I'm told that to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2016, 02:39 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 274
Posted By Tonester
Re: Any tips for building my pipeline so I don't have to live on beans.

As someone mentioned earlier, a "how to" book in your field such as copyrighting or creating blogs. Then, as you drive traffic to your product, you're creating a list, and when people buy, you now...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2016, 11:06 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 274
Posted By Tonester
Re: Any tips for building my pipeline so I don't have to live on beans.

All great points Steve B.

Something I also want to mention to SummerDaze is that when make money with a service, you are basically exchanging money for time. Therefore, you are limiting your...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th September 2016, 01:28 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,139
Posted By Tonester
Re: Google Keyword Planner Updated. Is it still usable??

Google is now restricting access to the data in the Keyword Planner.

See this article for the info:
Google AdWords Begins Restricting Keyword Planner Data for Non-Advertisers...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 18th September 2016, 11:11 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 27,778
Posted By Tonester
Re: Anyone Using Russel Bronson Click Funnels?

Glad to hear these reviews. I just went through a webinar with Russel Brunson and even though I really like his teachings and concepts, I did not buy into Click Funnels or his training "Funnel...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st April 2016, 12:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,383
Posted By Tonester
Re: Masking affiliate link: How to post affiliate link on facebook?

A common thing that affiliate marketers do (and I was guilty of this too) is to promote directly to the product - that is, send people directly to the product.

Any business model should be about...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st April 2016, 11:23 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 267
Posted By Tonester
Re: How can I have more than one Clickbank URL for my affiliates?

Normally, the affiliates would set up their own tracking URL's to track where sales are coming from - since you couldn't know where all your affiliates would want to advertise. It's not usually the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th April 2016, 04:53 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 411
Posted By Tonester
Re: So many choices, so few that actually work well...

It sounds to me like you're suffering from a very common problem - moving from one method to the next to the next.

Most people don't stick with one thing long enough to see it to success.

Keep...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th April 2016, 05:04 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 677
Posted By Tonester
Re: How to find a good niche to start in?

You gotta think and dig deep and find something you're interested in that has broad appeal. If you're interested in widgets, are others?

Then you need to figure out if this niche has a lot of...
Forum: Email Marketing 13th April 2016, 07:02 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,301
Posted By Tonester
Re: Starting My List Building Journey - I Need Help Please!

My opinion is, most solo ads are crap. I've heard you can find some good ones, but after many, many buys from many many people, I haven't found any solo ads that give me quality traffic.

I have...
Forum: Email Marketing 12th April 2016, 07:59 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 625
Posted By Tonester
Re: TOO MANY Unverified Subscribers!!! Solution please?

Glad to hear a majority of people think single opt-in. I think there's no right or wrong way. Whatever works for you.

For instance, I firmly believe that asking for a first name plus email...
Forum: Email Marketing 6th April 2016, 04:23 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,301
Posted By Tonester
Re: Starting My List Building Journey - I Need Help Please!

The question is, what is your offer to get people to subscribe? Does your offer match your target? Would they be interested in your offer? How do you know? Are others marketing this kind of...
Forum: Email Marketing 6th April 2016, 04:19 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 625
Posted By Tonester
Re: TOO MANY Unverified Subscribers!!! Solution please?

I don't know any IM'ers that use double opt-in. I'm sure there are some though. Everyone using single opt-in.
I'd do that moving forward.

Tony
Forum: Email Marketing 6th April 2016, 04:17 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 2,086
Posted By Tonester
Re: Ben Settle : 'The ONLY Reason to have your Website is to Build a List '

100% agree.

I would change this a bit and say... if you're trying to make money on the internet, the only reason to have a website is to sell something, period!

Now that doesn't mean you don't...
Forum: Email Marketing 6th April 2016, 04:10 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,510
Posted By Tonester
Re: Is the 1 email subscriber = 1 dollar per month rule of thumb a load of BS? Or do I suck?

All good advice that was mentioned previously. I think you've done pretty gone for just starting out.

One thing I want to add, which I mentioned in another post. People may not be buying because...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 6th April 2016, 04:01 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,216
Posted By Tonester
Re: How to monetize my blog using affiliate marketing?

Keep in mind that you'll need A LOT of traffic to earn a decent income. It's certainly possible and lots of people do it, and you can too.

But I just wanted to mention that because many people...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th April 2016, 03:45 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 1,056
Posted By Tonester
Re: Best Way to Sell an Info Product??

You can have the best product in the world, but if people don't know, like and trust you, they won't believe your claims that it's the best product in the world. Why would they?

Ask yourself this...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th April 2016, 03:37 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 722
Posted By Tonester
Re: Best Traffic Sources?

I too have used Bing with good bang for the buck. However, the volume of traffic from Bing is lower in my experience that other sources such as Facebook.

Facebook is really good when you get it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th November 2015, 05:59 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 935
Posted By Tonester
Re: Custom landing page necessity

I agree. Don't ever ever ever send people to the affiliate page first. Send them to your landing page where you can capture their email address first. Yes, that means coming up with a lead magnet...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th November 2015, 09:07 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 620
Posted By Tonester
Re: Making It Online

Totally agree! 100%

Even more telling. People will blow $60.00 or $100.00 or so on eating dinner out, but yet they won't spend $100.00 on traffic for their BUSINESS - for their FUTURE, because...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 5th November 2015, 05:35 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,236
Posted By Tonester
Re: Following up from the 7Search thread, what about Clicksor?

Thanks writeaway for your feedback.

I do some facebook and bing ppc right now, but I wanted to use various traffic sources.

The thing is about Adwords (or so I thought), in the MMO niche, it's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th November 2015, 05:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 746
Posted By Tonester
Re: Coming out of IM "retirement" and need your help!

Well, here's my thoughts.

First, do not rely on SEO as your sole source of traffic. As you mentioned, the Google slap can put you out of business in 1 day. I got the Google slap a few years...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th November 2015, 05:19 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 308
Posted By Tonester
Re: Finding the right idea (my skills included)

I don't know much about your interests, but gaming seems to me to be a niche you could go in that would be big enough to make money.

Find forums on gaming and browse them, looking for questions or...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 4th November 2015, 05:16 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,236
Posted By Tonester
Following up from the 7Search thread, what about Clicksor?

Hello all,
I just starting using Clicksor - contextual advertising network, and I'm getting really good click through rates for a really good price, but they are not converting either (like 7search)...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th November 2015, 05:11 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 620
Posted By Tonester
Re: Making It Online

I agree with what is said here, it's too time consuming to focus on multiple sources of traffic. Focusing only on a couple, then moving on once those are dialed in, is a better way to go IMO. Keep...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd September 2015, 09:14 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 808
Posted By Tonester
Re: Newbies - Where You Should Start

Yes, I totally agree with that. My statement was a little misleading and I apologize. You do need to keep mailing them, but I didn't mean sell to them in every mail. I just meant over time you'd...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd September 2015, 09:05 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 470
Posted By Tonester
Re: Searching for a mentor

Well I think it depends if you want coaching in the same field as your boss. If not, then find one in the field you want to pursue. But yes, a coach is a great idea.
Forum: Mind Warriors 10th September 2015, 09:21 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 5,727
Posted By Tonester
Re: Law Of Attraction - it works

That's interesting because I read that book, probably over 30 years ago. I was in Amway at the time and they recommended that book, as well as "Think And Grow Rich" and "The Power Of Believing"
...
Forum: Mind Warriors 10th September 2015, 05:12 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 5,727
Posted By Tonester
Re: Law Of Attraction - it works

Love the postings here. I'm always trying to learn more about how the universe works.
Forum: Email Marketing 10th September 2015, 05:04 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,940
Posted By Tonester
Re: How do solo ads work

So, you would set up an account with an autoresponder. The 2 most popular are Aweber and Get Response. I use Aweber and like it, but others like Get Response better. They are both good.

In your...
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